Oh what a massive fuss over nothing. It was obvious at the time it was exaggerated for comic effect, only an idiot would take it seriously.......Ed Miliband took it seriously. People in this country need to lighten up and discover the location of the 'off' button on their TV remote. You book Jezza as a guest and thats what you're going to get, you watch Jezza on TV and thats what you expect to hear.

This countries getting worse. I couldnt believe the One Show felt the need to issue an apology when its so obvious it wasnt meant seriously, people just love feeling offended in this country for some reason its getting on my nerves. Thankfully the BBC arent stupid, Top Gear is worth too much to the BBC to axe Jezza as its their biggest export.

You say he's 'done it again' but thats only because the rest of the media has told everybody to be offended. I want to know how many of the 5000 who complained actually watched the show live. Because its Clarkson, people will complain, they always do. Because of these people, Clarkson keeps doing it.

God i need to get on a plane and go somewhere else. Really am sick of this place.

I don't think he was being totally serious, but I do think he meant it.

Edited by Trilogy on 03/12/2011 at 20:34

I saw this earlier and to be honest i think he has a point. Ive always felt if someone wants to kill themselves then fine, get on with it. But dont jump in front of trains or lorries or do it in a way which involves other innocent people having to live with the images of it. Throw yourself off a bridge or take a load of pills if you want to die.

They may be put out of their misery but the Train Driver doesnt get such a luxury. I know somebody who used to be a Lorry driver until the day someone stood at the side of an NSL road he was on and leapt in front of his Lorry at the last minute on purpose, he hasnt been able to get behind the wheel of a car since - let alone a lorry - and he had to give up his job because of the experience.

I dont think Clarkson really wants public sector workers shot in a serious sense - you'd have to be an idiot to take that comment seriously - but he probably doesnt agree with the strikes. But Clarkson does what he does, people love being offended by him so he keeps himself in the news - call my cynical but its odd a Clarkson-Controversy crops up just as his new book and DVD comes out a few weeks before Top Gear's return.

He's put a serious point over in his column today but has done his usual of saying it in a silly way so as people dont - or shouldnt - take it seriously. If he took himself seriously and expected others to do so then he'd give himself responsibility, he doesnt want that.

Of course its politically motivated, its worth mentioning the on-air apology from the One Show was actually in response to Clarkson's comments about people jumping in front of trains. The BBC did not apologise for his comments about the strikers yet the Unions portray it as 'Clarkson was forced to apologise for criticising us!' as so many of the Unions and public sector strikers - at least the ones on the news - seem convinced the entire planet revolves around them.

The Unions see the BBC as their channel so in the interests of balance they were supposed to put a Labour peer on the One Show to back up the poor strikers instead. To be honest the joke was more about the BBC's insane need for 'balance' which is often hilarious. Its being used a political weapon because Jezza was Cameron's next door neighbour so Clarkson's comments are portrayed as carrying extra weight because of this. The key point is that these strikes dont have the universal public support the strikers think they do, a poll on the Telegraph showed the majority of the public back the Government on this and any tiny piece of criticism - hyperbolic, joking or otherwise - in their view must be stamped out.

If anybody had any class then the only thing we shouldve been discussing from Clarkson's interview was the section about Help for Heroes and his journies meeting soldiers and discussions about the conditions they were in before the charity formed but thanks to Unions making a fuss over nothing that part of the interview has been forgotten. Some of these gormless stone faced Union leaders - some of whom earn 150k in a year yet claim to stick up for the little person - remind me of those people who take everything as a personal insult. The sort of person who goes 'why is that traffic light red, it must be done just to annoy me.'

YAWN!!!!Boring!

Good job I don't get sick too often. Nobody pays me if I have a day off.