[TJH]

I friend of mine in the UK sent me this today. I thought that everyone on this forum from the UK would get a kick out of it.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article5992555.ece

[YouMeAndThree]

Just getting away from him is reason enough to leave the country, surely? :D

[dusk]

the comments (all of them) are hilarious

[clairelouise]

:laugh He's such a stirrer!
But rather pathetically, I can't help still loving him a little bit.....

[TonnyTessa]

Glad he is staying behind, we can do without losers like him :D

[peebles16]

:laugh Clarkson at his best :D

Karenx

[The Devoneers]

Just getting away from him is reason enough to leave the country, surely? :D

Just what I was thinking.

[Georgebulldog]

Just what I was thinking.

If only we were getting away from him, every bleeding Sunday night for an hour, the big downer on New Zealand for me:wah

[JandM]

Well, I suppose it would be possible to get insulted if one were to take all that personally, BUT 1) of course he's tongue-in-cheek for effect, and 2) I'm afraid his description of inadequate expats (not the well-adjusted people who think things through and plan properly, the kind who will read this here;)) is accurate in many cases. This last six months, UK TV has been showing news items on people who've retired to Spain and are now in bad circumstances like he describes because of the changes in the exchange rate, and it's quite frightening to see how little they can have thought through in advance. (Frequently heard in indignant tones: The wife was ill, and do you know, there wasn't a SINGLE PERSON at the hospital who spoke English?)

[ExitStageSouth]

Like most of Clarkson's stuff, it's just for laughs (and cash) and if you take it even vaguely seriously, it doesn't really stand up anyway. This definitely goes for his argument that to be considering leaving the UK you must be failing at being in the UK. You don't have to have a bad life to seek a better one (or simply a different one).

The only really annoying thing about Clarkson for me is having to listen to meat-heads parroting his lines in the pub but without the irony.

[JandM]

The only really annoying thing about Clarkson for me is having to listen to meat-heads parroting his lines in the pub but without the irony. Oh, YES.

[winka]

I agree that many posters maybe did not get his humour but the responses were 95% in favour of leaving the UK and the only ones who posted positively about the UK...surprise,surprise... were folk still living there.
Probably through gritted teeth:laugh

[sophiedb]

(Frequently heard in indignant tones: The wife was ill, and do you know, there wasn't a SINGLE PERSON at the hospital who spoke English?)

Even if they spoke English REALLY LOUDLY? The shock, the horror! :wah

[JandM]

:laugh No, not even REALLY LOUDLY, or when they'd backed the doctor or nurse up against a wall first!

[victoria24]

jezzer for prime minister!

[alancoll]

He also recommended in a recent column that you can freely walk around Johannesburg city centre without an armed guard....I hope no one tries this one.... :exit

[M-Squared]

The only really annoying thing about Clarkson for me is having to listen to meat-heads parroting his lines in the pub but without the irony.

Thankfully there are no people like that in my local :D Not when I'm there anyway...

Thankfully it looks like JC is going to stay in the UK. Hey I named my car Jeremy. IanW99 should get a kick out of that. :D It's a 2000 Daihatsu Move :laugh and suits JC down to the ground.

[IanW99]

...
IanW99 should get a kick out of that. :D It's a 2000 Daihatsu Move :laugh and suits JC down to the ground.

I think that JC would get a kick out of that...:D

TBH, it would be a very practical car for him as it has loads of head room.

Ian

[M-Squared]

I think that JC would get a kick out of that...:D

TBH, it would be a very practical car for him as it has loads of head room.

Ian

:laugh Very true! Are you sure there's enough head room for his enormous one? :D

[victoria24]

lets have a look shall we?

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg248/neiljohns/jeremy_clarkson_hair.jpg