I see with interest and some sadness that one of the new generation of Top Gear presenters has nearly killed himself in jet powered car stunt. Being a bloke - I can't help but love the idea of fast cars, high octane excitement and V8 nirvana. It was obviously a risky thing to do but all power to him for having a go - it must have been awesome before it all went 'tits-up'.
I don't have any sympathy with the papers/media who are getting up themselves about tv entertainers/risk/money/danger etc. I can remember when I was a lad (and tv was still B&W) people like John Noakes on BBC childerens prog Blue Peter, doing all sorts of risky stuff. It's entertaining and informative and memorable. Just because he didn't actually 'fall off' Nelson's column - it doesn't mean that it wasn't risky.
However (you knew that was coming didn't you) - what really pisses me off is Jo public (and Joanna Public) on ordinary roads, at any time of day or night, feet away from families, kids, pedestrians generally, who have their foot welded to the floor the whole time they're driving and are completely pissed at anyone who is doing less than the statuatory 25mph OVER the legal speed limit!
And oh yeah - these 'brain-deads' have to be talking on their mobile. And they have to have bad skin, stink of McDonalds and are most often seen in Burberry baseball caps and 'tracky-bottoms'
I thought that I was just prejudiced - but then I started counting examples and it turned out to be worse than I thought.
There are a few odd exceptions to the type though.
Recently I was hurtling through the countryside on the way to work and I (dear reader) was doing 80mph, already some 10 miles per hour over the speed limit, when a little old lady who could hardly see over her steering wheel went past me like I was standing still!
Perhaps she had a Burberry blanket over her lap?
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