Ob. disclaimer - these views are mine alone, and nobody else's
I happened to be in a doctors' waiting room when Sky News excitedly flashed that they had footage of the Real Stig. People actually looked up to see some handsome chap walk away from the High Court. Then they said "Ben who?", and went back to their business.
Obviously, I'm not Ben ( Read more... )

People carriers. They’re for married couples who have been overactive with their loins, and suddenly find themselves in charge of four screaming mini-me’s who they don’t really like, and so decide to keep them out of the house as much as humanly possible by keeping them active in endless football / karate / ballet lessons, which involve using up ( Read more... )

(DO NOT READ if you want to be told that Santa doesn't exist...)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/4303450/Stig-mystery-reignited-amid-claims-he-is-played-by-four-actors.html

(bonus geek points if you get the title reference) 

I'm not a car person - I drive an elderly Daewoo Matiz with all the power of a lawnmower - and yet, Top Gear is one of the reasons why I value paying my BBC licence fee. (The other reasons being Dragons' Den, Doctor Who, Newsnight - oh, and it's illegal and immoral for me not to!)

So the news that the Top Gear team are going on tour around the ( Read more... )

I'd forgotten how simply fantastic this particular edition of Top Gear was. If you want to see what three middle-aged British men make of America (well, Florida and the Deep South) watch away:

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