"poor us" Top Gear lot

The problem with the Top Gear presenters is that they’re too middle class for lots of the people here.

To be fair to the BBC, they have now extended their helpline. It was for those initially troubled with any television series, but now extended specifically for TG. I wonder if it will help the troubled?

Patronising hamsters be patronising.

I rang the helpline, and got put in a queue. The music they played while I was on hold was very insensitive.

😀

Where do you find/keep this stuff Jamie!!

What’s wrong with flying Spitfires to Germany ? I’ve been to plenty of air displays with German aircraft.

I guess the German Top Gear should fly some He-111’s over London on remembrance day then.

That’d be hilarious.

Where do you find/keep this stuff Jamie!!

Is it the Internet?

JY, don’t be so patronising. Try passive aggression instead. 😉

You would say that, wouldn’t you 😛

6 pagezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………….

Only got three pages the first time around.

Didn’t yours just get around 6 posts Flash? That had to have hurt you man. 😐

this thread has more posts complaining about the thread than his got.

Its ironic that the advice is to not watch things you dont like but you can go on threads to say you dont like them
That is the sort of nuance I dont get and only TG fans get to enjoy 😥

Its ironic that the advice is to not watch things you dont like but you can go on threads to say you dont like them
That is the sort of nuance I dont get and only TG fans get to enjoy

You didn’t have to jump on the thread, but I bet you were attracted to the middle class angst bordering on teenage apathy with added naivety weren’t you? I know I was… 😈

I just find the debate interesting and it is good to know who is on the list 😉

The debates dont go anywhere but the nuanced bit did make me laugh. The one thing Top Gear and Clarkson is not is nuanced.

In all honesty I would not know top gear was on were it not for STW as I dont watch much tv

I was attracted by JY being here. It’s the love that dare not speak its name. Unless you’re a top gear presenter who isn’t even a real hamster who wants to pretend just to be funny. Hur hur.

I was attracted by JY being here. It’s the love that dare not speak its name.

Between a LFC and a MUFC fan?

I bet the three amigos are sitting in Top Gear central reading this thread pissing themselves laughing.

Or not.

I think he means Catholic and Protestant Jamie
IMHO its not nearly racist nuanced enough for the three amigos

You’re a Catholic, JY?

My wifes a catholic but she has a jewish surname and she’s Asian.

I feel like that was meant to be a joke, but I can’t think of an ending.

What happens when she walks into a pub?

CaptainFlashheart – Member
Only got three pages the first time around.

Sorry fella, you’re too much of a minnow to thrive in my arena

Top Gear is in my French TV guide which we always buy for the Christmas period. Madame piped up something about the programme being about our home town. A series of images including custard tarts, Bombers and the divine intervention of the local mtb-mounted police flashed through my mind then I remembered it’s recorded and probably an old series.

Al, I bow to your orsumnez.

I keep reading about the use of the ‘N’ word; can anyone actually find the YouTube video of the broadcast where it was used?
Because as far as I’m aware, not only did Clarkson never actually use the word, (he deliberately mumbled it when reciting the old children’s rhyme), but it was never even broadcast.
And I remember seeing the episode where they said ‘slope’ while looking at a bridge with a very definite slope from one side to the other, and it never entered my mind that they were referring to some random bloke on the far side, because the term was one used by Yanks in Vietnam, not the UK, and so not something you’d notice thirty, forty years on.
But maybe I just don’t watch TV programmes with the specific intension of being outraged and offended.
Perhaps some people on here would be better off writing to the Daily Mail?
Frankly, life’s too sodding short to give a toss.

I saw the slope thing and didnt get it at all. But on rewatching its clearly a “joke” so someone must have known the meaning.

But maybe I just don’t watch TV programmes with the specific intension of being outraged and offended.

]as you note you were ignorant of the term they were not as there is no other way the “joke ” works

Asked by Ofcom to explain why the offending scene had aired, the BBC claimed that while Top Gear’s producers “knew that the word could be used to refer to people of Asian origin, they believed that such use was mere slang”.
However, Ofcom ruled that the word ‘slope’ was “a pejorative racial term which has the potential to be offensive to Asian people specifically, as well as to viewers more generally”.
The BBC could have edited out the scene but chose to keep it in, Ofcom said.
The report concluded: “Various nationalities have, at some point, been the subject of the presenters’ mockery during the history of this long running programme. The regular audience for this programme adjusts its expectations accordingly.
“In our view, however, in this case Jeremy Clarkson deliberately employed the offensive word to refer to the Asian person crossing the bridge as well as the camber of the bridge.
“Ofcom noted that this sequence was scripted in advance, and that clear consideration was given at the time of production to using the term ‘slope’ to formulate what the production team intended to be humorous word play around it.
“There was clearly an opportunity both during filming and post-production to research the word and reach a more considered view on whether it was ‘mere slang’ and had the potential to cause offence to viewers…
“We noted that the BBC provided no other arguments to justify the potential offence in the context.”

as for the n word clarkson admitted doing it and apologised for it ….well eventually
http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2014/may/02/jeremy-clarkson-begs-forgiveness-n-word-video

he said he tried so hard to avoid saying the n word and he claims it was the “best known version” and it sounds like it but he did everything in his power to not say that word but his “efforts were not quite good enough”

It was never broadcast as the BBC and he are not that daft.

Life is never to short to challenge racists nor to stop caring about it.

I feel like that was meant to be a joke, but I can’t think of an ending.

Happy ?

(Sorry 😳 )

I guess the German Top Gear should fly some He-111’s over London on remembrance day then.

That’d be hilarious.

Funny, I don’t remember the German episode being filmed over VE day. Which it would have to be to have any sort of equivalence with what you’re suggesting.

Guessing you’re not German anyway, from the numerous Germans I know and have met none of them would have been offended by the Spitfire “stunt”. Contrary to popular opinion they do in fact have a sense of humour.

Unlike us it would seem. We just prefer moaning about shit that we otherwise wouldn’t have heard of on behalf of people who never asked us to; the infamous ‘White Knights’ of the internet. Could someone explain the difference between the keyboard warriors and the Argentine mobs please because I’m having a hard time seeing one.

I dont claim to represent anyone , nor am I able to speak for germans, unlike you. Oh the irony

I have also not bothered to go the trouble of drawing an inaccurate caricature of you and then attacking it.

Could someone explain the difference between the keyboard warriors and the Argentine mobs please because I’m having a hard time seeing one.

Really? You must be a bit hard of thinking then.

What exactly have they done? I didn’t watch it as I’m one of the people who got a bit bored of the staged ‘challenges’.

“They “did one of their usual themes where they deliberately offend people and stage a confrontation to create a bit of drama then pretend they did not mean to do it. It achieved the script’s intention of creating some drama in a road trip film and some debate on the Internet .

Your saying the rock throwing mob was staged?

Ah, that’s why I can’t watch it any more. Did a caravan fall off a cliff or get dropped from a crane at any point?

No.

I was being ironical.

This thread doesn’t do irony. It’s all about nuance 😉