I like car races because cars are inanimate objects.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Yeah, the drivers aren't, but they are adults and know the risks. Which steadily get smaller and smaller. (HANS device, SAFER barrier, survival cells, anti-fire fuel tank coating, the list is endless.)

That will be all. Have a nice day.

[DS1]

1. However, the last time I checked, we don't eat cars

So the analogy fails.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Meh?

[bicentennial_baby]

3. You eat horses?

;)

[DS1]

4. tail first, baby

I like to get the taste of ass out the way early.

[madeline_con]

8. LOL!

:rofl:

[TZ]

5. They pollute badly ya know

You have the right to enjoy your racing. But to try to make it superior to horse racing. Doesn't wash.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

I would think the cars of people going to the event make the race consumption tiny.

What about electricity at rock concerts? Or the planes they fly in when making their worldwide tours?

[TZ]

9. I'm making the point that all these kind of things can be criticized

But these cars are LOUD and do pollute. Think about the amount of fuel alone used in these races.
Hay and feed are at least renewable resources.

[LeftyMom]

20. So do trucks pulling horse trailers. And Saudis jetting in to watch their horses.

For that matter, hay and oats get fertilized with oil based fertilizers and harvested by oil-burning machinery.

Comparing carbon footprint to animal cruelty is nonsensical and just plain stupid. One has nothing to do with the other.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Racing is boring unless you're an active participant.

Never understood the appeal of watching things try to go faster than one another.

[flvegan]

7. How many drivers get culled (killed) because they aren't fast enough?

I say this under the assumption that you're drawing certain parallels between car and horse racing.

Besides, it's a far easier attempt to get a horse going 'round the track than it is an F1 car.

[DS1]

10. It's actually very difficult

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0O7gFycPho

not that I disagree with you entirely.

[flvegan]

12. Hammond

is precisely what I was thinking when I posted that.

A horse is easier to get going, as proven.

[DS1]

13. In all fairness

they should have had a test driver in front of him leading him up to speed, like the NASCAR school did with Tiff Needel in 5th gear.

[flvegan]

14. Wouldn't have been as funny

and therefore not as "Top Gear". As stated, brilliant but rubbish per Clarkson.

[DS1]

15. Agreed

Again.

[harmonicon]

16. I guess I wouldn't mind if Clarkson were put-down for not performing NT

[flvegan]

17. Clarkson is the best thing

the BBC has to offer, mate, as the pioneer of the best show they can promote on this shore. Suggesting he should be "put-down" is sort of...stupid.

[harmonicon]

18. He's a right-wing whack-job!!!!

I used to watch top gear, but I got so sick of him that I can't watch it any more. Any time his face comes on TV, I have to change the channel.

[flvegan]

19. Hey mate

I see you're a Brit, so I'll bow out to what you say. I can only speak to what we get here in the States, what I see on the tele and what's put forth via DVD.

I DO however appreciate his love for the "shouty" cars, though.

Sue me.

[harmonicon]

22. yeah, I love cars

That's why I used to watch top gear, but I got so sick of hist anit-global warming, and anti-public transit diatribes, that I can't deal with it anymore. I have no problem caring about the environment and thinking that a '72 Cutlass 442 is a great car - they aren't mutually exclusive.

[DS1]

21. He really is a right-wing tool

He's the epitome of pig-headedness. He's my right-wing boss 4 times over. Clarkson is an arrogant fuckwad. Clarkson is everything that is wrong with upperclass society.


Fuck Clarkson. Fuck him and his stupid antics.

[Truthiness Inspector]

11. I agree.

I can't bring myself to read the stories about the horse today. The horse did not choose to be used as an expendable object, one that resulted in his/her death.

If people want to crash and burn, they make that choice and are living their lives/dreams.