Clarkson Strikes Again

Minstrel27 · 02-08-2010 12:39AM

I have much hatred for Omar Bakri Muhammad. Not for religious reasons though. Any person who brings religion or race into anything is a ****.

Max Power1 · 02-08-2010 12:46PM

amacachi wrote: »

:rolleyes:

^

if ever there was a case for that emoticon, this is surely it.

cyrusdvirus · 03-08-2010 09:45AM

I liked the Stig intro this week.

Some say he wears red suspenders and a g-string under the white suit....

Max Power1 · 03-08-2010 09:46AM

gatecrash wrote: »

I liked the Stig intro this week.

Some say he wears red suspenders and a g-string under the white suit....

Actually I didnt get the reference to the muslim comments until I was rereading the thread here. Very well done imo!
(much better than another barrichello reference)

skelliser · 03-08-2010 09:52AM

Isnt this not a threat or at least incitement to breach the peace/hatred

He added: "And if he doesn’t apologise he could face Muslim youth attacking him physically."

amacachi · 03-08-2010 01:31PM

skelliser wrote: »

Isnt this not a threat or at least incitement to breach the peace/hatred

No, he wasn't calling on anyone to do anything nor expressing a desire for it to happen. It's funny how since laws like that were brought in or enforced the people who they were aimed at mastered avoiding them almost overnight. :pac: Check out the "warnings" the South Park creators got a few months back.

mike65 · 25-10-2010 02:31PM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/25/top-gear-jeremy-clarkson

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson rapped over 'special needs' joke

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been criticised by media regulator Ofcom for describing a car as "special needs" on the BBC2 show.

Clarkson said the Ferrari F430 Speciale was "a bit wrong ... that smiling front end ... it looked like a simpleton ... [it] should have been called the 430 Speciale Needs".

The BBC said it regretted that the comments had caused offence to some viewers and removed the reference from a repeat of the show on BBC2 and on the iPlayer.

Ofcom, which received two complaints, said it took into account Top Gear's "irreverent style and sometimes outspoken humour and studio banter".

But the regulator said "discriminatory language of this nature has the potential to be very offensive to some viewers, as it could be seen to single out certain sections of society in a derogatory way because of their disability".

mike65 · 01-02-2011 06:40PM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/feb/01/top-gear-mexican-ambassador

The Mexican ambassador in London has complained to the BBC about "xenophobic" and "offensive" comments made by the motoring show's presenters.

Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza has demanded an apology after Richard Hammond jokingly described Mexicans as "lazy, feckless, flatulent [and] overweight" during an episode of the BBC2 show screened on Sunday.

His co-presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May went on to describe Mexican food as "refried sick".

Clarkson, who has repeatedly been criticised for making offensive comments on the programme, said on Sunday's show there would be no complaints this time because the Mexican ambassador would: "be sitting there with a remote control like this,". The presenter pretended to slump in a chair, snoring.

The Mexican ambassador has written to the BBC, however, demanding that it order the presenters to make a public apology.

"The presenters of the programme resorted to outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults to stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people, their culture as well as their official representative in the United Kingdom," he wrote.

Owenw · 01-02-2011 07:32PM

Some people need to develop a sense of humour. Skimmed through the comments and found this gem:

What do you call a Mexican who's had his car stolen?

Carlos.

:D:D

desaparecidos · 01-02-2011 07:44PM

It seems people assume they have a divine right to go through life without ever being offended by any anything.

What's so bad about being offended anyway? What exactly happens when one is offended?

DublinWriter · 01-02-2011 10:42PM

Fifteen years ago, Clarkson would have said the same thing about the Irish. Twenty years ago he would have said the same thing about blacks.

Clarkson is little more than a failed hack turned comedy monkey. I find him greatly amusing because he reveals more about the British character than he does about the foreign characters that he attempts to stereotype.

Unlike Sasha Baron Cohen or Sarah Silverman, he lacks the basic intellect and intelligence to hone his particular brand of racism into wry social commentary, meta-racism if you will.

But I still enjoy watching him in the squeamish way I enjoy watching the Jeremy Kyle show. It's a bit like going to the Zoo and watching Utan the Gorilla shove bananas up it's sagging anus in front of a shrieking bunch of school kids.

Thank Dawkins for guilty pleasures.

mike65 · 01-02-2011 10:55PM

Ah the joke is that he really isn't like that in the same way James May isn't gay.

Myrddin · 02-02-2011 11:05AM

DublinWriter wrote: »

Fifteen years ago, Clarkson would have said the same thing about the Irish. Twenty years ago he would have said the same thing about blacks.

Clarkson is little more than a failed hack turned comedy monkey. I find him greatly amusing because he reveals more about the British character than he does about the foreign characters that he attempts to stereotype.

Unlike Sasha Baron Cohen or Sarah Silverman, he lacks the basic intellect and intelligence to hone his particular brand of racism into wry social commentary, meta-racism if you will.

But I still enjoy watching him in the squeamish way I enjoy watching the Jeremy Kyle show. It's a bit like going to the Zoo and watching Utan the Gorilla shove bananas up it's sagging anus in front of a shrieking bunch of school kids.

Thank Dawkins for guilty pleasures.

I think you'll find he likes to play the role, but he can be quite intelligent & thought provoking when he wants to be. As said above, people need to really develop a sense of humour or come down from their ivory tower. He quite often slags off the English too, for those who are nitpicking wern't aware.

amacachi · 02-02-2011 11:09AM

Some people just really don't get jokes.

billymitchell · 02-02-2011 11:16AM

Just for a bit of context, if clarkson started saying that the Irish were a bunch of "drunken spud eating terrorists" or something along those lines, I am sure there would be more than a few people in Ireland going mad over that!!

amacachi · 02-02-2011 11:20AM

billymitchell wrote: »

Just for a bit of context, if clarkson started saying that the Irish were a bunch of "drunken spud eating terrorists" or something along those lines, I am sure there would be more than a few people in Ireland going mad over that!!

You're right, as I said, some people just really don't get jokes.

desaparecidos · 02-02-2011 11:22AM

billymitchell wrote: »

Just for a bit of context, if clarkson started saying that the Irish were a bunch of "drunken spud eating terrorists" or something along those lines, I am sure there would be more than a few people in Ireland going mad over that!!

You're right,

I would be horribly offended and probably keel over and die.

Myrddin · 02-02-2011 11:30AM

billymitchell wrote: »

Just for a bit of context, if clarkson started saying that the Irish were a bunch of "drunken spud eating terrorists" or something along those lines, I am sure there would be more than a few people in Ireland going mad over that!!

So when he says "Can you imagine if the English had built this?" as he does about many things, I take it everyone in England is mortally offended & Clarkson gets lynched every time he leaves his home? Some probably do, but the majority find him amusing, if even mildly. Why? He's joking

Johnmb · 02-02-2011 12:51PM

billymitchell wrote: »

Just for a bit of context, if clarkson started saying that the Irish were a bunch of "drunken spud eating terrorists" or something along those lines, I am sure there would be more than a few people in Ireland going mad over that!!

I'm pretty sure he has had a dig at us over the years. I'd be amazed if he hasn't. I'd also be completely disgusted with him if he hasn't, why not? Are we not good enough for him to slag?

Myrddin · 02-02-2011 12:52PM

Johnmb wrote: »

I'm pretty sure he has had a dig at us over the years. I'd be amazed if he hasn't. I'd also be completely disgusted with him if he hasn't, why not? Are we not good enough for him to slag?

That's more like it. It's a light entertainment tv show, if you wanna be insulted, go watch Dail Beo.

mike65 · 04-04-2011 01:01PM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/04/top-gear-cleared-anti-mexican-comments

Top Gear sparked a minor diplomatic incident when it described Mexicans as "lazy, feckless, flatulent [and] overweight" but the BBC2 programme fronted by Jeremy Clarkson has been cleared of breaching broadcasting regulations by media regulator Ofcom.

The watchdog said the comments, in an episode of the programme broadcast on 30 January this year, had the potential to be "very offensive" but were justified by the programme's "irreverent style and sometimes outspoken humour".

Ofcom said Top Gear "frequently uses national stereotypes as a comedic trope and that there were few, if any, nationalities that had not at some point been the subject of the presenters' mockery throughout the history of this long-running programme".

Blitzkrieger · 05-04-2011 11:44AM

I remember he once said in his Times column that before when he visited Ireland all the people had pale skin and Orange hair. Now it's the other way around. I'd be surprised if he hasn't said more offensive things about us. Meh - it's a joke.

mike65 · 01-12-2011 10:45AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/30/jeremy-clarkson-one-show-apology

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

Johnmb · 01-12-2011 01:03PM

Only problem there is that he said to take them outside to do it. If they're anything like the Irish lot they'd probably insist on moving expenses before they'd go out!

bnt · 01-12-2011 02:39PM

For better or for worse, he says and does things the rest of us don't get to, and whether we agree with him or not, we get to experience the vicarious thrill as he does it. Why else was he invited on that program, when he's not going to know anything about the lives of the strikers? He doesn't mind people thinking he's an idiot - both Hammond and May have called him worse things in interviews - and I suspect playing that character suits his purposes just fine.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 01-12-2011 05:07PM

The gas thing is that he's a Public Servant himself.

Myrddin · 01-12-2011 05:41PM

deccurley wrote: »

The gas thing is that he's a Public Servant himself.

Yeah but he's not on strike.

Newspaper sales are prob slow since Jacksons doctor got banged up, this will keep the tabloids happy I'd imagine. It's just Clarkson, he says what he wants & can be quite passionate and blunt about it.

At least he wears his heart on his sleeve, it'll be something else next month.

DublinWriter · 01-12-2011 07:19PM

billymitchell wrote: »

Just for a bit of context, if clarkson started saying that the Irish were a bunch of "drunken spud eating terrorists" or something along those lines, I am sure there would be more than a few people in Ireland going mad over that!!

There was an edition of Top Gear where he was flying in the Pilatus PC-9M propeller plane and said something along the lines of "Can you believe the entire Irish Air Force consists of two of these!".

Cardinal Richelieu · 01-12-2011 10:42PM

Seriously the British have lost their sense of humour, the Unions were only looking for some extra publicity and latched onto Clarkson remarks. It was a sarcastic statement by Clarkson doing his best pseudo-Basil Fawlty alter ego impression but the Unions have to blow it up as a serious attack by a Cameron insider.

Cardinal Richelieu · 01-12-2011 10:44PM

DublinWriter wrote: »

There was an edition of Top Gear where he was flying in the Pilatus PC-9M propeller plane and said something along the lines of "Can you believe the entire Irish Air Force consists of two of these!".

He has offended most nations on this planet by now, its part of his appeal.:D

America seems his frequent target.

Have the Americans made something which can go round corners?

Segways are made in America, of course, so fat Yanks can go to the fridge without expending any energy.

But mostly, I suspect the people who move from Britain to the States do so because they are interested in guns and murdering

America: 250 million **** living in a country with no word for wanker.

If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn; you got your Best Western; you got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude. It's not the holiday programme--it's the truth.

The American motorist is the most aggressive creature on earth.

In a list of the five most rubbish things in the world, I'd have America's foreign policy at five. Aids at four. Iran's nuclear programme at three. Gordon Brown at two and Maserati's gearbox at number one.

They really do have an irony deficiency here. I can honestly believe that in certain parts of America now, people have started to mate with vegetables.

Clarkson Strikes Again

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