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Anyone else watching clarkson farm season 2? I’m binge watching it!

212 replies

Ladybird69 · 13/02/2023 00:06

Don’t read if you are watching one episode at a time. I’m binge watching and loving it. The bloody councillors should be struck off the way they are treating him and through him the other local farmers.

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FenghuangHoyan · 13/02/2023 10:49

I don't like the guy much, but I enjoyed the first series in which he was only irritating the once. I'll watch the second series, as the first was informative and funny. I learnt a lot from it. I realise by doing so, I'm helping pay for this farm, but I'm not going to cut off my nose to spite my face.

MintyGreenDreams · 13/02/2023 10:58

@Lobelia123 spot on

BobLemon · 13/02/2023 11:03

I properly hope there’s a third season! I’ve really liked how cheerful Charlie IS actually cheerful this season.

I did a planning module at university, and touch on planning a bit through work (so far far from an expert!) so the scenes with the committee had me and my other half seething 😅 I think this season has contributed to an awareness of how poor our planning regimes are!

I really hope it’s improved recruitment in agriculture too. Makes it look properly idyllic instead of what must surely be mind numbing (going up and down up and down…)

TetherEndOfMy · 13/02/2023 11:11

SchoolTripDrama · 13/02/2023 09:51

@TetherEndOfMy 🙄 Do you really, honestly think those are his genuine beliefs ffs?!?! 🤦🏼‍♀️ It's called a JOKE! Admittedly bad ones but that doesn't mean that is what he believes/desires for goodness sake!

Give me strength! 🤣

Regardless of what you think about JC, it is not OK to make jokes that have a hurtful impact on others. I like clever jokes that tackle these issues in a roundabout way. Crass jokes about people's protected characteristics are not OK. This is coming from a black woman who had been the butt of many of these comments. But sure, they were jokes, maybe I should just laugh instead.

whatadoodledo · 13/02/2023 11:25

@RedToothBrush please get off your soap box. Farming has existed for thousands of years and we don't need Clarkson to 'save' farming. I'm not going to line that man's pockets for any reason.

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 13/02/2023 11:26

God no, can't stand the boorish, self-entitled, sexist twat.

JaneJeffer · 13/02/2023 11:29

Whoever edits the programme does a brilliant job.

mumsneedwine · 13/02/2023 11:34

@TetherEndOfMy but Meghan forgave Harry for dressing up as a Nazi ? How does this forgiving some and not others work ? If you can never say sorry for getting it wrong then how does this match with the Be Kind thing ? Don't like him, don't watch, v v simple.
He's not saving farming and never claims to be. He's highlighting issues that non farming families know nothing about. And most farmers are grateful for it. People want cheap food readily available so maybe they should know how it gets to their plate.

KevinsChilli · 13/02/2023 11:50

The councillor who voted against the small restaurant because he likes to stand outside at night and look at dark skies was just baffling! That other councillors face looking at him for saying that... knowing he's just being idiotic. Going against local farmes being able to make money and create jobs purely because it's Clarkson is just baffling.
Also them complaining about the cars having to park on the roads but then not allowing him a small car park in the muddy field.... I wonder what goes on in their heads!

RedToothBrush · 13/02/2023 12:09

whatadoodledo · 13/02/2023 11:25

@RedToothBrush please get off your soap box. Farming has existed for thousands of years and we don't need Clarkson to 'save' farming. I'm not going to line that man's pockets for any reason.

Farming existed for thousands of years as a subsistence activity. If you didn't farm, you either had a skilled trade that supported farming or needed materials from farming. And you had to get them locally. And skills needed for farming were passed from generation to generation.

We now live in a world where we can import food so don't need to grow locally which may mean we lose those skills / knowledge in this country because farming becomes uneconomic. Farmers are commercial interests and we don't have subsidence farming. It means there's no one to employ people living in rural communities...

That bloody well makes a huge difference.

That's a loss of jobs because we import. That's land management that's not done. That's economically leaving us vulnerable to geopolitical events beyond our control. That's a security issue. It's a supply chain issue.

Farming as it was thousands of years ago isn't, what it is today. That's the entire point. Clarkson makes the point he can't even make a farm track on his own land because he needs planning to do so. I don't think that ancient Brits had the problem of Oxfordshire Council...

But rather than standing on your own god damn soap box telling me to get off mine, maybe you should watch the show and learn why modern farming in the UK is at risk, the implications of this and why it's important.

You might actually learn something.

Rather than feeling superior about how wonderful you are for cancelling a truly awful man who should be hung, drawn and quartered for his 'crimes' against humanity. Or something.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face so you halo glows really does sum it up on this one.

The word prejudice comes from prejudging something without giving it a chance to demonstrate it's worth or value based on preconceived ideas about something. It cuts multiple ways.

faffadoodledo · 13/02/2023 12:11

W as t he's the first one with my dear dad before he died. Dad had dementia but could tolerate Clarkson on repeat.
Won't be watching any more. Vile man.

faffadoodledo · 13/02/2023 12:11

Watched the first one.
Mucky screen!

Birdsbirdsbirds · 13/02/2023 12:30

Ptea · 13/02/2023 09:49

I really liked the first season, we're crofters and felt he highlighted a lot of the problems farmers face in the UK. I'm a bit meh on the second season, just felt like a long moan on not being able to turn his farm into some kind of jeremy Clarkson Disneyland, I'd hate to live near him.

How was it anything comparable to Disneyland? It was a restaurant. Hardly exciting!

Birdsbirdsbirds · 13/02/2023 12:35

The council ought to be ashamed of themselves. It was embarrassing.

mumsneedwine · 13/02/2023 12:36

A restaurant that is going to help neighbouring farms keep going. A shop that had kept a local farmer afloat during her TB problems. Hardly Disneyland.

RedToothBrush · 13/02/2023 12:37

Birdsbirdsbirds · 13/02/2023 12:30

How was it anything comparable to Disneyland? It was a restaurant. Hardly exciting!

'Disneyland' that would provide jobs for locals and somewhere for local farmers to sell produce at a good price without being ripped off. That would ensure the local economy did well. It was one building. On already developed land.

Im not sure there are rollercoasters nor mice dressed in checked shirts with bad hair.

Nor do I think it terribly different from what many other farmers are doing. Not only doing, but being told to do by government... Did you miss the parts where there is a stress on the point that Government are telling farmers to diversify to survive (rather than government support farming and reduce their needless expenses / paperwork)? Guess not cos you havent watched it have you?

It's fascinating seeing the posts from people who have PREJUDGED the series from their ivory towers.

Birdsbirdsbirds · 13/02/2023 12:41

RedToothBrush · 13/02/2023 12:37

'Disneyland' that would provide jobs for locals and somewhere for local farmers to sell produce at a good price without being ripped off. That would ensure the local economy did well. It was one building. On already developed land.

Im not sure there are rollercoasters nor mice dressed in checked shirts with bad hair.

Nor do I think it terribly different from what many other farmers are doing. Not only doing, but being told to do by government... Did you miss the parts where there is a stress on the point that Government are telling farmers to diversify to survive (rather than government support farming and reduce their needless expenses / paperwork)? Guess not cos you havent watched it have you?

It's fascinating seeing the posts from people who have PREJUDGED the series from their ivory towers.

I don't know whether you've quoted the wrong person, but I agree with you. It's not Jeremy Clarkson Disneyland, it was diversifying, like he'd been told to do. The council were arseholes.

Ineedwinenow · 13/02/2023 12:42

Yeah we binged watched it yesterday! As someone who works in farming and people not believing what we go through I now hope the public understand our issues thanks to Jeremy highlighting how tough it really is! Whether or not you like Jeremy I hope you can watch it without judgement just so you can see what we go through daily!

whatadoodledo · 13/02/2023 12:42

@RedToothBrush think you need to chill out a bit to be honest.

Ptea · 13/02/2023 12:44

Birdsbirdsbirds · 13/02/2023 12:30

How was it anything comparable to Disneyland? It was a restaurant. Hardly exciting!

The sheer numbers of visitors, travelling to buy one sprout and a t-shirt made in China, up a single track road. Its built around jezza, I didn't mean he was actually building roller coasters 🙄

We should diversify but his model is based on people coming to see Clarkson not local farming produce. Its not repeatable as most people don't have an audience that large that will buy one shitty sprout and a t-shirt or cheap Chinese trowels at an insane markup and I'd love to see the aibu for I went to a restaurant with no toilets, again no repeat customers unless your Jeremy.

I'm not sure what ivory tower I'm sitting in, as I said we are crofters, I've also watched both series, no prejudice. As I said I liked the first one and the realities of farming, the second one just didn't hit it for me.

Birdsbirdsbirds · 13/02/2023 12:46

Ptea · 13/02/2023 12:44

The sheer numbers of visitors, travelling to buy one sprout and a t-shirt made in China, up a single track road. Its built around jezza, I didn't mean he was actually building roller coasters 🙄

We should diversify but his model is based on people coming to see Clarkson not local farming produce. Its not repeatable as most people don't have an audience that large that will buy one shitty sprout and a t-shirt or cheap Chinese trowels at an insane markup and I'd love to see the aibu for I went to a restaurant with no toilets, again no repeat customers unless your Jeremy.

I'm not sure what ivory tower I'm sitting in, as I said we are crofters, I've also watched both series, no prejudice. As I said I liked the first one and the realities of farming, the second one just didn't hit it for me.

And? The thing is if the council weren't idiots, there'd be a car park, traffic wouldn't be an issue. Why are you so against him replenishing his income? 82k or so of which has been taken away?

Again, so what if it's not repeatable? Nobody has said it is. They're saying the restaurant would have helped the local farmers. Why is that a bad thing?

I haven't mentioned ivory towers so check who you're having a go at.

RedToothBrush · 13/02/2023 12:47

whatadoodledo · 13/02/2023 12:42

@RedToothBrush think you need to chill out a bit to be honest.

If you hate Clarkson why are you so obsessed with this thread

Oh wait, you want to destroy the man regardless of the value of the series and how important it is, so you can say 'look how wonderful I am for cancelling Clarkson'.

The self proclaimed self righteous can bore off with the 'i hate jeremy' campaign. It just illustrates problems rather than solving real issues.

I hate sofa activism and virtue signaling which is tone deaf to its own bloated self importance and inability to see harm.

HTH.

Birdsbirdsbirds · 13/02/2023 12:47

And it did have toilets. I thought you watched it?

Ptea · 13/02/2023 12:49

Birdsbirdsbirds · 13/02/2023 12:46

And? The thing is if the council weren't idiots, there'd be a car park, traffic wouldn't be an issue. Why are you so against him replenishing his income? 82k or so of which has been taken away?

Again, so what if it's not repeatable? Nobody has said it is. They're saying the restaurant would have helped the local farmers. Why is that a bad thing?

I haven't mentioned ivory towers so check who you're having a go at.

I was replying to both as you can't quote two posts.
We have a difference of opinion, I don't agree 🤷‍♀️ but glad you enjoyed watching it. I will probably give the first a rewatch at some point.

whatadoodledo · 13/02/2023 12:49

@RedToothBrush ummm alright then Confused

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