Clarkson - just funny

giant_man
giant_man Posts: 6,878
edited May 2014 in The cake stop
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27266102

This just makes me laugh, the very fact that he has aired his warning like this. The BBC are not stupid (or are they?), they know a good thing when they make a successful programme with him in it, but even so, I can't see him being sacked for saying outrageous racist remarks. Ho hum ....

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  • crannman
    crannman Posts: 99
    its ok to say paddy'jock'taff (im irish by the way and dont take offence ) but dont dare say ..........
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    crannman wrote:
    its ok to say paddy'jock'taff (im irish by the way and dont take offence ) but dont dare say ..........

    ............. SLOPE.
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,322
    Mr Goo wrote:
    crannman wrote:
    its ok to say paddy'jock'taff (im irish by the way and dont take offence ) but dont dare say ..........

    ............. SLOPE.
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  • VTech
    VTech Posts: 4,736
    I was with a guy this week from Vietnam who are the people often called "sloped" by Americans as a derogatory term but he had never heard of it.
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  • mudsucker
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    The BBC will never get rid of Clarkson. He owns the right to Top Gear so they would also lose the show too. No reason why he couldn't say:

    Clarkson: Hello ITV1, would you like me to make Top Gear for you instead?
    ITV1:Yes of course Mr Clarkson, that would be great!. What bunch of Muppets the BBC are.
    ITV1 then proceed to laugh all the way to the bank :-)
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,334
    VTech wrote:
    I was with a guy this week from Vietnam who are the people often called "sloped" by Americans as a derogatory term but he had never heard of it.

    it was 'slopes' rather than 'sloped', after april '75 there'd have been few if any people left to say it, so aside from books and films it's unlikely anyone in vietnam would ever hear the term

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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    sungod wrote:
    spooky knows

    'Dispatches' ?
  • debeli
    debeli Posts: 583
    I live in that awkward moral twilight of disapproving of the man and finding him amusing. He is like the socially awkward regular at a pub who says what many are thinking but few dare to say.

    His manner is full-on Farage-ist UKIP little-Englander: Calling his 'chums' by their surnames or silly nicknames (300% minor public school), aping his own dislike of golf and football (as above), avoiding sharing the screen with women unless somehow either fawning in a slightly creepy way or using them as a decorative backdrop (as above). He gets a short chap on the show and tirelessly mocks him for his height, suggesting as some tall people do that he somehow didn't try hard enough to grow. He manages to combine fawning, bullying, bloke-ishness and boorishness in one single, excellent pastiche of the England that we pretend no longer exists.

    The apology "I really did try jolly hard not to say the word" was pure bilge, but we all bought it just as the US electorate chose to buy Clinton's "didn't inhale" line. I have rarely heard such tongue-in-cheek nonsense masqueradibng so enthusiastically as sincerity. People who try hard not to say a word tend not to say it.

    Clarkson is in many ways still making his (male) chums at boarding school giggle in chemistry lessons, but is now doing so in the body of a middle-aged multi-millionaire. He will continue to get away with it and will continue to make me laugh as much as he makes me cross.

    I do not know him and am as happy about that as he doubtless would be if he cared. That is a tidy state of affairs.
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Debeli wrote:
    The apology "I really did try jolly hard not to say the word" was pure bilge, but we all bought it just as the US electorate chose to buy Clinton's "didn't inhale" line. I have rarely heard such tongue-in-cheek nonsense masqueradibng so enthusiastically as sincerity. People who try hard not to say a word tend not to say it.
    I was almost with you till you said that. Think about it - in his tv persona he's bumbling along trying to decide how best to decide which car to buy, uses the rhyme and stumbles into That Word, and tries to bury it in the same way that he does on the show when faced with a question from his two stooges that he'd rather not answer. He tried it twice, decided it wasn't working so used teacher instead and went with that. Trying not to say a word enough to give a hint at what he was was trying to avoid whilst not saying it, not that easy but he gave it a go and may well have succeeded. Acc to the self-appointed Audi Experts that The Mirror roped in to do him over it was "75% likely" that he did use the word, so hardly shouting it from the rooftops.
  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,103
    No I don't buy it. He doesn't just make this stuff up on the hoof.

    If he wanted to avoid saying the word he would have just not said it. He did say it, it sounded like it and it was in the context of a rhyme we all know contains the word so that is the only sensible conclusion. He hasn't apologised he's issued a denial and he's sorry if any of us thought he said something offensive, if Top Gear wasn't popular he'd have been out on his arrrse.
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  • markhewitt1978
    markhewitt1978 Posts: 7,614
    A load of fuss about nothing. Who did this actually hurt? Nobody? Who did it offend? Nobody because it wasn't even broadcast!

    It does seem there is an all out war against Clarkson at the moment. Personally I wish that they would announce a final series of Top Gear so they can all be as offensive as they like and end on a high rather than being hounded out.
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Still missing the point DeVlaeminck. Let's start with the accepted idea that Clarkson on TG isn't an exact clone of Jeremy Clarkson the bloke. TG JC is a caricature and a character. In this instance we're dealing TG JC.

    It was clearly a set up, that he would announce that the two cars are the same and as good a way as any is to use an old rhyme to decide which to buy. That in itself is a joke - who buys a car based on the random outcome of a rhyme? So we have comedy JC embarking on the rhyme, realising that this isn't going to go well so tries to avoid saying it, in the comedy persona of TG JC. The real-world way to deal with it would be to not start in the first place, or stop before getting there. But in comedy JC world he blunders into it and tries to avoid saying it. After two takes when it became clear the joke didn't actually work (on so many levels) they all gave up and did it using a different word, which is how most people who've heard the rhyme in the modern world know it anyway with variations on teacher, piglet, tiger etc. When he listened to the playback he realised that he hadn't been able to not say the word with enough difference and made it clear it wasn't for broadcast.

    Two years on - and coincidentally just as Mrs JC is busy divorcing him and trying to get hold of a decent proportion of his wealth AND is away on a beach celebrating the end of the marriage, this pops up.
  • littledove44
    littledove44 Posts: 871
    A load of fuss about nothing. Who did this actually hurt? Nobody? Who did it offend? Nobody because it wasn't even broadcast!.

    Sense at last.

    Really, there are far more important things going on to worry about than an out take. What moron decided to dig it up anyway?

    Have the BBc now renamed the dog in The Dambusters as well?
  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    mudsucker wrote:
    The BBC will never get rid of Clarkson. He owns the right to Top Gear so they would also lose the show too. No reason why he couldn't say:

    Clarkson: Hello ITV1, would you like me to make Top Gear for you instead?
    ITV1:Yes of course Mr Clarkson, that would be great!. What bunch of Muppets the BBC are.
    ITV1 then proceed to laugh all the way to the bank :-)
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  • bondurant
    bondurant Posts: 858
    sungod wrote:
    spooky knows

    'Dispatches' ?

    Quality. Must read that again. Try 'Chickenhawk' by Robert Mason too, it's brilliant.
  • bondurant
    bondurant Posts: 858
    And indeed The Ravens', by Christopher Robbins.

    Sorry, other people. Somewhat off topic.
  • Bondurant wrote:
    And indeed The Ravens', by Christopher Robbins.

    Sorry, other people. Somewhat off topic.

    It was more interesting :wink:
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  • sarm34
    sarm34 Posts: 182
    Clarkson for PM ..... and I mean that :D
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,322
    Have the BBc now renamed the dog in The Dambusters as well?

    Imagine the outcry when the BBC shows a re-run of 'Blazing Saddles'....
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