>no farming experience whatsoever
>buys moronic tractor that’s complete overkill
>try to do a bit of everything rather than specialise in 1 crop
>”oh wtf why is farming so hard?!”
Is clarkson actually a moron?
>no farming experience whatsoever. >buys retarded tractor thats complete overkill
Wow do you understand every point of the show, then miss the point of the show?
Worst host in British tv history. Can't understand why people like him so much.
>I bought a farm and act like a twat to recoup my losses on the tele
not sure it's hard to understand.
>h-hes just pretending to be moronic
I think a lot of his bad decisions during the first season are legitimate, I can see myself following similar trains of thought
He isn't actually wrong though. Regulations in the UK are absolutely fricked up right now, as if they purposefully make farming so impossibly hard that it is simply becoming unviable.
I wonder how many politicians are in China's pockets? Because if it's anything like the US, the UK is fricked.
Several of them are more or less confirmed Chinese plants. Including the second most powerful politician in the UK. This is not even a joke. Jeremy Hunt is married to a Chinese woman who works for the CCP.
you're telling me the CCP is in the pocket of Jeremy Hunt? What a hero.
chinks cant even feed themselves. Only 12 of their total clay is usable for agriculture. Even that is rapidly conracting on account of tofu ghost cities and industrial wastelands.
Last thing they want is to gimp reliable food sources with established quality control. This western moronation is purely self inflicted by multi gen urbanites in decision controls that have no clue what maintaining and using land actually is
>try new thing
>dabble a bit in everything to get a feel for what might work for you and what definitely won't, and this process obviously provides entertainment value
>buy an overkill tractor to appease the majority of people who are watching you because they were top gear fans
Not hard to understand if you have an IQ above 85
>no engineering experience whatsoever
>try and make modern hybrid out of shit lying around in the garage
>”oh wtf why is building a car so hard?!”
Why is OP such a homosexual?
>specialise in 1 crop
Enjoy no money
>Badgers carrying TB that's killing massive amounts of the cattle population driving farmers out of business.
>No you can't kill the badgers because frick you that's why.
They're not even an endangered species. Frick sake they are a pest animal at this point. The British government is completely fricked in the head and totally out of touch with reality
leftoids are in a death cult and want everyone to suffer
you can't kill a fox that's killing your birds even though they will kill all of them for fun and just eat one
Wind in the Willows and its consequences have been a disaster for the British race
MUH CATTLE
MUH INDUSTRIALIZED WASTELAND
MUH CORPORATE PROFITS
You don't get it, anon. If we let goyim buy their own food, they'll stop being dependent on us.
muh native animals and muh invasive species is such bullshit
Like in Australia the possum is a native and protected species, while right across the ditch in NZ it's an invasive pest and killing it is encouraged and rewarded.
>Like in Australia the possum is a native and protected species, while right across the ditch in NZ it's an invasive pest and killing it is encouraged and rewarded.
That's because in NZ they're an introduced invasive pest and in Australia they're native, you fricking 80 IQ mongoloid.
Yes you pants on head fricking moron, that's exactly what I'm saying.
WHY does it fricking matter? It does the same shit in both countries, but because it's native in one it's HECKIN PROTECTED AND PART OF THE NATURAL ECOSYSTEM and shit, while in the other country, which is basically the same environment, suddenly it doing the same shit and eating the same shit is killing everything.
Like are you telling me every single thing it does in its native country is beneficial and not harming any other species?
It's like saying if the canetoad WAS native then it's helping the environment by eating all the crops and shit.
holy shit you actually do have an IQ of 80
>while in the other country, which is basically the same environment
lol
The other guy is more correct than you, but you're both pretty moronic tbh
Most kill them anyway, Clarkson just cant because it is on camera
Badgers are cute and that's why it should be illegal to kill them. Simple as
spotted the snake
Don't the upper class have a law that allows them to galavant through others properties and loudly hunt foxes?
b-b-but muh culture!!!
It's a tv show anon.
>>try to do a bit of everything rather than specialise in 1 crop
Completely specializing on one crop is risky business. Prices are volatile and if you hit a year where the price on your one crop tanks due to oversupply/low demand then you're fricked. Doing a bit of everything like he tried isn't worth it but you do want some diversity in your products.
Diversified. Just like my stocks!
Pretends to care about british farmers.
>Don't use any of your lifelong conservative, public school or media connections to meaningfully campaign.
>Go to war against the local council for not letting you open a restaurant and sell cheap chink crap in a your farm shop.
Clarkson is an insufferable boomer
local councils are a plague, petty tyrants who frick with people just to justify their own existence
>try to do a bit of everything rather than specialise in 1 crop
I think he have enough money to experiment and understand what he likes and can do so nothing wrong with that
>minivan with no boating experience whatsoever
>buys moronic boat parts that's complete overkill
>try to do everything on the water instead of a road
>"oh wtf why is this minivan such a shitty yacht?"
If farming is so hard why dont the farmers unionize and make a coop. Clarkson should hire all the farmers and make a coop, he has the money instead of just using the farm to sell his vodka.
All the farmers in Britain?
Damn, that'd be one helluva coop, like 100k chicken easily
>why dont they just become communist
frick off shill
>why dont the farmers unionize and make a coop
They do
Depends where you are they do all sorts of things for farmers such as insurance, banking, loan, connection to markets and more with full government support
The problem is with even all that good intentions, bureaucratic red tape and corruptions do exist and not to mention they have to compete with private market in different nodes in the supply chains and they don't always win
It's a hobby farm. It's not all that uncommon for dentists and people with similarly dull, high paying jobs to buy a few acres somewhere nice for them to spend their weekends and holidays.
They don't actually give a frick about making a profit, they make more than enough money from their day job. All they want is a sense of accomplishment and some fresh produce for dinner.
The show is about a rich old man being grumpy. It's another friend simulator
>Sacked 'Top Gear' Star Jeremy Clarkson Defends Co-Worker He Attacked
File Photo: Presenter of BBC's popular auto show 'Top Gear' Jeremy Clarkson. (Agence France-Presse)
London: The outspoken former presenter of hit car show "Top Gear" Jeremy Clarkson on Thursday defended the co-worker he attacked in a fracas that led to his sacking by Britain's BBC.
>Clarkson flagged the incident to the BBC after Tymon took himself to hospital following the outburst, which reportedly occurred because Clarkson was annoyed at a lack of hot food.
The most important thing to know in farming is why the person you're buying the farm from is selling it.
For me, it's when he acts like he only make 50 pence profit or whatever, while also having spent a quarter of a million pounds on machinery and equipment which was deducted from that profit figure before getting to the 50 pence amount.
This is actually true though. Farming in the UK is very unprofitable. The average farm makes about £94 profit per year per acre of farm land. In the US this number is about $790 per acre per year just as a comparison.
I knew some goober wouldn't understand.
Ok, follow me here.
Let's say he bought the equipment the year before... that means his profit that year would have ACTUALLY been 250,000
Now yes, there would have been upkeep expenses, and some small new pieces that needed buying, but he'd still clear atleast 200k.
It's like saying you drive for UBER and deduct the price you paid for your car every single year instead of just an initial expense
Do you even know how much a combine harvester costs? Easily over a quarter of a million. Most farms don't buy one because they cannot afford them.
The maintenance costs for them is also incredibly expensive, in the tens of thousands of pounds a year range. The fuel cost is also actually very high too, especially with rising fuel prices (around £20 per acre harvested at todays prices).
It's got nothing to do with that though. Per acre the US uses almost 6x as much fertilizer as used in the UK. The UK has incredibly fertile farm land, but a mixture of bureaucracy and taxes have basically driven farmers out. Happened when the UK joined the EU back in the 1970s. France even delayed the UKs joining of the EU specifically so they could push through a "common agricultural policy" which would cripple the UKs farming industry. Which is succeeded in doing.
>It's got nothing to do with that though. Per acre the US uses almost 6x as much fertilizer as used in the UK.
Why do you go around making such banal lies
According to the UK government, your figures are very wrong.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fertiliser-usage-on-farm-england/fertiliser-usage-on-farm-england-202122-statistics-notice#
No they're not, you just can't count or are illiterate.
I had banal sex with your mom
Let me make this as simple as possible.
If Clarkson already owned all the basic/startup equipment he owned, the figure he presented would have been 250k profit, since if he already owned it, he would not have to spend 250k buying it all. All the maintenance, fuel, etc costs were already accounted for in the profit figure they presented to us.
Ok, but explain how he can do the work without the equipment.
He can't.
I'm saying that is a one time expensive, and he isn't spending 250k EVERY SINGLE YEAR on equipment.
So the next year he farms, let's say everything went exactly the same way as it did the first year, he would make 250k profit because he already owned the equipment.
Ok, then explain why there are two seasons of the show and he made basically no profit in the second year when he owned all the equipment.
Fun fact. The shop they run is actually the only part of the farm that is profitable. Someone dug up the tax records and as of the beginning of this year it had made about a million. But that is only possible because he's a celebrity with a TV show. The actual farm however basically makes nothing.
>Ok, then explain why there are two seasons of the show and he made basically no profit in the second year when he owned all the equipment.
Because it takes more than 2 seasons for a novice farmer to actually set up a good business. Don't ask stupid questions you nonce.
>If he didn't have to buy all the equipment he'd easy make £250k profit
>The next year when he owns all the equipment he makes no profit again
>B-But that is just because he is shit!
You're a fricking nonce mate.
>>B-But that is just because he is shit!
Yeah he's a celebrity running a hobby farm. He's literally playing a game. lmao but no, he must turn a profit straight away!
>HES A SUCCESSFUL TV CELEBRITY THAT MEANS HE CAN DO ANYTHING REEEEEEE
You sound moronic.
That's not what I'm arguing here.
What I'm saying is had he already owned the equipment, his profit for the first year would have been 250k, and it's dishonest to present 50p as all the profit they made.
>Someone dug up the tax records and as of the beginning of this year it had made about a million.
It's not a human rights violation to be able to look at other people's financial information? In an over-regulated nightmare like the UK that's one hell of a regulation to miss...
Almost like a thousand years of farming has ruined the topsoil or something
There had been a thousand years of farming in Britain a thousand years ago
Ok thanks for strengthening my point
>Britan was a barren unformatted wasteland in the year 1023.
No wonder so many people were fighting over it.
I don't know what point you're trying to make. Are you trying to argue that farming doesn't ruin soil?
The UK actually has fairly fertile land. Not the most fertile in the world or anything, but definitely way above average.
That layer of shit on everything really helping out India.
I'm guessing without Mojave and Alaska Burgerlands score would be higher.
Yes anon, that's what profit means.
Income isn't profit. Profit is income minus all expenses and liabilities and such (e.g. machinery and equipment). So he didn't "act like" he only made 50p profit. He only made 50p profit.
I know
Because I just taught you.
No?
Actually yes.
What?
As a farmer this show was hillarious in a good way.
>Is clarkson actually a moron?
No, he just larps as one to get paid. The same way as he larps as a working class sort of lad who'll bant over a pint and rail against the prissy upper class toffs when in reality he's nothing but an upper class toff with a media degree. Like that American homosexual who went around pretending to do difficult jobs long enough to get an hour's worth of footage and then deluded himself into thinking he was actually a blue collar guy.
Someone sounds jelly
No, I just dislike ruling class media homosexuals whether they larp as a commoner or show off their private school manners.
lol Mike Rowe's big work before that was as a tv shopping presenter, and he enough opera performing to get an actor's union card.
I liked the show but he definitely lied about the money for a punchline
Even though he wasted loads and loads of money and loads and loads of time and paid tons of other people to help with shit, he still got a comedy nu.ber of 50 pounds or whatever it was
He should have been deeply in the red
Afaik the calculations they showed were specifically for the crops. The sheep etc. were pure loss efforts.
That makes more sense at least
No that would be you.
>moves to the countryside
>tries to flood in cityhomosexuals from around the country
>tries to ruin the landscape and views
>seethes when villagers don't want to support it
>Random villagers should have authority over me.
Frick off commie.
In their village? Yes. You'd be the commie to oppose that. You could call it whatever euphemism you like but you'd be dekulakizing them.
>their village
They own their property. I own my property. No one owns the village. They are individuals, not a collective, they don't own collective property. Communist collectivist scum can go frick themselves.
>people get to vote on what I do with my own property
FRICK OFF COMMIE SCUM
>your own property and its developments can cause damage and or problems to the nearby community, environment, and way of life for other citizens
yes, that's why democratic votes are held; if i wanted to open a club in the house next to yours, and keep it open until 5am every night with endless booming music and normalgays screaming and pissing/throwing up outside your house, you'd hate it, wouldn't you?
I hate lots of things. Doesn't mean shit.
How are you not a commie if you don't believe in private propert?
you could be a feudalist
That's not how a lot of villages work. It's nothing to do with "communism" it's been how people live with people for all of history. Fit in well enough or frick off. Your penis is small.
Lol commie raging at the idea of private property. As usual.
I don't rage at the concept of private property. I think every community has the right to self determination. If we want an "anything goes on the land I own" situation like many places in the US, that's good and valid. If our tradition says we keep the character of our buildings the same like many places in Japan, good and valid also. And so on. I'm on a meta-political level in relation to you akin to your view being a 2 dimensional world, and mine being a 3 dimensional world.
A "community" doesn't have a "self". Only a person has a self. A community can not have self determination. Only a person can have self determination.
What you call self determination of a community is actually certain people imposing their will on others.
That's really sad. You are the thing you hate, without even being aware.
You're artificially narrowing the definition of a self to the very literal, either to be obtuse or you're actually that stupid, but sure. Communities have community determination. Libertarianism is pretty gay and small dicked, and doesn't function to boot, and it's still certain people imposing their will on others (and your denials won't change this.
>You are the thing you hate
I'm no one thing. That statement literally can't apply to me.
What's so special about a person that it has a "self"? A person isn't a self any more than a community is. It's a connection of nodes that collectively create a sense of self, just like any other collective. If the nature of the self was imbued in the individual alone, then we wouldn't have things like e.g., self-sacrifice. Or offspring. Humans are closer to eusocial insects than we are to solitary animals.
You're trying too hard
your response implies you don't realize this is obvious. let me guess, you're also a troony?
In fact one of the few ideologies I just see no benefit for, and too many harms, and have a genuine emotional aversion to, is communism. Lol imagine being you right now, having been made this big a fool of.
>democractic vote from people born in the area says no
>one elite that moved there goes against the rules using their status as a shield anyway
>this is communism
?
The villagers are the cityhomosexuals in their holiday homes.
those would be the people that vote FOR changes that shit up the countryside and add to property value while destroying the culture and environment around the area
>t. live in the countryside and watching it crumble as more cityhomosexuals shit it up
>can't even sit outside at night and watch the stars anymore because of light pollution in the distance and a now endless roar from the motorway that gets expanded every 6 months a few miles away
It's almost as if some of his decisions are to make his reality TV show entertaining.
He only does a few goofy special projects on the side. Like the sheep and the restaurant. 95 percent of the farm is producing what the government guy tells him produce. Which I assumed framers have to do to get the farmer benefit which is like 80,000 pounds since farms don’t make much profit.
I know this is bait but he's making himself the heel to show how difficult farming is and to highlight the problems with the bong bureaucracy as well as showing the good nature and respect small town folks deserve
>all these serious replies
Its a fricking Amazon TV show with a PLOT. How stupid can you be?
Lack of investment is why British farming is shit, Clarkson would honestly be quite successful if he was serious about it since he'd have money to start with the right set-up.
Just look at how Holland managed to build a highly successful modern farming industry.
you mean where farmers have been having ongoing protests because the government is about to destroy their whole industry with a bunch of new regulations related to nitrogen control in the soil