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Jeremy Clarkson Scandal.
- Thread starter dougdeep
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fire&skill
Killer-Diller
There does seem to be a continuing theme of tellings-off for this bunch on 'Top Gear' which gets covered over as being 'blokey' [and I say that as a 48 year old, beer drinking, football watching Paul Weller fan]
spring hall convert
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I'd totally missed this.
The BEEB are going to come under serious pressure to sack him, after all Big Ron was dismissed by ITV a while back for something very, very similar.
He's braindead for doing it, I don't think he meant to cause offence but white people shouldn't be using that word.
The BEEB are going to come under serious pressure to sack him, after all Big Ron was dismissed by ITV a while back for something very, very similar.
He's braindead for doing it, I don't think he meant to cause offence but white people shouldn't be using that word.
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
There were other variants he could have said but I suppose he wanted to be edgy and provocative. Whatever the reason - it is unacceptable and he won't be missed by me at least.
Hillian1
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He really didn't.
Big Ron used the word to describe a black man, Clarkson used (mumbled) it to pick a car using the same method as I still do today.
severnside gull
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I regularly recited this rhyme - unexpurgated - throughout my childhood.
Oh bugger! Now I'm going to have to shoot myself to compensate all those I undoubtedly offended
Oh bugger! Now I'm going to have to shoot myself to compensate all those I undoubtedly offended
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
The only time I've heard this rhyme recited with the n-word inserted was in Pulp Fiction, when 'Hillbilly Boy' Zed was carefully choosing between Butch and Marcellus Wallace as to who he was going to do up the wrong-un first.
Maybe Clarkson had watched it the night before or something.
Maybe Clarkson had watched it the night before or something.
spring hall convert
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He shouldn't be using the word, he knows that as much as anyone else. I don't want him sacked (well I do but not over this) but he's an absolute idiot for doing it. Pick another ryhme without an offensive word in it.....
JJ McClure
Go Jags
Big Ron "That Desailly is a useless f****** n*****" is in no way very very similar to what Clarkson did.
Hillian1
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I quite agree. My post however was to show how there is Zero similarity between what Big Ron said to describe Desailly and what Clarkson said to pick a car.
And as I said, I still use it today, not to be edgy or anything. To me, it's a method of picking something we used as Children daily.
spring hall convert
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But the reason big Ron got sacked was the use of the n word, not the other part. He probably would have got away with it if he'd just called Desaily ****ing lazy.
White people should not be using that word, we all know this. Clarkson knows it. He's been an absolute idiot
Too right. Yet again, the politically correct brigade are desparate to take offence and scream racism where there is none. Jeremy Clarkson has been presenting the new top gear for 12 years without even a hint of racism and yet people are jumping down his throat at something totally innocent and innocuous.
You can't do anything in this country any more.
spring hall convert
Well-known member
Yeah I know, you can't even pay your top lawyer vast sums of money to keep your ex-wife from telling your current wife about your ongoing affair any more. It's a sad sad world isn't it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...op-Gear-star-lifts-gag-ex-wife-Alex-Hall.html
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
Really ? There are no circumstances (places or company) where it would even occur to you it might not be appropriate ?
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
When a high-profile presenter on a national broadcast can't use that word whenever he likes - the country really is going to the dogs.