• Woman attempts to sue BBC for £1m for 'slope' comment - unless they cancel Top Gear
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This is ridiculous...
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;44387430]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] 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[/QUOTE] [quote]It really worries me that 84% of this audience agrees with that statement, because the kind of people that say "political correctness gone mad" are usually using that phrase as a kind of cover action to attack minorities or people that they disagree with. I'm of an age that I can see what a difference political correctness has made. When I was four years old, my grandfather drove me around Birmingham, where the Tories had just fought an election campaign saying, "if you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour," and he drove me around saying, "this is where all the niggers and the coons and the jungle bunnies live." And I remember being at school in the early 80s and my teacher, when he read the register, instead of saying the name of the one asian boy in the class, he would say, "is the black spot in," right? And all these things have gradually been eroded by political correctness, which seems to me to be about an institutionalised politeness at its worst. And if there is some fallout from this, which means that someone in an office might get in trouble one day for saying something that someone was a bit unsure about because they couldn't decide whether it was sexist or homophobic or racist, it's a small price to pay for the massive benefits and improvements in the quality of life for millions of people that political correctness has made. It's a complete lie that allows the right, which basically controls media now, and international politics, to make people on the left who are concerned about the way people are represented look like killjoys. -Stewart Lee[/quote] I always thought this was a really poignant quote on the topic of political correctness. A lot of us on this website lack the actual experience of what life was like pre political correctness, and obviously my dad may be white straight male, but his Jamaican immigrant friend certainly benefits from the political correctness that people seem to revile
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;44382817]We call those "seasons" in America, whereas "series" is used to denote a television show as a whole. It's easy to get confused.[/QUOTE] Easy to get confused if you've been living under a rock or are under the age of 16. I don't know why people get so flabbergasted over the series/season thing. Yeah, [i]flabbergasted[/i], fuck you. Edit: Also, don't Jeremy, James, and Hamster pretty much waste more than a million of the BBC's money on their ridiculously entertaining ideas?
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;44387547]I always thought this was a really poignant quote on the topic of political correctness. A lot of us on this website lack the actual experience of what life was like pre political correctness, and obviously my dad may be white straight male, but his Jamaican immigrant friend certainly benefits from the political correctness that people seem to revile[/QUOTE] Yeah people do get worked up about "political correctness gone mad". Equal rights for everyone is desirable, I'm sure no one here would disagree. I don't think that's the point. The charge is racism - but frankly if you've ever watched, read or considered anything that Clarkson's done the accusation falls a bit flat.
[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] LMAO. People should really stop taking jokes like this seriously, I found this funny even though I'm indian. Oversensitive people should just be ignored.
[QUOTE=adam1172;44386801] 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] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YpGLqYD.png[/IMG] Oh my, think of the children! Imagine what seeing this does to a child's mind! A dog? [I]Peeing?[/I] Oh, the humanity!
Well after they took all their trucks over the bridge there were several chinks on it
[QUOTE=Matriax;44389680]Yeah people do get worked up about "political correctness gone mad". Equal rights for everyone is desirable, I'm sure no one here would disagree. I don't think that's the point. The charge is racism - but frankly if you've ever watched, read or considered anything that Clarkson's done the accusation falls a bit flat.[/QUOTE] but the thing is it doesn't fall flat really, he has a history of general insensitivity towards minorities, gay people, and the mentally ill. And obviously it's assumed this is all tongue in cheek, but the problem is that we on this website aren't the key Top Gear demographic, the key demographic are a bunch of right wing Mondeo men who will take comments that can be read as xenophobic 100% literally. The amount of people from my old town who had horrible opinions of mainland europe and America because of Top Gear is insane.
Just leave us be: being racist about places we used to own is all we have left
[QUOTE=strayebyrd;44390142]but the thing is it doesn't fall flat really, he has a history of general insensitivity towards minorities, gay people, and the mentally ill. And obviously it's assumed this is all tongue in cheek, but the problem is that we on this website aren't the key Top Gear demographic, the key demographic are a bunch of right wing Mondeo men who will take comments that can be read as xenophobic 100% literally. The amount of people from my old town who had horrible opinions of mainland europe and America because of Top Gear is insane.[/QUOTE] ...Yeah... but these people are clearly morons, Top Gear isn't going to change that.
[QUOTE=Robman8908;44388435]Easy to get confused if you've been living under a rock or are under the age of 16. I don't know why people get so flabbergasted over the series/season thing. Yeah, [I]flabbergasted[/I], fuck you. Edit: Also, don't Jeremy, James, and Hamster pretty much waste more than a million of the BBC's money on their ridiculously entertaining ideas?[/QUOTE] No, top gear is pretty much self funded / funded by selling the rights. The the company that exploits the commercial rights is owned by BBC Worldwide now as it decided to buy Clarkson out of it for £15m so it must be making a lot of money.
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[QUOTE=fruxodaily;44381488]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[/QUOTE] This is Jeremy Clarkson we're talking about here. It was obviously a play on words. He always does stuff like this on the show. Not that I'm complaining or anything...
Excuse the bump, but... [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wjAuWuY.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Nemisis116;44382949]Money grabbing scumbags, you aren't offended at all [/QUOTE] Its pretty dumb to have laws like this in the first place. "Equality laws" sound terrible too. I can understand banning discrimination but these are a bit much.
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