Post #808930

2026-03-27 03:40 UTC

americans don&#39;t understand how right-wing Top Gear was in its original context because we have no frame of reference for how abnormally evil you have to be to be a Car Guy in england. imagine you&#39;re surrounded by steam engines and yet you go out of your way to like cars

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@fredy@tacobelllabs.net 2026-03-27 03:44

imagine you can walk across your entire country in two days and there's a preserved historic railway society in every other shire. and yet you still become fixated on Yhe Dastardly Motorcar. real messed up

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@bassthang@mastodon.au 2026-03-27 06:37

@fredy@tacobelllabs.net Fuck you Dr Beeching

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@maidservantofnanaya@social.translunar.academy 2026-03-27 07:19

@fredy@tacobelllabs.net I remember Abroad and Japan once joked that his series was "Top Gear... but without all the casual racism" LMAO

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@bkhl@tilde.zone 2026-03-27 07:36

@fredy@tacobelllabs.net

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@elexia@catcatnya.com 2026-03-27 07:58

@fredy@tacobelllabs.net Germans don't get it either cause being a car guy just comes with the gender they were assigned at birth.

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@mikesiegel@infosec.exchange 2026-03-27 10:48

@fredy@tacobelllabs.net I never understood why they don't just use their Tardises located conveniently on every street corner. Tardi?

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@Orb2069@mastodon.online 2026-03-27 11:24

@fredy@tacobelllabs.net ... Nah, Clarkson is pretty fucking obvious.

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