Marcel de Groot

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@MartinKlomp @lientje1967 Ballonnen zijn horizonvervuiling? Zullen we alle gebouwen hoger dan 3 verdiepingen ook maar slopen dan? Kunnen we ook een stuk verder kijken 😉

[Richard Seiler @richardseiler]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦

Jeremy Clarkson has never pretended to be anything other than exactly what he is

Brutally honest. No oil painting. A pot belly, a lifelong smoker, a drinker. Not exactly the modern alpha male or is he?

And somehow that is the whole point

I have watched him for most of my life
First as a motoring journalist who could make you want a car you would never own and never need
Then as something bigger
The loudest, funniest, most unfiltered mouthpiece the ordinary person ever had
A man who said the thing everyone was thinking while the rest of television tiptoed around it

From Top Gear he built something that should not have worked
Three middle aged men, The Stig, a track and a chemistry you cannot manufacture
James May the patient one
Richard Hammond the brave one
And Clarkson the force of nature dragging both of them into chaos and somehow back out again

When it all fell apart at the BBC he could have disappeared
The fracas was not his finest hour and he never pretended it was
He owned it, apologized and carried on
No reinvention, no groveling tour, no carefully managed comeback
He just kept being himself and let the work speak

The move to Amazon and The Grand Tour proved something I think a lot of people missed
The format was never the magic
The men were
You can take three friends out of a studio and drop them anywhere on earth and the loyalty between them travels with them

But it is Clarkson's Farm where the whole picture finally comes into focus

Here is a man with nothing left to prove walking into a field he barely understands and refusing to fake competence he does not have
He has run that farm at break even and then at an outright loss in full public view
No editing it into a success story
No pretending the numbers work when they do not
His farm manager hands him one brutal truth after another and he sits there and takes it

A whole season swallowed by drought even after he leaned into robotics and the most advanced farming money could buy
Technology was supposed to be the answer and the weather did not care
He showed that too
Most people would have cut it

And through all of it he has done something quietly remarkable
He has dragged the plight of the British farmer into the light
The paperwork, the council, the margins that vanish, the weather that ruins a year of work in a week
People who had never thought about where their food comes from suddenly cared because he made them care

And then there is the part nobody warned me about
Men who raise animals for meat and still love them
Who name them, worry about them, sit with them
Who treat them with respect and dignity right up to the moment they cannot keep them
And feel the full weight of sending them off

He does not hide that
He lets the camera sit in the discomfort of it
The grief of a man who knows the deal he made and still finds it hard

That is not weakness
That is honesty most people are far too afraid to show

We live in an age that rewards the polished, the curated, the carefully built personal brand
And here is a scruffy, swearing, chain smoking farmer who has done the opposite of all of it and won
He stayed exactly who he was while the world begged him to become a product

That is the whole secret
There is no act
There never was

And that is exactly why we keep watching

Praying for a full recovery mate, looking forward to another season of Clarkson's Farms!

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@JeremyClarkson What horrible news, wishing you all the best and a speedy recovery!

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@AlZeidenfeld That movie started out as a silly comedy and is slowing turning into a documentary warning of a nightmarish future which is closer than we think.....
It has become more scary than funny....

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@BLackgold_5 The Catalina, my god is she a lovely plane

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@RDKLInc I agree, Win 2000 was peak Windows, suitable for day to day use and also server. No frills, just helping you get your work done. A bit like Linux nowadays, certainly not like W10 or W11. XP and W7 weren't bad either, but I think 2000 was my favourite.

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@MartinKlomp Eens, maar oneens met je spelcheck ;-)

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@heynavtoor Been using it for years, highly recommended!

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@Grolsch waar is de radler limoen 0,0 gebleven? Zo'n lekker drankje maar nergens meer te krijgen helaas.

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@TZoli10 O I thought the main guns are 6" in turrets similar to the Town and Crown Colony classes.
So these turrets look like them but then have the same guns as the Dido class, but then more of them?

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@YoMonteolivo @Vanberkel2508 Ik waardeer dat ze opstapt, ik waardeer de spin van D66 over dat ze een moeilijke jeugd heeft gehad dan weer zeer zeker niet. En ik waardeer al helemaal niet dat ze nu recht heeft op wachtgeld, geld wat ook naar de zorg of onderwijs had kunnen gaan.

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@YoMonteolivo @Vanberkel2508 Helemaal mee eens, een opleiding zegt zeker niet alles over een persoon en ervaring en bewezen kennis en kunde zeggen denk ik veel meer.
Liegen over opleidingen en dan in een slachtofferrol kruipen zegt echter misschien nog wel veel meer over iemand.

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@YoMonteolivo @Vanberkel2508 Welke andere optie heeft ze? Als je dom genoeg bent om zo opzichtig te liegen en jezelf dan kandidaat te stellen voor een publieke functie als staatssecretaris ben je al je geloofwaardigheid kwijt.

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@Vanberkel2508 Het enige juiste wat je kon doen, liegen over je CV en jezelf desondanks kandidaat stellen voor dit soort functies is zo dom dat dit je ook gelijk ongeloofwaardig maakt in welke publieke functie dan ook. Graag ook afzien van wachtgeld, liegen mag niet beloond worden.

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@YoMonteolivo @Vanberkel2508 Het gaat niet om vraag of een praktische opleiding iemand geschikt maakt voor een rol als kamerlid of staatssecretaris, dat is niet de discussie hier. En zij kan deze ook niet voeren omdat ze ook geen echte praktische opleiding heeft gehad. Ze heeft gelogen, dat is het probleem.

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@rajedalla This is so cool, proving once again that men are just boys in bigger bodies ;-)
I hope the next trial works out for you, but this is already very impressive!

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@oscardziki @nyaskiez Considering it's still in beta, how stable is it in your experience?

[Marcel de Groot @mfdegroot]

@rawdawgcomics Just move away from Windows, what you mention is still possible in Linux. Yes, some things will not work as easily (but when they do they're often much quicker) and there is a learning curve. But that was the same in the time that you are referring too. Have fun and own your PC!