Clarkson Suspended by BBC

[RandomJ]

Interesting that he grassed himself in. Must have had an offer he couldn't refuse and trying to get out of his contract.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Here is the counter petition from the disaffected annoyed and thoroughly vexed section of society who only laugh at call my bluff and QI.

<a class="postlink" href="https://www.change.org/p/british-broadcasting-corporation-sack-jeremy-clarkson" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">https://www.change.org/p/british-broadc ... y-clarkson</a>

As you can see they have voted with considerable vigour and they should get the required numbers by the time Jezza is 354.

The lemon sucking, perpetually offended, getting support from the dying-to-be victimised, is a truly satisfying scenario.

 

[Rascal]

I dont get why anybody finds his program remotely interesting.

He is a bore, his mates are bores and the "banter" is 6th form common room stuff.


Yet he makes the country money....bizarre.

 

[Damocles]

I dont get why anybody finds his program remotely interesting.

He is a bore, his mates are bores and the "banter" is 6th form common room stuff.


Yet he makes the country money....bizarre.

Because it's about aspirational cars which inspire both admiration and awe as achievements of engineering. And it's presented by people who actually talk like real friends talk or a closer approximation than the manufactured "chemistry" that TV shows try to promote between their hosts. Added to the fact that it's pretty funny and the cinematography is exceptional to the point where it's on par with anything the ~$100m American shows are doing purely in terms of the art form. They have a certain style of comedy that is hit and miss but the ratio is better than most programs.

In fact Top Gear might actually be the perfect television show because of how many different elements are mixed together successfully. It isn't trying to be Fifth Gear nor is it trying to be intellectual entertainment, but everything that it tries to do it executes flawlessly. The Three Stooges meets Bullit meets Friends meets Cosmos.

Not you particularly Rasc but I've seen the comments in this thread and elsewhere, and a sure sign of a dull mind is one that is unable to appreciate simple and fun entertainment because they think it beneath them. It's like the comment on Stephen Fry - he is what a stupid person thinks a clever person looks like. Top Gear is what stupid people who believes themselves to be clever think stupid people who they believe to be stupid like.

 

[Rascal]

I dont get why anybody finds his program remotely interesting.

He is a bore, his mates are bores and the "banter" is 6th form common room stuff.


Yet he makes the country money....bizarre.

Because it's about aspirational cars which inspire both admiration and awe as achievements of engineering. And it's presented by people who actually talk like real friends talk or a closer approximation than the manufactured "chemistry" that TV shows try to promote between their hosts. Added to the fact that it's pretty funny and the cinematography is exceptional to the point where it's on par with anything the ~$100m American shows are doing purely in terms of the art form. They have a certain style of comedy that is hit and miss but the ratio is better than most programs.

In fact Top Gear might actually be the perfect television show because of how many different elements are mixed together successfully. It isn't trying to be Fifth Gear nor is it trying to be intellectual entertainment, but everything that it tries to do it executes flawlessly. The Three Stooges meets Bullit meets Friends meets Cosmos.

Not you particularly Rasc but I've seen the comments in this thread and elsewhere, and a sure sign of a dull mind is one that is unable to appreciate simple and fun entertainment because they think it beneath them. It's like the comment on Stephen Fry - he is what a stupid person thinks a clever person looks like. Top Gear is what stupid people who believes themselves to be clever think stupid people who they believe to be stupid like.

Fair enough, i know nothing about cars and less about engineering. I just dont get it, but then i dont get The great British sewing bee either. Steven Fry irritates me as well. Guess i just dont care much for TV :))

 

[Damocles]

I adore engineering, especially mechanical engineering, possibly because I deal in software and maths most of the time so having a living creation that you can touch is rather tantalising.

Automotive engineering in the way that they keep pushing the boundaries of possibility is something both awesome and inspiring; Top Gear summed up the astonishing achievments of the Bugatti Veyron better than anywhere else for example.

When you have that side to a program in addition to the visually stunning cinematography and the sometimes laugh out loud humour that comes from a bunch of blokes cocking about, it makes for some excellent light entertainment. Top Gear also was the program that has made me laugh at a single bit harder than perhaps anything else. This absolutely slayed me when I first saw it though not as good without the full context:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh56geU0X8[/video]

 

[urmston]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

Except they only speed on a track, and observe the speed limits (something virtually no one does) when recording on the public roads. Their example of what you should do in a fast car is the safest way of driving there is. track=speed, road=speed limits.

 

[johnny on the spot]

I've no interest in cars, so I don't watch Top Gear. It just isn't for me at all, so I can't really judge the show. I don't read the Sun either. I do however believe that Jeremy Clarkson is the sort of professional who'll voice a controversial opinion as long as it pleases his well-researched audience and earns him a few quid. I just don't buy him in the least. But then he doesn't need me to, because so many millions of others do.

 

[Damocles]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

People have had this opinion about every form of media since the printing press and it's always wrong. It's censorship via the hypothetical.

A good example of "I don't like it, don't understand the influence it has, therefore it should be banned". Happens with kids/computer games all the time by people who don't understand them or how they influence.

 

[smudgedj]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

LOL Do you think fiction should be more sensible?

 

[Losblue]

I suppose earning 14 million quid a year can make you benevolent or malevolent.Or simply, just an arrogant ****.Long live the serfs.

 

[urmston]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

LOL Do you think fiction should be more sensible?

I don't know how to break this to you, but soap operas are fiction, and there are strict rules about how drinking is shown in soap opera pubs.

Television influences idiots.

That's why it is daft to show oafs like Clarkson, a man with a criminal conviction for speeding, driving fast cars and droning on about how wonderful they are and how fast they can go.

 

[SWP's back]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

Criminal record for speeding?

Evidence if that please. Unless you're making it up again.

I have a fast car. Two actually. Three of you include the Mrs. Mine are Range Rover Vogue (V8), Mustang 5 litre V8 and the Mrs had a Gramd Cherokee 5.7 litre.

Maybe one day you'll be able to have a nice car as well. You boring twunt.

 

[SWP's back]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

LOL Do you think fiction should be more sensible?

I don't know how to break this to you, but soap operas are fiction, and there are strict rules about how drinking is shown in soap opera pubs.

Television influences idiots.

That's why it is daft to show oafs like Clarkson, a man with a criminal conviction for speeding, driving fast cars and droning on about how wonderful they are and how fast they can go.

You must very heavily influenced then.

 

[DelToro]

Well the 2 gay fellas off Gogglebox don't like him so that's good enough for me.

They're both real sweeties.

 

[smudgedj]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

LOL Do you think fiction should be more sensible?

I don't know how to break this to you, but soap operas are fiction, and there are strict rules about how drinking is shown in soap opera pubs.

Really? But they are in colour.

 

[urmston]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

Criminal record for speeding?

Evidence if that please. Unless you're making it up again.

I have a fast car. Two actually. Three of you include the Mrs. Mine are Range Rover Vogue (V8), Mustang 5 litre V8 and the Mrs had a Gramd Cherokee 5.7 litre.

Maybe one day you'll be able to have a nice car as well. You boring twunt.

Here you are.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11171472/Jeremy-Clarkson-admits-receiving-points-on-licence-after-speeding.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top ... eding.html</a>

No Google button on your computer?

 

[DelToro]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

Criminal record for speeding?

Evidence if that please. Unless you're making it up again.

I have a fast car. Two actually. Three of you include the Mrs. Mine are Range Rover Vogue (V8), Mustang 5 litre V8 and the Mrs had a Gramd Cherokee 5.7 litre.

Maybe one day you'll be able to have a nice car as well. You boring twunt.

There are few things as erotic on BM as SWP's back talking about the size of his throbbing cylinders.

 

[smudgedj]

I dislike Top Gear because it glorifies fast cars and their qualities such as acceleration and handling at speed round corners.

This can only encourage a pitiful and stupid minority of motorists to attempt to emulate such driving in their own cheap and heavy mass produced cars on public roads.

We see such idiots daily.

There are rules against showing irresponsible drinking on soap operas and other programmes because some immature and impressionable people might think it is a clever thing to do.

I think similar rules should apply to car programmes so we don't put ideas into the minds of the moronic minority who endanger, kill and injure people on our roads.

Putting an oaf like Clarkson, a man with a criminal record for speeding, on our screens to encourage boy racers and middle aged family saloon driving wannabe Lewis Hamiltons is irresponsible and I don't think the BBC should do it.

Criminal record for speeding?

Evidence if that please. Unless you're making it up again.

I have a fast car. Two actually. Three of you include the Mrs. Mine are Range Rover Vogue (V8), Mustang 5 litre V8 and the Mrs had a Gramd Cherokee 5.7 litre.

Maybe one day you'll be able to have a nice car as well. You boring twunt.

Here you are.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11171472/Jeremy-Clarkson-admits-receiving-points-on-licence-after-speeding.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top ... eding.html</a>

No Google button on your computer?

I think you fell for that.

A minor offense like speeding doesn´t carry a criminal record.