Whatz ya getz fer Xmas

[Father Ted]

Its my birthday inside of 2 weeks too, and I bet I still dont get a soapy tit wank, or even a back rub and Chinese, or an old MiniMetro to fiddle with. Honestly they say "what do you want" so you tell em, and what do you get - bloody Lynx body spray.

[trigger]

I got a Lynx body spray set as well, Every bloody year i get one of them!

[j-j]

Stynx!Though for some reason I've quite taken to the laddish luminous range of shower gels they do now

[strangehighways]

I received:-- Vince Neil - Exposed CD (Motley Crue's front man solo album)- Koss Porta Pro headphones. Good sound for the money and looks very 80s!- Books - New Adrian Mole (he is now 39), Jeremy Kyle autobiography (what was my mum thinking?! Still I'm sure it's an interesting read).- Casio digital watch - this is a metal strap version of the classic basic casio watches we all had about 15 years ago that have time, stopwatch and alarm.

[j-j]

- Koss Porta Pro headphones. Good sound for the money and looks very 80

I have a pair of those! you're right they look great! They also fold up into a small size.My only complaint was that they 'leaked' too much sound so that everyone can hear your embarrassing 70s tunes in the post office que!

[Father Ted]

I received:-- Koss Porta Pro headphones. Good sound for the money and looks very 80s!

Koss? are they not a cheap copy of Ross headphones? i used to have some excellent Ross ones...

[VWPowered]

some funny fucker got me this

 

 

[Milford Cubicle]

Whenever Christmas is near the Top Gear crew take the piss out of corny automotive merchandise. I just can't take them seriously any more.

[Pete-M]

I got one of these..

 

 

Stig Bubble Bath...

[fotorabia]

ok..cos im an migrant orphan and Xmas denier..i gave and received nowt...so ill just use this as an example of a a self treat for meself and Nina Cortina..Xmas day outing..notice our fine weather!

[trigger]

 

My SIL bought me this and it's utter shite, I popped a new battery in it, Started work on my dentures only to find it would stop vibrating every time it touched my teeth, So i popped the battery back out and found that it had filled up with water, so i binned it.

£12 well spend me thinks...

[Mr Lobster]

A Top Gear electric toothbrush! Really?I thought you must be taking the piss and that was a photoshop. Is there also a line of Stig branded sex toys, TG branded vibrators that make a 'vroom vroom' noise and Stig head anal beads?

[shite_meister]

Is there also a line of Stig branded sex toys, TG branded vibrators that make a 'vroom vroom' noise and Stig head anal beads?

If you can't find them could you not settle for normal anal beads Mr Lobster? I got nothing well the missus bought me a jacket about a month ago so technically not true but nothing on Christmas day to unwrap anyway.

[Mr Lobster]

Well theres TG / Stig branded ABSOLUTELY FUCKING EVERYTHING ELSE so why not them too.Not that I'd want them.

[barrett]

I got an electric shaver off me mam, and my mate Matt got me this:

(clearly a TOP BLOKE)

thankfully nothing TG/car related as that always tends to backfire

[AXrescuer]

I got one of these..

 

 

Stig Bubble Bath...

I got one too!

[warren t claim]

Will anyone here admit to playing the James May interactive DVD car game?

[seth]

Will anyone here admit to playing the James May interactive DVD car game?

Has that got anything in it about guessing car dashboards?

[warren t claim]

It might have....

[Guest]

Will anyone here admit to playing the James May interactive DVD car game?

Has that got anything in it about guessing car dashboards?

I think my Piazza is in that. I was asked by a photographer from the BBC if he could take a picture of the dashboard at RR '08 (when I got there), and I was happy to oblige........

[pandamonium]

I got this!

[seth]

It might have....

Aha! The Hillman should be in it too then! Jon, that was my mate John at RR-08

[VWPowered]

I got one of these..

 

 

Stig Bubble Bath...

I got one too!

10 bonus points for the first to pour petrol over him and get arty pics of him burning, we can then forward these to customer relations at top gear

[Futuramic]

 

The Frisky was a real microcar back in the 50s. Similar, one assumes, to the Berkeley, The Unicar and the Fairthorpe Atom although in the picture it appears to have the adavntage of RWD. Like the rest it had a motorbike oily bits, a steel chassis and fibrelgass body.

 

They would be considerd risible by eco loonies and the general public; however in reality they are the manifestations of the bening future that never was. Back then, of course, times were hard. Unlike today when poverty means having a television with a tube in it. My Dad grew up in a house without a plumbed in bath and his neighbours read by the light of gas mantles.

 

This wasn't very long ago - and was the era of the Frisky and its ilk. As times were so hard; petrol was a precious commodity and in relative terms far more expensive than it is today. The war had left a country filled with profligate relics from a more optmistic time. The populous could afford to buy (as they were worthless) the Flathead V8 Pilots and the Straight Eight Packards and Mercuries left by American soldiers who had finished their tours. Such cars could not be fed, however.

 

In order to rectify this businessmen of a somewhat benign ilk set about designing a car that consumed little, polluted less and was easy to live with. The results weren't that bad. Some of the little motorbike engined toys were getting 50 miles to the gallon. Others were fun to drive and performed well for their cubic capacity. All were cheap to buy and easy to maintain thanks to plastic bodywork.

 

They were an austere vision of the future, but necessary at the time. They are a true indication of what can be achieved when backed into a corner. Today's supposed Eco-Cars, which pander to a rich lifestyle rather than serve a poor one, seem decadent when compared to the little Frisky. 50 years of innovation have produced the Toyota Prius, which consumes more fuel than the Frisky did, does not last as long and causes environmental armageddon during manufacture.

 

Perhaps in another 50 years the Frisky's tiome shall come again and we'll all be in puttering microcars.