Clarkson has been sacked
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my children would not behave the way he did
simple political correctness gone mad
oooh little Jeremy didn't mean to shout and hit anyone, he's a good boy really, please can he come and play, he really really won't do it again - pwomise
no fVck off - let him take his ball home
no wonder kids today are out of control - if the antics of a "Jeremy" are tolerated and excused
simple political correctness gone mad
oooh little Jeremy didn't mean to shout and hit anyone, he's a good boy really, please can he come and play, he really really won't do it again - pwomise
no fVck off - let him take his ball home
no wonder kids today are out of control - if the antics of a "Jeremy" are tolerated and excused
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What is it with Clarkson and nursery rhymes anyway?
Not content with getting a bollocking for the eeny meany miny mo, n-word incident, he goes and takes This Old Man far too literally when he gets to the 'nick nack paddy whack' part!
Not content with getting a bollocking for the eeny meany miny mo, n-word incident, he goes and takes This Old Man far too literally when he gets to the 'nick nack paddy whack' part!
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And of course now the Internet has started going after the bloke Clarkson hit. What sort of warped social values deems it acceptable to assault a work colleague just because they're a TV presenter...
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Top Gear as we know is finished! I know Clarkson wasn't everyone's cup of tea but Top Gear was the one showed that I looked forward to. The telly these days is repeat after repeat. I for one will miss it.
Yep! Completely!
As I said to someone the other day the social engineering carried out on the population over the last 30 years has resulted in a population, on the whole, more interested in who 'killed' Lucy Beale on Eastenders or Kim Kardashian's breast size than the state of the economy or the deplorable rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
As I said to someone the other day the social engineering carried out on the population over the last 30 years has resulted in a population, on the whole, more interested in who 'killed' Lucy Beale on Eastenders or Kim Kardashian's breast size than the state of the economy or the deplorable rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Those of the terminally stupid Facebook generation!
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Yep! Completely!
As I said to someone the other day the social engineering carried out on the population over the last 30 years has resulted in a population, on the whole, more interested in who 'killed' Lucy Beale on Eastenders or Kim Kardashian's breast size than the state of the economy or the deplorable rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
As I said to someone the other day the social engineering carried out on the population over the last 30 years has resulted in a population, on the whole, more interested in who 'killed' Lucy Beale on Eastenders or Kim Kardashian's breast size than the state of the economy or the deplorable rise of ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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It's offical, he's gone http://news.sky.com/story/1452410/je...-bbcs-top-gear
"I cannot condone what has happened on this occasion. A member of staff - who is a completely innocent party - took himself to Accident and Emergency after a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature."
I don't feel sorry for him, that is beyond doing something silly, especially over food!
"I cannot condone what has happened on this occasion. A member of staff - who is a completely innocent party - took himself to Accident and Emergency after a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature."
I don't feel sorry for him, that is beyond doing something silly, especially over food!
Obviously you guys haven't worked in the places I have worked: Full on fist fights have happened. We get over it, we carry on.
And indeed on a couple of occasions it was during a hard day when lunch was skipped. Skipping lunch does bad things; even I've been on both the receiving and dishing-out end. And almost always its usually the silly stuff that causes the worst of altercations too.
Indeed I've learnt that skipping on breaks ruins the day and general workplace moral, even now being asked to cut short a break because a customer wants something done there and then will get my back up...f**k-em they come during lunch time during THEIR lunch break and expect ME not to have lunch?...I hope you can see how that can cause issues if it were not addressed correctly.
I've got into one right old barmy over getting blocked in on the car park (it was deliberate...IMO), another was down to the way I shut the office door (the door is f**ked so it never shuts properly), and another over the way I looked at the gaffer when he said something utterly idiotic...yeah I got into a fight for a real-life implied facepalm. All stupid reason to get into a fight..be it intensely verbal or physical.
My problem is I don't back down, I rarely do once I'm fired up. And there are guys I've work with/for in past and present have been the same. So in a situation when the other person doesn't back down everything just escalates and escalates. It just takes something silly to light the fire and all hell can brake loose.
I admit I've done it, I'm not proud. But if I don't stand my ground when the situation becomes unreasonable, then it just gets worse and worse until something snaps. I can understand that going for most of the day without food only to be told at the end there's just some cold nibbles would have me seething to say the least...it actually happened once during a stag weekend...luckily I found a maccy-D's that was still open, crisis/armageddon averted.
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Anyhoo...nothing to watch on Sunday now.
Seriously considering giving up the TV license now. There's nothing I want to watch on live TV anymore.
Seriously considering giving up the TV license now. There's nothing I want to watch on live TV anymore.
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The BBC are quite happy to carry on feeding us violence in story lines including faces getting smacked on "Eastenders" etc on a weekly basis with no come back, so why are they in such a tizz about this?
What gets me is that they are using considerable sums of our money to make a point with.
If it's a Police matter, it should have just been left to them. It's ironic the Beeb going for a "Kangaroo Court" considering they ignored the rumours about Rolf Harris.
What gets me is that they are using considerable sums of our money to make a point with.
If it's a Police matter, it should have just been left to them. It's ironic the Beeb going for a "Kangaroo Court" considering they ignored the rumours about Rolf Harris.
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Obviously you guys haven't worked in the places I have worked: Full on fist fights have happened. We get over it, we carry on.
And indeed on a couple of occasions it was during a hard day when lunch was skipped. Skipping lunch does bad things; even I've been on both the receiving and dishing-out end. And almost always its usually the silly stuff that causes the worst of altercations too.
Indeed I've learnt that skipping on breaks ruins the day and general workplace moral, even now being asked to cut short a break because a customer wants something done there and then will get my back up...f**k-em they come during lunch time during THEIR lunch break and expect ME not to have lunch?...I hope you can see how that can cause issues if it were not addressed correctly.
I've got into one right old barmy over getting blocked in on the car park (it was deliberate...IMO), another was down to the way I shut the office door (the door is f**ked so it never shuts properly), and another over the way I looked at the gaffer when he said something utterly idiotic...yeah I got into a fight for a real-life implied facepalm. All stupid reason to get into a fight..be it intensely verbal or physical.
My problem is I don't back down, I rarely do once I'm fired up. And there are guys I've work with/for in past and present have been the same. So in a situation when the other person doesn't back down everything just escalates and escalates. It just takes something silly to light the fire and all hell can brake loose.
I admit I've done it, I'm not proud. But if I don't stand my ground when the situation becomes unreasonable, then it just gets worse and worse until something snaps. I can understand that going for most of the day without food only to be told at the end there's just some cold nibbles would have me seething to say the least...it actually happened once during a stag weekend...luckily I found a maccy-D's that was still open, crisis/armageddon averted.
And indeed on a couple of occasions it was during a hard day when lunch was skipped. Skipping lunch does bad things; even I've been on both the receiving and dishing-out end. And almost always its usually the silly stuff that causes the worst of altercations too.
Indeed I've learnt that skipping on breaks ruins the day and general workplace moral, even now being asked to cut short a break because a customer wants something done there and then will get my back up...f**k-em they come during lunch time during THEIR lunch break and expect ME not to have lunch?...I hope you can see how that can cause issues if it were not addressed correctly.
I've got into one right old barmy over getting blocked in on the car park (it was deliberate...IMO), another was down to the way I shut the office door (the door is f**ked so it never shuts properly), and another over the way I looked at the gaffer when he said something utterly idiotic...yeah I got into a fight for a real-life implied facepalm. All stupid reason to get into a fight..be it intensely verbal or physical.
My problem is I don't back down, I rarely do once I'm fired up. And there are guys I've work with/for in past and present have been the same. So in a situation when the other person doesn't back down everything just escalates and escalates. It just takes something silly to light the fire and all hell can brake loose.
I admit I've done it, I'm not proud. But if I don't stand my ground when the situation becomes unreasonable, then it just gets worse and worse until something snaps. I can understand that going for most of the day without food only to be told at the end there's just some cold nibbles would have me seething to say the least...it actually happened once during a stag weekend...luckily I found a maccy-D's that was still open, crisis/armageddon averted.
I think it can carry on without any of them, the question is who would they get who would gel together as well and keep it as entertaining?
The notion that Top Gear is undoable without them is, IMO, ridiculous, but I do think it will be very difficult for the Beeb to get right.
And if not, just watch them all on Dave, the UK does love a good repeat!
The notion that Top Gear is undoable without them is, IMO, ridiculous, but I do think it will be very difficult for the Beeb to get right.
And if not, just watch them all on Dave, the UK does love a good repeat!
TG in its current format was conceived by Clarkson and Wilman. Other countries have tried to copy the format, without anywhere as near the success of 'our' version. Clarkson kind of is Top Gear.
And the beeb has charged the head of bbc2 to reinvent it for 2016. She is a woman, and probably not a petrol head. Probably end up as loose women does top gear.
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You are joking right?
TG in its current format was conceived by Clarkson and Wilman. Other countries have tried to copy the format, without anywhere as near the success of 'our' version. Clarkson kind of is Top Gear.
And the beeb has charged the head of bbc2 to reinvent it for 2016. She is a woman, and probably not a petrol head. Probably end up as loose women does top gear.
TG in its current format was conceived by Clarkson and Wilman. Other countries have tried to copy the format, without anywhere as near the success of 'our' version. Clarkson kind of is Top Gear.
And the beeb has charged the head of bbc2 to reinvent it for 2016. She is a woman, and probably not a petrol head. Probably end up as loose women does top gear.
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I love Top Gear and Jezza, but he had to go: it's gross misconduct by any measure and Lord Hall's comments were bang on the money and very gracious under the circumstances (although most likely motivated by PR)
As for the campaign to have him re-instated, it was a misguided attempt to disguise a legitimate sanction for assault whilst representing the workplace as some kind of repression of free speech or a victory for the loony left.
The likelihood is that he did what all of us have done at some point in our lives: had too much to drink and behaved very poorly. If you get pissed and make a dick of yourself at a bad time, there will be consequences that you will have to face - end of! It will be interesting to see if he does the adult thing now and apologizes to the people he has let down i.e. his fans!
Ultimately, it will not mean the end of his career. All three of the TG presenter's contracts are up for renewal. No way will James May and Richard Hammond continue without him unless they have a monumental lapse of judgement. They'll just all move to another channel and we'll have Top Gear by a different name. Odds on it will have a cheeky name too like 6th gear 
I'll be quite happy to watch it too. Jezza was out of order here, but it doesn't negate the 25 years of entertainment he's given us and the fact that TG was far from dead.
As for the campaign to have him re-instated, it was a misguided attempt to disguise a legitimate sanction for assault whilst representing the workplace as some kind of repression of free speech or a victory for the loony left.
The likelihood is that he did what all of us have done at some point in our lives: had too much to drink and behaved very poorly. If you get pissed and make a dick of yourself at a bad time, there will be consequences that you will have to face - end of! It will be interesting to see if he does the adult thing now and apologizes to the people he has let down i.e. his fans!
Ultimately, it will not mean the end of his career. All three of the TG presenter's contracts are up for renewal. No way will James May and Richard Hammond continue without him unless they have a monumental lapse of judgement. They'll just all move to another channel and we'll have Top Gear by a different name. Odds on it will have a cheeky name too like 6th gear
I'll be quite happy to watch it too. Jezza was out of order here, but it doesn't negate the 25 years of entertainment he's given us and the fact that TG was far from dead.
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