Top Gear doesn't like Mexicans it seems

parc

I loath Richard Hammond and his gimpyness but he's outdone himself here

What a little spa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JqqOuvlqE

FreudianSlippers

parc wrote: »

I loath Richard Hammond and his gimpyness but he's outdone himself here

What a little spa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JqqOuvlqE

Yeah, but they're right though.

seanybiker

I used to loe top gear but lately I think its a big hape of donkey ****e. James may si grand but the other two muppets are really annoying.

Einhard

Supposedly they think Mexican assistant referrees are crap as well.

johnmcdnl

parc wrote: »

I loath Richard Hammond and his gimpyness but he's outdone himself here

What a little spa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JqqOuvlqE

how is he a spa isn't he describing the sterotypical image of mexican person

just like they do with every other sterotype in the world :rolleyes:

when I make a sports car they'll be talking about how it probably needs guiness for the windscreen wiper tank and whiskey instead of petrol :rolleyes:

it's top gear - what do you expect

parc

I wonder if you said that about Nigerians what would happen

They were ripping the piss out of them on Mexican tv. My south american friend was translating for me. Saying that they had **** teeth, the queen is ugly and they invented football and are **** at it

I just hate hammond really. Don't mind the other two too much but hammond is a fool

Badgermonkey

I like James May but I find Top Gear a difficult watch.

The dwarf and Curly car nerd being blokes.

All a bit Alan Partridge.

dxhound2005

The Mexicans got off lightly compared to the way they treated them poor Aussies.

parc

johnmcdnl wrote: »

how is he a spa

because when he does it he has zero sense of irony.

also his personality irks me and he's a sh1t presenter. Cringe worthy stuff most of the time

AnonoBoy

"It's just a joke. Like on Top Gear!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgABbHPdwH4

Sheeps

top gear is class u noob

gsxr1

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Yeah, but they're right though.

Bull ****. You are as bad as them to agree with them.

You have no clue about Mexico or their people by the sounds of it.;)

FreudianSlippers

gsxr1 wrote: »

Bull ****. You are as bad as them to agree with them.

You have no clue about Mexico or their people by the sounds of it.;)

They make crap cars and their food is all different combinations of the same few ingredients

Metallergy

parc wrote: »

I just hate hammond really. Don't mind the other two too much but hammond is a fool

made a full recovery apparently.. back to his idiotic self? hard to discern

lets see, hates cars.. looks a bit mexican.. you can bet Top Gear's not on my radar. i have however had the misfortune of seeing one of his general science for dummies type broadcasts. he's like a big-eyed bug i want to squish

Sheeps

why do people care so much? its not like it's your tax payers money paying for them to be on the air. if you don't like it dont watch it.

FreudianSlippers

Sheeps wrote: »

why do people care so much? its not like it's your tax payers money paying for them to be on the air. if you don't like it dont watch it.

God damn you and your obnoxious logic. :mad:

AnonoBoy

Sheeps wrote: »

why do people care so much? its not like it's your tax payers money paying for them to be on the air. if you don't like it dont watch it.

Oh that's your answer for everything.

Remember when you said that about paedophiles as well?

Yeah well they're still preverts, even if you're not watching them!

bonerm

Top Gear, not afraid to use the jokes that even Al Murray discards. :rolleyes:

starbelgrade

A Mexican threw his wife off a cliff the other day.

When questioned by police as to why he'd done it, he replied, “Tequila”.

TeddyTedson

I can't watch Top Gear too often with Jeremy Clarkson, what an awful man.
If Andy Gray got sacked for sexism I don't see why these shouldn't be sacked for racism.
I personally don't think they should though. It's obvious they're just taking the piss and even if they were being serious it says a lot more about them than Mexicans.

FreudianSlippers

starbelgrade wrote: »

A Mexican threw his wife off a cliff the other day.

When questioned by police as to why he'd done it, he replied, “Tequila”.

Did you hear about that Mexican that went to college?

Sticky_Fingers

And the backlash against Richard Hammond quickens apace. I wonder how many of the people posting negative comments about him won't hear a bad word said against him just after his crash?

Personally I'm completely apathetic towards the Top Gear presenters, I watch the show but I am under no illusions that the persona's taken on by Hammond, May or Clarkson bear little resemblance to what they are like in real life. It's a scripted entertainment show people, they go for the cheap, quick laugh and should not be taken seriously. I lived with a German lad and he absolutely loved the show despite the sheer amount of anti-German comments the presenters come out with on a weekly basis.

If a German can see the funny side of similar comments while you just see offensive slurs then I suggest you check your funny bones, they seem to have been replaced by your patellar tendon.

gsxr1

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

They make crap cars and their food is all different combinations of the same few ingredients

So what!

Our thriving Irish owned and built sports car industry is booming and the spud production levels in the midlands is breaking global levels!

They are English pricks who have just deeply insulted an entire country. Why?

They should step back and have a long hard look at the way they conduct themselves

OPENROAD

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I can't watch Top Gear too often with Jeremy Clarkson, what an awful man.
If Andy Gray got sacked for sexism I don't see why these shouldn't be sacked for racism.
I personally don't think they should though. It's obvious they're just taking the piss and even if they were being serious it says a lot more about them than Mexicans.

Do you really think they were?

Sheeps

gsxr1 wrote: »

So what!

Our thriving Irish owned and built sports car industry is booming and the spud production levels in the midlands is breaking global levels!

They are English pricks who have just deeply insulted an entire country. Why?

They should step back and have a long hard look at the way they conduct themselves

ouuu ahhhh up de 'ra

starbelgrade

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Did you hear about that Mexican that went to college?

He didn't pass his exams as he only had Juan Sheet to write on.

parc

Thing that bugs me is that it's not clever ironic racism...

It's bog standard cliché stuff.

TeddyTedson

OPENROAD wrote: »

Do you really think they were?

I think they were just having a bit of banter. These stereotypes are pretty much set in stone.
Mexicans-lazy
Irish-Drunk and stupid
Welsh-Inbred
Scottish-Red hair punchies
English-Posh arseholes

Metallergy

parc wrote: »

Thing that bugs me is that it's not clever ironic racism...

It's bog standard cliché stuff.

or smug, for shmucks

ascanbe

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

And the backlash against Richard Hammond quickens apace. I wonder how many of the people posting negative comments about him won't hear a bad word said against him just after his crash?

Personally I'm completely apathetic towards the Top Gear presenters, I watch the show but I am under no illusions that the persona's taken on by Hammond, May or Clarkson bear little resemblance to what they are like in real life. It's a scripted entertainment show people, they go for the cheap, quick laugh and should not be taken seriously. I lived with a German lad and he absolutely loved the show despite the sheer amount of anti-German comments the presenters come out with on a weekly basis.

If a German can see the funny side of similar comments while you just see offensive slurs then I suggest you check your funny bones, they seem to have been replaced by your patellar tendon.

What if you don't find them funny, not because you find them offensive, but because you find that they run-through the same tiresome 'oh, look at me being outrageously politically-incorrect unlike those humourless politically-correct liberals' routine ad naseum?

Son Of A Vidic

An Arab, Frenchman, American and a Mexican are riding down the highway. The Arab picks up an AK-47. He shoots a couple of rounds and then throws the gun out the window. The American asks him why he threw the gun out the window and the Arab says they have so many of those where he is from, he doesn't care about what happens to them.

The Frenchman picks up a bottle of wine and drinks a little and throws it out the window. The American asks him why he tossed it. The Frenchman says they have so much of it where he is from, he doesn't care what happens to it.

The American picks up the Mexican and throws him out the window.


If us Irish can take it, so can everyone else.

Top Gear should not be taken literally.

starbelgrade

ascanbe wrote: »

What if you don't find them funny, not because you find them offensive, but because you find that they run-through the same tiresome 'oh, look at me being outrageously politically-incorrect unlike those humourless politically-correct liberals' routine ad naseum?

Change channels.

LondonIrish90

gsxr1 wrote: »

So what!

Our thriving Irish owned and built sports car industry is booming and the spud production levels in the midlands is breaking global levels!

They are English pricks who have just deeply insulted an entire country. Why?

They should step back and have a long hard look at the way they conduct themselves

I do hope this was intentionally ironic :pac:

ascanbe

starbelgrade wrote: »

Change channels.

I did. A long time-ago. Presuming that they've continued along the same lines because i occasionally see clips, such as this one, that suggest they have.

Sticky_Fingers

ascanbe wrote: »

What if you don't find them funny, not because you find them offensive, but because you find that they run-through the same tiresome 'oh, look at me being outrageously politically-incorrect unlike those humourless politically-correct liberals' routine ad naseum?

Fair enough, I'm not particularly keen on their humour myself but it is not my nor anyone else's place to dictate what is funny and what isn't.The comments were clearly said in jest, people need to chill the fock out about this sort of stuff or else TV shows/presenters won't be allowed to say anything "controversial" for fear of offending the delicate sensibilities of a pack of over-sensitive muppets.

mikemac

Who cares?

Nobody in Ireland is paying taxes to fund this show

Just change channels if you're unhappy with it
Now if your Irish TV license was funding this you might get to have an opinion

stoneill

Is this an anti-Top Gear thread or a anti-stereotype thread?

Top Gear - I like the format.
However.......
Clarkson uses too many obscure similes (It drives like a blamanche garnished with lard)
Hammond doesn't talk about anything unless he can reference to a Porche 911.
James May is OK.
The Stig idea is cool.

Stereotype is not cool.

Kintarō Hattori

Thirty seven posts in and no-one's mentioned to the OP that we have a Top Gear forum?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=900

ascanbe

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

Fair enough, I'm not particularly keen on their humour myself but it is not my nor anyone else's place to dictate what is funny and what isn't.The comments were clearly said in jest, people need to chill the fock out about this sort of stuff or else TV shows/presenters won't be allowed to say anything "controversial" for fear of offending the delicate sensibilities of a pack of over-sensitive muppets.

I'm not dictating what others should or shouldn't find funny; just giving my opinion.
And i totally agree that people should chill out about such things.
My point is that jokes can be 'politically-incorrect' and potentially offensive to people while also containing some wit, innovation etc.
Just because a joke can be labelled 'politically-incorrect', though, doesn't mean it's inherently funny; as is the case with the 'joke' in the video posted.

TeddyTedson

Thumbs up for Mexicans?

Einhard

gsxr1 wrote: »

So what!

Our thriving Irish owned and built sports car industry is booming and the spud production levels in the midlands is breaking global levels!

They are English pricks who have just deeply insulted an entire country. Why?

They should step back and have a long hard look at the way they conduct themselves

Or maybe people who get their knickers in a twist at the poking of fun at national stereotypes should take deep breaths, calm down, and realise that there can only ever be one Mary Whitehouse. Jesus, outrage really is the new black these days. The reason that May and Clarkson say these things is because they take it as understood that people will know they are not being serious; that they understand that Mexicans are not all lazy, the Irish not all violent drunks, the Germans not all ruthlessly efficent (eh, scratch that last one actually...). They are actually less xenophobic than the self-righteous brigade because they know such stereotypes are ridiculous, whilst the chronically outraged react as if they are true, or at least univsersally recognised as such.

BTW OP, were you similarly indignant when the Simpsons lampooned the Irish, the Australians, or the Brazillians?

Sticky_Fingers

ascanbe wrote: »

I'm not dictating what others should or shouldn't find funny; just giving my opinion.
And i totally agree that people should chill out about such things.
My point is that jokes can be 'politically-incorrect' and potentially offensive to people while also containing some wit, innovation etc.
Just because a joke can be labelled 'politically-incorrect', though, doesn't mean it's inherently funny; as is the case with the 'joke' in the video posted.

I wasn't accusing you of being the humour police or anything, apologies if I came across that way. As for the merits of the joke presented in the clip, I thought it was pretty lazy and uninspired but hey thats just me, I sure someone enjoyed it.

Einhard

ascanbe wrote: »

My point is that jokes can be 'politically-incorrect' and potentially offensive to people while also containing some wit, innovation etc.
Just because a joke can be labelled 'politically-incorrect', though, doesn't mean it's inherently funny; as is the case with the 'joke' in the video posted.

Humour is subjective. If peple don't find something funny, they're free to change the channel. God knows, with the excuse for comedy that RTE has long produced, Irish people should be well versed in that.

Laisurg

What the hell? surely something is going to be said to them by the producers about this? Normally i'm all for a bit of racial banter on tele but this is just mean.

hairy sailor

Man up people,it's a car show for men with the type of sh*t joke's & banter you hear in male workplaces every day.if you don't like it watch fair city or corrie with your bird ffs.
i think the men complaning here must have sand in thier vagina's

Einhard

Laisurg wrote: »

Normally i'm all for a bit of racial banter on tele but this is just mean.

Banter that isn't mean isn't banter.

Stinicker

Uncalled for and the show is gone miles of track since day one, they never review normal cars and the show is pretty much a tossers wet dream nowadays. James May I like but the other two deserve to be thrown to the hyenas.

What would we think if it was an Irish joke they made?

OPENROAD

Stinicker wrote: »

Uncalled for and the show is gone miles of track since day one, they never review normal cars and the show is pretty much a tossers wet dream nowadays. James May I like but the other two deserve to be thrown to the hyenas.

What would we think if it was an Irish joke they made?

What would people think if it was us making the jokes?

Buceph

Stinicker wrote: »

they never review normal cars

They do.


They even reviewed a green car once.

Stinicker

Buceph wrote: »

They do.


They even reviewed a green car once.

Ah yes, that superb piece of technology, the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust. It is more like an entertainment show for lads than a car show nowadays. All they need to do is get more proper boobage (besides trying to hide it with the strategically positioned background girls).

Men & Motors awaits Jeremy and his team

Sticky_Fingers

Laisurg wrote: »

What the hell? surely something is going to be said to them by the producers about this? Normally i'm all for a bit of racial banter on tele but this is just mean.

Why should anything be said to them, it was a joke though no doubt some right-on "liberal" group will start telling people that they should be offended.

We don't need another Mary Whitehouse type figure telling us what can or cannot be shown/said on television, we are adults who can make up our own minds about this sort of thing. People can get offended if they want and post about on the internet to their hearts content just as long as they don't try to censor or moderate what other people can see/hear/say just because they find it personally offensive.