• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Honestly, I fucking like Clarkson.

    Is he sometimes obnoxious? Yeah. Wrong? Definitely.

    But like the role he’s playing he’s playing fucking amazingly. He’s an entertainment person who doesn’t have an entirely closed mind even though there’s definitely a lot of shit in it. And he isn’t overly political. Like he understands he can influence opinions a bit but he would never try to become a real politician. Would he?

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        16 hours ago

        Glad you’re a fan of that.

        No, I’m not a fan of “that.” I said I like Clarkson. I can like a pesron and disagree with them. If he was genuinely trying to be some sort of politican then I wouldn’t, but now he’s more or less just an average tier UK media personality.

        Like I said, he’s often obnoxious and wrong. But aside from punching that guy at BBC and being ideologically stuck in the 90’s (which he basically does more or less for humour, but you can’t do that for humour all the time without believing in it a little.)

        I don’t know. I get sort of nostalgia from laughing with that rude cunt. And I do mean “with” more than “at”.

        He gives sort of the vibes I had when I was little kid and dad still seemed cool. He turned out to be a somewhat stubborn pseudointellectual very stuck in conservative ways and not at all open minded. Compared to my late dad, Clarkson is pretty openminded.

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          12 hours ago

          I have no real opinion on Clarkson, but you’re wasting your time with that poster. Some people just refuse to acknowledge the ability to separate good and bad things.

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            12 hours ago

            I’m content with the idea that all my time spent on Lemmy is wasted. I’m just commenting for the sake of commenting

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        16 hours ago

        Idk. I live around vile, right wing peices of shit so I see and have to interact with them daily. I’ve seen some real nasty stuff. And I’m not saying everything Clarkson says is great and right, b he is pretty fun to watch even if I am rooting against him most the time.

        Literally the whole time I warch his farming show I’m rooting for Caleb while calling Clarkson an idiot. Like I said, I don’t know why it’s entertaining, but I believe OP is correct

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        16 hours ago

        Social media is racist too, but apparently you’re a fan of it since you use it, so you must like racism. Just using your own logic. Maybe climb down off your pulpit mate.

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      16 hours ago

      He’s very likable, at least on that show, which is the first time I’ve really watched him. He’s far from a mere host, he really digs in and works.

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        16 hours ago

        Sometimes of Top Gear and The Grand Tour (although I’ve not watched all of them but anyway) it was hilarious how far he would actually go to avoid working. Like sometimes he’d put more effort into avoiding something that would’ve been rather trivial.

        What’s the one time he dragged a log behind his Mercedes in Africa for some reason or another and then it ofc eventually tangled, bounced and hit him square in the back glass.

        Oh right, it was his “handbrake.”

        Like honestly fixing the handbreak prolly would’ve been less work at least in general. AT least for the crew, accounting for the broken window and cleaning and whatnot.

        https://youtu.be/kDmbABVFZIA

        Oh wait, he actually says himself “stupidest idea in history.” I guess that’s the part I like. He does stupid shit confidently, announcing it’s brilliant, but when it inevitably goes wrong, he can laugh at himself and admit he was actually wrong. And yet go to the next stupid idea and do that with the same confidence as earlier. I find it amusing.