Randomness

[jamcg]

It appears The RACING DRIVER borrowed one of @Beany 's potatoes to film this on, but watch to the end.

They did very well to avoid him

[mik]

[240PP]

[mik]

Boom!

[Jimmy Choo]

Moron caught speeding.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywjjv4xz5o

[integrale_evo]

I’d be pretty happy with 5 points and £650 fine for being caught a ton plus tbh.

Must have taken a lot of will power for the judge to not refer to him as a moron

[Mito Man]

Lol.
The judgement is a bit confusing - so if Moron went to court and said "I'm deliberately speeding because fuck yeah, I have the need for speed" the judge would have given him 3 points instead of 5?

[nuttinnew]

^ That's how it reads for sure. I was expecting "not deliberately speeding; had something on his mind and mistook 100mph fpr 100kmh", but no

[DaveE]

Harris going on Rogan saddens me

Harris should know better

Rogan provides a huge, unchallenging platform to some (at best) idiots (and at worst) some people with truly troubling ideas/views

[Beany]

Rogan is either a fucking moron, or fully complicit in giving absolute shits a huge, global signal boost.

https://archive.is/3xaX3

That's just one example, plenty more.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/7/2282 ... moderation

[Matty]

For Harris, it's just a marketing/profile boost. At the end of the day, those who like him aren't going to stop watching him on the back of it, but it's very large platform to boost your profile on.

[Jobbo]

I’ve only listened to about half of the Harris/Rogan podcast as yet. Rogan has been relatively inoffensive except for boasting about all the cars he owns. It doesn’t lend itself to audio only though; there are parts where they obviously view some Top Gear clips and talk about them which need the video for context.

Harris definitely seems on good form and talkative. If he’d said the same things on, say, the Drive Torque podcast would it have made the evening news on tv?

[Mito Man]

Does Rogan mention that the Model S he has is the best car in the world or is that just something he occasionally does to suck up to Elon?

[Jobbo]

Does Rogan mention that the Model S he has is the best car in the world or is that just something he occasionally does to suck up to Elon?

Yes, he’s brought it up a couple of times already

[Mito Man]

Watched half the podcast so far, pretty good once Rogan goes through his car list and talks less.
On Top Gear I understand the BBC are totally to blame for what happened for not protecting their employee but thinking from the perspective of common sense can't help but conclude the presenter was an utter idiot. Harris feels guilty for not having time to brief him but after a few years of driving cars on track I don't think they can be considered an amateur.

[KiwiDave]

I listened to the whole thing on a 3.5hr drive this last weekend. It's the only time I've consciously listened to any of his output as he's obviously a fucking idiot.

My takeaway was that JR came across as surprisingly accessible, charismatic without being a braying idiot, and in particular when they reference conspiracy theories late in the show, coming at them from a place of genuine curiosity. That is to say, if you're a disillusioned guy struggling to find your place and define yourself (or having the confidence to do so), you're a bit below par in the intelligence stakes, or just inquisitive and easily led (like say, people into religion) - I can completely see how he's hooked so many people in.

But within it, he subtly has a go at Biden, vaccines, pro-gun stance, climate change denial, whacky science, conspiracy theories all while not really making it obvious. Ergo, a poisonous cunt of the highest order.

And he seems to have some fascination with wanting to fight bears...?

Disappointed in Harris, as it's obvious by the end, there's a few shared ideas going on.

[Rich B]

i don’t mind rogan, i don’t agree with a lot of what he says, but i quite like his delivery.

[mik]

Utterly bizarre behaviour.....

[Rich B]

Sadly that doesn’t look that extreme to me!

hashtag perimenopausal wife.

[IanF]

“Taser, taser, taser”