It's not just you. Watch any car review show, there are many to choose from and you can watch pretty much all of them on Youtube. The presenters will always talk about how much better the fit and finish are in the kraut cans, and will always talk about how they are a much "nicer place to be" than their American rivals.

People don't understand how to watch reviews. Reviewers who aren't nice don't get to do reviews, so you have to mentally turn down the nice on every statement. If they say that something is quality, then it could be a lot better. If they say it's better than the competition, then you know it's that.

And that fee is mandatory and difficult to escape, even if you don't have a tuner in your house. Which is what makes the BBC a government organization.

Uh, what? The McDonald's "hot coffee" incident was decided in favor of the customer. That's the opposite of not having merit. McDonald's served coffee at a temperature above their own published standards, which were set in part because they knew that the cups become inadequate at doing their job when used at those temperatures. The coffee was hot enough to cause substantial burns to the woman's flesh, which is not the case if they follow their own guidelines. The case might have been decided the way you imagine absent those guidelines, but it proved that McDonald's was aware that there was a legitimate danger.

Care to try again?

It's funded by a fee that's difficult to escape and which you're obligated to pay by default, it's a government institution.

What's new about reinventing Fifth Gear? You can watch that already.

It's interesting, the only times I've thrown fists at people, it's because I was being bullied... verbally. Of course, for me this hasn't happened since high school.

At what point do you imagine that will be? I think Clarkson's spine would give out long before then.

Clarkson is amusing precisely because he acts like a child. You think that's not amusing to children?

Captain Slow has been to racing school since the series began, and is probably faster than you.

Yes, and yes.

Internet car aficionados have suggested lots of possible credible competition to Top Gear. There's several highly popular Youtube car shows out there right now, and some of the people on them have more charisma than anyone on US TG.

It's a death sentence for the show on BBC.

If the presenters even want to continue, and they may well but they also may well not, then they will have no trouble taking themselves to another network to make another show just like Top Gear, or different in any way that they find interesting.

TFS says nothing about contracts, and this is slashdot so you have to assume that people will not RTFA. I blame the summary.

Nor could you replace the tip? I have a couple of seriously old weller irons, and I've got 700 degree round tips and 800 degree pointy tips, which seem to bring about the same amount of heat into the work when you're just using the tip. Less surface area, you know.

I've got a trackman wheel T-BB18 and guess what? Same problem. Logitech has some of the best design, then they shit on it with crap OMRON microswitches. I've had to replace the microswitches in this trackball twice so far. Probably wind up burning off a trace next time.

So what you're saying is that there are actually fewer transport companies than there appear to be? Because that's an argument in favor of self-driving trucks, once again.

It's a horribly stupid breakpoint in any case. The truth is that if you swerve to avoid a school bus and run over an old person on the sidewalk, they're just going to do you for running over the old person because you weren't supposed to be on the sidewalk. Meanwhile, you weren't supposed to be outdriving your vision or your brakes, so you wouldn't have had to dodge the school bus anyway. The self-driving car won't outdrive its vision or brakes, so it won't have to swerve. If someone jumps in front of it, it's going to decelerate slightly right before it smacks them into next week, and the onboard video will prove that the car could not have stopped so the pedestrian is at fault.