Woman attempts to sue BBC for £1m for 'slope' comment - unless they cancel Top Gear
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An actress is suing the BBC for up to £1million after Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson allegedly made a racist remark during the series finale.
Her lawyers, Equal Justice, claim her action could cost the BBC £1 million in punitive damages under equality laws unless it apologises and takes the hit motoring show off the air.
[url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591500/BBC-sued-1-MILLION-Jeremy-Clarkson-racism-allegations-presenter-makes-slope-remark-Top-Gear-Burma-special.html[/url]
I'm sure the BBC is quaking in their boots...
Get ready to sue pretty much every comedian ever.
An actress? Way to kill your career.
She needs to get over it and apply some paste for ass pain.
Pocket change, especially with how much Top Gear pulls in.
tbh, I'd sue Top Gear over their lack of even-level-bridge-building skills too.
Is she retarded? They were talking about the fucking bridge not the man on the bridge, this would get shot down so fast in court and they would add more money onto that for wasting the courts time
I still can't believe that bridge didn't collapse.
[quote=The article]'What is that saying to children who watch him? - that it's OK to bully and make racist comments[/quote]
No, it's saying that the bridge wasn't properly leveled.
No fun allowed
Muh ethnicity
I've never heard slope used before to refer to Asians. Maybe it would have been racist to call the bridge narrow too, because if you are looking for it you could interpret it as a racist remark.
Allowing lawsuits like this in court is a slippery slope.
Wait why not just have Clarkson taken off the show, then both parties are happy and the quality of Top Gear shoots through the roof when they replace him with the Stig and a text to voice machine.
[QUOTE=Azarath;44381576]I've never heard slope used before to refer to Asians. Maybe it would have been racist to call the bridge [B]narrow[/B] too, because if you are looking for it you could interpret it as a racist remark.[/QUOTE]
how fucking dear you, i'll sue you.
You dirty slightly curved water-crossing stretch of road!
welcome to british humour
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I wonder how many people watching Top Gear had any idea that "slope" meant anything other than not level.
[QUOTE]An actress is suing the BBC for up to £1million after Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson allegedly made a racist remark during the[B] series finale[/B].[/QUOTE]
I forgot that this meant the same as "season finale" and thought the BBC actually pulled the plug on the show.
"take one of your most popular shows off the air because my feelings were hurt :((((("
Also the joke was funny and was just a joke. She's not doing it for the sake of cleansing out racism, she just wants the money.
People who file frivolous lawsuits for money should get 5 years in jail at least. 5-10 if need be, because trying to milk people for money under the legal system is a scummy thing to do, capiche?
But if it was the series finale, that's it right, there's nothing to cancel?
Or is it different in backwards-ass Britain, and "Series Finale" means "Season Finale"
Not a season goes by where Jeremy Clarkson doesn't offend someone in some way. In other news, the earth is still spinning.
The hilarious part about these stories is until this whole 'slope' debacle I had never watched an episode of Top Gear, but the humour in the slope pun inspired me to.
Make of that what you will. I personally think all these easily-offended idiots are only doing good things for it.
[QUOTE=mattmanlex;44381892]But if it was the series finale, that's it right, there's nothing to cancel?
Or is it different in backwards-ass Britain, and "Series Finale" means "Season Finale"[/QUOTE]
It was the last of the series, a series being one set of the show aired consecutively.
This whole debacle and lawsuit thing taught me that slope is a derogatory term, thanks Daily Mail and fragile people!
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She needs one tub STAT
[QUOTE=Azarath;44381576]I've never heard slope used before to refer to Asians. Maybe it would have been racist to call the bridge narrow too, because if you are looking for it you could interpret it as a racist remark.[/QUOTE]
I'm not defending her because she is in the wrong, but slope back in the 20th century was a pretty well known term for people of far and south east asian origin, especially the time period that someone like Jeremy Clarkson would have grown up. I'm not 100% on it but I'm pretty sure it refers to the slope of the forehead that people of that ethnicity will often have. Once again, not defending her and not saying there was a double meaning meant by what they were saying on the show, just surprised more people weren't aware of this epithet
[QUOTE=Takoto;44381644]I wonder how many people watching Top Gear had any idea that "slope" meant anything other than not level.[/QUOTE]
That's the weirdest bit about it, I watched that episode before any of this racism shit turned up and I never even realized they might have meant it in a racial slur sense.
It just seems like another one of those things where someone realized they might be able to make a small fortune but just feigning offence to something slight.
Holy shit I feel like I am actually dumber for knowing people are still throwing hissy fits over this.
I didn't even realize that "Slope" was a derogatory term. I was familiar with 'slant', not slope.
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