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Environmentalists treat Jeremy Clarkson's driveway to steaming pile of manure

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  1. cwerdna

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    Environmentalists treat Jeremy Clarkson's lawn driveway to steaming pile of manure — Autoblog

    I think he deserves it for his slamming of the Prius and perpetuating the CNW junk science. Besides that, even before I had a Prius, the few clips of the show (where he slammed the 350Z and in another concluded that the Porsche Boxster was the best value in sports cars w/the lowest maintenance cost (hah!)) I'd seen convinced me that his show has little factual or true information.
     
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    The guy's entitled to his opinions, and if he doesn't like cars with a reasonable (i.e. small) amount of power, that's his right.

    But lying is not acceptable. When he stated that the Tesla Roadster had run out of juice after some small distance, when in fact it still had plenty of juice, and illustrated his lie by having the car pushed, when in fact it was nearly full, then he became a criminal.
     
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    Jeremy Clarkson is proof that money CAN buy a fluffy opinion.
     
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    Someone I knew lived by this :eek:

    Maybe it's on Jeremy's desk, too.
     
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    The article correctly desribes them as protesters from a group know as Climate Rush. There is no hint that they are concerned about the environment so much as getting their name in the news. Can you describe any possible improvement in the environment relocating tons of fecal matter to some one's driveway might have?

    It is like driving a thousand miles to attend a hypermiler's show, it is not saving gas, even if it does increase your MPG.
     
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    I read the article. What a load of s***

    But seriously, Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear prove that the UK also have bottom feeders. He has made a good living off that, lives in a mansion too
     
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    Exaggerating a little bit there aren't we? A wheelbarrow load does not add up to TONS in any way shape or form. However, putting it on the driveway is a big no-no...if they had moved it over a few feet to the lawn or bushes it could be classified as fertilizer. :bounce:
     
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    Top Gear is a comedy show, not some kind of Car and Driver or serious automotive review show. It's literally 3 guys acting stupid and saying stupid stuff.
     
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    It's the program that's fertilizer. That was the whole point. Let Clarkson shovel it off the driveway and onto the lawn. He shovels so much shit on his program that a little bit more won't hurt him at all.
     
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    Comedy can be mean and dishonest, or it can be upbeat and nice.

    If he had said, with a straight face, "We drove the Tesla 200 miles on the race track and then it just stopped going. What kind of a car is that? I can drive my gas car 300 miles before it stops going!" That would have been funny. But when he lied by saying it only went 50 miles, he crossed the line from comedy to libel. You can bet there will be people still saying that the Tesla can only go 50 miles. He earned that pile of crap on his driveway.
     
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    "He earned that pile of crap on his driveway. "
    Sure he did. I'm just clarifying the show so people understand that it's not really meant to be serious.

    "he crossed the line from comedy to libel."
    A news program that lies is criminal. A comedy show that lies is just stupid.
    Top Gear (as a comedy show) is not targeted at you or Prius owners in general. It's targeted at beer swilling european soccer hooligans and motorheads in the US and elsewhere.
     
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    I have always believed Jeremy had an odd way about him, and used an unusual approach to determining the potential of anything he was trying to drive...

    Sorta like...


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    Maybe he looks at stuff the wrong way altogether compared to how any normal "reviewer" would.
     
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