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

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Former Top Gear and current The Grand Tour host James May has been fired from plenty of places. He was famously fired from Autocar for putting secret messages in the magazine, but has also been let go from everywhere from a car dealership to an ice cream stand. He gave us his advice on what to do if you lose your job.
James also explains the joys of Japanese toilets, following his trip there for his new Amazon show, James May: Our Man In Japan.
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  • @iain2gd
    @iain2gd4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @strangeke7750

    @strangeke7750

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Emppu_T.

    @Emppu_T.

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cypheraxis

    @cypheraxis

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Quantum-Bullet

    @Quantum-Bullet

    4 жыл бұрын

    Not Another Zombie Show! A bike is great.

  • @spotthecat2412

    @spotthecat2412

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @justsumguy2u
    @justsumguy2u4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    tbh half of it is rubbish

  • @shifty2755

    @shifty2755

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ericmiller254

    @ericmiller254

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @niconesta8566

    @niconesta8566

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    SHIFTY not at all

  • @mlu007
    @mlu0074 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Glad you got a win out of that situation

  • @houssamassila6274

    @houssamassila6274

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for giving me hope.

  • @justinfay3011

    @justinfay3011

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fuck customer service to hell.

  • @MasterMalrubius

    @MasterMalrubius

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @hahaLOLhaha72

    @hahaLOLhaha72

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jshepard152
    @jshepard1524 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dchawk81

    @dchawk81

    4 жыл бұрын

    In the same minute. 😃

  • @antwango

    @antwango

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @da_cat

    @da_cat

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Thts d same for any boss

  • @liviubita4238

    @liviubita4238

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Roihan54
    @Roihan544 жыл бұрын

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

  • @oweoweowe

    @oweoweowe

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @harrislondon

    @harrislondon

    4 жыл бұрын

    Words to live by

  • @carsos00

    @carsos00

    4 жыл бұрын

    Quote of the year..

  • @raulcortes937

    @raulcortes937

    4 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree.

  • @gray_space_alien

    @gray_space_alien

    4 жыл бұрын

    Truer words were never spoken.

  • @BrandoDrum
    @BrandoDrum4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mrguest3749

    @mrguest3749

    4 жыл бұрын

    So truuuuu

  • @EEAMD-co6nw

    @EEAMD-co6nw

    4 жыл бұрын

    why the national airline may I ask?

  • @naturespecialist1489

    @naturespecialist1489

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @redmed10

    @redmed10

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @DebatingWombat

    @DebatingWombat

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Amcor09
    @Amcor094 жыл бұрын

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

  • @andysoch

    @andysoch

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @DPRX99

    @DPRX99

    4 жыл бұрын

    Struggles of identity

  • @JamesLaserpimpWalsh
    @JamesLaserpimpWalsh4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @7wt

    @7wt

    4 жыл бұрын

    James Walsh No truer words spoken.

  • @ArcolaBridge

    @ArcolaBridge

    4 жыл бұрын

    I have done it successfully

  • @tm1182

    @tm1182

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ArcolaBridge what

  • @codyparker679

    @codyparker679

    4 жыл бұрын

    I've done it.

  • @ToniGAM3S

    @ToniGAM3S

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hello, Brother

  • @NERGYStudios
    @NERGYStudios4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Input and output have to balance. :-)

  • @phantomechelon3628

    @phantomechelon3628

    4 жыл бұрын

    Happy poopers = happy workers. 😁

  • @nate296

    @nate296

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Shift1888

    @Shift1888

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BuzzaB77
    @BuzzaB774 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gabenvandenbrink9114

    @gabenvandenbrink9114

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BuzzaB77

    @BuzzaB77

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @scottwhitley3392

    @scottwhitley3392

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JR-bj3uf
    @JR-bj3uf4 жыл бұрын

    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

    3 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @captainjackpugh6050

    @captainjackpugh6050

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @aidanjanemcintosh6919

    @aidanjanemcintosh6919

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hot damnn dude

  • @chrisalfano589
    @chrisalfano5894 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @unkraut7427

    @unkraut7427

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dynamicpaintball made my day

  • @Oblithian

    @Oblithian

    4 жыл бұрын

    Good for you! Also F@#% GM

  • @mightyskull

    @mightyskull

    3 жыл бұрын

    What do you work on now?

  • @chrisalfano589

    @chrisalfano589

    3 жыл бұрын

    Anutham A machine airplane wheels

  • @Coffreek
    @Coffreek4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CynicalOldDwarf

    @CynicalOldDwarf

    2 жыл бұрын

    £144 after expenses

  • @Sclimenti82

    @Sclimenti82

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @robbrowne7625
    @robbrowne76254 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mortechrome

    @mortechrome

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    4 жыл бұрын

    He likes the NSX...so I bought one

  • @TheTimmyH

    @TheTimmyH

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @matthewdowning6009

    @matthewdowning6009

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @GREENHOUSE_LIGHTSHOW

    @GREENHOUSE_LIGHTSHOW

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jetfowl
    @jetfowl4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Allangulon

    @Allangulon

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can even wash your face! Theoretically.

  • @Truepk

    @Truepk

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @John_Ass

    @John_Ass

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Truepk it all about the feel mate

  • @conmcgrath7502

    @conmcgrath7502

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @aaltair97

    @aaltair97

    3 жыл бұрын

    shit

  • @preachercaine
    @preachercaine4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    preachercaine I was thinking the same lmao

  • @taliesine.8343

    @taliesine.8343

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CoppaITG

    @CoppaITG

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @preachercaine

    @preachercaine

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @CoppaITG

    @CoppaITG

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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)

  • @AVFCAM
    @AVFCAM4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @davidoldham5958
    @davidoldham59584 жыл бұрын

    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

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @squidcaps4308
    @squidcaps43084 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fiveowaf454

    @fiveowaf454

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gavinalaugh6623

    @gavinalaugh6623

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Fired at smoko new job by lunchtime

  • @curtisjackson40

    @curtisjackson40

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@drunkensailor112 where do you live

  • @burpostockings
    @burpostockings4 жыл бұрын

    I once got fired because I wouldnt smile or act happy. just had "poor attitude" when he said he had to let me go, i smiled and cheerfully asked, "Really???" :D

  • @matthew_natividad

    @matthew_natividad

    4 жыл бұрын

    Burpo Stockings we’ve all been there

  • @andrevinicius1360

    @andrevinicius1360

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Oblithian

    @Oblithian

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @taliesine.8343

    @taliesine.8343

    3 жыл бұрын

    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..

  • @MadnessIncVP

    @MadnessIncVP

    3 жыл бұрын

    “Oy. *Now* he emotes!” - Harold Zoid.

  • @raz0051
    @raz00513 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mark.e.p
    @mark.e.p4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @alexanderg1935

    @alexanderg1935

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice one!

  • @desktopkitty
    @desktopkitty4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Legendary though.

  • @niconesta8566

    @niconesta8566

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Henriburger1

    @Henriburger1

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    @@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_RC_and_Slotcars

    @Scale_RC_and_Slotcars

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @tihspidtherekciltilc5469
    @tihspidtherekciltilc54692 жыл бұрын

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

  • @indonesiar110
    @indonesiar1104 жыл бұрын

    "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...

  • @wassapdude94
    @wassapdude942 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnbaldock6353
    @johnbaldock63534 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

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

  • @haydencp1

    @haydencp1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Off

  • @dchawk81

    @dchawk81

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    @@haydencp1 off what?

  • @chelseakev
    @chelseakev4 жыл бұрын

    Auto car done him a favour.. Onwards

  • @ixon4330
    @ixon43304 жыл бұрын

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

  • @smudger671

    @smudger671

    4 жыл бұрын

    Or in his case, a good haircut...

  • @ixon4330

    @ixon4330

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Lighting_Desk
    @Lighting_Desk4 жыл бұрын

    Getting fired is easy. Just act like Jeremy.

  • @Andrewza1

    @Andrewza1

    4 жыл бұрын

    The man that technically never been fired

  • @panscopia1791

    @panscopia1791

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Andrewza1

    @Andrewza1

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @brostugen

    @brostugen

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @joebidet698

    @joebidet698

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Andrewza1 he got fired from top gear

  • @Quantum-Bullet
    @Quantum-Bullet4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @SocksWithSandals
    @SocksWithSandals4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @darkshadowsx5949

    @darkshadowsx5949

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Rusty_Gold85

    @Rusty_Gold85

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    hope things get better for you soon mate

  • @petermilne2470

    @petermilne2470

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Rusty_Gold85 Seconded.

  • @shekharmoona544

    @shekharmoona544

    4 жыл бұрын

    Start a channel on eating microwaveable pizza please.

  • @flickpad
    @flickpad4 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @mr2ferrari
    @mr2ferrari2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @fuzzywuzzy5749
    @fuzzywuzzy57493 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @shaneweightman
    @shaneweightman4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wetlettuce4768

    @wetlettuce4768

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mrp8126
    @mrp81263 жыл бұрын

    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 🤣🤣

  • @MrRea112
    @MrRea1124 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @MrSupro
    @MrSupro4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @gevorgnazaryan8720
    @gevorgnazaryan87204 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed watching your Japan series My favorite journalist doing a bit on my favorite country, doesn’t get any better than that :):)

  • @numbersix100
    @numbersix1004 жыл бұрын

    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

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @grzk

    @grzk

    3 жыл бұрын

    No

  • @blumpfreyfranks8863
    @blumpfreyfranks88632 жыл бұрын

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

  • @stefan-ox8qs
    @stefan-ox8qs2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Will-td8ro
    @Will-td8ro4 жыл бұрын

    Thx James! This video was very helpful.

  • @stevewaller6577
    @stevewaller65774 жыл бұрын

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

  • @frankmlchaelglasscock6539

    @frankmlchaelglasscock6539

    4 жыл бұрын

    He is good shit OK

  • @zakofrx

    @zakofrx

    4 жыл бұрын

    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

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @stevewaller6577

    @stevewaller6577

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ShikataGaNai100

    @ShikataGaNai100

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @anthonyjarvis9472
    @anthonyjarvis94724 жыл бұрын

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

  • @jeffherdzina6716
    @jeffherdzina67164 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @extramild1
    @extramild14 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Chrisbrxwnv2
    @Chrisbrxwnv24 жыл бұрын

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

  • @ukwan
    @ukwan2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mrkeogh
    @mrkeogh3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @mahfah7911
    @mahfah79114 жыл бұрын

    Amazing and perfect. Subscribed

  • @thisisnumber0
    @thisisnumber04 жыл бұрын

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

  • @dreadog6425
    @dreadog64254 жыл бұрын

    How honest and refreshing.

  • @GodKing804

    @GodKing804

    4 жыл бұрын

    Its james may 24/7

  • @familybills2908
    @familybills29082 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @owenfitzgerald8944
    @owenfitzgerald89444 жыл бұрын

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

  • @JulieWallis1963
    @JulieWallis19634 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Is your husband rich?

  • @jake-rx9rs

    @jake-rx9rs

    4 жыл бұрын

    Amen. !

  • @MorbiusTheTruth
    @MorbiusTheTruth3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mr May, i shall use this information

  • @SULFUR4UDeATHbYMeta1
    @SULFUR4UDeATHbYMeta14 жыл бұрын

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

  • @MrBiggles53
    @MrBiggles533 жыл бұрын

    “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. 👍

  • @charliemanson4808
    @charliemanson48084 жыл бұрын

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

  • @b9y
    @b9y4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @kevinW826
    @kevinW8263 жыл бұрын

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

  • @williamsharpley6768
    @williamsharpley67682 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Dominate955
    @Dominate9554 жыл бұрын

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

  • @wongjimmy3189

    @wongjimmy3189

    3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @maytagveneno9653

    @maytagveneno9653

    3 жыл бұрын

    what about a traditional Japanese toilet? those suck

  • @arnienonymous4458
    @arnienonymous44584 жыл бұрын

    "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.

  • @bigkev8949
    @bigkev89493 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @DavidVoxDem
    @DavidVoxDem4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @armoredp

    @armoredp

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @williamarmstrong7199

    @williamarmstrong7199

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Have you had your eyes checked lately?

  • @Demongornot
    @Demongornot4 жыл бұрын

    I haven't tried those Japanese toilets yet but I've been browsing models since few month now and I know which one I'll buy ASAP. Those are definitely the future !

  • @jimsy5530
    @jimsy55304 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mirzaahmed6589
    @mirzaahmed65893 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cliveargyle5237
    @cliveargyle52374 жыл бұрын

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

  • @grahamb5930

    @grahamb5930

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @99bimmer
    @99bimmer6 ай бұрын

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

  • @lukedodson3267
    @lukedodson32674 жыл бұрын

    This is a very interesting and informative video for me because I've had over twenty jobs but I've never been fired so I don't know what it's like.

  • @andybrown4284
    @andybrown42844 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @MetalheadAndNerd
    @MetalheadAndNerd4 жыл бұрын

    "You can even wash your face with this!"

  • @tatlock29

    @tatlock29

    4 жыл бұрын

    theoretically...

  • @johankjellin1598
    @johankjellin15983 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful uplifting tips, James is such a wise man

  • @MaskedMenace830
    @MaskedMenace8303 жыл бұрын

    What a charmingly intimate interview

  • @MussaKZN
    @MussaKZN4 жыл бұрын

    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

    2 жыл бұрын

    Karma is a b****

  • @jaystepp150
    @jaystepp1504 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    Thumbs up for Kentucky from "Northern" Kentucky.

  • @heinzotto1194

    @heinzotto1194

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thumbs up from Southeastern Kentucky!

  • @jaystepp150

    @jaystepp150

    4 жыл бұрын

    Heinz Otto I’m actually from Inez Martin co.

  • @heinzotto1194

    @heinzotto1194

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @kingbunny9141
    @kingbunny91414 жыл бұрын

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

  • @sicario1375
    @sicario13753 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely true James

  • @drewlovelyhell4892
    @drewlovelyhell48924 жыл бұрын

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

  • @johnwillis9534
    @johnwillis95344 жыл бұрын

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

  • @pectenmaximus231
    @pectenmaximus2313 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @richarddobreny6664
    @richarddobreny66644 жыл бұрын

    Possibly the most relevant interview ever

  • @mrbagitos
    @mrbagitos4 жыл бұрын

    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

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cango5679
    @cango56792 жыл бұрын

    "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

    2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @cango5679

    @cango5679

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@herseem LOL indeed!

  • @madwolf341
    @madwolf3414 жыл бұрын

    James talking about Japanese toilets are one of the best things ive heard in a long time! 😁

  • @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek
    @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ekАй бұрын

    Brilliant James, As Always!!!!

  • @bobadicious
    @bobadicious4 жыл бұрын

    What a gangster 🤣

  • @shekharmoona544
    @shekharmoona5444 жыл бұрын

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

  • @petergambier
    @petergambier4 жыл бұрын

    You make some very good points thanks James, ''Don't assume that it's all over, it may be a new beginning.'' judging a country by it's airlines and bogs and ''You can't put a price on a good sh*t.'' By doing different jobs you are expanding your skill-set which ultimately benefits you. Having said all of that if you keep getting fired you might just be shite and crap at everything.

  • @tinytonymaloney7832
    @tinytonymaloney78323 жыл бұрын

    Good old James, never fails to make me larf 😀😀😀 Wonder if he's got anything new on KZread in the pipe line. I used to love the things we need to know vids. He's just interesting to listen to. 👍👍👍

  • @Sam-es6ui
    @Sam-es6ui3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @Ur11
    @Ur114 жыл бұрын

    going well until referring to Bobby Sands living in a toilet, Id say James will not be walking around certain parts of Belfast telling that one down the local anytime soon.

  • @JulieWallis1963

    @JulieWallis1963

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ur11 I think it was a fair comment.

  • @hrperformance
    @hrperformance3 жыл бұрын

    "I have been fired from a few things. I'd have to think carefully about compiling a list..." 🤣

  • @nlocks6941
    @nlocks69414 жыл бұрын

    The last bit hahahahhaha you can’t put a price on a good shit !! That’s had be in tears

  • @Lutonman2010
    @Lutonman20102 жыл бұрын

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

  • @StanVanGundy1
    @StanVanGundy14 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha , loved the bobby sands reference, genius

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