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Jeremy Clarkson suspended

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  • #2042
    Eugene Norman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,191 ✭✭✭Eugene Norman


    Bench Press wrote: »
    People are only standing up for this drama queen because he is Irish, that is understandable. But Tynan is in the wrong here, he failed to do his job and created a scene. How difficult can it be to organise a bit of grub for a chap after he has a few pints? That was his job and he failed, if he was on a building site, he would have got a slap of a shovel across the back of the head, and called a lot worse. One million people who signed the petition are not wrong, Jezza will be back anyway, bigger and better than ever and this lads career is over on the mainland

    lol.

    I wonder how many people here would have justified bearing a wife back in the day.

    Also, hat tip. The mainland is the very large eurasian landmass.


  • #2043
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Bench Press wrote: »
    People are only standing up for this drama queen because he is Irish, that is understandable. But Tynan is in the wrong here, he failed to do his job and created a scene. How difficult can it be to organise a bit of grub for a chap after he has a few pints? That was his job and he failed, if he was on a building site, he would have got a slap of a shovel across the back of the head, and called a lot worse. One million people who signed the petition are not wrong, Jezza will be back anyway, bigger and better than ever and this lads career is over on the mainland

    Youre mixing up catering with production. Which is poor trolling.


  • #2044
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Ghost Buster wrote: »
    Youre mixing up catering with production. Which is poor trolling.

    And yet people still feed him...
    Seriously, you're making this too easy, you guys should know what AH is like by now.


  • #2045
    jmayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,227 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Candie wrote: »
    If he employed an manager, then the manager deserves some credit for his success. She won't 'claim' she helped him make those millions, she DID.

    We've no idea what she's going to get in the divorce, but go ahead and make the unflattering assumptions about the wife, while Clarkson had a public affair and no one says anything.

    I hope his wife didn't get the same treatment Tymon did if she was late organising his dinner.

    Hey hang on now, did I ever say she wasn't deserving of something.
    I just made the point she is probably going to get a fair chunk of his, or rather their, wealth.

    Actually it is surprising how he did manage to escape a lot fo criticism both for his affair and his injunction whereas others get hounded.

    I am not allowed discuss …



  • #2046
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,620 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Candie wrote: »
    If he employed an manager, then the manager deserves some credit for his success. She won't 'claim' she helped him make those millions, she DID.
    Then that's what she should get - a managers' pay.
    We've no idea what she's going to get in the divorce, but go ahead and make the unflattering assumptions about the wife
    Sensitive, aren't we? The poster is right, she's likely to take him to the cleaners. Why is that an "unflattering assumption?" That's normal for a divorce.

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  • #2047
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,178 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Some wag has suggested that Clarkson could stand in the upcoming UK Election, and would have a good chance in his home town of Doncaster. If he did stand, it certainly wouldn't be for Labour, so he'd be running against a Labour incumbent. In Doncaster North, the incumbent also happens to be the leader of the Labour Party, a certain Ed Miliband. That would be some knock-down drag-em-out battle, that would. :eek:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #2048
    Thargor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,251 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Yeah, beat a pleb and send them to hospital because they offered you a cold meat platter when you wanted steak and chips after keeping a helicopter on standby for 2 hours while you drank with your friends. Im sure all the political parties will be beating a path to his door to sign up this champion of the common man.


  • #2049
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Thargor wrote: »
    Yeah, beat a pleb and send them to hospital because they offered you a cold meat platter when you wanted steak and chips after keeping a helicopter on standby for 2 hours while you drank with your friends...

    Indeed. You simply cannot buy form like that. :pac:


  • #2050
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    fryup wrote: »
    no reports of him commenting on Osin's nationality

    Called Mr Tymon a lazy Irish c**t.
    So, yes, nationality was commented on.

    And Jeremy has asked for Oisin to be left alone as "none this is his fault" and Mr Tymon has declined to press charges and only wants to get to work.

    I wouldn't be surprised if there is a detent and a reconciliation in time for next years series.
    Clarkson has taken this whole process very seriously and , a few early tweets aside, has conducted himself with dignity and has accepted he messed up, and takes responsibility.
    Just have a feeling we'll see him back.


  • #2051
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Bench Press wrote: »
    People are only standing up for this drama queen because he is Irish, that is understandable. But Tynan is in the wrong here, he failed to do his job and created a scene. How difficult can it be to organise a bit of grub for a chap after he has a few pints? That was his job and he failed, if he was on a building site, he would have got a slap of a shovel across the back of the head, and called a lot worse. One million people who signed the petition are not wrong, Jezza will be back anyway, bigger and better than ever and this lads career is over on the mainland

    Yawn.


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  • #2052
    BBDBB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Called Mr Tymon a lazy Irish c**t.
    So, yes, nationality was commented on.

    And Jeremy has asked for Oisin to be left alone as "none this is his fault" and Mr Tymon has declined to press charges and only wants to get to work.

    I wouldn't be surprised if there is a detent and a reconciliation in time for next years series.
    Clarkson has taken this whole process very seriously and , a few early tweets aside, has conducted himself with dignity and has accepted he messed up, and takes responsibility.
    Just have a feeling we'll see him back.


    I don't think his return is in doubt and probably was in the balance only briefly. The BBC have been seen to take it seriously, (in the wake of Jimmy Saville, Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris etc they had no other option)
    But Alan Yentob has already started to smooth the way for Clarkson to return, with his comments in The Guardian. There is no way the BBC would want to lose such a cash cow like Top Gear. This way they can be seen to act firmly, let the OTT press frenzy die down, let the flames be fanned by JC on Have I got news for you, the perfect format to let him be pilloried to satisfy the offended and then re-introduce him/the show at a later date without all the bull****




    For me the crucial person in this was James May, his heavy hints that without JC he would walk meant the show in its popular format would probably not survive. Hammond and 2 others wouldn't have the same popular appeal (assuming Hammond didn't also leave). The BBC have played this very well by taking their time. The ratings for the unaired shows will soar when they come out and any new series will gain loads of publicity


  • #2053
    aziz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭aziz


    Don't know if this has been asked,but what does the Stig think of all this?


  • #2054
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    aziz wrote: »
    Don't know if this has been asked,but what does the Stig think of all this?

    The Stig is said to be speechless.


  • #2055
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    aziz wrote: »
    Don't know if this has been asked,but what does the Stig think of all this?

    Apparently he emitted a 36-megabyte heap-dump early this morning. Technicians are still analysing it.


  • #2056
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    aziz wrote: »
    Don't know if this has been asked,but what does the Stig think of all this?

    There is an official comment:
    ....whirring....nothing.....clicking noises....(turns and walks away)


  • #2057
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Clarkson might return to the BBC. But pulling the "don't you know who I am, I can have you fired" stuff is awful enough, even if there was no physical assault, so I have to say I'd feel a bit disappointed if the BBC did take him back. It'd be a bit pathetic on their part.


  • #2058
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭circadian


    I think it's staged, or at the least exaggerated. No such thing as bad publicity.


  • #2059
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Bench Press wrote: »
    People are only standing up for this drama queen because he is Irish, that is understandable. But Tynan is in the wrong here, he failed to do his job and created a scene. How difficult can it be to organise a bit of grub for a chap after he has a few pints? That was his job and he failed, if he was on a building site, he would have got a slap of a shovel across the back of the head, and called a lot worse. One million people who signed the petition are not wrong, Jezza will be back anyway, bigger and better than ever and this lads career is over on the mainland

    You must be a joy to work with. :pac:


  • #2060
    Thelomen Toblackai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭Thelomen Toblackai


    I find the entire thing rather odd tbh. The world wide frenzy over a DailyMail type story about a celebrity outburst/altercation. The turning it into a race issue because someone was called a "lazy Irish cúnt". The prime minister sticking his oar in. People attacking the producer on social media. Reporters camped outside the presenters doors looking for anything to slap on a paper.

    I mean Jesus Christ it was a row over a bit of grub. And its only a flippin TV show anyway. Why are people losing their minds over this ?


  • #2061
    tmh106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭tmh106


    Mr.Micro wrote: »
    Some people have very low expectations and low self esteem, lol

    Not a laughing matter. But, you can get help for it.

    Glad to help.


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  • #2062
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,002 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Called Mr Tymon a lazy Irish c**t.
    So, yes, nationality was commented on.

    And Jeremy has asked for Oisin to be left alone as "none this is his fault" and Mr Tymon has declined to press charges and only wants to get to work.

    I wouldn't be surprised if there is a detent and a reconciliation in time for next years series.
    Clarkson has taken this whole process very seriously and , a few early tweets aside, has conducted himself with dignity and has accepted he messed up, and takes responsibility.
    Just have a feeling we'll see him back.

    It appears there are persistent rumours that senior BBC executives have been on a Headhunting expedition in "Southern Ireland"...Word on the (James's) Street is Richard Hammond will be teaming up with Ted (Horseshoe Pass) Walsh and Derek (Yer only an oul Hag) Byrne for a new series of Good Gear....shooting (!!) set to begin as soon as Sierra/GMC finish preparatory work in the Edenmore area,which is set to replace the abandoned Airfield currently used by TopGear.

    Meanwhile,George Hook is preparing a short "Handover" file for his as yet un-named replacement...currently rumoured to be a recently redundant famous media personage from "The Mainland" !!!!

    Stranger things have happened ? :eek:


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #2063
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,520 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    Thargor wrote: »
    they offered you a cold meat platter when you wanted steak and chips after keeping a helicopter on standby for 2 hours while you drank with your friends. .

    Awh come on! Who HASN'T this happened to??!

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #2064
    circadian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭circadian


    everlast75 wrote: »
    Awh come on! Who HASN'T this happened to??!

    Mr T.


  • #2065
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,520 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    circadian wrote: »
    Mr T.

    only because he ain't gettin on no plane Fool!

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #2066
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Maybe in light of what got him into this mess Clarkson and the others could go do a programme called Top Beer. They can review all the expensive beers you'd never be able to buy and time themselves and guests doing laps of the local park after 10 pints of the beer of the week.


  • #2067
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Jay Kay, Jodie Kidd and Rowan Atkinson. I'd watch that.
    I'm not too worried about Clarkson, he won't starve and he'll find something else to do. He has proven that he can make hugely interesting and entertaining documentaries, so I'm looking forward to whatever he does next. Or maybe he'll take a year or two off.


  • #2068
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Jay Kay, Jodie Kidd and Rowan Atkinson. I'd watch that.
    I'm not too worried about Clarkson, he won't starve and he'll find something else to do. He has proven that he can make hugely interesting and entertaining documentaries, so I'm looking forward to whatever he does next. Or maybe he'll take a year or two off.

    Jodie Kidd be well-fit, bah. :cool:


  • #2069
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,205 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    kylith wrote: »
    Maybe in light of what got him into this mess Clarkson and the others could go do a programme called Top Beer. They can review all the expensive beers you'd never be able to buy and time themselves and guests doing laps of the local park after 10 pints of the beer of the week.

    "And just being rolled back to staging after their burnouts now are Dr. Fuzzenstein, who pulled an eight-second-dead quarter-mile last week on a 70-30 blend of Jagermeister and Kronenbourg 1664, and jimgoose, who's best stands at 8.5s on one G&T and eight pints of Guinness before he developed hydraulic lock on cylinder no. 6 and blew up!" :pac:


  • #2070
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    jimgoose wrote: »
    "And just being rolled back to staging after their burnouts now are Dr. Fuzzenstein, who pulled an eight-second-dead quarter-mile last week on a 70-30 blend of Jagermeister and Kronenbourg 1664, and jimgoose, who's best stands at 8.5s on one G&T and eight pints of Guinness before he developed hydraulic lock on cylinder no. 6 and blew up!" :pac:

    I'm not as think as you drunk I am!


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  • #2071
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,744 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    jimgoose wrote: »
    "And just being rolled back to staging after their burnouts now are Dr. Fuzzenstein, who pulled an eight-second-dead quarter-mile last week on a 70-30 blend of Jagermeister and Kronenbourg 1664, and jimgoose, who's best stands at 8.5s on one G&T and eight pints of Guinness before he developed hydraulic lock on cylinder no. 6 and blew up!" :pac:

    Tell me you wouldn't watch a bladdered James May running around a playground making tyre squeal noises!


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