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

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.

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"?

http://www.arbib.org/clarkpie/images/prevs/clarkson_pie019.jpg

That picture always makes me happy.

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.

I know it was a pisstake, I thought that was obvious from my post.

"bum chums" denotes poshness more than anything.
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"c'mon jeremy, let's take these shiny new automobiles out for a jolly good spin! hurrah!"

Good review in the Observer of his new book yesterday:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2185259,00.html

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.

george w bush is cool

-- max r, Saturday, September 29, 2007 3:44 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

the bush remark was a piss take of the republican's "time for a war" and all that

oic

you don't like bush?

BUM CHUMS?

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

I hate it when Dom starts inevitable threads.

It's a common euphimism in the UK. It means they 'bum' each other.
That is, have anal sex in the manner of homosexuals.

you don't like bum chums?

I am going to burn every single Penguin book I have in the house now.

dude that is a major fire hazard

Good point, I'll do it in the back yard. Get a couple of "comedy" max r crosses burning while I'm on.

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

it's kind of usually meant as homophobic guyz :/

That's not so good!

Godwin's 2nd Law states that if somebody calls you on it, you were being ironic.

Don't know about that one, either!

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.

* 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.

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...

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.

And a properly good writer when he wants to be).

-- DavidM, Monday, 8 October 2007 13:59 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

wait...what?

What is wrong with gangs to-day - can't they do anything right?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7130860.stm

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.

"Gang". LOL.

"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.

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.

JC intimidates a "gang" [UK media parlance]
http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/picard/32/vader/block2.jpg

Oh, I really want to see that pic...

sonned

Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister...
http://www.petitiononline.com/JC4PM/petition.html

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

i agree with half of those

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/

those motherfuckers all need to be clotheslined

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"THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS, MAN, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS"

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.

Can't seem to post fuckin images.

Ian Holloway's Autobiography

You're joking right, Steve?

I like Clarkson, but prefer AA Gill.

i am indeed, Boyler. of course it is more like two thirds gree hee hee.

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.

I mean Dale Winton had first refusal but

Sorry, didn't intend to exclude our Irishes from answering. Oops.

xxp considerably more polite and less expletive-riddled than my putative response

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

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.

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.

Clarkson, Hammond, and May have signed to Amazon Prime for new show, along with executive producer Andy Wilman.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34267821

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

he later received an n and a t to display alongside his c and u

Jeremy Clarkson’s daughter has written a book and it looks hellish pic.twitter.com/7gPFrmmvwm

— various jams (@VRSJMS) May 7, 2020

karen clarkson

Can I speak to someone in charge of untimely deaths?

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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

‘dear no more page 3’

timely!

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.

soulless eyes like black holes