A fellow hater of Top Gear left a comment so scathing (and so spot on) on a post I made last year that I thought it worthy of giving it an airing on the main page:
Top gear are a bunch of right wing fucktards with no sense of perspective.
They kiss celebrity ass shamelessly and propagate ignorance. Naturally appealing to stupid laddish idiots who are easily impressed by flashy cars and lame gimmicks like the stig.
Whats sadder is that they are anti speed cameras (which save lives) anti public transport and generally right wing silver spoon fed fucktards. Jeremy Clarkson doesnt believe in education (read his colummns from the sunday times) and has some pretty reprehensible backward views in regards to homosexuality, and other issues.
but instead out society rewards egomaniacs by pouring money on them.
Ouch!
6 comments:
Harsh but fair.
C'mon SBS, lift your game and let this show (and southpark) go to the dogs.
Southpark jumped the shark years ago. Now it's just irritating. As is The Simpsons.
i liked the one where they took some car to america and covered it with anti-racism, pro gay messages to rev up the rednecks
So, speed cameras save lives....except that they don't really - there's no evidence that they do. They are, however, a nifty excuse for raising extra revenue, and anyone who speaks out against them is automatically a fuckwit, right?
Speed cameras in Queensland are not too bad. Usually they are out in plain sight, and catch the inattentive. Many would argue that it is not speed that kills, but inattention, impatience, and plain incompetence.
Try driving around southern states, with concealed cameras set to catch you if you are 2kmh over the limit. That sucks maximally, and guess what? They don't save lives down there either.
If this is a little off topic, excuse my rant. I think it's important to challenge incorrect assertions no matter where they are made.
"So, speed cameras save lives....except that they don't really - there's no evidence that they do. They are, however, a nifty excuse for raising extra revenue, and anyone who speaks out against them is automatically a fuckwit, right?"
you have a few problems here chris. firstly, if speed cameras are for raising revenue, it would be simplicity itself for motorists to simply not speed for a year. this would force our oppressive govt. to remove the cameras for lack of funds and we could all speed into our libertarian paradise.
second problem is that if you can go as fast as you like, barry in his 1982 holden statesman can go as fast as he likes too. it might surprise you to realise that ancient cars with four sets of drum brakes and no power steering will handle considerably differently braking sharply from 150km/h than from 100km/h. you might want to take your chances on roads where semi-trailers can do whatever they like, but i don't.
finally, you're also factually incorrect in your belief that speed cameras don't save lives. the only statistics that exist to say the opposite are those generated by people who just happen to have started off assuming they don't. an incredible coincidence, i'm sure you'll agree.
If you're going to criticise something, you need to ensure it is hits the mark. This post doesn't.
There is no evidence that Jeremy Clarkson is a homophobic Tory; in fact, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Top Gear's presenters would be better described as anti-officialdom because, let's be honest, public servants are stereotyped as slightly retarded. For example, speed cameras are everywhere, except Britains most dangerous roads. Figure that one out (fixed speed cameras are a bad idea anyway. They're obvious and picked up by SatNavs, so people just slow down for them then speed off. That fails to address the problem and it is also harmful to the environment).
That said, Top Gear needs someone more vocal than James May to fully lay bare Jeremy Clarkson's laddish stupidity. Top Gear is ambivalent towards the environment and global warming (a show loosely based on technology should embrace science, not ridicule it - to be fair, sometimes it does).
It can also be quite sexist, though personally I think it would be more sexist to get a woman presenter for the sake of having a woman on screen. Also, I think it is detrimental to both sexes to have an unquestioned need to have people of both sexes doing everything together all the time, it makes a mockery of individualism and choice. Both Top Gear and Loose Women should not be forced to change formats that work.
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