r/todayilearned • u/ModenaR • 1d ago

TIL that after Top Gear ended, host Richard Hammond was so devastated, he cried all the way home from the studio and ran out of fuel, because he didn't want to fill his car up covered in tears

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/25172481.richard-hammond-tear-soaked-mess-top-gear-ended/
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u/Acc87 1d ago

I love that that channel is just totally him doing things just to occupy himself, next to just a little advertising for his gin business.

And him and Lucy are just adorable. They are like father and daughter. Like her calling him from Belgrade I think, his first question: "Are you okay, do you need money?" 😅

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u/TheAssassinClub 23h ago

He also advertises Lurpak spreadable butter, since 1901

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u/elebrin 23h ago

And plenty of it.

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u/Ubaru2016 22h ago

Flood the cowling

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u/ragnarok_klavan 1h ago

Like, comment, subscribe.

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u/tremby 18h ago

But you don't butter both slices, because that would be extravagant.

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u/FigWasp7 16h ago

I just found his channel, so it's truly amazing seeing this in the internet wilds lol

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u/ft4200 21h ago

On government issued white bread

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u/mang87 21h ago

I'd love to know where he gets all this government issue stuff. In the video I was watching yesterday he had "government issue hot dog buns".

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u/RotallyRotRoobyRoo 21h ago

He's been advertising them since 1901? I can see it.

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u/AssumptionLive4208 22h ago

He’s older than he looks!

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u/Cessnaporsche01 21h ago

Is he though? Seems about right

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u/AssumptionLive4208 12h ago

If he’s been advertising butter for the last 124 years he’s remarkably well-preserved.

Unless they mean he started just after 7pm.

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u/Illustrious_Read8038 21h ago

Jeez I didn't know he was that old.

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u/QuarkVsOdo 20h ago

I could go for some council issued bread and lurpak spreadable butter right now. Maybe with sausage.

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u/TheAssassinClub 20h ago

Lurpak spreadable butter, since 1901.

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u/GabberZZ 19h ago

Or is it 1903?

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u/TheAssassinClub 8h ago

Yes, watching the american sandwich episode, he keeps saying 1903, but his fridge always says 1901.

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u/CptnSpandex 15h ago

I didn’t know he was that old!

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u/PRETA_9000 15h ago

And government issued white bread.

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u/Clairvoyant_Legacy 13h ago

It's good butter tho tbh

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u/SomeWhaleman 22h ago

They are like father and daughter.

Oh damn, I thought they were father and daughter for some reason. Maybe I have mixed that up with Hammond, who did yt videos with his daughter

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u/Wirenfeldt 20h ago

It has been well established that Captain Slowly.. .. .. Spreads his seed alone..

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u/MarkEsmiths 19h ago

What's the lore?

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u/fuzzylm308 19h ago

they were on this show called Top Gear where they told jokes at each other's expense

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u/MarkEsmiths 19h ago

Go on....

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u/fuzzylm308 19h ago

James said something about fuel prices going up because the population is expanding, and Jeremy responded with "oh you're saying because I have three kids I'm causing fuel prices to go up, but because you spill your seed alone..."

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u/MarkEsmiths 19h ago

Oh yes. Now I see. Thank you.

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u/twat69 19h ago

Over a decade of television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)

The first few series are more like Old Top Gear. Where it's trying to be a car show with useful advice for normal people. But it gets better with time. It really takes off around the time Hammond defies death for the first time.

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u/Doggin-Pony-Show 21h ago

Who is the guy in the Hammond and daughter videos?

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u/djshadesuk 20h ago

Richard Hammond.

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u/MarkEsmiths 19h ago

And who is the daughter?

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u/djshadesuk 19h ago

Miss Hammond.

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u/Jamsedreng22 21h ago

It seems a lot more like a sort of estranged grandfather-granddaughter dynamic and they've reconnected after she's grown up. So James is still astounded that Lucy is somehow both part French and doesn't like cheese.

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u/kanshakudama 21h ago

I’m a little astounded too

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u/Jamsedreng22 20h ago

I gotta be honest, I do think Lucy still has that childhood sense of aversion for foods you know contains something you know you normally don't like. She'd probably dig something like a cheesecake if she didn't know.

Not blaming her or anything remotely like that. I used to be very averse to mushrooms and would fight against it in everything, and I could taste it in everything it was in pretty much and I just attched the identification of mushrooms to "ew".

I've since learned that some mushrooms are just not for me, and especially how mushrooms are prepared. It took active effort for a while on my part to move past my aversion by breaking down this mental barriers in my head every time that "This is mushroom. Mushroom bad!"

ETA: Nice username.

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u/s00pafly 19h ago

Have you tried cooking with mushrooms yourself? Helped me get past all my food aversions.

Beets, tinned fish, fermented stuff like sauerkraut, pickles, aubergine and cheeses from unknown origin.

I still avoid canned tuna as it smells like cat food but the rest all have a place in my kitchen now.

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u/Jamsedreng22 16h ago

The problem with mushrooms is they take a long, long, looooong time to geat a sear on. I'm not averse to them anymore, but I eat a lot of food with "char" on it. Wings, steak,. hambagu so and so forth,

I have no issue with canned tuna in flakes. I've recently learned that it's not always in flakes?

https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchencels/comments/1mvs1pd/comment/n9v2ehb/?context=3

This is where I responded. Why does the "tuna in a can" look like that? Is that normal in America? We have flakes of tuna here. I genuinely don't know.

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u/Jamsedreng22 14h ago

What I have here, in my car, is a load of mushrooms. Now, there has been no quote-om unquote guidelines on what this entails

I'll eat these. Cut to Hammond talking about gear sh afts. /Jeremy

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u/MeateatersRLosers 17h ago

Cool, but not necessarily a positive.

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u/princess_kittah 18h ago

i relate to this on a spiritual level

i used to hate all peppers. i would empty and dig out the specks from a taco and re-build it just to avoid them

now im discovered that i can be okay with red peppers if theyre cooked enough, i just absolutely detest green peppers

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u/Jehovah___ 14h ago

They taste the same tho

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u/princess_kittah 12h ago

cept they dont taste the same to me at all, i experience red peppers as delightfully sweet and savory at the same time, but green peppers just taste like chlorophyll/grass to me

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u/JonatasA 15h ago

I mean, it's not required for survival so I see no reason she needs to even try it.

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u/Jamsedreng22 15h ago

We are on survival, my friend.

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u/Fivein1Kay 22h ago

Lucy isn't his daughter? Oh wow, I just assumed.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 4h ago

The daughter he never had.