Jeremy Clarkson suspended

Cienciano · 15-03-2015 02:46PM

RecordStraight wrote: »

It's like calling someone a 'black bastard'. Presumably it's not for informational purposes - rather, it's pointing out something that is supposed to be negative, or relevant to the insult.

Calling a black man a 'prick' is not racist. Calling him a 'black prick' is. Can you see the difference?

Well, as long as it's not the "worst thing" so apparently it's ok.

whats_my_name · 15-03-2015 03:31PM

I attempted to read the whole thread but then decided not to subject myself to such tripe!! How can anyone attempt to defend his actions?? I would love to see his defenders go in and do a days work, to be subjected to verbal & physical abuse by a grown man & think that it is acceptable. Especially considering this grown man is more than capable of getting into a car & driving to find a restaurant that serves hot food himself if he wasn't happy with what was on offer. Such a pompous, self entitled, obnoxious excuse of a human being.

Mint Aero · 15-03-2015 04:36PM

whats_my_name wrote: »

I attempted to read the whole thread but then decided not to subject myself to such tripe!! How can anyone attempt to defend his actions?? I would love to see his defenders go in and do a days work, to be subjected to verbal & physical abuse by a grown man & think that it is acceptable. Especially considering this grown man is more than capable of getting into a car & driving to find a restaurant that serves hot food himself if he wasn't happy with what was on offer. Such a pompous, self entitled, obnoxious excuse of a human being.

Grown men shouldn't need hospital treatment for a spot of blood on their lip and they should be capable of taking a bollocking and/or giving it back as good as they get when they f*ck up a simple task once they're passed the nappy stage.

Such cotton wool mollycoddling tripe in this thread.

BMMachine · 15-03-2015 04:37PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Grown men shouldn't need hospital treatment for a spot of blood on their lip and they should be capable of taking a bollocking and/or given it back as good as they get when they f*ck up a simple take once they're passed the nappy stage.

Such cotton wool mollycoddling tripe in this thread.

its PC gone mad, isn't it!

Mint Aero · 15-03-2015 04:39PM

BMMachine wrote: »

its PC gone mad, isn't it!

Sometimes I think the PC movement was started and is being reinforced by trolls.

BMMachine · 15-03-2015 04:55PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Sometimes I think the PC movement was started and is being reinforced by trolls.

Yeah I was just reading that in Andrew Pierces bit in the Mail on Sunday. He was saying how its a conspiracy against any kind of strong leadership individuals to make others less well off feel better about themselves

RecordStraight · 15-03-2015 05:00PM

BMMachine wrote: »

Yeah I was just reading that in Andrew Pierces bit in the Mail on Sunday. He was saying how its a conspiracy against any kind of strong leadership individuals to make others less well off feel better about themselves

Physically attacking colleagues when drunk is 'strong leadership' nowadays? :rolleyes: I'd say it's exactly the opposite, unless you consider that you see loads of strong leaders in play shcools up and down the country.

20Cent · 15-03-2015 05:19PM

Sunday Times making him out to be a martyr. If he'd named any other race he'd be fired from there too.

RecordStraight · 15-03-2015 05:21PM

20Cent wrote: »

Sunday Times making him out to be a martyr. If he'd named any other race he'd be fired from there too.

We are the last people you can racially abuse with some degree of safety.

onlyme! · 15-03-2015 05:23PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Grown men shouldn't need hospital treatment for a spot of blood on their lip and they should be capable of taking a bollocking and/or giving it back as good as they get when they f*ck up a simple task once they're passed the nappy stage.

Such cotton wool mollycoddling tripe in this thread.

So you'd be ok with being called a lazy (insert nationality) **** and followed up with a punch in the mouth by a workmate over nothing, when a more simpler request would have serviced, like any chance you nip out and get me a bowl of irish stew!

RecordStraight · 15-03-2015 05:25PM

onlyme! wrote: »

So you'd be ok with being called a lazy (insert nationality) **** and followed up with a punch in the mouth by a workmate over nothing, when a more simpler request would have serviced, like any chance you nip out and get me a bowl of irish stew!

Hey, that's 'strong leadership'. All the best organisations are run on that basis. Steve Jobs was renowned for beating the crap out of his underlings. Same with Warren Buffet.

The Diabolical Monocle · 15-03-2015 05:35PM

Car-ma for his failed attempt at trolling in Argentina and subsequent lies.

Mint Aero · 15-03-2015 05:46PM

onlyme! wrote: »

So you'd be ok with being called a lazy (insert nationality) **** and followed up with a punch in the mouth by a workmate over nothing, when a more simpler request would have serviced, like any chance you nip out and get me a bowl of irish stew!

Oh, where you there? No. Didn't think so.

dr.fuzzenstein · 15-03-2015 05:50PM

RecordStraight wrote: »

We are the last people you can racially abuse with some degree of safety.

Well, to be fair I don't think there's a whole heap of an ethnic difference between an English and an Irish person (or even me as a German). If he is part of the same "race" (an idiotic construct, there is only the human race, there are no subspecies or races), he is also abusing himself.
Maybe it should be changed to cultural abuse, since there is no such thing as being racist, since that would have to include every member of the species Homo Sapiens.

BMMachine · 15-03-2015 05:56PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Oh, where you there? No. Didn't think so.

exactly! Its this 'trial by media' stuff which is ruining our society

onlyme! · 15-03-2015 06:03PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Oh, where you there? No. Didn't think so.

yeah i was .....i heard him clearly say where's my dinner ya bog trottin lazy irish **** why don't you go home, but first take this

RecordStraight · 15-03-2015 06:06PM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Well, to be fair I don't think there's a whole heap of an ethnic difference between an English and an Irish person (or even me as a German). If he is part of the same "race" (an idiotic construct, there is only the human race, there are no subspecies or races), he is also abusing himself.
Maybe it should be changed to cultural abuse, since there is no such thing as being racist, since that would have to include every member of the species Homo Sapiens.

I look forward to you rolling this argument out when someone is called a 'black bastard' or a 'Chinese bastard'...

Eugene Norman · 15-03-2015 06:07PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Oh, where you there? No. Didn't think so.

You switch from believing the story and defending clarkson to not believing the story and defending clarkson.

Tarzana2 · 15-03-2015 06:19PM

keanosbeard wrote: »

Dolly Parton once said; " It takes a whole lot of money to look this cheap "

Rowan Atkinson's genius is Mr Bean. But the person Rowan Atkinson himself is a complete mystery to people.

Katie Price became " Jordan "

Madonna is still getting headlines approaching 60.

Kim Kardashian s*cked a rappers c*ck and had given her whole family a career off the back of it,

Clarkson is an excellent journalist and a very clever man, despite the " Buffoon Act ". The fact he can arouse such interest and controversy is a tribute to the " Character " he has created.

He's a decent journalist, not an excellent one. Far too concerned with attempting to be an agent provocateur (and failing) to ever be exemplary.

Tarzana2 · 15-03-2015 06:33PM

Eugene Norman wrote: »

You switch from believing the story and defending clarkson to not believing the story and defending clarkson.

Exactly!

onlyme! · 15-03-2015 06:33PM

A irishman in his mid thirty's getting hit by this asshole and not hitting back is embarrassing!

oisin is the one who should be apologising....... to the irish nation!

15-03-2015 06:43PM

Its genuinely sad how it's worked out that a nasty bully can verbally, and most likely physically, abuse a subordinate, who then receives death threats and has his character assassinated to the degree that he has to go into hiding, and the bully is held up as a heroic mans man who takes no crap and should be let off because of his celebrity. I neither liked nor disliked Clarkson before, but I just despise him now, although not as much as I despise the apologists.

At what point does a tv show become more important than a persons right to do his job without some entitled ape abusing you when they're frustrated?

Muahahaha · 15-03-2015 06:47PM

It comes as no surprise that head Tory David Cameron is backing Jeremy Clarkson. Both of them are members of the Chipping Norton set which is where posh Tory boys live away from the mean streets of London. Most of the people involved in the phone hacking scandals live there too as does Rupert Murdock on occasion. Its the type of place where racism for the rich is tolerated. The people who live in Chipping Norton miss the days of No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipping_Norton_set

Its going to be fun watching David Cameron having squeaky bum time when Clarkson gets the sack. I can also see his support for Clarkson and refusal to condem racism as a stick to beat him with in the UK election in May.

Cienciano · 15-03-2015 06:48PM

Candie wrote: »

Its genuinely sad how it's worked out that a nasty bully can verbally, and most likely physically, abuse a subordinate, who then receives death threats and has his character assassinated to the degree that he has to go into hiding, and the bully is held up as a heroic mans man who takes no crap and should be let off because of his celebrity. I neither liked nor disliked Clarkson before, but I just despise him now, although not as much as I despise the apologists.

At what point does a tv show become more important than a persons right to do his job without some entitled ape abusing you when they're frustrated?

I liked him before, but jesus, his fans seem to be the lowest common denominator

mad muffin · 15-03-2015 06:49PM

For humanity

Mint Aero · 15-03-2015 06:55PM

Candie wrote: »

Its genuinely sad how it's worked out that a nasty bully can verbally, and most likely physically, abuse a subordinate, who then receives death threats and has his character assassinated to the degree that he has to go into hiding, and the bully is held up as a heroic mans man who takes no crap and should be let off because of his celebrity. I neither liked nor disliked Clarkson before, but I just despise him now, although not as much as I despise the apologists.

At what point does a tv show become more important than a persons right to do his job without some entitled ape abusing you when they're frustrated?

Muahahaha wrote: »

It comes as no surprise that head Tory David Cameron is backing Jeremy Clarkson. Both of them are members of the Chipping Norton set which is where posh Tory boys live away from the mean streets of London. Most of the people involved in the phone hacking scandals live there too as does Rupert Murdock on occasion. Its the type of place where racism for the rich is tolerated. The people who live in Chipping Norton miss the days of No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipping_Norton_set

Its going to be fun watching David Cameron having squeaky bum time when Clarkson gets the sack. I can also see his support for Clarkson and refusal to condem racism as a stick to beat him with in the UK election in May.

Cienciano wrote: »

I liked him before, but jesus, his fans seem to be the lowest common denominator

:rolleyes: Jesus lads it was a minor fraca. He didn't tie the guy up in his basement for 10 years. Calm down with the raging hard ons trying to sword fight to look like the most squeeky clean superior high horse in town. :pac:

B0jangles · 15-03-2015 07:09PM

Anyone getting flashbacks to the Garthpocalypse right now?

I mean we have an entitled egomaniac and a totally ridiculous fanbase who will excuse anything from their hero rather than accept that he's being an arse.

I'd be willing to be that some of the posters now rabidly defending poor aul Clarkson from the consequences of punching a colleague in the face were pissing themselves laughing at the loopier Garth Brooks fans.

kylith · 15-03-2015 07:10PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Grown men shouldn't need hospital treatment for a spot of blood on their lip and they should be capable of taking a bollocking and/or giving it back as good as they get when they f*ck up a simple task once they're passed the nappy stage.

Such cotton wool mollycoddling tripe in this thread.

Similarly; grown men shouldn't be verbally abusing and punching people in the face because they have stayed out drinking until the hotel kitchen has closed. They should be capable of saying 'fair enough' and heading to a chipper once they're past the nappy stage.

I've always liked Jezza, and never been bothered by his non-pc antics, but this is beyond a joke. He deserves to lose his job for punching a co-worker.

Mint Aero · 15-03-2015 07:12PM

kylith wrote: »

Similarly; grown men shouldn't be verbally abusing and punching people in the face because they have stayed out drinking until the hotel kitchen has closed. They should be capable of saying 'fair enough' and heading to a chipper once they're past the nappy stage.

I've always liked Jezza, and never been bothered by his non-pc antics, but this is beyond a joke. He deserves to lose his job for punching a co-worker.

Rumour going that there's a lot more to it than "cold food" No one here knows what actually happened yet.

kylith · 15-03-2015 07:24PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

Rumour going that there's a lot more to it than "cold food" No one here knows what actually happened yet.

Even if there is more to it, unless he was defending himself from an attack, there is no excuse for punching someone. He apparently punched a colleague in the face with little to no apparent provocation. Getting sacked is justified in that situation.

Jeremy Clarkson suspended

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