But do you really know this?  We only know what he blurts out on the TV, in real life, we don't know what his real thoughts are.  

 

I for one, saw the humour in his blurts, but took even more joy by watching Dom Joly (after retweeting it).  Honestly if you tweet, follow Dom Joly, it's hilarious.

^This^  and especially even more so the parts in bold.

 

 

 

The Silly Internet, and the Silly Internet led Press, will be our downfall.............

Clarkson- a friend of Cameron- he should be shot for this. His is great on Top Gear but with all his gaffes his job will be looking less re-contractual.

He does overdo it sometimes doesn't he?

They did a bit on HIGNFY tonight and I realised that very few people had actually watched the offending prog! I've always thought of Clarkson as being the sort of person who might walk into your local country pub in the seventies. The stereotype who would pull up outside in a daft expensive car, walk in and get a drink, and sit there wearing leather driving gloves, whilst trying to chat up your lovely girlfriends. Meanwhile your best pal, a bit of a hippie but who twenty years later would be a Principal Officer in the Social Work department of a large conurbation might pour a full pint over his head. I suspect these car tossers have been bearing a grudge ever since.

Brilliant post!   And yes GJ, these bandwagon jumpers do my head in actually...  It was like the Wossy and Brand thing, where about 5 people heard them make the 'offending phone call to Andrew Sachs, and 10,000 people complained.  Get a fecking life people!

Exactly...Internet driven press..got the ball rolling and made £

They are now having a bit whinge about something he's written in the Sun. None of us would know about it, but R5 insist on giving it the oxygen of publicity.

What would qualify as a daft expensive car...?

All of 'em I suppose.

Oh dear. 

...and the hippies are still jealous of the cars.....

Drifting slightly off topic, yet keeping with the "never trust a hippy" scenario. Most of the ones I knew from up the dales ended up successful and probably have better cars than the rest of us!

I could never imagine anyone being jealous of a car mind. One does occasionally wonder why families in economic crisis waste cash on 'em though.

Which illustrates my point much better than my simple sentence did.  

 

Pseudo tree huggers most of 'em.

 

I don't understand anybody in real poverty being able to afford a car either (not a taxed and insured one at least).... but then, I don't know anybody I could say for sure who was in 'real poverty'    I know people who don't seem to have much money, or live on benefits, but without seeing their bank balance I don't know if the poverty is real.

You should ask. I'm sure that they wouldn't mind you inspecting their financial arrangements.

I leave that to those better educated civil servants.  

As it is, poverty seems to be less financial and more to do with choice and taste.

Joking aside, the several brilliant scholars at my school (for my younger readers this involved 10 @ O and 3 @ A long before the concept of 15 and 6 with nimbus and stars) all ended up working for HMG.

 

Really?   I think academic qualifications are a bit of red herring (which is why I take exception to your earlier sweeping statement)    Working for HMG is huge spectrum though, from being not necessarily very bright typist in a department somewhere  to being deputy pm... as it happens I'm sure I'm not the only one who know people with little formal qualifications who are highly successful (one I know left school with probably less than the olevels above (I don't understand today's qualifications!) and now sports an OBE for her services as director of a govt deparment) and another who left school with no qualifications, but a passion for computing who now owns a software company operating worldwide.  

 

I save my sweeping statement for hippies...

Blimey!

I wish they had been. I left school with a few O levels, and found that they opened only one or two doors.

but they could still open a door on the ground floor.... if you have the ability you don't need to stay there.  I'm pretty sure you didn't.     I'm drawing a comparison between formal 'qualifications' and 'intelligence' in my post.   i think a lot of youngsters leave school with less qualifications than they're capable of, then get on in life when they mature a bit.   

No! You put the 'phone down.

OK

It is just stupid, all he was doing was redressing the balance against his earlier comment.

Can you remember the two lads who were imprisoned for comments made on Facebook? Perhaps Cameron may intervene on their behalf and say that they were being silly?

You have to look at it in it's whole context. It is nothing like the 2 lads on facebook.

I was quoting one of the sunder journalists. To be fair the lads were just balancing up opinions.

well bloody say that you are quoting someone else next time please.

I think we agreed many years ago that acknowledgements and referencing made for untidy posts.

Interesting comment recently on Clarkson Outrage,

When people feel they have the right never to be offended then that right must be applied to everyone else - and thus we will have no opinions/discussions in future

Indeed! Mrs Jer and I have been racking our brains trying to remember the name of an Australian comedian. The guy appeared on Live at the Apollo last year and centred his act on the property of being offended. "have you never heard of sticks and stones?" he said. Much as though I dislike Clarkson and his carcentric claptrap, it's clear to me that this was mainly another thinly veiled attack on the BBC by the usual suspects.

Dave Boorman?