Technology is not one of his strong points, softly down to his age.
Clarkson: 'I WILL find and KILL the spammers who hacked me'
Motormouth Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson has joked he will kill the spammers who took his Twitter account on a joyride to tout dodgy diet pills. Several tweets appeared on his feed promoting miracle weight-loss medicine. But the stunt may backfire on the Twitter-jackers: rather than delete the spam and reset his password, …
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 11:06 GMT ChrisBoy
I don't mind being compared by age...
... if that's all that's being compared.
I know how the internal combustion engine works, am quite at home with all kinds of technology and work with a fine and varied selection of programming languages, old and new.
That I have anything more than greying hair in common with the dundus who does more than most to make the celebration of wilful ignorance 'fun' would be a slur, to put it mildly.
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 12:15 GMT Peter Gathercole
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
I have an working knowledge of an internal combustion engine as well, but I don't have greying hair in common. This is despite my being only about two months younger than Jeremy, and is neither because I am bald nor is it because I use dye.
I sympathise with my follicaly or pigmentaly challenged compatriots.
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 12:21 GMT djack
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
I don't think you're being fair there. He has his viewpoints and they may be polarised to yours, that doesn't necessarily make them invalid or willingly ignorant any more than yours are.
Quite often his belligerence, when not exaggerating for entertainment purposes, is due to him actually believing what he is saying is right. Importantly, he is willing to change his opinions if they are shown to be wrong. The whole bank account details thing is a case in point. He believed that 'the experts' were over exaggerating the problem and needlessly scaring people and throwing seemingly pointless obstacles in the way of daily life. Believing himself to be right, he didn't just grandstand but put his money where his mouth was.
He was shown to be dead wrong. Did he dissemble? Did he go on the defensive or on the offensive? Nope. Unlike many, he quickly acknowledged the reality of the situation and changed his opinion.
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 16:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
"I don't think you're being fair there. He has his viewpoints and they may be polarised to yours, that doesn't necessarily make them invalid or willingly ignorant any more than yours are."
Anyone with right wing views is labelled ignorant or reactionary or some other right-on putdown for anyone the "liberal" (read: totalitarian stalinist) lefties disagree with since they can't handle their naive world view being challenged and don't handle criticism well.
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 16:53 GMT Ted Treen
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
You're absolutely spot on.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" is not a phrase which trips easily off a leftie's tongue.
You're much more likely to get the shrill hectoring tones of Harridan Harman denouncing you as some sort of *ist, the slayer of babies & the fount of all the world's travails instead.
Classic leftie style: If you can't beat 'em, sling loads of crap and see how much sticks.
It's really rather frightening how often that a lie or inaccuracy is repeated a few times and then becomes effectively an incontrovertible fact - Are you listening, BBC, Grauniad, Citizen Toynbee, inter alia?
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 20:55 GMT Gordon Fecyk
"Classic leftie style?"
Classic leftie style[...] It's really rather frightening how often that a lie or inaccuracy is repeated a few times and then becomes effectively an incontrovertible fact.
Like, say, "Obama is a muslim?" That's not exactly "leftie style" yet it is incontrovertible fact among certain sects of non-lefties.
Where's the foot-in-mouth icon?
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 19:40 GMT LionelB
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
"Anyone with right wing views is labelled ignorant or reactionary or some other right-on putdown for anyone the "liberal" (read: totalitarian stalinist) lefties disagree with since they can't handle their naive world view being challenged and don't handle criticism well."
Anyone with left wing views is labelled totalitarian stalinist or some other reactionary putdown for anyone the "conservative" (read: fascist nazi) establishment disagree with since they can't handle their naive world view being challenged and don't handle criticism well.
There, fixed that for you.
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 20:19 GMT Richard Jones 1
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
Sorry LionelBee-in-your-bonnet you fixed what exactly? Or did you not like your heroine Harlot Hariman being brought into the discussion.
Just for the record I would be very happy to bring back public executions for those setting out to destroy the lives of others - that prat in charge(?) of the libelous demagogs for example and if you ask very nicely we might squeeze you in at the end of the event. Sorry it has to be the end, we would not like the paying punters frightened off would we?
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 17:08 GMT dcluley
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
I too have the grey hair. My recollection of the Clarkson Bank Account details affair is that he only published the same details that anyone who writes a cheque publishes: bank sort code and account name and number. Charity direct debits are easy to set up by anyone giving correct details of an account not necessarily their own.. The Direct Debit system allows for incorrect payments to be reclaimed which, if I remember aright, was done in Jazza's case. All in fact worked as intended.
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Thursday 21st February 2013 02:54 GMT Allan George Dyer
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
@dcluley, it might have "worked as intended", but that is not the same as being a well-designed, secure system. Could a criminal set up a direct debit to a front company just using the same details? Could a criminal set up direct debits to a charity, then take the money from the charity because it is poorly administered (concentrating on its intended purpose)? How difficult is it to reclaim an "incorrect" payment? Do the banks care that their weak system allows their customers to be robbed?
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Friday 22nd February 2013 09:18 GMT djack
Re: I don't mind being compared by age...
"Did you see him that time they had to build a Caterham?
WIlfully ignorant. To the point that it was embarassing to watch."
What, you mean where he's putting on an entertainment show, playing the incompetent clown?
Put him in a different context where he is giving his opinion not just comedic* entertainment and he has a totally different set of apparent values.
If you took almost everything on TG at face value, you would believe that all three of them could barely stand each-other and take great delight in endangering/humiliating the others. Watch the episode when Hammond comes back after his near-fatal crash - that mask significantly slips there.
* Remember, comedy, like many other art-forms, is a subjective thing.
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 10:09 GMT fixit_f
Silly man
He loves to threaten and annoy people. Which, you have to hand it to him, is pretty courageous given that the location of his house near Chipping Norton is public knowledge. Last time I went past he didn't have anything in the way of defenses up either, well unless you count an old fighter jet in the front garden....
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 11:45 GMT Psyx
Re: Silly man
"He loves to threaten and annoy people. Which, you have to hand it to him, is pretty courageous given that the location of his house near Chipping Norton is public knowledge. Last time I went past he didn't have anything in the way of defenses up either, well unless you count an old fighter jet in the front garden...."
I believe he owns a shotgun and once punched Piers Morgan in the face, if that helps his credentials in standing up for himself.
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Wednesday 20th February 2013 10:21 GMT LPF
Re: Stupid little boy
Big boys don't post AC! for a start ...
But hey how about using your intelligence if you have any for just one second. Unless you have someone who is actually being threatned what crime has he committed idiot! Your so stupid and eager to be with the "In Crowd" that you did nto even think about the trite PC rubbish you posted.
I could threaten to kill "Charlie Brown" , does not mean I have comitted a crime , unless you know, 1) he exists, 2) I meant that person.
So why don't you step away from the keyboard and wait for school holidays to end.
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