"actually yeah, some of his writings really funny..."
^^^The part of the thread I agree with.
(well, not "really funny" maybe, but entertaining. And a properly good writer when he wants to be).
― DavidM, Monday, 8 October 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
: /
― max r, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Relative to who? I mean I think he's very clever in how he's carved out a niche for himself but it feels pretty moribund standing around handing out praise for that
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:02 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody read his review of villalobos' fabric mix in the telegraph?
I would love to believe this exists. Even more so because we would be able to do an A1ex Macpherson/Jeremy Clarkson compare and contrast.
― Matt DC, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
it's sad when you meet people just out of uni talking about how they're gonna vote tory or moaning about PC, it's like nothing ever changes.
Maybe they're being funny and ironic, like those cunts who post on message boards claiming they'll vote 8NP and using comedy non-PC phrases like "bum chums"?
― onimo, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.arbib.org/clarkpie/images/prevs/clarkson_pie019.jpg
That picture always makes me happy.
― NickB, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:16 (sixteen years ago) link
the bnp remark was a piss take of the tories "time for a change" and all that, how it's a case of hobson's choice.
"bum chums" denotes poshness more than anything.
― max r, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I know it was a pisstake, I thought that was obvious from my post.
"bum chums" denotes poshness more than anything. orly.jpg
― onimo, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"c'mon jeremy, let's take these shiny new automobiles out for a jolly good spin! hurrah!"
― max r, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Good review in the Observer of his new book yesterday: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2185259,00.html
― Neil S, Monday, 8 October 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't read his columns, and i don't agree with pretty much anything he says. but, he is quite amusing on top gear, bufoonish, easy to laugh at. i don't love cars, or driving at speed, but I find the programme funny, perhaps despite myself, but more at their childish glee with cars, etc. It's almost beguiling.
― stevie, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
george w bush is cool
-- max r, Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:44 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
the bush remark was a piss take of the republican's "time for a war" and all that
― onimo, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
oic
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 8 October 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
you don't like bush?
― max r, Monday, 8 October 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
BUM CHUMS?
― Abbott, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
can we just have one thread where all the bitching about one poster is done by stevie nixed, abbott and tuomas?
-- blueski, Friday, October 5, 2007 6:28 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate it when Dom starts inevitable threads.
― Just got offed, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
It's a common euphimism in the UK. It means they 'bum' each other. That is, have anal sex in the manner of homosexuals.
― mei, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
you don't like bum chums?
― max r, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I am going to burn every single Penguin book I have in the house now.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
dude that is a major fire hazard
― Just got offed, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Good point, I'll do it in the back yard. Get a couple of "comedy" max r crosses burning while I'm on.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's like Butt Buddies, but if Lord Mayor Topham Hat said it. That's whatfor the all caps and the q-mark: "Sir Topham Hat, why are you being so cheeky?" But I didn't want to say that because no one is hated more than an incorrigible bi-dialect punner. I am okay with buttsecks havers of all gender! :D
hell of xps
― Abbott, Monday, 8 October 2007 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
it's kind of usually meant as homophobic guyz :/
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
That's not so good!
― Abbott, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Godwin's 2nd Law states that if somebody calls you on it, you were being ironic.
― Noodle Vague, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't know about that one, either!
― Abbott, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Every time I see the three of them taking the piss out of each other it reminds me of an ad for "WKD". Especially last night when Clarkson and Hammond were rearraning the letters on May's car so that it read "Kevin" or something.
― snoball, Monday, 8 October 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
* The overuse of science and acronyms in daily life. * The overuse of science and acronyms in daily life. * The overuse of science and acronyms in daily life.
― caek, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Clarkson is an anti-intellectual of the highest order. Whilst he does claim to be a big fan of engineering, he's obviously not a big fan of actually understanding how things work...
― Stone Monkey, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Sir Topham Hat, why are you being so cheeky?
I really can't imagine Sir Topham Hat saying "bum chums". Even though he's fictional.
Whilst he does claim to be a big fan of engineering, he's obviously not a big fan of actually understanding how things work...
I seem to remember him being a big fan of Brunel, who was a great visionary, but wasn't the first person you'd call if you wanted something that worked first time. I don't think he ever managed to design anything mechanical that was a success.
― Forest Pines Mk2, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
And a properly good writer when he wants to be).
-- DavidM, Monday, 8 October 2007 13:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
wait...what?
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
What is wrong with gangs to-day - can't they do anything right? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7130860.stm
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 6 December 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
I can hear him in my head narrating the whole thing. Now we'll of course have to put Hammond and May in the same situation and see who comes up with the best solution.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 6 December 2007 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"Gang". LOL.
― Tom D., Thursday, 6 December 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"There is no evidence that a crime took place and therefore there will be no police action."
What sort of society is it where the writing and publishing of "The World According To Clarkson" is not considered a crime? A sick one, that's what.
― Tom D., Thursday, 6 December 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
see who comes up with the best solution.
Hammond would crash into them at 300mph in a rocket powered hamster wheel. May would bore them to death with a lecture about Meccano.
― snoball, Thursday, 6 December 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
JC intimidates a "gang" [UK media parlance] http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/picard/32/vader/block2.jpg
― snoball, Thursday, 6 December 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, I really want to see that pic...
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 6 December 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
sonned
― DG, Thursday, 6 December 2007 21:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister... http://www.petitiononline.com/JC4PM/petition.html
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
And here's his manifesto "imagined" by Leo McKinstry...oh the hilarity...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505788&in_page_id=1770
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree with half of those
― blueski, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, hang on, there are 2 petitions, here's the one on the Downing Street website, it's got 29 thousand signatures. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/PMClarkson/
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
those motherfuckers all need to be clotheslined
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://pulolesu.game-server.cc/move/move-photo/14-1.gif
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS, MAN, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS"
― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/1906229171/sr=8-1/qid=1199361395/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books&qid=1199361395&sr=8-1
This is the best book of its kind to be published in recent years. Fuck knows what its kind is though.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 3 January 2008 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't seem to post fuckin images.
Ian Holloway's Autobiography
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 3 January 2008 12:00 (sixteen years ago) link
he's fucking rabid imo its astonishingly entertaining
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 19 April 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/Chris-Evans-to-lead-new-Top-Gear-line-up-2016-06-16
UK people, who is Chris Evans and is this a positive or negative casting?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
well I'd answer that but
― designated hitler (darraghmac), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
It would be seen as negative whoever they picked, but they're playing it pretty much as safe as they can - veteran presenter with solid track record for relatively inventive entertainment shows on TV (at least 20 years ago) and radio.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
I mean Dale Winton had first refusal but
Sorry, didn't intend to exclude our Irishes from answering. Oops.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
xxp considerably more polite and less expletive-riddled than my putative response
― confessions of hellno (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 20:12 (eight years ago) link
Formerly egotistical motormouth DJ/TV personality who seems to have mellowed a bit in recent years. Recently reprised his once-popular TV show TFI Friday for a one-off special which turned into a Top Gear audition half-way through (driving round Top Gear test track, taking presentation lessons from Clarkson, interviewing Lewis Hamilton, talking guff about cars). Probably the obvious choice. He's laddish and is childishly enthusiastic about fast cars (which he owns a lot of, I believe). He used to give good* telly of the Top Gear type -laddish, jokey, idiotic banter - in the 90s.
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* ymmv on whether this is actually good, but it was certainly popular
― ailsa, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
He was married to Billie Piper
Only thing I've seen him on recently is presenting the One Show, following a video segment all about a marmalade festival, catch on to the name of the town it was held in and started going on about how they have a marmalade festival there.
― kinder, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
i will say this - he was great on GLR before getting The Big Breakfast. not had much time for him since, but his early radio stuff was fun.
― appropriation and whatnot (stevie), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 05:48 (eight years ago) link
Clarkson, Hammond, and May have signed to Amazon Prime for new show, along with executive producer Andy Wilman.
― Lee626, Thursday, 30 July 2015 23:33 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34267821
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
jez, seeing his annual 'RESULTS DAY' calendar notification, strapping in for a huge day online pic.twitter.com/swcvIqYeLF— Niamh McIntyre (@niamh_mcintyre) August 15, 2019
― calzino, Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
he later received an n and a t to display alongside his c and u
― (Appears only as a corpse) (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 August 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter has written a book and it looks hellish pic.twitter.com/7gPFrmmvwm— various jams (@VRSJMS) May 7, 2020
― calzino, Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
karen clarkson
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
Can I speak to someone in charge of untimely deaths?
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
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True fact: at the age of 10, I was in a school performance of The Wind In The Willows with Clarkson. I played Mole to his Toad. We did it semi-improvised. I wore a black polo-necked sweater. He was quite the am-drammer in those days. It's been downhill for us both ever since.― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 11:22 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 11:22 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link
‘dear no more page 3’timely!
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
tbf, the book came out over three years ago. The fact that this is the first time anyone has noticed it exists points to how successful it was.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
soulless eyes like black holes
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link