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Quick, somebody sue him because he aimed a jab at the people working at Daily Mail! :v:
Jeremy Clarkson is the best person...
....[I]in the world[/I]
Rest of his rant:
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[QUOTE=ben1066;44382482]It was the last of the series, a series being one set of the show aired consecutively.[/QUOTE]
We call those "seasons" in America, whereas "series" is used to denote a television show as a whole. It's easy to get confused.
The BBC should spend that million pounds toward an ad campaign highlighting how televisions have a new feature that allows the viewer to change the channel.
i love how the woman and the article conveniently ignore the fact that clarkson and the rest of the top gear crew were repeatedly praising myanmar/burma throughout the entire special for its beautiful scenery and its people
Money grabbing scumbags, you aren't offended at all
Suing somebody because they offended you is fucking idiotic in the first place
I found this woman's overzealousness offensive, wonder if I can take her to court?
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Doesn't he write for (and therefore work for) the daily mail..
[editline]28th March 2014[/editline]
Also its not really racist, (mostly because that requires the person saying it to believe in racism but I digress) if anything it is poking fun at people who use the term in a racist manner.
The bridge [I]did [/I] have a slope in it, through the use of a clever camera angle they allowed people who use that term to come to the conclusion that they were being racist.
[QUOTE=Jsm;44383522]Doesn't he write for (and therefore work for) the daily mail..
[editline]28th March 2014[/editline]
Also its not really racist, (mostly because that requires the person saying it to believe in racism but I digress) if anything it is poking fun at people who use the term in a racist manner.
The bridge [I]did [/I] have a slope in it, through the use of a clever camera angle they allowed people who use that term to come to the conclusion that they were being racist.[/QUOTE]Nah, I think he writes for The Sun.
[QUOTE=Jsm;44383522]Doesn't he write for (and therefore work for) the daily mail..[/QUOTE]
yeah he writes opinion articles (for the sun, though)
which ironically are probably the best journalism in the whole fucking paper
I'm glad no one gives a shit about Somi Guha and the stuff she is offended about. Being offended is a useless phrase anyway. Fair enough but why should anybody care?
If she had a psychotic breakdown because he said "slope" now that would make a headline!
And it's fucking ridiculous anyway because seconds after he says it, even gesturing that it is, indeed, sloped, Hammong says "You're right, it's higher on that side" and you can clearly see that it is.
[QUOTE=Takoto;44381644]I wonder how many people watching Top Gear had any idea that "slope" meant anything other than not level.[/QUOTE]
I thought they meant the bridge, didn't even know it was a racist remark
[QUOTE=Takoto;44381644]I wonder how many people watching Top Gear had any idea that "slope" meant anything other than not level.[/QUOTE]
i know i didn't until, for whatever reason, people deemed it racist.
im so, [I]sooo[/I] sick of this overly sensitive, overprotective culture that's brewed over the last decade.
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;44382606]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]
The real racists are the people who hear slope, see an asian man and a crooked, sloped bridge and go "Oh that guys talking about the asian guy".
I'm sorry, slope is a word the defines an angle, it may have been used as a racist term before, but I guess I can't ever use that word when an asian person is on the object that happens to be sloped because all of a sudden, it's racist?
It's utterly moronic what people consider racist.
[QUOTE=Mr. Agree;44383958]I thought they meant the bridge, didn't even know it was a racist remark[/QUOTE]
Same, I actually learnt it was a racist remark through the daily mails reporting of it..
Never even knew this was a racist term before all this. I'm sure I'm going to hear this phrase a lot from real racists from now on though due to the media attention.
[QUOTE=Shocky;44384820]Never even knew this was a racist term before all this. I'm sure I'm going to hear this phrase a lot from real racists from now on though due to the media attention.[/QUOTE]
Thats exactly what a [I]slope[/I] would say.
No but really how can "slope" be offensive for fuck sake. Everyone is so damn sensitive that you have to learn all of these never used racist terms just to make sure you don't "hurt someones feelings". I don't see ANYONE being offended by this though. You would have to have done your research to be offended in the first place.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YLVhCp_WZsp[/media]
Since no one's posted it yet, this is the moment in the episode.
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YLVhCp_WZsp[/media]
Since no one's posted it yet, this is the moment in the episode.[/QUOTE]
Is this video actually only available in 144p or is something bugging out for me?
[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]
Yes English people are speaking and writing English wrong.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;44384226]The real racists are the people who hear slope, see an asian man and a crooked, sloped bridge and go "Oh that guys talking about the asian guy".
I'm sorry, slope is a word the defines an angle, it may have been used as a racist term before, but I guess I can't ever use that word when an asian person is on the object that happens to be sloped because all of a sudden, it's racist?
It's utterly moronic what people consider racist.[/QUOTE]
there's is such a thing as double entendre, I'm not on either side of this argument but the timing is quite clearly meant to be comic in that scene, and what would the joke be other than that?
And he says there's a slope on the bridge, that's a weird way of wording it if they only meant the single literal meaning
The hilarious thing is that 'slope' is offensive. Imagine the uproar if he had said that it's got a 'slant'
They should just ignore her, the entire charge of racism and not comment on it at all because it's ludicrous. Just keep doing what you're doing.
Least no one is sue people for calling them muppets
I'm pretty sure the Vietnamese was deliberately placed on the bridge so they could make the slope joke a double entendre.
But fucking deal with it. If you were to watch every top gear episode there has been hundreds cultural bashing. Its one of the best part of the show IMO.
The indian born actress should sue them for [URL="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080152/Jeremy-Clarkson-accused-racist-India-toilet-jibes-Top-Gear-Christmas-Special.html"] this[/URL]. That has got to be the best one so far.
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;44386618]there's is such a thing as double entendre, I'm not on either side of this argument but the timing is quite clearly meant to be comic in that scene, and what would the joke be other than that?
And he says there's a slope on the bridge, that's a weird way of wording it if they only meant the single literal meaning[/QUOTE]
I know there is. But that's ridiculous.
There's an asian guy on a hill. Someone says "That's quite a slope". What is he reffering to?
I'm going to say the hill, but someone else says the asian guy. And I'm the racist? That's pretty much exactly how this situation is.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;44387241]I know there is. But that's ridiculous.
There's an asian guy on a hill. Someone says "That's quite a slope". What is he reffering to?
I'm going to say the hill, but someone else says the asian guy. And I'm the racist? That's pretty much exactly how this situation is.[/QUOTE]
I get that argument, but what I'm saying is that considering the elements (the way he worded it, the fact that they chose to shoot that scene while someone was on the bridge, the clearly timed space in there) it's entirely reasonable to think that it was an intentional thing. It's not like Clarkson hasn't had a history of doing things like this. I'm just saying as an English person who is familiar with Jeremy Clarkson and his form of humour it's more than likely it was intentional. I'm not saying that's a bad thing or a good thing I'm just saying it is what it is.
[editline]29th March 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=adam1172;44386801]I'm pretty sure the Vietnamese was deliberately placed on the bridge so they could make the slope joke a double entendre.
But fucking deal with it. If you were to watch every top gear episode there has been hundreds cultural bashing. Its one of the best part of the show IMO.
The indian born actress should sue them for [URL="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080152/Jeremy-Clarkson-accused-racist-India-toilet-jibes-Top-Gear-Christmas-Special.html"] this[/URL]. That has got to be the best one so far.[/QUOTE]
I think the issue that people take with the cultural bashing is that a large viewer base of Top Gear are working class conservative Mondeo men who don't understand the subtleties of racial humour and it's just helping to fuel uneducated bigotry
People need to chill the fuck out and stop being offended by everything. I mean, I'm asian and I make more racist asian jokes than anyone I've ever known, it's liberating to be able to laugh at everything.
Plus the actress is indian, and I know indians are technically asian but who the fuck genuinely groups them together with eastern asians in their mind when they think of the race as a whole? There are plenty of other racist things you can say to an indian but I've never heard of slanted eyes being one of them.
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