Long Way Round - The Director's Cut

Is this old news?  I noticed in the last re-run that the BMW badges were blurred out and the whole ktm/bmw bit from the first episode was heavily cut
Posted: 20/02/2009 15:03

they did make a lot of arms etc , during the war..........them germons
Posted: 20/02/2009 16:08

I don't understand the connection between advertising and Ross/Brand.

Do I need to go home early? 

Posted: 20/02/2009 17:24

So we can expect a sponsor-free Olympics, no mention of Barclays Premier League football, burqas for F1 cars etc etc. Twats.
Posted: 20/02/2009 21:22

just another case of the dickless BBC who are too scared the average daily mail reader..
Posted: 20/02/2009 22:46

I got the DVD "un cut" mmmmm any offers
Posted: 20/02/2009 23:28

Fair one DBR, the square heads practically bankrolled the first series without asking for any obvious return. Letting the bikes do the talking was sheer genius. Nice to see the Beeb completely missing the point, again. C*nts.  
Posted: 21/02/2009 00:26

KTM were arses on that deal, BMW cleaned up in the end and they deserved too!

KTM make mickey mouse bikes IMO, Austrian for starters and the biggest bullshitter and mind manipulator on the planet was born in Austria...Hitler! Look at his car, that was shit aswell! Beatle/VW...fucking shite. 

Posted: 21/02/2009 00:51

 Not a big fan of the Austrians then, Tim? You missed out starting the Great War, legitimising anti-semitisim in the 19th century and laying the foundation of Eugenics...(allegedly).  They do a great line in B movie actors though!
Posted: 21/02/2009 01:10

All the Nokia logos on the panniers were blurred out too - what's all that about?
Posted: 21/02/2009 11:23

should be the end of Top Gear too then. Result !!!
Posted: 22/02/2009 18:06

isn't this one of them stories about nothing again?  Of course the BBC cut all the references to BMW Nokia and stuff.  Blue Peter have been using sticky backed plastic instead of sellotape for decades.

The only thing this has got to do with Ross/Brand is that Brand advertising is not alloed on the Beeb and Ross rides a scooter.

Posted: 23/02/2009 12:14

Flo wrote (see)

 Not a big fan of the Austrians then, Tim? You missed out starting the Great War, legitimising anti-semitisim in the 19th century and laying the foundation of Eugenics...(allegedly).  They do a great line in B movie actors though!

erm Germany did not start the 'Great War' – they came in to support Austria, and virtually every nation upto WW2 has attempted to legitimise anti-semitisim. I'm also quite sure eugenics was an offshoot of Darwin's great Theory.

HTH

Posted: 23/02/2009 20:40

 Read it again Harty, I said the Austrians started the war.  

It's tounge in cheek, though, thus the smilies. The Austrians were no more (or less) to blame than any other Euro power for that cluster.  Same go's for the other two- in the 19th century Austro-Hungarian anti-semitics enjoyed a level of respectability denied other groups in europe but they were never in power. Eugenics was an offshoot of deep seated class predjudice and the perogative of the English speaking world for decades before the Nazi's took on it's flimsy, poorly thought out scientific arguments but again, the bureaucracy of Austria declared Germanic races superior to Slavic (with policies inflicting Germanic Landesublich or principal language on Slavic people) long before our HG started to plot sterilising the masses. And of course Governor Swarzenegger is much more than just a B-movie star. Hth.

Posted: 23/02/2009 21:45

My bad.

Cheers Flo.

Posted: 23/02/2009 22:37

 Nah, just me failing to be funny....again *sighs*.
Posted: 23/02/2009 22:49