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"Kay Robinson" wrote in message
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:05:31 +0000, Peter Duncanson
I do find programmes about cars interesting. Unhappily that particular
one shows more consideration to those with the deepest, throatiest
exhausts and emphasises the speed and power above all else.
Licence payers with boy racer-type interests are grievously underserved by
the BBC, as are anglers. This is yet another manifestation of the BBC's PC
bias. As we all know, there is an overlap between lefties and greenies, and
many BBC production staff fall into both camps.

IMHO all
testing should be done on the highway under normal traffic conditions.
********! It isn't about driving to work and back, it's about having a bit
of fun. Remember fun? What we used to have before this nanny state
government put a stop to it?

Most of the vehicles tested are far beyond the purse of most drives.
Definitely a 'boys toys' programme.
Yes, that's right. Licence-paying boys. Boys, you and your fellow
miserablists might be surprised to know, are entitled to spend their money
how they like and that includes buying toys.

I often think that if JC were to
be given an all electric car that could cruise at 180mph without a
sound he wouldn't be seen dead in it.
If it would go futher than the corner shop without needing a 12 hour charge
he might. I guess he's also troubled by the fact that charging the thing up
would create so much atmospheric CO2. And the fact that the full-life
environmental audit of electric cars shows them to be extremely un-green,
what with the short life of the batteries and all that. But never mind, it
gives the owners a warm feeling of moral superiority, and that's what that
particular market is all about.

Bill

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Although at times I do find Clarkson to be an irritating pig-headed ****,
I enjoy the show.

I was seriously annoyed with him when he said that a teenager full of lager
was a safer driver than someone in their seventies. Apart from the dubious
truth of the assertion, it definitely sent out the wrong message to any
watching teenagers.

He struggles with his Sunday Times column. When he has a good topic he can
be very good, but all too often you can tell he's scratching his head for
something to write about. Good style though.

He obviously puts it on a bit with the right wing stuff. It's his gimmick
really.

I thought that prog the other day when the three of them went riding
motorbikes somewhere in Asia was a bit of a drag. It was all much the same,
very repetitious, and the same old japes wore a bit thin.

Bill

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Bill Wright wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Although at times I do find Clarkson to be an irritating pig-headed ****,
I enjoy the show.

I was seriously annoyed with him when he said that a teenager full of lager
was a safer driver than someone in their seventies. Apart from the dubious
truth of the assertion, it definitely sent out the wrong message to any
watching teenagers.

Clarkson has a real bee in his bonnet over drivers who are past retirement
age, I assume come his 65th birthday (just 16 years from now) he will be
handing back his Driving Licence ?


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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Bill Wright wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Although at times I do find Clarkson to be an irritating pig-headed
****, I enjoy the show.

I was seriously annoyed with him when he said that a teenager full of
lager was a safer driver than someone in their seventies. Apart from the
dubious truth of the assertion, it definitely sent out the wrong message
to any watching teenagers.

Clarkson has a real bee in his bonnet over drivers who are past retirement
age, I assume come his 65th birthday (just 16 years from now) he will be
handing back his Driving Licence ?

That's a good point. He doesn't like trailer caravans much either, does he?

Are you sure he's only 49? He looks my age.

Bill

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Max Demian wrote:
"Mike O'Sullivan" wrote in message
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Bill Ridgeway wrote:
There is a piece of technology called Programme Delivery Control (PDC)
which, with appropriate recorders, start and stop recording on
transmission of the programme. This is available on BBC1, BBC2 (and
others?) and Channel 5 but not ITV1 or Channel 4 (This is not
definitive!).
Only works on analogue transmissions doesn't it?

There's an equivalent available on Freeview as part of the Freeview+
recorder spec (e.g. Humax PVR-9200T with up to date software). It works
reasonably well, though it misses out the first and/or last 30 seconds or so
of programmes sometimes. I doesn't seem to miss programmes altogether like
PDC (mainly BBC).


It works as long as the broadcasters remember to send
the signals on time. With the afore-mentioned
Christmas Day BBC1 over-run, my Humax missed the
evening film (Pirates..) entirely, giving me only the
last few minutes of EastEnders instead. It did manage
to capture the lamentable Dr Who "special".

BBC News report: extra second of time
 

Jim wrote:

It works as long as the broadcasters remember to send
the signals on time. With the afore-mentioned
Christmas Day BBC1 over-run, my Humax missed the
evening film (Pirates..) entirely, giving me only the
last few minutes of EastEnders instead. It did manage
to capture the lamentable Dr Who "special".

Oh, so it wasn't just me then? A good idea let down by a poor script
and too many cod Victorianisms which were almost as bad as Elizabethan
hey nonny nonnies. :-(
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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"