MakemineVanilla Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks . If, as is being reported, this clown has punched a producer (or attempted to), then his 'bosses' have every right to sack the ****. I hope they do. It's a sackable offence. Two irrefutable facts, if ever I saw them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbojangles Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 300,000 morons have signed a petition to get him reinstated. I love Top Gear and don't want this show to end however signing a petition while not knowing all/any of the facts is incredibly stupid. How can you ask for him to be reinstated when you do not know what he has done? The latest rumour is that he punched the guy over a lack of catering. Again I say rumour as neither Clarkson or the BBC have actually come out and said what has happened. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 11, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11, 2015 300,000 morons have signed a petition to get him reinstated. I love Top Gear and don't want this show to end however signing a petition while not knowing all/any of the facts is incredibly stupid. How can you ask for him to be reinstated when you do not know what he has done? I was just thinking that exact same thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Jeremy Clarkson Admits Entire Career Was ‘Social Experiment’ “I don’t even like cars,” said the Top Gear presenter, who has admitted his entire career was just one long social experiment to see just how popular a bigot could be. “All my ‘comments’ about race, bumming, suicide and the Welsh language were just part of a very long social experiment to highlight issues with racism and society’s ignorance of the LGBT community, mental illness and diversity in the UK,” said Clarkson, who claims to have got the idea after seeing a woman get wolf-whistled by a white van driver in 1988. “That shocking incident just highlighted the kind of gross misogyny and disrespect women face on a daily basis,” said the broadcaster. “I knew then I had to do something to highlight these issues – by conducting a social experiment utilising numerous TV appearances and newspaper columns to parade this ‘Clarkson’ character in front of the public to see how they would react.” “It may have taken over 26 years to carry out, but I think we can see from the public’s response exactly who the real monster here is.” http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/09/25/jeremy-clarkson-admits-entire-career-was-social-experiment/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks . If, as is being reported, this clown has punched a producer (or attempted to), then his 'bosses' have every right to sack the ****. I hope they do. It's a sackable offence. Two irrefutable facts, if ever I saw them. Not necessarily. If he was defending himself he'd be able to argue it was reasonable behaviour. Also, if the person he was punching was a socialist then that would also make it an acceptable action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) God bless the public. Won't sign petitions that could change lives, improve things or save us money but will sign in the hundreds of thousands to keep this buffoons job?! Edited March 11, 2015 by Ingram85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 It is interesting that Lefties seem to hate him - clearly he must be doing something right May's interview with the press suggests something did happen and it was over food .. but that's about as far as he would comment I guess it will all come out shortly , the BBC have probably been looking for an excuse and no it would seem they have it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 There are images being shared on FB and alike from the 'reinstate Clarkson' page with captions like "Human Rights for Jeremy Clarkson" and "Say no to Political Correctness and reinstate Jermey Clarkson"... I can't work out if they're taking the pi$$ or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted March 11, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11, 2015 Maybe Clarkson always had plans of ensuring that when the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks finally hunted him down ... Ah, the poor old English millionaire chappy from Repton School, harried by bloodless limpwristed smartypants. The outrage! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Good bless the public. Won't sign petitions that could change lives, improve things or save us money but will sign in the hundreds of thousands to keep this buffoons job?! I've said something similair before in other threads , and totally agree with you ... anyone that jumps on a bandwagon should automatically be ignored ( and if they also have a hipster beard then shot ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Maybe Clarkson always had plans of ensuring that when the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks finally hunted him down ... Ah, the poor old English millionaire chappy from Repton School, harried by bloodless limpwristed smartypants. The outrage! easy mistake to make but he wasn't some kid born into money ..his parents were a teacher and a salesman .. who found a way to get their child through private school as many middle class people do (myself included) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Maybe Clarkson always had plans of ensuring that when the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks finally hunted him down ... Ah, the poor old English millionaire chappy from Repton School, harried by bloodless limpwristed smartypants. The outrage! easy mistake to make but he wasn't some kid born into money ..his parents were a teacher and a salesman .. who found a way to get their child through private school as many middle class people do (myself included) What difference does that make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Maybe Clarkson always had plans of ensuring that when the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks finally hunted him down ... Ah, the poor old English millionaire chappy from Repton School, harried by bloodless limpwristed smartypants. The outrage! easy mistake to make but he wasn't some kid born into money ..his parents were a teacher and a salesman .. who found a way to get their child through private school as many middle class people do (myself included) What difference does that make? None, from what I can see. STN mentioned that Clarko was an 'English millionaire'. Which he is. He never said he had been born into it. Slightly strange tangent for Mr Loc to take ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted March 11, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted March 11, 2015 Maybe Clarkson always had plans of ensuring that when the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks finally hunted him down ... Ah, the poor old English millionaire chappy from Repton School, harried by bloodless limpwristed smartypants. The outrage! easy mistake to make but he wasn't some kid born into money ..his parents were a teacher and a salesman .. who found a way to get their child through private school as many middle class people do (myself included) Yes, I read Wikipedia too. My dad was a machinist -- and I can still be, as you can see, an inexcusably pompous arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) Maybe Clarkson always had plans of ensuring that when the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks finally hunted him down ... Ah, the poor old English millionaire chappy from Repton School, harried by bloodless limpwristed smartypants. The outrage! easy mistake to make but he wasn't some kid born into money ..his parents were a teacher and a salesman .. who found a way to get their child through private school as many middle class people do (myself included) What difference does that make? None, from what I can see. STN mentioned that Clarko was an 'English millionaire'. Which he is. He never said he had been born into it. Slightly strange tangent for Mr Loc to take ... unless you get many English millionnaire working class children from Doncaster his schooling becomes relevent in the context of the sentence , else why mention it and all it implies in the rest of the sentence of course this is where the OP comes back and says he meant no such thing and I have to post a D'oh gif Edited March 11, 2015 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Maybe Clarkson always had plans of ensuring that when the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks finally hunted him down ... Ah, the poor old English millionaire chappy from Repton School, harried by bloodless limpwristed smartypants. The outrage! easy mistake to make but he wasn't some kid born into money ..his parents were a teacher and a salesman .. who found a way to get their child through private school as many middle class people do (myself included) Yes, I read Wikipedia too. My dad was a machinist -- and I can still be, as you can see, an inexcusably pompous arse. meh , there are other sources than wiki you know I've not yet witnessed the second part of your statement but I'll take your word for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Tony's right, the explicit inference is that he's "from Repton" and therefore cut from the same cloth as the Bullingdon lot, instead of being from a home that just tried hard to make a better life for themselves. A friend of mine is good friends with him and his (ex?) wife as she is from the IOM and they owned the lighthouse down by the airport. Apparently a lot of what he says is a bit of an act, albeit based on what he does think to a certain extent. He plays up to the caricature of himself, simply because it makes him so much money. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 He's a bit old now, the spotlight has been fading recently, the show is a shadow of what is used to be, this is him going out of showbiz with a bit of a bang. His time has passed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Maybe Clarkson always had plans of ensuring that when the BBC's politically correct apparatchiks finally hunted him down ... Ah, the poor old English millionaire chappy from Repton School, harried by bloodless limpwristed smartypants. The outrage! easy mistake to make but he wasn't some kid born into money ..his parents were a teacher and a salesman .. who found a way to get their child through private school as many middle class people do (myself included) Yes, I read Wikipedia too. My dad was a machinist -- and I can still be, as you can see, an inexcusably pompous arse. It's more to do with the class system in England. I think the implication is that Clarkson is an upper class twit born with a silver spoon in his mouth because he attended a good school. It's not true, he got where he is today through a combination of good luck and hard work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaglint Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Just said something very similar to a colleague Risso. He is a classic case of someone who has created a caricature and then come to believe it, blurred lines and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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