Jeremy Clarkson suspended

Brendan Bendar

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

In what way is that worse than anything that's being done in Leinster House? Or Brussels???
At least these people don't hide any of what they do ans are one of the few things on TV that can still be smiled at.

Long time since I smiled at a Top Gear show, but if that is your bag and you don't mind being taken in by them, good luck to you.

You do make a good point.

dr.fuzzenstein

P. Breathnach wrote: »

So being unfamiliar with a racial slur is "car related"?

Thar epitomises what Top Gear has become.

He is unfamiliar with it because he is an Irish journalist. That means he is ace in local politics, GAA and rugby. Everything else gets hastily read through in 2 minutes. One thing the Irish media hates especially is anything car related so they won't know anything or care about it. Have you ever heard anything F1 related on Irish sports news? Exactly. So of course Chris got it wrong, because he probably spent 5 minutes on Google and then got even that wrong.

jimgoose

"Oh God, BBC please take him back... He's started cooking..." - Emily Clarkson

Gatling wrote: »

Should have ran him over with a tank...

Yeah, a Challenger 2 tank with a 26-litre V12 developing 1,200BHP of Pow-AAAHHH!! :pac:

dr.fuzzenstein

jimgoose wrote: »

"Oh God, BBC please take him back... He's started cooking..." - Emily Clarkson



Yeah, a Challenger 2 tank with a 26-litre V12 developing 1,200BHP of Pow-AAAHHH!! :pac:

Cooking? I can imagine, probably uses this implement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDlMLqdvHzI

Gatling

jimgoose wrote: »

"Oh God, BBC please take him back... He's started cooking..." - Emily Clarkson



Yeah, a Challenger 2 tank with a 26-litre V12 developing 1,200BHP of Pow-AAAHHH!! :pac:

Absolutely yes please .

you get my vote to take over his job .

Some say he's a a boardsie

and that he once drove over somebody with a challenger 2 Tank

and all we know he's called Jim Goose

20Cent

Bit weird Clarksons wife, James May and the other one thinking assault is funny.

Stewart Lee sums it up well.
The Reason I hate Top Gear
http://youtu.be/xgABbHPdwH4

Falcon L

ScumLord wrote: »

Do you by any chance drive a peugeot?

Nope.

dr.fuzzenstein

20Cent wrote: »

Bit weird Clarksons wife, James May and the other one thinking assault is funny.

Stewart Lee sums it up well.
The Reason I hate Top Gear
http://youtu.be/xgABbHPdwH4

But do we know exactly what happened? There is a difference in jumping someone, knocking them to the ground and stomping on their head 27 times and a scuffle between two blokes who are having an argument. Are we such precious, fragile flowers as to class that as assault? Sad world we live in ...

jimgoose

20Cent wrote: »

Bit weird Clarksons wife, James May and the other one thinking assault is funny.

Stewart Lee sums it up well.
The Reason I hate Top Gear
http://youtu.be/xgABbHPdwH4

Well, Francie is from the Isle of Man, IIRC - Cat o' Nine Tails and all. And May is from 1752 - that's why he's afraid of telephones.

Sonics2k

I'm always baffled by the amount of hatred aimed at Clarkson and the others on Top Gear.

It's a decent show and occasionally shows off some cars too. Sure he's a bit of a pillock, but he's no worse than many other people on TV and generally seems like a decent bloke with a talent for annoying people.

Iranoutofideas

If people are outraged or offended by Top Gear so what? Nobody is forced to watch and millions around the world love the show.

If you watch a show you don't like and get offended then it's on your shoulders.

Seems like a lot of people go out of their way to get offended, or just love to take up offence on others behalf without knowing the first thing about it like Chris Plank Donoghue on Newstalk who was outraged that Clarkson used the racial term Sloth.

It's Slope but when your focus is on getting offended all that matters is to be seen to be offended and politically correct.

Bunch of apes.

tigger123

Why can't people be racist on tv? It's PC gone mad.

20Cent

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

But do we know exactly what happened? There is a difference in jumping someone, knocking them to the ground and stomping on their head 27 times and a scuffle between two blokes who are having an argument. Are we such precious, fragile flowers as to class that as assault? Sad world we live in ...

Its reported as a punch.
No one should be punched at work. (except boxers)

Tarzana2

Sonics2k wrote: »

I'm always baffled by the amount of hatred aimed at Clarkson and the others on Top Gear.

"Hatred" - slightly over-the-top word to use, no?

FunLover18

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

But do we know exactly what happened? There is a difference in jumping someone, knocking them to the ground and stomping on their head 27 times and a scuffle between two blokes who are having an argument. Are we such precious, fragile flowers as to class that as assault? Sad world we live in ...

Yes, so sad that we should protect citizens from morons who can't solve an argument without resorting to petty violence. What a bunch of pansies we all are.

Sheep Lover

tigger123 wrote: »

Why can't people be racist on tv? It's PC gone mad.

People getting overly offended about nothing is what's mad

Tarzana2

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

If people are outraged or offended by Top Gear so what? Nobody is forced to watch and millions around the world love the show.

If you watch a show you don't like and get offended then it's on your shoulders.

A lot of people here, me included, say they no longer watch Top Gear because they got sick of it for it various reasons, most of them Clarkson related. So, er, people don't watch him if they don't like him generally? And know the reasons why they don't. And are hence commenting about it here.

Sheep Lover

Tarzana2 wrote: »

A lot of people here, me included, say they no longer watch Top Gear because they got sick of it for it various reasons, most of them Clarkson related. So, er, people don't watch him if they don't like him generally? And know the reasons why they don't. And are hence commenting about it here.

For someone who has no time for Clarkson or Top Gear anymore, you have alot of posts in a thread dedicated to him...

Brendan Bendar

FunLover18 wrote: »

Yes, so sad that we should protect citizens from morons who can't solve an argument without resorting to petty violence. What a bunch of pansies we all are.

Sad that some individuals can't operate without resorting g to violence.

Goes to show that this man and his 'team' seem to think they can do whatever they want.

Time to tell this man that he has overstepped the mark and pack him off into the sunset

Tarzana2

Sheep Lover wrote: »

For someone who has no time for Clarkson or Top Gear anymore, you have alot of posts in a thread dedicated to him...

How original.

Well, Clarkson certainly has his dedicated fanboys, that's something I've learned today. The Beeb definitely won't be letting him go any time soon! You can all rejoice.

Hoop66

He might be amusing to some when he's doing his "bloke down the pub" bit on telly, but imagine having to work with the cunt.

Brendan Bendar

Hoop66 wrote: »

He might be amusing to some when he's doing his "bloke down the pub" bit on telly, but imagine having to work with the cunt.

You hit the nail there Hoop, he might be amusing doing his 'bloke down the pub' but the catch is that the real blokes down the the pub, think he is the bloke down the pub!!

When he he a long long way from that.

That's the funny bit

darkdubh

They'll probably replace him with that posh wan whos always posting sneering ****e on twitter.

ScumLord

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

You hit the nail there Hoop, he might be amusing doing his 'bloke down the pub' but the catch is that the real blokes down the the pub, think he is the bloke down the pub!!

When he he a long long way from that.

That's the funny bit

He doesn't strike me as a bloke down the pub at all. Clarkson is in his element eating expensive food while driving one of his many expensive cars around the Tuscany. In a top gear he made the joke that he can't tell the difference between wine, beer and red bull.

He is a toff, an old, opinionated toff, and that's what's great about him.

Brendan Bendar

ScumLord wrote: »

He doesn't strike me as a bloke down the pub at all. Clarkson is in his element eating expensive food while driving one of his many expensive cars around the Tuscany. In a top gear he made the joke that he can't tell the difference between wine, beer and red bull.

He is a toff, an old, opinionated toff, and that's what's great about him.

Each to his own, I think is the expression......

Hoop66

A toff? He went to Repton, for heaven's sake. I mean, it's barely 500 years old.

RayM

I hear the BBC is planning on replacing Top Gear with an all-new motoring show, hosted by the surviving cast members of Last of the Summer Wine and Anders Behring Breivik.

Clarkson strikes me as an oafish dullard. How anyone can find the carefully scripted/totally spontaneous 'banter' watchable is a mystery. He's no loss to tv in any real way.

James May is an obviously intelligent and interesting man with more to say and the wit to say it without resort to his fists. Hopefully it'll give him a chance to shine if that big dope doesn't return.

Korat

If he hit someone at work he'd be fired in most jobs. Being a central part of the show buys him some leeway but he's already on a final warning so he has to be gone.

Special treatment for stars at the BBC isn't going to be tolerated after recent scandals.

Mint Aero

God bless you Jeremy

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Oh Jer-remy WE LOVE YOU!

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ScumLord

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Each to his own, I think is the expression......

Well no, I don't think it's each to his own. I think you've built a caricature of him in your mind that doesn't actually match up with what he's like in real life and then use that caricature as a basis to throw abuse at him.

I just don't know how people can get so involved in hating a TV character.

Tarzana2

ScumLord wrote: »

He is a toff, an old, opinionated toff, and that's what's great about him.

Ah, forelock-tugging. People are allowed to be ignorant, ill-informed knobs as long as they're upper- or upper-middle class.

ScumLord

Tarzana2 wrote: »

Ah, forelock-tugging. People are allowed to be ignorant, ill-informed knobs as long as they're upper- or upper-middle class.

Why make a nonsensical statement like that? Why jump to an extreme version?

The fact he is a toff is what gives him a somewhat unique viewpoint. It doesn't give him the right to be racist and I haven't seen anything to say he is in anyway racist.

Tarzana2

ScumLord wrote: »

Why make a nonsensical statement like that? Why jump to an extreme version?

The fact he is a toff is what gives him a somewhat unique viewpoint. It doesn't give him the right to be racist and I haven't seen anything to say he is in anyway racist.

I haven't mentioned racism at all. He's not actually a toff anyway, he comes from relatively new money. Still a gasbag though.

jimgoose

Tarzana2 wrote: »

I haven't mentioned racism at all. He's not actually a toff anyway, he comes from relatively new money. Still a gasbag though.

That's right - Eddie Clarkson, Jeremy's father, made a good few bob out of Paddington Bear stuffed toys.

Gatling

Sonics2k wrote: »

I'm always baffled by the amount of hatred aimed at Clarkson and the others on Top Gear.

It's a decent show and occasionally shows off some cars too. Sure he's a bit of a pillock, but he's no worse than many other people on TV and generally seems like a decent bloke with a talent for annoying people.

It's most faux outrage and pro pc types I hate this and I hate that ,
Now do you watch Top Gear or read clarksons articles in the press
Ehhhhhhh no but I heard this and I heard he did this he's the bogey man .

But hey why would that matter

Tarzana2

Gatling wrote: »

It's most faux outrage and pro pc types I hate this and I hate that ,

Eh, no. I think a lot of the responses from people who don't like him have shown no outrage at all. He's not outrageous, except to a histrionic minority. Most people who don't like him see right through him.

Thargor

People could also hate him for wrecking the best show on tv by turning it into such a boring, scripted, dumbed down sonnze-fest its become for the last 3-4 seasons but then again it was him that made it the best thing on tv before that, that is to say it was the producers before they ran out of ideas that made it so great.

If it does turn out that he punched a member of staff because there was no food truck on site I dont think anyone will be able to defend that though, if it was a bit of pushing and shoving during a shouting match thats more of a grey area...

I sure hope they get the extra ratings they're after

Brendan Bendar

ScumLord wrote: »

Well no, I don't think it's each to his own. I think you've built a caricature of him in your mind that doesn't actually match up with what he's like in real life and then use that caricature as a basis to throw abuse at him.

I just don't know how people can get so involved in hating a TV character.

You are probably right,I have never met him in real life , and hopefully never will,but his history would lead me to believe he is a a class A bellend.

I could be way off the mark but I have only the accounts of his activities to go on.

Apologies if I have gotten it wrong.

ScumLord

Thargor wrote: »

People could also hate him for wrecking the best show on tv by turning it into such a boring, scripted, dumbed down sonnze-fest its become for the last 3-4 seasons but then again it was him that made it the best thing on tv before that, that is to say it was the producers before they ran out of ideas that made it so great.

How do you know that it was Clarkson that decided to turn top gear into a highly scripted show? What makes you think it wasn't always a highly scripted show? I very much doubt the BBC approach any of their shows with an attitude of just show up and see what happens. It seems much more likely given Clarksons reputation for saying things that annoy people, that it was producers that wanted everything more scripted so they could get the content they wanted for the show.

Again this is blaming Clarkson for things that are completely beyond his control. All TV today is heavily scripted, that's a trend that's got nothing to do with Clarkson.

Thargor

Im sure they had a script for every episodes but the high production values made it easy to watch. Now its just 3 old men shuffling through the same old lines and "antics" as the week before that and the week before that and its just an insult to your intelligence the sh1t they're serving up on a plate now.

P. Breathnach

ScumLord wrote: »

He doesn't strike me...

Candie wrote: »

Clarkson strikes me...

Give him time; he'll eventually get around to everybody.

creolebelle

Gintonious wrote: »

This is the man who did what a lot of us would love to do, he punched Piers Morgan.

He should have been knighted for that alone.

This totally changed my opinion of him. He should have a job for life at bbc. Maybe have a whole chanel dedicated to him

Tarzana2

Thargor wrote: »

Im sure they had a script for every episodes but the high production values made it easy to watch. Now its just 3 old men shuffling through the same old lines and "antics" as the week before that and the week before that and its just an insult to your intelligence the sh1t they're serving up on a plate now.

Nail on the head, especially the bolded bit. It's now just three overpaid dudes phoning it in every week these days. Cynical but apparently it works.

garp

ScumLord wrote: »

Well no, I don't think it's each to his own. I think you've built a caricature of him in your mind that doesn't actually match up with what he's like in real life and then use that caricature as a basis to throw abuse at him.

I just don't know how people can get so involved in hating a TV character.

Have you met him in "real life" so as to be able to say that he is not as he presents himself to be on the box because he acts like a bit of a tosser on the TV IMO.

dr.fuzzenstein

We still don't know what happened, was there a massive fight, was it just a push, you know how some people are, you look at them crooked and they throw themselves at the ground screaming "assault! assault! get and ambulance!". Not only anti water charge protesters do that sort of thing.

Gatling

So how many on here actually watch Top Gear every week or read clarksons articles

Genuinely that is ?

Falcon L

garp wrote: »

Have you met him in "real life" so as to be able to say that he is not as he presents himself to be on the box because he acts like a bit of a tosser on the TV IMO.

I've met him in real life. WYSIWYG.

Dravokivich

Gatling wrote: »

So how many on here actually watch Top Gear every week or read clarksons articles

Genuinely that is ?

I watch the show and have one of his books, which are just collections of articles. I've read that too.