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Jeremy Clarkson suspended

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  • #962
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Seems to be a lot of "ifs" "alleged" and "supposed" in this thread.

    Also apparently Clarkson is a known fighter who hasn't been afraid to use his fists before....fairly sure it was a single punch to Piers Morgan.

    I'll wait to hear what actually happened before I pass judgement.


  • #963
    onlyme!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭onlyme!


    Unbelievably he got his steak after all the carry on!

    hopefully tenderised with loving care as it was kicked about the kitchen floor!


  • #964
    Hans Bricks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Hans Bricks


    Kailani Moldy Beech wrote: »
    It's a good programme if your jaw slacks, you think violence is the only way to sort out inter-personal conflicts and you're such a beta you think Jeremy Clarkson is a prime example of a real man.

    Ok this is just turning into pompous bollocks

    https://twitter.com/frankieboyle/status/575688223197954048


  • #965
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 13,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Personally, I can't stand Jeremy Clarkson and so I don't think his suspension by the BBC is the end of the world.


  • #966
    davwain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭davwain


    Magico Gonzalez wrote: »
    Show hasn't been good for a few years now. Probably past it's sell by date.

    Same with Clarkson.

    Last year, the CBC, Canada's equivalent to the BBC, had a problem with a hot-headed host of one of its shows, albeit one of radio. That the implosion, of that host (Jian Ghomeshi), had been, according to Vice magazine, "overdue", turned out not to be surprising in the end. Although Clarkson hasn't been accused (yet) of sexually assaulting numerous women, his hot-headed temper may very well make it time for the BBC to get rid of him. After all, even in unionized workplaces, employees are often fired for gross misconduct, and should be (at least in some cases, particularly if there's a repeated pattern of inappropriate behaviour or a very violent incident).

    It remains to be seen if Clarkson will be fired, but it appears his days, as a BBC employee, may be numbered at last.


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  • #967
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    RayM wrote: »
    Couldn't agree more! A lot of people on the #BringBackClarkson hashtag on Twitter are saying he deserved it because his face is 'punchable' and because his name sounds all weird and foreign or something.

    At least I think that's what they're saying. Most of their tweets are indecipherable.
    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Just had a browse. Everything is written in plain English. No txt speak or anything. It's comment after comment of people saying they miss it and not what you said. You feeling alright?
    onlyme! wrote: »
    #PAS EnglishPatriot ‏@piecrust33 Mar 11
    Oisin Tymon what sort of name's that then?

    #BringBackClarkson

    Dan Hennagir ‏@danhennagir Mar 11 Seattle, WA
    @BBC The person you need to sack is that wanker Oisin Tymon! He caused the "fracas" and then went #whining to management! #BringBackClarkson

    RuralSolicitor ‏@GunLawyerUK Mar 11
    @JeremyClarkson must have hit that guy so hard that he rearranged the letters in his name. Oisin Tymon?? Tom..Tim..Monty?? #TopGear

    O'Boogie ‏@drwinston001 Mar 11
    I'd punch someone called Oisin Tymon too. #Clarkson

    #PAS EnglishPatriot ‏@piecrust33 Mar 11
    Oisin Tymon what sort of name's that then?

    #BringBackClarkson

    David Turnbull ‏@davespatch2014 Mar 10
    Oisin Tymon really? Says it all. Please hand in your notice and get a job on local radio or the tube #BringBackClarkson

    mature not ‏@almost2old Mar 10
    @DailyMirror @fleetstreetfox Oisin Tymon? That name deserves a punch #BringBackClarkson
    Mint Aero wrote: »
    All from 4 or 5 days ago :rolleyes:

    You were caught out rotten there and reply with that daft excuse ? How about these tweets then, made in the last 24 hours
    lana ‏@txcda 12h12 hours ago
    I wish that **** #OisinTymon had a Twitter. How dare he get @BBC_TopGear off the TV? I'd punch him too

    MaggieLavan ‏@MaggieLavan 16h16 hours ago
    It turns out #OisinTymon wasn't just an incompetent management pet, he was also sickly. #BringBackClarkson

    jon c ‏@familycotterell 6h6 hours ago
    Thanks #OisinTymon, I really enjoyed missing #TopGear tonight.


  • #968
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,459 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Clarkson can be entertaining but there is a nasty, nasty under current to the guy too.

    Question is is his entertainment worth the price of his pretty vile character particularly for a public service broadcaster?


  • #969
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Seems to be a lot of "ifs" "alleged" and "supposed" in this thread.

    Also apparently Clarkson is a known fighter who hasn't been afraid to use his fists before....fairly sure it was a single punch to Piers Morgan.

    I'll wait to hear what actually happened before I pass judgement.
    I don't think punching someone like Piers Morgan makes someone a "known fighter". :P


  • #970
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,620 ✭✭✭SeanW


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    So basically Clarkson assaulted someone in work and people are saying he shouldn't be suspended i.e they're operating on the presumption that if you're good at your job you shouldn't be fired.
    For my own part, I'm fine with J.C. being replaced but only in so far as the show continues with a new presenter, but only if it continues in the same direction.

    I don't think there's so much a fear of J.C. going as what might happen, either the show could end or be re-arranged around PC-Left principles - an outline for an "eco-feminist" Top Gear was published by the Guardian recently.

    The petition nearing 1m signatures shows that some people like shows about fast cars, irreverent humour, ridiculous challenges and demolishing caravans.

    Those people pay a TV license fee to the BBC so the Beeb has as much a right to cater to them as it does to sandal-wearers, muesli-eaters, PC-Leftists, Marxists and eco-feminists. Indeed it has a duty to do so.
    20Cent wrote: »
    Recreate your own version by driving around with two friends shouting racist abuse at people.
    Scenes of racist abuse were filmed on Top Gear?

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  • #971
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    You were caught out rotten there and reply with that daft excuse ? How about these tweets then, made in the last 24 hours

    Clearly they're in the vast minority. You got a point?


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  • #972
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    SeanW wrote: »
    Scenes of racist abuse were filmed on Top Gear?

    Ah it wasn't racist. Some people need to lighten up. It was really "irreverent".

    Do you not remember the time they laughed at Mexicans and branded them all lazy? Irreverent. Not racist.


  • #973
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,620 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Unless they screamed racist abuse at a Mexican, it wasn't "racist abuse" - as charged by 20cent.

    If it was simply crude stereotyping, that would have been slightly different. Not great, especially from the POV of a PC-Leftist, but not "racist abuse" either.

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  • #974
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    lee_baby_simms wrote: »
    Ah it wasn't racist. Some people need to lighten up. It was really "irreverent".

    Do you not remember the time they laughed at Mexicans and branded them all lazy? Irreverent. Not racist.

    The Mexican bit was actually trying very hard to be offensive, it had no comedy (or any) value whatsoever, it was quite baffling.


  • #975
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    it had no comedy (or any) value whatsoever, it was quite baffling.

    That's how I'd describe Top Gear in general so I guess that means I'm an eco femi-nazi, sandal wearing vegan.


  • #976
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Just musing:

    How might the scene have played out if Tymon, once Clarkson started what was apparently a prolonged rant, had said "I don't have to take this sort of treatment; I'm off to bed.".

    I'm guessing that Tymon might have been in trouble for failing to look after the star. So he had to stay and suffer Clarkson's bad behaviour.

    In my book, subjecting a work colleague who has less power to a 20-minute diatribe in a public place, including using offensive language and threatening to have him dismissed from his job, is grounds for disciplinary action.


  • #977
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Seems to be a lot of "ifs" "alleged" and "supposed" in this thread.

    Also apparently Clarkson is a known fighter who hasn't been afraid to use his fists before....fairly sure it was a single punch to Piers Morgan.

    I'll wait to hear what actually happened before I pass judgement.

    Considering what Piers Morgan did to him, I'd have done worse then a single punch.


  • #978
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,151 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    I think if Clarkson was drunk and did call the director a lazy Irish cu,nt and punch him then he should apoligise .Its not fair if has been reported in the media that because of what happened that that directors life is now being ruined and getting death threats. Its about time Clarkson stopped hiding and came out and said what happened once and for all and just fix it. Then maybe they could finished the last few episodes of Top Gear and he can then go do whatever he likes after that.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #979
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    lee_baby_simms wrote: »
    That's how I'd describe Top Gear in general so I guess that means I'm an eco femi-nazi, sandal wearing vegan.

    I don't know, I haven't met you yet, but if you where, well, each to their own. How do you like your asparagus? :)


  • #980
    RecordStraight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭RecordStraight


    It sounds to me like the wheels are coming off for Clarkson. He looks like sh!t these days, he's separated from his wife, he's clearly drinking too much.

    He needs to get himself together somehow. Now is as good a time as any.


  • #981
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,620 ✭✭✭SeanW


    lee_baby_simms wrote: »
    That's how I'd describe Top Gear in general so I guess that means I'm an eco femi-nazi, sandal wearing vegan.
    If you simply don't care for Top Gear no. If you hate it and consider its ideals to be anathema to yours then maybe.

    Of course, if it's the former, I'd wonder why you're in this thread ...

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  • #982
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    This.... this is still front page... **** my life :o


  • #983
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    I'm coming round on this issue.
    I have to say that initially this sounded like a bit of an argy-bargy being blown out of all proportions by PC zealots determined to see Clarkson's head on a pole being hung out a window of the BBC.
    It looks more and more like a serious incident and I hope that the inquiry will shed some light on this, until then we won't get to hear too many details from either side. I hope Oisin Tymon gets his say and that Clarkson gets what's coming to him.


  • #984
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    RecordStraight wrote: »
    It sounds to me like the wheels are coming off for Clarkson. He looks like sh!t these days, he's separated from his wife, he's clearly drinking too much.

    He needs to get himself together somehow. Now is as good a time as any.

    Daily Fail alert, but anyway:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2996273/The-blonde-s-comforting-Clarkson-Female-companion-seen-driving-star-s-home-amid-claims-self-destruct-mode-needs-rehab.html

    It would appear that he's not a happy camper, the poor divil. I hope he straightens things out.


  • #985
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    RecordStraight wrote: »
    It sounds to me like the wheels are coming off for Clarkson. He looks like sh!t these days, he's separated from his wife, he's clearly drinking too much.

    He needs to get himself together somehow. Now is as good a time as any.

    Maybe losing his job, being sued for a small fortune and windin up with a criminal conviction would be just the wake up call he needs to turn his miserable life around

    I have only his best interests at heart :)


  • #986
    tigger123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,623 ✭✭✭tigger123


    SeanW wrote: »
    If you simply don't care for Top Gear no. If you hate it and consider its ideals to be anathema to yours then maybe.

    Of course, if it's the former, I'd wonder why you're in this thread ...

    What are the Top Gear ideals?


  • #987
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    tigger123 wrote: »
    What are the Top Gear ideals?

    POWAAAA!


  • #988
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,620 ✭✭✭SeanW


    tigger123 wrote: »
    What are the Top Gear ideals?
    Fast cars, fast car racing, irreverent humour. And plenty of comedy in challenges. And caravan demolition.

    Fun for men basically.

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  • #989
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    SeanW wrote: »
    Fast cars, fast car racing, irreverent humour. And plenty of comedy in challenges. And caravan demolition.

    Fun for men basically.

    Fun for dull, middle aged men basically


  • #990
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Bambi wrote: »
    Fun for dull, middle aged men basically
    How is reviewing Nissan Micros going to be any less dull than driving a lamborghini across Europe?

    This is a fairly typical Irish response, I have no interest in the topic so every one that does must be an idiot.


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  • #991
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Bambi wrote: »
    Fun for dull, middle aged men basically

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


    :P


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