Top Gear kicked out of Argentina - World gone mad?

bear1 · 03-10-2014 2:43pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

You have tried your best too in fairness. I am not sure pity was your desired reaction though

Damn I was hoping it would work

cdeb · 03-10-2014 2:45pm

I am pie wrote: »

Lets agree on statistically extremely unlikely ?

We already have agreed on that.

I am pie wrote: »

"People" = War veterans. Slightly understandable they were upset, I would argue.

Don't agree. The had no right to be "justifiably offended", as you say. They chose to be offended. It's a car reg, for God's sake. Get a grip.

fedor.2. · 03-10-2014 2:46pm

Top Gear, and in particular Jeremy Clarkson, are a breath of fresh air in this pussified world of political correctness. Long may they continue.

Peist2007 · 03-10-2014 2:47pm

cdeb wrote: »

It's a car reg, for God's sake. Get a grip.

So you agree that it did happen?

bear1 · 03-10-2014 2:48pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

So you agree that it did happen?

Again, going around in circles.
It has happened, the question is if it was intentional or not.

jimgoose · 03-10-2014 2:48pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

So you agree that it did happen?

That what happened? That a registration plate "H982 FKL" was issued in the UK? Yes, it would appear thus! :pac:

cdeb · 03-10-2014 2:49pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

So you agree that it did happen?

That what happened?

bear1 · 03-10-2014 2:49pm

cdeb wrote: »

That what happened?

You know.... err the thing.

nelly17 · 03-10-2014 2:51pm

fedor.2. wrote: »

Top Gear, and in particular Jeremy Clarkson, are a breath of fresh air in this pussified world of political correctness. Long may they continue.

I used to think that but I couldnt give a flying **** anymore its the same crap trotted season after season these days

Smiles35 · 03-10-2014 2:52pm

bear1 wrote: »

You know.... err the thing.

Don't mention the thing!

cdeb · 03-10-2014 2:56pm

Ha!

Brilliant spot.

What's the other website which shows it to be the original reg on a Porsche?

jimgoose · 03-10-2014 3:05pm

cdeb wrote: »

Ha!

Brilliant spot.

What's the other website which shows it to be the original reg on a Porsche?

Dunno chief. According to the DVLA as well, it's a blue 1990 598cc Honda. And it's not taxed!

EDIT: Never mind - I'm a blithering idiot. The plate is "H982 FKL", which is indeed a Porsche.

super_furry · 03-10-2014 3:10pm

About time. It'd be like going up to Derry with a "Paras31" registration to take the piss out of Bloody Sunday.

cdeb · 03-10-2014 3:10pm

Expired 1996.

Should be noted in England, you can transfer reg plates from one car to another. But that wouldn't explain why it's not showing up as a Porsche.

Evade · 03-10-2014 3:10pm

Isn't it FKL not FLK?

DVLA says H982 FKL is a Porsche.

cdeb · 03-10-2014 3:11pm

Yeah, that'd explain it alright.

jimgoose · 03-10-2014 3:11pm

Evade wrote: »

Isn't it FKL not FLK?

DVLA says H982 FKL is a Porsche.

Well hoofed chief, my mistake.

Gatling · 03-10-2014 3:14pm

jimgoose wrote: »

Dunno chief. According to the DVLA as well, it's a blue 1990 598cc Honda. And it's not taxed!

EDIT: Never mind - I'm a blithering idiot. The plate is "H982 FKL", which is indeed a Porsche.

I linked to the dvla porsche has been registered since 1991

Rightwing · 03-10-2014 3:16pm

Argentina is a backward country.

Good for 2 things: default & poverty.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-10-2014 3:21pm

It was a stupid thing to do, that Clarkson is a real child at times. They're lucky being asked to leave was all that happened. I remember reading that Willie Anderson the Irish rugby player was jailed for three months during a tour in 1978 for removing an Argie flag from it's staff as part of a practical joke in a government building.

Gatling · 03-10-2014 3:28pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It was a stupid thing to do, that Clarkson is a real child at times. They're lucky being asked to leave was all that happened. I remember reading that Willie Anderson the Irish rugby player was jailed for three months during a tour in 1978 for removing an Argie flag from it's staff as part of a practical joke in a government building.

A big difference between that and a simple licence plate on a German car

Peist2007 · 03-10-2014 3:30pm

Gatling wrote: »

A big difference between that and a simple licence plate on a German car

Yes a flag is different to a licence plate and vice versa. Both were stupid disrespectful acts. In fact, Clarkson's is worse as he is English and his jibe relates to a war between both countries. Pathetic really. But, as this thread clearly shows, there are plenty of muppets who lap his sh1t up

cdeb · 03-10-2014 3:30pm

Gatling wrote: »

A big difference between that and a simple licence plate on a German car

Not as if being jailed for three months is exactly a rational response either.

The Backwards Man · 03-10-2014 3:31pm

Wasn't Willie Johnstone kicked out of Argentina for something to do with top gear as well?

cdeb · 03-10-2014 3:32pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

In fact, Clarkson's is worse as he is English and his jibe relates to a war between both countries.

What jibe is this?

Have you, in your brief time away, come up with anything to show it was intentional?

Apart from links which say it wasn't, of course?

I'm just curious like.

The Backwards Man · 03-10-2014 3:34pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

Clarkson's is worse as he is English

This appears to be the crux of your argument.

bear1 · 03-10-2014 3:35pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

This appears to be the crux of your argument.

And even that one is pathetic.

Peist2007 · 03-10-2014 3:35pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

This appears to be the crux of your argument.

I doubt you have any idea of the crux of my argument. My mother is English you complete clown.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 03-10-2014 3:36pm

Gatling wrote: »

A big difference between that and a simple licence plate on a German car

I don't buy their story that it was coincidental.

bear1 · 03-10-2014 3:37pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

I doubt you have any idea of the crux of my argument. My mother is English you complete clown.

You're a delightful person aren't you?

Why are you attacking the English then? Bit two-faced of you isn't it?

Gatling · 03-10-2014 3:37pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I don't buy their story that it was coincidental.

Only conspiracy theories so far

humanji · 03-10-2014 3:38pm

MOD: Peist2007 will be taking a few days off.

bear1 · 03-10-2014 3:43pm

I found this article in the Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11137879/Jeremy-Clarkson-stoned-as-Top-Gear-crew-abandon-cars-and-flee-Argentina.html

It shows one other car's number plate which from what I can see is just a normal number plate.
For me, just to repeat, it was a coincidence.

end of the road · 03-10-2014 3:43pm

fedor.2. wrote: »

Top Gear, and in particular Jeremy Clarkson, are a breath of fresh air in this pussified world of political correctness. Long may they continue.

there is no such thing as political correctness, its a bunch of made up crap to keep the nasty opinions of the nasty in check, and something for people to rant at for not being able to say what they want unchallenged

Nodin · 03-10-2014 3:44pm

bear1 wrote: »

https://uk.tv.yahoo.com/top-gear-crew-barred-argentina-041233255.html

Make of this what you will but I find it hard to believe that the bosses deliberately went out of their way to search for a car that has a number plate which reflects the Falklands war.
Even if it was a piece of tongue in cheek humour it seems like the Argentines can't take even a modicum of a joke.
So they have now been escorted to the airport and told to leave.
Opinions?

theres humour, then theres Clarkson.

jimgoose · 03-10-2014 3:46pm

end of the road wrote: »

there is no such thing as political correctness, its a bunch of made up crap to keep the nasty opinions of the nasty in check, and something for people to rant at for not being able to say what they want unchallenged

I'd have said it's a bunch of made up crap indeed, but made up by a bunch of psychologically damaged, prematurely toilet-trained misfits who are terrified of anyone being offended anywhere, ever. But I'm a bit nasty that way. :P

cdeb · 03-10-2014 3:48pm

bear1 wrote: »

I found this article in the Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11137879/Jeremy-Clarkson-stoned-as-Top-Gear-crew-abandon-cars-and-flee-Argentina.html

It shows one other car's number plate which from what I can see is just a normal number plate.
For me, just to repeat, it was a coincidence.

Coincidence or not, I think it has to be said that anyone who'd openly threaten someone and order them to leave the country over a car reg is scum.

Just that seems to have been lost in the thread, I think.

bear1 · 03-10-2014 3:48pm

Nodin wrote: »

theres humour, then theres Clarkson.

And there is exaggeration.
It is a pity that it has happened but hey ho imagine the amount of people that will want to see that special

intended or not intended!

bear1 · 03-10-2014 3:48pm

cdeb wrote: »

Coincidence or not, I think it has to be said that anyone who'd openly threaten someone and order them to leave the country over a car reg is scum.

Just that seems to have been lost in the thread, I think.

I'm still with you

Iwasfrozen · 03-10-2014 3:49pm

end of the road wrote: »

there is no such thing as political correctness, its a bunch of made up crap to keep the nasty opinions of the nasty in check, and something for people to rant at for not being able to say what they want unchallenged

I actually agree with something end of the road has written.

Mind = blown.

BBDBB · 03-10-2014 3:55pm

bear1 wrote: »

I found this article in the Telegraph.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11137879/Jeremy-Clarkson-stoned-as-Top-Gear-crew-abandon-cars-and-flee-Argentina.html

It shows one other car's number plate which from what I can see is just a normal number plate.
For me, just to repeat, it was a coincidence.

The comment section of that article makes interesting reading, Clarkson certainly seems to divide opinion.

Theres a reference in the comments to other registrations being also a problem but I cant see it in the one in the picture?? anyone??

bear1 · 03-10-2014 3:56pm

BBDBB wrote: »

The comment section of that article makes interesting reading, Clarkson certainly seems to divide opinion.

Theres a reference in the comments to other registrations being also a problem but I cant see it in the one in the picture?? anyone??

The "problem" they have with the other 2 number plates is that they are very close to the number of people killed on either side.
More utter bollocks in my mind.

jimgoose · 03-10-2014 3:57pm

bear1 wrote: »

The "problem" they have with the other 2 number plates is that they are very close to the number of people killed on either side.
More utter bollocks in my mind.

Jaysis! I'm expecting Jim Corr to turn up any minute! :pac:

cdeb · 03-10-2014 3:57pm

Interesting post in the comments section that the car is a Porsche 928 - so the 982 in the reg may be part of a vanity plate (even if it's slightly out).

Vaguely plausible at least.

Nodin · 03-10-2014 3:59pm

bear1 wrote: »

And there is exaggeration.
It is a pity that it has happened but hey ho imagine the amount of people that will want to see that special intended or not intended!

Unless he got batoned I doubt the haters will be convinced. Having never watched top gear I always presumed it was a car review show. I only learned otherwise when dickhead began shooting his mouth off.

BBDBB · 03-10-2014 4:06pm

it was a car review/magazine style show back when it started in the late 70's but they revamped the formula and whether people here like it or loathe it its a very successful show, its translated and subtitled and sold around the world and the franchise has been sold to half a dozen other countries to make their own versions. The Little Englander stuff is given much more publicity than is in the show from what Ive seen

Timberrrrrrrr · 03-10-2014 4:09pm

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I don't buy their story that it was coincidental.

Why not? Even if it wasn't who is to say it wasn't some back room person who sourced the cars or do people honestly think Clarkson/Hammond/May go out and buy their own cars.

wendell borton · 03-10-2014 4:20pm

TG was a decent programme once, but it's now it just sub juvenile drivel so scripted and fake with very little to do with actual motoring.

ScumLord · 03-10-2014 4:25pm

BBDBB wrote: »

Theres a reference in the comments to other registrations being also a problem but I cant see it in the one in the picture?? anyone??

Local councillor Juan Manuel Romano said the digits 269 on the number plate of the Ford Mustang Mustang Richard Hammond was driving were close to the 255 Britons killed during the 1982 war.
He added that the numbers 646 on James May's Lotus could be taken as a reference to the 649 Argentinian casualties

When you add in the other two plates to their complaint it seems like their just looking for any reason to get upset, adding 2 and 2 and getting sausages.

Spook_ie · 03-10-2014 4:48pm

Peist2007 wrote: »

And those Burmese people being slopes. Just a laugh innit :rolleyes:

I'd never have thought slope as refering to Asian origin, must be an age thing

It doesn't even get a mention on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs_by_ethnicity#East_Asian

Top Gear kicked out of Argentina - World gone mad?

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