Since we got some crap frome the Brits regarding running their own stories about themselves I thought I’d run this little opinion piece from England obviously designed to make America look like a-holes. I can assure you wearing a Manchester United scarf in most of England would get these same sort or results.
That said, this is pretty funny.
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This is from the Top Gear BBC show, usually dedicated to reviewing cars. Every now and then, however, they do something crazy like this. You can find the entire 60 minute episode (divided into 6 parts due to the site’s 10 minute limit) on YouTube.com as well, so check it out before it’s taken off! It’s actually quite funny, sometimes terrifying, and at one point touching…
that was hilarious they must have some stones to do that.
…designed to make America look like a-holes.
Only Alabama. 😉
These are the same folks that love road-worthy V12 engine cars and bash hybrids & electrics.
They on purpose compared a Gen 1 Prius 2001 to the 2004 Gen 2 stats, and had a guy shoot up the 2001 Prius with a sub-machine gun.
Also, in their infinite wisdom, the Top Gear folks love the million-dollar fuel cell car because it runs on watter, and can power your house.
Of course they fail to mention that it takes more electricity IN than it puts OUT.
They ran away too quickly from that gas station, cowards.
If they really thought they’d be killed, they wouldn’t have gone.
What if they had tried the same thing in, say, tribal Pakistan?
Isn’t that the difference (nowadays) between fundamentalist Christians and fundamentalist Muslims?
I want to see a GIANT MJ logo, and Legalize Marijuana On the side
@5: No, I don’t think what you’ve said has anything to do with this.
Why do crazy people always have to bring their superstitious nonsense into things?
Religion isn’t at issue here….
This is one of the best shows I’ve ever watched. They have a lot of hilarious challenges like this, although I’ve never seen one they gave up on before….
There is no tolerance in America. Considering that the phrases were meant to stir up a reaction, Americans have no restraint.
If Americans do react like the people in the video, then they should be laughed at.
Does anyone know if this segment was filmed before or after Hammond’s terrible accident? I thought he was still in rehab?
Too bad they didn’t go about 4 hours north they could of taken their beaters on one of the best motorsports tracks in the world. I’d like to see Big Stig vs Stig on the Barber track in B’ham.
I wonder how much of the gas station scene was staged, but in reality you could walk into pretty much any town in the US and get a reaction out of the locals if you try hard enough…
-Al
I still think they didn’t try hard enough. I think I could come up with a phrase or two that would have provoked real gunfire from the natives. I won’t mention them here, for the sake of my own safety (I’m a chicken at heart).
regardless of the whereabouts, it’s never a good idea to insult the locals. you’ll find aggression in return anywhere if you get saucy enough with the jibes.
anyone familiar with what a hooligan is?
whoops! just noticed j.c.d. already said what i had in the post.
sorry for the redundancy…
F!%# the South. I believe that website says it all. (Strong language warning!)
That video ROCKS!
That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen on YouTube in a long time.
As Americans, our ignorance of the world puts us at a serious disadvantage with it comes to making fun of people.
Believe me, there are plenty of dolts, goofballs and paranoids in England but most Americans just don’t know enough about them to tease them like that — and we know more about England than perhaps any other country.
#12 — how about :
“Uppity black, anti-war, gay, pagan liberal, come to take away your guns!”
#15 lol – nice phrase, Greg, but maybe a little long. I like how you saved the real sacred cow for the end.
Spoiler alert — our hero gets shot 😉
How about
The KKK are WIMPS, Pussies…
Too too funny – anywhere else in the English speaking world the rednecks would recognise the top gear team as fellow travellers……….
this was done last year. Before Hammounds accident. He’s long out of rehab. They are touring again as before the accident. Making asses of themselves in India at last glance.
Jeremy Clarkson is an arrogant punter, with an unnatural hatred of Americans.
Of course you all realize it was a fake. I was on the camera crew . All the ‘rednecks’ were actors hired out of LA. The gas station was actually in Maryland.
It’s easy to laugh at SOME Americans simply because “the internet is a series of tubes” and you cant find more than 180bhp from a 5.7litre V8.
Top Gear is a show about expensive cars, and anyone is entitled to an opinion about anything. And if you cant take a joke then theres more wrong with you than what you know.
For future england bashing please refer to
Rip Off Britain, Chav Scum, Insane Petrol Prices.
Avoid
Your cars suck, because, well, my clio can go faster than most of your “muscle” cars.
American Football Rules! – because its rugby for pansies.
Sorry if I offended anyone in anyway, just some of my thoughts.
I would have a “Republicans are destroying America’s future, one policy at a time” on my car in Texas… but I like my car.
Would the reaction have been much different if they’d driven through San Francisco with “3rd term for GWB” on one side and “no gay marriage” on the other?
How embarassing for Alabama. I’m so glad I’m not from there.
Hateful brits ? i dont think so. however i do agree on the manchester thing.
15. That website you linked to was pitiful. Lets see George Washington, T Jefferson, James Madison, P Henry, etc, etc, etc. All Southerners, all Virginians. Learn some history asswipe.
How about,
Mexicans GO HOME, is South LA…
I DONT agree with the Manchester thing.
Over the recent years football hooliganism has been wiped out in the domestic league. Its peaceful rivalry, i have mates that support teams all across England, they don’t get battered if they wear a scarf or shirt in other teams territories…so please John think of another one…
p.s – still great reading your blog and columns, listening to you on twit and watching crankygeeks.
I don’t know about the Manchester thing, and not because football hooliganism has been wiped out, because it hasn’t. But Newsnight got the same results flying the English flag in Scotland.