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Ferremit posted:Its a very well known insult against asians in Australia tho, but other than that? And we're so loving closet racist it would have made more people laugh than get insulted anyway- we're the country who just had our Prime Minister tell the indigenous population that living on their land and living their culture was a "Lifestyle choice" afterall. There are many things in the closet in Australia (usually trying to kill you), but racism is not one of them, in a lot of cases it's out and proud.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I have to ask why his comments weren't edited out in the first place. It's not like the show is broadcast live. SOMEBODY at the BBC should have the authority to fix poo poo like this. The 'slope' one? Probably because the BBC is staffed by people who, like nearly all of the UK, have never heard if the word as being used as a slur. The 'eeney meany' one? He had that removed during the edit himself as he was unhappy that the offensive word was audible.
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Bigsteve posted:Clarkson and Wilman have been friends for years. This will just end up being them having a barney that some newbie assistant then reported. Wilman will say nothing happened cause he knows hes on to a good thing and everything will go back to normal. It wasn't Wilson, it was another, more junior producer. And it's not going to be all right. Is it OK in your work place for your boss to have a strop and punch you? Because that's not OK anywhere I've ever worked, and there is absolutely not excuse for a superior to physically attack one of their staff in this day and age.
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drgitlin posted:It wasn't Wilson, it was another, more junior producer. And it's not going to be all right. Is it OK in your work place for your boss to have a strop and punch you? Because that's not OK anywhere I've ever worked, and there is absolutely not excuse for a superior to physically attack one of their staff in this day and age. Life sucks. Get a loving helmet.
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I think the biggest injustice was that some Indian actress sued the BBC over the slope thing. She's not even the right kind of asian, what right does she have to sue?
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Ludicro posted:Whilst I normally hate to stereotype, in my experience these types of people are almost always Londoners with little or no experience outside of London and think that everywhere else is a congested smog filled hell hole that you don't actually need a car to get by in. These are often the same people who parrot about dropping the motorway speed limit to 50mph for safety reasons (despite motorways being the safest roads in the country) and have often never driven on a motorway, or indeed never driven at all. It's worryingly true. The concept of having different cars for different purposes is completely alien. It was seriously suggested to me this weekend that the government should keep increasing fuel duty to get vehicles off the road and instead have an infrastructure of free buses for people to get around on. The fact that near me there are places with perhaps two buses a week seemed not to matter. The bbc spends a ridiculously disproportionate amount on the guardian and it reflects in its productions.
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drgitlin posted:It wasn't Wilson, it was another, more junior producer. And it's not going to be all right. Is it OK in your work place for your boss to have a strop and punch you? Because that's not OK anywhere I've ever worked, and there is absolutely not excuse for a superior to physically attack one of their staff in this day and age. I'd frankly rather have one of my bosses punch me rather than have had them do some of the lovely as gently caress things they've done to me in the past, if it will mean they'll be less lovely in other ways.
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spog posted:Which comments? How about the Mexican thing?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo85xMi8imY That smile before he closes the door made me lose it.
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Ferremit posted:Its a very well known insult against asians in Australia tho, but other than that? And we're so loving closet racist it would have made more people laugh than get insulted anyway- we're the country who just had our Prime Minister tell the indigenous population that living on their land and living their culture was a "Lifestyle choice" afterall. I grew up and live in a very racist part of Brisbane (like bash muslims vandalise mosques cause Isis area) and I'd never heard anyone call anyone a slope until the Clarkson thing.
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HotCanadianChick posted:I'd frankly rather have one of my bosses punch me rather than have had them do some of the lovely as gently caress things they've done to me in the past, if it will mean they'll be less lovely in other ways. I see. Is there a line? Like, if you're late for work two days running a punch in the face is OK, but if it's more serious then maybe they cut off a finger? How about burning? Or just things that don't leave a mark? Is it only straight-up physical violence, or can the odd rape or two be used to discipline staff? 
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Alertrelic posted:and then there was that time he said striking workers should be shot in front of their families That one was pretty obviously Clarkson taking the piss and saying the kind of controversial poo poo he loves.
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Mar 12, 2015 00:23
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Zeether posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo85xMi8imY I don't get it, what part of that is 'strong language'?
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Stutes posted:I don't get it, what part of that is 'strong language'?
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Colonel K posted:It's worryingly true. The concept of having different cars for different purposes is completely alien. It was seriously suggested to me this weekend that the government should keep increasing fuel duty to get vehicles off the road and instead have an infrastructure of free buses for people to get around on. Indeed, and what is even more mind boggling is the amount of people crying out that Top Gear should be an educational and informative show about cars normal every day people drive. Have these people not heard of the Internet? Do they not realise that no one is going to wait for a car to appear on a motoring show for them to find stuff out about it when there is a wealth of information at their finger tips and can be accessed nearly instantaneously? Some of the comments make me laugh/shake my head. quote:The next issues with cars, separate from their endless desire for fossil fuels, are their endless desire for space and their tendency to want to kill pedestrians. It's no use us moving over to electric cars if we ignore the essential point that car usage - whatever the mechanism for creating locomotion - needs to decrease. Electric cars are not the answer to the basic problem: there are too many cars, and they push out other users of public space. quote:Who the hell wants to carry on watching that group of idiots? Only other idiots. quote:How about no more Top Gear, lets promote a world without cars, or the selfishness of cars, one where public transport worked and cyclists weren't maligned by motorists or Jeremy "insert expletive" Clarkson. quote:It's so freaking disturbing how popular Top Gear is! But suppose boys playing with theirs and each others dicks while the rest of us look on is kind of fun. Given that cars kill probably close to as many people annually as guns - perhaps the US should compete with a program all of it's own - "Men Stroking Their Weapons", "Cocked and Loaded" etc - Imagine the viewing numbers! Of course Brits would scoff "Those stupid fuckin' Americans". But really - deep down - what's the difference? Just toys for boys. quote:You sound very afraid of people who want to simply stop the vehicle being an expression of weaponry and Someone did link this though from a few years back which if it wasn't for the fact its a real advocacy group I'd assume was a parody. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4444763.stm quote:Eco pressure group Transport 2000, which wants to scrap the BBC's high octane Top Gear, thinks so. But what would it be like? 
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Is there some sort of slur we can use to mercilessly insult this sort of hand-wringing "eco-conscious" piece of garbage, which is neither sexist nor homophobic? We need to make one, because this group is the one deserving of a slur. I just don't get how you can not like cars, or Top Gear. Even when I was living in a city with good transit, and I didn't own a car, and I didn't really want to own a car, I still liked cars and liked Top Gear. PT6A fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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Jeremy Clarkson is a bad person who has supported things which have demonstrably made the world a worse place to live in.
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PT6A posted:Is there some sort of slur we can use to mercilessly insult this sort of hand-wringing "eco-conscious" piece of garbage, which is neither sexist nor homophobic? "Guardian readers" generally works though.
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Mar 12, 2015 00:51
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cloudchamber posted:Jeremy Clarkson is a bad person who has supported things which have demonstrably made the world a worse place to live in. Maybe for you
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Mar 12, 2015 00:51
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The moronic opinions of hand-wringing pansies... there's coming from inside the thread!
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Mar 12, 2015 00:53
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Zeether posted:Replace Clarkson with
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So weird. A robust public transportation system owns. Hell I rely on the Chicago one daily. It's incredible. There's room for that and owning cars for the fun of driving.
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Data Graham posted:Maybe for you Not just for me but for the millions of citizens in the Middle East who are suffering as a consequence of the wars he supported.
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holocaust bloopers posted:So weird. A robust public transportation system owns. Hell I rely on the Chicago one daily. It's incredible. There's room for that and owning cars for the fun of driving. I know! I hate having to use my car for things -- I love using a really functional transit system that's kept clean and safe. That doesn't mean I don't love my car, or cars in general. In fact, I think not having to use my car on a regular basis makes it that much easier to love my car.
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cloudchamber posted:Not just for me but for the millions of citizens in the Middle East who are suffering as a consequence of the wars he supported. Yep, totally Jezza's fault, given he has any control over what the military does at all...  Do squirrels live in your head, or what? Do you simply need something to feel upset about?
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PT6A posted:Yep, totally Jezza's fault, given he has any control over what the military does at all... He has columns in newspapers with readers which number in the millions and have a genuine impact on public opinion, but chose instead to help increase support for the illegal invasion of a foreign country.
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Mar 12, 2015 01:00
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Whoa when did the Top Gear thread become D&D?!
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Preoptopus posted:Whoa when did the Top Gear thread become D&D?! Wherever people turn a blind eye to racist imperial arrogance you will find D&D.
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cloudchamber posted:He has columns in newspapers with readers which number in the millions and have a genuine impact on public opinion, but chose instead to help increase support for the illegal invasion of a foreign country. It is to laugh. I wish Clarkson actually were a racist and an imperialist, just to piss you off more.
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cloudchamber posted:He has columns in newspapers with readers which number in the millions and have a genuine impact on public opinion, but chose instead to help increase support for the illegal invasion of a foreign country. Source your quotes.
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Sentinel Red posted:Source your quotes. cloudchamber posted:Wherever people turn a blind eye to racist imperial arrogance you will find D&D.
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PT6A posted:It is to laugh. I wish Clarkson actually were a racist and an imperialist, just to piss you off more. He is. I read The Times which publishes his writings. Not one word will you find in his columns on any foreign civilian killed by shock and awe or drone strikes, but when the medical services mishandles the treatment of just a single soldier he will dedicate an entire column to it.
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cloudchamber posted:Not just for me but for the millions of citizens in the Middle East who are suffering as a consequence of the wars he supported. LF got deleted for a reason, go away. Chris Knight posted:Replace Clarkson with Sabine Schmidt, problem solved. I'd watch a Top Gear that consisted of Sabine Schmidt, Chris Harris, and James May. I think that'd be a very good motoring show.
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HotCanadianChick posted:I'd watch a Top Gear that consisted of Sabine Schmidt, Chris Harris, and James May. I think that'd be a very good motoring show.
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cloudchamber posted:Wherever people turn a blind eye to racist imperial arrogance you will find D&D. There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college.
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Can we shitcan this thread now? It's decended into D&D stupidity.
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Data Graham posted:There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college.
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What the gently caress happened to this thread?
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T1g4h posted:What the gently caress happened to this thread? Social justice. Content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb3kJYI5U9I bloops fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Mar 12, 2015 |
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I seem to recall that when the reviewed the Escalade in season 4, they openly said its a car for black rappers. They basically said, its a terrible car, but we totally get why black people like it. Where was all the outrage?!
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