Clarkson - Exercising as Much Tact as Ever
01 December 2011, 11:24 PM
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Should have heard the whiter-than-whites on talk sport condemning him.
Its just reeks of slow news day TBH. Strikes were a p*ss poor turn out. So to cover the shortfall they pick up on someone making a comment about them.
I laughed my **** off at the Portsmouth picket line...five people with protest placards...FIVE. What a joke!
Sums it up, a small percentage (i.e a minority) with a large voice pushing/pressuring everyone else in the union to follow suit.
My Uncles' wife is a admin/registrar at a hospital; She went to work yesterday. My cousin's partner is a nurse; She went to work yesterday. .My Mum's partner is a teacher; She went to work yesterday.
Says it all for me.
Its just reeks of slow news day TBH. Strikes were a p*ss poor turn out. So to cover the shortfall they pick up on someone making a comment about them.
I laughed my **** off at the Portsmouth picket line...five people with protest placards...FIVE. What a joke!
Sums it up, a small percentage (i.e a minority) with a large voice pushing/pressuring everyone else in the union to follow suit.My Uncles' wife is a admin/registrar at a hospital; She went to work yesterday. My cousin's partner is a nurse; She went to work yesterday. .My Mum's partner is a teacher; She went to work yesterday.
Says it all for me.
02 December 2011, 12:02 AM
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That said, it saved me a walk and I actually got to work sooner than normal....not sure that is a positive. But, back on topic, before long there will be no humour left. Even if he isn't to everybodys taste, that isn't important. What is, is that people take things like a joke (funny or not) so seriously, they complain and down the line nobody will ever be able to make a joke or be a little close to the bone for fear of offending/threat of the sack etc. It's the same with comedy. Pathetic, and I agree with DYK, some people want to get a life.
02 December 2011, 12:36 AM
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What he said was obviously a joke. He'd just been saying how fantastic he thought the strike was, then he said that, in the spirit of balanced BBC reporting, he ought to present the alternative viewpoint. He was just exercising his ironic humour, and surprise surprise, the retards didn't get it.
02 December 2011, 09:09 AM
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And in case anyone is wondering if young Jeremy gives a sh*t ... http://order-order.com/2011/12/02/ge...y-to-the-bank/ ....
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02 December 2011, 09:13 AM
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What he said was obviously a joke. He'd just been saying how fantastic he thought the strike was, then he said that, in the spirit of balanced BBC reporting, he ought to present the alternative viewpoint. He was just exercising his ironic humour, and surprise surprise, the retards didn't get it.
The BBC had the president of the GMB union on this morning who made a fool of himself, played the race card - comparing Clarksons comments to racist comments from the 70's and how they are not acceptable. When this humourless leftie was asked who he was speaking on behalf of (in response) to a text from a striker who said he thought the comments where hilarious. he changed the subject. Says it all really.
02 December 2011, 09:48 AM
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the guy is a douche end of. public execution of strikers in front of their families and asking why his train to london needs to stop after it hit somebody. his response "after they have burst, they aren't going to get any better are they?"
total obnoxious, talentless *****
total obnoxious, talentless *****
02 December 2011, 10:39 AM
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http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/lates..._clarkson.aspx
Bert Schouwenburg, GMB International Officer said “Jeremy Clarkson’s vile and offensive comments about executing trade unionists in front of their families are insensitive in the extreme and completely unacceptable. GMB works with trade unions representing employees on banana and pineapple plantations in Latin America where activists have met exactly the fate that Mr Clarkson describes. In Guatemala, for example, 50 trade unionists have been murdered since 2007, the last of these being on 16th October of this year when SITRABI member, Pablino Yaque Cervantes, was shot and killed in broad daylight, the fourth SITRABI member to be killed this year.
Suggestions are that Mr Clarkson made his remarks in jest but that does not make them any less reprehensible. The BBC should not use taxpayer’s money to employ a person who harbours such extremist views. If Mr Clarkson has an ounce of humility he should publicly apologise and make a substantial donation towards the education of poor Mr Yaque’s fatherless children.”
Suggestions are that Mr Clarkson made his remarks in jest but that does not make them any less reprehensible. The BBC should not use taxpayer’s money to employ a person who harbours such extremist views. If Mr Clarkson has an ounce of humility he should publicly apologise and make a substantial donation towards the education of poor Mr Yaque’s fatherless children.”
02 December 2011, 10:51 AM
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Look, people like Clarkson say these controversial things to wind people up! He wasn't being dead serious, even my cats could understand that. More people get wound up, more publicity Clarkson gets. He is in a win-win situation, he has nothing to lose. He obviously joked, but the whingers were just too sensitive. "We wipe people's bums, we collect bins........." and they were going on and on and on, crying over it. That woman threatening with legal action will fall off her pew if I am put as the judge on the day of verdict. 
02 December 2011, 12:04 PM
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Why isn't the media posting the full clip?
Oh, because maybe people would see the context and then it wouldn't have been an issue
Full version (ish - they still missed out half of it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJP0WXyeaA
Oh, because maybe people would see the context and then it wouldn't have been an issue
Full version (ish - they still missed out half of it
): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJP0WXyeaA
02 December 2011, 12:13 PM
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Are the media ever going to understand the Leveson enquiry and that they are not entitled to stir up **** for the sake of their sales figures at the cost of others jobs or lives? As we can all see it was a joke but the press are going out hell for leather once again to make a mountain out of something that isn't even a molehill.
So there are the rumours of Gary Speed and the Sun about to run a story on him (which if true they should be shut down) and now this all in the same week all whilst the Leveson enquiry is in full swing. The press in this country are the biggest pile of scum going who quite clearly think they are beyond the law.
So there are the rumours of Gary Speed and the Sun about to run a story on him (which if true they should be shut down) and now this all in the same week all whilst the Leveson enquiry is in full swing. The press in this country are the biggest pile of scum going who quite clearly think they are beyond the law.
02 December 2011, 12:38 PM
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Why isn't the media posting the full clip?
Oh, because maybe people would see the context and then it wouldn't have been an issue
Full version (ish - they still missed out half of it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJP0WXyeaA
Oh, because maybe people would see the context and then it wouldn't have been an issue
Full version (ish - they still missed out half of it
): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJP0WXyeaANot only that, but the Beeb have pulled that night's edition of the One Show from the iPlayer website entirely. A shameful climbdown, in the face of the most unrealistic threat of legal action imaginable
02 December 2011, 12:50 PM
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Are the media ever going to understand the Leveson enquiry and that they are not entitled to stir up **** for the sake of their sales figures at the cost of others jobs or lives? As we can all see it was a joke but the press are going out hell for leather once again to make a mountain out of something that isn't even a molehill.
So there are the rumours of Gary Speed and the Sun about to run a story on him (which if true they should be shut down) and now this all in the same week all whilst the Leveson enquiry is in full swing. The press in this country are the biggest pile of scum going who quite clearly think they are beyond the law.
So there are the rumours of Gary Speed and the Sun about to run a story on him (which if true they should be shut down) and now this all in the same week all whilst the Leveson enquiry is in full swing. The press in this country are the biggest pile of scum going who quite clearly think they are beyond the law.
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02 December 2011, 01:48 PM
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Are the media ever going to understand the Leveson enquiry and that they are not entitled to stir up **** for the sake of their sales figures at the cost of others jobs or lives? As we can all see it was a joke but the press are going out hell for leather once again to make a mountain out of something that isn't even a molehill.
The press will be allowed to carry on doing exactly as they want under the pretence of freedom of the press... as in freedom to wreck people's lives in the name of newspaper sales.
02 December 2011, 04:04 PM
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No because the only conclusion of the Leveson Enquiry will be the usual 'lessons will be learned' which translates as 'pockets have been lined'.
The press will be allowed to carry on doing exactly as they want under the pretence of freedom of the press... as in freedom to wreck people's lives in the name of newspaper sales.
The press will be allowed to carry on doing exactly as they want under the pretence of freedom of the press... as in freedom to wreck people's lives in the name of newspaper sales.
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02 December 2011, 05:42 PM
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I havent read the 3 pages of comments on this but im a public sector, local authority worker myself and i thought it was bloody funny what clakson said- wheather he was joking or not .!
That one show is so politically correct that there scared stiff of anyone mentioning anything not "pc".
Fair play to clarkson and may he continue to wind-up all the arseholes out there.
I have a public sector pension and so i have to pay more- oh diddums- but im not exactly starving so ill pay the extra and get less back- but hell, if i make it to 65,67,70 or whatever ill be grateful for that!!
That one show is so politically correct that there scared stiff of anyone mentioning anything not "pc".
Fair play to clarkson and may he continue to wind-up all the arseholes out there.
I have a public sector pension and so i have to pay more- oh diddums- but im not exactly starving so ill pay the extra and get less back- but hell, if i make it to 65,67,70 or whatever ill be grateful for that!!
03 December 2011, 10:58 AM
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The saddest part is the removal of the show from iplayer, so that those of us with a brain cannot make up our own minds.
All I can find are the contoversial comments which, to be honest, are quite obviously just Clarkson being Clarkson. It is equally obvious that his comments have been taken out of context and that his balancing opinions (if any) have been effectively censored.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech? And what a load of crap about nothing. Good luck with the DVD sales Jeremy
All I can find are the contoversial comments which, to be honest, are quite obviously just Clarkson being Clarkson. It is equally obvious that his comments have been taken out of context and that his balancing opinions (if any) have been effectively censored.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech? And what a load of crap about nothing. Good luck with the DVD sales Jeremy
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03 December 2011, 09:50 PM
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Are the media ever going to understand the Leveson enquiry and that they are not entitled to stir up **** for the sake of their sales figures at the cost of others jobs or lives? As we can all see it was a joke but the press are going out hell for leather once again to make a mountain out of something that isn't even a molehill.
So there are the rumours of Gary Speed and the Sun about to run a story on him (which if true they should be shut down) and now this all in the same week all whilst the Leveson enquiry is in full swing. The press in this country are the biggest pile of scum going who quite clearly think they are beyond the law.
So there are the rumours of Gary Speed and the Sun about to run a story on him (which if true they should be shut down) and now this all in the same week all whilst the Leveson enquiry is in full swing. The press in this country are the biggest pile of scum going who quite clearly think they are beyond the law.
the sad state of affairs is many people like to read it and will buy a paper with the most outlandish front page.
if people stopped buying them and believing them then it would probably die out.
will never ever happen, and people will continue to take news papers stories as the actual truth.
only way is to make fixed wage and have companies that are non profit, justa maintenance set up. that kind of company is not encouraged here, and no doubt any paper that printed true stories as they happened would soon die out because people arent getting there dailty dose of sensationalised bullsh*t.
04 December 2011, 05:10 PM
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In a day and age when generally we are so rude,so up ourselves,so selfish i can't believe how thin skinned the nation is
Just makes me smile how people even slightly take these comments as anything other than a joke
Just makes me smile how people even slightly take these comments as anything other than a joke
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