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Does Clarkson whear them?
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No. The idiot tree huggers who undoubtedly had faces not unlike the gnarled trees they love so much wore them to look like Clarkson.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not his biggest fan at all but sometimes I think these environmentalists do it simply to get on TV. What has been achieved now?
And yes - I'm in a foul mood.
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Adam
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I feel like that in a good mood.
Schoolboy
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Good for JC - the right way to react - gone up in my estimation - and I already like him!
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quite agree - JC is media savvy so reacts in mature, professional manner .. and shows up well meant but juvenile "environmentalists".
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Congratulations to the pie-man! He did what lots of people, tree huggers and petrolheads alike, have wanted to do for ages.
It's just a bit of a pity JC took it in good heart.
I just wish I'd had a custard pie at hand when Germaine Greer visited our town. She and JC are two of a kind.
Cheers, Sofa Spud
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Is JC an Aussie ;-)
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No, but he and Germaine both come from Legoland, minus the 'L'!
Cheers, SS
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Congratulations to the pie-man! He did ....
It was a female actually.
Pics here:
Before:- www.arbib.org/clarkpie/ppages/ppage5.html
During:- www.arbib.org/clarkpie/ppages/ppage13.html & www.arbib.org/clarkpie/ppages/ppage6.html
After:- www.arbib.org/clarkpie/ppages/ppage15.html
Full index:- www.arbib.org/clarkpie/
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I hope that one day someone who doesn't like her opinions lands one right in her face - painfully, embarassingly, and messily - preferably on her wedding day, should she ever have one.
I hope she is prosecuted for some kind of assault.
An appalling woman with no idea of civilised behaviour.
Fortunately she has done more to ridicule her cause than Clarkson ever could.
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Oh dear, what worries me, is the small & petty-mindedness of some people out there. Be thankful that you can comment and slag people off openly without the fear of someone knocking on your door. I respect the environment, I use a bicycle, a motor bike AND a car. I do sponsored bike rides to save old country churches and I like small furry animals. I also smile and sometimes laugh at JC & JG. I also read their columns. I also said 'hurrah' when England won the cricket. Does all this make me normal or an extremist?
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>>Be thankful that you can comment and slag people off
But she didn't do those things, did she. What she did was to assault someone. I don't agree with her. Does that mean I can smack her in the face with something ?
Or would that be disgraceful, insulting, abusive and pathetic ?
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I agree,if someone had done that to me they would have received a sharp punch in the gob,male or female.
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What did I tell you.
She's ugly as sin.
Says it all.
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He couldn't have done better if he had employed Max Clifford to hire the woman to chuck the pie in his face and make sure the media all got the story. HJ
I suspect that when Clarkson became aware that these protesters were out to "pie" him he agreed to be a "victim".
It sounds very odd but by agreeing to let them do it at a pre-arranged time it satisfied the protesters desire for publicity, made Clarkson look like a good sport for not lashing out and he could then simply change into a spare set of clothes and collect the his degree without further inconvenience (i.e. protesters turning up at his home, harassing his children, digging up his dead relatives etc).
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What did I tell you. She's ugly as sin. Says it all.
Now that doesn't really hold you up in a mature and positive light, does it. Physical appearance has bog-all to do with her views. She's to be ridiculed for her actions, not her appearance, you great tall lanky work-shy student scouser.
See how easy it is to throw names based on stereotypes?
We should thank this lady for bringing shame and ridicule on her narrow-minded views rather than pointing out the number of branches she hit on her long fall from the top of the ugly tree. Yes, it's unfortunate that on landing she did so face-first into a fire and had the flames extinguished by a shovel, but it's not very nice to point that out. Just as we shouldn't refer to the unfortunate incident when a vet was called to her home by a well-meaning bystander, calling for assistance for the bulldog with a wasp in its mouth that was wearing ladies clothing.
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One of them is holding a large photo of a tombstone with a Rover badge on it. I really don?t get what point he?s trying to make. Is he gloating?
I?d set em all on fire I would.
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One of them is holding a large photo of a tombstone with a Rover badge on it. I really don?t get what point he?s trying to make. Is he gloating?
Another old Clarkson Chestnut. He single handed shut Longbridge you know! All his fault.
Thinking out loud (and with gratitutious stereotyping), you'd thought that environmental campaigners would be glad that a car manufacturer went out of business wouldn't you?
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It's what I've always said about global warming. You've only got to look at the types who are always banging on about it to see that it can't possibly be true.
The Tories should recruit JC with a view to eventual leadership.
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My problem with the global warming theory it is that I can vividly remember John Craven's Newsround in the 70s telling us that a new ice age was on its way.....
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There are still some scientists predicting an ice age.
All the rubbish about global warming comes from computer models where warming is put in as a variable. Run the model and shazzam global warming.
Some spoilsport put up satellites to measure the warming and what do you know, nothing much has happened.
They are trying now to blame Katrina on global warming. Er... New Orleans may have had hurricanes before chaps. Maybe the big problem was lack of maintenance on the levee...
And for this we are supposed to cripple our economies with the Kyoto treaty whilst Asia expands like Topsy.
The future is bright but its in the East.
Works for me and HJ but thats another thread.
Big C is a supermarket chain by the way...
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The Tories should recruit JC with a view to eventual leadership.
Can you imagine it - they'd have a landslide!
JC would have to do a term as transport secretary first before moving on to PM. No tax on petrol, just a bit on diesel, 70mph becomes minimum speed limit on uk motorways, towing a caravan results in immediate deportation, Honda,s can only be purchased by the over 70's.
I really could see him in the house!
Actually JC & KC (Ken Clark) could make a pretty formidable not to say entertaining team taking pot shots at old 2 jags!
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$$, your "stereotype" is a wholly accurate description of me though!
Granted, it was a half assed comment but these people throw themselves into the limelight (which I suspect she did solely for this reason) with stupid views, I'm just speaking my mind.....it doesn't work very often so I need to take it for a walk now and then.
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> All the rubbish about global warming ...
I'm no expert, but isn't there enough evidence of retreating/shrinking ice caps to indicate that something is going on, even if we don't know for sure what the final outcome will be? I'm genuinely curious.
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I hope someone pies her hard in the face on her wedding day!
Maybe JC should have the honour, to protest against her prehistoric views?
Sums it up for the enviro-mentals though - their argument is to pie a minor TV celebrity. Hmmmm
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Wait for the beardy-weirdies to find out from Discovery Channel that the Earth is gradually drifting toward the sun which will become bigger and bigger on the horizon till we all get swallowed up.
Of course that will be the Americans' fault for using all those gas guzzlers.
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"I'm no expert"
Can I stop you there?
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Global warming? We moved here 22 years ago. Winters with snow . Not had any recently.
Look at the glaciers in Tibet: they have receded mor ethan 1 mile in last 20 years...
Having said that, if the Green Party really believed, they would walk everywhere and wear home made clothes (or rather hand made ones) and refuse to eat processed food and use no electricity at all. - all use fossil fuels in their manufacture.
I therefore contend most are hypocrites.. Buses are out as are trains: they use oil. Planes are most certainly non PC.
They shoudl try living in somehwere with a nice temperate climate where fossil fuel use is not allowed. I suggest a winter in Siberia?:-)
Don't do as I do, do as I say. Pie throwing is only allowed at non PC people.. :-))
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>>I'm genuinly curious
Over the last 2 million years, the earths climate has fluctuated between relative warmth (interglacial) and relative cold (glacial) but there are no more than 10 degrees Celsius difference. The colder glacial periods last 80 000 to 100 000 years with the warmer periods lasting considerably less with a duration averaging 10000 years.
If these time frames are correct, then at present we're at the end of the latest interglacial period and are entering the glacial periods (considering that the last one was about 12 000 years ago). However, this is not the case, and instead, the earth is warming up, not cooling down.
The temperature fluctuations seen in the past are largely due to natural causes, but it is this later difference from predicted trends which is cause for concern, since it doesn't fit in with any particular natural model or theory.
Since the realization that global climate is warming and not cooling as it is thought it should, scientists have tried to draw up explanations for it, and the theory drawn up was known as the 'greenhouse effect'
Green house effect, is IMHO a much over used and mis-understood term these days. Its a natural system which is needed to sustain life, because without it, the earth would be 32 degrees c cooler. : :shivers: : However, to sustain the correct level of warming, the balances of gasses must remain the same.
This is where us humans come in. Our activity mainly since the industrial revolution has played a large part in the increase in certain gas amounts, notably Co2, which is upsetting the balance of heat energy flows in and out of the earths atmosphere. Cars are not the sole responsibility regarding the release of greenhouse gasses, but also industry including farming and construction. Generally, 2/3s of all human generated CO2 comes from the burning of fossil fuel, hence a 31% increase since 1750, and the present concentration has never been seen in the past 420 000 years.
Generally, global warming is an entirely natural process, but this current excessive warming is not.
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As I understand it, the average temperature was higher during part of the middle ages than it is now.
And who measured the C02 420,000 years ago?
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And who measured the C02 420,000 years ago?
Trees.
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"who measured the C02 420,000 years ago?"
They can (apparently) get this from the proportion of gasses in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica - ice that was formed at that time.
"average temperature was higher during part of the middle ages than it is now"
Yes, and in Roman times - lots of vines grown quite far north in Britain. Mind you, it was also colder at times - ice fairs on the Thames a couple of hundred years ago.
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"Generally, 2/3s of all human generated CO2 comes from the burning of fossil fuel, hence a 31% increase since 1750, and the present concentration has never been seen in the past 420 000 years."
Robe,
Is that a 31% increase in the amount of HUMAN generated Co2? In other words, does it mean that human generated has gone from say 3% to 4% ish of the total? Or are you saying that it is an increase of 31% in the TOTAL amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere? And how much of this is due to motorists? Is it significant? Should we be taxed because motorists are major contributors to CO2 production?
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I'll make this the last reply for this, as I fully understand it?s gone off topic.
That 31% is an increase in the total atmospheric concentration (in 1765 it was 279ppm, and 365ppm in 1998). Recent increases in CO2 far exceed the boundaries of natural variability experienced during the first 1.6m years of the quaternary period (2m years in total).
How much of this is due to motorists?
To be totally honest Phil, I don't know for sure as I haven?t quite studied it in depth that far yet. I would imagine a fair majority is through use of internal combustion engines, because 85% of the 31% (26%) increase in concentration is due fossil fuel burning. So that will include power generation as well as practically all modes of transport (excluding the obvious like cycles). The main consumption of fossil fuels goes into transport....
Is it significant?
Based on the above, I would say yes.
Should we be taxed...?
Again, because I don't specifically know the exact contribution made by cars, I can't comment accurately. But I think its 'unfair' that the majority of Europe abides by relatively stringent rules laid out by things like the Kyoto agreement and the U.S can quite readily continue to pump out twice as much greenhouse gasses as us (per capita). Even if it were correct to be taxed, you can see that its not discouraging the use of our cars.
Now, back to the subject of Clarkson, and his acquaintance with that pie!
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Thanks for reply - I won't add to "off topic" any more either!
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It's because the bark on the trees mess up their faces!
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