The Dogmother Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 Driving through Grindleford in Derbyshire today......I am sure I saw Jeremy Clarkson in a Landrover. He lives really near us, but no one ever sees him around here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I've never seen him either Clare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cathybc Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 For me, by far the worst thing about the Ross/Brand incident was that one evening, it was the first headline on the 10 o'lock news. The second item was about the threat of many many people dying in Africa due to warfare.... Sense of perspective has gone sadly awry, methinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Maybe the sense of perspective and maybe not. Many of us prefer home news before world news. Sorry to say it but I don't actually much care for wars going on in other parts of the world, even when we are involved etc. I go to the BBC news website and FIRST I got to UK news. Sometimes I get to world news but usually after I've done UK, Tech & Businesses. I think the BBC have a LOT of stats on that sort of thing - mind you it didn't stop them boring us to death with an American election... Of course in the case of this news item even though it was home news I thought it was pointless and didn't warrant being broadcast, anywhere in the programme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMitch Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 Driving through Grindleford in Derbyshire today......I am sure I saw Jeremy Clarkson in a Landrover. He lives really near us, but no one ever sees him around here I saw him at Baynards Green Roundabout services. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 OK you are making me weak at the knees - you've SEEN him in the FLESH! Oh dear - someone come and take me a way ...quickly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhapsody Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Pengy you know if you fancy Clarkson that makes you a Jezza Belle? Thats what they call themselves! Before you ask Richard fanciers are Hammondettes May girls are Pieverts or Mayhemmers I know way too much about this don't I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 anyone remember Alf Garnet? imagine the complaints he would get!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 anyone remember Alf Garnet? imagine the complaints he would get!!! Now that really used to make me laugh and I'm not a fan of comedy normally. It's toatlly un-PC and not at all acceptable, but Warren Mitchell was a genius with his timing. My cantankerous old neighbour is just like Alf Garnett - a one-man National Front Egluntine knows who I mean... George hasn't spoken to me for over 10 years since he found out that I'm not pure Anglo Saxon You've got to laugh really or you'd burst a blood vessel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I do remember George. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Both Warren Mitchell who played Alf Garnett and Johnny Speight who created the character hated Alf Garnett. Since the 80s when the PC brigade deemed them unwatchable, it has got a bit overlooked that Til Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and In Health were written not to side with racists and represent their views as something acceptable, but to write them large to show how ridiculous racism is. There are a few interesting article on the interweb, with two on the BBC website about them: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/tilldeathusdopart/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/2380565.stm http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/465520/ I think they're still so uncomfortable to watch because little has changed. I was shocked when I moved to Kent, having had mainly Pakistani neighbours in London who had sort of adopted me, to find that the local Indian-run newsagent actually had dog poo thrown at its windows of an evening. It's not 1976, and even in 1976, it shouldn't have been 1976 if you know what I mean! Anna x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 I also found that when I moved up here from London; until the M40 was built about 20 years ago, Banbury was a secluded midlands market town with a thriving meat market, but that all changed and there's still a lot of racism amongst the 'old guard'. As I mentioned earlier in this thread; my neighbour hasn't spoken to me for the last 10 years since I corrected his racist comment and told him that I'm not 100% pure anglo saxon Anyhow, racism isn't a subject that sits easily on a chicken forum, and I;m not a fancier of any of the Top Gear Team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 Oh Claret, how could you not want to be a Jezza Belle?! It even sounds a bit chickeny - like a Bluebelle! I used to hate Top Gear, but I bought the OH a Clarkson book, and it's very funny, and now I'm a fan. To the extent I've declared it on facebook and have been walled to death with concern from my disapproving friends who would much rather I had a telly crush on Brad Pitt! Anna x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 he has waaaay too much hair for me Anna! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 You are very, very, right Claret! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 ooooh that smouldering look has me weak at the knees! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 ooooh that smouldering look has me weak at the knees! He does look as if his hair is on fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 ooooh that smouldering look has me weak at the knees! He does look as if his hair is on fire. Very good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theherd123 Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 My that is one bad afro! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 10, 2008 Share Posted November 10, 2008 What's the betting he has got bell bottomed trousers on too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted November 11, 2008 Share Posted November 11, 2008 He does look as if his hair is on fire. Egluntine, your comment has put the recent Kings of Leon number one tune in my head but with a substitute word: 'Yeeeeeeeah, your HAIR is on fiii-re'. Rawk n roll! Anna x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 For the Richard Hammond fans, he's done a new supermarket ad, is clad in fluffy fur, and has a team of huskies! Ooooooh! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz_WdTmEIhY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
