Also, all the Armchair TV execs in this thread don’t remember - either from being too young, or too American - that this is exactly how people reacted when the BBC gave all the prior hosts the arse, and Clarkson and Willman re-worked the whole thing into the Top Gear we know and love. They forget that it took Nine…

A)He’s a reasonably popular UK celebrity
B)He’s well known for being quite into cars, despite the protests of Jalop commenters
C)Unlike Jalop and Jalop commenters, BBC’s HR and Talent departments don’t actually take notoriously shitty red-top papers making up bullshit stories from “Anonymous sources” seriously.

No no, it’s obviously needed. He has comitted the greatest crime, replacing the odious right-wing old man we all liked, so he obviously could only be compared to a prolific child rapist. I mean, it’s the only comparison that makes sense, how dare he replace our favorite racist old coot who got himself fired by acting…

But here’s something strange. I’ve been to a lot of conventions in Australia - Supernova, EB Games expo, the old GenCons before they shut up shop, Comicon, and of course PAX - along with motorshows, trade shows, even an Amway convention or two(Hey, I was working for the convention center, don’t judge) and I’m yet to…

“I remember when the Destiny forums were toxic; I wonder how many of those people moved on to The Division and are now being toxic about this game, too.”

Judging by how Toxic the subreddit for The Division is, I’d say not only has every single one of them moved to the Division and started being toxic as possible there…

Lately I’m jamming out to a lot of “The Bones of JR Jones”. It’s fucking badass, dude.

“every former Top Gear Host”

In theory, it’s because she’s got the acting and action chops to pull it off.

In reality, it’s usually because she’s the one Japanese actress in Hollywood that people know the name of right now.

If she’s the Villain in a Fast and Furious movie, there’s only one option - A Self-Driving car.

The only thing I ever stole from an Auto show was a ticket. By convincing them I was a Jalopnik writer, back when Jalopnik was practically unknown. I was barely eighteen, I’m still shocked that worked to be perfectly honest.

If people are still cool with calling the Hoonicorn a Mustang - despite being custom basically from stem to stern, and having fewer original parts than this rally car - then I think we can get away with calling this a Holden.

I’m almost entirely certain at this point. After having a go at Ballaban the last time Jalop sourced a story from the red tops, I decided to have a look about for myself, and got in touch with some old workmates from my time in the UK press, including two who are ex-Sun but keep up with old friends.

To save names(and…

Bitcoin wasn’t that revolutionary, economically speaking - while technologically impressive, the Economic theory behind it is not really that different to the Gold Standard.

Come to Australia, mate - there’s 12 months to every drift season.

I’m not on board with this. Sure, the guy has some great works behind him, but precisely what contributions has he made to the field of economics, except as an example? We don’t give nobel prizes to great examples.

Okay, going off on a tangent about Tiff - who is, in fact, fucking wonderful - when I was a teenager, just when fifth gear was kicking off, thanks to how laid back he is while presenting, I figured that Tiff was just some regular mope, had some moves because he’d had a lot of practice, but just a regular mope. I liked…

Really? I heard he was pretty good, but admittedly I’ve never watched much of his stuff, I just don’t really enjoy his presentation style. It’s not bad, it’s just not my thing.

Seriously, you don’t know what you’re talking about, and I don’t care even if you think you do.

But what I am curious about is why you felt the need to tell me this twelve times in a row.

I’m one of them, in fact. I’m pretty good at rally, decent drifter, pretty good at Autocross, but fucked if I don’t get real queasy in the passenger seat at times, depending on the driver.

Fuck, I remember when I didn’t keep my fitness up between races, and ended up puking in my helmet while I was driving, just from…

Definitely Harris. Evans is no slouch, but against Harris and Sabine, it’d be like Ghandi boxing with Tyson.