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While it kinda sucks since I enjoy Top Gear, anyone saying that BBC is doing the wrong thing by sacking Clarkson are as stupid as the people who rose up in defense of the dude who made World's Worst Clydesdale.
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Mar 25, 2015 17:55
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Say what you will about Clarkson, he made the trains run on time!
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Mar 25, 2015 17:55
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It's funny to me that the same people that claim to abhor violence are often the same people that fantasise about putting a bullet in the back of the heads of their enemies in the elite classes. And that's why I love to read guardian comments. Gahaha.
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Mar 25, 2015 17:55
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I hope the BBC ensures that the new Top Gear panders to a genderless, classless, raceless audience. Because a society that has no feelings or bias to any or all of those things has never existed and will never exist.
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Mar 25, 2015 17:56
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Mar 25, 2015 17:57
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meatpimp posted:I hope the BBC ensures that the new Top Gear panders to a genderless, classless, raceless audience. What the hell are you talking about? What the hell are you advocating? Nobody is saying its wrong for Clarkson to skirt the edges of good taste or that he should be censored. We are saying he can't verbally berate producers and punch them in the mouth for not being able to get a hot meal at a late hour. You are saying THAT is too much to ask?
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Mar 25, 2015 17:58
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meatpimp posted:I hope the BBC ensures that the new Top Gear panders to a genderless, classless, raceless audience. I deeply apologize that the management of one of the world's largest broadcasters doesn't think hitting a guy in the face is boyhood antics when both people involved are over 30. Life is really hard for you right now, I know.
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Mar 25, 2015 17:58
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CommieGIR posted:What the hell are you talking about? What the hell are you advocating? Nobody is saying its wrong for Clarkson to skirt the edges of good taste or that he should be censored. I'm saying that too much is being made of calling someone out for being a) lazy and b) Irish. The punch is something that should have been paid off with an apology and a big fat check.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:00
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Hahaha. Okay Jeremy clarkson isn't an adult. He still exceeded you in every quantifiable way as an adult irl though. hosed up.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:00
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meatpimp posted:I'm saying that too much is being made of calling someone out for being a) lazy and b) Irish. The punch is something that should have been paid off with an apology and a big fat check. The Irish lazy guy was asking for it after all by virtue of being Irish and lazy.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:02
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meatpimp posted:I'm saying that too much is being made of calling someone out for being a) lazy and b) Irish. The punch is something that should have been paid off with an apology and a big fat check. quote: earlier on 4 March, studio recording of Top Gear had taken place in Surrey and the presenters It took a WITNESS stopping Clarkson from physically attacking his producer, after ranting and raving for nearly 20 minutes at him. Way to lay Clarkson's issues on the victim. Bape Culture posted:Hahaha. Okay Jeremy clarkson isn't an adult. He still exceeded you in every quantifiable way as an adult irl though. hosed up. 
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Mar 25, 2015 18:02
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SquadronROE posted:The Irish lazy guy was asking for it after all by virtue of being Irish and lazy. You forgot Catholic, terrorist, overbreeding and potato eating. But that's okay, some English have been doing this for a lot longer.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:04
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DOOMocrat posted:You forgot Catholic, terrorist, overbreeding and potato eating. But that's okay, some English have been doing this for a lot longer. Yeah I need to brush up on my cultural insults, sorry everyone.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:06
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Bape Culture posted:Hahaha. Okay Jeremy clarkson isn't an adult. He still exceeded you in every quantifiable way as an adult irl though. hosed up. I don't know, it's pretty easy for me to quanitfy how many coworkers I haven't punched when I didn't get drunk in a work setting.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:06
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davebo posted:I don't know, it's pretty easy for me to quanitfy how many coworkers I haven't punched when I didn't get drunk in a work setting. I suppose this is the case for a lot of guardian commenters too. Unemployment does have its benefits.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:08
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I don't know whats more disturbing, the guy who thinks physical violence is the answer to mediating public disagreements or the people who are willing to place their favorite (and my favorite) show above the welfare of its production team.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:08
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Bape Culture posted:I suppose this is the case for a lot of guardian commenters too. Unemployment does have its benefits. You kip, you.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:09
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meatpimp posted:I'm saying that too much is being made of calling someone out for being a) lazy and b) Irish. The punch is something that should have been paid off with an apology and a big fat check. Yeah man, I hear you. gently caress, back in the day a man could beat the gently caress out of his wife for making a lovely dinner, and now he can't even do that anymore! One small hit and the cops show up? loving liberals. Without violence how the gently caress is the wife even gonna learn how to cook properly?
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Mar 25, 2015 18:11
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Ripoff posted:Yeah man, I hear you. gently caress, back in the day a man could beat the gently caress out of his wife for making a lovely dinner, and now he can't even do that anymore! One small hit and the cops show up? loving liberals. Without violence how the gently caress is the wife even gonna learn how to cook properly? Being punched is just a thing that happens from time to time. Jesus, it's like people don't know how to take a little tap every now and then, when they deserve it.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:14
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CommieGIR posted:I don't know whats more disturbing, the guy who thinks physical violence is the answer to mediating public disagreements or the people who are willing to place their favorite (and my favorite) show above the welfare of its production team. It's not like the guy's life was in danger. gently caress. Promote him to another show and move on. Also anyone who thinks SJW is a "Men's Right Activist term!!!" sounds like a huge Gawker fan and thus is subhuman.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:15
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CommieGIR posted:I don't know whats more disturbing, the guy who thinks physical violence is the answer to mediating public disagreements or the people who are willing to place their favorite (and my favorite) show above the welfare of its production team. I suspect a year or so from now that production team is going to be longing for the days when Jeremy Clarkson used to punch them once in a while. I know the internet has made everyone under the age of forty painfully sheltered, but in the real world people do emotional things and punches get thrown and for the most part it gets smoothed over with an apology and a handshake and then life goes on. I'm not saying people shouldn't face consequences for their actions, but Jeremy Clarkson will continue to make absurd amounts of money while Top Gear will in all likelihood flounder and disappear into nothing while all the little guys in the production team you want to protect are conveniently forgotten.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:16
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I think they should get the guys from Regular Car Reviews, I'd love to see what they could do with £1million and an hour of airtime.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:17
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SquadronROE posted:Being punched is just a thing that happens from time to time. Jesus, it's like people don't know how to take a little tap every now and then, when they deserve it. Here's the thing...Hitting your co-worker after screaming at him for an extended period of time over a lack of hot food probably isn't justifiable. Sure if Jeremy and Oisin were yelling at each other and came to blows this probably wouldn't be that big of a thing? Maybe it would. The fact that he kept berating him after he had to be restrained by someone is slightly more telling of how this aftermath had to unfold. The BBC couldn't pay this to go away given the amount of witnesses and the precedent it would set.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:21
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I wish they had released the timeline of events. Did Jeremy, Richard, and James go to a pub for hours or did they finish shooting late, get to the hotel, and discover that there was no food service? Because if it's the latter it's absolutely the producers job to make sure that the talent (and crew!) get fed. Still no excuse for throwing a punch, but the BBC can't rightly say that this happened through no fault of Oisin's.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:21
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Comrade Flynn posted:Also anyone who thinks SJW is a "Men's Right Activist term!!!" sounds like a huge Gawker fan and thus is subhuman. No, its not strictly a MRA thing, but its most certainly not used in an enlightening format, and usually is used by someone that just wants to bitch about people calling them out on social issues. And I hate Gawker. Comrade Flynn posted:It's not like the guy's life was in danger. gently caress. Promote him to another show and move on.  My favorite show Seriously, I know in the US its a-okay to sweep this poo poo under the rug, but it doesn't make it the right thing to do. Symphoric posted:I suspect a year or so from now that production team is going to be longing for the days when Jeremy Clarkson used to punch them once in a while. I know the internet has made everyone under the age of forty painfully sheltered, but in the real world people do emotional things and punches get thrown and for the most part it gets smoothed over with an apology and a handshake and then life goes on. And I'm sure the production team for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit longed for the days they had movies to produce. Shows end, sometimes on their own, sometimes due to outside forces. Media production is generally not a life time gig. Its generally only the actors/hosts that get a lifetime paycheck out of it. Symphoric posted:I'm not saying people shouldn't face consequences for their actions, but Jeremy Clarkson will continue to make absurd amounts of money while Top Gear will in all likelihood flounder and disappear into nothing while all the little guys in the production team you want to protect are conveniently forgotten. Look, I'd actually like to see a new format with the original Top Gear team. Everyone is whining and groaning right now, but I'm actually hoping some good change will come of this. Change sucks, but this might be for the better.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:21
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Great, how will I know if I want an STI or a Golf R now?
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Mar 25, 2015 18:22
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Scottw330 posted:Great, how will I know if I want an STI or a Golf R now? Always a Golf R.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:I think they should get the guys from Regular Car Reviews, I'd love to see what they could do with £1million and an hour of airtime. Ewwww no thanks. Top gear was entertaining dispite being scripted and formulaic. RCR is just a gimmic that gets old after about one minute. Now the roadkill guys on the other hand....
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One, punching people you work with should get you fired. Two, this has got to be a career killer for the guy who got punched. No matter how much noise the BBC makes about preventing retaliation, nobody is going to want to work with the guy who killed Top Gear. (Slightly) more fairly, if you can't defuse self-important prima donnas when they get wound up, what the gently caress are you doing in show business? That's like me pursuing a career that requires looks and personality. Three, I know it's wrong, but we're talking about a potato-shaped old fart with pipe cleaners for arms going all Raging Bull on somebody, the mental image that conjures in my mind is just funny.
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Symphoric posted:Has this been posted yet? Wait, is May the only one of them that doesn't live in a helicopter castle or haunted mansion?
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sean10mm posted:Two, this has got to be a career killer for the guy who got punched. No matter how much noise the BBC makes about preventing retaliation, nobody is going to want to work with the guy who killed Top Gear. (Slightly) more fairly, if you can't defuse self-important prima donnas when they get wound up, what the gently caress are you doing in show business? That's like me pursuing a career that requires looks and personality. I guarentee he will be getting a settlement of some sort from the BBC. However, Jeremy Clarkson wasn't exactly an upstanding citizen prior to this incident, he had been warned multiple times to not cross a line, and that he was getting dangerously close to that line. He then proceeded to bound across it. Prima Donna or not, its not like he did not have forewarning that the BBC was getting tired of his antics.
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Comrade Flynn posted:It's not like the guy's life was in danger. gently caress. Promote him to another show and move on. While we're on the topic claiming anything is Gawker sounds like Gerber baby "OMG MY ETHICS!" pants pissing. Slanderer posted:Wait, is May the only one of them that doesn't live in a helicopter castle or haunted mansion? May knows everyone in Hammersmith!
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DOOMocrat posted:While we're on the topic claiming anything is Gawker sounds like Gerber baby "OMG MY ETHICS!" pants pissing. I do wonder what is with SJWs infatuation with calling people elementary school names. Pissbabies, shitlords, etc.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:31
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CommieGIR posted:
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Comrade Flynn posted:I do wonder what is with SJWs infatuation with calling people elementary school names. Pissbabies, shitlords, etc. They're hypocrites and not very smart op.
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Mar 25, 2015 18:33
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Comrade Flynn posted:
Oh, c'mon now. If only he'd had a concealed carry to defend himself! Bape Culture posted:They're hypocrites and not very smart op. Man, social progress sucks, how do we go back to Jim Crow and Women being told to shutup in public?
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CommieGIR posted:Oh, c'mon now. Yeah, modern SJWs are brave humanitarians fighting for the rights of the dhahahahah just kidding they just want to be "more equal" than the dirty white cis males.  Finally our national nightmare of clapping is being put to an end by these brave freedom fighters.
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Comrade Flynn posted:I do wonder what is with SJWs infatuation with calling people elementary school names. Pissbabies, shitlords, etc. It shouldn't take much wondering.
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