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

that's a sick joke.

'i know you got soul' is so much better.

"cool dad"

"ESSAYS"

http://www.20minutos.es/data/img/2006/09/14/509520.jpg

more importantly: will this title make it to the penguin bookbag canon?

i was watching top gear last night and it occured to me that the harder the presenters try to look butch and blokey, the more they come across like upper-middle class, pansy public school boy bum chums.

The book was translated into Polish and appeared in Poland under the title "Świat według Clarksona", becoming the number one bestseller in the country.

^^^Apparently its also the biggest selling Polish language book in the branches of Waterstones that have opened up Polish language sections. End immigration now.

if that is true then i am changing my last name.

Clarkson discussed a wide variety of topics, usually taking a cynical approach. Some topics included:

* The fox that he hunted because it killed his chickens.
* His garden where nothing grew, except mushrooms and a sycamore with rot.
* Aeroplanes (in particular, Concorde and its last flight).
* His family and the reasons for fathers rarely getting custody.
* The perks of the British Isles.
* Modern art.
* Cars, speed cameras, and driving in general.
* Food.
* Christmas.
* His dislike of parties.
* The problems with Europe.
* The music he listened to when he was younger.
* Being middle-aged.
* World records.
* David Beckham.
* The overuse of science and acronyms in daily life.
* His appearance as guest host on Have I Got News for You.

POLL

http://m.assetbar.com/uuad2pBZP.gif

Jeremy's Friday Facts

i was watching top gear last night and it occured to me that the harder the presenters try to look butch and blokey, the more they come across like upper-middle class, pansy public school boy bum chums.

-- max r, Monday, October 8, 2007 2:08 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

oh, max.

...iepaws?

tru tho.

hammond's hair is starting to resemble clarkson's and may's more and more

max r says what we're all thinking. like clarkson.

Best book of it's kind in year?

Is there a category of book called 'written by cunts for cunts'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_winners_and_shortlisted_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize_for_Fiction

Clarkson is depressing.

Like, everything about him is depressing.

his popularity is depressing.

what's depressing is when you meet someone quite young that likes clarkson: "actually yeah, some of his writings really funny..."

Worse than that is when you get some horrible old reactionary fuck who's hobbyhorse is "political correctness" and their hero is clarkson, and they go on about how the "politically correct politburo" or wtfe are repressing the ordinary people of this country, as evidenced by the plight of clarkson, the succsessful, well-paid broadcaster, writer and "cultural" "commentator".

I don't really see it as an age issue, obv he plays up the whole "lol middle age" thing but a 12-year-old can probably read an average column by him and find something to yuk at

course, but you expect that from old farts. 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.

bbc liberal bias counterweight

anybody read his review of villalobos' fabric mix in the telegraph?

"actually yeah, some of his writings really funny..."

^^^The part of the thread I agree with.

(well, not "really funny" maybe, but entertaining. And a properly good writer when he wants to be).

: /

Relative to who? I mean I think he's very clever in how he's carved out a niche for himself but it feels pretty moribund standing around handing out praise for that

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.
orly.jpg

"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.

From Mensch to Liddle to Brendan O'Niell, the amount of red herrings, strawman arguments and general fuckwitery emanating from the right-wing press in reaction to Clarkson's sacking is pretty astonishing.

How timely: tonight's Radio 4 Any Questions is being recorded in JC's old prep school in Doncaster (where we were classmates, and where a framed photo of JC in Jennings & Darbyshire still hangs): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05n1lrs

My mother was relating to me with astonishment that JC is (only) 2 years older than me.

That is indeed an astonishing fact, I can see why you posted it.

i can't believe that mark g is 78!

I can

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs15/200H/f/2007/079/f/a/Jeremy_Clarkson_by_darkdreamfae.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32331218

oh the irony in his tweet.

Has to be done... well, doesn't have to be but it's gonna be:

Jeremy Clarkson >>>>>> Sue Perkins

challop gear

You are joking, I hope?

it's a pun, not a joke

Bakeoff>>>>>>>>Top Gear

sue perkins is a goddess

You've lost it, darragh

I'd prefer Sue Cook, as a cheeky reference to Clarkson's Partridge.

Yeah Tom D has possibly been in the unseasonable sun a bit too much.

Not at all! I have actually watched an episode of "Heading Out" from start to finish.

How does it compare to the Clarkson-written sitcom?

dunno how anyone can muster an opinion about sue perkins one way or the other...

raw sex appeal can't be rationalised

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/18/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-car-show-bbc

The outspoken star also revealed he had been told he probably had cancer two days before the fracas with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon, although he has since been given the all-clear.

I'm having Monty Python flashbacks

What do you mean, punching me in the face like that?
Excuse me, I have a cancer.

The outspoken star also revealed he had been told he probably had cancer two days before the fracas

That was a very irresponsible tweet, whoever did that >:-[

if clarkson gets his own thread id like to submit that tom dude from countryfile as someone worth further consideration

Thomas John Gillespie Heap was born on 6 January 1966, and is the son of John Arnfield Heap, a former scientific adviser who became the head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Polar Regions Section (from 1975-1992), and Margaret Grace Gillespie Spicer,[1] known as 'Peg',[4] the daughter of Captain Sir Stewart Spicer, Baronet, of the Royal Navy.

is he one of those adorable toffs or one of the nasty ones?

he's fucking rabid imo its astonishingly entertaining

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/Chris-Evans-to-lead-new-Top-Gear-line-up-2016-06-16

UK people, who is Chris Evans and is this a positive or negative casting?

well I'd answer that but

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.

xpost

* 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?

Top post:

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