RSTChris Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 Quality viewing, id love to try that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toger Posted July 29, 2007 Share Posted July 29, 2007 I watched it again tonight. If only the Hilux looked like that bog standard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honitonhobbit Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 My respect for the little chap has reached about the highest level. Very entertaining viewing but Jezzer does drive like a complete tool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Sorry chaps but the re-run will have to be re-named "Hi-Lux nowhere near the bl*ddy Pole"... I watched it again last night and the GPS coordinates they reached "at the pole" were 78* 35' 7" N, 104* 11' 9" W, paused it and wrote it down because I thought it couldn't be right. I thought (and a quick scratch around on Google appears to confirm) that the North Pole is at 90* of latitude (and presumably at the pole there isn't any longitude since you can be any degrees of longitude and it will be in the same place since all lines converge?) From http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/mapping/a_latlong.html a degree of latitude is 69 miles approximately, so they were still nigh on 800 miles from the real Pole ... still an impressive achievement but definitely exaggerated for journalistic license, its like saying you visited Lands End when in fact you were somewhere up in the Hebrides Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gruntus Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Sorry chaps but the re-run will have to be re-named "Hi-Lux nowhere near the bl*ddy Pole"...I watched it again last night and the GPS coordinates they reached "at the pole" were 78* 35' 7" N, 104* 11' 9" W, paused it and wrote it down because I thought it couldn't be right. I thought (and a quick scratch around on Google appears to confirm) that the North Pole is at 90* of latitude (and presumably at the pole there isn't any longitude since you can be any degrees of longitude and it will be in the same place since all lines converge?) From http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/mapping/a_latlong.html a degree of latitude is 69 miles approximately, so they were still nigh on 800 miles from the real Pole ... still an impressive achievement but definitely exaggerated for journalistic license, its like saying you visited Lands End when in fact you were somewhere up in the Hebrides Hi Bog, I get called an Anorak for liking landies in general but you must be an "uber anorak"!! No offence meant!!! (from one anorak to another ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgnas Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 They went to the magnetic north pole. There is no land mass at the Geographic North Pole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jericho Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Nor at the magnetic north pole. Since about 2000 it has been somewhere in the arctic ocean off the northern coast of Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orgasmic Farmer Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 There is also no ice at the true north pole (due to global warming ) as illustrated by that bloke who went for a swim there last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollythelw Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I think you'll find most of the Poles are now in England - working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roverdrive Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I think you'll find most of the Poles are now in England - working. Nice one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holyzeus Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I think you'll find most of the Poles are now in England - working. As i'm in the building game, don't i know it.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jules Posted July 30, 2007 Author Share Posted July 30, 2007 I think you'll find most of the Poles are now in England - working. you forgot to add living in Southampton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dew110CSW Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 I think you'll find most of the Poles are now in England - working. :hysterical: Brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve b Posted July 31, 2007 Share Posted July 31, 2007 I think you'll find most of the Poles are now in England - working. nice one Jez around here the eastern bloc incomers are being told off for catching and eating carp and ducks on the rivers. BM i saw that GPS readout and thought the same.....just a smidge of TV smoke n mirrors cheers Steveb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishd Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 In case anyone wants to watch this and can't (no repeats/outside the UK etc) try here. Also, respect to the (heavily) modified Hi-Lux... I second the opinion that it's such a damn shame the standard vehicle looks nothing remotely like it. And Clarkson... gawd bless him, if he didn't exist ... you'd have to make him. He's such a tosser but facinating to watch! I spent half the show laughing my head off and half crouching behind the sofa while he did his utter best to totally destroy the Toyota!!! For a man who claims to love cars, he has no thought of mechanical sympathy at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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