Jeremy Clarkson's "The World According To Clarkson" is one of Penguin's "best books of its kind to be published in recent years"

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Nice car though.

Also isn't that steering wheel on the wrong side. Bloody foreigner!

And he's driving on the right too!

Is that a P5 rover he's driving?

6.3 litre Mercedes.

That's one mf of a merc.

I love the comments trying to attack the photographer for driving and taking photos while at the same time trying to defend Clarkson for being on the phone.

Is it one of these?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_300SEL_6.3

Or one of these!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_600

The second one. He wrote about a lot here: http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/driving/jeremy_clarkson/article3171178.ece

His defence should be "read that column, it clearly can't be my Merc".

wait wait, 70mph?? i drive that on my commute every day, so what. is there something about 'motorway' that i'm missing here?

The whole 'illegal to drive and use a phone' thing. Most broken law in the country?

"For years he has railed against the nanny-state but yesterday it looks as though Jeremy Clarkson was caught flouting the very same draconian motoring laws he so detests."

this makes no sense, there is no irony in nany-state-hater clarkson breaking laws, shurely?

ha ha ha

"so it seems that the cat burglar has been caught by the very person who was trying to catch him"

!!!

exactly steve!

From the Daily Mirror's article:

(http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/11/jeremy-clarkson-caught-doing-70mph-on-the-m40-while-talking-on-his-mobile-phone-89520-20347501/)

The 6.3l Mercedes 600 was the chosen car of brutal dictator Idi Amin, China's Chairman Mao, Yugoslavia's Tito, Leonid Brezhnev in the USSR and Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu

I wish my phone could take such clear and focussed pictures at 70mph.

Those trees must be doing 70mph as well.

The 6.3l Mercedes 600 was the chosen car of brutal dictator Idi Amin, China's Chairman Mao, Yugoslavia's Tito, Leonid Brezhnev in the USSR and Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu

Clarkson is history's greatest monster!

The background in that photo looks very similar to the scenery found in the car park of a motorway service area!

what a jerk, yes trees and hills only ever exist in motorway service areas.

if it's as sunny as it looks the camera might have had a fast shutter speed setting (do any mobile phones have this ability?), so the trees wouldn't be blurred. also they are quite far away, over on the other side of the road (you can see the central res barrier), this would slow down the parallax scrolling of the trees somewhat.

i doubt it's enough to get him prosecuted though.

To quote Cassetteboy's Jeremy Clarkson's cut-up:

"Adolf Clarkson...created by the Luftwaffe...I've got Hitler's email...I love Robert Kilroy-Silk...and I really like the sound of this guy...Robert Mugabe...Mugabe...also...I love...Jeremy Clarkson."

a propos of not much at all:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e184/CreepyMike/clarkson2.gif

I went for a corporate dinner at Madame Tussaud's recently, which was weird enough in itself, but the dining room featured a rogue's gallery of Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, General Qaddafi, Stalin, Saddam Hussein... and Richard Branson. I'm no fan of the bearded one, but I would hardly class him as a figure of world-historical evildoing.

i would. i've SEEN that episode of Friends.

Fair point!

So, hey, had anyone else noticed that Jeremy Clarkson is in the video for #1 chart smash "Mr Blobby" by Mr Blobby?

lol eponymous hero

only 188 complaints so far for Clarkson's "This is a hard job, and I'm not just saying that to win favour with lorry drivers - it's a hard job. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder." surely it can't just be because he is employed by a tabloid newspaper?

viz done it better.

I went on a lorry driver training course recently. The instructor started showing me the basics.

"You start off like this," he said, "clutch throttle throttle clutch throttle choke throttle."

"Right, got it," I said.

"Good," he said. "Now wrap her in a carpet and dump her in a layby."

^^^exactly the post i was going to make

xp

Still, 0 complaints for top tips on beating up women from Richard Hammond.

OK, it's been raised on the TV now, so expect 1,000 complaints by 14:00 today...

200 complaints on GMTV when I left the house this morning.

Vested interests in destroying the BBC?

Oh no, it's "common decency."

A.K.A. A Good Story.

Saw this reported as "Jeremy Clarkson makes joke about murdering prostitutes" when it's actually a "joke" about lorry drivers, of course

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1888710.ece

Lorry drivers cool with jokes about murdering prostitutes shocker.

See? The lorry drivers come out to defend one of their own.

What did you dandy fops do to support our RusseLl?

COLIN ROBERTSON
Deputy TV Editor
ANOTHER day — another edgy comment on the BBC.

But there’s a difference. Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross’ prank on Andrew Sachs was outrageous as he did not deserve it.

Yet Clarkson’s remarks can easily be filed in the drawer marked “joke”.

Some don’t get it. But if stars start avoiding edgy gags to please them, that really would be a joke.

News International newspaper defends News International newspaper columnist, News at Ten...

Nobody is gunna vote Russell Brand as PM, that's why.

so much hypocrisy in all this, i think my head's gonna explode

More than 500 people complain now.

Only another 29,500 to go

how to reconcile desire to see Clarkson suffer with fact that making jokes about lorry drivers killing women is 100% funny

you know, i saw this on monday and was pretty disturbed by it. i mean, clarkson's obv a cunt, but... joking abou a murder seems about a million times more offensive than making a joke about having had consensual sex with someone's granddaughter.

What murder was he joking about?

the murder of the Earth, by man and his carbon-spouting machinations

joking about a murder seems about a million times more offensive than making a joke about having had consensual sex with someone's granddaughter.

you do mean, of course, calling up a specific murder victim's grandad on air to mock him about it?

That's more Radio 2 than Top Gear

This murder(er), I thought.

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