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

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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38496000/jpg/_38496473_sutcliffe_bbc_238.jpg

Nah, lorry driver as murderer is pretty strongly held in UK folklore, hence the Viz strip "Laurie Driver"

Well you thought wrong (xp)

Wasn't that guy in Suffolk a lorry driver as well?

i was thinking specifically the guy muyrdering prostitutes in Norwich a couple years back? xp yeah that one

He had been a lorry driver, but not at the time of the murders. Listen Dom, he's knows his sick humour.

Listen to Dom

Not wanting to get all Clarkson, and wanting even less to agree with anything Jimmy Carr says, but the latter is absolutely OTM about everything in this country at the moment feeling like going to school and being told off for breathing. I'm fed up with it.

SOMETHING MUST BE DONE

Let's ask David Cameron what he thinks should be done about the evil Clarkson

"That Clarkson nicked ma bike frae ootside Tesco's, the cunt..."

OK, so we know what Bobby Gillespie thinks of him

"Aye but its wreckage looked beautiful and punk rebel against the sunset o' rock an' roll an' that..."

mccustos in the house

"See yon Clarkson, he's a right Tory Nazi right enough but he's goat some nice Allman Brothers rarities..."

The only solution is to ban jokes

"Holl'! Nae way, big yin, if ye ban jokes then Andy Cameron'd huv tae become a fulltime recording artist and the last Primal Scream album sold fuck all as it is! And whit aboot Mr. Abie, whit wid he dae?"

good luck usa!!!

USA is A-OK