Jezza bell: Jeremy Clarkson suspended, no Top Gear this week! :( - Page 3

Madmikeee · 03-13-2015, 1:11pm

and this just proves that the world has indeed taken leave of it's senses, specifically it's sense of fcukin humor.

Mike Mercury · 03-13-2015, 1:18pm

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In December 2006, the BBC complaints department upheld the complaint of four Top Gear viewers that Clarkson had used the phrase "ginger beer" (rhyming slang for "queer") in a derogatory manner, when Clarkson picked up on and agreed with an audience member's description of the Daihatsu Copen as being a bit "gay".

In a later incident during a Top Gear episode broadcast on 13 November 2005, Clarkson, while talking about a Mini design that might be "quintessentially German", made a mock Nazi salute, and made references to the Hitler regime and the German invasion of Poland by setting the GPS system to Poland.

In November 2008, Clarkson attracted over 500 complaints to the BBC when he joked about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes. The BBC stated the comment was a comic rebuttal of a common misconception about lorry drivers and was within the viewer's expectation of Clarkson's Top Gear persona. Chris Mole, the Member of Parliament for Ipswich, where five prostitutes were murdered in 2006, wrote a "strongly worded" letter to BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, demanding that Clarkson be sacked. Clarkson dismissed Mole's comments in his Sunday Times column the following weekend, writing, "There are more important things to worry about than what some balding and irrelevant middle-aged man might have said on a crappy BBC2 motoring show."

In an episode aired after the watershed on 1 August 2010, Clarkson described a Ferrari F430 as "speciale needs". He said the car owned by co-presenter James May looked "like a simpleton". Media regulator Ofcom investigated after receiving two complaints, and found that the comments "were capable of causing offence" but did not censure the BBC.

On 12 January 2012, the Indian High Commission lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over the "tasteless" antics of Clarkson's Top Gear Christmas special where he mocked India's culture and people. During the 90-minute special, which was aired twice over the Christmas break, Clarkson made a string of jokes about Indian food, clothes, toilets, trains and history.

On an episode of Top Gear broadcast on 5 February 2012, Clarkson compared a Japanese car/camper van to a person with a growth on their face. A major UK charity that supports people with facial disfigurements, Changing Faces, complained to the BBC and Ofcom after Clarkson's remarks.

In an unused take for a Top Gear feature recorded in early 2013, Clarkson is alleged to have mumbled the ethnic slur "n-gger" when repeating the children's rhyme Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. The clip later surfaced on the website of the Daily Mirror tabloid at the beginning of May 2014. In the take, Clarkson attempts to mumble the sentence so as to obscure the word, but admitted that upon a close listening, the word could still be heard. Clarkson apologised for his efforts not being "quite good enough" to ensure the footage was not used.

It was reported on 3 May, that the BBC had given Clarkson a final warning, with the presenter accepting that he will be sacked if he makes another offensive remark.

Near the end of the Top Gear: Burma Special, which aired March 2014, Clarkson and Hammond were seen admiring a wooden bridge, which they had built during the episode. Clarkson is quoted as saying "That is a proud moment, but there's a slope on it." as a native crosses the bridge, 'slope' being a pejorative for Asians. Top Gear Executive Producer Andy Wilman responded: "When we used the word slope in the recent Top Gear Burma Special it was a light-hearted word play joke referencing both the build quality of the bridge and the local Asian man who was crossing it. We were not aware at the time, and it has subsequently been brought to our attention, that the word slope is considered by some to be offensive"

In October 2014, Clarkson attracted controversy when filming the Top Gear: Patagonia Special after driving a Porsche 928 in Argentina with the licence plate H982 FKL, allegedly referring to the Falklands War. Also, during the broadcast itself, Clarkson was seen referring to the controversy that had risen after the Burma Special; when inspecting a bridge, which he and his colleagues had built during the episode, he was quoted as saying "That is a proud moment, Hammond, but… is it straight?"

ApexOversteer · 03-13-2015, 2:01pm

Now they're saying it was CLARKSON that reported the incident... WTF... is this the apocalypse or something?

ApexOversteer · 03-13-2015, 2:03pm

In related news, the Change.org petition to get Clarkson reinstated just passed 850,000 signatures...

CubSmurf · 03-13-2015, 2:10pm

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Originally Posted by ApexOversteer

Now they're saying it was CLARKSON that reported the incident... WTF... is this the apocalypse or something?

What?? That doesn't even make sense...unless he was looking for a way to exit...

ApexOversteer · 03-13-2015, 2:15pm

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What?? That doesn't even make sense...unless he was looking for a way to exit...

Or he was trying to get out in front of a story.

I'm lost... the red tops and crap rags have the whole thing so twisted, you can't make heads nor tails of it anymore. There was one paper reporting that the BBC was going to apologize for pulling the show, but then they edited that bit out of their story online and issued a correction.

I just learned today that the whole thing happened in front of Hotel staff and guests! Where the f*ck are those accounts? What, the tabloids couldn't get "Hotel guest X and his wife Y" to spill the story for a few hundred quid?

None of it makes any sense anymore.

ApexOversteer · 03-13-2015, 2:21pm

Of course, this whole thing could be....

CubSmurf · 03-13-2015, 3:29pm

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Originally Posted by ApexOversteer

I just learned today that the whole thing happened in front of Hotel staff and guests! Where the f*ck are those accounts? What, the tabloids couldn't get "Hotel guest X and his wife Y" to spill the story for a few hundred quid?

Watch: ‘Top Gear’ Host Jeremy Clarkson ‘Threaten to Sack’ Producer Whom He Allegedly Punched | Variety

It's an eye-witness account, not Clarkson himself.

alfred1976 · 03-20-2015, 12:41pm

Bring Back Clarkson petition delivered by Stig in a tank

From the article:
Signed by almost one million supporters, the "Bring Back Clarkson" petition has arrived at the BBC headquarters with a tank.

8 pictures and video in the gallery

CubSmurf · 03-20-2015, 3:51pm

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Originally Posted by alfred1976

Bring Back Clarkson petition delivered by Stig in a tank

From the article:
Signed by almost one million supporters, the "Bring Back Clarkson" petition has arrived at the BBC headquarters with a tank.

8 pictures and video in the gallery

That is awesome. Clarkson recently spoke at a charity auction:

"There was an 18-year waiting list to be in the audience of Top Gear, but the BBC has f***** themselves. It was a great show and they've f***** it up"