Jeremy Clarkson suspended from the BBC...

Samgb

maltingsaudio;554655" said:

Iamnobody said:

8 pages for this?



Can somebody summarise for me!?





Read the last two pages and you'll get it if you've heard the news that Clarkson has apparently twatted  his producer. Basically some of us really like TG some don't Some/most think Clarkson is a idiot some think he's done something to feather his nest and make money, others are taking exception to  views opposite to theirs, some are trying to blind us with their staggering wit and some are trying to drag the whole thing off topic. In other words a normal fretboard thread

If you'd have posted this on page 1 we would have all saved a lot of time and hot air!

Iamnobody

maltingsaudio;554655" said:

Iamnobody said:

8 pages for this?



Can somebody summarise for me!?





Read the last two pages and you'll get it if you've heard the news that Clarkson has apparently twatted  his producer. Basically some of us really like TG some don't Some/most think Clarkson is a idiot some think he's done something to feather his nest and make money, others are taking exception to  views opposite to theirs, some are trying to blind us with their staggering wit and some are trying to drag the whole thing off topic. In other words a normal fretboard thread

I've read a bit. I want to say he's a massive cock end but then again he has made some entertaining TV.

I'm not a regular viewer though so don't really care. I like the Guy Martin suggestion though as a potential replacement or a co. presenter of a different motoring show.

Bucket

I hope the three of them jump wholesale to a new show - if it's not Clarkson, Hammond and May together I'm not interested.

I do agree with whoever said that James May should be better utilised though - he's great.

Philly_Q

Bucket said:

I hope the three of them jump wholesale to a new show - if it's not Clarkson, Hammond and May together I'm not interested.

I do agree with whoever said that James May should be better utilised though - he's great.

I like James May's own programmes better.  

Sometimes on Top Gear it feels like he's the bright nerdy kid who knows he's behaving like a twat, against his better instincts, but he desperately wants the cool kids to let him hang out with them.

Drew_TNBD

Philly_Q said:

Bucket said:

I hope the three of them jump wholesale to a new show - if it's not Clarkson, Hammond and May together I'm not interested.

I do agree with whoever said that James May should be better utilised though - he's great.

I like James May's own programmes better.  

Sometimes on Top Gear it feels like he's the bright nerdy kid who knows he's behaving like a twat, against his better instincts, but he desperately wants the cool kids to let him hang out with them.

See... I feel like James May is the true ring leader. And Hamster and JC are playing to his fiddle.

chillidoggy

I'm waiting to see if this thread gets more pages than when Drew got slung in the cooler. If not, the way ahead is perfectly clear; Drew being more popular than Clarkson must therefore take over as the main Top Gear presenter.

Suck it up, bitches!

mike_l

chillidoggy said:

I'm waiting to see if this thread gets more pages than when Drew got slung in the cooler. If not, the way ahead is perfectly clear; Drew being more popular than Clarkson must therefore take over as the main Top Gear presenter.

Suck it up, bitches!

I can just see it now, "This is a Ferarri, anyone who drives one is a dildo. This is a Porsche, and Porsche drivers are asshats".

That actually works.

Samgb

chillidoggy said:

I'm waiting to see if this thread gets more pages than when Drew got slung in the cooler. If not, the way ahead is perfectly clear; Drew being more popular than Clarkson must therefore take over as the main Top Gear presenter.

Suck it up, bitches!

Here comes our star and his reasonably priced guitar. Then it'd be Rupert Grint rocking out on the house Squier Classic Vibe 

They wouldnt even have to change anything really.

chillidoggy

Well, there you go. Problem solved. Dunno what all the fuss was about.

It just needs a clause in his contract that allows him to twat people, and we're good to go.

breakstuff

Get @hootsmon and @Randomhandclaps as his co presenters and definitely watch that.

Fretwired

Well this didn't take long .. the pinko-liberals hit back .. eco-feminist Top Gear.

Feminism is relevant because only a macho culture would have allowed a bunch of idiots to elide heedless fossil fuel use with mindless racial slurs and scientific illiteracy. I wouldn’t accidentally call someone a slope. I wouldn’t charge around Argentina spewing asinine triumphalism about some long-gone war. Why not? Because the impetus behind those actions is territorial, and that’s not what feminism or, for that matter, human beings are about ... Zoe Williams

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/mar/11/jeremy-clarkson-suspended-eco-feminist-top-gear

Time to get blokeism going ...

frankus

Man finds middle-class liberal feminist twaddle in Guardian shocker!!!

Fretwired

frankus said:

Man finds middle-class liberal feminist twaddle in Guardian shocker!!!

To be fair I read the Guardian every day and there aren't things as shocking as that .. feminism has a place but Top Gear is just a TV show.

chillidoggy

breakstuff said:

Get @hootsmon and @Randomhandclaps as his co presenters and definitely watch that.

 

Or maybe @Sambostar should be Clarkson's replacement?

BBC's "Top Transits".

Snap

The show that James May and Oz Clark did together was good. IT was the line from James May to Oz, something along the lines of "bascially, you will drink anything that has alcohol in it, won't you"

to which OC replied "obviously", feigning insult.

Oz Clark is great.

Probably the worst consequence of this whol Clarkson affair is that it has blown even more hot air up his arse and will give him an even more insufferable ego, if that's possible.

I'#ve just noticed, he's got quite a long face.

frankus

I'll be honest, I never read newspapers anymore - they're biased in too many ways - political, social-mores and to that end usually an impossible  tautology of judgement and disapproval. Fuck that.

The only time I'd buy the Guardian is if I was going for a job (that I wanted) at the BBC, which would be a last resort these days, as technically gifted and intelligent their IT crew are.

I'm happy with the headlines from TV and turn off, it's not ignorance, as Mark Twain put it "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." .. I'd rather maintain my own mental health than have it polluted by salesmen's opinions or overwhelmed by the surplus of information - frankly papers prey on every human failing in order to obtain readership, there's nothing shining or true about the media any more, if there ever was - I'm beginning to think that was a false image implanted into our collective memory .. again to boost sales.

Samgb

Fretwired said:

frankus said:

Man finds middle-class liberal feminist twaddle in Guardian shocker!!!

To be fair I read the Guardian every day and there aren't things as shocking as that .. feminism has a place but Top Gear is just a TV show.

Idiocy is part of the makeup of every newspaper whatever part of the political spectrum they occupy. Im also a Guardian Guy and it still will manage to make me cringe with at least one article per day! 

Fretwired

frankus said:

I'll be honest, I never read newspapers anymore - they're biased in too many ways - political, social-mores and to that end usually an impossible  tautology of judgement and disapproval. Fuck that.

The only time I'd buy the Guardian is if I was going for a job (that I wanted) at the BBC, which would be a last resort these days, as technically gifted and intelligent their IT crew are.

I'm happy with the headlines from TV and turn off, it's not ignorance, as Mark Twain put it "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." .. I'd rather maintain my own mental health than have it polluted by salesmen's opinions or overwhelmed by the surplus of information - frankly papers prey on every human failing in order to obtain readership, there's nothing shining or true about the media any more, if there ever was - I'm beginning to think that was a false image implanted into our collective memory .. again to boost sales.

Agree .. like the Mark Twain quote ... I guess in the age of social media the articles above are gold dust and click bait .. :-)

Samgb

Snap said:

The show that James May and Oz Clark did together was good. IT was the line from James May to Oz, something along the lines of "bascially, you will drink anything that has alcohol in it, won't you"

to which OC replied "obviously", feigning insult.

Oz Clark is great.

Probably the worst consequence of this whol Clarkson affair is that it has blown even more hot air up his arse and will give him an even more insufferable ego, if that's possible.

I'#ve just noticed, he's got quite a long face.

The May/Clarke Wine/Beer shows were great. 

chillidoggy

Oz Clarke is a wine-bore. He knows about wines, but knows bugger-all about cars. He probably reads The Grauniad.