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Stig was SAS hero (Racing driver for UK TV's Top Gear taught 'escape & evade' driving to SAS Troops)
The Sun (U.K.) ^ | September 2, 2010 | DUNCAN LARCOMBE, Defence Editor, LEIGH HOLMWOOD, Deputy TV Editor, and RYAN SABEY

Posted on 09/01/2010 9:43:09 PM PDT by Stoat

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To: Stoat

I saw that, but I don’t think that you can watch the show there.


21 posted on 09/02/2010 12:11:11 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

It’s a copyrighted show and so I don’t believe that there’s ‘any’ online site where you can legally watch the entire show episodes for free, only snippets.
That being said, ‘some’ of the YouTube snippets are really quite lengthy and cover quite a bit of the show. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, it might give you enough of a taste for what it’s all about to help you decide whether you might want to rent complete episodes from Netflix or from your neighborhood video store. :-)


22 posted on 09/02/2010 12:37:27 AM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Stoat
Isn't google amazing? Just went to google videos and typed in 'top gear,' 769.000 hits. 'youtube top gear' gets a similar number of hits.

I watch Top Gear on 'Dish.' My brother watches it on YouTube. I like the supercar road tests best of all. Some of those wacky contests are lame.

23 posted on 09/02/2010 12:45:58 AM PDT by Daaave ( "Was blind, but now I see.")
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To: Daaave; ansel12
Isn't google amazing? Just went to google videos and typed in 'top gear,' 769.000 hits. 'youtube top gear' gets a similar number of hits.

I watch Top Gear on 'Dish.' My brother watches it on YouTube. I like the supercar road tests best of all. Some of those wacky contests are lame. 

Well, I'm an idiot and it looks like I've been proven wrong again.  No, I hadn't Google'd it and one of the sites that appears among the top of the search using your suggested keywords certainly 'looks' legal and has complete episodes.

I'm not going to post a link to it here because I'm unsure of it's legality and posting a link to an illegal site will get a FR poster banned.  It sure looks legit though....

duh @ me  ;-)

24 posted on 09/02/2010 1:00:18 AM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: Stoat
"Well, I'm an idiot and it looks like I've been proven wrong again."

No you're not. You're to hard on yourself. I actually meant to post to the thread, not you personally. I was trying to remind people how to use google. Not a shot at you at all. Please accept my appologies.

25 posted on 09/02/2010 1:49:47 AM PDT by Daaave ("You see, but you do not observe.")
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To: Stoat

nice one thank you


26 posted on 09/02/2010 6:25:23 AM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Stoat
Interesting.
It would seem that approximately 1/2 of the male population of Britain are 'former SAS' personnel.

I do enjoy the show when I see it.
27 posted on 09/02/2010 7:43:23 AM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: Daaave
Isn't google amazing? Just went to google videos and typed in 'top gear,' 769.000 hits. 'youtube top gear' gets a similar number of hits.

I have heard about google, now where on youtube did you find the series for free?

28 posted on 09/02/2010 8:02:02 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Daaave

No apology is necessary, no offense taken :-) I worded my response haphazardly and conveyed the wrong sentiments.
No worries :-)


29 posted on 09/02/2010 9:16:36 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: manc
nice one thank you

You're quite welcome, and I'm delighted that you've found it to be worthwhile :-)

30 posted on 09/02/2010 9:18:04 PM PDT by Stoat (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Birkenstock stamping on a human face... forever)
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To: az_gila; Frantzie

Clarkson is married with three kids. Richard Hammond is married with two kids. James May is unmarried, no kids, but is living with a long term “partner”.


31 posted on 09/05/2010 1:02:44 PM PDT by Vanders9
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James May is unmarried, no kids, but is living with a long term “partner”.


Maybe, but last night on BBC America he got to go up in the second seat of a U2 out of Edwards AFB....:^)

Don't know how the BBC swung that one...

32 posted on 09/05/2010 1:09:13 PM PDT by az_gila (AZ - one Governor down... we don't want her back...)
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To: az_gila

Don’t get me wrong, I love James May. I think all four presenters are great. Pity we are going to lose the Stig...


33 posted on 09/05/2010 1:12:28 PM PDT by Vanders9
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To: az_gila
At least James May's partner is female...:^)

“James is not married, but has been dating the music journalist and dance critic Sarah Frater since 2000. He lives in a house without any stair carpet in Hammersmith, west London. His cat Fusker, was a gift from Richard Hammond’s wife, Mindy”

34 posted on 09/05/2010 1:13:31 PM PDT by az_gila (AZ - one Governor down... we don't want her back...)
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To: Vanders9

Jmaes May has had the same girlfriend for the past 9 years. I like Hammond but he is a bit too animated. Clarkson is insufferable. He is however a Manx man - from the Isle of Man like The Bee Gees and Dan Quayle’s family.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-mild-one-how-james-may-became-the-most-indemand-presenter-on-british-television-1771436.html


35 posted on 09/05/2010 1:57:55 PM PDT by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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To: Frantzie

But that’s the point. The three have very different personalities, but they all have a love of internal combustion. I must admit I empathise with James May more than I do with Clarkson and definitiely more than I do with Hammond. But its the contrast with the other two that enables the character of each to be shown so much more fully. The way they bounce off each other is the reason for the show’s success.


36 posted on 09/06/2010 10:50:06 PM PDT by Vanders9
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