BBC, thanks for nothing!

October 19, 2008

I love cars. I really do. I love cars since I was a little boy. I don’t know how it began, but it surely is a love that last a lifetime.

I first watch BBC’s Top Gear five years ago, in a BBC world. It was a 30-minutes shortened version of an original Top Gear, but I didn’t care back then, because it was a fantastic tv show that features cars, and mostly because I didn’t even know that i was watching the “lite” version.

When I get a broadband connection for the first time in my life a year ago, I log into youtube and from there, I found a penchant for Top Gear that keeps growing ever since. I found out that beyond that stupid “lite” version I used to watch on the BBC world, there are so many new things about Top Gear that I discovered. New things that makes them stand out among other rip-off motoring shows like the unbelievablyu shit Fifth Gear. Watching Top Gear, can be described as sublime, on the other hand though, watching Fifth Gear is like having a lawn mower shoved up your arse, only way way more unpleasant.

Thanks to youtube, I can watch every Top Gear episodes that I miss every time I like. There were loads of Top Gear episodes for me to watch. However, few months ago, I felt this feeling of sudden massive decrease of the amount of Top Gear videos on youtube. It gets worse though. I was subscribed to this user “TopGearLord” because he had a massive collection of Top Gear videos. Two weeks later, he disappeared, just like that. I found out later that his account, and many other users that had loads of Top Gears videos has been suspended due to complaints from BBC.

Now, here’s the problem. There are loads of Top Gear fans from all over the world who couldn’t watch Top Gear on their TV. I am one of them, since BBC World stop airing Top Gear two years ago. For us, youtube has been our Noah’s Arc. The only place where we can watch our favourite TV show. We’ve praised Top Gear for many times, which helped Top Gear won the NTA award as the best factual program on 2007. We’ve helped Top Gear give BBC the credential that it needs. And what do we get? A punch in the face. BBC, you’re a worthless twatty cockbag. You should be able to see the advantages you get from people who have put so much effort to put Top Gear in youtube so that people around the world knows about it. If only you weren’t such an imbicile…

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