You childish prats..apparantly
03 October 2006, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Neverguess
And she doesn't speak for all women 
I don't read it like that 
I don't read it like that
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Women take a dimmer view of the whole sorry Hammond story and of the male reaction to it
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well: we [ that is: women ] just want to give up and become lesbians.
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Women don't think driving fast is hot, they think it's stupid, pointless and, if the driver has a family, unimaginably selfish.
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I wonder how many women signed the "Keep Top Gear going" petition doing the rounds on the internet (the BBC has wisely suspended the programme indefinitely).
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women tend to remain unimpressed, unless they are 15
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The crux of it is that machismo of this kind isn't big and it isn't clever. It doesn't make women simper and flutter their eyelashes: it makes them laugh.
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But he's a bloke so we shouldn't hold our breath.
03 October 2006, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Neverguess
No. She doesn't speak for me, therefore not all women. I love TG
03 October 2006, 02:07 PM
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Scoobychick, true but the ladies on this forum are the exception in that they like proper cars, they have more of the male perspective on these matters.
Not saying you are Chicks with Dicks but you arent typical girlies, and amen to that !
Not saying you are Chicks with Dicks but you arent typical girlies, and amen to that !
03 October 2006, 02:13 PM
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Surely she's just posted something akin to what Clarkson would, but targeting his normal supporting audience, and is chuckling at the response of boards like this? Like Clarkson's comments, this should be taken with a pinch of salt.
That said, I'm sure she has a few supporters, nodding in agreement.
Kev, what are the members of the Knitted Scarf Owners Club saying about this?
That said, I'm sure she has a few supporters, nodding in agreement.
Kev, what are the members of the Knitted Scarf Owners Club saying about this?
03 October 2006, 02:22 PM
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Some of the comments that go with the article are pretty funny :
Originally Posted by Karl Teviotdale, Esbjerg, Denmark
If nobody took risks, then we would achieve very little - consider things like manned space flight, deep sea diving, the steam locomotive, the pilgrim fathers. All undertaken by blokes with adventure in their hearts, a glint in their eye and a hairy pair of spuds, now where's the harm in that ?
03 October 2006, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Duck_Pond
Surely she's just posted something akin to what Clarkson would, but targeting his normal supporting audience, and is chuckling at the response of boards like this? Like Clarkson's comments, this should be taken with a pinch of salt.
That said, I'm sure she has a few supporters, nodding in agreement.
Kev, what are the members of the Knitted Scarf Owners Club saying about this?
That said, I'm sure she has a few supporters, nodding in agreement.
Kev, what are the members of the Knitted Scarf Owners Club saying about this?
I'll have to add that in my letter to the editor* that if she wasn't serious, then she needs to go back to school and learn about implying context and how to convey to the reader the degree of severity that she intends to portray.
*And I will spellcheck, punctuate and proof read it, unlike the often unreadable dross I usually type on this forum.
03 October 2006, 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Neverguess
She's made lots of friends today, I bet she's happy
03 October 2006, 03:07 PM
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From comments;
Originally Posted by LUCY, france, france
Your article has made me really cross, so much so I stopped reading it halfway through. Are you sorry you weren't born a man? Is that your problem?
03 October 2006, 03:24 PM
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Doesn't seem to have many supporters of either gender according to the 'comments'.
However she is right about one thing - Top Gear has been axed and will never return.
However she is right about one thing - Top Gear has been axed and will never return.
03 October 2006, 03:26 PM
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Hmm, I've just read her article and I think it's a load of old ****e myself and she certainly is not speaking of my behalf either. Cheeky moo
Now, I'm not into cars AT ALL, but I can appreciate and recognise that men love their motors in what ever model, shape or colour it may be. Their interest/fascination/love of cars keeps them happy and out of our hair at the same time!!! (PS: I'm not a shopoholic, plastic argmented, Paris Hilton (ugly moo) wanna be, fake girlie either!!).
I do love watching Top Gear
though. It's great TV.
Personally, I think she needs a good seeing too! Stop using the toys, love and get yourself a real man!!!
Now, I'm not into cars AT ALL, but I can appreciate and recognise that men love their motors in what ever model, shape or colour it may be. Their interest/fascination/love of cars keeps them happy and out of our hair at the same time!!!
(PS: I'm not a shopoholic, plastic argmented, Paris Hilton (ugly moo) wanna be, fake girlie either!!).I do love watching Top Gear
though. It's great TV.Personally, I think she needs a good seeing too! Stop using the toys, love and get yourself a real man!!!
03 October 2006, 03:40 PM
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Do you think it might annoy her if I relate to her what two of my female mates said to me upon experiencing their first burst of acceleration in my Scooby:
"So Paul, have you had a **** in the back seat yet??"
All women don't like fast cars, my a*se! 
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"So Paul, have you had a **** in the back seat yet??"
All women don't like fast cars, my a*se!
Ns04
03 October 2006, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by New_scooby_04
Do you think it might annoy her if I relate to her what two of my female mates said to me upon experiencing their first burst of acceleration in my Scooby:
"So Paul, have you had a **** in the back seat yet??"
All women don't like fast cars, my a*se!
Ns04
"So Paul, have you had a **** in the back seat yet??"
All women don't like fast cars, my a*se!
Ns04
03 October 2006, 08:10 PM
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Look i've got a trendy name (india) so i must be fabby and a real hip jorno.
another 10 minute article designed to give her 15 mins of fame.
she'll be long gone and forgotten, unlike the hampster, whos now has some serious bragging rights!!!
mart
another 10 minute article designed to give her 15 mins of fame.
she'll be long gone and forgotten, unlike the hampster, whos now has some serious bragging rights!!!
mart
03 October 2006, 08:29 PM
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I can understand her point of view about the responsibility issue, but I think she has used her column to slate men which is wrong.
She is most certainly not speaking for all us women. I love fast cars, I have one. She has gone totally over the top, and made a bit of a fool of herself
She is most certainly not speaking for all us women. I love fast cars, I have one. She has gone totally over the top, and made a bit of a fool of herself
03 October 2006, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by lightning101
There's no accounting for 13 year olds taste though
Amazing what you can pick up outside KFC these days!!
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03 October 2006, 08:52 PM
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I can understand her point of view about the responsibility issue, but I think she has used her column to slate men which is wrong.
She is most certainly not speaking for all us women. I love fast cars, I have one. She has gone totally over the top, and made a bit of a fool of herself
She is most certainly not speaking for all us women. I love fast cars, I have one. She has gone totally over the top, and made a bit of a fool of herself
I think she may have had tongue firmly in cheek when she wrote that article. Being a journalist she would know exactly what sort of reaction she would provoke with her comments. The woman is probably much cleverer than she is being given credit for.
Maz
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03 October 2006, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Einstein RA
I think she may have had tongue firmly in cheek when she wrote that article. Being a journalist she would know exactly what sort of reaction she provoke with her comments. The woman is probably much cleverer than she is being given credit for.
Maz
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