Jezza Busted:)

[AndyRM]

[QUOTE 3336274, member: 45"]When Paul Smith was alive and had Safespeeding at its peak, his site was overrun with poor drivers seeking peers to endorse their dangerous driving. TG has the same effect. Just look at the studio crowd and listen to their feedback when he spouts his junk.[/QUOTE]

Does it? It's a carefully scripted and planned show, and I can't recall a studio member ever saying they'd been encouraged to hammer it because of Jeremy Clarkson, either on the programme or in reality.

 

[Tin Pot]

When you are driving and a cyclist is in the way, it is annoying.

When you are a cyclist and a driver gets in the way, it's annoying.

He appeals to the former, some people on here appeal to the latter.

I condemn neither JC or anyone else - they're simply appealing to a common feeling, in different crowds.

 

[AndyRM]

[QUOTE 3336792, member: 45"]Do you not remember him slating cyclists and the crowd cheering?[/QUOTE]

What's that got to do with making people drive dangerously?

 

[Archie_tect]

Andy, I'd put it down to drivers who like to drive fast and unnecessarily powerful cars naturally gravitate towards each other because they need justification for what they do and like peer approval, so having a programme like Top Gear, which celebrates that attitude and encourages people to think it's acceptable behaviour, is never going to change that mind-set- particularly when the mixed audience encourages that behaviour. Children whose parents think that way are being conditioned to think it's OK... people like Emma Way.

 

[MarkF]

I've been driving 29 years, never had any points. I don't regard it as doing well, I regard it as normal guy who tries to be law abiding and careful, and who doesn't drive a 200 MPH Mercedes.

I've been driving 35 years, cars, motorbikes and a scooter, no points! I consider myself normal too, and very lucky indeed.

 

[AndyRM]

@User and @Archie_tect, you both make fair points, I suppose that there are idiots who reckon that TG is reality and I hadn't really considered that.