Ship them to Mexico

Ole!

 

  

Lmao @ Scotty 

There's never time for Jeremy Clarkson and that revolting little hamster thing.

I saw something about them in the papers. TBH it doesn't really matter since it is an extremely tedious programme about a very boring subject.

I think being insulting...is written into Jezza's contract.
They don't mean it, they know it'll make the headlines...

I love Top Gear! The bigoted stuff is no different to what you see on Loose Women on a daily basis. The fellas may be a pain in the backside with their comments but it isn't the whole ethos of show. I like their passion about good cars

I like watching top gear but sometimes they do go a bit overboard with their humour.They were lucky to get out of the USA alive after their road trip there a while back. They had painted insults on the side of their vehicles which were offensive to those towns they visited.

I trust one of those places wasn't downtown LA then

I love Top Gear! The bigoted stuff is no different to what you see on Loose Women on a daily basis. The fellas may be a pain in the backside with their comments but it isn't the whole ethos of show. I like their passion about good cars

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Karma,do you watch Dave like me? I love the road trips they did,especially the one in Vietnam where Clarkson got his cumuppence on that scooter as he painted the tarmac blood red.

I've no interest in cars or the buffoons that present it.

Send them on a road trip to Mexico...see how long they survive.

Jonesy, yeah they painted stuff on their cars.... but c'mon,as they passed into Alabamah, the road sign was already riddled with bullets...like Jezza said " Alabamah! They shot up their own sign! "


The ridiculous U.S. had it coming

As a knee jerk left winger, I don't mind Clarkson or his opinions.  I think he puts over his opinions in quite a witty way even if sometimes the politicking is a bit wearisome for a program about cars.  I find them quite entertaining but I rarely agree with Clarkson's opinions.  I find him amusing and quite like Top Gear.  The whole Mexican thing is just been blown up because it's Clarkson and he has form for being controversial for the sake of it. 

I couldn't count the number of times the Norfolk inbreeding joke and the Welsh sheep shagging joke has been done with not a ripple of criticism.

I quite like when Clarkson guests on QI and  the wonderful Stephen Fry betters him at every turn.

Thank gawd there are still repeats of Top Gear on "Dave" freeview as there seems to be sod all else on there these days worth watching. 

To be fair, kattymioww, Stephen Fry usually betters every guest.  I've been surprised just how knowledgeable Clarkson is and his contributions to QI have made me realise his Top Gear persona is a bit dumbed down.

Jonesy, yeah they painted stuff on their cars.... but c'mon,as they passed into Alabamah, the road sign was already riddled with bullets...like Jezza said " Alabamah! They shot up their own sign! "


The ridiculous U.S. had it coming

Its funny to watch at the time and had to laugh, but it could easily have got much worse In fact it may have got worse- we only see the edited version. Makbe the beatings were edited out and the hospital shots.

TBH it's the inanity of it all that I find most offensive.  It's not that it's 'controversial' at all.  There's far more edgy humour out there.  It's the staggering lack of wit.  I find it quite dumb.  The sort of stuff teenage boys think is oot there and kerazzzy. 

This is worth a watch.  Well, I thought so anyway. 




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0i0RXMvzMs

To be fair, kattymioww, Stephen Fry usually betters every guest.  I've been surprised just how knowledgeable Clarkson is and his contributions to QI have made me realise his Top Gear persona is a bit dumbed down.
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Stephen Fry was refused entry to Japan last week cos of some comment he made on QI. I read this somewhere.

Exactly Antiope..a totally Banal show..top gear that is.

Should say, there's nowt wrong with being a teenage boy and have teenage boys humour.  We've all been there - kinda .   But the people in the studio audience are old enough to know better, lmao.

Basically, it was top headlines for a week in Japan. They had a comment on QI about a guy who was in both the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Stephen Fry made a joke about him being the unluckiest person in the world and it was taken as being extremely insensitive in Japan. Thus the hoohah. (Fry has since apologised.)

What Carnelian said up there /\ /\ /\
Well except I don't really watch Top Gear much. But they do make me laugh when I do. A few years back they decided that Toyota Pickups must be the hardest vehicles in the world as you always see groups of gun wielding revolutionaries riding around in one. So they got one and tried to destroy it in various bizarre but highly amusing ways.
They didin't succeed

The bottom line is ....... I got a quote of £400 +. For a new exhaust system. Whilst I shall be seeking better quotes tomorrow, that amount would buy me 1.5 season tickets or four standing season tickets for my pals at Bavaria Munich. Cars are turtelly un cost effective piles of shieght and the fact that some twisted arsehole makes a prog on the tellybox in order to worship them seems rather surreal. Unless they are being ironic.

Have you considered that you may have bought the wrong car..?
I know they depreciate in value the minute they leave the forecourt but I loves my motors.

As for Clarkson, he's ok in small doses (good guest for QI & HIGNFY) - the other two limpits can go for hike though.

The bottom line is ....... I got a quote of £400 +. For a new exhaust system.

Piggin hell Joe, you can buy a second hand car for that?

See I kinda agree with you Joe being an old hippified Green Anarchist - although more of the armchair variety now.
But I worked in the luxury high end car business for a good few years and I can't help loving a really beautiful. well designed, fast car.
I do it from a distance though and wear a hair shirt for at least 2 days afterwards

If I didn't need one to visit and shop for my parents I wouldn't have one. Total drain on one's resources/hard earned cash. While we're on the subject, does anyone know what happened to the people who were going to bring down the government if petrol went above £1 per Litre?

Antiope,
This is worth a watch.  Well, I thought so anyway.

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Coincidently, been watching Stewart Lee clips for the last hour or so on You Tube.  Saw the Top Gear one.  I like Stewart Lee 'painfully politically correct' comedy and Clarkson - incompatible?  According to Stewart Lee!

I've laughed at Jeremy Clarkson (nothing to do with Ditty dreams), but I've laughed at many turds.

Stewart Lee has it spot on, IMO.

Well... Clarkson's persona is definitely a construct ("for money", as Stewart Lee would point out), but I do wonder about his QI appearances.
Stephen Fry has actually stated that, although QI is unscripted, there is one guest who insists on being given the answers beforehand. Fry has said that one day he'd like to deliberately give him the wrong answers, just to teach him a lesson.
Now: I've got little reason for thinking this other than I don't particularly like the guy, but I can't help suspecting that the guest Fry was referring-to is Clarkson...

Noooooooo!

Its never time for Jeremy Clarkson!     *rocks back & forth*

Can't stand the bliddy thing, and my son watches it all the time. The MOST irritating thing of all time I find is the pronunciation of Porsche ...... PorschER or Porsche without sounding the e on the end, which one is right?

I actually detest Jeremy Clarkson, and yes some of the things he says ARE offensive, but some things are quite funny.  Thing is, he only says what other people say to their mates in the pub and so on.  But I guess you have to be careful what you say on telly.  It's bloody stupid though, because youre afraid to say ANYthing!    I found this list on MSN of 'offensive' things that 'famous' people have said.  Problem is, people just contact ofcom and so on, about anything.

http://tv.uk.msn.com/photos/ph...156052505&page=1

 Ref: Joe
While we're on the subject, does anyone know what happened to the people who were going to bring down the government if petrol went above £1 per Litre?
I think they became the Govt

Can't bear to watch it, they're so pompous!