richard hammond, he might be a pedo, for all we know, just like mohammed the prophet of islam, it's not as if he would be open about it, sorry mohammed the prophet of islam was quite open about it, if you complained about it he killed you, it's a funny old world.
Completely agree, I have been to the Netherlands many times and to the US a few times, my job is as a translator & I study languages in detail (such as inflections and timing etc) and the American accent is nothing like a Dutch accent when they speak English!! It's like when people cannot distinguish between US/Canadian accents, Scottish/Irish/Welsh, or Aussie & NZ. They are ALL unique if people listen properly!
@lilliam3690 uuuurmmmmm he was doing no such thing. he was simply doing an item for the new series of top gear where he drove a rocket car. there were no records he was aiming to beat. get your facts straight before you tell people what the circumstances were surrounding this incident.
Of course, nobody here thinks that an American accent sounding like a "Dutch English" accent might have anything to do with English-speaking Dutch people having been exposed to American-led popular culture in the last 50 years?
I will also take this opportunity to address all the sheep, who like to follow king dick at the top of the screen, who pointed out my "over analysis", because I dared to point out the unfunny shit, you guys jerk off too. I guess I've learnt my lesson, being pwned by "cool story bro" and "dull", I will never try this shit again. I'm surprised none of you called me out for being racist - I mean he's black, I said something negative about him, and you all sound thick enough to have tried it.
@difficultbastard I think you just didn't get the joke. He was saying is Richard Hammond a peadophile based on the audiences reaction to his name. He wasn't just randomly throwing out insults based on a name, but based on the audience.
@difficultbastard There is little point making comments on Youtube. Mostly you get abuse by simple minded who were offended by your remark, because it somehow didnt fit their political correctness or some other similar holy belief. The ones that could understand and have an intelligent debate probably dont read or write comments here because they have learned their lessons.
@difficultbastard Yes that's right Mr Hammond making fun of an individual is not quite the same as making disparaging remarks about different races and ethnic groups or even the people living north of the Watford Gap.
@oliverlaw02 Almost forgot the reason I came back here. I think you must have clicked the wrong name, as none of the content seems to apply to something I said, also, Mr Hammond was the man they were referring to, and wasn't there in the studio.
I love how the black guy is just like the token black guy at any event who just doesn't understand anything that's going on at any point, and things that he says are automatically funny as a result of that. Even when he's being completely serious, he's hilarous, because it still appears that he's on his own little planet.
@iamthestigsixsixsix ... I am pretty sure they were laughing at the concept of Richard Hammond being a pedophile. And he wasn't being serious, he's a comedian on a comedy show. If he was being serious then he wouldn't be doing his job.
Seriously, you don't have to read everything as an implicit jab at minority/women/religious people, etc. It would have been funny no matter who was saying it.
@mylightside Didn't read it as a jab at minorities/race or anything at all, just in the episodes that I've watched with him on it, he just makes himself out to be "that guy who doesn't really get this whole 'British' thing". I understand that might be part of his act, and I have to commend him for making it look so convincing, but as I don't really know the guy and have only watched a few episodes with him in it, it's how he appears to me.
@iamthestigsixsixsix Ok, that's fair. I will admit I have not seen very much of his appearances on the show. Most of his stand up does focus on cultural differences. I was just saying that I don't think his race had anything to do with it. Being from another country is a different matter.
@mylightside I think he said black guy as it was easier than saying 'the guy who said the blah blah' and he was the only black man in panel show full of white men.
I know what he means, the fact he plays on the way he doesn't 'get things' culture wise etc, but that is to do with being american rather than black. either way what @iamthestigsixsixsix said wasn't racist. people are too quick to shout racist these days.
@iamthestigsixsixsix I pointed out the same thing, and I've got quite a few negative remarks here. I keep forgetting about this video and clicking back to these apparently witty remarks people are giving back. I'm not one given to internet memes and I find it funny that one of probably three time I've ever used one and I get called out on it, fair do, but the amount of dumb-fuckery in these replies would make me lose a little faith in people, if only I had some to begin with.
@difficultbastard It's how things are nowadays. Everyone is so quick to jump on you for being racist when you even so much as mention the colour of their skin next to a slightly negative remark. People who comment on here aren't the most intelligent people to begin with, so thinking outside of their realm of comfort/stupidity only results in a barrage of insults. Funny, really. I was even going to mention that he's fat, but Americans would get upset and send death threats. meh
Reg had lived in the UK for a long time at this point, he knows who Hammond is, Reg made this clever comment in this way to play to the rumours regarding Hammond, I guess why Paul is also nodding. Reg is super cool, and very clever.
@TheManWhoKnocks Haha, alright with me. Nice to know a 40 year old man is both so stupid and so threatened by someone half his age. Ta! You did okay I suppose. Always fun to make a stubborn British person with a sense of superiority feel bad. Strange too, because arrogant Brits don't fit well in Britain either. Rather unBritish I'd say. I imagine you had a tough time as a kid, being that stuck up self loving twat everyone took the piss out of. And not in a nice way.
@TheManWhoKnocks Oh I know the dates have significance in history, however you were throwing them out there willy-nilly as you say, to no apparent point, nor with any context. Funny how your grammar and spelling shapes up as soon as I point out that you have have full stops, fewer commas and no structure.
So about the Iron Age stuff: yes, Okay. Britain had an Iron Age. What of it, then?
@TheManWhoKnocks Do you know much about Paul Magadlino (I apologize for the spelling, a small mistake means nothing in the grand scheme of things)? You simply are not a historian. Your utter lack of historical knowledge and critical thinking skills shows this. Or you were too busy in uni getting pissed to remember much. Sadly, being almost half your age, I know far more than you are letting on. Either you really do have a BA, and you're just fucking around, or you just really hate being wrong.
@TheManWhoKnocks What are you on about now? You seem to just be throwing out random dates now in a desperate attempt to sounds superior. Actually the America's had an iron age too, though quite a different culture to be fair. For being so passionate about language you really, really have trouble writing coherent sentences and using proper grammar.
@TheManWhoKnocks Of course I know who David Starkey and Richard Evans is. Any student of history is likely to have heard of them. I can't say I know Hobsbawm is, but I can admit when I don't know something. I suppose you've never heard of Cyril Mango, Donald Kagan, or Paul Magdaleno? If you don't what does that prove? Nothing. I am willing to bet you actually don't know that "ye" can be pronounced much like "the" do you? Its a hang up from the 16th century. You're pretty unbearable.
@TheManWhoKnocks You'd think by your mid 40s you'd learn that you aren't always 100% by the very nature of being you. Many of the world's better historians are from the USA. History isn't an opinion, it's a set of learned facts. A country lacking a deep history does not preclude its residents from having an equal (and in this case) much greater understanding of history than you do. If you look at any history of the english language, you'll see that I'm right. You're just being kind of stupid.
@catscatscatz Analysis of history (what scholars do) is provide an argument based on evidence that something happened in a certain way. For example in a simplified form, that Henry VIII's break with Rome (the event) was because of his desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon (evidence for why). You can further explain by stating that he wished to divorce her because he wanted to have a male heir. However, another historian argues the more important reason was Spanish relations. It's complex.
@Seyth7 Yes, that's all well and good and a good point. But Im not sure what it has to do with...anything? The origins of words and linguistic change is much more concrete and scientific than the debate over abstract things such as Henry VIIIs break from Rome.
I was just against the idea you stated that history is just a set of learned facts. I picked Henry VIII as an example of the value of analysis from history (and he's one of David Starkey's favourites...). It shows how an event can be debated over. It is the causes of things that are argued by historians which cause the most aggrovated debate but are most useful in informing our decisions about right and wrong and what to do in the future.
@TheManWhoKnocks Once again, you have a very weak understanding of history and language. Britain adopted newer spellings since colonization and consequently our spellings are not wrong, but simply an older style. Sad to see such ignorance in people like you.
@TheManWhoKnocks Just another one of those pathetic British superiority complex types. I said nothing about Vietnam or 911. Redirections and changing the subject to avoid looking stupid is just a sign of a person with weak logical ability. Posting a difference between American and British English proves nothing. Our spellings historically are just older spellings, not a mangling. It's a symptom of a colonized region that the language stays older. Thats simply a matter of fact.
Britain have not learned, by interfering in other countries affairs Britain will pay the price when the poor people of those countries will come to Britain to rip off British welfare state for rest of there lives. Britain interfered in Iraq, Afghanistan & Libya, 700,000 people from poor countries are coming to Britain each year to milk British welfare state for rest of there lives.
@markmaxy125 Actually the differences found in American English are not because of the degeneracy of the language but the linguistical trend toward conservatism in "colony" languages compared to "motherland" languages. The spelling of "favor," the use of the word "faucet," instead of "tap," "candy," instead of, "sweets," the use of -ize instead of -ise are all characteristics of how the English language was when we were settled in the 16-18th centuries. If anything, we're older.
@markmaxy125 It's simply a fact. Sorry to burst your bubble. All the extra u's, the spelling of centre, the spelling of check as "cheque" are all innovations of the late 19th century when romantic French was in vogue, and the upper classes were sticking with the trends, while the spelling of tire as the ridiculous "tyre" was also a late Victorian attempt to emulate 15th century English. The fact is, is that in the UK before then it was spelled tire. Its funny when non-Brits know far more.
@catscatscatz "All the extra u's, the spelling of centre, the spelling of check as "cheque" are all innovations of the late 19th century"
Allegedly, the American accents are closer to how many people in England spoke back then, too, although how anyone knows when there were no means of recording people's voices, back then, I don't know.
American accents sound more like they had an Irish root, to me.
@pineapplepenumbra The American accent apparently comes from the mixture of primarily Dutch, as a lot of what became the British colonies over there were originally controlled by them (like New Amsterdam; aka New York). Listen to a Dutch person speak English and you'll get a distinctive "American" sounding twang now and then, soften it a bit and it'll become even more American like. It's a mixture of other accents, but Dutch is generally thought to be the most influential.
@TalesOfWar - I agree with the assumption that the main "sound" of the American accent is based on Dutch English. I'm from the UK and have been to Holland many a time and when a white person there speaks English it tends to sound like an L.A. or San Fransico American accent i.e. lazy, drawly and typically American. I love it :)
@MrDenizen Omg, that's so true I know this Dutch kid on skype. He's 15 and speaks really good english but at firs the COULD NOT convince me he was no American.
@beanabadger If he was a real hamster and someone said to you "did you hear about the hamster who survived a 280 mile dragster crash and advertised Morrisons, admittedly with a glazed expression?" you'd go "that's a good hamster" but he isn't a hamster, he's not even a hamster, he's NOTHING.
@Tedaus5 What are you talking about. He's a really awesome person and is funny.
On 20 July 2007, during severe flooding, Hammond left his Porsche 911 – in which he had been stuck in traffic for 13 hours – to run home for his daughter's birthday. He ran 16 miles (26 km) in two and a half hours (from 3 am to 5:30 am), arriving home before his daughter woke up. -Wikipedia
@TmetheWise He's a man who managed to carve out a best selling book out of his own inability to drive safely. He also should have published it through the BBC publishing company, but he didn't. We should have got the book for free because the tax payer paid for that crash. Also, because I hate Jeremy Clarkson so much with all his racist offensive badly researched opinions that he has, I hate Hammond more because he doesn't even express them. He just stands next to Clarkson, giggling.
@MeOnStuff The crash was paid for by the BBC, which is funded by us. Which means we deserve to reap any benefits from that crash - in this case, the form of a book.
@Tedaus5 No. That's a non sequitur argument. By that logic anything that Hammond does in the future (BBC funded or not) should be given to the public for free since he only got into his well-known position through the BBC...
@Tedaus5 You are being completely unreasonable. Your license fee paid for the event which the crash happened at, and nothing else. Your license fee did not pay for the work that went into writing, printing, publishing and distributing a book about the crash, therefore you are not entitled to that book for free.
@MeOnStuff It's not only the book thing. He's also like on of those little shit weasel kids at school who hangs around with all the bullies, laughing at their jokes hoping he doesn't get picked on by them. Jeremy Clarkson would beat a sikh to death in the name of a "Top Gear joke" and Richard Hammond would stand there filming it on his camera phone.
@Tedaus5 - Do I get the slight impression you've been watching Stewart Lee? Don't get me wrong, brilliant comedian and all, but credit where credit's due...
@PuissantAlgernon Yeah, and I thought that would kind of be obvious to Stewart Lee watchers, and since he has a reputation with non-Lee fans, then I thought it would be best not to mention him.
@ikadir18 Richard Hammond crashed a car he was driving at high speed for a segment on Top Gear, the motoring show he co-presents. That's why the audience acted shocked when Ian made his joke. Reginald D. Hunter, an American unfamiliar with Hammond or Top Gear, thought he was a paedophile due to the audience's shock, paedophilia still being a taboo subject.
@zilbiol Richard Hammond was involved in a REALLY bad car crash at over 200mph and had a serious brain injury, was in a coma and in hospital for a long time. I'm not really sure how salt and blue ribbon relates to it (I didn't get that part either) but the audience groaned because it was too soon after the accident to be joking about it. Then judging from the audiences reaction, Reginald D Hunter said what he said.
I listen to the question and answer so many times, i still cant figure what the guy said "To improve your driving, tie a blue ribbon in the car, sprinkle sea salt and (dead lessons????)"
@Chronostream I know what the joke is, I do watch top gear. But that was just terrible, why would a more visible driving instructor be a good thing in the first place.
@blehface3000 Guess you missed where I said "to make the car more visible". Same reason you have to wear a high visibility jacket while driving in France. lol
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@SJGibbons1000 "ring richard hammond" - he's basically joking that if you want to become a better driver, call Richard Hammond. Its a bit of a mean joke, since this was right after Hammond almost died, he had a tire blow out and massive crash in a Jet powered dragster.
I noticed in the states they have posters with rapists and peodo's faces and adresses so you can be on the alert if you spot them. We certainly don't have that, we just sometime see one in the newspaper.
@chsparkle They go a step further than that, even... A convicted child molester has to go door to door when he moves into a neighborhood, and tell all his neighbors he's a child molester, and have them sign the form acknowledging that he informed them. They also have to inform any potential employer when they interview for a job. I had one interview with me at my company one time, and I can tell you, that was an uncomfortable conversation, lol. I told him we'll... give him a call. :)
@fearguis At the time when this episode was recorded, Hammond had just been in an accident where he had completely smashed up his car and had to go to hospital.
series 33??!?!? wow
jazmyn594 1 day ago
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MrMachinimator 2 days ago
richard hammond, he might be a pedo, for all we know, just like mohammed the prophet of islam, it's not as if he would be open about it, sorry mohammed the prophet of islam was quite open about it, if you complained about it he killed you, it's a funny old world.
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BlackRoof 1 week ago
not cool at all to label richard hammond as a pedo like this
MrChuckyps 1 week ago
That has got to be the loudest audience laugh on HIGNFY ever.
hippotoast 1 week ago 2
That's fucking hilarious haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
85hellopeople 1 week ago
sick
NICKY752 1 week ago
@kly45 lv it! lool :)
Rizkhanmakeupartist 2 weeks ago
@ghughesarch
Completely agree, I have been to the Netherlands many times and to the US a few times, my job is as a translator & I study languages in detail (such as inflections and timing etc) and the American accent is nothing like a Dutch accent when they speak English!! It's like when people cannot distinguish between US/Canadian accents, Scottish/Irish/Welsh, or Aussie & NZ. They are ALL unique if people listen properly!
shredderkrang 3 weeks ago
I wonder if Hammond himself actually saw this... ><
WoodymanTHEJ 3 weeks ago
but why did the audience react like that to Ian's comment?
nikmys15 3 weeks ago
@nikmys15 Hammond had a crash which left him in a coma whilst trying to beat the land speed record!
lilliam3690 3 weeks ago
@lilliam3690 uuuurmmmmm he was doing no such thing. he was simply doing an item for the new series of top gear where he drove a rocket car. there were no records he was aiming to beat. get your facts straight before you tell people what the circumstances were surrounding this incident.
Emsland1993 2 weeks ago
@Emsland1993 My sources are the BBC, I don't expect an apology but you were wrong. I know this because you can watch the episode online!
lilliam3690 1 week ago
@nikmys15 It was a 'too soon' joke.
biggingeryeti 3 weeks ago
funny. i thought it was a witty come back to the audience reaction :)
ilovemoviesuk 1 month ago
Cant't stand Richard Hammond. Nice to see someone slating the narrow minded little prick
agbr8 1 month ago
@agbr8 If Hammond is not to your taste I suggest you find a rather good rant about top gear by Stewart Lee.
fenderkid6 2 weeks ago
Reginald D Hunter is brilliant as usual
Dendiol 1 month ago 2
pAEdophile..
SinisterSurgeon 1 month ago
Of course, nobody here thinks that an American accent sounding like a "Dutch English" accent might have anything to do with English-speaking Dutch people having been exposed to American-led popular culture in the last 50 years?
Chicken v egg
ghughesarch 1 month ago
Sounds like Mary Poppins at the start...
duncandohnut1993 1 month ago
Not as funny as the Stewart Lee vs Richard 'The Hamster' Hammond routine (he's not a real hamster)
jimlongtao 1 month ago
Oh man I love the crowds laugh XD
flobbywelly 2 months ago
>People trolling on Youtube and writing novels expecting people to be impressed with their edgy opinion on videos
>2012
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csmith1234567891 2 months ago
I will also take this opportunity to address all the sheep, who like to follow king dick at the top of the screen, who pointed out my "over analysis", because I dared to point out the unfunny shit, you guys jerk off too. I guess I've learnt my lesson, being pwned by "cool story bro" and "dull", I will never try this shit again. I'm surprised none of you called me out for being racist - I mean he's black, I said something negative about him, and you all sound thick enough to have tried it.
difficultbastard 2 months ago
@difficultbastard Do you ever shut up? Like, can't you just let it be?
TheSlinkyGuyShow 2 months ago
@difficultbastard U mad?
MrJonnyh94 1 month ago
@difficultbastard I think you just didn't get the joke. He was saying is Richard Hammond a peadophile based on the audiences reaction to his name. He wasn't just randomly throwing out insults based on a name, but based on the audience.
fatmikecj 1 month ago
@difficultbastard Well you were thick enough to not understand the joke.
Tool9395 1 month ago
@difficultbastard There is little point making comments on Youtube. Mostly you get abuse by simple minded who were offended by your remark, because it somehow didnt fit their political correctness or some other similar holy belief. The ones that could understand and have an intelligent debate probably dont read or write comments here because they have learned their lessons.
Darvinisti 4 weeks ago
reg d hunter is so funny ..
Deanpb4768 2 months ago
paedophile*
JoeyJoeJoeJunior22 2 months ago
How to look stupid on national television
step 1: hear a name you don't know
step 2: admit that you don't know who they are
step 3:without knowing anything about them, exclaim that they sound like a pedophile
step 4:???
step 5: profit
difficultbastard 2 months ago
@difficultbastard How to look stupid on youtube.
Step 1: Point out that you don't like a joke even though nobody cares
Step 2: Over- analyse the joke that you dislike
Step 3: Use internet meme derived from popular american TV show to appear cool
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit
kly45 2 months ago 91
@kly45 so that response isnt derived from south park?
RattAndMouse 2 months ago
@kly45 Step 6 make a list :P just kidding ^^
MckaysProductions 1 month ago 3
@kly45 Yum-tum-yummy-tum, hey!
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englishhacksaw 2 months ago
@difficultbastard
Congratulations on making yourself look like a complete tit. Oh and dull, we cant forget that
englishhacksaw 2 months ago
@difficultbastard
Cool story bro. Try harder next time.
jackalhunt1 2 months ago
@difficultbastard Yes that's right Mr Hammond making fun of an individual is not quite the same as making disparaging remarks about different races and ethnic groups or even the people living north of the Watford Gap.
oliverlaw02 2 months ago
@oliverlaw02 Almost forgot the reason I came back here. I think you must have clicked the wrong name, as none of the content seems to apply to something I said, also, Mr Hammond was the man they were referring to, and wasn't there in the studio.
difficultbastard 2 months ago
I love how the black guy is just like the token black guy at any event who just doesn't understand anything that's going on at any point, and things that he says are automatically funny as a result of that. Even when he's being completely serious, he's hilarous, because it still appears that he's on his own little planet.
iamthestigsixsixsix 2 months ago
@iamthestigsixsixsix ... I am pretty sure they were laughing at the concept of Richard Hammond being a pedophile. And he wasn't being serious, he's a comedian on a comedy show. If he was being serious then he wouldn't be doing his job.
Seriously, you don't have to read everything as an implicit jab at minority/women/religious people, etc. It would have been funny no matter who was saying it.
mylightside 2 months ago
@mylightside Didn't read it as a jab at minorities/race or anything at all, just in the episodes that I've watched with him on it, he just makes himself out to be "that guy who doesn't really get this whole 'British' thing". I understand that might be part of his act, and I have to commend him for making it look so convincing, but as I don't really know the guy and have only watched a few episodes with him in it, it's how he appears to me.
iamthestigsixsixsix 2 months ago
@iamthestigsixsixsix Ok, that's fair. I will admit I have not seen very much of his appearances on the show. Most of his stand up does focus on cultural differences. I was just saying that I don't think his race had anything to do with it. Being from another country is a different matter.
mylightside 2 months ago
@mylightside I think he said black guy as it was easier than saying 'the guy who said the blah blah' and he was the only black man in panel show full of white men.
I know what he means, the fact he plays on the way he doesn't 'get things' culture wise etc, but that is to do with being american rather than black. either way what @iamthestigsixsixsix said wasn't racist. people are too quick to shout racist these days.
whale0melette 2 months ago
@iamthestigsixsixsix I pointed out the same thing, and I've got quite a few negative remarks here. I keep forgetting about this video and clicking back to these apparently witty remarks people are giving back. I'm not one given to internet memes and I find it funny that one of probably three time I've ever used one and I get called out on it, fair do, but the amount of dumb-fuckery in these replies would make me lose a little faith in people, if only I had some to begin with.
difficultbastard 2 months ago
@difficultbastard It's how things are nowadays. Everyone is so quick to jump on you for being racist when you even so much as mention the colour of their skin next to a slightly negative remark. People who comment on here aren't the most intelligent people to begin with, so thinking outside of their realm of comfort/stupidity only results in a barrage of insults. Funny, really. I was even going to mention that he's fat, but Americans would get upset and send death threats. meh
iamthestigsixsixsix 2 months ago
@difficultbastard I know you're probably sick of this, but what internet memes?
pineapplepenumbra 1 month ago
@pineapplepenumbra I'm not sure what you are asking.
difficultbastard 1 month ago
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@difficultbastard Kly45 posted a version of the list you had posted, only at number 3 he had:
"Step 3: Use internet meme derived from popular american TV show to appear cool"
Maybe I should ask him?
pineapplepenumbra 1 month ago
Reg had lived in the UK for a long time at this point, he knows who Hammond is, Reg made this clever comment in this way to play to the rumours regarding Hammond, I guess why Paul is also nodding. Reg is super cool, and very clever.
mcg548 3 months ago 2
Lol at Paul nodding
SnorkyO 3 months ago 105
@SnorkyO
Takes one to know one. Anything you want to tell us Merton?
karezza6 2 months ago
Like it :-D
caprica451 3 months ago
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BODYGCB 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks Haha! Bad ass. TheManWhoKnocks got so frustrated with being simply wrong, that he deleted his account. Ha!
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks Haha, alright with me. Nice to know a 40 year old man is both so stupid and so threatened by someone half his age. Ta! You did okay I suppose. Always fun to make a stubborn British person with a sense of superiority feel bad. Strange too, because arrogant Brits don't fit well in Britain either. Rather unBritish I'd say. I imagine you had a tough time as a kid, being that stuck up self loving twat everyone took the piss out of. And not in a nice way.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks You also do realize that Donald Kagan is an American right?
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks Oh I know the dates have significance in history, however you were throwing them out there willy-nilly as you say, to no apparent point, nor with any context. Funny how your grammar and spelling shapes up as soon as I point out that you have have full stops, fewer commas and no structure.
So about the Iron Age stuff: yes, Okay. Britain had an Iron Age. What of it, then?
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks Do you know much about Paul Magadlino (I apologize for the spelling, a small mistake means nothing in the grand scheme of things)? You simply are not a historian. Your utter lack of historical knowledge and critical thinking skills shows this. Or you were too busy in uni getting pissed to remember much. Sadly, being almost half your age, I know far more than you are letting on. Either you really do have a BA, and you're just fucking around, or you just really hate being wrong.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks What are you on about now? You seem to just be throwing out random dates now in a desperate attempt to sounds superior. Actually the America's had an iron age too, though quite a different culture to be fair. For being so passionate about language you really, really have trouble writing coherent sentences and using proper grammar.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks Of course I know who David Starkey and Richard Evans is. Any student of history is likely to have heard of them. I can't say I know Hobsbawm is, but I can admit when I don't know something. I suppose you've never heard of Cyril Mango, Donald Kagan, or Paul Magdaleno? If you don't what does that prove? Nothing. I am willing to bet you actually don't know that "ye" can be pronounced much like "the" do you? Its a hang up from the 16th century. You're pretty unbearable.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks You'd think by your mid 40s you'd learn that you aren't always 100% by the very nature of being you. Many of the world's better historians are from the USA. History isn't an opinion, it's a set of learned facts. A country lacking a deep history does not preclude its residents from having an equal (and in this case) much greater understanding of history than you do. If you look at any history of the english language, you'll see that I'm right. You're just being kind of stupid.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@catscatscatz Analysis of history (what scholars do) is provide an argument based on evidence that something happened in a certain way. For example in a simplified form, that Henry VIII's break with Rome (the event) was because of his desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon (evidence for why). You can further explain by stating that he wished to divorce her because he wanted to have a male heir. However, another historian argues the more important reason was Spanish relations. It's complex.
Seyth7 3 months ago
@Seyth7 Yes, that's all well and good and a good point. But Im not sure what it has to do with...anything? The origins of words and linguistic change is much more concrete and scientific than the debate over abstract things such as Henry VIIIs break from Rome.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
I was just against the idea you stated that history is just a set of learned facts. I picked Henry VIII as an example of the value of analysis from history (and he's one of David Starkey's favourites...). It shows how an event can be debated over. It is the causes of things that are argued by historians which cause the most aggrovated debate but are most useful in informing our decisions about right and wrong and what to do in the future.
Seyth7 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks Once again, you have a very weak understanding of history and language. Britain adopted newer spellings since colonization and consequently our spellings are not wrong, but simply an older style. Sad to see such ignorance in people like you.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks Just another one of those pathetic British superiority complex types. I said nothing about Vietnam or 911. Redirections and changing the subject to avoid looking stupid is just a sign of a person with weak logical ability. Posting a difference between American and British English proves nothing. Our spellings historically are just older spellings, not a mangling. It's a symptom of a colonized region that the language stays older. Thats simply a matter of fact.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
@TheManWhoKnocks Clearly that's not true. You and your British friends have shown yourself to know pretty much nothing about your own language.
catscatscatz 3 months ago
it' paedophile!
MrNnpivo 3 months ago
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justicepartyuk 4 months ago
rofl
maidenfanmartin 4 months ago
It's spelt 'Peadophile', not 'pedo' by the way.
Thanks for the clip though.
markmaxy125 4 months ago
@markmaxy125 *paedophile
Knoh 4 months ago
@Knoh lol yes
markmaxy125 4 months ago
@Knoh lol yes
markmaxy125 4 months ago
@markmaxy125 Think again. Its spelled pedo in the US and Canada.
catscatscatz 4 months ago
@catscatscatz Not in Canada it isn't, except by people who don't know how to spell.
WalterLiddy 4 months ago
@catscatscatz yeah but 'American' is bad English.
'Pedo' is wrong.
markmaxy125 4 months ago
@markmaxy125 Actually the differences found in American English are not because of the degeneracy of the language but the linguistical trend toward conservatism in "colony" languages compared to "motherland" languages. The spelling of "favor," the use of the word "faucet," instead of "tap," "candy," instead of, "sweets," the use of -ize instead of -ise are all characteristics of how the English language was when we were settled in the 16-18th centuries. If anything, we're older.
catscatscatz 4 months ago
@markmaxy125 It's simply a fact. Sorry to burst your bubble. All the extra u's, the spelling of centre, the spelling of check as "cheque" are all innovations of the late 19th century when romantic French was in vogue, and the upper classes were sticking with the trends, while the spelling of tire as the ridiculous "tyre" was also a late Victorian attempt to emulate 15th century English. The fact is, is that in the UK before then it was spelled tire. Its funny when non-Brits know far more.
catscatscatz 4 months ago
@catscatscatz "All the extra u's, the spelling of centre, the spelling of check as "cheque" are all innovations of the late 19th century"
Allegedly, the American accents are closer to how many people in England spoke back then, too, although how anyone knows when there were no means of recording people's voices, back then, I don't know.
American accents sound more like they had an Irish root, to me.
pineapplepenumbra 1 month ago
@pineapplepenumbra The American accent apparently comes from the mixture of primarily Dutch, as a lot of what became the British colonies over there were originally controlled by them (like New Amsterdam; aka New York). Listen to a Dutch person speak English and you'll get a distinctive "American" sounding twang now and then, soften it a bit and it'll become even more American like. It's a mixture of other accents, but Dutch is generally thought to be the most influential.
TalesOfWar 1 month ago
@TalesOfWar I taught a Dutch guy once, I think I see (or hear) what you mean.
pineapplepenumbra 1 month ago
@TalesOfWar - I agree with the assumption that the main "sound" of the American accent is based on Dutch English. I'm from the UK and have been to Holland many a time and when a white person there speaks English it tends to sound like an L.A. or San Fransico American accent i.e. lazy, drawly and typically American. I love it :)
MrDenizen 1 month ago
@MrDenizen Liar.
phreak761 1 month ago
@MrDenizen Omg, that's so true I know this Dutch kid on skype. He's 15 and speaks really good english but at firs the COULD NOT convince me he was no American.
AEgamesFtw 2 weeks ago
hahahahahahaha
UltimateVenom 5 months ago
He's not really a hamster
beanabadger 5 months ago
@beanabadger If he was a real hamster and someone said to you "did you hear about the hamster who survived a 280 mile dragster crash and advertised Morrisons, admittedly with a glazed expression?" you'd go "that's a good hamster" but he isn't a hamster, he's not even a hamster, he's NOTHING.
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@beanabadger WHAT!?!???!!!
TmetheWise 5 months ago
I think, on balance, I hate Richard Hammond more than anyone who's ever lived actually.
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@Tedaus5 What are you talking about. He's a really awesome person and is funny.
On 20 July 2007, during severe flooding, Hammond left his Porsche 911 – in which he had been stuck in traffic for 13 hours – to run home for his daughter's birthday. He ran 16 miles (26 km) in two and a half hours (from 3 am to 5:30 am), arriving home before his daughter woke up. -Wikipedia
TmetheWise 5 months ago
@TmetheWise He's a man who managed to carve out a best selling book out of his own inability to drive safely. He also should have published it through the BBC publishing company, but he didn't. We should have got the book for free because the tax payer paid for that crash. Also, because I hate Jeremy Clarkson so much with all his racist offensive badly researched opinions that he has, I hate Hammond more because he doesn't even express them. He just stands next to Clarkson, giggling.
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@Tedaus5 Are you seriously saying that the book should have been free just because he's employed by the BBC?
Are you actually an idiot?
MeOnStuff 5 months ago
@MeOnStuff The crash was paid for by the BBC, which is funded by us. Which means we deserve to reap any benefits from that crash - in this case, the form of a book.
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@Tedaus5 No. That's a non sequitur argument. By that logic anything that Hammond does in the future (BBC funded or not) should be given to the public for free since he only got into his well-known position through the BBC...
MeOnStuff 5 months ago
@MeOnStuff Yeah. I didn't pay my license fee to watch a crash then be forced to read about that crash.
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@MeOnStuff I mean be forced to pay to read a book
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@Tedaus5 You are being completely unreasonable. Your license fee paid for the event which the crash happened at, and nothing else. Your license fee did not pay for the work that went into writing, printing, publishing and distributing a book about the crash, therefore you are not entitled to that book for free.
MeOnStuff 5 months ago
@MeOnStuff It's not only the book thing. He's also like on of those little shit weasel kids at school who hangs around with all the bullies, laughing at their jokes hoping he doesn't get picked on by them. Jeremy Clarkson would beat a sikh to death in the name of a "Top Gear joke" and Richard Hammond would stand there filming it on his camera phone.
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@Tedaus5 Come on... Now you're just exaggerating to the point of insanity.
MeOnStuff 5 months ago
@MeOnStuff You know it's true
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@Tedaus5 Right... And that's why I am saying the exact opposite.
MeOnStuff 5 months ago
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@MeOnStuff FUCK YOU. I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU. I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU.
Tedaus5 5 months ago
@Tedaus5 Haha, gypsies...
joeisaflyingfish 5 months ago
@Tedaus5 - Do I get the slight impression you've been watching Stewart Lee? Don't get me wrong, brilliant comedian and all, but credit where credit's due...
PuissantAlgernon 5 months ago
@PuissantAlgernon Yeah, and I thought that would kind of be obvious to Stewart Lee watchers, and since he has a reputation with non-Lee fans, then I thought it would be best not to mention him.
Tedaus5 5 months ago
Most unfunny black guy ever
truthoutmedia 5 months ago
I wouldnt be suprised if a peadophile tried to rape Richard Hammond.
nicepandas 6 months ago 2
@nicepandas LOL
Bubo25 6 months ago
What show is that?
Churchx77 6 months ago
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@Churchx77 Have I Got News For You :o)
DazIOM1140 6 months ago
I don't get this. Someone explain?
ikadir18 6 months ago
@ikadir18 Richard Hammond crashed a car he was driving at high speed for a segment on Top Gear, the motoring show he co-presents. That's why the audience acted shocked when Ian made his joke. Reginald D. Hunter, an American unfamiliar with Hammond or Top Gear, thought he was a paedophile due to the audience's shock, paedophilia still being a taboo subject.
MrHeslopian 6 months ago
@MrHeslopian Right thanks! I see the joke went from bad to worse!
ikadir18 6 months ago
i dont get it
zilbiol 6 months ago
@zilbiol
Im guessing this was during the time when Richard Hammond was in Hospital for that serious accident.
radicalhit 6 months ago
@radicalhit im just more confused now :(
zilbiol 6 months ago
@zilbiol Richard Hammond was involved in a REALLY bad car crash at over 200mph and had a serious brain injury, was in a coma and in hospital for a long time. I'm not really sure how salt and blue ribbon relates to it (I didn't get that part either) but the audience groaned because it was too soon after the accident to be joking about it. Then judging from the audiences reaction, Reginald D Hunter said what he said.
crazypianolady 6 months ago
@crazypianolady oh thx
zilbiol 6 months ago
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Say the word "pedophile", and your opponent is instantly discredited. It's not as if he can argue in favor of pedophilia!!!
MohammedTheBabyRaper 6 months ago
oh i couldn't stop laughing!!!
01DancingPrincess 6 months ago
I listen to the question and answer so many times, i still cant figure what the guy said "To improve your driving, tie a blue ribbon in the car, sprinkle sea salt and (dead lessons????)"
Mrfantasmas 7 months ago
@Mrfantasmas get lessons;)
kaizum6mmi 7 months ago
@Mrfantasmas GET lessons
WestEndDream 7 months ago
'Gypsies, hee hee hee'
Bluenile38 7 months ago 2
i love the way paul merton is nodding in agreement XD
MCshlthead 7 months ago
@shortdevil
aaahahahahahaha
Shawnruss 7 months ago
hahaha reg D is one of the funniest guys around.
jimmyshitbags 7 months ago
He's not even a real hamster
evildave9000 7 months ago
Reginald D Hunter is....brilliant.
Andyp12 8 months ago
Reg Hunter is a wonderful man :) :)
BluesMan2 8 months ago
I think the reason why they would recommend Richard Hammond is b/c his white teeth would make the car more visible.
Chronostream 8 months ago
@Chronostream That's actually the worst joke I have ever heard in my life.
blehface3000 8 months ago
@blehface3000 Why thank you. = ^_^ = Was Clarkson's running gag earlier on in Top Gear.
Chronostream 8 months ago
@Chronostream I know what the joke is, I do watch top gear. But that was just terrible, why would a more visible driving instructor be a good thing in the first place.
blehface3000 8 months ago
@blehface3000 Guess you missed where I said "to make the car more visible". Same reason you have to wear a high visibility jacket while driving in France. lol
Chronostream 8 months ago
@Chronostream Right, but how would that be good for a driving instructor
blehface3000 8 months ago
@Chronostream I actually laughed at that poor attempt of humour.
ShRiNkInGMuShRoOmS 8 months ago
@ShRiNkInGMuShRoOmS Well someone doesn't watch Top Gear. :p "I have not had my teeth whitened!"
Chronostream 8 months ago
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McKeeisacrook 8 months ago
@dbswv you realise i'm referencing a certain stand up routine right?
badboi0800 8 months ago
Imagine being Welsh and not English.
badboi0800 8 months ago
@badboi0800 its awesome believe me
dbswv 8 months ago
I lick up my milk...from Morrisons.
babuwhite2011 9 months ago 3
"I don't know who Richard Hammond is"
haha
baadshepherd 9 months ago
Ian Hislop is such a legend.
HaydnFitzsimons 9 months ago
Can't understand what he said at the beginning...
hunterr83 9 months ago
@hunterr83 Get letters I think....
lange838 9 months ago
@hunterr83 Get letters I think....
lange838 9 months ago
@hunterr83
get lessons
dinok983 9 months ago
HIGNFY S33 E03 -- When i saw that i panicked until i realised what it meant...
MosleyFML 9 months ago
Ian's reaction is the best.
lolookphor 9 months ago
paul merton knoddding :L:L
TheNiall41 9 months ago
Ian's reaction is the best
ChrisAgs88 9 months ago
i dont get it
SJGibbons1000 9 months ago
@SJGibbons1000 what's not to get???
syckodave 9 months ago
@SJGibbons1000 "ring richard hammond" - he's basically joking that if you want to become a better driver, call Richard Hammond. Its a bit of a mean joke, since this was right after Hammond almost died, he had a tire blow out and massive crash in a Jet powered dragster.
vivalaking 9 months ago
I noticed in the states they have posters with rapists and peodo's faces and adresses so you can be on the alert if you spot them. We certainly don't have that, we just sometime see one in the newspaper.
chsparkle 10 months ago
@chsparkle They go a step further than that, even... A convicted child molester has to go door to door when he moves into a neighborhood, and tell all his neighbors he's a child molester, and have them sign the form acknowledging that he informed them. They also have to inform any potential employer when they interview for a job. I had one interview with me at my company one time, and I can tell you, that was an uncomfortable conversation, lol. I told him we'll... give him a call. :)
fearguis 9 months ago
@fearguis Really ??
catatonicable 8 months ago
I don't understand why the audience went "ooohhhhhh" when he said ring Richard Hammond? What was the problem?
fearguis 10 months ago
@fearguis I think this was aired shortly after he crashed that, weird...vehical...type..thing... yea after that crash.
CyanideSovereign 10 months ago
@fearguis At the time when this episode was recorded, Hammond had just been in an accident where he had completely smashed up his car and had to go to hospital.
99genie 9 months ago