Jeremy Clarkson

Nop way was I insinuating that you wwere being untruthful! Where did that come from?

Read it, thatbags. I would not suffer if I did not see him again.
We, the licence payers, pay his wages. I resent paying anything towards keeping him on the screens, and cannot understand how he has lasted so long.

Maybe. But I'll bet those head injuries and the like you used to nurse go back a darned sight further than 2002.

From the Mirror article

"Auntie is a great institution but she’s prone to being prim and priggish, self-satisfied and smug. "

Yeah. And not only "Auntie".

You certainly don't know me - I am not retired jingl, so your assumptions are far from true. I'm 61 and strongly object to you doubting my post and insinuating I am being untruthful.
I also still volunteer for a head injury charity that mainly works with the age group I used to nurse.

The fact that you were in an accident due to speeding, when you were 19, rather illustrates the point that accidents have always happened.

I think the grin to illustrate my laughing at that post, was well desrved.

This is the Mirror's take.

No judgement meant at all- but in response to your post saying 'you can't see anything wrong with GCs watching TG- and no harm done.

"having spent a number of years working with young people whose lives and brains have been wrecked irretrievably through car crashes, and supported their devastated families whose dreams have been destroyed," (Quoting loopylou)

Considering the fact that before 2002 Top Gear was a much tamer version of the present show - and I assume loopylou is now retired - it just doesn't sound very plausible.

That was to granjura

Please don't criticise the examples we set for our grandchildren. You don't know me and you have absolutely no right to judge me.

Impressionable young (mainly male) young drivers are influenced by a range of media, and yes, TG is one, where irresponsible driving is considered funny (see eloethan's post above) and 'clever'

Me too-I was mangled in a terrible car crash when I was 19- due to a friend speeding- 6 months in hospital, 2 years to learn to walk again, and now a knees that will soon need replacing due to the consequences- it does change the way you see things.

Union members who need to be dragged out and shot in front of their families (by someone who ever uses public transport btw)

finding the suffering of cows falling about with BSE the most hilarious thing ever?

Blind people, handicapped people, ethnic minorities being the butt of jokes- people who are so depressed and without hope and decide to commit suicide a pain in the *e- and more. And it is bitter and twisted to not fall about laughing ??? I'd say that, yes, it does say a lot about those who support him and their own views. Merlot- are the above views really a great example for grand-children? Really?

Hard to tell how much of it was down to Top Gear, jingl. I'm certain some of it must have been?
I also think that grinning after that remark was rather tasteless.

I'm not sure Eloethan. But a lot of these posts come across as such.

How can anyone be too white or too British , trust the mail to bring politics into it

Brilliant, Flickety. I wasn't sure whether I was expected to sign or not!

Oh, and that was all down to Top Gear, was it?

Meaning who jingl?
And having spent a number of years working with young people whose lives and brains have been wrecked irretrievably through car crashes, and supported their devastated families whose dreams have been destroyed, I clearly have a very different perspective and sense of humour to you.

Same question?!?

What exactly do you think people are "bitter and twisted" about jingle?

I admit to a complete sense of humour failure when it comes to these sort of driving antics and to JC's attitude to cars - I hold my hand up to this very happily. Working on a trauma unit concentrates the mind.

Perhaps some of the bitter and twisted stuff on this thread says more about the posters than anything else.

He won't lose his looks because he's not a particularly handsome man. His face shows character and a love of life. That doesn't go with age.

Yes. I like that article merlot.

" Funny how the Lefties at the BBC were quick to proclaim ‘Je Suis Charlie’ after a French magazine offended Muslims, but never declare themselves ‘Je Suis Jeremy’ whenever he upsets someone." I like that bit too.