[Misc] Clarkson what do you think of him?

[SAC]

I used to find him amusing and he gets credit for hitting Piers Morgan, which most of us would like to do. It was right that he lost the Top Gear gig for hitting the producer though. I used to think he was playing a character but now I think he just exaggerates his cun’tishness.​

 

[Weststander]

Does he wind you up?

There is the option to not always watch, listen or read anything from people we don’t want to hear / who don’t fit our view of the world. We never watch GB News and would turn over within a minute if we came across Piers Morgan.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

He's an old man who has lost his looks and can't hold his drink.

 

[BadFish]

One of his great quotes was 'An Alfa Romeo is for you if you enjoy standing on motorway verges waiting for the AA'. Sadly I know the experience only too well!

TNBA

TTF

There was also one that went something like: If you came in an Alfa you would have walked half the way. The other half would have been some of the best driving of your life though.

 

[BLOCK F]

He's an old man who has lost his looks and can't hold his drink.

Golly, that sounds a bit like me.
My wife tells me I’m still handsome, while she gently holds my mug of Ovaltine and guides it towards my dribbling mouth.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

He's a staunch Remainer who thinks anyone who voted for Brexit is an idiotic addle-brained knuckle-dragging gullible slobbering moron. Anyone want to change their opinion of him?

I have no interest in cars or motoring (other than as a method of getting from A to B) so he's largely passed me by, although obviously I'd heard of him and thought, yes he sounds a bit of an obnoxious twat. However I did really enjoy his Farming series, in the same way as I enjoy Michael Portillo's railway series. (Another person whose politics I don't agree with).

He also lovingly wrote the liner notes for a record by one of my favourite bands, Caravan.

There are lots of people who are funny and charismatic but who can turn into nasty bullies when they have become puffed up with their sense of entitlement, or had a few drinks (or both).

Oddly I sense a sadness about him.

But seriously, what point was he trying to make when he started to recite Eeny, meeny, miny, moe on TV....?

 

[Icy Gull]

He's an old man who has lost his looks and can't hold his drink.

Covers me

 

[Icy Gull]

But seriously, what point was he trying to make when he started to recite Eeny, meeny, miny, moe on TV....?

I remember my then very young daughter coming home and singing that to me…first time I’d heard it with “catch a figure”

 

[schmunk]

I remember my then very young daughter coming home and singing that to me…first time I’d heard it with “catch a figure”

It's "catch a pirate" in my children's nursery.

 

[Crawley Dingo]

Which is basically the attitude of Right-wing rags like the Daily Mail and its readers - It is so often those who complain loudest and longest about "cancel culture" who want to sack or silence anyone with a 'progressive' or 'liberal' opinion.

Are you suggesting free speech is a compromise?

 

[Crawley Dingo]

It's "catch a pirate" in my children's nursery.

I identify as a Pirate, pronouns Me Hearty/Arrrrrrrrrrr.

And I am very offended!

 

[Titanic]

 

[swindonseagull]

I have a friend who has a car and says he is shithouse

Correction

You don’t have any friends

Papa John is not a real friend.

 

[swindonseagull]

I like Clarkson and would be happy to have few bevvies with him.

 

[jakarta]

He's an old man who has lost his looks and can't hold his drink.

That's me that is...

Seriously, he is not stupid and and he knows his TV persona plus the crap he writes in the ST will OUTRAGE many.

As long as he keeps on getting paid for it I very much doubt if he cares what You or I think...

 

[Easy 10]

I like Clarkson and would be happy to have few bevvies with him.

He'd be a good dinner guest wouldn't he ?
An entire career in journalism and TV, much traveled. He must have fasands of anecdotes.

 

[highflyer]

Haven't read the whole thread. But it's a complex and nuanced question. Lots to balance. His onscreen vs off screen persona. His contribution to downplaying climate change vs his positive impact on perceptions and understanding of the UK farming industry. His humour vs his boorishness.

I have considered all the above, and more, long and hard. And I've come to the irrefutable conclusion that he's a c*nt.

 

[swindonseagull]

According to tinternet he’s worth 55 million pounds and earns 16 million per year,
so he must be doing something right.

 

[Weststander]

He'd be a good dinner guest wouldn't he ?
An entire career in journalism and TV, much traveled. He must have fasands of anecdotes.

Just ensure that the restaurant has steaks on the menu.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

He loves Alfas so your Skoda driving mate is wrong

Ahhh so now I know why you are so in awe of him, he is a fellow Alfa enthusiast.

That's fine until they rust away a few years later.

Yes yes l know, they don't do that anymore.