[Closed] Hammond. Annoyed. nsfw.

Top swearing there!

Yep, been there. Sometimes you need to 'vent'!

Superb selection of vocabulary.. Good effort.

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Good choice of words 🙂

Topgear might have lasted longer if they'd shown more of this. Well, maybe not, but I still wish they'd shown more stuff like this.

Gone up massively in my estimations...

Profanities of the highest order there. Bravo!

Woeful swearage by Scottish standards.

I enjoyed that!

I think in his mind, "greasy-haired" was by far the biggest insult 😀

Absolutely top drawer

Not normally a fan of Hammond.........but 🙂

Muppet drivers and recalcitrant bike parts are pretty much the only things that reliably produce truly inspired profanity from me these days but I know a good verbal purge when I hear one and that, Mr Hammond, was some quality invective.

It's those nasty t4 drivers at it again 😉

The van wasn't even white

mcmoonter - Member
Woeful swearage 8 Scottish standards

^this

I genuinely greet my flat mate with worse every morning.

Not a bad effort though.

Lots of punctuation but very little in the way of actual swearing.

Used to think was a little prick who was a perfect foil for that other (sacked) prick.
I have a new-found respect for him now.

It's a very heartfelt **** you at the end. I think he did well, it's not really fair to compare it with scottish swearing, that'd be like comparing scottish football with english.

Good job Hammond. Mate from Colchester used to comment on the ability of Scots to turn anything into swearing. One favourite he never quite got right was "tube".

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Looks like he is in Germany though, so probably lost on the receipiant

Well said Hamster! 🙂

I reckon top gear could work with may and Hammond. Have a guest each week that they set challenges for. The Hammond and may serious films are good

It should be pointed out that if, as he appears, he is in Germany the rule is to give way to traffic from the right at unmarked junctions. So he is completely in the wrong as he throws his hissy fit.

Isn't that the St Petersburg one?

Yeah, finally got around to watching it and it's just unedited "race" across St Petersburg from the last Top Gear series.

Or are all you others too embarrassed to admit knowing that?

Isn't that the St Petersburg one?

It is. Road rage Russian style usually involves more firearms, but points for effort.

I reckon top gear could work with may and Hammond. Have a guest each week that they set challenges for.

They've already said "one out, all out" I believe, which is pretty understandable as any new anchor (careful now) would be an odd dynamic. But a HIGNFY-style 'presenter of the week' approach might well have worked.

A T4 too. Probably on the way to buy some new rims then rushing onto his Dub meeting.

Not a broadcast piece so the same person who released the Eeeny Meeeny Miney Mo.. perchance ?

I don't think swearing after being almost run over is the same as thinly veiled casual racism so put the conspiracy stick away, eh?

I don't believe he said it was the same, so why don't you jump off your judgemental bandwagon?

So he is completely in the wrong as he throws his hissy fit.

What part of Germany is St Petersburg in?

I did say [b]IF[/b] it was in Germany, a better question would have been does russia also have a priority to the right rule, and a quick google suggests it does ( http://www.carhiremarket.com/russia/traffic-rules.aspx) so the point stands, Hammond broke the law, and blamed the driver who was obeying the law.

Someone who drives abroad as frequently as he does should be well aware how common the priority to the right rule is throughout the world.

Priority to the right; major roads have right of way.

To me it looks like Hammond is on the major road and the van is pulling out from a side road.

The madness and the genius of the priority to the right system is that it is frequently unclear, unless road markings indicate otherwise, then the rule is assumed to apply. It generally has the effect of naturally slowing traffic as road users slow at junctions to prepare to give way rather than crash.

I did say IF it was in Germany

so the point stands, Hammond broke the law, and blamed the driver who was obeying the law.

the last time I drove in France lots of roundabouts had signs that said "altered priority" as you approached with out specifying what the alteration was which made me careful and confused.

I 'think' the rule no longer applies in France, however it's best especially through the more rural towns and villages to keep a wary eye out for old boys and dears in battered 2CV "coming in hot" from various side streets! 😆

Luxembourg has no rules about roundabouts beyond those on them have priority. Want to drive the entire way around on the outside, no problem. Don't want to indicate, don't worry about it. I'm constantly surprised that there aren't more accidents given I have fairly regular near misses in the car and am regularly having to yell at drivers when on the bike.

Priority on the right here is designated by a triangle with a cross in it on the road. It sometimes comes as quite the surprise, particularly one section of road where there are no less than 8 of them either on the road or the side roads. Sometimes you end up in Mexican standoffs as nobody is entirely sure who has priority any more.

Ok, and who routinely obeys the equivalent UK give way to the left rule???

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I 'think' the rule no longer applies in France, however it's best especially through the more rural towns and villages to keep a wary eye out for old boys and dears in battered 2CV "coming in hot" from various side streets!

The rule still applies everywhere UNLESS there are road markings to indicate otherwise.

This puts the driver on main roads in the odd position of having to look for stop lines on every road to their right (and still look out for drunken octagenarian farmers, obviously).

In practice almost all main road have clear stop or give way lines on all joining roads, it's just in towns and villages that things get nervy.