If you ever need a laugh, then, head over to basically any Tesla thread on reddit. Or if you ever need evidence that people still believe in impossible miracles. Dudes in there practically telling you that it’s one software update from turning into Optimus Prime, but with Elon Musk’s voice instead of Peter Cullen.

“People believe it can do more than it really can, and once that belief sets in, no amount of written warnings can condition people out of it”

Worse than that, try to tell them otherwise, they’ll just call you a luddite, or an anti-(Company) shill. The warnings are dismissed as just legal-arse covering of a…

Video: “Residents are estimating the hoons are zipping by at 100 kilometers an hour”

Then Residents are fucking idiots who need an eye exam sooner rather than later. I get if you live on the Gold Coast Canals, you’re propably a rich bastard who hasn’t even seen a tinny up close, but the tiny little two-strokes they…

Nobody tell him about Hamish Blake, the Australian who won the NY state Bodybuilding championships. Pasty, completely untrained, only signed up shortly before the compeition, and won literally entirely because nobody else showed up in that weight category.

You know what, mea culpa. I read your initial comment when I was bone-tired, and somehow got the opposite meaning from what you were trying to say. Sorry mate.

As a young (occasionally) broadcast guy who has worked with the BBC in the past - Don’t belive everything you read, my friend.

Top Gear with the serial numbers filed off. Next question?

As much as I liked the latest season, I still struggle to get used to seeing it in print. If you went back five years, the words “Top Gear’s Matt LeBlanc” would sound like a surrealist joke.

Is it weird that I’m actually kind of disappointed by that?

“Why The Grand Tour Has To Be Good”

It’s an abbreviation for “Paying Passenger”. It’s been used by Airlines for many years, but it’s spreading to other industries of late.

And here I was, hoping for a movie about the Australian postal service, where the vast majority of residential post is still delivered by motorbike. Or, rather, by people riding on motorbikes, our postal service is not composed of benevolent, mail-delivering sentient motorbikes, unfortunately.

Seriously, our postal…

And it’s not like you can just buy booze at festivals, either, it’s just wicked expensive.

Not just rumors - I’ve seen it. Mate of mine got in extra, because he went in, left, and then came back with different clothes, another carton, and his twin brother’s ID.

“Australia can’t hang”

I worked at the Melbourne cup for a few years, and got sent once or twice on expense by local papers to do some - to quote the editor that had the idea first - “HST Kentucky derby shit”.

In a vacum, sure. A name is just a serious of sounds that is given to a person as an identifier, and one name is no more black or white than any other.

But, we don’t live in a vacum. Names are not randomly assigned by a computer, they’re given by people. Society and culture influence the names parents choose, which…

To be perfectly honest, that sounds a lot more like something Clarkson would do, than threatening legal action over calling scenery beautiful sounds like something the BBC would do. And I’m saying that as someone who has had many a frustrating interaction with BBC’s legal department.

Comments that have something to do with the thing they’re replying to, that’s my idea. I can see you’ve not warmed up to it.

Honestly, considering how out of touch a lot of these people tend to be with anything automotive, manufacturing, etc - yeah, it’s pretty believable that he did. It wouldn’t even be the dumbest assumption that I’ve seen of that sort, to be honest. I mean, it’s fucking dumb, but not the dumbest.