The world's fastest hamster?

As TV presenter Richard Hammond fights for his life after a horrific crash in a jet propelled car, travelling at close to 300 mph, tributes appeared at similar speeds all over the internet.

At such times people often think too carefully about the words that they use and consequently don't appear as genuine or as compassionate as I'm sure they really are.

Others don't really care what people think and simply say what they feel. One such individual is Jeremy Clarkson who said that they didn't know whether his friend and co-presenter would live or die, but added that he hoped that they would “...get their hamster (Hammond's affectionate nickname on the show) back soon".

It later transpired that Clarkson had also made “the hamster” smile by telling him that he was a c**p driver!

“...and this year's Ronseal award for plain speaking goes to...”