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Pomegranate Juice smoothie lol thanks bro

he responded after 10 months. What a legend

I commented on a 1000 congrats buddy

@Jie Andaya he made a joke

@Jie Andaya yup, sorry mate

@Jie Andaya BTW i can take a print and post?

@Jie Andaya ok, no prob

@GracjanPlayz bruh nobody cares

They did, with an extra shine of red, very damn deserved.

i can hear your pfp

@@imbasing WHERE IS 25A

The cameramen were awarded hero of socialist labour. Jeremy was awarded for valorous labour.

@@YszapHun what? Lmao

Ive seen the ferres wheel in Call of duty

Luckily they didn't drive into any claymores

*bullet gets fired* *James gets shot* *arm flies off* James: oh cock

The ferry and the building where we shot Zahkeav's arm off is giving me so much nostalgia

Huh, cheeky bastard

*Are ye Daft? Stay out of Radioactive Areas!*

mccabber24 wonder what he does over there

there is a guy named Mark Keiths who lived and still lives in chernobyl they are in one of the apartment blocks and is a 58 year old man

he shall call it New Jezza

?Unknown %Percentage Are you daft? It’s a cod4 reference ya fuckwit

Such a forced meme

They just need to drink some Vodka. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Thought me that.

Why is the no one even there i swear everytime someone makes this "joke" it makes no sense whatsoever.

this no one: meme is awful

This comment is fuckin trash

lmaooo

Silly joke that doesnt make sense ... and I hope you remember the part of the episode where they show the REASON for this invasion: the naval base on Crimea ... which will be worthless if NATO can station missiles this close to it. NATO "promised" not to expand eastward 30+ years ago ... but hey, that promise didnt last long. The USA was also guaranteeing the independence of Ukraine ... but then kept influencing it by sending billions of $$$$ to basically bribe the people.

@@Muck006 NATO has never ‘expanded’ as you wrongly think. Expansion is a word for dictators and tyrants who March their army’s into unwilling country’s and flatten everything in their path. NATO is a group of independent country’s who have over time chosen to join the alliance, and I understand the word ‘choice’ is not something in the vocabulary of a Russian or someone who supports them. Ultimately though wether you support Russia or not my joke does make sense because this invasion has been one of the most incompetent Europe has seen. Logistics are in disarray, there’s plenty of evidence of vehicles left abandoned and without fuel. It shows that apart from its Nukes, NATO has no reason to fear Russia, NATO could easily defeat Russia in a conventional war. Let’s face it, Russia surrounds Ukraine and Ukraine is a much smaller force, but with superior tactics and western military might Ukraine has made a joke of a once proud country.

HAHA

I wonder if Clarkson dug a trench for himself while awaiting rescue.😆

Music is _Gemini_ by Boards of Canada.

I'm pretty sure that it was kinda staged, and that they didn't leave Jeremy there, it was just for dramatic effect

@@nobodywl Yes, obviously, but that doesn't make it less entertaining.

Fallout vibes for sure

@@nobodywl ofc not, they just stopped showing their counters for a reason. They obviously had more than enough fuel

Especially after watching HBO's Chernobyl

It’s scary as is, even more so knowing what it means.....

And it's no doubt inaccurte. They wouldn't do this if it wasn't safe. I bet you they wouldn't have even gotten anywhere near where they were if it was still considered too unsafe to drive through, have studied TV too much to fall for that. (But just for clarity, yeah that geiger coutner noise is scary :D)

ツFredi very true but you can not argue that Chernobyl was in fact safe and that was before they covered it up

It is safe as long as you don't live there. Technically you can't fly on that many airplanes either because the radiation is high, but the few hours don't matter that much. In that big of an area you'll be exposed for way longer though and there'll be more damage done.

Feels like something out of a horror movie

@Zeuffy god

Oh my God yeah, that was horrible. That was straight up horrifying. And that was before they got there!! And then when they saw it: I think I held my breath? It was something out of a horror movie!

Like something out of a scary movie.

I used to find it creepy aswell untill I found youtube channels literally going there and camping in the buildings. The channel is called Shiey if you were wondering.

It quite literally can never be forgotten because the problem will not go away in ANY of our lifetimes. The half-life of that waste material and remaining nuclear fuel are insane. And all this because a handful of dullard building engineers, under trained nuclear technicians, one arrogant moron and a single faulty button turned one outdated reactor into a bomb more long term devastating than BOTH bombs dropped on Japan combined.

@@Windclaw There have been plenty of accidents in the US, GB, Japan, etc aswell. Usualy hidden better. Also Clarkson is greayly exaggerating here. There are actually people working in the building on a daily basis. Ppl impressed with a geiger counter, but have no idea what it reads or what it means.

@@TheUrbanGaze For where they were they dont need to cover up in hazmat suits. Visitors to the area have to, for as far as i know, still have to wear cumulative geigermuller counters with a pre set for alarm and have to stay within cleaned areas. Also they are instructed what to do; dont pick up anything, what to do if the counter sounds alarm, etc.

Actually, it was all the fault of Dyatlov being a total Karen. @@Windclaw

@@Windclaw lmao, 4000 people died in total from the Chernobyl disaster. The act of literal genocide that was dropped on the two Japanese cities was over 200000. Don't even attempt to whitewash the US.

and they're also glowing in the dark

Lol comedic cut to Eastern Ukraine

@@yakivpopavich cope harder russki

@@spiroagnew3909 Keep seething. 30% of Ukraine's regions and territories are now Russian held. Ukraine is admitting it's losing multiple towns, villages and cities in both the South and East daily. Their commanders are outright saying they are out-manned 5 to 1 in most areas in regards to infantry. And for every piece of armor they have, Russia has ten. And they are stating that every ONE shell they fire from an artillery piece, Russia fires ten from multiple pieces. And lets not even mention the air situation, where Russia has complete and total superiority. Less than 100 Ukrainian air assets left operational and Russian jets and helicopters perform strikes with near impunity from other aircraft. Kiev could only intercept 1 out of 5 cruise missiles fired from Russian jets some weeks ago. Ukrainian ground to air defense systems cannot handle Russia's firepower, simply put. Now lets look to the waters, where the sea is filled with hundreds of Russian vessels. Once again, these boats can fire rounds straight into Kiev whenever they are told to do so, among many other locations. Ukraine is destined to lose. They may have infinite western supply, but they have finite manpower. Limited amounts of men. There is no UN/NATO/US infantry backup coming to save them, and they are suffering hundreds of casualties per day. In due time there will not be any Ukrainian military forces left to pick up and use any of these fancy imported weapons. Unfortunately for Zelenskky when he said " We will fight to the last Ukrainian " he didn't understand Putin is willing to oblige him.

@@yakivpopavich lol ruski bot

Transilvanian90 Best comment!!!

I'm not certain how good those engines are after all that redlining. Not great, but not terrible.

This is why I came here

🤣

"Survived Pripyat"...

It was scripted, in reality walking around Chernobyl is totally safe

I’d say don’t stay there for more than 12hrs and you’ll be fine

If you travel along the roads you're pretty much safe it's just being in the plant that's pretty much death

@@Galedan-C1029 I'm pretty sure the hospital there is still extremely dangerous too. Or at least, the basement is.

Parts of the region are more dangerous than others. The playground isn't somewhere I'd want to be for long. Just depends on how it settled.

And then there are the S.T.A.L.K E.R.s they go in illegally all the time and are fine

there are still pockets of intense radioactive buildup everywhere in random areas wherever the wind carried it that day. you need a geiger counter. you also do not want to exceed your yearly limit for background radiation. the red forest is still deathly toxic. it got the heavy doseage of radiation immediately after the reactor blew. it was absorbed into the foliage and gradually filtered to the ground.

@@MrWolfSnack russians learnt that the hard way

@@Crunchy121 lol yeah. I wonder what happened to them. The last news heard was that they went to the army hospital in Belarus and when the one guy broke the geiger counter because he was so irradiated, they all panicked and ran away out of the hospital and into Belarus. PM of Ukraine and the nuclear expert said they had about 6 months to live if not less.

@@MrWolfSnack Severe radiation sickness is just the start, if the case here was extreme they would develop multiple organ failure quite fast, I am not sure just how hot the nuclear waste buried in the red forest is, but given the AMOUNT that was buried there? Just walking through that place would be hazardous. A lifespan of half a year seems reasonable. Someone needs to shoot the moron who gave those poor saps the order to dig trenches in one of the most irradiated sites on the planet.

Always gives me chills, no joke. Andy Wilman and the guys that do the audio track editing know their stuff. I read years and years ago that James May picks the music for the various scenes (you dont get to hear it in youtube, dave reruns, or the dvd versions sadly)

It always gives me the Chills cuz I would hate to run out of gas there

This comment is sooo underrated

Sadly for Jeremy, not for another 30,000 years...

Britain must be getting pretty desperate for more colonies

@@BizlaC I mean we wanted the falklands

@@BizlaC there’s already 30 year old ‘barracks’ there I suppose and it would be a mental training ground

😂😂 true

Or Stalker...........;)

jeremy said it one of the episodes thst he plays call of duty

"ive killed some russians here"

He said he plays CoD when they played Forza Horizon 3 :P

Let's hope they don't visit your city or country or did they already?

@@samurai5910 Mine got surrendered more than once already 😂

@@TobRacer Interesting, which is it?

@@samurai5910 France. Thought you'd get the joke. 😂

@@TobRacer As a German somehow I did not get it :D

not if youre the russians

@@tommyg9719 Russians did the same challenge with their armored vehicles and convoys, but they ran out of fuel way before reaching this area.

​@@Rysher735 they even dug trenches in the red Forrest

7:32 / 8:08 kreosan

nasty lad compilation

People have actually stood next to the Elephants foot for more than two minutes, pretty stupid and risky though

I bet the elephant's foot screamed "CLARKSON!!!!" before it died.

Two weeks later, the elephant’s foot said: **CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARKSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!**

Or "HAMMOND YOU BLITHERING IDIOT"

i checked it out on google maps and there's literally people just walking around

I mean, the reactor is sealed off now. It's much safer now than it was then. (at least for the next 90 years before the arch needs to be replaced)

@@Axius27 they are accualy planing on removing it now to build a new one beacuse the old one isent gonna last a 100 years

@@one1kng997 The new one has been in its place since 2017 already

one:1 kng No?? They aren’t gonna remove a 1 billion dollar thing that has been finished and applied already..

There are still LOADS of places that you simply DO NOT TOUCH! when visiting, almost gives certain death (like cancer) and the likes.

Its all an illusion

@@themuffincat It's Jeremy Clarkson's Dutch cousin.

@@keiztrat lol

Nah, talk show episode about it is more enjoyable to think of Talking about the shoes he was walking back in "I was told to throw them away but I didn't" "Well I hope you don't have them here tonight" "Uh, actually it was this pair"

Then they later pushed him and he did a grand tour.

“It’s gone...”

coffeecat450 the radioactive stuff gone?

Liam Macdonald no ‘twas a joke of BBC leaving Jeremy behind, in reality the radiation is still quite present despite the fact that the protective dome around reactor number 4 was finished a few years ago. However living organisms that can withstand radiation are slowly starting to reclaim the area, the amount of damage that Chernobyl has done is not nearly as bad as Fukushima, as it’s still spreading radioactive isotopes into the Pacific Ocean causing further damage in the future... So anyway, cheers!

you probably forgot about this comment, but now I have the honor of presenting you with the 2000th like. Well played

If it’s in a cloudy day, then radiation would literally had sprinkled on them

@@ferrariboy5647 Not how radiation works, especially this long after the incident, but since I assume you’re joking you can have it.

The fact they had to close the back doors I think adds to it, too. It feels more like a found footage movie when we get those shots.

Stop exaggerating ppl. Its not dangerous provided you take some measures. Rainy day is actually better, as no dust kicks off, that could contain radio active particles

A cloudy day _or_ they just closed the camera by 2-3 f-stops.

Clearly you never saw the episode where they dumped them in Iraq, unarmed in convertibles

this is technically more dangerous, they were driving just near to the exposed reactor core, under it there is the elephants foot. which has radiation unknown to science

@@k7r-n That's untrue. When the Elephant's Foot was discovered it gave out about 8000 roentgens. When Artur Korneyev visited it in 1996 it was only about tenth of that due to nuclear decay. It's still pretty radioactive but far from unknown to science.

@@adamgorski2610 Yes, it is known to science. I just didn't want to google it. I was too lazy. Thanks anyway!

Generally speaking, radiation doesn't get in a pickup and chase you.

Ikr. Doesn’t matter how many times I watch it.

Yup, all they needed for that moment was a soundtrack of a choir of little kids singing Frère Jacques.

@@cryhavoc8461 that would have ruined it

@@eebrohim7001 I agree, the silence is chilling

@@stayforthepeelpronpls4774 They did a great job with that. Must've been proud

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

if he just said: "i'm trying not to reach Chernobyl" they would have understood immediately.

That is a good point. How DO you explain that sort of situation?

Did You not get the joke

@@sannidhyabalkote9536 Nothing wrong with that english.

How so?

The snow clearing episode was quite... chilling.

mandarin125 it’s just so frightening to see all that untouched city and so many people died there

@@Sclumsy 32 people died. It's a tragedy, but there are many worse disasters. A concentration camp, for example is chilling, and the fact that all major powers had them says a lot about human nature.

mandarin125 absolutely but it’s just chilling overall. There were far more tragic events but it’s jus that they are driving right through danger.

thats the comment that i have been finding :)

oh yes :)

@Thomas Al-Mdanat i definitely agree with you on that

Oh man i played it yesterday

I played this game in 2009/10 probably and then this episode when it was released.. every time i see that wheel, i remember the mission

hahaha xDD

***** But for different reasons...

***** True story in both scenarios.

***** All things considered. I think I will take getting shot over radiation sickness.

Same here, Its a faster death.

Jeremy : "is that graphite on the ground?"

Some say the real Clarkson is still there

No thats not graphite legasov's say tjernobyl is gona end to day 30 years latet jeremy clarckson yeah but where are my neightbours 😂😂😂😂😂

@@jonatancools8844 you illiterate fuck

@@jonatancools8844 you're actually illiterate

yeah

Frr

"there it is"

Keep low.

I love that game and there is the hotel and the playground that was in CoD 4

Hotel 'Policca'

The Pro pronounced as 'polissya

Lol i didint say nothing about the hotel s name lol i am croatian

I think they did open it up after the explosion for a day or two whilst they were evacuating people. Trying to keep people calm and all that.

Didn't they open the doors on the day of the meltdown to attract attention away from the fire going on?

+tehcornflakes Live no it was open for only one day because the government told them to go there to wait untill they were evacuated and it did not explode it leaked.

+carton228 live It did open on the 27th for one hour though, It was open to distract people from the reactor blow whilst the evacuation buses arrived.

+Josh Dowda the reactor did indeed explode, it blew a hole clean out the roof

That's the point of the audio editing

matthew david jarvis asshole

If you go back through the old seasons and some of james mays toy stories whoever does sound and music uses game soundtracks it seems more like an easter egg to Stalker shadow of Chernobyl and the enemy the controller that does that same ear piercing screech.

TheReal Doom same

The most terrifying part is knowing the chaos, destruction and death that ONE REACTOR did to the land, and how much radiation is STILL in that building. And it's worse when u think about the fact that the only thing standing between us and the longest and deadliest disaster the earth has seen since the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, is concrete, bad welding from the rush of containing the radioactive waste, and now a big movable dome of sheet metal that is LITERALLY on 2 train tracks! All we need is for a tornado to hit anywhere near reactor 4 Or the Chernobyl NPP and WE ALL PAY THE PRICE!

FPSPhilippines reminds me of stranger things

The squeak sounds like an ear ringing.

stop being so cringey

@@a.3160 u mean me motherpants?

It creeps me out more than amusing

No, Gemini starts at 6:39. Everything during their drive-by of reactor 4 is uncredited.

Considering that at the time this was posted there was a giant hammer and sickle _in the middle of the capital_ I have some doubt about the vigor they enforced those laws with. (It's gone now.)

There is many scientists and firemen in there that could not be recovered due to the extremely high radiation. There is a story I read about when a scientist went to save his friend he was so irradiated that his hand burned into through his coat and clothing.

There is at least 1, one of the workers. Left entombed inside the sarcophagus in an extremely radioactive part of it.

Actually I think there's only one, Valery Khodemchuk. He was a pump operator and died during the explosion. He's still entombed in the rubble near reactor 4 inside the sarcophagus.

They are probably puddles

Poor Khodemchuk the engineer was never found; he was either obliterated or buried by the explosion. He's still under the rubble in what was the pump room.

XD

Get Chris to have a look at the elephants foot...

In the reactor

Ha!

TONIGHT: I get leukemia. Matt grows a second head. And Sabine goes bald

I'd rather eat glass than try that.

same

It's honestly spooky just watching the video. I can't imagine how spooky it is to see for real.

my body stop moving after 20 secomds

Same here :O

Yes

Michael Benedict lol

a bottle o' bleach !

Michael Benedict Cod 4 references we OGs xD

It should actually make you Breeki

#noscope

I mean what else are you supposed to do?

i learned from this episode

Sri-Kaushal Ramana I now know I need to tape my doors and not swerve

not taking care of your car also wastes fuel. i worn out damaged engine from lack of care uses more gas than a perfectly maintained engine.

Great! Now, the Toyota Urban Cruiser...

Or simply, Jeremy May doesnt' turn on the Geiger counter!

Excellent... Now...

Oh no. Anyway...

But will it work as a blast 🛡

Good one

Out of gas, missiles, generals, morale, ammunition and men and yet still the war isn't over. Interesting isn't it?.

i don't think thats radiation. what it most likely is is the small camera sensor doesn't do that well in low light.

​@@lanczenbela890 Im pretty sure it's thing about how cameras will get incredibly fuzzy if there is extreme radiation in the area

@@SASMADBRUV7 they will get fuzzy but it has to be a lot of radiation. i don't think where they flying there was enough radiation to affect the sensor.

There *are* hotels in the zone but you can only stay a week and they're on the fringes of it.

I don't need to stay in the zone. I can just drive there from outside.

Attila Rischt I think the closet place you could would be Kiev; 60 miles away from the border.

That's good enough

there are organized trips to Chernobyl by travel companies from Kiev to exclusion zone, apparenlty you can even volunteer for a price to cleanup Pripyat

Dont forget the useless facts

***** fact: this is an useless fact

And me: people that know shit about radiation and already visited Chernobyl 😂

Good god the words "an useless" piss me the hell off, but strangely, its correct.

and, me who does not play CoD but knows there shit, and would like to go to chernobyl

+Clorox Bleach What are you doing here Bleach ? xd

That's why they stopped Top Gear, they lost him in chernobyl

LOL xD hahahahahahh I highly doubt that since the radiation levels at the time are much slightly lower so he was able to make it out of Chernobyl but not without getting a small exposure to radiation.

Tachanka only you mighty lord will know your LMG controls all of time and space

The lord and saviour Tachanka is waiting with him though

I would LOVE to be able to get a permit to explain the remains of Chernobyl's reactor incident

😔

Modern warfare

+Fin Harrison i dont think so

***** cyka blyat

+Company007 Exactly what I was thinking

Me too, it would be so interesting!

just come to Ukraine, there are a lot of such tours from Kiev.

***** well actually the only thing that makes Chernobyl special is radiation. Actually there are a lot of abandoned military cities which look pretty much the same. That's why the guy reacted that way

Well, you have until June of next year. That's when the arc is supposed to be finished and cover the reactor forever.

Anton Kukoba Top advice is not like Ukraine is a war zone or something

Well, it was safer than Argentina.

@@JamaicanCastle LMFAO

Not great but not terrible...

Smurphy this is the most underrated comment ever

Zachaev needed a Volkswagen Scirocco diesel. "The brand new Scirocco diesel, for the people who value their arms"

i see what you did there

A wee bit of name communism here I see

@@smurphy2146 INTRUDER ALERT!

it did a great job considering...lol

GREAT NEWS EVERYONE. Everyone reads this in a James May voice

MrTURBOJOHN or professor farnsworth

I own the new Dacia Sandero Facelift of 2017. This car is great.

Red Card I

And actually conquer it

​@@themuhammad1I wouldn't be so sure about that

@@ignorantethan656 yet due to my connections... I am sure

Оружие убрал

I said come in! Dont just stand there!

"What are you Waiting for, Stalker?"

this did not age well.

so what's the name of the song at 1:53?

JFLChanneL Midnight Train - Baltic Fleet

holy shit podel

Marcus Eoin and Michael Sandison from BOC are Gods in the art of music.

Cheers Podel!

Sam Carpenter these are truly the best comments and replies I've seen on RU-vid

Best.Comment.Chain.EVER

"Thats a bloody convention out there"

“Look at this....50,000 people used to live here....now it’s a ghost town”

agreed

Masashi Iino same

That's kind of the point. It's called 'dramatic editing'

mandarin125 of course it is, no need to be a dick about it. Dude was just sayin they did a good job

Same

Same

Depends on the type of counter they used. A really sensitive one will go nuts even with normal everyday radiation. And even 100x normal is perfectly fine for several days. Most of the Chernobyl zone is only radioactive enough to be problematic with months of exposure. There's a few spots that can be problematic with just hours of exposure, so you usually carry a counter around to detect those and avoid them. And with "problematic" I don't mean that you drop dead, but rather a health impact on a similar level as smoking a few cigarettes.

@@15Redstones none the less creepy, the whole desolate landscape and the city being abandoned, just feels like our own look into what an apocalypse could look like

Wouldn’t recommend going there now for sure.

@@e.n.strowd1949 sadly I agree

about that

Exactly

Given as to how radiation works it wasnt dangerous at all

Bolivia's Death Road was the scariest.

I want to know how Jeremy escaped

Linus Cleveland I don’t know, the Argentina special was terrifying near the end.

Not great, not terrible.

@@ozmond2600 beat me to it

Still, could be worse.

That’s actually quite significant

Haha

#fallout3/4

+SuperSilver301 Pop some RadX first. :>

+SuperSilver301 If only that was real. lets start making fallout chems

+SuperSilver301 and Rad-X beforehand!

Kis Tibor 👋😊

Right here ✋

meeee

I came here for some comic relief XD

666th like \m/

The Russian army already have.

LMFAO amazing comment

Oh.My.God. Best comment I’ve ever seen, well done mate

He got fired on 25th of March The day a part of BBC Died

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knight gaurd on the 25th of March not only Oisin got a punch in the face...

The Grand Tour is better than old Top Gear ever was

Also, the sarcophagus was not completed and put into place yet. So it was NOT as safe back then.