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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 ?

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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.

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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.

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