Top Gear first return episode tonight!

[masraum]

Woo Hoo!! I just wish I got BBC2, but oddly enough, that's not offered in Texas.

See what's in this episode.
http://www.topgear.com/content/tgonbbc2/

[CJFusco]

Cool. Should be able to download it illegally in a couple days.

[masraum]

Yep, but didn't BBC start offering it as streaming media on their website sometime this past fall? I'll still probably download to my PC anyway. I need to get a DVD burner, this stuff takes up room pretty quickly.

[CJFusco]

The "usual site" for bittorrents of TOP GEAR usually takes about 2 days.

[Paul K]

Originally posted by CJFusco
Cool. Should be able to download it illegally in a couple days.

+1.

Previews...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLF0QisYsAs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht6F3YI2Jg8

Can't wait!

[MFAFF]

Its looking good,

Fun and irreverant as usual....

I keeps stum now...

[efhughes3]

OK, I'll lay it out on the line: What is bittorrent? I've heard this twice in the last two days. I apologize for being out of it....

[thinkfloyd14]

Doesnt Directv offer bbc?

[efhughes3]

Originally posted by thinkfloyd14
Doesnt Directv offer bbc?

Nope, BBCA, which is BBC America. I think it's a distillation of the BBC programming from the UK. I can't help but wonder if this isn't the same for all cable companies here as well

[Rearden]

Originally posted by efhughes3
OK, I'll lay it out on the line: What is bittorrent? I've heard this twice in the last two days. I apologize for being out of it....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

I use the Bitcomet client.

[RickM]

How's the host doing..the one who injured himself during a romp with one of the cars?

[RickM]

Originally posted by Rearden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

I use the Bitcomet client.

Cool, kind of sounds like decentralized Kazza or Bearshare type P2P file sharing.

[efhughes3]

Originally posted by RickM
How's the host doing..the one who injured himself during a romp with one of the cars?

According to the front page headline of the link at the top of this page, that this thread references, he's back.

[RickM]

Great, Thanks Ed.

[MFAFF]

He's bakc and doing fine.. no difference seen.. he even gets the usual abuse...

They also had great footage of the entire day prior to the incident...

see it if you can, well worth it...

[Paul K]

Several posts on YouTube of the Hamsters wreck- all removed at the request of the BBC due to copyright violation.

Wankers.

[Paul_Heery]

I was able to grab it off of a torrent early Sunday morning. I got amazingly fast download speeds, between 600-700 kB/s. Use Top.Gear.S09E01 for your search.

Other than the coverage of the crash at the very end, I found the show to be a little disappointing. There was too much time wasted on their bit about paving a road in one day instead of 5.

Men at work
Why do roadworks take so long? It's a question that's vexed every one of us as we sit stationary, gazing glazen-eyed at a builder armed with a stop-go sign and massive arse cleavage. Surely there must be a better way?

With the aid of just 32 of Warwickshire's finest road workers, a quarryful of tarmac and an incredibly irritating megaphone, the boys try to complete a week's worth of road repairs in just 24 hours. How hard can it be?

Fast food
This week's studio guest Jamie Oliver was on a mission to prove he could set a tasty lap time rather than make a dog's dinner of our Reasonably Priced Car.

After nearly flattening us at Gambon - twice - and demonstrating a couple of the most spectacular fishtail slides we've ever seen on our icy test track, Jamie eventually got to grips with the non-stick circuit (see what we did there?) and even managed to fry the Lacetti's radiator. Smoking stuff.

Jaguar XKR v Aston Martin V8 Vantage
What better way to celebrate the return of the best show in Britain (hell, the world) than thrash a couple of the finest sports cars in Britain (hell, the world) around our test track? We've never seen Jeremy more torn - will he plump for the gorgeous Vantage or the Jag's supercharged XKR, with an engine note like "Tom Jones gargling a NASCAR"? Oh, how we've missed those metaphors...

Hammond's shunt
It's the big one. Like a scary film, you know what's coming. You want to shut your eyes, but somehow you can't look away. Whatever you've read about Hammond's jet car accident, you won't be quite prepared for it. It even shut JC up. Don't miss it.

[masraum]

Here's the torrent. I downloaded the episode last night. It's 700MB.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/561772