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_Top Gear_ Pisses Off Another Group; but it wasn't Clarkson this time...
Topic Started: Jul 1 2009, 07:07 AM (748 Views)
csadn
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/blog/2009/...urance-fronting

'In the programme presenter James May said: "It soon dawned on us that the only realistic way of getting covered when you are 17 is by going on your parents' insurance. So we got back on the phones pretending to be dad."'

The insurers shit enough bricks to build a fort.

I have news for them: "If you're so fucking stupid as to think that *isn't* what most
of your customers are doing, it's no wonder you're in the insurance business. And if
you want the practice to stop, how about insuring a person on the basis of what that
person has done, instead of engaging in Profiling?"

Idiots.
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theinfestedheretic
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Is this all a giant insurance fraud, eh? EH?
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Jeffk38uk
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It's interesting that at the end of the segment, Hammon pointed out not to do what they did as you can get into serious trouble. So I don't see the problem as they gave sufficient warning and its Top Gear where you can't always take it seriosly.

Also lol at the end of the article. Someone at the paper has a disliking for TG huh.
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Pixellated
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Strange how these things only come out when it's broadcast. I'm certain for the actual programme, the BBC would have paid for the three to be insured, and the pretending was just a joke. Imagine if they'd be wrecked up on the motorway, and the BBC execs just stood there saying "Oh... what are they like, those crazy boys". Wouldn't happen.

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Basically, the Top Gear guys called out the insurance companies on their rates, and said companies are having hissy fits.

I'm gonna give this one to the hoons.
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HunteRS
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We should weigh up both sides of this debate.

Then we should explain to the insurance companies the foolishness of their way of thinking and the lack of good their complaints will do by quoting a man, possibly one of the greatest thinkers of our time by saying

CRY SOME MORE BABIES!!
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Jeffk38uk,Jul 1 2009
10:24 AM
Also lol at the end of the article. Someone at the paper has a disliking for TG huh.

It's the fucking graniuad. They consider Clarkson a bubble-permed Anti-Christ.

Also, insurers can fuck right off. Know how much it cost me last year? £1700.
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Lothar Hex
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Yeah, I was given my dad's old Escort as my first car, he owned it and was the main driver, but they added me to it and I was the one who used it. But technically that's legal because my dad owned the car. Also it was a fuckload cheaper.
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Lothar Hex,Jul 1 2009
08:11 PM
Yeah, I was given my dad's old Escort as my first car, he owned it and was the main driver, but they added me to it and I was the one who used it. But technically that's legal because my dad owned the car. Also it was a fuckload cheaper.

Same as my brother and I do on our car. Now I just need to not fail to get my license this summer, while I'm back.
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Eastwood,Jul 1 2009
05:12 PM
Also, insurers can fuck right off. Know how much it cost me last year? £1700.

Did that include the lubricant, and a reacharound?

Jesus fucking Christ on a Sit-and-Spin -- how in hell does *anyone* in Britain afford
a car? Gas at $9 (eq.) a gallon; four-digit insurance rates; cameras on every corner;
somewhere, George Orwell is jacking off like a baboon who's just seen a church tour
group enter the zoo's ape enclosure.... :P
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Hercule Pyro
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Truth be told, that was my first time.

And I was 21.

Driving a Ford Escort.

Which I park in the street.

In Essex.

The profiling is a pain, as you can see.
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Eastwood,Jul 2 2009
07:46 AM
In Essex.

Do people actually live there?
I thought it was just a battleground for stoned 14 year-olds with flick knives, no wonder your insurance is a bugger.
Also well done on the staying alive bit.
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Dark Comet
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It'd be safer in London, I'd say.
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Dark Comet,Jul 2 2009
02:17 PM
It'd be safer in London, I'd say.

Bullshit. Essex has a strip of horror that begins in London and gets progressively more civillised until you hit Shoeburyness, but most of the county is rural.

London, amongst other places, has Barking and Dagenham. Basra is a far more hospitable, even if you dress as a Rabbi.
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F'king car insurance, that's why I switched to motorcycles.

At 18, for my cousin to insure her 1.4 Fiat Tipo, in an 'expensive' area? £500 fully comp.

The same year, for me to insure my 1.4 Fiat Tipo (same year, better condition) in a 'cheaper' area? £1800, 3rd party, no fire/theft.

Even worse was when another cousin offered my her old 999cc Suzuki, for 3PFT I was quoted anywhere between £3,000 and £10,000.
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Eastwood,Jul 2 2009
06:56 PM
...progressively more civillised until you hit Shoeburyness...

I thought you were making that name up. Nope.
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Pixellated,Jul 2 2009
10:57 PM
Eastwood,Jul 2 2009
06:56 PM
...progressively more civillised until you hit Shoeburyness...

I thought you were making that name up. Nope.

I understand there's a town named "Cocking".... >;)
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deathninja,Jul 2 2009
06:14 PM
F'king car insurance, that's why I switched to motorcycles.

At 18, for my cousin to insure her 1.4 Fiat Tipo, in an 'expensive' area? £500 fully comp.

The same year, for me to insure my 1.4 Fiat Tipo (same year, better condition) in a 'cheaper' area? £1800, 3rd party, no fire/theft.

Even worse was when another cousin offered my her old 999cc Suzuki, for 3PFT I was quoted anywhere between £3,000 and £10,000.

Fuck me sideways that a lot.
Christ I better do some research o how much a Vincent Black Shadow will cost to insure.
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I think mines around 749 quid goes down about 100quid each year (has a lil micra and lives pretty much between Eastwood and Derby only thing you gotta worry bout there are short arsed chavs playing turf wars...
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csadn,Jul 3 2009
07:27 AM
Pixellated,Jul 2 2009
10:57 PM
Eastwood,Jul 2 2009
06:56 PM
...progressively more civillised until you hit Shoeburyness...

I thought you were making that name up. Nope.

I understand there's a town named "Cocking".... >;)

I live 5 or 10 miles from Cockermouth. LGHunter was amused by that one.
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The Virus,Jul 3 2009
11:21 PM
I live 5 or 10 miles from Cockermouth. LGHunter was amused by that one.

Used to go there a lot as a kid.

And always pronounced it 'Cockinmouth' without realising (I had slow speech development, my phonetics are shot to hell).

Hilarity ensued.
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The Virus,Jul 3 2009
11:21 PM
I live 5 or 10 miles from Cockermouth. LGHunter was amused by that one.

I can't quite match that -- closest I come is growing up on a street called "Nancy Way".

Lot of folks who thought they'd be pro football players walking with limps because
of that....
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Hercule Pyro
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Pixellated,Jul 2 2009
10:57 PM
Eastwood,Jul 2 2009
06:56 PM
...progressively more civillised until you hit Shoeburyness...

I thought you were making that name up. Nope.

Nope. It's home to a weapons testing range, including artillery.

Not that I knew this. When you're wandering around the nearby country park, last thing you want to hear is explosions.
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Eastwood,Jul 5 2009
09:00 AM
Pixellated,Jul 2 2009
10:57 PM
Eastwood,Jul 2 2009
06:56 PM
...progressively more civillised until you hit Shoeburyness...

I thought you were making that name up. Nope.

Nope. It's home to a weapons testing range, including artillery.

Not that I knew this. When you're wandering around the nearby country park, last thing you want to hear is explosions.

Sounds like my kind of place!
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The synopsis of tonight's episode says that they almost get arrested. More newspaper hate abound, I think.
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