howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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I wonder, who is the Patron Saint of synchronised swimming? Hallowed art that it surely is.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 718- Registered: 28 Jun 2011
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This highlights the point Jan T raises in another posting which emphasises the need to pick our words carefully. With his usual execrable taste Clarkson mentions Morecambe Bay - but without actually referring to the tragedy. The connection here appears to have been made by the Telegraph in the headine.
Even so, Clarkson should be a little more careful in his choice of words when he says, "You can see that sort of thing on Morecambe Beach. For free." ...... not so. Since Sept 2009 the activity was curtailed on the grounds that the stocks needed to be replenished and the entire harvesting area is subjected to a permit system. Any such current activity is probably illegal so you're not likely to see it happen.
As for Clarkson ...... you won't stop him. But with his notoriety for seemingly off-the-cuff remarks on all manner of controversial issues you would like to think that one day he'll go just that bit too far. However, that hasn't really happened yet to any serious degree which leads me to think that anything along these lines he says or writes is carefully orchestrated and closely vetted by a legal advisor.
Being such a money earner for the BBC I can't see them giving him his cards just yet!.
