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Posted: 5/3/2024 8:37:32 AM EDT
[#1]
I kinda lost interest in season 2…
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Posted: 5/3/2024 8:44:18 AM EDT
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Excellent! I was super skeptical when the show was announced, but that guy knows how to entertain. Even my wife who had zero interest in the premise is hooked. But she also loves the OG Top Gear and Grand Tour.
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Posted: 5/3/2024 9:09:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Stillnothere: It seems the council doesn't like him. They want to remain their sleepy little town, even if it harms the local farmers. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 9:10:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MallNinja531: Excellent! I was super skeptical when the show was announced, but that guy knows how to entertain. Even my wife who had zero interest in the premise is hooked. But she also loves the OG Top Gear and Grand Tour. There are definately some scripted bits, but there is also raw emotion too. He's done a lot to show the plight of the farmers there who have to survive without Amazon and BBC money. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 9:17:37 AM EDT
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nice. I'll do CF and then rewatch FO
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Posted: 5/3/2024 10:24:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: No its supposed to be over after this season, because of his comments on Harry and Meghan. Then his his wife came out recently and said next season was coming. Clarkson is a cash cow. Amazon would be insane to drop him, but you have to let time pass. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: Originally Posted By RustyKnifeUSMC: Best news today. I was under the impression that the series was permanently over after the last season. No its supposed to be over after this season, because of his comments on Harry and Meghan. Then his his wife came out recently and said next season was coming. Clarkson is a cash cow. Amazon would be insane to drop him, but you have to let time pass. Jezza already announced that there is another season. eta: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0Q__PUNquj/ |
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MN, USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 11:57:59 AM EDT
[Last Edit: BobP]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BFskinner: Yes, why would you want to bring economic prosperity to the area and help the local businesses stay afloat. Fuck those hard working poors. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BFskinner: Originally Posted By BobP: Some don't like his celebrity, some didn't like him blowing up the house. They really don't like the attention their little corner of the world receives with him there. Yes, why would you want to bring economic prosperity to the area and help the local businesses stay afloat. Fuck those hard working poors. They are more concerned about sticking it to him than understanding how it could help the surrounding farmers. They should be closely working with him instead of fighting him. They could help all of the farmers in the area, instead they are getting demonized very publicly. He's the modern version of they saying that you can't fight those who buy ink by the gallon. The fact the council considers the shop an entertainment center is very telling what they think of him |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 12:36:25 PM EDT
[Last Edit: MadMonkey]
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Jeremy: "I'm making you farm manager"
Caleb: "You're fired"  I don't think there's any other show that can at the same time make me laugh so hard and be so fucking pissed off. ETA: I was a couple of hours from Diddly Squat a few weeks ago but they were closed 
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Posted: 5/3/2024 12:50:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MadMonkey: Jeremy: "I'm making you farm manager" Caleb: "You're fired" I don't think there's any other show that can at the same time make me laugh so hard and be so fucking pissed off. ETA: I was a couple of hours from Diddly Squat a few weeks ago but they were closed The crew in the background laughing after Caleb described his plan to...whatever he said instead of analyze was good. And it was very subtle, but Charlie's facial expresion as Jeremy described his jam cooking was hilarious. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 12:55:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jm0502: I'm upset about pepper. Me too. I'm not looking forward to the 4th episode after reading these comments. |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 1:10:14 PM EDT
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Is Clarkson the UK version of orange man bad?
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Posted: 5/3/2024 2:58:36 PM EDT
[#12]
I like his constantly telling the dogs to do something and them absolutely ignoring him.
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MN, USA
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Posted: 5/3/2024 3:52:53 PM EDT
[Last Edit: BobP]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: I agree, I've pulled calves by hand. I had a cow give birth far from the barn. The calf's feet got stuck inside and it died, by the time we found her, mom wasn't going to make it either, blood everywhere and she couldn't stand. Out comes the old 30/30 from the tractor seat and that was that. I meant we didn't get to name them when we were kids. By the age of 12 I understood why. Thank God we never had a fire, but we did burn several dead animals because the vet said it might be a better idea than the backhoe. So yeah I know that smell well. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: Originally Posted By BobP: Yep, never name your food. If you aren't used to butchering and dead animals, it can get difficult. Some don't care, I really enjoyed Wilber's pork chops. But I grew up watching chickens being butchered and saw the rendering truck pick up dead cattle. One uncle worked at Wilson's meat packing and other at Hormel. I understood naming was for identification. I wasn't naming a pet. My dad also has a backhoe, so I buried a lot of dead animals for the farmers. There's nothing like burying over 100 piglets after a barn fire. Let them cure in the summer heat for a week while waiting for the insurance adjuster. You'll either swear off meat, or naming livestock becomes no big deal. I agree, I've pulled calves by hand. I had a cow give birth far from the barn. The calf's feet got stuck inside and it died, by the time we found her, mom wasn't going to make it either, blood everywhere and she couldn't stand. Out comes the old 30/30 from the tractor seat and that was that. I meant we didn't get to name them when we were kids. By the age of 12 I understood why. Thank God we never had a fire, but we did burn several dead animals because the vet said it might be a better idea than the backhoe. So yeah I know that smell well. I got familiar with dead animals at an early age, burying them for neighbors was part of my dad's business. Many a night we parked the backhoe downwind, well away from the house. It really wouldn't have been as bad but it usually took the insurance adjusters several days to approve disposal. I once buried a sow which had to weigh over 800 pounds. It was severely bloated and when it slid into the burial hole, it popped. That sound and smell is still with me. The Clarkson's reaction to the piglet problem is understandable for the first year raising pigs. They are slowly learning to not get too attached, but it takes time. I don't think it's possible to be completely emotionally detached from the animals and be a good farmer. Back to the show, I wonder what it cost him for the loan and return of the blackberry picker? |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 5:06:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BobP: I got familiar with dead animals at an early age, burying them for neighbors was part of my dad's business. Many a night we parked the backhoe downwind, well away from the house. It really wouldn't have been as bad but it usually took the insurance adjusters several days to approve disposal. I once buried a sow which had to weigh over 800 pounds. It was severely bloated and when it slid into the burial hole, it popped. That sound and smell is still with me. The Clarkson's reaction to the piglet problem is understandable for the first year raising pigs. They are slowly learning to not get too attached, but it takes time. I don't think it's possible to be completely emotionally detached from the animals and be a good farmer. Back to the show, I wonder what it cost him for the loan and return of the blackberry picker? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BobP: Originally Posted By Hobs98: Originally Posted By BobP: Yep, never name your food. If you aren't used to butchering and dead animals, it can get difficult. Some don't care, I really enjoyed Wilber's pork chops. But I grew up watching chickens being butchered and saw the rendering truck pick up dead cattle. One uncle worked at Wilson's meat packing and other at Hormel. I understood naming was for identification. I wasn't naming a pet. My dad also has a backhoe, so I buried a lot of dead animals for the farmers. There's nothing like burying over 100 piglets after a barn fire. Let them cure in the summer heat for a week while waiting for the insurance adjuster. You'll either swear off meat, or naming livestock becomes no big deal. I agree, I've pulled calves by hand. I had a cow give birth far from the barn. The calf's feet got stuck inside and it died, by the time we found her, mom wasn't going to make it either, blood everywhere and she couldn't stand. Out comes the old 30/30 from the tractor seat and that was that. I meant we didn't get to name them when we were kids. By the age of 12 I understood why. Thank God we never had a fire, but we did burn several dead animals because the vet said it might be a better idea than the backhoe. So yeah I know that smell well. I got familiar with dead animals at an early age, burying them for neighbors was part of my dad's business. Many a night we parked the backhoe downwind, well away from the house. It really wouldn't have been as bad but it usually took the insurance adjusters several days to approve disposal. I once buried a sow which had to weigh over 800 pounds. It was severely bloated and when it slid into the burial hole, it popped. That sound and smell is still with me. The Clarkson's reaction to the piglet problem is understandable for the first year raising pigs. They are slowly learning to not get too attached, but it takes time. I don't think it's possible to be completely emotionally detached from the animals and be a good farmer. Back to the show, I wonder what it cost him for the loan and return of the blackberry picker? |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 6:26:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheYellowThing: They fucked up both the wall and the picker. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheYellowThing: Originally Posted By BobP: Originally Posted By Hobs98: Originally Posted By BobP: Yep, never name your food. If you aren't used to butchering and dead animals, it can get difficult. Some don't care, I really enjoyed Wilber's pork chops. But I grew up watching chickens being butchered and saw the rendering truck pick up dead cattle. One uncle worked at Wilson's meat packing and other at Hormel. I understood naming was for identification. I wasn't naming a pet. My dad also has a backhoe, so I buried a lot of dead animals for the farmers. There's nothing like burying over 100 piglets after a barn fire. Let them cure in the summer heat for a week while waiting for the insurance adjuster. You'll either swear off meat, or naming livestock becomes no big deal. I agree, I've pulled calves by hand. I had a cow give birth far from the barn. The calf's feet got stuck inside and it died, by the time we found her, mom wasn't going to make it either, blood everywhere and she couldn't stand. Out comes the old 30/30 from the tractor seat and that was that. I meant we didn't get to name them when we were kids. By the age of 12 I understood why. Thank God we never had a fire, but we did burn several dead animals because the vet said it might be a better idea than the backhoe. So yeah I know that smell well. I got familiar with dead animals at an early age, burying them for neighbors was part of my dad's business. Many a night we parked the backhoe downwind, well away from the house. It really wouldn't have been as bad but it usually took the insurance adjusters several days to approve disposal. I once buried a sow which had to weigh over 800 pounds. It was severely bloated and when it slid into the burial hole, it popped. That sound and smell is still with me. The Clarkson's reaction to the piglet problem is understandable for the first year raising pigs. They are slowly learning to not get too attached, but it takes time. I don't think it's possible to be completely emotionally detached from the animals and be a good farmer. Back to the show, I wonder what it cost him for the loan and return of the blackberry picker? Yeah, it looked like a brand new picker, and now it has to go in for repairs. Repairing that fence looks extremely time consuming. That was really expensive. That tree was also a head scratcher. Why did he need to get it upright? |
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Posted: 5/3/2024 7:33:36 PM EDT
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I'm 2 episodes in - always think I'll put in on in the background and do things but end up watching and (mostly) laughing. Great stuff.
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:40:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fivepointoh: My parents, retired farmers, love this show, yesterday my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Hit me like a bag of bricks but he has a positive outlook so I will too. Fuck cancer. eta: my dad turns 70 this year. I'm adopted but both my grandfathers had it and they lived into their 80's and 90's but you just never know with the big C. I hope your dad is able to beat it. Prostate cancer got my grandfather, but he'd had it a few times and it just kept coming back. It's generally a very beatable cancer as long as it's caught early enough. Try not to let it get to you too much, but that's easier said than done. Whatever you do, don't treat your old man any different, he already thinks about it enough, so try and get him out to do things as much as possible. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:45:30 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BobP: Yep, never name your food. If you aren't used to butchering and dead animals, it can get difficult. Some don't care, I really enjoyed Wilber's pork chops. But I grew up watching chickens being butchered and saw the rendering truck pick up dead cattle. One uncle worked at Wilson's meat packing and other at Hormel. I understood naming was for identification. I wasn't naming a pet. My dad also has a backhoe, so I buried a lot of dead animals for the farmers. There's nothing like burying over 100 piglets after a barn fire. Let them cure in the summer heat for a week while waiting for the insurance adjuster. You'll either swear off meat, or naming livestock becomes no big deal. We've had a homestead/farm for 20 years now, and I will fully admit that raising pigs was the hardest of all the animals we've raised to eat. They all had such cool personalities, but they also kept me on my toes, if you go down in the pig pen, you're food. I had to take my wife for a drive when the truck came to put them down and take them to the butcher shop, and after all that the butcher ruined all 4 pigs, then went out of business. Cows didn't bother me, I did those myself, same with the chickens and ducks. I'd like to raise some buffalo, but we'd have to do all new fencing. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:47:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: No its supposed to be over after this season, because of his comments on Harry and Meghan. Then his his wife came out recently and said next season was coming. Clarkson is a cash cow. Amazon would be insane to drop him, but you have to let time pass. I knew Amazon would cave, like you said he's just damn good at what he does. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:47:46 AM EDT
[#20]
It was okay. Not quite as funny as the first season.
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:53:50 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MadMonkey: Jeremy: "I'm making you farm manager" Caleb: "You're fired" I don't think there's any other show that can at the same time make me laugh so hard and be so fucking pissed off. ETA: I was a couple of hours from Diddly Squat a few weeks ago but they were closed Those two really look like they're having fun. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:17:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mall-Ninja: I kinda lost interest in season 2… S3E1 is very boring. Not sure I can finish this season if I cannot get through the first episode. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:25:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MilHouse-556: Is Clarkson the UK version of orange man bad? The left have loved to hate a Jeremy for decades. But it’s not as fervent as TDS |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:27:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By compuvette: Excellent. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:28:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chokey: Jezza already announced that there is another season. eta: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0Q__PUNquj/ Great news, as I said someone back tracked |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:31:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MilHouse-556: Is Clarkson the UK version of orange man bad? Pretty close. For sure in that little hamlet. The higher ups despise him. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:35:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BobP: I got familiar with dead animals at an early age, burying them for neighbors was part of my dad's business. Many a night we parked the backhoe downwind, well away from the house. It really wouldn't have been as bad but it usually took the insurance adjusters several days to approve disposal. I once buried a sow which had to weigh over 800 pounds. It was severely bloated and when it slid into the burial hole, it popped. That sound and smell is still with me. The Clarkson's reaction to the piglet problem is understandable for the first year raising pigs. They are slowly learning to not get too attached, but it takes time. I don't think it's possible to be completely emotionally detached from the animals and be a good farmer. Back to the show, I wonder what it cost him for the loan and return of the blackberry picker? Been there done all that. I know that smell too. As far as the blackberry picker. 8 to 10k is my guess. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 1:36:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BobP: Yeah, it looked like a brand new picker, and now it has to go in for repairs. Repairing that fence looks extremely time consuming. That was really expensive. That tree was also a head scratcher. Why did he need to get it upright? I figure they popped the tap root straightening it. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 2:01:19 AM EDT
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Oh shit!
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Posted: 5/4/2024 3:34:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: No its supposed to be over after this season, because of his comments on Harry and Meghan. Then his his wife came out recently and said next season was coming. Clarkson is a cash cow. Amazon would be insane to drop him, but you have to let time pass. I have an idea..Bring him to TX! |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 3:36:45 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Dagoth-Ur]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BobP: They are more concerned about sticking it to him than understanding how it could help the surrounding farmers. They should be closely working with him instead of fighting him. They could help all of the farmers in the area, instead they are getting demonized very publicly. He's the modern version of they saying that you can't fight those who buy ink by the gallon. The fact the council considers the shop an entertainment center is very telling what they think of him Can’t fight with people who buy ink by the gallon? You also shouldn’t fight with people who buy ANFO buy the ton. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 11:22:42 AM EDT
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These shows fascinate me. It seems like whenever he gets ahead, the council issues some edict, it rains too much, it rains too little, the tractor breaks, and so on. I imagine some of this is scripted or arranged, but I suspect it is based in truth.
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Posted: 5/4/2024 11:31:27 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/4/2024 11:42:51 AM EDT
[#34]
He should have just picked his blackberries by hand.
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Posted: 5/4/2024 11:46:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheYellowThing: They fucked up both the wall and the picker.  The picker itself needed to be self-powered and drivable. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 11:48:21 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: Pretty close. For sure in that little hamlet. The higher ups despise him. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: Originally Posted By MilHouse-556: Is Clarkson the UK version of orange man bad? Pretty close. For sure in that little hamlet. The higher ups despise him. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 11:59:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BobP: They are more concerned about sticking it to him than understanding how it could help the surrounding farmers. They should be closely working with him instead of fighting him. They could help all of the farmers in the area, instead they are getting demonized very publicly. He's the modern version of they saying that you can't fight those who buy ink by the gallon. The fact the council considers the shop an entertainment center is very telling what they think of him Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BobP: Originally Posted By BFskinner: Originally Posted By BobP: Some don't like his celebrity, some didn't like him blowing up the house. They really don't like the attention their little corner of the world receives with him there. Yes, why would you want to bring economic prosperity to the area and help the local businesses stay afloat. Fuck those hard working poors. They are more concerned about sticking it to him than understanding how it could help the surrounding farmers. They should be closely working with him instead of fighting him. They could help all of the farmers in the area, instead they are getting demonized very publicly. He's the modern version of they saying that you can't fight those who buy ink by the gallon. The fact the council considers the shop an entertainment center is very telling what they think of him They want nice looking play farms around their town so they can enjoy the view on their Sunday drives. Working farms are annoying and dirty. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 12:49:27 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Osprey61]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Hobs98: Pretty close. For sure in that little hamlet. The higher ups despise him. Oh, it extends way beyond the Cotswolds. There's a large and very vocal segment of the UK population that hate the man with a real fervor. You should read the comments in the tabloids some time, there's been some real ugly stuff. Despite a ton of charity work and the world's #1 television show, Jeremy has never been on the Honors List and probably never will be. He's savaged most of Britain's politicians, their policies, and the royal family enough to insure that. Lots of the destruction and foolishness are just reality TV. There's zero real concern about cost and profit or loss on that farm. Prime needs content, and had no idea Clarkson's Farm would turn into a run-away hit that would actually impact the laws and regulations on farming in the UK. The people who dropped off that very expensive blackberry picker knew damn well he was going to run it down a stone hedgerow, and didn't give a damn. I'm sure they were standing there when he did it, and took it back to salvage what remained. I think this season is awesome. It needed some gravitas to balance out the clown show. The BBC has always paid poverty wages. Clarkson said Prime's reps wrote a figure on a napkin at a lunch in L.A. for The Grand Tour that dropped his jaw. TGT was okay, and well received, but CF is a monster. He's making insane money, I just hope it doesn't fuck up Caleb's life. Jeremy came from money (his family owned Paddington Bear), Caleb and co. are just ordinary people caught up in a phenomenon that must be slightly bewildering to them. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 5:25:04 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Alacrity]
[#39]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By memsu: I can't believe the locals hate his restaurant. He's using stuff from the farms all around helping them out. Seems like people would be ok with that. I hope he finds a way to totally screw over the town government. The Cotswold isn't Kansas, even Iowa. It's a lot more like Napa. Tourism (look at the Michelin Guide) is as or maybe more important than ag. It's an area with lot of well heeled land owners, actual working farms, and pretentious locals (some generational, often recent arrivals which you heard in the show - some big dollar celebs) who bristle at the encroachment of monied outsiders. So you get a lot of weird tension, amongst competing interests, which results in things like this empowered by the special status the area was granted in the 60s, at all the https://www.cotswold.gov.uk/communities-and-leisure/support-for-communities/community-right-to-bid/ Least it's not become a National Park. . . Yet. As Osprey mentions, Jeremy is a polarizing, and often inflammatory and quite intentionally confrontational, public figure. But it's his schtick and the formula has served him well. Until it doesn't. Which then just becomes fodder for better story telling. The great news is his income isn't dependent on any of the small output the farm goods bring in. The show itself and his continued notoriety is the real value - and the goal in any event. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 6:51:30 PM EDT
[#40]
I totally understand the locals fighting anything that changes their lives. They chose to live as they did for a reason. They are just fine being poor or hard working and don't welcome new prosperity.
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:11:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Alacrity: The Cotswold isn't Kansas, even Iowa. It's a lot more like Napa. Tourism (look at the Michelin Guide) is as or maybe more important than ag. It's an area with lot of well heeled land owners, actual working farms, and pretentious locals (some generational, often recent arrivals which you heard in the show - some big dollar celebs) who bristle at the encroachment of monied outsiders. So you get a lot of weird tension, amongst competing interests, which results in things like this empowered by the special status the area was granted in the 60s, at all the https://www.cotswold.gov.uk/communities-and-leisure/support-for-communities/community-right-to-bid/ Least it's not become a National Park. . . Yet. As Osprey mentions, Jeremy is a polarizing, and often inflammatory and quite intentionally confrontational, public figure. But it's his schtick and the formula has served him well. Until it doesn't. Which then just becomes fodder for better story telling. The great news is his income isn't dependent on any of the small output the farm goods bring in. The show itself and his continued notoriety is the real value - and the goal in any event. His income isn’t dependent on the farming, but it can’t just be a financial chest wound either. He does seem to honestly care about the plight of the other local farmers that don’t have another income stream to hold them afloat. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:12:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rope-A-Dope: I totally understand the locals fighting anything that changes their lives. They chose to live as they did for a reason. They are just fine being poor or hard working and don't welcome new prosperity. The council certainly seems fine with other people being poor as long as it doesn’t effect them. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:26:10 PM EDT
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Didn't Amazon cancel clackson last year for a mean tweet?
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:28:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Asylum9: Didn't Amazon cancel clackson last year for a mean tweet? This season was already in the can so they released it. Then time, and money, healed the wounds and they are doing season four. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:33:11 PM EDT
[#45]
Episode 2 with the pig sex was some of the funniest tv I have seen in years.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:42:15 PM EDT
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Clarkson is a master showman. He knows how to entertain. He knows how to make what would normally be a boring show very entertaining.
The money the farm loses or makes is nothing compared to the money that Clarkson and Amazon are making out of this show. He could give a shit if his blackberries make any money or not. It is scripted and financed reality TV that is amusing. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:43:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PCB66: Clarkson is a master showman. He knows how to entertain. He knows how to make what would normally be a boring show very entertaining. The money the farm loses or makes is nothing compared to the money that Clarkson and Amazon are making out of this show. He could give a shit if his blackberries make any money or not. It is scripted and financed reality TV that is amusing. Get back to us on how they scripted episode four. |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 7:44:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmilingBandit: His income isn't dependent on the farming, but it can't just be a financial chest wound either. He does seem to honestly care about the plight of the other local farmers that don't have another income stream to hold them afloat. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmilingBandit: Originally Posted By Alacrity: The Cotswold isn't Kansas, even Iowa. It's a lot more like Napa. Tourism (look at the Michelin Guide) is as or maybe more important than ag. It's an area with lot of well heeled land owners, actual working farms, and pretentious locals (some generational, often recent arrivals which you heard in the show - some big dollar celebs) who bristle at the encroachment of monied outsiders. So you get a lot of weird tension, amongst competing interests, which results in things like this empowered by the special status the area was granted in the 60s, at all the https://www.cotswold.gov.uk/communities-and-leisure/support-for-communities/community-right-to-bid/ Least it's not become a National Park. . . Yet. As Osprey mentions, Jeremy is a polarizing, and often inflammatory and quite intentionally confrontational, public figure. But it's his schtick and the formula has served him well. Until it doesn't. Which then just becomes fodder for better story telling. The great news is his income isn't dependent on any of the small output the farm goods bring in. The show itself and his continued notoriety is the real value - and the goal in any event. His income isn't dependent on the farming, but it can't just be a financial chest wound either. He does seem to honestly care about the plight of the other local farmers that don't have another income stream to hold them afloat. He's become a likable, persistently disgruntled media character and I do think sympathetic to local farmers. Within reason. Industrial scale farming is pretty rare in the UK , but increasing. Tho there's much resistance from all political stripes and corners to this. How welcome would a 750 breeding sow op be adjacent to Diddly Squat - and how do you think JC would respond. Not that it would be allowed within the confines of AONB borders. As noted in the show tho, the little tip up top is outside.  Jeremy moved to Teh Cotswolds to have a Country Gentry life, not farm per se. There's much less restrictive locales if farming was mainly his interest, tho it is integral to the show. No farming no show. I've seen the tension that develops between lifetime townies, monied new arrivals, hobby ranchers, Amish, professional farmers, developers, and local, state and federal govt. It's no different there, except there's more Michelin starred restaurants in Teh Cotswolds than some (really most) multi-state regions in the US. There's a couple in Cheltenham proper itself. That should be a clue to how the area is actually operating. (Beehive is more my speed but I'm not a gastronome - it's still a bit fu-fu)  Attached FileNMP - but gives an idea It's like poster child idyllic. https://www.cotswolds.com/ |
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Posted: 5/4/2024 10:48:21 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmilingBandit: Get back to us on how they scripted episode four. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SmilingBandit: Originally Posted By PCB66: Clarkson is a master showman. He knows how to entertain. He knows how to make what would normally be a boring show very entertaining. The money the farm loses or makes is nothing compared to the money that Clarkson and Amazon are making out of this show. He could give a shit if his blackberries make any money or not. It is scripted and financed reality TV that is amusing. Get back to us on how they scripted episode four. I don't think it's highly scripted, but there is a rough outline. It's obvious they have tasks for him to attempt and fail at. While he's a newer farmer, but he's been a businessman for years. How did he handle the farm with the prior farm manager, did he not control costs then? The berry production is one example. It wouldn't make for great television if he planned everything out and didn't make repeated errors. He has done similar food production in the past, yet couldn't follow a simple recipe? He didn't know where the oven was? The whole bit, about pulling up the tree and not having a clue what it cost, seems very scripted This season he is showing improvement in several areas of farming, but some blunders are odd. Not having the pen setup until the last moment reeked of typical reality TV crunch time/panic mode. Some are 'normal'. The bit about the setting up of the pig huts and using two ends without doors is one I've seen personally. I've seen farmers put up a temporary fence without using a string several times, especially if it's only in use for a few weeks. The gate thing is funny, I've seen that exact thing because people will get an gate, but miscalculate the space needed for the hardware to hang it. |
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Posted: 5/5/2024 12:11:26 AM EDT
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Hey y’all, please set subtitles to English and post results.
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