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Top Gear is an entertainment show with an agenda all of its own (I don't know if you're in Britain, but Jeremy Clarkson is a well-known self-described 'controve

Top Gear is an entertainment show with an agenda all of its own (I don't know if you're in Britain, but Jeremy Clarkson is a well-known self-described 'controversial' right-winger with his own column in the Sun.) I wouldn't take anything they come out with as fact without another source.

to3m 15y ago
Well, people DO often say that criminals should pay a penalty for their crimes :) You are right about Clarkson, though - he is a troll, plain and simple.
maximusprime 15y ago
Penalizing drivers based on their speed is like paying programmers based on lines of code. Speed != safety. Lines of code != productivity. It teaches motorists that instead of watching out for dangers, they should be constantly monitoring their speedometer. It makes our roads less safe. Jeremy Clarkson is awesome. He should be made a lord. The liberal lefties and the easily offended hate him. Which is fantastic to watch. 20,000 complaints to the BBC after he made a joke about strikes? How absolutely hilarious.
- to3m 15y ago
  You're right! I've been involved in a couple of low-speed bumps in car parks, going at 10mph, people not looking where they are going, that kind of thing. It was AWFUL, dreadfully worrying, and the car was a total mess. In one case, my car even ended up with a visible scratch on the driver's-side door paintwork. If only I'd have been driving on the road, going at 50mph, like that time when the car skidded on something on the road, and after hitting the edge flipped over and landed on its roof in a muddy ditch. Unlike the dangerous dents and scratches that my car park accidents have left my car with, this little minor incident only left the roof a little bit crushed in, and broke one of the wheels off. Also smashed out all the windows. So there wasn't even any need to call the AA, not like that time somebody opened their door into my car at 0mph and left a little nick in the plastic runner bar. My only regret is that thanks to the nanny state I couldn't legally have gone at 100mph to make it even safer yet!
  - tankenmate 15y ago
    Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but in the hands of a master it is true genius!
  - maximusprime 15y ago
    It's the equivalent of restricting programmers "lines of code typed per hour" in the misguided belief that will reduce bugs.

to3m 15y ago

Well, people DO often say that criminals should pay a penalty for their crimes :) You are right about Clarkson, though - he is a troll, plain and simple.

maximusprime 15y ago

Penalizing drivers based on their speed is like paying programmers based on lines of code. Speed != safety. Lines of code != productivity. It teaches motorists that instead of watching out for dangers, they should be constantly monitoring their speedometer. It makes our roads less safe. Jeremy Clarkson is awesome. He should be made a lord. The liberal lefties and the easily offended hate him. Which is fantastic to watch. 20,000 complaints to the BBC after he made a joke about strikes? How absolutely hilarious.

to3m 15y ago
You're right! I've been involved in a couple of low-speed bumps in car parks, going at 10mph, people not looking where they are going, that kind of thing. It was AWFUL, dreadfully worrying, and the car was a total mess. In one case, my car even ended up with a visible scratch on the driver's-side door paintwork. If only I'd have been driving on the road, going at 50mph, like that time when the car skidded on something on the road, and after hitting the edge flipped over and landed on its roof in a muddy ditch. Unlike the dangerous dents and scratches that my car park accidents have left my car with, this little minor incident only left the roof a little bit crushed in, and broke one of the wheels off. Also smashed out all the windows. So there wasn't even any need to call the AA, not like that time somebody opened their door into my car at 0mph and left a little nick in the plastic runner bar. My only regret is that thanks to the nanny state I couldn't legally have gone at 100mph to make it even safer yet!
- tankenmate 15y ago
  Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but in the hands of a master it is true genius!
- maximusprime 15y ago
  It's the equivalent of restricting programmers "lines of code typed per hour" in the misguided belief that will reduce bugs.