Clarkson compares Prius to deformed people - branded offensive and unacceptable - Polidicks

[B]The BBC Trust has ruled that comments on Top Gear which likened the design of a camper van to people with facial disfigurements, did breach guidelines. [/B]An appeal has found presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who called facial growths "really ugly things", had played on a "stereotypically negative reaction". [B] It ruled that remarks about not wanting to talk to the camper van at a party were "not editorially justified". [/B]The comments in question were made during an exchange between presenters Clarkson and Richard Hammond, while reviewing a Prius camper van. The BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee reviewed the remarks following an appeal from a member of the public, who had complained they were "offensive, prejudicial and unacceptable". Previous investigations found the show had not breached guidelines, and [B]the BBC said it felt it was clear the joke was on Clarkson or the camper van itself[/B]. At the time the BBC apologised, saying it was "genuinely sorry" for causing upset, but hoped "it would be clear from the absurdity of the context that no offence was intended". The committee's report said the show's audience enjoyed the presenters' "sometimes controversial and forthright views". It found Clarkson's slurred speech while referencing Joseph Merrick, played by John Hurt in The Elephant Man, was "on the margins of acceptability". However it upheld the original complaint, ruling that comments near the end of the exchange, suggesting not being able to look at a person with facial disfigurement, "strayed into an offensive stereotypical assumption". [B] Clarkson had said on the show: "That is not a car that you could talk to at a party unless you were looking at something else is it?"[/B] The show's executive producer had previously acknowledged that the segment was scripted, rather than ad libbed by presenters, and had been through the BBC's compliance system. But finding the programme in breach of guidelines on harm and offence, the committee said the comments "did not meet generally accepted standards in the context of their portrayal of a disability". It concluded that it was not necessary to change the guidelines, in ways that had been suggested in the complaint [B]One hundred and thirty-seven complaints were originally received about the Top Gear episode.[/B] [img]http://www.motorward.com/wp-content/images/2012/01/Toyota-Prius-Camper-Van-1.jpg[/img] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19785998[/URL]

Ugliest damn thing I have ever seen

I'll just say it right now that while I don't think Clarkson should be punished in any severe way, just because you can say something doesn't always mean that you should and I think this is kinda one of those cases.

Well, can't say I disagree.

Looks like the hunchback of cars.

I love this magnificent bastard and everything he says and does.

"That is not a car that you could talk to at a party unless you were looking at something else is it?" that's the quote? that's the fucking quote? am I missing something or is everyone complaining about this stupid.

[QUOTE][b]One hundred and thirty-seven complaints were originally received about the Top Gear episode.[/b][/QUOTE] Oh god THE HORROR. Cancel the show, arrest everyone involved and erase all records of its existence. [editline]1st October 2012[/editline] Also the car is ugly as fuck

Why do people who complain have more power than those that don't? Surely the thousands of people not complaining is a sign it's not really offensive.

It seems like Top Gear is always in trouble for saying something that offends someone somewhere.

[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;37869303]"That is not a car that you could talk to at a party unless you were looking at something else is it?" that's the quote? that's the fucking quote? am I missing something or is everyone complaining about this stupid.[/QUOTE] There was a bit more (strangely I just watched that episode last night) but the crux was that the car looked similar to a huge growth on someone's face, much like elephantiasis. Also to everyone in the world offended by this, go blow it out your ass.

IT'S JUST A JOKE, LIKE ON TOP GEAR

When are people going to learn to stop taking Clarkson seriously?

It's like someone was making a car in a 3d model maker then got bored and left it half finished.

oh ok the article made it sound like people were reading way too far into that one vague ass quote and getting their panties in a knot about nothing (not that they aren't)

Who even gets so disgusted at TV that they write to the BBC

[QUOTE=matt.ant;37869274] [img]http://www.motorward.com/wp-content/images/2012/01/Toyota-Prius-Camper-Van-1.jpg[/img] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19785998[/URL][/QUOTE] Seriously, looks like it's carrying a whale dick on its back.

They should sack Clarkson, it's the perfect excuse.

[QUOTE=Kondor58;37869359]Who even gets so disgusted at TV that they write to the BBC[/QUOTE] The handful of people in the UK that have both facial growths and a mental illness.

To be honest, that Prius looks like it has a tumor attached to its back.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37869279]Ugliest damn thing I have ever seen[/QUOTE] I expect you'll be receiving letters soon for offending the car's feelings.

[QUOTE=Glorbo;37869385]To be honest, that Prius looks like it has a tumor attached to its back.[/QUOTE] The real surprise isn't that it looks stupid, but that somebody had an idea for a prius camper in the first place.

[video=youtube;gfzLyPqko8w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfzLyPqko8w[/video]

[QUOTE=dogmachines;37869371]The handful of people in the UK that have both facial growths and a mental illness.[/QUOTE] Umm I'm sure if you had both you still wouldn't be bothered enough to write to the BBC about a top gear episode

[QUOTE=Kondor58;37869468]Umm I'm sure if you had both you still wouldn't be bothered enough to write to the BBC about a top gear episode[/QUOTE] Well, we could always blame it on the Moral Guardians, but that includes a 5 hour trip to tvtropes.

[QUOTE=Tomo Takino;37869395]I expect you'll be receiving letters soon for offending the car's feelings.[/QUOTE] I'm expecting riots at my embassy in London :v:

He's 100% dead on accurate describing that car though. It's fucking hideous...hideous for a reason, I'm assuming it's shaped that way for aero purposes, but it's still fucking hideous. also, people need to grow a pair. Clarkson's on-air persona is to offend literally everyone while powersliding fast cars. He gives no fucks.

this is clarksons way of saying "haha suckers, you just signed me on for another 3 seasons!"

[QUOTE=matt.ant;37869274] [img]http://www.motorward.com/wp-content/images/2012/01/Toyota-Prius-Camper-Van-1.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] liek if u think shes beutifull!!♥ 1 like= 1 prayer xx

I always laugh at the amount of complaints. Unless it's something genuinely disturbing/wrong then their just being stupid. 137 is probably 0.01% of the people that actually viewed the program, that's before considering the fact it's then re-run all over the world.