Yeees, to a point - although the following couple of paragraphs give some seemingly light hearted and off the cuff justification of incest and necrophilia - he fails to address the pedophilia mentioned by the person he originally quoted.

Come on, he is the archetypal anti-social computer nerd. His humour is ponderous, tasteless and generally not funny. Easily twisted though.

Whole quote please, including the words disappeared by that ellipsis and the preceding paragraph for context.

Not usually a conspiracy theorist but if you don't recognise that this already happens in every western 'democracy' you care to name, then you need some observation training.

In this instance, Thailand is simply being more open about the process.

Fair enough, you make very good points. Excellent points, in fact. Now, if we could just train human beings to work as perfectly economically logical agents who never have a desire to find out why something does something, or even better, why something didn't do what it was supposed to, you would win the argument absolutely hands down.

The fact that for all your talk of ROI and buzzwords, you fail to take in the fact that people get a quiet sense of satisfaction from spending an afternoon scavenging bits and pieces from all over the place, clicking them together and having a little fileserver or LAN webserver which will run quietly for years, is why unfortunately, you lost. Not just the argument, but The Game as well.

Well hold on a minute.

To get it out of the way, I agree that the vast majority of Top Gear shows are done in a tongue in cheek manner. A lot of the content within the reviews is done for laughs and to make it visually appealing.

Also, while I find him funny, Clarkson can be a bit of a tit a lot of the time as well.

Lets just keep in mind though, at no point in any of the stories associated with this article, is there any proof that anything was falsified, or that an agenda was being pursued. All we have is a recollection that the main story of the show was based around pushing hydrogen as a fuel rather than electrics.

Instead of pushing opinion as fact, lets find out the facts and form opinion from it.