Mary-Jane
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Jeremy Clarkson: less than three minutes......into the first programme of the nes sries he makes an utterly crass and poor tatse remark about the Sudan. What is the matter with the man? 
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Bebo
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Re: Jeremy Clarkson: less than three minutes... | Mary-Jane wrote: | | ...into the first programme of the nes sries he makes an utterly crass and poor tatse remark about the Sudan. What is the matter with the man? |
I know, he took his time didn't he. I love crassness and poor taste 
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Mary-Jane
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Re: Jeremy Clarkson: less than three minutes... | Bebo wrote: | | I love crassness and poor taste |
I didn't in this instance. Not at all.
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Bernie66
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Re: Jeremy Clarkson: less than three minutes... | Mary-Jane wrote: | | ...into the first programme of the nes sries he makes an utterly crass and poor tatse remark about the Sudan. What is the matter with the man? |
If I were a pedant 
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Bebo
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And they've now upped the stakes by making jokes about babies getting limbs cut off.
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Jamanda
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Hmmm. We're taping it for Ben. Is it not suitable?
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Fee
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He's just gone through a cardboard loo for our amusement, at least
I wasn't paying attention really, Jamanda, sorry, the poobox got my attention, that's all.
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Bebo
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| Jamanda wrote: | | Hmmm. We're taping it for Ben. Is it not suitable? |
Doesn't seem too bad to me, but if you were a grauniad reading social worker you probably wouldn't show it to your kid.
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Cathryn
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It will be fine. It's about the Maclaren buggies.
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nats
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I "think" he's just insulted Gypsys too....
I used to like Top Gear, I think I've just been overloaded by his crass ness now....
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Jamanda
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Sounds like it's anti-political correctness gone mad
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Jonnyboy
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Re: Jeremy Clarkson: less than three minutes... | Mary-Jane wrote: | | ...into the first programme of the nes sries he makes an utterly crass and poor tatse remark about the Sudan. What is the matter with the man? |
Was this the ''suit made of food'' quip?
I thought he was making a comparison with the crassness of being forced to drive a supercar through Romania. Of course, it's all a pretence as he is intimately linked with the production of the show.
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Chez
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| Jamanda wrote: | | Sounds like it's anti-political correctness gone mad |
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Bebo
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Re: Jeremy Clarkson: less than three minutes... | Jonnyboy wrote: | | Mary-Jane wrote: | | ...into the first programme of the nes sries he makes an utterly crass and poor tatse remark about the Sudan. What is the matter with the man? |
Was this the ''suit made of food'' quip?
I thought he was making a comparison with the crassness of being forced to drive a supercar through Romania. Of course, it's all a pretence as he is intimately linked with the production of the show. |
He was making that very comparison. He was also suprised at how affluent Romania was (in places).
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Jonnyboy
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I've just checked on a few other websites I frequent, every one has a top gear debate going on....
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Cathryn
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Because the sudden change in format caught everyone by surprise and they forgot to turn off? 
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Snowball
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Jamanda
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I haven't even turned it on yet!
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Behemoth
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| Jonnyboy wrote: | | I've just checked on a few other websites I frequent, every one has a top gear debate going on.... |
Bring the kindling.
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sueshells
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I do feel that the super car thing is a bit old hat - does it always have to be a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and an Aston Martin? Surely there are others?
Suggestions please!
As it was very rural perhaps a Massey-Ferguson, a John Deere and some other tractor would have been more appropriate (sorry - I can only think of two tractors)
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vegplot
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| Jonnyboy wrote: | | I've just checked on a few other websites I frequent, every one has a top gear debate going on.... |
Splitter
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vegplot
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Re: Jeremy Clarkson: less than three minutes... | Mary-Jane wrote: | | ...into the first programme of the nes sries he makes an utterly crass and poor tatse remark about the Sudan. What is the matter with the man? |
There are five letters which describe him quite nicely the first is 'p'
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cab
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Re: Jeremy Clarkson: less than three minutes... | Mary-Jane wrote: | | What is the matter with the man? |
Nothing new is wrong with him. He's been a nasty bully for years.
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Brownbear
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I haven't bothered to watch this series. I used to find it entertaining, but the tired repetition of schoolboy antics, formulaic affronts to political correctness and reviews of flash-harry motor cars which I would have no desire to own even if I had the cash to waste on them, has lost whatever appeal it had for me.
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cricketbod
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Everyone entitled to own opinion and after having steam coming out of ears after reading some of comments on a forum about rememberance day i feel i should comment here......i think its a great show, 3 blokes having a lot of fun with many people up and down the country wishing they had jobs with as much fun, excitement and variation.
it's light entertainment that has been awarded an emmy for flips sake....lets stop knocking what this country produces.....success after success knocked down......we do it time and time again.......
a great show.....
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Chez
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It's not very downsizery, though
Clarkson is an interesting character - people don't seem to be able to take or leave him - it's either love or hate
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Jamanda
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To be honest Chez I can take him or leave him. We watched an old programme on Dave tonight as the hard drive failed to tape last night's episode anyway and really - he doesn't annoy me because I can't take him that seriously.
That Lewis Hamilton is a very nice young man though.
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Chez
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Okay, I will rephrase that. Everyone in the world except Jamanda is polarised about him. She can take him or leave him
He makes my elbows tingle I'm afraid. In a bad way.
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dpack
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in the great scheme of things i dought any of them will merit a fossil
they can be funny ,they can be unfunny and offensive ,they can be informative (toyota pickup trucks )and the polar trip was awesome real .
big kids with big toys can be fun ,they dont always play nice and i wouldnt want to marry one
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mihto
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| Chez wrote: | Okay, I will rephrase that. Everyone in the world except Jamanda is polarised about him. She can take him or leave him
He makes my elbows tingle I'm afraid. In a bad way. |
...and people like me who live outside the real world and is clueless. From the discussion on the thread so far I seem to be the lucky one 
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Jamanda
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I get to watch him because I am the Mother of a small boy. This is the man's target audience - except some of the small boys are middle aged men.
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cricketbod
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big boys can go to a world of humour, easy watching and basically a tv show that doesn't involve fly on wall documentary, B rate tv chefs or a reality show!!
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Gervase
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Amen to that.
Clarkson is someone I'd leave a pub to avoid in the flesh, but with Hammond and May I find him amusing. James May is beginning to eclipse both of them now he's getting more of his own air-time. Of the three, he's by far the most interesting. And I'd quite happily spend an afternoon in the pub with him.
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yummersetter
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so would I
and luckily he drinks at my local in London 
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sueshells
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| Jamanda wrote: | | I get to watch him because I am the Mother of a small boy. This is the man's target audience - except some of the small boys are middle aged men. |
......and middle-aged women, one of which is me.
I don't understand why people take Clarkson so seriously - this really is just light entertainment and not intended to be anything else. I'm just relieved that we are still able to watch something which is so un-PC. As the world crashes and burns (no pun intended) in a quagmire of rules, regulations, government databases and Big Brother (the book not the s**ding TV rubbish) CCTV cameras I am very happy to watch a bit of gratuitous fun.
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mousjoos
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& despite people thinking he's an arse, we're all discussing what he does for a living.
maybe we should just leave him to it, good or bad
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Millymollymandy
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I have no interest in cars whatsoever but I watch Top Gear for the entertainment factor. I think Jezza on his own is a big-headed prat but with Hamster and Captain Slow they make a brilliant team and have me in fits of laughter.
The best bit ever was JC finding out he had to drive that little moped in Vietnam, and JM wearing a colander for a helmet. 
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lottie
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I mostly enjoy the show, it's different and daft ---and I'm definitely neither male nor young---his Times column which seems to send some people apoplectic often makes me smile as well.
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Rob R
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| Gervase wrote: | Amen to that.
Clarkson is someone I'd leave a pub to avoid in the flesh, but with Hammond and May I find him amusing. James May is beginning to eclipse both of them now he's getting more of his own air-time. Of the three, he's by far the most interesting. And I'd quite happily spend an afternoon in the pub with him. |
I concur about May- perhaps it is his nick-name, Captain Slow, as I had a similar name when I was driving for a living (and even now, from Nick).
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sean
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His Scalextric prog this week was great I thought. Everyone involved seemed to be really enjoying themselves.
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Gervase
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Just watched the Scalextric programme on the iPlayer and thought it was wonderful. One of those delightful, charming, warm and generally feel-good bits of telly that you thought they didn't make any more, and which leave you feeling kindly-disposed even to the residents of a Surrey housing estate.
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alison
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All of this series have been good.
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blah
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Anybody know if the Lego house that James May built is part of the same TV series that featured the Scalextric and Meccano?
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alison
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I believe it is.
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