Jeremy Clarkson

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Jeremy Clarkson is a highly opionionated git who loves cars, and I love his writing style.

"Things that appeal to your inner animalistic being — good food, sex
and drama — cannot also keep you dry in a rain shower or get your
flat-packed furniture home from the shop. The car appeals on every
level. Personal freedom. Practicality. Excitement. You’d have to be a
Darwinian oxbow lake to not want one.

Yet that’s what the modern day Trots and Bolsheviks want. For
you to replace your BMW with a cow. Even though a cow produces more
global warming gases than a BMW. And also doesn’t have electric
windows. "

Comments

[targaff.livejournal.com]

Of course, the best-known car enthusiast in the UK writing a pro-car article in a newspaper's car supplement is not at all one-sided. I think the preceding paragraph is more telling, where he basically says that he likes cars because they give him an adrenaline rush.

He obviously makes some good points - the so-caled eco-mentalists are no less annoying than he can be with their insistence that they're right (and you're right, his writing style is great, though he does tend to resort to jingoism rather more than he should). What confuses me, though, is that this is the same person who a couple of years ago wrote a biting imagined future dialogue with his grandchildren about the folly of those "turn of the century" people for using up all the world's oil on things like cars and plastic bags...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

As I said, he is an opinionated git. I love watching him on Top Gear. SBS showed the 2004 season here a few months ago, and we'll be seeing to 2005 season soon.

[hespa.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Jeremy Clarkson. Even just reading his words, I can hear that deep, jowl-voiced English accent. He really does have one of those voices that just melts me. And then makes me laugh as well...