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  • guy martin, what's gone wrong?
  • Onzadog
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    Half way through the programme and he’s only used the “G” word twice.

    stevewhyte
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    The g word is not sufficient for how hard these guys worked. 😯

    GregMay
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    My drinking game failed this evening 🙁

    Still ‘covered in coal from asshole to earhole’ made me spurt beer all over my screen 🙂

    Gary_C
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    Had to laugh at the segment when he was outside looking up at the oak beam & saying that hundreds of years ago, people would have been looking at it wondering what it was, & exclaiming ooh, ahh, etc.

    ‘We do that in Lincolnshire when we see an aeroplane’… 😆

    colournoise
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    Gary_C – Member
    Had to laugh at the segment when he was outside looking up at the oak beam & saying that hundreds of years ago, people would have been looking at it wondering what it was, & exclaiming ooh, ahh, etc.
    ‘We do that in Lincolnshire when we see an aeroplane’

    It’s true though.

    dirtbiker100
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    Bring me up to date please, the G word?

    Gary_C
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    Graft/Grafter

    iain1775
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    Thought it best one yet, dragging her indoors down pit, quality
    Did chuckle at the Lincolnshire aeroplanes and ass to ear lines

    project
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    fantastically cheap programe to make, one star, and just great machines and skills,wonder if for his next challenge could he rebuild the bbc, the banks and failing nhs.

    wwaswas
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    My wife really dislikes his voice/chirpiness and refers to him as ‘the new Fred Dibnah we’ve now got to put up with the for the next 40 years’.

    I think this isn’t a bad thing but what do I know.

    tracknicko
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    ‘We do that in Lincolnshire when we see an aeroplane’

    believe it or not… he grew up next to an airport.

    ebygomm
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    The thing is Kirmington isn’t Lincolnshire proper, it was south humberside from ’74 to ’96 and north lincolnshire from then on and nobody speaks like Guy Martin locally

    tracknicko
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    nobody speaks like Guy Martin locally

    finally!

    been waiting for someone to agree with me for AAAAGES.

    i (my parents) live about 3 mi from kirmington. i went out with a girl there for about a year…

    after 29 years i can confirm that NOBODY… NOBODY… NOBODY.. round here sounds like that. not a single person.

    last time i suggested that i got shot down!

    wwaswas
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    last time i suggested that i got shot down!

    everyone spots tracknicko in his flourescent aeroplane.

    ebygomm
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    I have friends in melton ross and barnetby. Grew up the other side of Brigg.

    tracknicko
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    I have friends in melton ross and barnetby

    sounds like a threat 😉

    mickyfinn
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    Graft really isn’t a strong enough word for how hard these people worked.
    Drinking game fail, but Brilliant social history win!

    His girlfriend going down there reminded me of the Testimony of Patience Kirshaw, a great folk song derived from this http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html

    stavromuller
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    Re Mrs. wwaswas, tell her not to worry as the life expectancy of a TT racer is not great

    ebygomm
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    The thing is Kirmington isn’t Lincolnshire proper, it was south humberside from ’74 to ’96 and north lincolnshire from then on and nobody speaks like Guy Martin locally

    wwaswas
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    possibly the longest gap between double posts I’ve ever seen there ebygomm 🙂

    tracknicko
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    do i have to type out the whole agreeing thing again?

    wwaswas
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    do i have to type out the whole agreeing thing again?

    *prepares to google image search ‘ack ack gun’ again*

    Tom-B
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    Is there an echo in here?

    I thought that last night was the best of the series.

    kilo
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    Interesting perspective of how some other riders view him in That Near-Death Thing – Inside the TT : The World’s Most Dangerous Race
    by Rick Broadbent. just finished it, very good book.

    rkk01
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    and…?

    spill the beans, or give a link… 🙄

    Houns
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    I like his Mrs *swoon*

    Surprised she didn’t slap him one when called her lass

    PeterPoddy
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    nobody speaks like Guy Martin locally

    I don’t think anyone anywhere speaks like Guy Martin do they?
    🙂

    To be fair he’s not a million miles away from my hometown accent actually.
    That’s north Notts coal mining slang, FYI.

    Giorre scrattin an gerrof ome
    Ayya gorra gadder I can borra?

    Etc….

    🙂

    jools182
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    he sounds more lancashire to me

    it is odd considering where he’s from

    elzorillo
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    To be fair he’s not a million miles away from my hometown accent actually.
    That’s north Notts coal mining slang, FYI.

    Agreed.. loads of people speak like that round here NNotts (I’m in Retford). 40 miles from Kirmington though.

    We do have a bit of an unexplained Lancashire twang round here too.

    ebygomm
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    It’s always sounded more Lancashire to me, I hear plenty of North Notts accents as I’m lucky enough to work in Kirkby 🙂

    elzorillo
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    Ever since uni where I studied linguistics, I’ve been baffled by our (NNotts) accents similarity to Lancs which is so far away.

    PeterPoddy
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    It’s always sounded more Lancashire to me, I hear plenty of North Notts accents as I’m lucky enough to work in Kirkby

    My mums side are from Kirkby in Ashfield, my dads from Sutton in Ashfield.
    I was born (just) in Sutton at Kings Mill hospital (thank god it’s not in Mansfield 😉 )
    I was dragged brought up in Kirkby and then Sutton, and went to school in ‘Ucknall

    It’s a wonder I can read and right akshully 😉

    I’d move back in a heartbeat though. 🙂

    kilo
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    “rkk01 – Member
    and…?

    spill the beans, or give a link… “

    Not universaly liked (very disliked by some) and neither is his down to earth persona welcomed by some. Worth getting the book it is a good read in addition to this aspect

    ebygomm
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    Kirkby’s got a morrisons now and the old cinema is being converted into a wetherspoons. It’s going up in the world 😉

    MrSparkle
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    It’s always sounded more Lancashire to me

    I wouldn’t have said that and I speak Lanky fluently. Whatever, it’s a good show and he seems a proper boyo.

    wwaswas
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    I speak Lanky fluently

    very useful for tall stories?

    atlaz
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    the old cinema is being converted into a wetherspoons. It’s going up in the world

    How bad does a place have to be for a new weatherspoons to be considered going up in the world?

    MrSparkle
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    very useful for tall stories?

    Aye. (very good, btw) 😉

    andyrm
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    My wife really dislikes his voice/chirpiness and refers to him as ‘the new Fred Dibnah we’ve now got to put up with the for the next 40 years’.

    I think this isn’t a bad thing but what do I know.

    Follow the lead of my grandad when the cricket was on and my nan piped up out of turn:

    “Shut up. Cricket’s on.”

    momo
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    ebygomm – Member

    The thing is Kirmington isn’t Lincolnshire proper, it was south humberside from ’74 to ’96 and north lincolnshire from then on and nobody speaks like Guy Martin locally
    Posted 1 hour ago # Report-Post

    This isn’t quite true, having met them both on multiple occasions, I can confirm that his dad speaks in exactly the same way! But strangely enough his sister doesn’t.

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