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

Or "I Love the Championship", to give it its full title.

imma ask to have the use of 'The Church'

No way! Where will people go for their "pretending Ask Chaki never existed" needs then?

i'll have a rolling thread.

bet you wished you weren't banned now.

Look, I know you Poms dumped your undesirables here about 200 years ago. But please don't think you can dump Clarkson on us now.

Kind Regards,
Australia

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.

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one is an obnoxious tory-boy with opinions4u and the other is... oh blah-blah you get it.

why the fuck did jeremy clarkson get to write the notes for "selling england by the pound" in the genesis reissue box set? I appreciate that he likes the album but they could have done better than that.

they could?

I have some friends who enjoy the 'motoring' show Clarkson hosts, but I think it's due to the fact that any random comments he makes don't sound serious because they're coming from an elitist british dude hosting a show about cars and he just ends up sounding precocious.

I just think the BBC should offer equal airtime to a show where 3 Marxists review new guns or something.

lol Geir's favourite album of all-time

(Actually, I really like it too)

"Marxist Marksmen"
BBC do that irregular "3 Men In A Boat" programme AKA "Griff Rhys Jones gets a bit tetchy then loses his temper while Rory McBeard hides behind his beard and Darrah O'Brien looks on with his mouth open in disbelief" - does that partially make up for it?

I've said it nuff times, too much "Battle of Epping Twatting Forest" and not enough of that awesome 5/4 lock-groove that get into at the end of "Cinema Show".

xpost lol at committed socialists Griff Rhys Jones Rory Cuntrememberhissurnname and Dara Notfunny.

I actually really grew to like BOEF last time I heard it. Like, really really genuinely enjoyed and integrated with it. But yeah, the 2nd half of Cinema Show is a wonder (especially the drum intro to the organ refrain). Firth Of Fifth is the absolute diamond obvs ffs.

I don't hate it so much as never need to hear it. IMO it does fuck "Selling England" as a serious Genesis's best album contender tho.

I haven't really heard any of the other :-/

*others

Suggest Wind and Wuthering as a) best post-Gabriel album, b) contender for best album full stop, and c) pretty much up-your-alley I think.

Cheers! :)

I just arrived back from the states yesterday afternoon, and the first thing I saw when I turned on the TV (Channel 4 News) was John Snow apologising for Jeremy Clarkson's comments earlier on the show. What was that about, anyone?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7873624.stm

JC called Gordon Brown "a one eyed Scottish idiot"

Ta. Thought maybe it was something to do with the Carol Thatcher thing. I'm still catching up.

A review of the new Honda Insight

Much has been written about the Insight, Honda’s new low-priced hybrid. We’ve been told how much carbon dioxide it produces, how its dashboard encourages frugal driving by glowing green when you’re easy on the throttle and how it is the dawn of all things. The beginning of days.

So far, though, you have not been told what it’s like as a car; as a tool for moving you, your friends and your things from place to place.

So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more...

I don't take anything he says about hybrids or any other "green" car seriously.

I don't take anything he says about hybrids or any other "green" car seriously.

He's a comedy strawman.

Then again, if he says a car is that bad, it probably is.

http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2005/04/18/jeremy-clarkson.jpg

I'm putting this here so that next time I think he's mildly amusing on top gear I remember that he's a cunt.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article6907747.ece

I've decided that it's no good putting Peter Mandelson in a prison. I'm afraid he will have to be tied to the front of a van and driven round the country until he isn't alive any more.

It’s a lovely idea, to get out of this stupid, Fairtrade, Brown-stained, Mandelson- skewed, equal-opportunities, multicultural, carbon-neutral, trendily left, regionally assembled, big-government, trilingual, mosque-drenched, all-the-pigs-are-equal, property-is-theft hellhole and set up shop somewhere else.

Ha, I just read that, and came here to post the exact same thing. Wealthy media commentator playing the victim card sure is an ugly, hateful sight. JC should hop into the nearest time machine and venture back to mussolini's italy! Left wingers get beat to death, mosques not exactly welcome, should be right up his street.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/img/pix/clarkson250701_300x450.jpg

"I hate his fondness for extremely pale blue jeans"

circle jerk with mussolini and ferrari

How I hate that article, not only for it's content ("Mosque drenched"! the fucker lives in the Cotswolds - I live in Leicester and don't ever feel drenched in Mosques and what the fuck is wrong with equal opportunities and faritrade?) but the fact that it's such an obvious loveletter to his constituents - who have repaid the compliment in the comments that follow - slagging off everything without offering anything constructive in return. And can you imagine if some halfwitted celeb made death threats to Cameron or Johnson?

playing the victim card

Funny you should say that. If you search "Clarkson mosque rant" you get the article turning up in it's entirety on various forums/blogs together with a line which says (in slightly different ways) that the article was pulled - "so much for freedom of speech!". Middle class, middle-aged, white men really do think there's some conspiracy vs. them.

I've decided it's no good hoping Clarkson shuts up. I'm afraid he will have to be knifed repeatedly in the balls then skinned alive slowly and his writhing body bathed in pepper sauce before pulling his digits out of their sockets, breaking his arms and legs and tossing what's left of him into the polar bear enclosure at London Zoo.

Fair comment imo.

stewart lee's current stand-up show is commendably at clarkson's expense.

flipping through the channels earlier this cunt was wearing a keffiyah. Hope it finally kills that as an acceptable garment to wear.

the epic butthurtedness over stig-gate from #teamtopgear has been p funny

Butt-hurt? More like toothache.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/7/28/1280338810302/Jeremy-Clarkson-006.jpg

I don't understand it at all. If this chap was anonymous why does it matter? Don't they just get another one? Or is the biography going to reveal something we didn't know about Clarkson et al? Like they're really nice guys actually.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/07/jeremy-clarkson-stig-sacked
Clarkson said he felt "a bit hurt really". "It was such a shock. It was horrible actually because I liked him and he came round to my house and had drinks and all that time he was writing a book,"

How shameful of a Top Gear dude to write a book cashing in on the success of the show.

Clarkson said that "Top Gear is damaged but not out a total cunt's carnival"

fixed

Gobby Jeremy Clarkson stormed into another race row last night after making fun of drowned Chinese cockle pickers.

And his latest outburst came after the Daily Star Sunday discovered he had posed for a snap with the leader of the racist English Defence League.

No. It isn’t a scandal. It’s just the Daily Star using Clarkson – a perceived enemy of free speech and equality - to brandish its anti-racist credentials that show that it is better than the unenlightened racists. The Daily Star is on the side of the good guys. Clarkson is no racist. He’s an entertainer who uses humour – often crass and rarely more than mildly amusing – to tap into the perceived and real illiberal assaults on free speech. It’s not always racism. It’s niche marketing designed for people who seek it out something to hate and remind themselves how good they are when they find it…

amusing how successfully this guy has trolled the UK

you are amused by odd things

really wish clarkson had an equivalent to http://youtu.be/UuQAEVLljF4

also amusing how the tree-hugging hippy peaceniks he roils are quick to wish harm to happen to a man simply for his relatively b9 viewpoints

nah, he's come out with some unpleasant shit. Stewart Lee's comment is probably right, he has controversial opinions for money, but every now and then he throws something genuinely mean out there. plus, y'know, it's the less the man's shtick itself than the fact that he's an aspirational figure for a lot of wankers

I don't live in UK so I miss a lot of what he does/says, but seems obv that he says stuff just to wind people up. Getting wound up by someone like that is nagl. He's (partly )trying to show that left-thinking people are hypersensitive and humorless, and that just bears evidence to it. (I disagree w/virtually everything he says, but hardly seems worth the energy to despise him...yeah maybe if his wanker disciples were everywhere here)

i can honestly believe he's a personable guy in private, he seems to get on with people who you wouldn't think wd tolerate assholes. like i say the big difference is probly just that he's everywhere over here, plus he works for Murdoch so

and maybe it's cause I'm accustomed to way more heinous right wing nutjobs in the US that I can just laugh off whatever nonsense he says. oh that Mr Clarkson, the loveable scamp etc.