Jeremy Clarksons new TV show

essexpete

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Is the Guardian for “too good to be true folk that have no sense of humour and think , what’s yours is mine but what’s mine is my own”, self centred begrudgeul lefties”, if so they are obviously of the same thinking as staff of the BBC. (n) (n) :mad:
I would call them socialist liberals.
 

JMM

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@JMM I used to drink in your local village, there was a wine/cocktail bar in the centre which was only open on weekends when all the city folk came back 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great show! Loved every minute of it and had me in stitches quite often which doesn’t happen often!
I'm suprised you called it a village - its had a town charter since 1227 - you'd get lynched by the locals if you called it that ;)
 

MrNoo

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I'm suprised you called it a village - its had a town charter since 1227 - you'd get lynched by the locals if you called it that ;)
The wine bar as they used to call it, all the London boys were off working all week leaving their wives behind, I know a couple of very good friends (identical twins) who had a field day there, think it was every Tuesday, some shocking tales they would tell.
 

Bald Rick

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chaffcutter

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Watched episodes 3&4 last night. Whatever Jeremy does with it, that farm has some great natural capital with diverse hedgerows, woods, streams etc and loads of wildlife habitat, lots of birds etc..
I wish our patch had stuff like that as a base to work with, we have done a fair bit of planting and created pools etc, but stuff that was done a generation ago is so much better.
He was a prat on that digger though!
 

primmiemoo

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I would call them socialist liberals.

A huge number of Grauniad readers simply inherited their politics and mindsets ~ or else adopt them to go with their income bracket. But hey, as long as they can trot off to Tresoddit and Porthemmet in Cornwall twice a year ... fly across the Continent for weekend breaks ... and ski in between times...
And young Ostertagia and Lucillia (aged 10 and 12, respectively) are now vegan, dontcha know.
 
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wrenbird

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A huge number of Grauniad readers simply inherited their politics and mindsets ~ or else adopt them to go with their income bracket. But hey, as long as they can trot off to Tresoddit and Porthemmet in Cornwall twice a year ... fly across the Continent for weekend breaks ... and ski in between times...
And young Ostertagia and Lucillia (aged 10 and 12, respectively) are now vegan, dontcha know.
I think their mindset and politics were already there before the right job in the right income bracket, if they didn’t think the way they do they would not even be considered for many positions.
I love the idea of young Ostertagia, I presume they identify as non-binary as well as vegan? :rolleyes:
 

primmiemoo

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I think their mindset and politics were already there before the right job in the right income bracket, if they didn’t think the way they do they would not even be considered for many positions.
I love the idea of young Ostertagia, I presume they identify as non-binary as well as vegan? :rolleyes:

Mumsnet has plenty to say about that sort of thing in young children, so there are points of serious sensibility in the readership. Trouble is that the broad manifesto of the group "Grauniad Readers by culture" is deluded ~ albeit charmingly so in many cases.

(Oops, I put too many l's in Lucilia, btw.)
 

primmiemoo

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Felt a kindred spirit in watching Kaleb drive into London, hardly ever pay for parking here and if I do it's money in the slot. Don't have a smartphone as hardly any signal here, so wouldn't have the app etc. It's a different world in London and you can keep it.

I was caught out with parking apps, etc, last week in a town in the west of Devon of all places! Paying over the phone proved impossible, because the robot failed to understand my accent.

I found another area to park in, but then had to walk further.
 

Bruce Almighty

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A huge number of Grauniad readers simply inherited their politics and mindsets ~ or else adopt them to go with their income bracket. But hey, as long as they can trot off to Tresoddit and Porthemmet in Cornwall twice a year ... fly across the Continent for weekend breaks ... and ski in between times...
And young Ostertagia and Lucillia (aged 10 and 12, respectively) are now vegan, dontcha know.

Ostertagia, that made me chuckle

 

wrenbird

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Me and Himself binged watched Clarkson does farming, didn’t mean to, but once we had watched the first we were hooked. We loved how you could tell as each episode went by just how much it was meaning to him, and it was no surprise at the end when he said that it was probably the happiest year of his life, despite all the problems and difficulties.
Jeremy was obviously born to be a curmudgeonly old farmer!
 

Rowland

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Felt a kindred spirit in watching Kaleb drive into London, hardly ever pay for parking here and if I do it's money in the slot. Don't have a smartphone as hardly any signal here, so wouldn't have the app etc. It's a different world in London and you can keep it.

The good thing about parking apps is that they tell you when your parking is running out . You needn’t go all the way back to your vehicle to put more money on just extend it on your phone. Bad thing is that they charge you for using the app .
 

Ffermer Bach

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I think their mindset and politics were already there before the right job in the right income bracket, if they didn’t think the way they do they would not even be considered for many positions.
I love the idea of young Ostertagia, I presume they identify as non-binary as well as vegan? :rolleyes:
Maybe all this non binary is a result of the general population being so divorced from the fundamental realities of life and death, which we see on a farm regularly. Children who grow up on a farm know a bull is bull and however much he may want to be a cow, he is a bull!

Mind you, it depends on how much the children are involved with the farm, I remember talking years ago to a mineral rep and he told me, his children would not even know which fields he owned!
 

Ffermer Bach

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The good thing about parking apps is that they tell you when your parking is running out . You needn’t go all the way back to your vehicle to put more money on just extend it on your phone. Bad thing is that they charge you for using the app .
Remember son telling me, in Bath (at uni), he did not even use cash, paid for everything with his phone! All a bit of a retrograde step I think!
 

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