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

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  • @justsumguy2u
    @justsumguy2u 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1805

    Jeremy often accuses James of being pedantic, but I never get tired of listening to him impart his wisdom of the ages

    • @yeetleslaw8529
      @yeetleslaw8529 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      tbh half of it is rubbish

    • @shifty2755
      @shifty2755 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @ericmiller254
      @ericmiller254 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @niconesta8566
      @niconesta8566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      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.

    • @AmnesiaForever
      @AmnesiaForever 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      SHIFTY not at all

  • @iain2gd
    @iain2gd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6376

    He sounded most upset about the fact that he had to walk home rather than losing his job 😂

    • @strangeke7750
      @strangeke7750 5 ปีที่แล้ว +258

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

    • @Emppu_T.
      @Emppu_T. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

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

    • @cypheraxis
      @cypheraxis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

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

    • @Quantum-Bullet
      @Quantum-Bullet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not Another Zombie Show! A bike is great.

    • @spotthecat2412
      @spotthecat2412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

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

  • @mlu007
    @mlu007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2466

    I was fired for losing my temper with a rude customer 13 years ago. I got a 30% salary increase at my next job.

    • @wetlettuce4768
      @wetlettuce4768 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Glad you got a win out of that situation

    • @houssamassila6274
      @houssamassila6274 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Thanks for giving me hope.

    • @justinfay3011
      @justinfay3011 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Fuck customer service to hell.

    • @MasterMalrubius
      @MasterMalrubius 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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

    • @hahaLOLhaha72
      @hahaLOLhaha72 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @jshepard152
    @jshepard152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3316

    I'd hire James May in a minute. I'd probably fire him too.

    • @dchawk81
      @dchawk81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      In the same minute. 😃

    • @antwango
      @antwango 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

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

    • @da_cat
      @da_cat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      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

    • @anoobiscooking1193
      @anoobiscooking1193 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thts d same for any boss

    • @liviubita4238
      @liviubita4238 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @BrandoDrum
    @BrandoDrum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1415

    "The things by which you judge a nation are their National Airline and their Bogs"
    ~James May. Best quote ever.

    • @mrguest3749
      @mrguest3749 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So truuuuu

    • @EEAMD-co6nw
      @EEAMD-co6nw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      why the national airline may I ask?

    • @Insect_Expert1489
      @Insect_Expert1489 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @redmed10
      @redmed10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @DebatingWombat
      @DebatingWombat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@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.

  • @Roihan54
    @Roihan54 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1171

    "You can't put a price on a good shit" - James May, 2019

    • @oweoweowe
      @oweoweowe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @harrislondon
      @harrislondon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Words to live by

    • @carsos00
      @carsos00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Quote of the year..

    • @raulcortes937
      @raulcortes937 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Totally agree.

    • @gray_space_alien
      @gray_space_alien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Truer words were never spoken.

  • @BuzzaB77
    @BuzzaB77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2174

    So to translate for anyone confused:
    Bog = toilet
    Crapper = toilet
    Pan = toilet
    Kazi = toilet
    Lav = toilet
    Throne = toilet

    • @gabenvandenbrink9114
      @gabenvandenbrink9114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @BuzzaB77
      @BuzzaB77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      @@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.

    • @gabenvandenbrink9114
      @gabenvandenbrink9114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @scottwhitley3392
      @scottwhitley3392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @seanworkman431
      @seanworkman431 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @NERGYStudios
    @NERGYStudios 4 ปีที่แล้ว +655

    James May's theory of production management: The quality of the work output is directly proportional to the quality of the toilets.

    • @RogersRamblings
      @RogersRamblings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Input and output have to balance. :-)

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Happy poopers = happy workers. 😁

    • @nate296
      @nate296 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

    • @Shift1888
      @Shift1888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      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.

    • @ImmortanDan
      @ImmortanDan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @chrisalfano589
    @chrisalfano589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +276

    Lost my job at GM after 15 yrs.. went to school. Became a machinist.. wondered why I didn’t do this before. Love it

    • @dynamicpaintball
      @dynamicpaintball 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

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

    • @unkraut7427
      @unkraut7427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dynamicpaintball made my day

    • @Oblithian
      @Oblithian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good for you! Also F@#% GM

    • @mightyskull
      @mightyskull 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you work on now?

    • @chrisalfano589
      @chrisalfano589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Anutham A machine airplane wheels

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3212

    You haven't lived until you have asked for a payrise during a disciplinary.

    • @7wt
      @7wt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      James Walsh No truer words spoken.

    • @ArcolaBridge
      @ArcolaBridge 4 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      I have done it successfully

    • @tm1182
      @tm1182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@ArcolaBridge what

    • @codyparker679
      @codyparker679 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I've done it.

    • @ToniGAM3S
      @ToniGAM3S 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hello, Brother

  • @Amcor09
    @Amcor09 4 ปีที่แล้ว +591

    He goes from complaining he had to walk eight miles to advising that one should walk everywhere.

    • @andysoch
      @andysoch 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      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!

    • @b9y
      @b9y 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @DPRX99
      @DPRX99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Struggles of identity

  • @robbrowne7625
    @robbrowne7625 5 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    We seriously need more people in the world like James May!

    • @mortechrome
      @mortechrome 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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.

    • @TheTimmyH
      @TheTimmyH 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He likes the NSX...so I bought one

    • @TheTimmyH
      @TheTimmyH 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @matthewdowning6009
      @matthewdowning6009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

    • @GREENHOUSE_LIGHTSHOW
      @GREENHOUSE_LIGHTSHOW 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @JR-bj3uf
    @JR-bj3uf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +535

    My boss came into my office to fire me. When he had done so I got up to leave. My boss said "you don't have to rush off. You can take some time and clear out your desk" and I said "I did that two weeks ago!"

    • @captainjackpugh6050
      @captainjackpugh6050 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      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?

    • @captainjackpugh6050
      @captainjackpugh6050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @captainjackpugh6050
      @captainjackpugh6050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

    • @aidanjanemcintosh6919
      @aidanjanemcintosh6919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @jj-tv3xl
      @jj-tv3xl 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hot damnn dude

  • @Coffreek
    @Coffreek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    "You can't put a price on a good shit."
    So, what's Clarkson getting paid, these days.....?

    • @CynicalOldDwarf
      @CynicalOldDwarf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      £144 after expenses

    • @Sclimenti82
      @Sclimenti82 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @jetfowl
    @jetfowl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    "You can't put a price on a good s**t."
    Too true, James. Too true.
    Japanese Washlets are amazing.

    • @Allangulon
      @Allangulon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      You can even wash your face! Theoretically.

    • @Truepk
      @Truepk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @John_Ass
      @John_Ass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Truepk it all about the feel mate

    • @conmcgrath7502
      @conmcgrath7502 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @aaltair97
      @aaltair97 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      shit

  • @preachercaine
    @preachercaine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    It's quite an achievement to be fired from the Civil Service as I have always considered it impossible. The level of laziness and incompetence allowed is so high that james must have murdered someone to have been let go. I know plenty of civil servants that regularily don't turn up for work, so it couldn't have been that.

    • @molagsballs
      @molagsballs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      preachercaine I was thinking the same lmao

    • @taliesine.8343
      @taliesine.8343 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @CoppaITG
      @CoppaITG 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

    • @preachercaine
      @preachercaine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

    • @CoppaITG
      @CoppaITG 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@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)

  • @squidcaps4308
    @squidcaps4308 4 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    There was a time when you didn't mind that much being fired as you could just walk to the next site and get a new job... oh those were the days..

    • @drunkensailor112
      @drunkensailor112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @fiveowaf454
      @fiveowaf454 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @gavinalaugh6623
      @gavinalaugh6623 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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

    • @TheLexiconDevils
      @TheLexiconDevils 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fired at smoko new job by lunchtime

    • @curtisjackson40
      @curtisjackson40 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@drunkensailor112 where do you live

  • @AVFCAM
    @AVFCAM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    I’ve always said that employers who buy cheap toilet paper are harming their own productivity...

  • @davidoldham5958
    @davidoldham5958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    5:35 - "you judge a nation by the quality of its national airlines and its bogs" - based on my experience, this is very accurate! I've seen this in many countries.

    • @flyfin108
      @flyfin108 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @mark.e.p
    @mark.e.p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a lovely humble chap. I changed careers at 60 and now work locally for an engineering company.

  • @Quantum-Bullet
    @Quantum-Bullet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    He should have gotten a raise for the first letter change, everyone talked about it.

  • @raz0051
    @raz0051 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Its reassuring to watch this during this pandemic, jobless, struggling to find a job.

  • @flickpad
    @flickpad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Had to install a Japanese bog seat when we came back from Japan. It's changed my life. Not even kidding. If you've eaten something 'unwise' then you retain a clean fresh pain-free fundament no matter how many movements you have. It's the future!

  • @chelseakev
    @chelseakev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Auto car done him a favour.. Onwards

  • @indonesiar110
    @indonesiar110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    "If you give your workforce that sort of a quality crapper, they're going to be happy with their work"
    +James May quote on Toyota Quality 2019...

  • @tihspidtherekciltilc5469
    @tihspidtherekciltilc5469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    "You can't fire me! I quit and I'm firing you as my employer."
    James at the Volvo dealership most likely

  • @SocksWithSandals
    @SocksWithSandals 5 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    He's right.
    I got laid off last week and I'm squandering my day watching TH-cam videos as I stuffed down eight yoghurts and a pizza just because they were in the fridge.

    • @darkshadowsx5949
      @darkshadowsx5949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @Rusty_Gold85
      @Rusty_Gold85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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

    • @nathanwackett7625
      @nathanwackett7625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      hope things get better for you soon mate

    • @peter.24.7
      @peter.24.7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Rusty_Gold85 Seconded.

    • @shekharmoona544
      @shekharmoona544 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Start a channel on eating microwaveable pizza please.

  • @desktopkitty
    @desktopkitty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +437

    I got fired from a movie theatre when I stopped a woman from beating her 5 year old son for losing his popcorn. I also got fired from a bakery when I told my boss her boyfriend sexually harassed me. I got fired from Walmart because I was in the hospital for 2 weeks. My first job I was a waitress and I got fired because I kept filling a homeless man's coffee, which he paid for, which is listed in the menu as being a "bottomless cup of coffee". Technically I quit that job... when my boss threatened to fire me if I filled the man's coffee again. So I filled his coffee one last time and then quit. It's interesting when I apply for a new job and I'm asked to explain why I keep losing jobs. "Because my bosses are A-holes".

    • @b9y
      @b9y 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Legendary though.

    • @niconesta8566
      @niconesta8566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

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

    • @Henriburger1
      @Henriburger1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      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.

    • @desktopkitty
      @desktopkitty 4 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      @@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.

    • @SCALE_SLOTCARS
      @SCALE_SLOTCARS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@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

  • @Lighting_Desk
    @Lighting_Desk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    Getting fired is easy. Just act like Jeremy.

    • @Andrewza1
      @Andrewza1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The man that technically never been fired

    • @panscopia1791
      @panscopia1791 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Andrewza1
      @Andrewza1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

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

    • @brostugen
      @brostugen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @JoeKurr5
      @JoeKurr5 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Andrewza1 he got fired from top gear

  • @wassapdude94
    @wassapdude94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    In the words of Clarkson:
    "I suddenly became unbusy"

  • @johnbaldock6353
    @johnbaldock6353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    I was once fired for asking my new manager when she was having her baby only to find out she wasn't expecting!

    • @ohwell2790
      @ohwell2790 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

    • @haydencp1
      @haydencp1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Off

    • @dchawk81
      @dchawk81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      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.

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

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

    • @unkraut7427
      @unkraut7427 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@haydencp1 off what?

  • @MrRea112
    @MrRea112 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I like the parallel he draws between well made cars and good toilets in the factories. He has a point. You can’t put a price on it.

  • @shaneweightman
    @shaneweightman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Great bloke , admitting he got fired , several times , so it will give hope to some, cheers Shane uk 🇬🇧

    • @wetlettuce4768
      @wetlettuce4768 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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.

  • @ixon4330
    @ixon4330 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    “You can’t put a price on a good shit!”
    LOL so true...

    • @smudger671
      @smudger671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or in his case, a good haircut...

    • @ixon4330
      @ixon4330 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @numbersix100
    @numbersix100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I was called into the managers office to be fired, he asked if I’d like a drink, I said “a gin and tonic please” (it was 11am).😝

    • @ultrapaiva
      @ultrapaiva 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

    • @grzk
      @grzk 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No

  • @stefan-ox8qs
    @stefan-ox8qs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The whas your face part , gold.
    Just the look on the face like , your joking right ?
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @terenfro1975
    @terenfro1975 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    45 year old physicist. May is one of the few people I wouldn’t mind meeting and having a lunch with. Most every one else can sod off.

    • @Dr.Westside
      @Dr.Westside 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      45-year-old engineer . You're not half as smart as you think you are . Stop precluding your sentences with what you do It makes you look foolish . Are you trying to impress a bunch of internet trolls ? Face it nobody cares what you do . Something also tells me that nobody would be at a great loss from not talking to you .

  • @mrp8126
    @mrp8126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Having experienced this myself I can assure you he was not lying about the Japanese toilets. Absolute incredible toilet experience. Took a bit of getting used to as I thought I was being violated at first but it ended up being one of the highlights of my trip 🤣🤣

  • @mr2ferrari
    @mr2ferrari 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "A man with no options... suddenly has all the options in the world."
    -Dom Hemingway

  • @Lovelifealways16
    @Lovelifealways16 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love James, love Jeremy and Richard to. So down to earth and they say how it is. Something that is dwindling in today’s society.

  • @JulieWallis1963
    @JulieWallis1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I got fired from a job, I was heartbroken, didn’t know how I’d survive with no job, no money.
    Long story short, I ended up meeting and marrying my husband. No way I would have met him had I still been working.
    Life really does have a funny way of working out.

    • @luckyandy
      @luckyandy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is your husband rich?

    • @jake-rx9rs
      @jake-rx9rs 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amen. !

  • @ukwan
    @ukwan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I used the loo in a Japanese restaurant in Taiwan a week before the Covid pandemic kicked off, I must say it was life changing and I totally agree with James May on this matter.

  • @blumpfreyfranks8863
    @blumpfreyfranks8863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I don't think anyone has ever finished an interview with "you can't put a price on a good shit"

  • @fuzzywuzzy5749
    @fuzzywuzzy5749 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have to walk everywhere too. I LOVE this news feed and especially James May!! Thank you for reducing my anxiety about being laid off due to pandemic.

  • @extramild1
    @extramild1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    "You can't put a price on a good sh*t" - I think you will find that a builder can and will.

  • @Bob10009
    @Bob10009 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “You can’t put a price on a good shit”. Best interview end line ever.

  • @jeffherdzina6716
    @jeffherdzina6716 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I met an ex-boss one time, and thanked him for getting fired. He asked me why. And I told him that I could give him 40,000 reasons why I was happy to be fired by him. I think I was making far more than he was at the time.

  • @familybills2908
    @familybills2908 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I ADORE JAMES MAY - he knows what he speaks of, and I can listen to him speak about anything! Never put a price on a good dump!

  • @MrBiggles53
    @MrBiggles53 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    “It’s amazing how much money you can save by walking everywhere.” This coming from a man famous for a show that promotes cars ... from which he was fired multiple times. 👍

  • @arnienonymous4458
    @arnienonymous4458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "They're expensive, but you can't put a price on a good s##t." Truer words were seldom spoken, James. Just another reason I think James would be great to hang out with.

  • @anthonyjarvis9472
    @anthonyjarvis9472 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Best quote from 2019 goes to - James May "you cant put a price on a good shit!" LOL

  • @b9y
    @b9y 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The fact that he was fired from Top Gear, and went to being part of 4 that held it together. Now the Grand Tour. Amazing.

  • @mirzaahmed6589
    @mirzaahmed6589 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He got fired so much because he never showed up on time, due to being Captain Slow.

  • @yesiactuallymadethismyname8177
    @yesiactuallymadethismyname8177 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just got fired… came straight here.

  • @owenfitzgerald8944
    @owenfitzgerald8944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "You can't put a price on a good shit" - A profound statement from James May.

  • @dlpgamer
    @dlpgamer 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can't put a price on a good shit. Killed me 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jaystepp150
    @jaystepp150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Hay!!! Im feeling a bit ripped off.
    I’m a fat bloke in Kentucky, that so happens builds Toyota’s in a Toyota factory but we have typically mundane Boggs.
    Bugger

    • @MasterMalrubius
      @MasterMalrubius 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thumbs up for Kentucky from "Northern" Kentucky.

    • @heinzotto1194
      @heinzotto1194 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thumbs up from Southeastern Kentucky!

    • @jaystepp150
      @jaystepp150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Heinz Otto I’m actually from Inez Martin co.

    • @heinzotto1194
      @heinzotto1194 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @joshuawilfred264
    @joshuawilfred264 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    'You can't put price on a good shit'
    Bwahahahaha... Best thing I've ever heard

  • @thisisnumber0
    @thisisnumber0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    You can't put a price on a good shit... 🤣
    You, sir, are a man of impeccable observation.

  • @williamsharpley6768
    @williamsharpley6768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And that is the first time I've ever heard James May say "beef"

  • @chaniapellet
    @chaniapellet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A nation should be judged on it's bogs. James May 2019. Legend.

  • @bigkev8949
    @bigkev8949 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    After just being made redundant at 54 yrs old, my new beginning is sitting in front of my computer watching programmes like this...LOVING IT

  • @Dominate955
    @Dominate955 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I've been on a Japanese toilet and they're amazing. I was too scared to use the jet wash thing though!

    • @wongjimmy3189
      @wongjimmy3189 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @maytagveneno9653
      @maytagveneno9653 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      what about a traditional Japanese toilet? those suck

  • @thebritishindian1
    @thebritishindian1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My respect for James May just shot up 1000%. I’ve been fired for disagreeing with a stupid manager.

  • @andybrown4284
    @andybrown4284 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I live in an old stone cottage that's a pig to heat, once warm its lovely and toasty but heating an entire house rather than a room or two is a waste of money so I have had occasions in winter where I've put a coat on to keep warm in the bathroom as I hover my cheeks over the bowl. A heated bog seat would be glorious.

  • @chapmasi
    @chapmasi 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was fired from my IT job at a Law firm 20yrs ago........... best thing that ever happened to me.

  • @stevewaller6577
    @stevewaller6577 5 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    You can't put a price on a good s*ht
    James May 2019

    • @frankmlchaelglasscock6539
      @frankmlchaelglasscock6539 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He is good shit OK

    • @zakofrx
      @zakofrx 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

    • @ShikataGaNai100
      @ShikataGaNai100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @stevewaller6577
      @stevewaller6577 4 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @ShikataGaNai100
      @ShikataGaNai100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @SULFUR4UDeATHbYMeta1
    @SULFUR4UDeATHbYMeta1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got fired yesterday. Oddly, this video provided comfort.

  • @cango5679
    @cango5679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "You CAN wash your face in the toilet" "You don't HAVE to, but you CAN....". He should have added: I don't WANT to... ;-)

    • @herseem
      @herseem 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @cango5679
      @cango5679 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@herseem LOL indeed!

  • @kevinW826
    @kevinW826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can’t believe “our man in Japan” came out a year ago. Wow. Time flys

  • @DavidVoxDem
    @DavidVoxDem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    If he painted his hair black he'd look exactly like Alice Cooper

    • @armoredp
      @armoredp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @williamarmstrong7199
      @williamarmstrong7199 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @jerbear7952
      @jerbear7952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have you had your eyes checked lately?

  • @99bimmer
    @99bimmer ปีที่แล้ว

    I think even more impressive about the hidden message is the fact that someone actually noticed

  • @shekharmoona544
    @shekharmoona544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    James May a man ahead of his time. Don't listen to Jeremy, he's a buffoon.

  • @Fearoq
    @Fearoq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really want to know how and why he got fired and rehired by top gear so many times.

  • @MetalheadAndNerd
    @MetalheadAndNerd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "You can even wash your face with this!"

    • @tatlock29
      @tatlock29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      theoretically...

  • @TomTobin67
    @TomTobin67 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been fired from quite a few jobs and I'm more of an expert on this. The best part of getting fired is you get to say exactly how you feel about the boss or the job or the company and I have every time.

  • @MussaKZN
    @MussaKZN 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I got fired for outing a manager in a start work meeting for taking a safety lockout tag off a heavy vehicle (it had a snapped shock absorber) 5 years later he walked into a job interview and I was the one hiring, classic, I gave him the job
    Just to fire him 2 months and 26 days later, it just wasn’t working out!!LOL

    • @AO-oy4rf
      @AO-oy4rf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Karma is a b****

  • @ramal5708
    @ramal5708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:00 so if you're car manufacturer you should have a high quality restrooms or bogs, so your employees would build and design a high quality car. The quality of the Bog is proportional to the quality of the manufactured car.

  • @Lutonman2010
    @Lutonman2010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Take my advice. Don’t learn plumbing. Do almost anything else.

  • @jimsy5530
    @jimsy5530 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been fired from every job I've had, except two: one where I was paid half a year's salary to leave (not a redundancy), and another where I was unbeknownst to me sued, and then prevented from leaving the foreign country I was in. Things are going exceptionally well.

  • @Jacky5299
    @Jacky5299 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love getting fired!! It's the highlight of a job 😀😀

    • @grahamb5930
      @grahamb5930 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @censorshipbites7545
    @censorshipbites7545 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Years of living in Japan spoiled me with heated toilet seats and on-time subway trains. And then I moved to China.
    James May is absolutely right.

  • @numbereightyseven
    @numbereightyseven 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Being made redundant lead to the best job and career change I ever had - way better than I could have ever imagined or hoped for.

  • @Bobmbaraasclaatiboi
    @Bobmbaraasclaatiboi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    6:52 truer words have never been so well spoken😂🙌🏼

  • @MrSupro
    @MrSupro 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am completely now prepared to watch James May’s Our Man In Japan.. thank you sir.

  • @drewlovelyhell4892
    @drewlovelyhell4892 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When I was fired, I discovered that I could make a living from my art.
    I wish I had quit my job years earlier!

  • @pectenmaximus231
    @pectenmaximus231 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just want to understand how this man was hired so many times, after having been fired so many times. That is the real amazing thing here.

  • @johnwillis9534
    @johnwillis9534 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    James hasn't been fired from a circus cannon, as far as I know.

  • @MyDuckfoot
    @MyDuckfoot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve had 13 full time and 7 part time jobs over 30 some years before I started my own business 10 years ago.

  • @charliemansonUK
    @charliemansonUK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Toilets looking like Bobby sands living in them!!! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @kingbunny9141
    @kingbunny9141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love James May, he’s so entertaining to listen to.

  • @mrbagitos
    @mrbagitos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’m inspired. I think I need to rethink my next new bathroom. Japanese toilet seat is definitely the way to go. I mean it is used every day.

    • @Underpowered3719
      @Underpowered3719 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @mrkeogh
    @mrkeogh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    He's ridiculously sensible.
    It's really refreshing to see in 2020!

  • @Sam-es6ui
    @Sam-es6ui 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "90% of all advice is rubbish" remember that...

  • @ru40342
    @ru40342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jeremy Clarkson once ended a car review with the word "feces"
    James May here ends the video with the word "shit"
    Man I love these 3

  • @chriskelleher349
    @chriskelleher349 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "you can wash your face in it" .....after vomiting, I guess.

  • @JasmineJu
    @JasmineJu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    James May is the only person in the world who is both six years old and 300 years old at the same time.

  • @XxKINGatLIFExX
    @XxKINGatLIFExX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wonder if because he had to walk home, meant he saved loads of money and didn't have to work for a few months so he could watch cash in the attic.

  • @1292o8
    @1292o8 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm yet to work at a company where the toilet seats are properly fastened to the bowl.

  • @gregkunst8199
    @gregkunst8199 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Id watch paint dry if capt slow was narrating it