Truckers with hurt feelings

Parsnip49

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3374093 ... s-row.html

The poor babies, how did they have time to complain in between all the bad driving and prostitute murdering?


"A spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitute" - LOL...


Oh, and to the people who will make "JC is a poodle haired w***er" statements - no one cares what you think, that hemp isnt going to knit its self...

pyro_maniac

has the country really lost its sense of humour??
surely if you are watching clarkson in the first place you kinda expect that sort of thing, why bother complaining, its getting stupid

Nuggs

The death of comedy is nigh...

beatsystem

I saw the program and thought that it gave some idea in a light hearted way of how difficult it is to drive a large lorry. The jokes were just that, but i would have thought that the item did more to help people understand the difficulties, not all lorry drivers are bad when it comes to cyclist in the same way not all car drivers are bad.

shmo

Only 200 complaints. Hopefully that's not enough to justify some more overreaction.

If people are really this easily offended they shouldn't watch TV, it's their own fault.

heavymental

I wonder if the same people who condemned Ross and Brand will codemn Clarkson? He's the comedian of choice for the alot of those who hate Ross and Brand so it'd be interesting to see who's complaining this time.

beatsystem

The great thing about a tv is it has an OFF button

LazyRacer

beatsystem wrote:

The great thing about a tv is it has an OFF button

Too right, I stopped taking Clarkson and Ross seriously a few years back, Ive never taken Brand seriously - ever. Now I dont take the media seriously, nor pressure groups seriously either. In fact I take very little seriously!

Lifes good, switch the thing off and ride your bike!

Bit sickly that eh! But true

RockyHopperShow

I'm not at all sure the two cases are in any way similar. The Andrew Sachs thing was way too personal. Clarkson's joke wasn't. Bad taste yes, but that's how he makes his living. It was a bit like Rodney Marsh's "Toon Army" joke after the Tsunami....how the hell was he sacked for that? As Nuggs said, the death of comedy is nigh.

heavymental

I was listening to Richard Hammond on the Chris Moyles show this morning (yeh I know its sht) and he was discussing his new show which is going to be some kind of Its A Knockout thing as far as I could tell. Saturday night on BBC1. Brilliant. Is this what the people want? Hammond is perfect for a new age of blandness. I'm not a fan of Clarkson but at least he has an edge.

RockyHopperShow

Your right HM, Hammonds' early evening show sank without trace. He has found his niche in Top Gear. Funnily enough, James May has turned out to be a very good presenter judging by his new series on BBC2.

heavymental

Yes, I like May too. He's a good guy. I also like Stephen Fry, Paul Merton and Griff Rhys Jones latest travelogue shows. They're out of broadly the same mould to be fair but they're all likeable, interesting and able to throw in a decent quip.

Big Red S

I must say that I like the contrast between poking fun at the lorry drivers' disliking being sterotyped and the number of threads here complaining about cyclists being sterotyped...

DavidBelcher

RockyHopperShow wrote:

Your right HM, Hammonds' early evening show sank without trace. He has found his niche in Top Gear. Funnily enough, James May has turned out to be a very good presenter judging by his new series on BBC2.

Hammond was very good on Sky One's Brainiac, mind you, which seems to have gone a bit stale since Vic Reeves took over as frontman.
Agreed - all of James May's solo efforts have been very watchable; he's done two entertaining Christmas specials about kids' toys of years gone by, and both of his science-based series (Big Idea and 20th Century) have been excellent and even taught me some new stuff!

David

Crapaud

So, gratuitous and unneccessary offense is humour now, is it? That'll be why I'm using the off button more and more. Anyone can be offensive, it's a rare person who can be hilariously funny.

What does it say about our society that our most popular entertainers / presenters offensive comments can be dismissed as a 'joke'? If they're making their name by being 'at the edge' or ' pushing the boundaries' then it's no surprise that eventually they'll screw up and overstep the mark. The sad thing is that, with the exception of Moyles, they all can be funny - there's no need for them to make controversial or offensive remarks.

If you think Clarkson's comment was funny you might want to reflect on Matthew Parris' 'joke' about putting wire across cyclepaths at neck height.

If Clarkson gets his baws rattled over this, I won't have any sympathy for him.

webbhost

If you think Clarkson's comment was funny you might want to reflect on Matthew Parris' 'joke' about putting wire across cyclepaths at neck height.

Dont you think the context is a little different here?

Mr Matthew Parris was actually suggesting (tongue in cheek) that people SHOULD put wire across cyclepaths to take off our heads.

Clarkson was not suggesting that lorry drivers should try murdering a prostitute was he?

I do see your point however..

Vic Reeves took over as frontman

Agreed. We should all get together and send letters of disgust. We can threaten to sue them because someone blew me grandma's caravan up with her dog in it and brainiac brought me horrible flash backs. Naturally these flashbacks wills top if richard hammond returns to the front line

OffTheBackAdam

I laughed a great deal during Top Gear, including JC's comments about murdering prostitutes.
Then again, I also found the cartoon that appeared in Viz some years back, where a council jobsworth warns a lorry driver not to overload his vehicle with prozzies wrapped up in carpets.
Matthew Parris's comments about stretching wire across paths wasn't funny, some idiots might get ideas in their heads. I can't see JC's joke encouraging a sudden rash of murders by lorry drivers, can you?
Other highlights, Jezza getting road-rash & a gear stick up the arse, sliding off his seat; May being coaxed out of the bog with a huge stack of porn mags (Even more than myself & clubmates found chucked over a wall at the top of Beeley Moor years back!, hmm, now there's an idea for a Cake Stop thread. :idea: ) and the demise of the contents of the lorries.
It did highlight how hard to drive they are, 7.5 tonners are bad enough.
All in all, it's the best TV motoring programme out there.

webbhost

I had a change in heart... I think they should ban top gear so that they can open up another hour evry week for a program devoted to cyclists :D:D

ddraver

webbhost wrote:

I had a change in heart... I think they should ban top gear so that they can open up another hour evry week for a program devoted to cyclists :D:D

Called "low gear" perhaps (groan!)

star on a reasonably priced bike doing a short XC loop that sort of thing? they could compare differnt genres of cyclists speed in different races....Good idea actually!

webbhost

hahah ddraver, loving it!

we could have a "low gear" stunt artist too that can impress us with impossible tricks with a fixed wheel bike and wow us with a BMX and a few ramps.

We could also have a cool or uncool pro board, and the dopers get to go on the uncool side :P

DavidBelcher

webbhost wrote:

hahah ddraver, loving it!

we could have a "low gear" stunt artist too that can impress us with impossible tricks with a fixed wheel bike and wow us with a BMX and a few ramps.

We could also have a cool or uncool pro board, and the dopers get to go on the uncool side :P

Oh, and you'd also need test rides of flashy bikes done by a heavily-disguised ex-pro, as a sort of Stig counterpart.

David

fto-si

Now over 500 complaints - Here we go again!

Parsnip49

Paris had a long moan about cyclists then suggested stringing up piano wire - funny to noone, very offensive to the entire cycling community.

Clarkson made a joke that noone would take seriously - funny to loads of folk and its offended who? A load of old slappers?


If you cant see the difference i would suggest you add your complaint to the other 500 eejits who have already complained - we wouldn't want anything to penetrate the cotton wool layer you are wrapping yourself in.

PhilofCas

DavidBelcher wrote:

RockyHopperShow wrote:

Your right HM, Hammonds' early evening show sank without trace. He has found his niche in Top Gear. Funnily enough, James May has turned out to be a very good presenter judging by his new series on BBC2.

Hammond was very good on Sky One's Brainiac, mind you, which seems to have gone a bit stale since Vic Reeves took over as frontman.
Agreed - all of James May's solo efforts have been very watchable; he's done two entertaining Christmas specials about kids' toys of years gone by, and both of his science-based series (Big Idea and 20th Century) have been excellent and even taught me some new stuff!

David

David, David, David, come to your senses !!

Vic Reeves has breathed a much needed breath of fresh air into Brainiac, how can you not like his GasBangWallop.Com sketch, Hammond is boring in comparison.

Vic Reeves Comedy Legend.

Richard Hammond OK on Top Gear.

webbhost

vic just has that kind of annoying voice that makes you want to punch his lights out - but you cant - because if you do, your TV wont let you watch the cycling then.

JC.152

I saw it on Sunday you would of thought the BBc wouldnt have taken the risk of about 3seconds of clarksons jokes and just cut them out after evry news,TV show and anything else talkin about Brand and Rosss jokes about Andrew Sacks


if this is going to be like the BrandRoss complaints then loads of people will go back on the iplayer and then complian just to join in with everyone else and there'll be 5000000 complaints in a weeks time

Jez mon

OffTheBackAdam wrote:

I laughed a great deal during Top Gear, including JC's comments about murdering prostitutes.
Then again, I also found the cartoon that appeared in Viz some years back, where a council jobsworth warns a lorry driver not to overload his vehicle with prozzies wrapped up in carpets.
Matthew Parris's comments about stretching wire across paths wasn't funny, some idiots might get ideas in their heads. I can't see JC's joke encouraging a sudden rash of murders by lorry drivers, can you?
Other highlights, Jezza getting road-rash & a gear stick up the ars*, sliding off his seat; May being coaxed out of the bog with a huge stack of porn mags (Even more than myself & clubmates found chucked over a wall at the top of Beeley Moor years back!, hmm, now there's an idea for a Cake Stop thread. :idea: ) and the demise of the contents of the lorries.
It did highlight how hard to drive they are, 7.5 tonners are bad enough.
All in all, it's the best TV motoring programme out there.

+1

DavidBelcher

PhilofCas wrote:

[David, David, David, come to your senses !!

Vic Reeves has breathed a much needed breath of fresh air into Brainiac, how can you not like his GasBangWallop.Com sketch, Hammond is boring in comparison.

Vic Reeves Comedy Legend.

Richard Hammond OK on Top Gear.

Trouble is, Brainiac seems to fall back on blowing stuff up a bit too often these days, as well as overdoing the Uranus jokes to the point of predictability in the "Stuff NASA Never Tried" feature. The "Chemistry Death Match" segment has been consistently very good, however.
By and large, I'm not knocking Reeves (who do you think I am, Graham Lister? ) - Big Night Out and The Smell of.... were excellent shows, especially the
Masterchef and Slade send-ups in the latter. Oh, and the recurring sketches for improbable products like Walk-Me-Home Cheddar - "How does it work? I dunno....but it does!"

David

fairweatherbiker

No objection to Jezza's jokes, only the fact it was broadcast before 9pm - It was embarrassing with my children watching too- they love the show.

Clarkson must have been aware of the Bland/Wossie incident and had chose not to edit his broadcast - Maybe he wants to be seen as a leading edge comedian - by winding up the likes of Harriet Harmen. He must have known this would stir up a load of complaints - so one can only assume he wants a fight.

lesz42

am waiting untill he makes jokes about cyclists, then the fatwa begins................

DavidBelcher

lesz42 wrote:

am waiting untill he makes jokes about cyclists, then the fatwa begins................

Unlikely, based on two things I've seen in the press in the last 18 months;

(a) Apparently - this was a snippet in Cycling Weekly - his PR people say you're not allowed to talk to him about cycling or cyclists; whether this is down to his intense dislike of us, or that he might say something that would land him in the brown stuff, I don't know.
(b) Some time back, he insinuated in his Sun column that it was OK to use motor vehicles to intimidate vulnerable road users, be it horses and their riders, cyclists or pedestrians. Rumour has it that the Beeb said if there were any more remarks in a similar vein (i.e. suggesting bullying other road users), they'd drop him from Toss Gear.

David