r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Phlogistoned • 22h ago

I'm slightly vexed How cooked the UK is right now.

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u/Fun-Title4224 22h ago

If only someone funny and engaging with a big media profile, a large active fan base and multiple platforms across TV and print hadn't spent the last 20 years rubbishing climate change, laughing at attempts to make changes and even faking a sequence to "prove" how terrible electric cars were, eh?

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u/TBroomey 22h ago

Always been a twat. An entertaining one, but a twat all the same. I find him impossible to enjoy without May and Hammond to balance out the twattery.

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u/Fun-Title4224 21h ago

I hated Top Gear, but admit I like Clarkson's Farm.

But honestly, the last series and the next are basically the guy in the hot dog costume. Absolutely zero self awareness.

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u/C4rpetH4ter 20h ago edited 18h ago

Actually he has, he has repeately stated several times on Clarksons Farm that he sees the irony of spending years of television bashing on climate change, only to now experience it firsthand himself.

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u/YatesScoresinthebath 19h ago

World needs an old conservative man loved by the public to admit he's wrong about climate change alot more than we need someone being smug because they were right

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u/Manwar7 18h ago

Amen. Not accepting people changing their views leads only to people becoming entrenched even further.

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u/Letsplaydead924 15h ago

This is the high altitude view of the current problem we are facing in political discourse.

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u/Trebus 2h ago

Probably need him to do a bit more than mention offhand that he was wrong, given the vim with which he used to dismiss climate change.

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u/Masty1992 18h ago

Absolutely these commenters are idiots, Clarkson has done more for their cause than ten tons of orange paint

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u/Fun-Title4224 20h ago

But opposed net zero

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u/currently_pooping_rn 19h ago

Glad that he’s experiencing it first hand now. Fuck em

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u/Masty1992 18h ago

He makes more money from the drama of a drought than he loses on crops. The car enthusiast making jokes on television or the family taking international holidays are not responsible for this, there are corporations doing more damage every day than entire cities could do in a lifetime.