Comments on: Clarkson stung after bank prank

By: Don

Don — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:48:55 +0000

If the prankster just took a standard charity appeal, added Clarksons’s details and posted it then, short of getting all forensic on the case, how could a connection be made? I don’t see where the DPA comes into it.

I must admit he came out well in the pie thing.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:19:01 +0000

see, he’s a good sport and you cant argue with that.

However, something’s been bugging me about this story. It’s not quite right.

The bank cannot find out who did this because of the Data Protection Act and they cannot stop it from happening again.

I just don’t believe it. A crime, in theory, was committed. Either Jeremy’s decision to print the data is a mitigating factor, he is again playing a good sport, or the bank has had a word with him.
Something about it ain’t right.

By: rambhai

rambhai — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:51:47 +0000

thats is hilarious. i kinda like his style of presenting the show~~its rich in litrature and yet very street like. topgear is the best automotive show~~~

By: Sid

Sid — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:07:29 +0000

hahaha. that’s made my Friday afternoon, that has.

By: Dave S

Dave S — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:45:13 +0000

Clarkson’s politics? That guy wouldn’t know a coherent political argument if it rear-ended him at 300mph!

That’s probably why there are so many “Clarkson for PM” idiots around – fuckwits who want to be ruled by a fuckwit who hasn’t a fucking clue about anything.

Anyone want to see a video of my mate’s ex-girlfriend in action with Jeremy Clarkson? Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nl9nqMKavI

By: Katy Newton

Katy Newton — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:51:22 +0000

This really was a special kind of stupid, wasn’t it? I’m all for discouraging people from panicking but you’d have to have lived in solitary confinement for ten years not to know about the havoc that a fraudster can wreak just with your address and your mother’s maiden name!

I like Clarkson, though, partly because he’s not shy of holding up his hands when he’s wrong:

larkson now says of the case: “Contrary to what I said at the time, we must go after the idiots who lost the discs and stick cocktail sticks in their eyes until they beg for mercy.”

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:27:47 +0000

I note the hectoring little facist Sid is up to his usual tricks, I see.

hahaha. Godwin’s Law proved on this thread by our very own PP-resident idiot, BoreGoth. How predictable.

I couldn’t care less about Clarkson’s politics. Politically, he’s too stupid to be anything else. Its his ‘wry banter and blokey observations’ that has me flinging the remote control at the TV, shouting “F##K OFF”!

By: Jai

Jai — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:12:42 +0000

I don’t necessarily agree with some of Clarkson’s politics, but I’m just about old enough to remember what Top Gear was like before he arrived on the scene and shook things up. I found the guy’s wry banter and blokey observations to be absolutely hilarious and a breath of fresh air for that show.

By: Morgoth

Morgoth — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:05:38 +0000

I like Clarkson immensely. Funny and witty, and his politics (apart from his innate anri-Americanism) largely agree with mine.

I note the hectoring little facist Sid is up to his usual tricks, I see.

By: Random Guy

Random Guy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:50:44 +0000

I have said it before and I will say it again: BWAHAHAHHAHAHAH! What a moron! Suck it Clarkson!

[Deep Breath]

That will be all for now.

By: Rohin

Rohin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:24:47 +0000

Sorry ciddo, work bans pp so I’m reading this on my phone and kinda miss the finer points of all comments.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:20:23 +0000

Oh dear, it seems iâ€™ll be a lone voice in this regard then.

Have I been deleted again?

By: Rohin

Rohin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:13:55 +0000

Oh dear, it seems i’ll be a lone voice in this regard then. I love top gear and I am a complete petrolhead that spends much of his time thinking and talking about cars. I’m not a crazed fan of clarkson himself, but I do like him. However he’s not the hero of top gear. Despite me being a short cheeky chappy, I don’t think hamster is either.

James May is one of my heroes.

And by the way, because I know you lot, don’t start shaking your fists at my green credentials, I cycle more than I drive!

By: Sofia

Sofia — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:28:34 +0000

plonka

By: leon

leon — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:49:49 +0000

Clarkson: “Leon…I Am You’re Faathar…”

Leon: “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”

*Leaps off the platform*

By: El Cid

El Cid — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:43:49 +0000

careful, you might then find he’s actually your dad

By: leon

leon — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:34:00 +0000

He is a welcome counter-balance to some ways of thinking.

Yeah I guess you’re right, we all need a Darth Vader to remind us sometimes we’re actually the Jedis…

By: El Cid

El Cid — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:23:48 +0000

C’mon Sid, give in to your car lust!

Here’s an article that will doubtless offend but which also dovetails neatly with parallel discussion on the Bishop of Rochester (I don’t vouch for the accuracy of some of the claims though)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article3107633.ece

By: Sid

Sid — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:06:00 +0000

I hanker for a world free of Clarkson.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:56:29 +0000

Yeah, I suppose you could counter-balance thinking with non-thinking…

I liked the stuff he did on Brunel, though.