Jeremy Clarkson

Wasn't there a petition do get him elected as mayor on facebook, IIRC it got well over 200,000 votes.

Personally, I think he's awesome, people are to bothered about offending people these days, surely it's the offended persons fault not the person voicing his thoughts?

This brings me back to the One Show, was anybody tied to a chair with their eyes taped open and forced to watch it? no, thus the complaints are stupid.

Clarkson is a comedy character and anybody who gets offended by comedy is just way too sensitive.

Everybody who criticizes Clarkson is just jealous
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
He's controversial, a loudmouth, "one of the lads" etc etc etc.

He also has a sence of humour.

Which anybody who took offence at last nights One show clearly does not.
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This.

& i've seen more about this, than things which have been a lot more controversial imo.
 
He's great because he speaks his mind, we need more people who are willing to do this, far too many are afraid and conform to the political correct stereotype.

Clarkson often speaks what many think and for this he's a great guy in my eyes, oh and he can do an interesting and fun car review too….
 
Moeks said:
For the record, I agree with what he said anyway, and let me just qualify that by saying I'm not agreeing that the strikers should actually be shot, that would be ridiculous but they do need a good hard backhand from George Osbourne ...as it was an uncalled for and down right irresponsible act at a poor time by a bunch of selfish, idiotic little gits who probably don't have the first understanding about the actual economic situation the country and the wider world is in right now. All they care about is their own little nest and screw everyone else, just let all those other hard done by tax payers keep topping up the extremely generous pension pot eh ...at a time when it's really not at all affordable. And to top it all off they thumbed their piggy little noses at a fantastically generous offer the government made them, pfff.
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I've got this great idea where you can help the country by doubling what you pay for your pension, and end up getting half of what you would half done anyway....

.. sounds great doesn't it? Wait what!?!? You don't think that's ok... OMG YOU'RE SO ******** SELFISH!!! I can't believe you... oh lord... I think you should be shot! ;-)

EDIT: The point being, if you stood to have to double what you pay for your pension, and then stood to lose tens of thousands of pounds from it... you'd be a little put off just 'taking it' as well. The government already treats the elderly with such little respect as it is, and this is just another step in making it worse. if you are going to change the pension, then change it for the new people coming in, so people go into that position knowing the outcome. They are the government, not a company.
 
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I have a great idea, why don't we bail out the banks because they are too big to fail, and then recover the costs by taking it out of people earning £20k a years motivation to do such rubbish jobs, meanwhile allowing large companies to get away with nationalising losses while privatising profits.

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Duke said:
..what?
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The thread just got political, yo.

I find it incredulous that someone can describe having ones pension cut, and effectively having an additional tax on earnings, as a 'fantastically generous offer', regardless of whether reform is needed or not (and for the record, its obvious that it is).

However its still somewhat galling to see the people in the city (Fred Goodwin as a prime example) who effectively mismanaged things, costing the country billions, get off lightly and continue to rake it in and get a high bonus and pension, and hear the government say 'we cannot change his pension settlement as its in his contract of employment', when the same government is quite happy to change exactly that for hundreds of thousands who take home far less pay to start with.

Then I could go on to mention how the pension scheme for MPs, incredibly generous as it is, remains un-reformed. In the wake of the expenses scandal, that they have done nothing to address this first, and continue to preach 'we're all in this together', is again something that grates a little.

If your boss said you had to lose £65 a month from your pay check and get 6 grand a year less for every year you were retired, and work 3 years longer, I guess that would be fantastically generous right? And you wouldnt be unhappy in the slightest? That reform is necessary is clear, but it does not make it any less galling to see 'business as usual' in the city as the champagne and bonus culture continues largely unrestrained by additional taxation, and politicians with their noses still in the trough whilst preaching to everyone else about how much money they need to save the contry.
 
Skillmister said:
I just don't understand how anyone can take the things he says seriously it's quite obviously just a big joke.
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Exactly. He's a comedian. Or, rather, the character he plays on TV is a comedian. We've no idea what he's like at home.

This is the man who suggested a minimum speed limit on roads, with snipers on bridges to shoot drivers in the face if they drop below that speed. Anyone who thinks he's being serious needs to re-examine their own ability to distunguish fact from fiction. No matter how ludicrous he is with his hyperbole, some fools think he really means it.
 
I'm watching the latest episode of QI XL and in a segment about job interviews Stephen Fry said that if an applicant told him they had good interpersonal skills, he'd repeatedly stab them in the stomach with a rusty knife until they bled to death.

Anyone want to bet on whether or not that will make the news, with the professionally offended scrabbling to get power and publicity by protesting about it?
 
flibbage0 said:
This.

Do people have ofcom or whatever complain hotline number on speed dial.
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Like most such complainathons, most of the people who claimed to be outraged didn't register that outrage until after the papers had reported the story, as opposed to the one-fifth or so of the total who complained after the actual program.

I have a question: why does it matter what he says? It's not like he has any influence or power. If the PM said the same thing then outrage might reasonable, but complaining about TV pundits talking **** is like complaining about rain being wet. Yes, the man's a ****, but everyone knows he is, and at least he's often a funny ****.


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I have to say this made me laugh quite hard.

Clarkson then bemoans the fact that trains which are involved in a collision with a person must stop until the full aftermath of the incident has been dealt with and all remains have been recovered from the vicinity.
He wrote: ‘The train cannot be moved nor the line re-opened until all of the victim’s body has been recovered.
‘This is the part I don’t understand. It’s not like the poor soul is going to get any better.
‘Change the driver, pick up the big bits of what’s left of the victim, get the train moving as soon as possible and let foxy woxy and the birds nibble away at the smaller, gooey parts that are far away or hard to find.’
Clarkson advises potential suicide victims to kill themselves quietly and privately
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ate-judgment-just-isnt-A-grade-right-now.html
 
I think he has a right to turn anything into a comedy moment, just like Frankie Boyle did. A dark sense of humour is a great thing. On another note, isnt Frankie meant to be back on TV soon. Cant wait. :D
 
He repeatedly expressed sympathy for people who kill themselves, plus he expressed sympathy for the other victims in some suicides - the people who the suicidees force to kill them. Now that's a lack of consideration for others. He also advocated environmentally and ecologically beneficial cleaning up, using only natural things in a way that benefits the local ecosystem.

Nowhere near as dreadful as people are making it out to be. If it was someone else saying it, the spin might be very different.
 
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