James May explains why he was fired from Autocar magazine, and the joy of Japanese toilets 

Iain MacAulay 8 miles is like a 3 hour walk. I’d pissed as well.

What if he asked for a ride after he was fired?

Well, he does say that walking everywhere saves you a lot of money.

Not Another Zombie Show! A bike is great.

@@strangeke7750 8 miles, 3 hours ? Only if you weigh 30 stone and walk on your hands .

tbh half of it is rubbish

@Dennis Moore Dr Who has never been entertaining. Its sci-fi for children.

That's not a problem on youtube...on tv....

To me James was the only one worth listening to on topgear, those other two were annoying sidekicks to me. James has an honest affection for cars and life in general.

SHIFTY not at all

Glad you got a win out of that situation

Thanks for giving me hope.

Fuck customer service to hell.

Working for 30% less money than you could be making is nothing to be happy about.

Glad you got 30% more. Definitely something to be happy about

In the same minute. 😃

I'd hire him just to experience firing someone for once

i would make him walk home, again :D then call him back when he gets home and make him walk back to work to hire him again

Thts d same for any boss

Imagine Donald Trump hiring May, that firing him the second he talks back (same second?). 😂😂😂

I bet that is the reason they've got such a high life expectancy...

Words to live by

Quote of the year..

Totally agree.

Truer words were never spoken.

So truuuuu

why the national airline may I ask?

also to keep records of suriving Steam Locomotives in the world.

Because if your not on one you're on the other.

@@EEAMD-co6nw My guess is because the national airline shows how the country publicly tries to promote itself to those coming to or leaving it, while the bogs are how it privately treats people while they’re there.

Hw wasn't complaining - just noting the fact they took the company car off him. And he learned to walk everywhere after. Each life changing moment = a new opportunity. Top Bloke!

Yea but when I'm on holiday, going for a long walk, I haven't just been fired beforehand.

Struggles of identity

Crapper and throne i understand. Is there an explanations for the others?

@@gabenvandenbrink9114 bog is very Northern English slang, that's where I grew up and we still call toilet paper "bogroll" there, I presume it evolved from the fact that poor people would have used a literal open cesspit, like bog land. Lav is short for lavatory. Pan is the toilet pan, another term for the bowl. Khazi - Another British slang that's been around for decades. Not sure on origin. Sounds foreign to English.

@@BuzzaB77 Thx! I'm not english myself so i've never even heard them.

BuzzaB77 bog is the Scots word for swamp, so that’s where it’s comes from, we call toilet roll bog roll as well

Shit=faeces. Why did you get fired? I was faeces at it. Doesn't roll off the tongue so well.

Input and output have to balance. :-)

Happy poopers = happy workers. 😁

It's not the worst theory I've heard.

I think of it as a rather clever metaphor. Japanese factories value their workers by going as far as adding fancy toilets, so in return the japanese workers do quality work. It is how every workplace should be really.

@@Shift1888 Don't they also work them half to death in terms of work hours?

James Walsh No truer words spoken.

I have done it successfully

@@ArcolaBridge what

I've done it.

Hello, Brother

But the real question is how was GM's shitters?

@@dynamicpaintball made my day

Good for you! Also F@#% GM

What do you work on now?

Anutham A machine airplane wheels

DanielBerkness That’s the most anti climatic thing someone could call “bad ass”. “Oh look at me I didn’t clean out my desk!” What?

@Top Lobster I wasn’t replying to OP. I was replying to another guy who deleted their comment.

@@user-if1de8pt2j You wouldn’t know, the guy deleted their comment

@@captainjackpugh6050 I can relate, deleting ones comments after being pointed wrong is a dick move. You made a mistake, so what?

Hot damnn dude

Rob Browne Heard many say they wish he was their dad-me included. I hope James knows how many see the dad they never had in him. It’s a great thing.

He likes the NSX...so I bought one

@@bustarogers9990 you're not at all obnoxious saying that, are you?

Busta Rogers The last thing he was being is obnoxious. You were though.

Too bad that he's the last living person from the 1800's....

You can even wash your face! Theoretically.

the first toilet i used in japan scared me because someone put it on max pressure.

@@Truepk it all about the feel mate

'there's nothing so over-rated as a bad shag, nor so under-rated as a good shite!'

shit

£144 after expenses

@@CynicalOldDwarf haha, yes Clarkson's farm wasn't very profitable.

preachercaine I was thinking the same lmao

Maybe it is differnt from country to country or who you had as a boss

He didn't show up. That gets you fired, even there (well, maybe not now as everyone is working remotely anyway)

@@CoppaITG Speaking from experience; not showing up wouldn't get you fired. Civil admin barely paid any attention to those they employed.

@@preachercaine Oof. I'm not from the UK so obviously I'll believe that if you tell me. In Finland I work in the field. I find it easy to take it slow but at least you have to show up. Leadership is usually horrible and has mostly to do with numbers and excels, but the amount of work you do per working hour is easily manipulated (the summer workers I tutor demonstrate this to me every year towards the end)

u know what countries has largest fall rate of planes? its directly correlated to quality if they bogs

Where I live that's still the case and you get paid more as well.

It's like that here where I live in the US.

Throw the head up on a Friday, few days on the piss, new job on a Monday from some random fucker you met in some random beer palace 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Anyone post 05 won't understand the joys lol

Fired at smoko new job by lunchtime

@@drunkensailor112 where do you live

Burpo Stockings we’ve all been there

Well, I guess that we had a similar resignation...

@Tarzan But the important this is, was it justified. Maybe-yes, probably-no

What job did you have? If you are a waiter, a hairdresser or any other Job where you interact with customers for a bit it would make sense. At a deskjob not so much..

“Oy. *Now* he emotes!” - Harold Zoid.

Nice one!

Legendary though.

I always say "i think it was faith, leading me to this job"

Sorry but its gotta be a problem with you if it happens so much. Some of it may be the leadership, but I suspect there is a lot of other stuff you did that you don't bring up. I've worked a lot of minimum wage jobs before and all of them were very lenient when it came to little things here and there.

@@Henriburger1 Okay, then let's break it down. At the time I got fired when I stopped a woman from beating her son, the moment the police took the woman away and everyone had left, my boss looked at me and simply said, "you're fired". So pretty obvious it was that. The bakery manager, I found out 10 years later from a friend that she had left her boyfriend because he started beating her, so obvious he was a jerk to more people than just me. And I guess she finally realized that. Walmart, I was just promoted to shoe department manager (so I must have been doing something right) but less than a month later they called me in my hospital room to fire me and outright told me it was because I missed more than 3 days of work, even though they already knew I had been in the hospital that whole time. I actually might have been able to sue them over that, but I was really sick. In fact as soon as I was discharged from the hospital, it was only to be transferred to MD Anderson Cancer Center. I was quite literally fighting for my life, so at the time being wrongfully fired wasn't at the top of my list of concerns. And the waitressing job, I was 16 and that guy was a total perv, so even if it weren't for that incident, I was considering quitting anyways. Let's say it were me, it certainly wouldn't explain the other jobs I had which I had no problem.

@@desktopkitty you really don't need to explain yourself to anyone. In my 34 years of work I found so very many employers to be total assholes. Little Hitlers the lot of them! my last job I was in for 15 years but he was still a greedy bastard I just learned to tolarate the bull shit . I never got sacked from a job I just moved on so nobody can say it was my fault . The rich just don't really want to share the wealth....end off

Or in his case, a good haircut...

@@smudger671 so true... and I'm bald so I know... I mean I knew😭

I did not get a job once because I asked if they ever had a pay check bounce. Guess they did.

Off

I didn't get a job once because I casually said I was looking forward to a job where I didn't have to think.

Classic mistake! You should have told her she needed to lose weight... 😁 Seriously though...I would have thought you could claim for unfair dismissal.

@@haydencp1 off what?

The man that technically never been fired

He's only celebrity because nobody wants to hire him.

@@panscopia1791 when the three left BBC they where flooded with job oofferes

Jeremy Clarkson is a brand by himself, you can't kill that brand

@@Andrewza1 he got fired from top gear

put a job listing in the fridge, and you can "consume" that too.

reset your alarm clock mate for going to work , until you get a new job . You may thank me later . I quickly ended up staying up all night and sleeping in

hope things get better for you soon mate

@@Rusty_Gold85 Seconded.

Start a channel on eating microwaveable pizza please.

I've never technically been fired I usually quit before the meeting with the boss, strangely they don't like that despite the fact it makes the whole process easier for them since they don't have to deal with all the red tape. I guess they don't like having that little bit of control taken away from them.

He is good shit OK

Seeing as a new company just created a new toilet that they will be fitting in western businesses.. The toilet is designed to be painful to sit on and they say it will save lot of money as people will evacuate themselves as fast as possible and get back to work.

Personally, I never take a shit; I do leave them however.

@@ShikataGaNai100 Yeah but do you "give" a ....

@@stevewaller6577 Actually, no. I charge a fee for that service.

An honest question to a fair answer. After all, it’s 5pm somewhere.

No

Its james may 24/7

Is your husband rich?

Amen. !

That's because Alice Cooper, unbeknownst to himself, is also an old fart, just one with black dyed hair

Only if James lost oh about 1/2 his weight. Have you actually seen Alice Cooper? He looks like a skeleton with skin on.

Have you had your eyes checked lately?

theoretically...

It's when you know you have upset enough people by telling the truth that they can't accept you being there any more. As you say, it's a bonus and it's great when it happens.

It's unpleasant initially, but it will be soothing later on

what about a traditional Japanese toilet? those suck

Karma is a b****

Thumbs up for Kentucky from "Northern" Kentucky.

Thumbs up from Southeastern Kentucky!

Heinz Otto I’m actually from Inez Martin co.

@@jaystepp150 That's awesome! I'm further south by Williamsburg.

I think James May's expression quite clearly said, "I don't want to", lol!

@@herseem LOL indeed!

Retro Game Office look up “TOTO”, their toilet seat are so good that you wish they make chairs or sofas