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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2011-01-27 02:44 pm
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :D

Specially filmed scene featuring Matt Smith and Dermot O'Leary as shown in the National Television Awards.



Oh show. Never change. ♥ (ETA: Very British TV centric...)
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-01-27 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Top Gear is what finally convinced me that I am literally interested in learning about anything, provided it's delivered with the right enthusiasm and style, because I would have told you that cars were the last thing on the planet I had any desire to know about and now I go driving about wondering if that pattern of headlights coming at me in the dark is a Mustang or a Jaguar.

I shudder to think what would happen if I ever tried to have a conversation with a mechanic, though. All my car terminology is British.
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-01-27 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
and now I go driving about wondering if that pattern of headlights coming at me in the dark is a Mustang or a Jaguar.
Seriously? I seem incapable of retaining any information they sprout.

I shudder to think what would happen if I ever tried to have a conversation with a mechanic, though. All my car terminology is British.
Heh.
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[personal profile] promethia_tenk 2011-01-27 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously? I seem incapable of retaining any information they sprout.
Well, I'd never pass muster as a gear head, but I now know exponentially more about cars than I ever did before and have, like, opinions about them and things.

I think I see a lot of it from a design angle--not just aesthetically, but in dealing with decisions about balancing functions, compromising this for that . . . There is a part of my brain that genuinely believes there is a single best possible way to do anything--tap into that and I'll be lost and never quite able to give it up ever again.
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[personal profile] elisi 2011-01-27 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'd never pass muster as a gear head, but I now know exponentially more about cars than I ever did before and have, like, opinions about them and things.
I just leave that to my husband. Not that I couldn't have opinions, but they'd inevitably differ from his and no way am I arguing with him about *cars*! ;)

There is a part of my brain that genuinely believes there is a single best possible way to do anything--tap into that and I'll be lost and never quite able to give it up ever again.
Oh I understand that. Very much.
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