While filming for the BBC, Clarkson can be heard chanting: “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe...” He then mumbles: “Catch a n***** by his toe”
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Originally Posted by Saint:
Silly man
Still love him though
Ignorant man .
The article in todays Daily Mirror:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...clarkson-use-3481201
People can vote there on should the BBC sack Clarkson
Originally Posted by El Loro:
The article in todays Daily Mirror:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...clarkson-use-3481201
People can vote there on should the BBC sack Clarkson
at present 78% say No!!!
While i would never condone use of the n word
I can no more condone the emergence of the 'namby pamby'
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
The article in todays Daily Mirror:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...clarkson-use-3481201
People can vote there on should the BBC sack Clarkson
at present 78% say No!!!
Originally Posted by Saint:
While i would never condone use of the n word
I can no more condone the emergence of the 'namby pamby'
I googled that and it says weak and indecisive .
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by Saint:
While i would never condone use of the n word
I can no more condone the emergence of the 'namby pamby'
I googled that and it says weak and indecisive .
Exactly
Political correctness is the language of cowardice
Its a terrible word... but maybe he said automatically as part of the rhyme?
Ashamed to say as kids we used that rhyme all the time, when trying to pick things...
Jezza has been especially beyond the pale recently though - with the "slope" comment etc. He needs a slap.
I think he knew what he was saying with the slope comment
He was out of order and should have apologised
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Its a terrible word... but maybe he said automatically as part of the rhyme?
Ashamed to say as kids we used that rhyme all the time, when trying to pick things...
Jezza has been especially beyond the pale recently though - with the "slope" comment etc. He needs a slap.
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Its a terrible word... but maybe he said automatically as part of the rhyme?
Ashamed to say as kids we used that rhyme all the time, when trying to pick things...
Jezza has been especially beyond the pale recently though - with the "slope" comment etc. He needs a slap.
I know what you mean, Rog. When I was young the N word was used without thinking in the rhyme, but by the time my sons were small and chanting the rhyme it had been replaced by 'tigger' (thank goodness, as I would have throttled them for using the N word).
Originally Posted by moonie:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Its a terrible word... but maybe he said automatically as part of the rhyme?
Ashamed to say as kids we used that rhyme all the time, when trying to pick things...
Jezza has been especially beyond the pale recently though - with the "slope" comment etc. He needs a slap.
Originally Posted by Saint:
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by Saint:
While i would never condone use of the n word
I can no more condone the emergence of the 'namby pamby'
I googled that and it says weak and indecisive .
Exactly
Political correctness is the language of cowardice
Poem by Henry Carey.
Originally Posted by Yogi19:
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Its a terrible word... but maybe he said automatically as part of the rhyme?
Ashamed to say as kids we used that rhyme all the time, when trying to pick things...
Jezza has been especially beyond the pale recently though - with the "slope" comment etc. He needs a slap.
I know what you mean, Rog. When I was young the N word was used without thinking in the rhyme, but by the time my sons were small and chanting the rhyme it had been replaced by 'tigger' (thank goodness, as I would have throttled them for using the N word).
Same here and done by all races .. it was one of the rhymes you learnt off by heart in the playground in infant school without even thinking of the words and their meaning, twas just a means to count something out.. it later changed to beggar in our neck of the woods.. thankfully 
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
The article in todays Daily Mirror:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...clarkson-use-3481201
People can vote there on should the BBC sack Clarkson
at present 78% say No!!!
To be fair it is Daily Mail readers.
(No offence Erin, I know your a not typical reader 
).
Originally Posted by Enthusiastic Contrafibularities:
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by El Loro:
The article in todays Daily Mirror:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/u...clarkson-use-3481201
People can vote there on should the BBC sack Clarkson
at present 78% say No!!!
To be fair it is Daily Mail readers.
(No offence Erin, I know your a not typical reader ).
none taken the story is from the Mirror.
Originally Posted by fremsley:
Mere product placement. Doubt he'll be going anywhere soon.
Do Top Gear have an new video coming out? 
Is it the Mail or the Mirror?
I'm sure if it was the Mail their readers would be voting for asset stripping our BBC.
I'm not a sad car fetishist so I don't give a toss what happens to him.
I'm sure if it was the Mail their readers would be voting for asset stripping our BBC.
I'm not a sad car fetishist so I don't give a toss what happens to him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ike-used-n-word.html
Video apology here
JEREMY CLARKSON'S STATEMENT:
'Ordinarily I don't respond to newspaper allegations, but on this occasion I feel I must make an exception.
'A couple of years ago I recorded an item for Top Gear, in which I quoted the rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny Moe.
'Now, of course, I was well aware that in the best known version of this rhyme, there is a racist expression that I was extremely keen to avoid.
'The full rushes show that I did three takes.
'In two I mumbled where the offensive word would normally occur and in the third, I replaced it all together with the word "teacher".
'Now when I viewed this footage, several weeks later, I realised that in one of the mumbled versions, if you listen very carefully with the sound turned right up, it did appear that I'd actually used the word I was trying to obscure.
'I was mortified by this, horrified, it is a word I loath.
'And I did everything in my power to make sure that that version did not appear in the programme that was transmitted.
'In fact, I have here the note I sent at the time to the production office.
'And it says, "I didn't use the n-word here but I've just listened through my headphones and it sounds like I did. Is there another take that we could use?"
'Please be assured I did everything in my power to not use that word.
'And as I'm sitting here begging your forgiveness for that fact that obviously my efforts weren't quite good enough.
'Thank you.'
We had a different version of the rhyme we used when playing ropes.
eeny, meeny, miny moe.
Put th' bairn oan a po
when tis done
clean tis bum
eeny meeny miny moe .
Originally Posted by fremsley:
Mere product placement. Doubt he'll be going anywhere soon.
'Course not
Originally Posted by erinp:
We had a different version of the rhyme we used when playing ropes.
eeny, meeny, miny moe.
Put th' bairn oan a po
when tis done
clean tis bum
eeny meeny miny moe .
Storm in a teacup, but of course the PC brigade and BBC hating Sky TV will run with this.
It's of course a nasty word but he was reading out as the old version of that rhyme....he was hardly caught calling anyone the N word...again I say, storm in a teacup.
Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:
Its a terrible word... but maybe he said automatically as part of the rhyme?
Ashamed to say as kids we used that rhyme all the time, when trying to pick things...
Jezza has been especially beyond the pale recently though - with the "slope" comment etc. He needs a slap.
Ashamed to say we said it as kids as well, not sure what has replaced it here, will ask lil AIms
Originally Posted by erinp:
We had a different version of the rhyme we used when playing ropes.
eeny, meeny, miny moe.
Put th' bairn oan a po
when tis done
clean tis bum
eeny meeny miny moe .
We had that one in the NE too, but we also learned the original in the playground and thought nothing of it, I think it died a natural death and by the time my daughter was small it had changed to bunny ( although they don't really have toes)
Jeremy Clarkson doesn't know how to stop his runaway mouth because that is what's in his head. If he was decent, he would not let himself down as consistently as he has done over the years. The only reason he is still on Top Gear is that he provides the BBC with money. If he wasn't on it anymore, I would not miss him. I'm more upset with James May. I thought he was better than to be an apologist for Clarkson.
It'd be a damn sight easier to forget the N word if those rap artists stopped using it. "Reclaiming it" doesn't wash with me - it merely brings it back into people's subconscious.
Originally Posted by cologne 1:
Jeremy Clarkson doesn't know how to stop his runaway mouth because that is what's in his head. If he was decent, he would not let himself down as consistently as he has done over the years. The only reason he is still on Top Gear is that he provides the BBC with money. If he wasn't on it anymore, I would not miss him. I'm more upset with James May. I thought he was better than to be an apologist for Clarkson.
The BBC need a kick up their arse, the man does nothing but throw out insults and gets away with it .
Originally Posted by Cosmopolitan:
It'd be a damn sight easier to forget the N word if those rap artists stopped using it. "Reclaiming it" doesn't wash with me - it merely brings it back into people's subconscious.
Totally agree with you..
There's a reason some words finally die out... all this reclaiming of words is a load of bollocks. .leave them where they belong, dead and buried and only mentioned in a historical sense as part of educating people about why they are no longer part of the current language ..
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by cologne 1:
Jeremy Clarkson doesn't know how to stop his runaway mouth because that is what's in his head. If he was decent, he would not let himself down as consistently as he has done over the years. The only reason he is still on Top Gear is that he provides the BBC with money. If he wasn't on it anymore, I would not miss him. I'm more upset with James May. I thought he was better than to be an apologist for Clarkson.
The BBC need a kick up their arse, the man does nothing but throw out insults and gets away with it .
He says he's on final notice - one more occurence and he's sacked:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27266102
Originally Posted by Cosmopolitan:
It'd be a damn sight easier to forget the N word if those rap artists stopped using it. "Reclaiming it" doesn't wash with me - it merely brings it back into people's subconscious.
Damn right! By doing so makes it as devise as it ever was!
Originally Posted by El Loro:
Originally Posted by erinp:
Originally Posted by cologne 1:
Jeremy Clarkson doesn't know how to stop his runaway mouth because that is what's in his head. If he was decent, he would not let himself down as consistently as he has done over the years. The only reason he is still on Top Gear is that he provides the BBC with money. If he wasn't on it anymore, I would not miss him. I'm more upset with James May. I thought he was better than to be an apologist for Clarkson.
The BBC need a kick up their arse, the man does nothing but throw out insults and gets away with it .
He says he's on final notice - one more occurence and he's sacked:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27266102
What an arrogant barsteward. If he thinks he's a hopeless case, why not just hand over to somebody less offensive and boogey off.