I figured you got it, it’s more a comment because there’s gonna be some jamoke who takes it 100% literally. A just in case, not a just for you.

Please do note, however, that “every other flight” is entirely colloquial, and not meant to be an even remotely accurate representation of frequency, just to give a rough idea that they were used frequently. Some days, you wouldn’t touch them, some days you’d be using multiples per flight, multiple flights in a row.…

When I was working as Cabin Crew, we’d use them pretty much every other day. My US-route mates described them as heavy use items, but not just for the sake of wordplay - they had them out practically every other flight, apparently.

In casual conversation, mate. Of course there’s situations where you refer to the population of continents, but it’s not like I’m regularly chatting about them down the pub of a Friday evening.

He did indeed - up to that point, he’d only ever raced borrowed cars. Thanks for the clip, I’ve not seen that segment before!

Eh, I’m fine with Evans(Hot tip - 99% of the shit you hear about him from Jalop is 100% made up bullshit sourced from the most notoriously awful of the english tabloids), but I still wish they’d bought Tiff back - as hard as it is to Justify with Sabine(Pro Racer) and Eddie Jordan(Ex-racer, ex-racing team boss) on the…

A lot of people think there was some driving skill on Clarkson’s Top Gear, but that was always peanuts next to Tiff. He’s fucking legit - he’s Stig kind of good. In fact, after Ben Collins got the arse, he got pulled in as their “Emergency Stig”.

While that’s true, I can’t say that I’ve honestly ever needed to lump the three together as “North Americans”, because frankly how often do you refer to a group of people by the continent they live on rather than the country, at least in casual conversation?

Pre-2002 top gear is the “Most popular motoring show in Europe” and “Most viewed program on BBC 2 during that period” I’m talking about.

It’s okay man! And hey, I’m Australian, so I can’t be too hard on a commonwealth cousin. I would be lying through my teeth if I said I hadn’t done exactly the same thing myself.

Really, the hardest part of the whole thing is measuring that success over time - the media landscape in just the last fifteen years has…

“Just shittier” than TMZ does not accurately depict how much shittier they are. If TMZ is where we’re standing, you can’t even see The Sun from there, and the only thing between the two is an ocean of shit.

At least on occasion, The Onion reports things that turn out to be true.

“Also, trust anything that comes out of The Sun about as much as you’d trust Clarkson’s views on geo-politics.”

I know I must be sounding like a broken record by now, but don’t you find it odd that the far more reputable Guardian didn’t mention this juicy bit of news, despite speaking to Audience members present for the first taping?

Fair cop, fair cop. I wouldn’t want to make the drive either, though not because of the distance. If I didn’t have a motorbike, many of my semi-regular trips from Leeds to London would have been pretty intollerable with traffic.

I didn’t think of it that way, but yeah, that makes perfect sense. That wouldn’t be a bad promo, if they played it right.

Yes and no, it’s a traffic depending sort of thing. But assuming relatively few major obstructions(which is my experience, though I do tend to pick my times) you could make it in not much more.

Tell me about it - I’m from Australia. The UK fits into my state alone seven-and-a-bit times. This place is huge!

Well, to be honest, if I’m going london to Glasgow to pick up a car, I’m not going on a sightseeing tour.

Yes, but in UK terms, any distance greater than the chemist down the road is “far.”