Clarkson's Farm

PAToyota said:
There is also The Grand(ish) Tour - Watch The Grand-ish Tour - Season 1 | Prime Video

Gathering in the care home where they now live, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May host three special shows looking back at their favourite Grand Tour moments. Or at least the ones they can remember. Their fading memories stretch from California to Mongolia to Italy and everywhere in between, and include classic moments of misery featuring mud, water, and at least two actual injuries.
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It was just ok, basically a sorta narrated best of.
 
I’m not sure where but I saw he said somewhere that this will be the last season. They may do another season but everyone needs a break of shooting every week. He hinted at a show revitalizing old pubs. That might be interesting and I’ll never bet against a show with him in it flopping, but it seems kind of played out and very similar to the show Gordon Ramsay does.
 
I will say the last season seemed a bit torn between the farm and the pub, not to say I didn't enjoy either storyline but keeping them seperate might be a better play.
 
Winchested said:
Alcohol is dying everywhere because so many people can't afford it and new generations aren't turning to it.

When we were in Ireland it was friggen ******ed how expensive it was to drink compared at home in Canada.
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I've heard that a lot. My buddies and I are mostly mid 30s to mid 40s and I'm not sure any of us drink consistently. Quite a few, including myself, don't drink at all.

Which, for a bunch of blue collar dudes into wheelin, I feel would be pretty odd 10-15 years ago.
 
YotaAtieToo said:
I've heard that a lot. My buddies and I are mostly mid 30s to mid 40s and I'm not sure any of us drink consistently. Quite a few, including myself, don't drink at all.

Which, for a bunch of blue collar dudes into wheelin, I feel would be pretty odd 10-15 years ago.
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Agree, used to load out for a wheeling weekend with two 30 packs and a bottle of something and crack the first beer on the road into camp. Don't even bring beer anymore.
 
Winchested said:
Alcohol is dying everywhere because so many people can't afford it and new generations aren't turning to it.

When we were in Ireland it was friggen ******ed how expensive it was to drink compared at home in Canada.
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I don't drink where I have to pay stupid prices for it.

My wife ordered a house wine at a local restaurant, and it was $15 a glass. The whole bottle didn't cost that.
 
I always liked having a decent beer with dinner. I was always irritated when they would come out not very cold. Like, ****, I'm paying your ****ing $8-10 for a glass of beer, I want it ****ing cold.
 
Void_of_Light said:
I don't drink where I have to pay stupid prices for it.

My wife ordered a house wine at a local restaurant, and it was $15 a glass. The whole bottle didn't cost that.
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they opened a new Italian place with similar wine menu; its not really a fancy place- the food is excellent and fairly priced, but the cheapest glass of house wine on the entire menu is $14. As great as a nice red wine would pair with a meal , I just can't justify that level of extortion.
 
For me, and many others I presume, the long reaching consequences of a DUI are a higher deterrent than menu prices. Michigan's adult, non-commercial driver drunk driving severity levels from least to most severe are: OWVI = <.08% aka DUI in many states, OWI >.08+, "super drunk" >.17, and felony OWI for 3rd conviction or death. OWVI = .04 for CDL holders.

I don't drink beer often enough to stock it at home, so when the mood strikes I'll have one when out for dinner.
 
WTF? said:
The kids have uber/ Lyft ; driving isn’t gonna rank that high as a concern.
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If I'm already wincing at alcohol menu prices then adding ride share to the bill is non-negotiable and I'll skip the booze. Using ride share for a BYOB event, sure.
 
WTF? said:
The kids have uber/ Lyft ; driving isn’t gonna rank that high as a concern.
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Except those ride share apps have fallen way off due to them jacking the cost through the roof. I used to use them all the time. Hop on the bus for free, bar hop, Uber home at the end of the night for like $7. That $7 uber ride is now like $35.
 
WTF? said:
The kids have uber/ Lyft ; driving isn’t gonna rank that high as a concern.
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ain't no freedom in driving any more; you get to go outside and view for yourself all of the cameras watching you everywhere you go while worrying if your piece of **** will get you home because you don't have real friends any more just internet interactions which may not be real and if it dies it isn't getting dragged home with a rope, it'll be a many hundred dollar tow bill
 
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ain't no freedom in driving any more; you get to go outside and view for yourself all of the cameras watching you everywhere you go while worrying if your piece of **** will get you home because you don't have real friends any more just internet interactions which may not be real and if it dies it isn't getting dragged home with a rope, it'll be a many hundred dollar tow bill
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I used to drive to the party/bar, get sauced, uber or get somebody to take me home then take the truck and trailer in the morning to go get the car. I would plan that.
 
Since covid all the entertainment stuff has got ridiculous expensive. Makes sense, less customers = higher prices to stay open. Downward spiral.

I sit here and wonder how I ever afforded to go out every night and eat out, etc... oh yeah, a Guinness was $3 not $9 like now.

Even a bottom barrel meal somewhere is $30 where it used to be $10-12..

It's forced a societal shift, will it/ can it ever bounce back?
 
Rerock said:
Since covid all the entertainment stuff has got ridiculous expensive. Makes sense, less customers = higher prices to stay open. Downward spiral.

I sit here and wonder how I ever afforded to go out every night and eat out, etc... oh yeah, a Guinness was $3 not $9 like now.

Even a bottom barrel meal somewhere is $30 where it used to be $10-12..

It's forced a societal shift, will it/ can it ever bounce back?
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Went to the local Italian place tonight. $44 after tip for two pasta plates and two waters.

2023 that same meal, with a wine and a beer was $37.
 
When did Amazon start with commercials on prime, first episode was good. Not a big fan of the staggered releases over the entire month.
 
ApeEater said:
Went to the local Italian place tonight. $44 after tip for two pasta plates and two waters.

2023 that same meal, with a wine and a beer was $37.
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What makes it all worse is service and food quality have tanked.
Shrinkflation at an all time high.


Friend and I were talking about this earlier today, one could eat ok for $2-3 while going through the change tray in the car not that long ago.
Sit down restaurants, even bars had an ok fare for affordable price. Food was cooked vs thrown into a microwave to be reheated.


En****tification of US continues, our hard earned money buys less and less daily.
 
Pocahontas said:
When did Amazon start with commercials on prime, first episode was good. Not a big fan of the staggered releases over the entire month.
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Let my time ago. Pay for no commercials is dead.
 
Pocahontas said:
When did Amazon start with commercials on prime, first episode was good. Not a big fan of the staggered releases over the entire month.
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Poke said:
Let my time ago. Pay for no commercials is dead.
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At least 2 years ago. You can still pay MORE for no commercials. At the time they sold it as "we're doing this instead of a price increase". Adding commercials in every stream IS a ****ing price increase. :mad3:
 
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