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O/T: Kai leaves DigitalRev

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DonParrot said:
Al Valentino said:
DonParrot said:
tgutgu said:
For the reviewer community, this is actually not a big loss. At the beginning the "reviews" of DigitalRev (in person of Kai) were more or less funny, but they never provided a lot of information. After a while, always the same story board, similar jokes, and predictable judgements became a boring thing.

I hope his new channel will be a bit more serious and informative.
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I hope not.

He was the Top Gear of photograhy. I hope he will get back to his former entertaining level.
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Even notice how they sometimes makes the cloulds move backwards to add drama.

Actually some of the beauty shots of the landscapes, particularly with a winding road, are breathtaking.

The last DigitalRev video I watched was of the EM1 mark ii, with Kai and monkeys - including some monkey sex. So i guess both shows have their share of excitable baboons 😉
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If I'm not mistaken, Kay wasn't in this video.
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Sorry, my mistake. I meant his replacement, Lok.

Like the new Top Gear (which was painful to watch even one eposide), that one was a flop to me.
 
Al Valentino said:
DonParrot said:
Al Valentino said:
DonParrot said:
tgutgu said:
For the reviewer community, this is actually not a big loss. At the beginning the "reviews" of DigitalRev (in person of Kai) were more or less funny, but they never provided a lot of information. After a while, always the same story board, similar jokes, and predictable judgements became a boring thing.

I hope his new channel will be a bit more serious and informative.
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I hope not.

He was the Top Gear of photograhy. I hope he will get back to his former entertaining level.
Click to expand...
Even notice how they sometimes makes the cloulds move backwards to add drama.

Actually some of the beauty shots of the landscapes, particularly with a winding road, are breathtaking.

The last DigitalRev video I watched was of the EM1 mark ii, with Kai and monkeys - including some monkey sex. So i guess both shows have their share of excitable baboons 😉
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If I'm not mistaken, Kay wasn't in this video.
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Sorry, my mistake. I meant his replacement, Lok.

Like the new Top Gear (which was painful to watch even one eposide), that one was a flop to me.
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I absolutely share you opinions in both cases. Thank God we now have the Grand Tour at Amazon Prime.
 
DonParrot said:
Al Valentino said:
DonParrot said:
Al Valentino said:
DonParrot said:
tgutgu said:
For the reviewer community, this is actually not a big loss. At the beginning the "reviews" of DigitalRev (in person of Kai) were more or less funny, but they never provided a lot of information. After a while, always the same story board, similar jokes, and predictable judgements became a boring thing.

I hope his new channel will be a bit more serious and informative.
Click to expand...
I hope not.

He was the Top Gear of photograhy. I hope he will get back to his former entertaining level.
Click to expand...
Even notice how they sometimes makes the cloulds move backwards to add drama.

Actually some of the beauty shots of the landscapes, particularly with a winding road, are breathtaking.

The last DigitalRev video I watched was of the EM1 mark ii, with Kai and monkeys - including some monkey sex. So i guess both shows have their share of excitable baboons 😉
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If I'm not mistaken, Kay wasn't in this video.
Click to expand...
Sorry, my mistake. I meant his replacement, Lok.

Like the new Top Gear (which was painful to watch even one eposide), that one was a flop to me.
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I absolutely share you opinions in both cases. Thank God we now have the Grand Tour at Amazon Prime.
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With 20,000 positive reviews in the first week, the world agrees.

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One of my favorite Top Gear clips. Nothing rude or crude, simply beautiful, especially the music. It goes to the heart and soul of the show, which to me is the vicarious experience of driving a great car on a great road.


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Al Valentino said:
One of my favorite Top Gear clips. Nothing rude or crude, simply beautiful, especially the music. It goes to the heart and soul of the show, which to me is the vicarious experience of driving a great car on a great road.

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tgutgu said:
For the reviewer community, this is actually not a big loss. At the beginning the "reviews" of DigitalRev (in person of Kai) were more or less funny, but they never provided a lot of information. After a while, always the same story board, similar jokes, and predictable judgements became a boring thing.

I hope his new channel will be a bit more serious and informative.
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DonParrot said:
Al Valentino said:
One of my favorite Top Gear clips. Nothing rude or crude, simply beautiful, especially the music. It goes to the heart and soul of the show, which to me is the vicarious experience of driving a great car on a great road.


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I have to admit that my favourite clip was far less elegant.

But it killed me with laughing.


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Yes, James May made Bovril famous, mentioning it in several episodes. Although i am older than him, and Clarkson, i had to look up Bovril - meat juice.

One of my favorite James May lines - talking about the Fiat 124 (from Cars of the People series)...

James May: What basic Italian cars always gave - *still* give, in fact - is the sensation of performance without the expense and inconvenience of actually achieving it.

also another more recent line from James from the same Cars of the People series afterthe TC ended...

James May - Presenter: Let's imagine for a moment that overnight the Morris Minor suddenly disappeared from the British conscience. Would it matter? I think we would struggle with it. If you did a survey: should we get rid of the Morris Minor? 'NO!'

But actually, would we really notice? Would it in fact give us a chance to move on? It might be a little bit as if a very popular and well-liked television programme suddenly came to an end. Everybody would think it was a disaster. But after a while, they'd get over it. Probably find something else.
 
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Al Valentino said:
DonParrot said:
Al Valentino said:
One of my favorite Top Gear clips. Nothing rude or crude, simply beautiful, especially the music. It goes to the heart and soul of the show, which to me is the vicarious experience of driving a great car on a great road.


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I have to admit that my favourite clip was far less elegant.

But it killed me with laughing.


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Yes, James May made Bovril famous, mentioning it in several episodes. Although i am older than him, and Clarkson, i had to look up Bovril - meat juice.

One of my favorite James May lines - talking about the Fiat 124 (from Cars of the People series)...

James May: What basic Italian cars always gave - *still* give, in fact - is the sensation of performance without the expense and inconvenience of actually achieving it.
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I like that one.
Albert Valentino said:
also another more recent line from James from the same Cars of the People series afterthe TC ended...

James May - Presenter: Let's imagine for a moment that overnight the Morris Minor suddenly disappeared from the British conscience. Would it matter? I think we would struggle with it. If you did a survey: should we get rid of the Morris Minor? 'NO!'

But actually, would we really notice? Would it in fact give us a chance to move on? It might be a little bit as if a very popular and well-liked television programme suddenly came to an end. Everybody would think it was a disaster. But after a while, they'd get over it. Probably find something else.
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Jason1500 said:
tgutgu said:
For the reviewer community, this is actually not a big loss. At the beginning the "reviews" of DigitalRev (in person of Kai) were more or less funny, but they never provided a lot of information. After a while, always the same story board, similar jokes, and predictable judgements became a boring thing.

I hope his new channel will be a bit more serious and informative.
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OzRay said:
DonParrot said:
samtheman2014 said:
peppermonkey said:
samtheman2014 said:
It is cringe worthy TV when you see middle aged men making jokes about boobs and snickering like schoolboys.
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he's not middle aged yet...unless people generally go 6 feet under when they hit ~60...

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The youngest member of the team Richard Hammond will be 47 in a couple of weeks Jeremy Clarkson is 56 and James May is a rough looking 53 :-)
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So what. Is it forbidden for elder man to be funny?
Remember last year's Monty Pythons appearances in London?

Why should somebody grow up if they can avoid it.

O believe that's just envy of those who were forced to forget what they loved when they were young.
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Some people have grown up in (or grown into) an environment where fun is not allowed; fun in the way conventional folk understand it.

These are the people that virtue signal over every perceived slight; hashtags are their favourite form of virtue signalling.

These are the people that are perpetually offended by everything; they go looking for things that they can claim as being offensive, often on behalf of others.

I do my best to accommodate them. :)

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And then there are people that are offended because they are rightfully so offended in a way that the average person who is conducting said offensive behavior doesn't even bother to contemplate. Because hey? At the end of the day, thinking about what you say is no "fun."

Rather instead they would prefer to be misinformed idiots and that's OK also because it's fun to prod them and remind them how ridiculously uninformed they are, or just to swindle them completely in the way that the current government has fun with people who vote Liberal in Australia who are mostly poor, uneducated people who think they're going to get a better deal.

That's fun also, if your name is Malcolm Turnbull... And I'd love to be a fly on the wall in his party room conversations about that type of fun.
 
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Excellent! Bonus points for bringing Australian politics into an Asian photography video thread and further points for introducing that idiot Turnbull. You are the gift that keeps on giving. :)
 
OzRay said:
Excellent! Bonus points for bringing Australian politics into an Asian photography video thread and further points for introducing that idiot Turnbull. You are the gift that keeps on giving. :)

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It's all about the subtleties of context of explaining the nuances of what you consider fun in a context you're surrounded by on a daily basis and how much fun it actually is when you think about it with a rational frame of mind.

In case you missed the memo, you didn't get the context of how much fun it really isn't. I don't blame you for missing the tone, but I do blame you for your ongoing belief that it's fun to be willfully offensive to people who don't know any better or to be offensive in the company of those who choose to be willfully uninformed.

To complete the exercise I showed you an example you agreed to about Malcolm Turnbull to help you realise just how much fun it really isn't. You see Ray, you just missed all of the finer brush strokes of life and the entire point of what I was saying.

You self-published an entire diatribe on why its fun to be offensive, but when I gave you the icing on the cake with the example of why its not, although it may be held to be by some; to swindle people; you got gun shy and walked away from the position you previously held.

It's not really that much fun now is it?
 
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I'll rephrase since you seem to like Clarkson, mindless schoolyard banter is fine, but when you punch someone in the face either physically or metaphorically, even if you did not construe what you did as more than fun and games, but the other person did? That's not fun anymore, that's assault and discrimination.

There you go, class dismissed.
 
Hiphopapotamus said:
I'll rephrase since you seem to like Clarkson, mindless schoolyard banter is fine, but when you punch someone in the face either physically or metaphorically, even if you did not construe what you did as more than fun and games, but the other person did? That's not fun anymore, that's assault and discrimination.

There you go, class dismissed.
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Discrimination also can be fun - as long as you dscriminate every minority or majority in equal measure. Stop whining.
 
DonParrot said:
Hiphopapotamus said:
I'll rephrase since you seem to like Clarkson, mindless schoolyard banter is fine, but when you punch someone in the face either physically or metaphorically, even if you did not construe what you did as more than fun and games, but the other person did? That's not fun anymore, that's assault and discrimination.

There you go, class dismissed.
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Discrimination also can be fun - as long as you dscriminate every minority or majority in equal measure. Stop whining.
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