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Title: Thank You, Jeremy Clarkson
Post by: Nitrogen on March 11, 2010, 04:07:57 PM

Great op-ed by Jeremy Clarkson (one of the presenters from Top Gear, and English right-wing non-nutso)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article7052392.ece

While some of this is UK-specific, he makes a great point that i'd like to shout from the rooftops to people in the USA as well:

Quote from: Jeremy Clarkson

Happily, however, I have a solution to the problem, a way that normal human behaviour can be preserved. It’s simple. We must start to accept that 5% of the population at any given time is bonkers. There are no steps to be taken to stamp this out and no lessons to be learnt when a man with a beard boards a plane with an exploding dog.

Government officials who are questioned on the steps of coroner’s courts must be reminded of this before they speak. So that instead of saying the current law is “not fit for purpose” and that something must be done, they familiarise themselves with an expression that sums up the situation rather better: “[excrement] happens.”

I wish we had more media celebrities like him around.

Title: Re: Thank You, Jeremy Clarkson
Post by: Big Hairy Bee on March 11, 2010, 05:07:05 PM

Brilliant--I shall have to seek his writings as well as watching Top Gear...