James May's Man Lab

Ceryndrion · 31 Oct 2010 at 21:41

Okay, in theory, this sounded like a good idea, a show to teach all those totally flowery metrosexuals, how to at least appear to have some degree of alphaness.

But honestly.. it is a big pile of steaming brown stuff.

Is it just me being a grumpy old man, or did James May, really miss the mark this time?

gettothechopper · 31 Oct 2010 at 22:02

not the best thing ive ever seen ever but was enjoyable

physichull · 31 Oct 2010 at 22:03

Yes it was hugely off the mark. Largely dull, very slow paced and a waste of an hour really.

Kainz · 31 Oct 2010 at 22:19

I missed the first 20mins of it but I quite enjoyed it, if a bit stupid in places i.e. the office train delivery system.

LOAM · 31 Oct 2010 at 23:24

Could have been great, was pants.

dekez · 31 Oct 2010 at 23:33

It was very dull, tried to watch it but just painfully dull. Flicked channels a few times but it just didn't get any more interesting.

Phinor · 1 Nov 2010 at 01:46

It seemed.. pointless? I'll give it few more episodes just because it's James May but this might be a miss.

Naffa · 1 Nov 2010 at 09:35

I thought it was alright. It's incredibly rare that I will watch anything on television, but I thought this was ok.

CliffyBiro · 1 Nov 2010 at 09:36

OK, not brilliant. Still better than 90% of stuff on TV.

Participant · 1 Nov 2010 at 10:20

Good idea, poorly executed. I actually found the skipping back and forth a bit stupid and the subjects chosen were a bit boring. A mess, but an enjoyable enough mess.

Will still be watching next week as James May is awesome.

beachBOYken · 1 Nov 2010 at 10:34

i enjoyed this last night , ok most of it was just pointless but it was just a bit of fun , and most was obviously set up like the bomb exploding.

cant wait for the next one

Guerrilla · 1 Nov 2010 at 10:36

I quite enjoyed it too, not his best programme but enjoyable.

Seems quite fitting Sunday night TV.

KaHn · 1 Nov 2010 at 11:27

I really can't stand james may when he goes on about engineering things as if he wasn't just reading something scripted in front of him.

Just really annoys me for some reason.

KaHn

Participant · 1 Nov 2010 at 11:48

So does the news annoy you?

milkinc13 · 1 Nov 2010 at 12:09

I liked it especally for wiring a plug.
brown is live
blue is not
yellow and gree they earth the lot

Participant · 1 Nov 2010 at 12:25

I wonder why the new standards call for live to be brown. To me having red as live makes more sense, as the colour red conveys danger and energy (even though touching the live wire is I believe no more dangerous that touching earth or neutral if no circuit is completed).

Also brown looks like earth so brown should be earth, not live. The way I remember it now is that don't touch the live or your pants will turn brown, even though it makes little sense eletrically speaking, I remember it.

Blue as neutral, red as live, brown as earth makes the most sense to me.

Ceryndrion · 1 Nov 2010 at 12:42

I always remember the wires as 'BLue' Bottom Left, 'BRown' Bottom Right..

Emlyn_Dewar · 1 Nov 2010 at 13:27

Just watching this now on iplayer.
It's the sort of rubbish that I could just watch all day. Will be ideal for Dave in a few months.

Participant · 1 Nov 2010 at 13:29

'See you on Dave' was exactly what came to mind for me also. Perfect for students.

philip2009 · 1 Nov 2010 at 14:51

Didn't watch all of it, the initial thrill of jumping between various bits of trivia soon wore off. The kind of programme that is meant to inform but gives you an intellectually empty feeling.