Now Clarksons in Trouble

[Drew Carey]

Pmsl

So over 7 million watched the Top Gear which you have to think is quite a high number.......under 200 complained. What is wrong with this country?

These people must be part of the Mary White House group, idiots like this complain for the sake of it, just becasue they can. If they ever get their way could imagine what bland Tv, radio ect we would have?

Maybe we would should ban idiots like this from complaning. Yuor never going to please everyone but we can't keep going with the minority. I would have though if it was that offence then more people watching would have cimplained.

Give it a few days for this be turned itnot the worse thing everything said again I'm sure we will have a line of idiots coming out of the wood work to express their outrage.

[the_lone_wolf]

I suppose it depends on how the term was inferred? If "prostitute murders" implied that the truckers murdered prostitutes then the truckers could be upset about their cover being blown or perhaps they now prefer to be refered to as road haulage technicians or perhaps they are looking for some. Sort of acknowledgement for performing a public service?

If however "prostitute murderers" was taken to mean they were prostitutes who murdered then you could understand the truckers being upset at been called prostitutes, you could also understand the "prostitute union" being upset at their members being called truckers or not reciving any dies from their trucker members.

Oops the BBC will probably want my resignation now.












Sorry

I've just seen this comment on the Sky news website:

This comment beggars belief. I understand that this was a prerecorded film, so someone has given it the green light to be broadcast. My 7 year old son sometimes watches this show. Absolute filth from a very sick mind. Please sack him.

Doesn't this moron know that Top Gear is a BBC programme? Asking Sky to sack him is a bit pointless.

Apparently there were 188 complaints out of 7 million viewers. That means that only 0.0027% of viewers complained, or 1 in every 24300 (if my calculation is correct).

[dyzio]

I've heard that today on GMTV, couldn't believe it myself. Good point Wyrdness
I've read the previous thread on the new episode, watched it myself, couldn't stop laughing.
No complaints from me or the .org whatsoever, but as JC says - bikers aren't normal people

Originally Posted by wyrdness

I've just seen this comment on the Sky news website:

This comment beggars belief. I understand that this was a prerecorded film, so someone has given it the green light to be broadcast. My 7 year old son sometimes watches this show. Absolute filth from a very sick mind. Please sack him.

Doesn't this moron know that Top Gear is a BBC programme? Asking Sky to sack him is a bit pointless.

Apparently there were 188 complaints out of 7 million viewers. That means that only 0.0027% of viewers complained, or 1 in every 24300 (if my calculation is correct).

Also, it was aired at 9pm... After the watershed... When 7 year olds should, IMO, be in bed any way (or not watching telly!) - especially when it was the last day of the school holidays!


And for the record - my wife and I were both peeing ourselves laughing but I did think "blimey - did he say that!!??" then he said it again (and adain!). Quality!
Excellent entertainment and now one of the few things that I really enjoy watching, that is acceptable to (and watched with!) the wife!

[Jayneflakes]

But Clarkson is a right wing reactionary, his appeal is that he is mildly offensive. Personally I can't stand the man, but my twelve year old step son loves Top Gear and watches the loops on Dave. It does worry me that Clarkson is taken seriously though... You would have thought that even the humourless fools who were offended would realise that he is deliberately trying to provoke them...

Mind you, was Peter Sutcliff a Truck driver and I am fairly cirtain he did "off" a couple of hookers... maybe there is something in it after all?

As a side issue, do people complain about programs like CSI? They always have stories about hookers being murdered, surely that is prejudicial too?

Have people really nothing better to do than sit and watch a programme they obviously going to pick holes in and then complain about? if you dont like it why watch it? these "holier than thou" beings that complain about jack sh1tte clearly have done no wrong in their lives and can honestly say they live their lives above reproach? i dont agree with the brand/ross thing either but for farrrrk sakes find something better to complain about.... erm the lack of policing on our roads... the deaths caused by drunken idiots... uninsured drivers blah blah blah... maybe i missing the point here but lifes too short to worry bout who said what when and how inappropriate it was for tv (i assume these people dont have a pc in their homes for their "angelic children who where offended by comments/actions in jest" to peruse the "delights" of the internet?

"This comment beggars belief. I understand that this was a prerecorded film, so someone has given it the green light to be broadcast. My 7 year old son sometimes watches this show. Absolute filth from a very sick mind" is Top Gear really aimed at the 7yr old market??? maybe this parent should be sacked as a parent for thinking it is... spongebob square pants comes to mind...

Originally Posted by Mr Speirs

he refered to Truckers as Prostitute Murderers.
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if they stopped doing it, then maybe Clarkson would stop making fun if them...