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Started 5 years ago by cinnahmon
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cinnahmon

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I am sorry, but why is so much time and space being given to this fat-arsed, big-headed, bullying, misogynistic, self-promoting, egotistical, racist twat. The front page of every news paper, the lead story on every TV news bulletin and a plethora of mostly unfunny ticker submissions (mostly from Dun Titus) on this site. If we just ignore the c*nt, he'll probably do us all a favour and crawl back under the nearest stone or perhaps get arrested for assault as he deserves to be. (Gosh, maybe Clarkson isn't the only one who needs anger management.)

Sorry to unload on you all especially as this is the first time I've posted anything in the Chat Room. I am acutely aware that I have just perpetuated the problem so if no one adds to this thread I will be happy in the knowledge that you all agree with me.

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Titus

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Get over it. You're not going to read anything else for the next week or so.

(Actually it's a cunning plot - it was a week before the alleged 'victm' complained - to distract media attention from Miliband's disastrous PR cock-up with his wife begging the big boys to stop bullying her poor useless little husband.)

Posted 5 years ago #
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I guess it tells you where we are as a society.
There will be far more anger over not televising Top Gear than not televising the election debate.
I'm sure more people would recognise Clarkson than say Cameron or Clegg or Miliband.
I've never seen Top Gear (it's about cars FFS)but his guest appearances on HIGNFY have always been entertaining.
But then so was Rees-Mogg

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beau-jolly

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It's about cars???
Well I'm not into cars at all but I love Top Gear. It's by far the funniest thing on the box.
It is also shown to well over 100 other territories and syndicated all over the world. JC sold the format to the BBC a while back and it makes them a lot of money. It is also the most watched program on BBC 2.
Sky have been sniffing around apparently. Unless the BBC takes its finger out of its arse we'll end up having to pay Murdock to watch anything we want to or wait 10 years for the repeat on Dave.
VOTE HERE!

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beau-jolly

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292,515 and counting...296,503...

Posted 5 years ago #
Wrenfoe

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A good example of how someone can be successful and unpleasant at the same time. The wider issue is does success/money make you immune to criticism or allow you to hurt others with impunity?

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101010

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The wider issue is does success/money make you immune to criticism or allow you to hurt others with impunity?

IDS suddenly springs to mind. I can't think why

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Titus

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292,515 and counting...296,503...

Harrumph. I can't log in.

Posted 5 years ago #
Iroquois Pliskin

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Whatever's happened, he's had it coming. Top Gear is the television equivalent of a lad's mag. I've laughed at it a few times, sometimes even when I thought I shouldn't be, but it's predictable, trite and outdated, just like Mr Clarkson.

My only real concern: Who is now going to take Richard Hammond for a walk and change his bedding? Plus there'll be no one to sit James May down weekly and explain to him that he's not a Spitfire pilot.

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Titus

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I expect to read a serious editorial in Viz about all this.

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beau-jolly

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Titus. You don't have to log in just fill it in and vote. (I think)

Anyway.... do you remember that time when the Mail got hold of a clip of Clarkson quoting eeenie meenie miney mo and faultering when he was about to say the n word. They got a specialist sound analiser to work out what the mumbled word might have been and made a big hoorah out of it even though the clip was not something that was EVER going to be broadcast! I can't help thinking this is similar. He's filming all day in Newcastle. At the end of the day he goes to get something to eat to be told they haven't bothered to get anything in. An arguement starts with someone who has worked with him for 10 years. The following week the bloke accusse JC of punching him in the face... or maybe just a fraccas, i.e. a bit of pushing a shoving that works both ways. Did JC dob the producer in? No. FFS. As I said earlier the likely outcome is that Jesser will end up on Sky so I won't get to see it and those that do will be lining the reptilian Murdocks pockets. Why is that a good thing?

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... He's filming all day in Newcastle. At the end of the day he goes to get something to eat to be told they havn't bother to get anything in. An arguement starts with someone who has worked with him for 10 years. The following week the bloke accusse JC of punching him in the face..or maybe just a fraccas, ie a bit of pushing a shoving that works both ways. Did JC dob the producer in? No. FFS.

Agree.

Posted 5 years ago #
seymour totti

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Just seen our very own Mary Evans on BBC News 24 talking about the whole Clarkson thing. The sound was turned down in the canteen, so I have no idea what she said. Should I have posted this in the "least impressive celebrity encounters" thread?

Posted 5 years ago #
beau-jolly

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396,097 Just sayin'

Posted 5 years ago #
cinnahmon

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564,331 voted BNP in 2012 election, and they didn't have a job the next day either.

Although he has got more support than the Greens (285,616) maybe they should give him Cameron's empty chair. That would be something I would tune in to watch.

Posted 5 years ago #
Wrenfoe

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With an alledged 750 million viewers, the petition mean that less 0.04% of Top Gear viewers want him back :D

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Titus

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564,331 voted BNP in 2012 election, and they didn't have a job the next day either.

Although he has got more support than the Greens (285,616)

Last Countryside Alliance march = 407,000. And it takes a lot more effort to travel to London and march than to sign a petition or even join a political party.

Posted 5 years ago #
cinnahmon

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Maybe Clarkson should swop over to present Countryfile then, I'm sure John Craven could drive tractors around the Top Gear course.

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beau-jolly

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403,558 now

750 million viewers Wrenfoe old chum? 12 times the entire UK population? I assume you are counting all the other countries the BBC sells it to and all the repeats it gets royaties for.
Still, thanks to the unique way the BBC is funded I guess they can afford to piss it all away.
<EDIT> BBC Worldwide broadcasts the series to 214 countries with a record global audience of 350 million viewers.

I like Jeremy Clarkson. I enjoy his sense of humour and yes, his wit. I like Boris Johnson too. Neither are stupid. Quite the opposite. But for some reason the BBC is deturmined to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Presumably this is so the hipster telestocracy in fucking Islington can merrily sip their Puruvain Pesco sours knowing that there is nothing left on BBC2 that you don't need a degree in media studies from East Anglia University to appreciate.

I don't suppose Jessa can give a flying toss. It just means that the deal with Sky will be done sooner. Murdock gets another one over the BBC, Jesser gets a new Bugatti and we don't get to have an hour of silliness on Sunday night any more. Despite paying for the BBC we will have to pay Murdock as well if we actually want to watch anything we used to enjoy.

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Posted 5 years ago #
Iroquois Pliskin

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Punching someone in anger would constitute gross misconduct in (almost) any profession. If that’s what in fact occurred and given his previous disciplinary record, surely he would have to go?

I can’t get my head around people signing the petition when the detailed facts are absent, it's really bizarre. It’s just some people wanting him let off because they find him funny, no?

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beau-jolly

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"A bit of a fracas" which the whining little shit reported a week later. If that was you and me it wouldn't go to court would it? So why sack the bloke who pulls in millions for the BBC?

Oh hang on: It has also emerged that the three presenters could walk away from Top Gear before the BBC's investigation into Clarkson's behaviour is concluded, as their contracts expire at the the end of this month and they have not yet signed new three-year deals that were expected to be completed within days.

I wonder how much he was asking for?

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Just read that the BBC is likely to have to pay out many millions in compensation to all the other broadcasters it has already sold the unfilmed episodes to. Also there is a tour of Top Gear live which may not go ahead. All in all I think the BBC have acted incredibly niavely. "Jeremy might have slapped me bit at week, Sir".
"Right. Lets waste tens of millions of licence payers money immediately."

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Iroquois Pliskin

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So why sack the bloke who pulls in millions for the BBC?

Because it’s not an isolated incident in terms of his disciplinary record. He constantly treads over the line, no doubt in part to spite the overtly PC brigade to which I’ll admit that he offers, at times, some much needed relief.

I’ve laughed at and with the guy, don’t get me wrong, but he’s a liability. I also think that beneath his exaggerated outspoken humour, there is still a kind of real arrogant, causal nationalism and bigotry that is now out of date. Is that image worth more to the BBC than the revenue he brings in? (Not rhetorical – the answer will dictate what happens no doubt.)

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beau-jolly

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Well I was looking forward to seeing Gary Linekar in the reasonably priced car. I was looking forward to it as it is only JC who would tell him to get rid of the stupid beard.

And... if your or my every word was listened to in the hope that we said something which could be whipped into a shit storm we (well I) would "step over the line" every bloody day.

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At least 420,627 members of the public fall for another publicity stunt to promote Top Gear and its presenters ... which the media are happy to go along with because it also promotes their outputs.

Tempting to link this to the last one in Argentina but things are a bit sensitive when it comes to mindless TV programmes around there at the moment.

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Iroquois Pliskin

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Beau,

I get that you like Top Gear. I don’t specifically want them to cancel your favourite show, but he has had numerous warnings, and to test his last chance by [allegedly] clocking someone seems to be, well.....stupid.

And... if your or my every word was listened to in the hope that we said something which could be whipped into a shit storm we (well I) would "step over the line" every bloody day.

Agreed – but we’re not widely published or in positions of high visibility are we? Well, I’m not. Look, a lot of what he says, I would laugh at, in a private conversation in the pub where the point of the humour is to skirt the acceptable / unacceptable line. But in the public eye, on TV and in widely read articles the context is different, and the responsibility is much greater. Plus the regularity and type of trouble he gets into I think betrays real symptoms of dodgy thinking, rather than just misunderstanding or ‘PC’ over-reaction to his rhetoric.

At the end of the day, this is probably his fault. I get that people are annoyed that something they like might be cancelled, but that's down to him.

Well I was looking forward to seeing Gary Linekar in the reasonably priced car. I was looking forward to it as it is only JC who would tell him to get rid of the stupid beard.

- I'm with you on this.

This is longest and most impromptu discussion I’ve had about JC since I misheard two suited gentlemen at my door who wanted to talk to me about cheeses.

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I think there is more to it than just him "over stepping the line". The BBC owns the format now and it earns them about £50m a year. C4, ITV and Sky have all been sniffing around. The 3 presenters' contracts were due to be renewed for 3 years this month. I imagine the contracts would have been for quite a bit. If Hall and Cohen had decided the show was too low brow for their BBC2 and pulled it they would have had a hard financial case to answer.

Wasn't Jonathon Ross once the very highly paid and controvertial ratings winning star of the BBC? What ever happened to him? Oh yeh! His new contract would have been millions, he stepped over the line once too often and now can be seen on ITV. Mind you he was a twat.

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Iroquois Pliskin

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Are you suggesting some kind of conspiracy, Mulder?

If Clarkson now tweets something about Andrew Sachs’ granddaughter I’ll be forced to admire his balls.

// Best reaction so far from some guy in Russia: "Return @JeremyClarkson to air or I will complain to Putin and he will set radioactive bears on the BBC."

Posted 5 years ago #
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Let Sky have him. They deserve each other. The show has long since run its course and there are enough repeats on Dave to keep the small-dick brigade happy for years.

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Not Amused

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I’ll be forced to admire his balls.

That's not an episode I want to see or think about

Posted 5 years ago #
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Don't watch Top Gear but read plenty about these unpleasant presenters.

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