James May's Man Fix
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If ‘Man Lab’ is the answer to restoring the inventive scientific, cultural, and artistic genius of a lost generation of British men, we may as well all switch on our badly wired televisions and watch Gok Wan’s Fashion Fix.
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So you signed up to promote your blog rather than to discuss on the forum?
I wrote a blog of about 6-7 hundred words and obviously couldn't reproduce them here. I was rather hoping that people might read the blog and comment here. And it might go on...
No?
Fair enough, I just get annoyed when people come on here purely to promote their own sites. it might be worth putting a link into your profile to it though if you're sticking around.
I didn't realise I could put a link in my profile. Will investigate forthwith...
It's drunken pub talk brought to television.
You never know when you need to defuse a bomb though.
Personally I'd cut the green wire!
Aw shite it's the red!
Grab the cat!!!!
They have polished their "The Boys just arsing around around, having a bit of a laugh" schtick until it is paper thin.
They seem to have no discernible talent other than reading puerile scripts to camera and they think that's enough to get by on.
Stop watching them and their various programmes and perhaps they'll fade away to a life of 'celebrity' appearances at Butlins which is much more suited to their skill set.
Aww c’mon....That was very funny.
But this was poor stuff. His rhyme for wiring a plug didn't even work! I rushed up the M1 so I could be home in time to watch it, but I won't go out of my way to catch the next episode.
I agree. I was expecting something along those lines too, was a bit disappointed with it.
I like the idea, but I was expecting more along the lines of "how do they do it" rather than the light hearted messing around.
works for me.
This show is what it is (obviously!) but it COULD have been so much more. Of course I don't have to watch, and I don't think I'll bother again. But that doesn't stop me being disappointed that the space it occupies isn't being filled with the show it actually promised to be.
If I could speak to the guy I'd have to say, 'Come on James, you're better than this.'
Instead it was May and his mates ****ing about using their time and skills unproductively. I mean, a train set that delivers a banana! Fun idea but hardly useful. The segment with the boy wooing his one true love ... hardly useful. Defusing a bomb (and effectively failing) ... hardly useful.
Yeah, there's a pattern emerging.
I did once put in a car radio though and it started smoking.
Yes it was funny but on reflection it also summarised the show for me.
The piece when he fried 5 fishfingers and put it a butty - rubbish
The seduction piece - rubbish
The concrete worktop - rubbish
The bomb disposal - rubbish
The railway set carrying a banana - rubbish.
The island worktop only had an electrical connection, there was no pipework to the sink nor the taps.
The individual parts of the show were all weak and the sum of the parts was even weaker.
James May can do much much better IMO.
Why all the problems with wiring a plug?
BLUE: left. BROWN: right, simples, even for James !
and a concrete kitchen surface - how the hell would you clean it ? it's full of bumps and holes !