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With respect to Top Gear host James May’s partner of ten years, he really needs to get out of the car and spend some time with a younger woman because his take on our “generation of useless men” is both offensive and alarmingly out-dated.

A tool belt helps but it isn't strictly necessary. Photo: Anthony Reginato.

‘Women are getting a bit bored with blokes being useless,” May told the Radio Times in an interview promoting his new show, “Man Lab”, this week.

“The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying - they can’t put up a shelf, wire a plug, countersink a screw, iron a shirt…they believe it is endearing and cute to be useless whereas I think it’s boring and everyone’s getting sick of it,” he said.

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  • Locko says:

    08:12pm | 05/02/11

    Guessing that Lucy’s partner is a ‘useless pansy’ too! Read more »

  • marley says:

    08:16pm | 04/11/10

    I think this is the only English-speaking country in the world that still uses “tyre.”  But, so be it.  I’m going off to wyre my sister some money before I turn down the fyre and retyre to bed. Read more »

 

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