Top Gear is the new Last of the Summer Wine

a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3teP10qn07H2P5HSOlJvId2uEkjS-tLeaaBRcQ3I7ivIgA1t9GsA_D_H2bRicK5DzPkzvGnLN7WIDys1_vJAzDDPfNhNF7xRRNPzw7g0rM7HxVkdP0U9P-VC18LxbR66ITZ2QIeYXE7li/s1600-h/summerwine.jpg"img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 281px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369429072194724034" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3teP10qn07H2P5HSOlJvId2uEkjS-tLeaaBRcQ3I7ivIgA1t9GsA_D_H2bRicK5DzPkzvGnLN7WIDys1_vJAzDDPfNhNF7xRRNPzw7g0rM7HxVkdP0U9P-VC18LxbR66ITZ2QIeYXE7li/s400/summerwine.jpg" //aI have been known to complain about a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/06/top-gear-presenters-are-not-boys.html"the BBC's habit/a of describing the ageing presenters of Top Gear as "boys".br /div/divbr /divThe week after I last did so the programme's trailer ludicrously implied that they are "the kids on the street" who "never miss a beat"./divbr /divI was having my hair cut this morning and the barber's shop had TVs showing the Dave channel. As I gather is usual, it was running an old episode of Top Gear./divbr /divAnd it suddenly struck me where I had seen the characters before./divbr /divThree ageing men who, unencumbered by women or families, and with lots of time on their hands, get involved in increasingly contrived adventures. It's Last of the Summer Wine./divbr /divEven the characters from that programme's heyday fit:/divulliThe tall one who likes telling the others what to do - Jeremy Clarkson/Foggy Dewhurst/liliThe quiet, sensible one - James May/Clegg/liliThe small one who is made to risk his life in dangerous contraptions - Richard Hammond/Compo/li/ulpThere is only one way in which the parallel breaks down: Top Gear sometimes makes you laugh./pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-8854833619141587582?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div

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