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I like Top Gear, and I like Clarkson on it, but everything I have heard about him when not performing suggests to him being an obnoxious bully.
But then nice people tend not to be very successful, and he has been incredibly successful. However you do build an ever increasing list of people looking for a chance to stab you in the back, and it isn't the ones in the public eye that get you in the end.
When Andy Gray and Richard Keys lost their jobs at Sky after years of driving its football coverage it was because people working with them got so utterly sick of their unpleasantness and seized a chance to set them up for a fall.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: suggests to him being an obnoxious bully
He could be of course, I don't know him, but I have never heard anything to suggest he is though. And also, I dont think anyone could maintains a false persona for as long, and in such trying conditions as the Top Gear team have been exposed to (Polar special comes to mind). Surely his true nature would have come out then, and what we saw was a good natured humourous guy.
Anyway, I think he is funny, and obviously massively popular, globally, to all sexes and age groups. SO if on occasion he blows his top, well, who doesn't?
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Munchies_Matt wrote: a very childishly funny guy
Most of the worst nastiness in the world is founded on childishness.
He never does "cute childish" or "self-deprecating childish"; it's always "nasty childish" or "insulting childish".
He was a spoiled brat who grew up without growing up (we've all met the type).
That can make for fun TV, true, but the only way he would get into my house is on the TV.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: it's always "nasty childish" or "insulting childish".
I have never seen that. How is drawing penis with tyre track 'nasty childish'? Its just plain 'childish'.
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Spot on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I know it will probably blow over but I hope it doesn't. One thing is self-evident in the way Clarkson works - broadcast, 'journalism' and his books - and that is that the man is a bully. Maybe a tad racist and xenophobic, but at the root of it all is a nasty bully.
There is only one way you stop a bully, you take away the thing they most crave - attention...
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: the man is a bully
You have gleaned this from what events/statements/acts precisely?
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Your the one who pointed out the smirk, the bloke is a sarcastic bastard and a bully.
Bloody funny though!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Since when did making an outrageous comment while smirking constitute bullying, sarcasm, or being born out of wedlock?
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Oh so now you are going to get literal, smirking is but a symptom of his attitude and being a bastard refers to the same attitude.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Where as I see his smirking as him not taking what he is saying seriously. Its all tongue in cheek you know, really, I am surprised the British sense of humour escaped you, unless it is only learnt in Public Schools.
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ill give you the sarcastic bastard but where do you get bully?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I see a childish, cheeky, playful, and amusingly good natured chap, willing to laugh at himself and life as well as sterotypes.
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A couple of times I have seen where he really lets go with the sarcasm and some remarks are quite cutting. Most of the time he remains with the bounds of amusing but sometimes it looks like he is restraining the desire to really tear into someone.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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have you actually heard some of the comments left wing comedians come out with against those they regard as right wing?
I have heard comments from them about Clarkson far crueller and cutting than anything he has ever come out with
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: have you actually heard some of the comments left wing comedians
Can't say I have, I rarely watch English comedians, right, left or indifferent.
I do enjoy Clarkson and his crew but he is not a nice person, funny but not someone who's company I would enjoy.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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yet this only seems to apply to those right of centre and not the various left wing comedians that regularly bully those on the right and not only don't get censored but get jobs hosting panel shows
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I've never seen the show, nor Clarkson, but I was thinking the same thing.
To me, from these descriptions, he sounds like John Cleese...just picking on a different set of people.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: There is only one way you stop a bully, you take away the thing they most crave
- attention...
Actually, there are two ways. The second one is to bully him back. Take away the attention he gets? That's a woman's solution.
I personally don't care what he's like in real life (unless it runs out he supports terrorists or is a peodophile). If he entertains me on the show, that's all I'm interested in.
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Mike Harding via Twitter: When people tell me Clarkson is intelligent I always point out that Mengele was a doctor and Thatcher had a degree.
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mmm the sage words of a has been comic and radio dj
don't remember him commenting on Ross and Brand or even Doyle but then again they are fellow left wing comedians arnt they so they cant be doing anything wrong
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I do seem to remember similar comments from him. And Harding was always a Folk Musician first, Neo-Comic second.
My opinion of those three is the same as for Clarkson.
veni bibi saltavi
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maybe, I was never into mouth harps and foot stamping
I just find it hypocritical that all these anti Clarkson comments from the left, the same left that defend outrageous comments by left wing comedians
and it would seem that Clarkson is not the same as the persona he portrays
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Because someone's after me... Two downvotes in one day without explanation 
I know (hope) they're probably just trolls, but it still stings.
Wait, what's that? Oh no! They've coaaarghhh!
hello nice ppl, just posting too say helo loool 
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Here, have a compensational 
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