“I’ve Done a Thing!”

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Clarkson’s Farm- Season Two, Trailer

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While I’ve been a big fan of Jeremy Clarkson over the years, I’ve never been proud of him before. Hero worship and celebrity go hand in hand and it’s a dangerous game to ascribe motives beyond self-interest to any celebrity.

But in Clarkson’s case he may have just done something worthy of that.

h/t Scott

34 Replies to ““I’ve Done a Thing!””

  2. Clarkson hit this one out of the park. I’ve seen the whole thing, it is entertaining -and- it demonstrates the idiocracy rampant in British government in a way that is brilliant.

    I won’t spoil it, just watch it.

  3. I think an apology to any of the royals is simply not thinking, there’s nothing to be gained by doing this.

    Why can’t badgers be shot in the UK? is there a law? Are they out of leg hold traps?

    1. Conservation laws prohibit messing with the badgers, because Reasons. Oh, they carry Bovine Tuberculosis? Too bad, farmer dudes. Suck it up. Also it’s England, so shooting anything, for any reason, ever, is double-plus ungood. And you’re a racist if you’ve read Orwell, by the way.

      My personal favorite was the “light pollution” argument, hosting a business in a rural county apparently makes the stars invisible.

      1. Those are the King’s Deer!!
        Just find some disgraced royals to go out and shoot those badgers! The best shaving brushes are made from their fur!

    2. Can’t the farmers bring in an ethnic group to hunt and eat badgers as traditional food?

      The French? Or the Chinese?

  4. Another celebrity farmer cheering him on is Roger Daltrey. It would be interesting to see what he is up to.

    1. Fighting the fight, it seems. From 2021:

      “Last month, I reported that a survey on the bungalow had disclosed ‘evidence of a bat roost’ in the roof, meaning Daltrey might have been obliged to install ‘bat access points’ in the new building, since they are a protected species.”
      Need lots of money to do anything in Britain!

      https://www.lakedowntroutfishery.com/

      “NEW SEASON PRICES FROM 1st MARCH
      2 fish – £37
      3 fish – £45
      4 fish – £53
      5 fish – £60
      6 fish – £67”

      “-Once the bag limit is reached, fishing must cease until an additional ticket is purchased.

      -All anglers must inform a Lakedown staff member of their catch in order to assist with stock management.​ You can enter a catch return online by clicking HERE.

      -No catch and release (with the exception of wild brown trout in lake 1 which will
      be far smaller than average stocked fish

      -single fly, max size 10

      -Anglers must hold an Environmental Agency Rod Licence.

      Rod licence, eh? What ho?!

    1. I do too … but Clarkson’s Farm is brilliant! And FU BBC !! You thought you were RUINING Clarkson. You gloated over having banished another conservative … ewwww … man … from the airwaves. But the jokes on you, because Clarkson has proven to be the Story-genius, the Production-genius, the Dialogue-genius, the Editing-genius, genius, genius, genius … while you sat around fondling your scarce man-bits … Clarkson created an entire new show out of NOTHING. A blank page of paper, and he has pained another masterpiece. Oh! And he is funny as hell!! with the most superb comic timing and comedy writing of anyone … ever. So FU again BBC … for crashing Top Gear into a brick wall (the replacement program is utterly unwatchable tripe). Bastards.

  6. Brexit may have happened, but it was too late. The disease that is EU has totally killed the Great Britain most of us loved and admired. Get out now before the heavy heel of the left capsizes it like Guam. I have a great big box of wonderful memories of my time living in the British Isles. I will replay those of the wonderful people I knew and grieve with them.

    1. Yes … and Clarkson artfully reveals just how inept the so-called Tories were in executing BREXIT. Worse than inept execution … it’s apparent the Tories never believed-in nor wanted BREXIT at all. The Tories actually LOVED turning the UK over to nameless, faceless, EU “Committees”.

      Enter Clarkson’s Farm and EXHIBIT A … BREXIT caused EU Farm Subsidies to go away for English Farmers. Done. Kaput. OK. Obviously. What did you expect once you left the EU? So … now the British Government can write their own Farm Subsidies, right? WRONG. There are none. NONE … as of the beginning of the show. The government will inform the Farmers of their Farm subsidies … NEXT YEAR!! So what’s a farmer to plant or grow now!? Something he’ll be financially punished for planting right about harvest time NEXT YEAR!? WTholyF?

      FU Tories and Rishi Tikki Tavi! You’ve utterly planned NOTHING around BREXIT. You couldn’t implement it for a year or more … and what did you DO in all that time? Certainly not write a BRITISH Farmer subsidy Bill … that’s for sure.

      Like the American GOPe … the Tories resemble Labor as much as they do anything.

  7. Gotta be honest…I’ve never even heard of this guy! I escaped from the UK over forty years ago, cuz I detest the place, and I avoid anything from there such as the bbc or tv shows and main stream newspapers, so maybe that is why. I’ve never once been back either!

    OK, I’m gonna crawl back under my rock now.

  8. SPOILER ALERTS

    I’m only up to Episode 5 … right when the odious, officious, puny little tyrants on the local Planning Board gave Clarkson a HARD NO!! on his restaurant project. I was one of those Commissioners for 25 years in my little city. Why? Did I want to be a prick with momentary power over helpless applicants too? WRONG. I joined to be a voice of reason and compromise on a local board that had gone so dark, that nobody could get anything approved. So I made it a reasonable Commission for 25 years. And yeah … now it’s gone DARK again in my absence.

    The Trailer shows restaurant construction, and patrons slicing into juicy meat … so I can only presume that Clarkson got his project approved on appeal. And let me add that the initial denial of his project was clearly POLITICAL. Some local Cotswold twat doesn’t like Clarkson’s conservative politics … so that twat hired a London Attorney who wrote a 25 page attack on Clarkson (with many misspellings, as Clarkson pointed out). Why is a LONDON Attorney spending the 100’s of man hours to attack Clarkson’s little restaurant? You know the answer. And let me say, that in my 25 years, I have sat thru countless presentations to my little Commission … and Jeremy Clarkson’s 3-minute presentation was as PERFECT as I’ve ever heard. The man is SMART, and he’s a great writer, and he’s a fantastic public speaker. And it was a SERIOUS presentation. He wasn’t cracking jokes. The London Lawyer wasn’t half as good.

    And let me add … that prior to the Public Hearing about Clarkson’s proposed restaurant … he does some last minute calculations and recognizes that his “herd” *snicker* of 12 cows isn’t gonna supply the needs of his restaurant for more than 2-1/2 weeks. So he assembles a group of a dozen local farmers and invites them to supply his restaurant … you know … EXACTLY what the leftists preach … farm-to-table … all local. I worked on a farm for ONE summer in my youth … and we had a city-slicker buy an adjacent property and pretend he was a farmer. He never asked for help or advice ONCE, and was an utter failure. My experience with farmers is that they’re a rather generous lot … think “Amish Barn Raisings” … whenever a neighbors need arises. Clarkson has done the exact opposite of that arrogant city slicker farmer … he’s asked for help … from the locals … from day one! He acknowledged from the start that he was out of his depth, so he hired Caleb (talk about Clarkson’s GENIUS at finding and developing talent!) … and a host of other locals and experienced farm people to help.

    So … that scene, when Clarkson assembles his neighbors and asks for their help supplying his restaurant … is just sooooooo RIGHT at so many levels. I swear, I almost cried … listening to the Dairy farmer who’s lost half her herd to TB and is barely scraping-by selling high priced milk at Jeremy’s store. The gathering of these local farmers wasn’t a make-believe storyline. These are REAL farmers, with REAL needs (that Clarkson’s restaurant can help solve). Screw the townies who DENIED Clarkson’s restaurant … they don’t have any skin in the game and they HATE Clarkson’s notoriety. But the local farmers … who should be the ones who REALLY HATE Clarkson’s notoriety and pretend-farming … recognize the GENIUS of what he is providing. They are thankful for his notoriety. And I believe they ultimately understand that his Farm isn’t a ‘vehicle’ to mock farmers … rather a vehicle for self-mockery (Clarkson’s BRILLIANT self-deprecation … unlike leftists, he doesn’t take himself too seriously) .

    There is much more going on in this show than just slapstick, errant cow-herding, comedy (reminder: fix your fences BEFORE you turn the cows loose in the field) … I believe Clarkson planned to shine a bright light on the plight of the English Farmer long before he plunked down however many £mm it costs to buy 1,000 acres in the Cotswolds. GENIUS.

  9. I wrote to Amazon and said if they cancelled(as they have indicated) the next series of Clarksons Farm I would be cancelling my prime and would no longer shop amazon. I don’t have netflix or any other streaming service and amazon(though part of the worlds problems) provides a service to a newfoundland market with limited choices locally.
    This show was the best series I have seen in ages – watched in all in a single day.

  10. Having seen the episode where Clarkson is despicably treated by the local council, it’s hard to believe that this would happen in a nation which once elected Margaret Thatcher as PM.

  11. I’m just going to point out that the only reason Clarkson’s Farm exists is as calculated image rehabilitation after he got sacked from the BBC for punching a production assistant because his food wasn’t hot.

    There’s a reason the show never shows you his house; Clarkson is a multi-millionaire celebrity and if you got to see how he actually lives compared to his neighbours this “man of the people” facade would be obvious. Working farmers can’t afford to buy brand new Lamborghini tractors from overseas.

    That doesn’t take away from what he’s doing for farm awareness, but “it’s a dangerous game to ascribe motives beyond self-interest to any celebrity” still applies here.

    1. If you watched the show, regular farmer Caleb’s new tractor was 2 1/2 times the cost of Clarkson’s Lamborghini tractor.

      1. I do watch the show. Did you miss all the references to Kaleb’s celebrity appearances? He’s not doing those for free. Nor is he appearing on an internationally distributed streaming show just for the fun of it.

        1. He can even afford a £ 500 haircut for his Farm Emmy. The kid’s bloody RICH! Good on him. And you should be impressed, Daniel … he can even work EVERY high tech gizmo on his £100k tractor!

    2. As if the locals aren’t fully aware of Clarkson’s ample financial resources. Puhleeze. And as the show charts his massive outlay of $$$$$ day after day for things and services he never dreamed he’d need … there is a tacit understanding that …

      a) this is all just a massive tax write-off in the manner of a Nancy Pelosi’s Napa vineyard property.
      but
      b) he’s genuinely running the operation himself. Yes, for the TV program … but he’s not simply hired a farm-management corporation and sat back touring the property in one of his many Range Rovers

      I must say … as I believe Trump has said … I work for $$$ RICH $$$ people – primarily. No poor people have EVER paid my salary. And the Oregon Farmers I worked for in the summer of 1974 … who were just starting to farm their 5,000 acres … who were so broke that they gipped me out of a quarter of the $$Pay promised me … are all now MULTI-MULTI-MULTI millionaires who have traveled the world and lived rich full lives. Not every farmer is poor.

      1. As if the locals aren’t fully aware of Clarkson’s ample financial resources

        The show’s not aimed at the locals, Kenji.

        1. I’m fairly sure the entire International audience has access to Google … which will splash out valuable websites such as: Jeremy Clarkson’s net worth and Jeremy Clarkson’s marriages and past girlfriends. Maybe even Jeremy Clarkson’s mansions!?

      2. Just about every farmer I know spends a minimum of 4 weeks in Phoenix every winter. The only ones that don’t go are the ones that still have school-age kids.

    3. And Daniel … this from an actual eyewitness to the “punching”

      The chef at the luxury Simonstone Hall Hotel in the Yorkshire Dales, UK, had reportedly left for the night, with just soup and a platter of cold meats available.

      “We were surprised at his (Clarkson’s) reaction because we were all thinking ‘surely soup is food’,” the witness said.
      “When they arrived just after 10pm Clarkson got angry. It was more like a scuffle. But he did swear using every bad word you could think of.
      “The producer stood there looking quiet and embarrassed. He was being blamed for not arranging hot food. The general manager ended up cooking himself for the three presenters.”
      A local said the hosts and crew left the next day and Clarkson apologised for his outburst.

      Sure, you can call Clarkson a pampered media personality. Of course he is. But he is also under a LOT of pressure to PRODUCE … and here he is finally sitting down to dinner so LATE that the Hotel Chef has left for the night!! That’s a LONG day. And the “Producer” a glorified title for “lackey” … just shrugged and said meh. no chef, no steak. A more resourceful “Producer” would have done better. And ironically, the HOTEL MANAGER cooked the damn steaks himself !!! Too bad the pampered overpaid BBC “Producer” didn’t apologize and go do the same.

      2. You lay hands on someone, regardless of how poorly they’ve done their job, that’s criminal assault. The extent to which people want to excuse Clarkson’s behaviour because they’ve bought into the working-class-bloke-makes-good narrative is disturbing.

        I once worked for an engineering office where the General Manager lost his temper in a meeting and threw a ballpoint pen at one of the project managers. Didn’t even hit him. The GM was banned from the site and fired on the spot. He managed to keep his job on a technicality – the UK operations were a separate legal entity than the Canadian ones – but he had to move his family to the UK for two years before quietly resigning. That’s what happens when regular people decide to engage in violent outbursts in the workplace.

        2. There’s no ball point pens in computer engineering! … but apparently there’s lots and lots of crying.

          BTW … Jeremy Clarkson has PROVEN his brilliance … once again … and not only “landed on his feet … but he’s KILLING IT! The BBC … not so much. His Top Gear replacements? Ouch … I almost feel sorry for them

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