Clarkson

[huncamunca]

In a futile attempt to provoke some ire, I present Jeremy Clarkson

Makes seemingly irresistable programmes about cars.

Also has a rather polished line in structured antagoism.

Me - Despite the quasie ( sp ) fascistic overtones of his pronouncements , I have utter respect for the fellow as a broadcaster. Up there wirh Brian Sewell, both Hitchens & Burchill.

You ?

[Brendan]

Oh do fuk off. The man is an arse.

[Horsebox]

I'm surprised at you, Snorky. Didn't have you down as a fan of Clarkson, Sewell et al.

Are you shifting slightly to the right in your old age?

[PeckhamRose]

I love him.

He is important to the continuation of the freedom of speech.

He just cracks me up and having met him briefly I was to discover just what a gentleman he could be.

[huncamunca]

I am not snorky.

But I do respect a master performer. I may not agree with his lines, nor Burchills, but he is very good at what he does.

[Loz]

Love him.

He knows just what to say in order to wind up exactly those he wants to get into a flap. They know he is winding them up, but they still bite, every time. It's a commendable ability.

My favourite is his complaint about the M4 bus lane... "why do poor people need to get somewhere quicker than I do?". I think the editor of the Guardian must have immediately passed out in apoplexy.

[brum]

He does grate sometimes, but I confess to warming to him recently after watching him driving around a Northern Town in a Reliant Robin deliberately tipping it over. Peurile, but extremely funny.

[TillieTrotter]

Love him and I quite fancy him too.

[omniprescient]

Bordering on a deity in our household.

Brendan - you are the arse - you only come to the conclusion that he is an arse because you find him compulsive viewing and hate yourself for it!

[SeanMacGabhann]

what Brendan said

All we need now is a Bernard Manning appreciation thread and I'm off

(cue obvious arrival of a new Bernard Manning thread)

I know people like tweaking the nose of the chattering-classes and because he appears to be doing just that he has fans, and that any criticism of him is quickly deflected as the critic having no sense of humour but man if there IS a joke (and I believe there isn't - he means all of it) then it was one-dimensional when it arrived years ago and it has long out-stayed it's welcome. And women who say they love him would run a mile in real-life from the constant boorishness

[RosieH]

Yes yes yes - Tillie, I'm surprised at you.

The man is a bigoted cunt, plain and simple. Actually, yes, he is also incredibly plain and rather simple.

[TillieTrotter]

Sorry RosieH, I do appreciate that I have strange tastes when it comes to men but heyho!

[RosieH]

Hey don't knock it - I used to fancy Gordon Brown - but Clarkson? I'm getting you some hypnotherapy tapes.

[TillieTrotter]

Gordon Brown.....you must have the same syndrome as me love!

[woofmarkthedog]

What size shoes does he wear ?

12-14 ?

W**F

[annaj]

What Brendan, Sean MacGabhann and RosieH said.

At best: tedious oaf. At worst: snide, smug, offensive, ignorant oaf.

Sewart Lee's rant about Top Gear and its "boys" pretty well summed up what I think. I'll have a look for it later.

Oh, and "huncamunca", sure, ok, you're not snorky, but I've been meaning to ask, how did that business with the pregnant au pair work out?

[woofmarkthedog]

OK

Clarkson, on a scale of 1-10

http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/pomsc2.png

W**F

[*Bob*]

Jeremy did punch Piers Morgan though, so he can't be 100% bad.

[*Bob*]

Thinking about it, I'd quite like to see Clarkson and Morgan be forced to fight to the death - on that wobbly spikey platform from out of Flash Gordon.

"Give me the remote control.."

[Ridgley]

He can be an arse, but he dose say things to wind people up;-)

[TillieTrotter]

I love him on QI, he's good at laughing at himself. I still love him whatever anyone says.

[woofmarkthedog]

Come on

The show where he drove a Reliant Robin was genius

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/14/article-1273849196020-0994001A000005DC-226963_636x370.jpg

I laughed so hard ( & I watched it twice ) that I had an Asthma attack

It was brilliantly funny & informative

W**F

[SeanMacGabhann]

I hope he drives his car into a tree, where his leg gets stuck under the wheel. Hopefully in a remote countryside spot where there is no reception so he remains unfound for days. Before he dies of starvation, a bird will come to visit him and pluck at his eyballs for nourishment

Eventually Richard Hammond and James May will go on a search for him and find him. But instead of being upset, Hammond will start to giggle uncontrollably - like a schoolboy that has been bullied for years and had to pretend everything the bully did was cool, who now finds his tormentor is no more

What??? hey if he can dish it out, he can take it

[Mick Mac]

RosieH Wrote:

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> Yes yes yes - Tillie, I'm surprised at you.

>

> The man is a bigoted @#$%&, plain and simple.

> Actually, yes, he is also incredibly plain and

> rather simple.

In truth - he is a little bit sexist - so Rosie does not like him.

[mockney piers]

Are you quoting Stewart lee again Sean?

Clarksons harmless. Piers Morgan shames his name however, bird-eye-plucking is too good for him!!!!!!