Well….on Monday night, I was watching “Top Gear” specifically since they were going to do a review of the new Miata and I hadn’t seen a review or video of the car so I thought it would be kind of cool….and the piece with the Hamster started out good with them driving either a Marina or Laguna blue old one and then getting into the new one…and Hamster was really impressed with the new car…loved how it drove…that it was slow but a perfect sports car…but then, he just had to trot out the tired, old stereotype of the Miata being a car that only women and hairdressers bought throughout it’s history….now…I have only known a few women who drove sports cars (T being one of them) and I have never known a hairdresser that owned one…I will admit that I don’t know very many hairdressers so that sample may be a little skewed….I do know one thing…or two things…I’m not a woman or a hairdresser and I own a Miata…. just irritated me all to hell that they had to ruin a good segment trying to be cute….
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Boycott “Top Gear”….
Well…I am outraged at what Jeremy Clarkson said yesterday about the workers striking in the UK to try to maintain their pay and pensions…this idiot came out and said that the strikers “should be shot in front of their families” and that they have gilt-edged pensions while he has to work for a living. Given the fact that the taxes of these strikers pay his salary through the parent company of his tv and radio shows; the BBC, and that he makes more than a million dollars a year just screwing around with cars, I think he should just shut the hell up and go back to his privileged life…I know I’ll never watch “Top Gear” again….and I think no one else should, either. Geez….
Okay…have thought about this for a few minutes and I do have to protect this idiots rights to say what he thinks whether or not it was a joke…it will still make me less likely to watch his show, though…..it’s what makes a free society and to be consistent to my beliefs on this subject I need to support his right to be an idiot…