Top Gear
Sunday, 20. July 2008, 23:46:44
I live in the United States and I'm a huge fan of the BBC2 show "Top Gear". It airs on Sunday evenings and a digital copy of the show gets posted to the internet very shortly after (after all, it is extremely popular overseas from the United Kingdom). I find it amazing to look at the IP column in uTorrent where you can see all of the countries where people are either downloading or uploading this weeks episode of Top Gear. Right now in my particular cluster, there are users from Finland, Germany, Canada, United States, Portagul, Greece, Estonia, Singapore, Australia, Israel, Denmark, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Japan, Belgium, Poland, China, and Ireland, all attemping to download the episode that aired about 6 hours ago. I don't like using the term "world wide web" but I definitely feel like there is a comradery between us foreign Top Gear watchers.
What is even more important than our shared liking of a particular TV show from the United Kingdom, is that all of us speak the same language of cars and humor, regardless of our country.
P.S. Thank you to Top Gear producers who put the cutest English girls of the audience in clear view during the "star in a reasonably priced car" segment. It's a nice distraction considering I almost never know the people being interviewed.
maturefan # 13. September 2008, 07:06