Jeremy Clarkson suspended

Renegade Mechanic · 20-03-2015 03:03PM

jimgoose wrote: »

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

All good dictators do

I know just the merc for the job, too.

tipptom · 20-03-2015 03:04PM

jimgoose wrote: »

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

You like a good slapping around by racists then, chief?

jimgoose · 20-03-2015 03:06PM

tipptom wrote: »

You like a good slapping around by racists then, chief?

Careful, you're starting to foam at the mouth. Squire. :pac:

jimgoose · 20-03-2015 03:07PM

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

All good dictators do
I know just the merc for the job, too.

Jaysis. I think even Idi Amin might've felt a prat in that contraption. :pac::pac::pac:

The Diabolical Monocle · 20-03-2015 03:19PM

maybe Im late to the party but sky news has a story saying he was telling a live audience that he's been sacked.

http://news.sky.com/story/1448879/clarkson-tells-live-audience-hes-been-sacked

tipptom · 20-03-2015 03:24PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Careful, you're starting to foam at the mouth. Squire. :pac:

Very calm here Squire,lived in England for 25years and learned how to deal with violent racists calmly but effectively very much a minority among one of the nicest nationality's I have met.
I usually found that the foaming of the mouth came from racists and their defenders rather than their victims.

G"day squire.

jimgoose · 20-03-2015 03:26PM

tipptom wrote: »

Very calm here Squire,lived in England for 25years and learned how to deal with violent racists calmly but effectively very much a minority among one of the nicest nationality's I have met.
I usually found that the foaming of the mouth came from racists and their defenders rather than their victims...

Quite so indeed. Sounds to me like everything is well under control. :cool:

end of the road · 20-03-2015 03:39PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

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

he got chance after chance. he was on a final worning and still continued to act the bollox. he is not above the BBC. nobody is, he had his chance, and if he has blown it, tough ****. you little children will have to find something else to listen to that talks the type of low rent trash he talks

tipptom · 20-03-2015 03:44PM

jimgoose wrote: »

Quite so indeed. Sounds to me like everything is well under control. :cool:

Like to go baiting there much Squire?

ScumLord · 20-03-2015 03:45PM

tipptom wrote: »

Very calm here Squire,lived in England for 25years and learned how to deal with violent racists calmly but effectively very much a minority among one of the nicest nationality's I have met.

It is pretty much across the board. I'm always a bit surprised when I run into the racists, usually propping up a bar somewhere and coming out with things like "we used to hate you Irish, but now you don't seem so bad, at least you're white"..

Gee, thanks.

jimgoose · 20-03-2015 03:49PM

tipptom wrote: »

Like to go baiting there much Squire?

No baiting here, just benign amusement at the Little England "Ooh vay don't do it properly over vare DOOOO vaaayy!!" thing you get in parts of The England. I don't take much notice of them, I don't take JC's "racism" to heart either. In fact, I'd love to have a pint with him so I could respond to his "Unintelligible red-haired potatoist with a Semtex fetish" with something along the lines of "Pubic-hair headed slack-jawed Public School bugger-sack with delusions of adequacy"!

dr.fuzzenstein · 20-03-2015 03:50PM

end of the road wrote: »

he got chance after chance. he was on a final worning and still continued to act the bollox. he is not above the BBC. nobody is, he had his chance, and if he has blown it, tough ****. you little children will have to find something else to listen to that talks the type of low rent trash he talks

I wouldn't worry too much. Just because he is sacked from TG doesn't mean he won't be spouting his trash on another channel, the internet, books, newspaper columns, etc...
So there will be plenty of scope for him to continue as is.

My name is URL · 20-03-2015 04:07PM

I'm not buying for a second that he has been sacked. Unless the BBC officially announce it I'll assume it's just Clarkson talking vague nonsense and trying to get as much mileage and hype out of the thing as possible before it's announced that he'll be returning to TG in couple of weeks.

The BBC are probably creaming themselves at the thought of a million people signing a petition to 'bring him back'... all the while questions remain unanswered about the organisation's cover-up of other presenter's abuse. There's been more outrage over his suspension than there was regarding Saville. How many people took to the streets or marched on BBC HQ about that whole thing?!

Christ almighty the world is a funny and fickle place at times. And all you can do is laugh at those defending him like blindly loyal lapdogs. A grown man losing the head and attacking someone because they didn't have dinner ready for them... if it was a teenager coming in from school and losing it with his mammy for the same reason I doubt anyone would defend such behavior.

Harry Palmr · 20-03-2015 04:13PM

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

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

I've got to see this

Its on this twitter video, the tank is in fact a Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance Scorpion (appropriately enough it holds the world record for fastest tank type vehicle)

https://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/578890414243102720/video/1

bnt · 20-03-2015 04:24PM

I wasn't there, of course, and still don't really know what to think. Clarkson hitting someone is on a different level to his past verbal indiscretions. There was no camera on him, so this is not "Jeremy Clarkson" the TV character but the man being himself with a few drinks in him.

One way of looking at it: the punishment should fit the crime. The didn't happen on the show itself, and I don't see why the show should suffer as a result. As already pointed out: the show is bigger than Clarkson, and they could do it without him. But I don't think they have to, if they can devise a suitable penalty. I'm back to my idea of a chunky charity donation, maybe some time in the "sin bin".

ScumLord · 20-03-2015 04:30PM

bnt wrote: »

But I don't think they have to, if they can devise a suitable penalty.

Why can't it be an eye for an eye, let Oisin get a slap in and it's all squared away.

wandatowell · 20-03-2015 04:32PM

If the BBC were smart they run a "Educating Essex/Yorkshire" style tv show where Clarkson gets to learn about the ****e he rambles on about.

ScumLord · 20-03-2015 04:43PM

wandatowell wrote: »

If the BBC were smart they run a "Educating Essex/Yorkshire" style tv show where Clarkson gets to learn about the ****e he rambles on about.

Forcing Clarkson to do a reality TV show would be a great punishment. Follow him as he goes on anger management, AA, sensitivity classes. It's sure to be entertaining and BBC get to humiliate him while making money off him.

Hans Bricks · 20-03-2015 04:55PM

Why are people so hung about some minor altercation between JC and a producer off screen over an effing dinner ? Does the Irish comment really irk you all that much ?

I can't see why the show's quality should suffer over an off screen dispute and a few snobbish bores who already hate the show anyway. Fine the fcuker, prolong the suspension and compensate Oisin Tymon.

tipptom wrote: »

You like a good slapping around by racists then, chief?

tipptom wrote: »

Very calm here Squire,lived in England for 25years and learned how to deal with violent racists calmly but effectively very much a minority among one of the nicest nationality's I have met.
I usually found that the foaming of the mouth came from racists and their defenders rather than their victims.

G"day squire.

end of the road wrote: »

he got chance after chance. he was on a final worning and still continued to act the bollox. he is not above the BBC. nobody is, he had his chance, and if he has blown it, tough ****. you little children will have to find something else to listen to that talks the type of low rent trash he talks

Yawn.

end of the road · 20-03-2015 05:09PM

Hans Bricks wrote: »

Why are people so hung about some minor altercation between JC and a producer off screen over an effing dinner ? Does the Irish comment really irk you all that much ?

I can't see why the show's quality should suffer over an off screen dispute and a few snobbish bores who already hate the show anyway. Fine the fcuker, prolong the suspension and compensate Oisin Tymon.

Yawn.

it was a lot more then a "little dispute over a dinner" but i suppose he can do what he likes because its JC? as i said, he is not above the BBC or anyone

lee_baby_simms · 20-03-2015 05:32PM

Bloody eco-lesbian, guardianista, flip-flop wearing, organic, vegetarian, looney left brigade!

They're all the same!

wandatowell · 20-03-2015 05:34PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Forcing Clarkson to do a reality TV show would be a great punishment. Follow him as he goes on anger management, AA, sensitivity classes. It's sure to be entertaining and BBC get to humiliate him while making money off him.

I think that makes us producers

lee_baby_simms · 20-03-2015 05:40PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Forcing Clarkson to do a reality TV show would be a great punishment.

Yeah. For the viewer.

ScumLord · 20-03-2015 05:41PM

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Yeah. For the viewer.

I'm sure he'd hate it. That's why it will be so good to watch.

end of the road · 20-03-2015 05:43PM

lee_baby_simms wrote: »

Yeah. For the viewer.

it would be fantastic viewing. i'd watch

Brendan Bendar · 20-03-2015 05:44PM

ScumLord wrote: »

Why can't it be an eye for an eye, let Oisin get a slap in and it's all squared away.

That's not how the law works, but if they were smart they might put out an invite to the general public to 'stand in ' or 'sub' for poor Oisin.

Would have to say,unashamedly, I would pay good money to sink a steel-toe into his nutpurse.

That's just me, could need help, in fairness.:P

Mint Aero · 20-03-2015 05:47PM

end of the road wrote: »

you little children will have to find something else to listen to that talks the type of low rent trash he talks

I just read your posts defending a certain "culture" in our society for that to be frank.

end of the road · 20-03-2015 05:50PM

Mint Aero wrote: »

I just read your posts defending a certain "culture" in our society for that to be frank.

what culture am i "defending" calling out bigoted tripe doesn't equal full "defending"

Hans Bricks · 20-03-2015 05:59PM

end of the road wrote: »

what culture am i "defending" calling out bigoted tripe doesn't equal full "defending"

You keep telling yourself that ...

end of the road wrote: »

all things not unique to the traveling community. but you don't really care about that. i'd bet you would probably not pay a cent if you thought you could get away with it. those who rant about travelers not paying tax would be the first not to pay themselves if they could get away with it

"Get away with it". What was it you were saying earlier about "little children" ?

ScumLord · 20-03-2015 06:00PM

end of the road wrote: »

it would be fantastic viewing. i'd watch

As much as I like Clarkson, watching him suffer is top class entertainment. They're getting too accustomed to these long road trips, they don't seem to have the same level of hardship despite them getting older.

Jeremy Clarkson suspended

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