jeremy clarkson
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Willy Eckerslyke
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No fuss here mate. Why do you want to start one when we're all getting along so nicely?
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ive been watching the news & he seems to have upset someone, resulting in a lot of pompous tw##ts chopsing on about him 
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Willy Eckerslyke
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Yes, and endless tedious posts on discussion groups and forums all over the 'net. I had hoped we were above all that.
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tractorman
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I suspect the thread title says it all really - it's Jeremy Clarkson and everyone loves to slag him off when he says something "humorous" as we all have to be PC.
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Martin Evans
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It has just been said that the BBC pay him £1000000 per annum and that he gets another £800000 from another TV company (Plus no doubt he gets other income from book sales etc). A lot of people must like him.
Personally I find him (Or at least his public persona) a bore. After taking over Top Gear, he has seemingly turned it into what looks like a self gratification show, for him and the other two puppets, whereby a studio audience of 30 – 40 somethings (Who are pretending to be teenagers), come in to laugh at their “Jokes”(At least that has been my impression). Whether Clarkson is a Pillock or not (And you will never get agreement on this point), he has apparently become a wealthy man by acting like one.
As to this latest storm in a teacup, I suppose with any programme, in which Clarkson appears, you know pretty much what to expect. He is going to make over the top remarks; that’s what people expect. So I gather, 4000000 people watched the One Show (I wasn’t “One” of them) and 23000 have complained. That suggests roughly 99.5% of those who watched weren’t offended or at least not sufficiently to warrant complaint. I suspect it will all die down.
The real issue seems to have been overlooked. I must say that I would be a bit miffed if my pension were being downgraded (I am self employed and found out this week, that for me, retirement age will be up to 67 and that’s assuming the goalposts don’t move still further; I wasn’t over the Moon about it). However, I would also say that since the Country is basically in debt and that we are not making and selling enough, to pay for public services, what is the alternative? I wonder how many of the strikers ever stop to wonder where the food they buy is produced or where the manufactured goods they buy are produced. How many of them have considered the lot of all those, formerly employed in manufacturing, who have lost their jobs? There is a story about sympathy. A surgeon told a disabled soldier where he would find sympathy. It was in the dictionary between two words beginning with S. I can't post them here, as the moderators may not like it but neither word is very pleasant
Personally I find him (Or at least his public persona) a bore. After taking over Top Gear, he has seemingly turned it into what looks like a self gratification show, for him and the other two puppets, whereby a studio audience of 30 – 40 somethings (Who are pretending to be teenagers), come in to laugh at their “Jokes”(At least that has been my impression). Whether Clarkson is a Pillock or not (And you will never get agreement on this point), he has apparently become a wealthy man by acting like one.
As to this latest storm in a teacup, I suppose with any programme, in which Clarkson appears, you know pretty much what to expect. He is going to make over the top remarks; that’s what people expect. So I gather, 4000000 people watched the One Show (I wasn’t “One” of them) and 23000 have complained. That suggests roughly 99.5% of those who watched weren’t offended or at least not sufficiently to warrant complaint. I suspect it will all die down.
The real issue seems to have been overlooked. I must say that I would be a bit miffed if my pension were being downgraded (I am self employed and found out this week, that for me, retirement age will be up to 67 and that’s assuming the goalposts don’t move still further; I wasn’t over the Moon about it). However, I would also say that since the Country is basically in debt and that we are not making and selling enough, to pay for public services, what is the alternative? I wonder how many of the strikers ever stop to wonder where the food they buy is produced or where the manufactured goods they buy are produced. How many of them have considered the lot of all those, formerly employed in manufacturing, who have lost their jobs? There is a story about sympathy. A surgeon told a disabled soldier where he would find sympathy. It was in the dictionary between two words beginning with S. I can't post them here, as the moderators may not like it but neither word is very pleasant
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MEvans"The real issue seems to have been overlooked."
I was listening to R4 and was quite tickled by the obvious glee of Shopping Mall managers at the unexpected boost to visitor numbers and, somewhat guardedly, boost to actual cash sales.
STRIKE - Picket Line?? Nooo I'm off early, to nab a good parking space a BlueWater......
Just about sums it up
alfaSleep
I was listening to R4 and was quite tickled by the obvious glee of Shopping Mall managers at the unexpected boost to visitor numbers and, somewhat guardedly, boost to actual cash sales.
STRIKE - Picket Line?? Nooo I'm off early, to nab a good parking space a BlueWater......
Just about sums it up
alfaSleep
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That's a hell of a hike from Wallsend though!alfaSleep wrote:....I'm off early, to nab a good parking space a BlueWater......
Just about sums it up
According to the news yesterday; a mere 5000 complaints were made by people who'd actually watched the show, the remaining 20,000+ by people whose hobby appears to be complaining about stuff.
FFS! They'll be the same people who whinged & whined about the kiss between Anna Friel's character and the Farnhams' nanny on Brookside instead of slowing down their recordings of the scene and watching it over. Properly.
Just to keep this sensible, instead of perpetuating the web-wide nonsense that's sprung up over Clarkson's clearly ironic remark, please look at this nice picture:
There. Officially the C4 viewers' favourite lesbian kissing scene of 1994.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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it's actually well over 21,000 complaints not 5,000.
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Martin, please don't get me started on the retirement thing, otherwise I may die of terminal exasperation before I get there in 18, sorry 19, oh, hang on, 20, er, 22 years time or however much time they plan to steal from us.
JPB. You are obviously a man who has never been to Hebden Bridge. Sadly, real lesbianism is nothing like brookside or any of those other "documentary" films you may have seen on the subject, only out of acedemic interest of course. Honest.
Jeremy who?
JPB. You are obviously a man who has never been to Hebden Bridge. Sadly, real lesbianism is nothing like brookside or any of those other "documentary" films you may have seen on the subject, only out of acedemic interest of course. Honest.
Jeremy who?