The Jeremy Clarkson Thread

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Fri, 2006-10-20 21:45

pepsoid

The Jeremy Clarkson Thread

I am somewhat concerned.

I fear that I may soon be handing round the "Daily Mail Rolled Up Newspaper Spankathon" sponsor form.

I am presently half-way through "The World According to Jeremy Clarkson," and I am finding I agree with a large portion of what he is saying. For example... is it me or does the following just make perfect sense?

"... if you have all the facts to hand, you will see there are two sides to every argument and that both sides are right. So, you can only have an opinion if you do not have all the facts to hand."

Help...?

~ PEPS ~

Sat, 2006-10-21 11:57

yan

Probabality kinda stunts the argument. Both sides are not right. One is right and one side is wrong. In my opinion :) There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed - Dennett

There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed -
Dennett

Sat, 2006-10-21 13:02

bobblehat2023

"is it me or does the following just make perfect sense? "... if you have all the facts to hand, you will see there are two sides to every argument and that both sides are right. So, you can only have an opinion if you do not have all the facts to hand."" Outside of any specific context, this quoted wisdom from Mr Clarkson is not only not perfect sense, it actually has no meaning whatsoever.

Sat, 2006-10-21 15:29

pepsoid

Okay, I'll put the quote into a bit more context... Mr C, in his essay, "The More We're Told the Less We Know," is talking about how how we in Britain read more newspapers than any other European country (apparently) and we generally have more access to information about international political matters - via the Internet, TV and so on - than ever before. We can in theory pull out statistics to back up virtually any argument we could make, and we average (ish) members of General Q Public can, if we so wish, become informed enough to make a pretty good argument for pretty much any viewpoint we wish to make a pretty good argument for. Therefore, whereas a few decades ago, we may have had firmly held convictions along the lines of "Those Germans don't half make a good sausage" or "The French know public transport, don't they?" or whatever, without really knowing what we were talking about, nowadays we have enough information to hand to be able to argue that "blue Smarties are made of cheese" or "Nigel Kennedy is a Jovian mud-wrestler" with little fear of casual contradicition. So yes, JC is on the one hand talking absolute rubbish and making a statement that has no meaning whatsoever, but on the other hand his words do indeed make perfect sense. I'm off for a pint. ~PEPS~ You canâ€™t finish a man till heâ€™s finished his Texan Bar

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Sat, 2006-10-21 22:10

yan

http://www.consumating.com/profiles/anaem/topics Check the comment from 'teaspoon'. :) There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed - Dennett

There's nothing more mind-teasing than the incomprehensible eagerly avowed -
Dennett

Sun, 2006-10-22 09:48

pepsoid

Like... OMYGOD!!... What a strange and mysterious coincidence! ~PEPS~ You canâ€™t finish a man till heâ€™s finished his Texan Bar

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Sun, 2006-10-22 09:52

pepsoid

(I can categorically say that I have never seen that website before in my life, and I am not acquainted in the slightest with the personage known as 'teaspoon') (may I also mention that upon the day of reading said comment (i.e. today), it had been posted 166 days ago, and the first house I ever lived in was a number 166...? Coincidence...? Synchronicity...? Is the universe trying to tell me something about blue Smarties and cheese...? Or something...? Oddness indeed, I say, oddness indeed.........) ~PEPS~ You canâ€™t finish a man till heâ€™s finished his Texan Bar

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