Sunday
I'm watching the BBC Top Gear motoring programme right now and its main presenter, the irrepressible Jeremy Clarkson, is driving a hot-rod Mercedes sports car at high speed along a German autobahn listening to a CD of Margaret Thatcher speeches.
How can you not love this guy?
Heh, was watching that as well. I love the fact that they tried to get cute with speedboats and both broke down.
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge at July 3, 2005 09:10 PM
Good for him. And I just loved the outrage from the lentil-eaters when Clark was offered an honorary degree. "irresponsible, inappropriate" etc etc.
The man's a tonic in this pc age.
Posted by Keith at July 4, 2005 02:07 AM
The only downside to Jeremy is that he works for a bunch of socialists.
Posted by Brendan Halfweeg at July 4, 2005 10:14 AM
Sweet Zombie Jesus! You lot are gullible. The footage of Jezza hurtling around is all computer generated, you can't drive around like that for real because you would soon die along with thousands of innocent bystanders. Unless you are police. Or a government minister. Or a freemason.
Posted by zmollusc at July 4, 2005 10:45 AM
Zmollusc: I have driven in Germany and I can tell you that those shots were for real.
Posted by Johnathan at July 4, 2005 11:07 AM
Johnathan, that would mean that the government spends millions of £tax to LIE to us!!!!!!
I can't believe that.
Posted by zmollusc at July 4, 2005 12:03 PM
I thought the use of the background was to demonstrate the near hallucination state brought on by lack of sleep and therefore lkack of judgement and reality usually only brought on by an upper-class,priveleged lifestyle (or drugs only affordable in YUPPIE circles)?
Posted by Magic Door at July 4, 2005 02:01 PM
Magic Door,
He was drinking Red Bull, eating Pro-Plus tablets, Thai Red Curry Walkers Crisps and a weird Danish chewing gum called 'Spunk'. Perhaps you might enlighten us as to which of those are, "drugs only affordable in YUPPIE circles"? I should think that Mr Clarkson might well have sustained some serious laughter-induced hernia damage from reading that comment.
Posted by Julian Taylor at July 4, 2005 07:22 PM
I am still cracking up at Zmollusc's conspiracy theorising about how the shots of Clarkson zooming through Holland and Germany were taken.
Nurse, quickly, the screens!
Posted by Johnathan Pearce at July 4, 2005 08:16 PM
I always enjoy TopGear when I am in the UK and have begged the folks at the BBCAmerica satellite TV station to add it.
No avail. "Just enjoy your 'House Invaders' and stop complaining..."
Posted by jk at July 4, 2005 10:17 PM
jk - You'll be happy to know that Discovery Channel is now broadcasting Top Gear in the US. The episodes might not be current but they're new to us. The 1st episode just aired over the weekend and my wife watched it with me and gave tacit approval for me to purchase a Lotus Elise when funds allow :-) She would have preferred the Apache Helicopter...
Posted by Don McEwan at July 5, 2005 02:11 PM
Come on, Clarkeson is a little bitch-smarmy and arrogant and uncommonly slappable. God knows what kind of people you are to watch mastabatory toss like 'topgear'.
Posted by Else at July 6, 2005 01:28 PM
Else, I think the reason we lads (and lasses) watch him is precisely because we know he annoys killjoys, of whom you seem to be a rather uncouth example.
Vroom!
Posted by Johnathan at July 6, 2005 03:12 PM
Hey Jon, I'm no killjoy, honest. He just makes my skin crawl. OK, I'll be honest-I really envy him driving all those big, sexy fast cars, impressing 'the birds' and getting paid loads more than I ever will. All that testosterone just makes me realise the extent of my own impotence-I'm half a man in comparsion-sad but true. Oh Jeremy! lift me up in your big, strong arms and take me away from it all! MMMM, your engine is throbbing etc. etc.
Posted by Else at July 8, 2005 11:34 AM
