Cycling is bad for the environment.

[StuAff]

Clarkson is, like K Hopkins and similar, a professional troll. It’s how he keeps his name in the public consciousness, occasionally spouting out some patently confrontational nonsense. A couple of weeks ago he was tweeting directly to the police that there was no need for lengthy road closures to facilitate evidence gathering just because someone had died in an RTC.

He knows he’s talking shoot but it’s all about the reaction it generates. He lives off that.
Best thing to do is ignore him, don’t give him the oxygen he’s so desperate for.

Yup, that was appalling. All the hardcore fanboys who think the Beeb should have kept him on are so wrong.

 

[tom73]

And to think he got to have the 1st ever Paddington bear.

 

[tom73]

I always thought James May was wasted on JC.


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[Drago]

Yup, that was appalling. All the hardcore fanboys who think the Beeb should have kept him on are so wrong.

Morally I'm with you, bit it was a dreadful commercial decision. The TG brand was a vast money spinner for the beeb with overseas sales, merchandising, etc, and 80% of that income evaporated within a year. Now the pensioners are paying to make up the shortfall.

 

[Cycleops]

Yes, as @Drago says that was really a cr@p commercial decision to get rid of him. His attitude chimes with a lot of petrol heads which is why he's so popular with them.

 

[steveindenmark]

42 million for a 4 mile cycle path.

If that is true. He has a point.

 

[GuyBoden]

The cycle won in the silly Top Gear race across London as I remember, Hammond on a bike swearing at buses all the way.........

 

[raleighnut]

TBH he's right about cycle lanes, what we need is inexpensive legislation that says if you hit a cyclist you are at fault, this would also help to protect pedestrians from kamikaze cyclists.
Unfortunately the 'Presumed Liability' laws were rejected.

 

[Milzy]

I enjoyed Top gear as a young man. Now it’s time he just crawled away to his fancy estate & died with some dignity as far as I’m concerned.

 

[All uphill]

I enjoyed Top gear as a young man. Now it’s time he just crawled away to his fancy estate & died with some dignity as far as I’m concerned.

He jettisoned all dignity a long time ago, in favour of seeking a reaction. Very much in the spirit of the times, in my opinion.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I enjoyed Top gear as a young man. Now it’s time he just crawled away to his fancy estate & died with some dignity as far as I’m concerned.

Maybe he could die with some Dignitas?

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Bring back William Woollard I say. At least in those days it was about cars and not about speed, doing insane things and inflating egos instead of tyres.

 

[Threevok]

Wow

William Woollard

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Pretty well respected I believe, 79 now, but I`am sure he could teach some of the newer ones a thing or two. Would they listen ? I doubt It.

 

[Drago]

Bring back William Woollard I say. At least in those days it was about cars and not about speed, doing insane things and inflating egos instead of tyres.

Woolard was a nodder. I remember one episode where he described a 150MPH Honda VFR750 as "Lethal", and five minutes later a 160MPH Lotus as "good for the British car industry.". Chump.