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Not something I normally keep an eye on but this one got me a little bit as I was working alongside Quentin not two months ago. Totally full of beans and energy.
I always kind of liked this guy - properly into cars and EVs etc. Also I know you can't judge, but Clarkson looks in far worse condition. But you know...
Didn't see it coming.
Also to his credit one way or another he looked exactly the same as he did 25 years ago.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lpww7pw72o
"Just under a tahn" - is to me one of those lines I associate him with as per "in the world."
Also to his credit one way or another he looked exactly the same as he did 25 years ago.
(He's certainly identified the need for proper state support over EV proliferation one way or another.)
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Yep, got me as he wasn’t that old 🙁
I remember reading his weekly column about buying used in some weekly car magazine years before he got on the telly.
He was really clued up on and you could see that he was well into his cars and wasn’t frightened by evs and change.
Grew up watching him on the OG 'proper' Topgear BITD (half hour episodes on Thursday night iirc) Liked his later output too regarding the 2nd hand car market and classics.
RIP Quentin 🙁
Bit of a shock. Always seemed a lovely guy. Knowledgeable but not an ar5e about it all.
Short battle with cancer. 🙁
Part of child hood growing up
A good advertise for why smoking isn’t a good thing !
Part of child hood growing up
A good advertise for why smoking isn’t a good thing !
Didn't know that.
Didn't know that.
I am not sure that anyone knows (other than friends and family obviously) whether he ever smoked.
Around 15% of the 46,000 people diagnosed with lung cancer each year are non-smokers and 20% of people diagnosed with COPD have also never smoked.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/blog/we-must-stop-lung-disease-prejudices/
Seemed a good guy and enjoyed his shows.
My father was 66 when he died after a relatively long battle with lung cancer. Oddly, he looked disturbingly like the lovechild of Quentin Wilson and Nicholas Witchell, so I've always found watching either of them on telly a bit creepy.
I'm very uncomfortable with the term 'battle'. You suffer, you are open or otherwise to treatment, you tweak aspects of your life to maximise the potential of the treatment working, you are a passive or annoyingly questioning patient, you are glass half full or empty about the pretty crappy life you are leading, you die. Sometimes, you hit the jackpot and catch it early or are predisposed to the treatment working and you get to remission. But the 'battle' term rather implies winners and losers and the people that get to remission somehow being better battlers.Ive been in actual battles - and I don't see anything battle like with living with terminal cancer, metaphorical or otherwise. From what I can see, cancer is something you are a passenger of. Some people are good travellers, some are not. Some people get on a train that terminates a stop or two early. Some people find themselves in a metaphoric air disaster.
Secondly, if you work with the philosophy that you think backwards from your last day on the planet being fixed....I'd far rather have a short 'battle' than a long 'battle'. Have seen a long battle up close and personal, it would not be my exit of choice.
Sorry - random rant. The 'battle' phrase for dealing with desease and the compulsory positive only eulogizing about the recently departed just seem to irk more and more the closer I get to god's waiting room.
It struck me reading about it that Clarkson was the least effusive of the various people named paying tribute to him - Tiff was quite verbose, Clarkson just came out with "I’m far away so I’ve only just heard that Quentin Willson has died. We had some laughs over the years. Properly funny man.”, which made it sound like they perhaps didn't see eye to eye.
Anyway, RIP Quentin
@convert, I don't always agree with stuff you post, but I'm with you 100% on that. Having my own little "tussle" at the moment and I'm not kidding myself that the outcome is anything to do with how hard I "fight". That terminology has always irked me and is a bit of an insult to those who succumb, with its implication that they wouldn't have if they'd been made of tougher stuff.
As motoring Journalists go, Quentin Wilson was a cut above and seemed like a decent fella. RIP.
Didn't know that.
I am not sure that anyone knows (other than friends and family obviously) whether he ever smoked.
Around 15% of the 46,000 people diagnosed with lung cancer each year are non-smokers and 20% of people diagnosed with COPD have also never smoked.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/blog/we-must-stop-lung-disease-prejudices/
He mentioned more than once in his writing that he was a big fan of 40 Marlboro reds per day, he just wasn't absolutely fanatical about telling everyone about it like Clarkson was.
But yeah, another personality from my childhood (and onwards) gone. RIP, Quentin.
He mentioned more than once in his writing that he was a big fan of 40 Marlboro reds per day
Fair enough. I haven't read any of his writings and it doesn't appear to be common knowledge. Although tbh he did "look" like a smoker.
very uncomfortable with the term 'battle'. You suffer, you are open or otherwise to treatment, you tweak aspects of your life to maximise the potential of the treatment working, you are a passive or annoyingly questioning patient, you are glass half full or empty about the pretty crappy life you are leading, you die. Sometimes, you hit the jackpot and catch it early or are predisposed to the treatment working and you get to remission. But the 'battle' term rather implies winners and losers and the people that get to remission somehow being better battlers.Ive been in actual battles - and I don't see anything battle like with living with terminal cancer, metaphorical or otherwise. From what I can see, cancer is something you are a passenger of. Some people are good travellers, some are not. Some people get on a train that terminates a stop or two early. Some people find themselves in a metaphoric air disaster.
Well said, convert.... The term didn't sit well with me when my mum was in and out of hospital with leukemia. You summed it up nicely.
Clarkson was the least effusive
Yeah, but let's be honest, Clarkson is a massive throbber. I bet the veg diagram of Reform voters and fans of Clarkson had a massive overlap.
Yeah, but let's be honest, Clarkson is a massive throbber.
I thought that, but my mind was changed when a friends daughter told me her story. She had a 6 month job on a mini ‘exclusive’ cruise ship on the Med. She never knew who the guests were, but did know Clarkson. Expecting him to be the tit he sometimes shows on TV, he was actually the opposite, he was the most charming and friendly person possible. He gave a rather large tip to the Staff when he left too. My conclusion was that the TV/public persona was just to act up to get reactions and increase his profile.
My opinion of Clarkson has changed slightly as the result of him hosting Who Wants to be a Millionaire, he appears fairly human on that imo.
Ironically I didn't used to mind Chris Tarrant at all until he started to host Who Wants to be a Millionaire and I then realised what patronising **** he can be.
I bet the veg diagram of Reform voters and fans of Clarkson had a massive overlap
I know this was unintentional but it did make oi larf 😁
Secondly, if you work with the philosophy that you think backwards from your last day on the planet being fixed....I'd far rather have a short 'battle' than a long 'battle'.
Amongst all the absolute nonsense I've read on this forum over the years, there are always the odd pearls of wisdom which are to be taken away. This is undoubtedly one of them.
I've not really thought about it before, but when you put it like you do, you are 100% correct.
^^ my new phone has a habit of twisting what a want to say. Shuttle learn to go back and proof read.
Secondly, if you work with the philosophy that you think backwards from your last day on the planet being fixed....I'd far rather have a short 'battle' than a long 'battle'.
Amongst all the absolute nonsense I've read on this forum over the years, there are always the odd pearls of wisdom which are to be taken away. This is undoubtedly one of them.
I've not really thought about it before, but when you put it like this, you are 100% correct.
which made it sound like they perhaps didn't see eye to eye
I don't think it was particularly harmonious professional relationship. Wilson has said so. But they almost certainly professionally respected each other.
Let's face two different types of people.
Wilson actually into his subject and Clarkson basically a nauseous celebrity.
Literally filming with him at a conference a couple of months ago. Not any sort of indicator that he was anything less than in good form.
My conclusion was that the TV/public persona was just to act up to get reactions and increase his profile.
I think that's worse, if anything
He was off-camera when he punched a show producer for not being able to furnish him with steak and chips at 11pm though.
Although he did once apparently also punch Piers Morgan so maybe that makes up for it