Just had lunchbreak - switched google box on - Channel 4. Advert for programme soon to be screened "Full Metal Challenge" - a sort of scrapheap challenge international to make "extreme" vehicles. Actually looks fun. But then .... and it did my blood pressure no good at all ;-) ... programme verabbly described as.... "road-rage Olympics" AAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH! It's even described as that in the Channel 4 listings. AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!! How utterly crass and stupid. Yet more encouragement and glorification of road-rage - like we need that!
GGGGRRRRRRR!!!!!
Cheers, helen s
(blood pressure now returning to normal)
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Yet more encouragement and glorification of road-rage - like we need that!
I think things like this and the Top Gear event are Good Things! People can vent their aggression and get their speed thrills, etc. away from the public roads. Once they've had their kicks, or know they can get them easily elewhere, they may be more content to drive properly where it matters. We'll need more and more of these sort of activities and race tracks as the roads get more congested and regulated.
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Yet more encouragement and glorification of road-rage - like we need that!
I think things like this and the Top Gear event are Good Things! People can vent their aggression and get their speed thrills, etc. away from the public roads. Once they've had their kicks, or know they can get them easily elewhere, they may be more content to drive properly where it matters. We'll need more and more of these sort of activities and race tracks as the roads get more congested and regulated.
Agreed, in principle. I used to race pro karts, and got out on the road and trundled about at a proper speed. No anger to vent.
However, there's loads of people who will go and do it on the roads though. Just like the motorcyclists who go to kill themselves in North Wales and West Ireland on public roads.
My best thing was to sell my car and cycle all the time. When I have to drive nowadays, I trundle along. 🙂
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Yet more encouragement and glorification of road-rage - like we need that!
I think things like this and the Top Gear event are Good Things! People can vent their aggression and get their speed thrills, etc. away from the public roads. Once they've had their kicks, or know they can get them easily elewhere, they may be more content to drive properly where it matters. We'll need more and more of these sort of activities and race tracks as the roads get more congested and regulated.
I don't think it is the event itself here which is objectionable but the description of it as the "road-rage Olympics" Insidiously suggesting that there is some competitive aspect to road rage to be celebrated. Who can rage the most? Perhaps they could have an event where a child's trailer is used as a target for high-speed reversing?
I think things like this and the Top Gear event are Good Things! People can vent their aggression and get their speed thrills, etc. away from the public roads.
Pete - I don't disagree - I put in my original posting that the prog looked fun. What I really, really don't like is the emphasis on "road-rage Olympics" - road rage isn't fun - it's nasty, selfish and those that have suffered from it being aimed at them have, in some cases, paid with their life. Such a fun thing as the programme shouldn't need such *nasty* hype to keep it fun.
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We'll need more and more of these sort of activities and race tracks as the roads get more congested and regulated.
I agree. But I still think marketing the prog as "road-rage Olympics" sends the wrong message.
Cheers, helen s
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I agree. But I still think marketing the prog as "road-rage Olympics"
sends the
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wrong message.
According to digiguide ...
"Cathy Rogers and Henry Rollins present the global team game show to discover the fastest, most versatile vehicle in a series of four-wheel challenges. Teams from Chile, Chicago and Surrey pit their machines in a series of fairground-themed tasks."
What I really, really don't like is the emphasis on "road-rage Olympics" - road rage isn't fun - it's nasty, selfish and those that have suffered from it being aimed at them have, in some cases, paid with their life. Such a fun thing as the programme shouldn't need such *nasty* hype to keep it fun.
But if it's done with enough humour, irony and knowingness, it shouldn't actually encourage anyone to road-rage on the public roads. However, any celebration of this type of thing at all is indeed questionable - I'm not quite sure what I think about it. We seem to be at the start of a new gladiatorial age where it is completely acceptable to be "bad" without /really/ being bad! I can deal with it (I think!), but can everyone?
I don't think it is the event itself here which is objectionable but the description of it as the "road-rage Olympics" Insidiously suggesting that there is some competitive aspect to road rage to be celebrated.
Fair point. Celebrating road rage is indeed a bit sick!
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"wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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I agree. But I still think marketing the prog as "road-rage Olympics"
sends the
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wrong message.
According to digiguide ...
"Cathy Rogers and Henry Rollins present the global team game show to discover the fastest, most versatile vehicle in a series of four-wheel challenges. Teams from Chile, Chicago and Surrey pit their machines in a series of fairground-themed tasks."
Henry Rollins? Cathy Rogers used to be in a band too, Marine Research. I bet she's glad she didn't give up the day job, she's now an executive producer on the Junkyard/Scrapheap series and must be well minted. Don't know what happened to the band.
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wafflycathcsdirtycatlitter said:
What I really, really don't like is the emphasis on "road-rage Olympics" - road rage isn't fun - it's nasty, selfish and those that have suffered from it being aimed at them have, in some cases, paid with their life. Such a fun thing as the programme shouldn't need such *nasty* hype to keep it fun.
But if it's done with enough humour, irony and knowingness, it shouldn't actually encourage anyone to road-rage on the public roads. However, any celebration of this type of thing at all is indeed questionable - I'm not quite sure what I think about it. We seem to be at the start of a new gladiatorial age where it is completely acceptable to be "bad" without /really/ being bad! I can deal with it (I think!), but can everyone?
I'll probably watch the first one just to see. I enjoyed Scrapheap Challenge but more from an engineering point of view. This one sounds, from the brief bits I've read, to be playing down the engineering in favour of the autosport, mixing in a bit of Robot Wars. I'm not particularly a fan of any autosport and Robot Wars seems to be far two ludicrous these days.
Has there ever been a cycle equivalent of this sort of stuff? A great egg race with Adam Hart-Davis sort of thing?
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"Full Metal Challenge It's time for the road rage Olympics. Cathy Rogers, from Junkyard Wars,
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Hollywood hard man Henry Rollins set out to find the toughest, fastest,
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versatile vehicles out there as three teams battle it out in a series of fairground-themed challenges."
Cheers, helen s
Pretty irresponsible of them, yup. As you say though, looks fun! I presume that they get a bunch of kids with no social responsibility to write these things ...
Can you also explain the paving slab stuff, I've tried on Google and found old stuff about it. But do tell the whole story ... is it about a canal?
