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Jeremy Clarkson suspended

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  • #1232
    lee_baby_simms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭lee_baby_simms


    jimgoose wrote: »
    or at least may the two men get extremely pissed afterwards. :D

    Quaff a few quarts of good ol' Blighty ale. Jolly good.


  • #1233
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    lee_baby_simms wrote: »
    Quaff a few quarts of good ol' Blighty ale. Jolly good.

    I prefer my ale be the Firkin. :D


  • #1234
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I prefer my ale be the Firkin. :D

    Nein! Oberstaufener Hefeweizen! We drink this till we can't pronounce it anymore, then switch to Becks.


  • #1235
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Nein! Oberstaufener Hefeweizen! We drink this till we can't pronounce it anymore, then switch to Becks.

    Have you any idea how much I would enjoy screaming that at the barman?? :pac::pac::pac:


  • #1236
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Have you any idea how much I would enjoy screaming that at the barman?? :pac::pac::pac:

    ROTFLMAO! now I have to clean coffee off my screen!
    For better effect add "Schweinehund!" at the end. :D


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  • #1237
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    tipptom wrote: »
    Wow,you love top gear so this racist idiot should get a free pass.
    Now all of a sudden its us Irish peoples fault for being sensitive and poor Jezza was just using hyperbole.Only from a certain type of Irishman with an inferiority complex could you hear this type of stuff and just encourages the racists to continue because they say you are to thick to even notice that they are going out of their way to stereotype you with their racist insults never mind physically attacking you.


    One question for you,you think Ron Atkinson should have been sacked if he said lazy fu*cking black man?.
    Was he just using hyperbole and just speaking his mind,and was he just to good at his job and made the TV company to much money to be sacked?

    Irish is a nationality, black isn't. Or do you not realise that. And no I don't take any offence from Clarksons comments because it's only Clarkson like, I don't feel inferior to him ergo I can stand shoulder to shoulder with the man and we can label each other by our nationality without the other getting upset emotionally.


  • #1238
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    ROTFLMAO! now I have to clean coffee off my screen!
    For better effect add "Schweinehund!" at the end. :D

    Done, chief. And how about a quick slap of a leather glove just at the end, while my monocle glints evilly?? :pac:


  • #1239
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Done, chief. And how about a quick slap of a leather glove just at the end, while my monocle glints evilly?? :pac:

    It'll be Lord Flashheart vs the Red Baron.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP1vSIOmCc4


  • #1240
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    It'll be Lord Flashheart vs the Red Baron.

    Hooray!! :D


  • #1241
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Irish is a nationality, black isn't. Or do you not realise that. And no I don't take any offence from Clarksons comments because it's only Clarkson like, I don't feel inferior to him ergo I can stand shoulder to shoulder with the man and we can label each other by our nationality without the other getting upset emotionally.
    He damn well feels superior to your lazy and inferior Irish ass.


    I suppose with people like you its all about just getting to talk to your hero and no matter what he says about your race or slaps you around,so what.you are getting an audience with him even if you have to degrade yourself and where your from.


    Lazy black man;no
    Lazy Irish man;ok


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  • #1242
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    tipptom wrote: »
    He damn well feels superior to your lazy and inferior Irish ass.
    Citation needed.


  • #1243
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,429 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    cdeb wrote: »
    Citation needed.

    He probably has one already


  • #1244
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    tipptom wrote: »
    He damn well feels superior to your lazy and inferior Irish ass.


    I suppose with people like you its all about just getting to talk to your hero and no matter what he says about your race or slaps you around,so what.you are getting an audience with him even if you have to degrade yourself and where your from.


    Lazy black man;no
    Lazy Irish man;ok

    God, how sorry do you feel for yourself? :confused:


  • #1245
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Nein! Oberstaufener Hefeweizen! We drink this till we can't pronounce it anymore, then switch to Becks.

    I can't even read that sober, let alone pronounce it!


  • #1246
    NachoBusiness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    I don't think he was joking at the charity function last night, as he appears to get choked up at one point.
    I doubt he would have unless there was an element of truth to what he was saying. Really can't see him presenting the show again now anyway.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp8XCuqPQsg


  • #1247
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    Irish is a nationality, black isn't. Or do you not realise that. And no I don't take any offence from Clarksons comments because it's only Clarkson like, I don't feel inferior to him ergo I can stand shoulder to shoulder with the man and we can label each other by our nationality without the other getting upset emotionally.

    I find it funny what a fanboy of Clarkson you are. Especially as we all know Tory boys like him hate the Irish, the likes of him and his pals in the Chipping Norton set and Chelsea Football Club would see you as scum. Despite this you're on here day after day as a fanboy defending him whereas he would be snorting at you if the boot was on the other foot. Clarkson and his ilk decry the so called political correctness that no longer allows them to be racist to the Irish (or to blacks) but on this occasion Clarkson's mask slipped while he was pissed drunk.

    In any case he is sacked , the right decision has been made, even if deluded fanboys won't accept it


  • #1248
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Muahahaha wrote: »
    I find it funny what a fanboy of Clarkson you are. Especially as we all know Tory boys like him hate the Irish, the likes of him and his pals in the Chipping Norton set and Chelsea Football Club would see you as scum. Despite this you're on here day after day as a fanboy defending him whereas he would be snorting at you if the boot was on the other foot. Clarkson and his ilk decry the so called political correctness that no longer allows them to be racist to the Irish (or to blacks) but on this occasion Clarkson's mask slipped while he was pissed drunk.

    In any case he is sacked , the right decision has been made, even if deluded fanboys won't accept it

    As if I've never heard RTE presenters being "racist" towards the Brits :rolleyes:
    Yeah I'm a huge fanboy of Clarky, one of many things I'm a "fanboy" of. Samsung is another. What are you a fan of?


  • #1249
    Enzokk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭Enzokk


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Commercial interests always come above just about everything else in a business. We're fine with buying products made in poor countries where employees get taken advantage of, but a minor scuffle between two grown men is a national outrage and such a disgrace that a business should ditch one of it's main selling points.

    I don't know how many times I can say he shouldn't be immune from criticism or consequences, before people stop reading it as the exact opposite of what I said.


    What punishment, if any, would you suggest then? And will this punishment actually force him to change his ways and act decently to those who work for him? Remember, whether right or wrong, he is on a final warning.


  • #1250
    ProTipster.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭ProTipster.com


    Anyway TG without Clarkson won't be the TG anymore. :(


  • #1251
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Enzokk wrote: »
    What punishment, if any, would you suggest then? And will this punishment actually force him to change his ways and act decently to those who work for him? Remember, whether right or wrong, he is on a final warning.

    How about we paddle his bare posterior like the good old Etonian days. :) Then we can all get on with our lives like men & watch proper top gear with explosions and power instead of this b*tching holding a grudge thing because he may have said something about something :rolleyes::rolleyes:


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  • #1252
    tipptom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,219 ✭✭✭tipptom


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    God, how sorry do you feel for yourself? :confused:
    Not half as sorry as someone who thinks its ok to be racially abused and assaulted by a racist little Englander and then tell him what a wag he is with his hilarious "hyperbole"and his "speaking his mind".


  • #1253
    Enzokk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭Enzokk


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    How about we paddle his bare posterior like the old Etonian days. :) Then we can all get on with our lives like men instead of this b*tching holding a grudge thing because he may have said something about something :rolleyes::rolleyes:


    You may not like this incident, but if it happened as reported then it cannot just be laughed away. If however it is nothing more than a little verbal argument between two men, by all means it's a storm in a teacup. However allegedly shouting and verbally threatening the other person, and then physically abusing him cannot be swept under the rug, no matter how many signatures you have in support.


  • #1254
    nelly17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭nelly17


    So theres a tank driving about London at the moment with The Stig sitting on top on its way to Broadcasting House to deliver the Reinstate Clarkson petition


  • #1255
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,788 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Enzokk wrote: »
    What punishment, if any, would you suggest then? And will this punishment actually force him to change his ways and act decently to those who work for him? Remember, whether right or wrong, he is on a final warning.
    This final warning keeps being brought up, what's the final warning for? The only people who mentioned it was one of the rags and they cited BBC errors of judgement as much as Clarksons as the incidents that lead to him being on a final warning.

    I'm not making any suggestions on how they should go about disciplining him. All I'm saying is that they must consider the fact that firing him could very likely kill the show. They could dock pay, they could remove some perks he more than likely has, they could make him pay the victim some compensation although I don't see why an apology wouldn't be enough between adults.

    I'd say if you held a gun to Clarkson head and told him to change his ways he still wouldn't do it.


  • #1256
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    nelly17 wrote: »
    So theres a tank driving about London at the moment with The Stig sitting on top on its way to Broadcasting House to deliver the Reinstate Clarkson petition

    I've got to see this :D


  • #1257
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Renegade Mechanic wrote: »
    I've got to see this :D

    Odd that they should use a Mercedes at a time like this, though. :D


  • #1258
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,384 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    nelly17 wrote: »
    So theres a tank driving about London at the moment with The Stig sitting on top on its way to Broadcasting House to deliver the Reinstate Clarkson petition

    The tank had banners sprayed all over it advertising rentals. Was a publicity gimmick on the back of looking for Clarkson to be brought back along with Top Gear.


  • #1259
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    tipptom wrote: »
    Not half as sorry as someone who thinks its ok to be racially abused and assaulted by a racist little Englander and then tell him what a wag he is with his hilarious "hyperbole"and his "speaking his mind".

    Some of us just aren't all that delicate, chief! :pac:


  • #1260
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,620 ✭✭✭SeanW


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    That's not what I said.

    That depends on what you mean by leftist. In relation to suggesting a new presenter for Top Gear, my position isn't at all political. It's simply that I don't think a presenter should be selected on the basis of disrespecting any segment of the potential audience.
    Who said anything about disrespecting anyone?

    TV shows are segmented all the time, programs about sport cater primarily to men, shows about fashion cater primarily to women, religious interest shows cater to religious types, science shows appeal to educated people, comedy shows to people who like comedy, science fiction to nerds, environmental shows to environmentalists etc.

    Top Gear should exclude Guardianista eco-feminists because those people don't want to watch shows about fast cars, racing and comedic challenges. As the Guardian pointed out, they'd rather watch shows about how the new Nissan Leaf can go for 30 miles on an overnight charge if you drive it like a 100 year old and things like that. Not Top Gears audience. Who, as license payers, have as much right to be represented in programming as the Guardian reading eco-feminists.

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  • #1261
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,456 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Would there be a concern for Tymon's safety assuming Clarkson is sacked given the sort of cult lunacy on display in recent weeks anyone reckon?


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