Jeremy Clarkson's "The World According To Clarkson" is one of Penguin's "best books of its kind to be published in recent years"

it's not like he *had* to say the rhyme and struggled to get it out without the n word. He *chose* to use that rhyme and mumble that word. There's no accident here at all.

also otm

On the bus home there was a guy who looked like an older Jeremy Clarkson. He had this look on his face like he was tired of people asking him if he looked like Jezzer, his eyes scanning the bus looking for the next likely joker.

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/10/04/top-gear-hosts-run-out-of-argentina-video/

Apparently, Jezza's 928 happens to wear the number plate "H982 FLK," which to the Argentinians is a dig at the country's defeat in the 1982 Falklands War. While we wouldn't put it past the nationalistic Top Gear trio to poke some fun at their country's old foe (let's keep in mind the show's love of World War II jokes), that would be awfully subtle if it were really an honest attempt at mischief. Coincidence or no, retribution for TG's perceived slight was swift.

First, the city where the crew's road trip was set to end, Ushuaia, banned Clarkson. The outrage only grew from there, though, as the TG team was forced to cut its trip short by three days and flee the country after the crew and their cars were pelted by stones thrown by angry Argentinians. According to Yahoo! News, Clarkson was forced to abandon his car.

Jalopnik acquired video of the attempted stoning, and we can see the crew vehicles as well as a red Esprit and what looks like the rear end of a late 1960s Mustang fleeing the scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAD96cd_uc#t=60

I wonder how much of this will be included in the xmas special.

Is that combination possible in the british system? It doesn't seem possible in Argentina. Where did they get this car, is what I'm asking.

It's possible in Britain yeah

I think I agree with auto blog that covert racism isn't really something these particular employees of the British Broadcasting Corporation tend to bother with

Someone of the Guardian comments said that the registration had been on a Porsche since 1991 and linked to the registry (I didn't check it). So it looks like it may have actually not been deliberate? Surprising if true since this is sooooo Clarkson.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31824040

He must have thumped somebody.

https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson

85,000 already

Guido fawkes?

prat.

what a tit

Sincerely hope he dies or ends up on Ch 5.

So, 150,000 have signed this petition to reinstate him, no matter what he has done.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31828184

Sincerely hope he dies or ends up on Ch 5.

Read that as "ends up on a C5" at first and thought that's probably a fate worse than death as far as he's concerned.

So, 150,000 have signed this petition to reinstate him, no matter what he has done.

that sounds about right tbh. his core fans don't give a crap how he behaves, they probably like him more for it.

If they've stuck with him until now it seems unlikely they'd be especially bothered about a "fracas" with a TV producer.

Is it really core fans? Or is it not just a reflection of the usual narrative i.e.

Veronique Favreau LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM about 16 hours ago Liked 939
I pay my TV license to ensure that irreverent people can express themselves. If you become boarding and politically correct, you may disappear BBC.

Martin Jones BLACKPOOL, UNITED KINGDOM about 16 hours ago Liked 790
A minority of over sensitive people should not ruin one of Britons favourite shows.

Ilya Babansky ST.PETERSBURG, RUSSIAN FEDERATION about 16 hours ago Liked 741
BBC, you don't wanna piss off 300 million people.

Charlie Houghton CHELMSFORD, ENG about 16 hours ago Liked 576
Jeremy is a bastion of light in a dark PC world

Yeah, one person's black eye vs 300 million people who like cars.

They actually should get Piers Morgan to do it. Just to really piss Clarkson off.

The BBC will cave on this, I have no doubts. Top Gear is arguably worth nothing without the presenters (even then, probably only Clarkson) and in countries running their own franchises the UK version is more popular than their own citation needed but wiki has the following claim for Australia: the first season averaged around 650,000 viewers an episode. In comparison, viewing figures for the previous three Top Gear UK episodes shown in the same timeslot averaged around 903,000 viewers.

He undoubtedly has the stronger bargaining hand. He and Andy Wilman had originally set up a JV with BBC Enterprises for commercial and foreign exploitation which the BBC bought them out of in 2012, around about the time the three of them signed their last 3 year contracts (meaning this would be the last series contracted for in any case). International exploitation could be well over £100M annually, only Doctor Who made BBC Worldwide more and it looks like in 2014 Top Gear overhauled it. If we accept he was taking a reduced wage previously in relation to return (because he got it through other means) even him holding out for £10M pa looks like reasonable business sense for the Beeb.

His schtick is undoubtedly lolsy UKIP, but there's equally undoubtedly a very profitable market for it.

presumably they're still going to be flogging the cancelled episodes on dvds and to foreign broadcasters, so the beebs aren't really going to be out-of-pocket on this thing at all. sack the twat, the programme's run its course anyway, they're still going to recoup their costs whatever happens

haha xp, looks like aldo has a slightly more nuanced analysis

If they've stuck with him until now it seems unlikely they'd be especially bothered about a "fracas" with a TV producer.

― Tim, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 9:23 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well, it's quite funny (but not funny) that he can get away with all the racist, homophobic, sexist shit he wants but the second he crosses the line with a white man high in the bbc hierarchy IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION

yeah that too

burn him and burn all his fans, anyway

lol, not sure i would go that far but

am willing to pour scorn on him and we can rub our ire together to try and get a spark

Any other job he'd be sacked instantly <-------- sort of thing his hideous fans are wont to say about politicians et al committing indiscretions.

yeah actually i don't want him burned, at least not to death, i want him to be humiliated and penniless and crawling in the gutter and to KNOW it

TV producers are not really "high in the BBC hierarchy", they are relatively expendable, certainly compared to the "talent". I have a friend who worked with Clarkson for a while and said he's an absolute fucking nightmare to work with, entirely controlling, treats producers like shit, etc.

We don't know it's a white man as well but the law of averages would suggest it probably is.

Wasn't he suspended for racism before he non-apologised?

The producer has been named. He looks a bit like a cross between Limmy and a young Jah Wobble.

You're going to need to be more specific as that description covers a lot of white men.

Can they not just keep the internationally celebrated cars & racism hour going just with the other two shit racist car dudes

Can they not just cancel Top Gear?

Isn't there a diminishing return on these kind of 'bros do stupid shit' show anyway? Especially since YouTube/Vimeo/etc.? This morning I watched a video of someone overclocking a toaster, and that was way more interesting to me than anything TG have done in the last ten years.

Bring back William Woollard. Sure, he's in his 70s now, but, as a clean-living Buddhist, I'm sure he's fit enough to tell you why the electrics on a Corsa are a bit iffy.

(If indeed they are, Vauxhall Legal Team.)

what the heck is overclocking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2YN2mGKts

watched this but I'm still not any the wiser tbh

Forcing chips and CPUs to run at faster than their designed speed (with consequent power consumption and heat generation issues). God knows what this involves with a toaster. Burning a bagel in 30sec?

xp

agree it's more interesting than top gear though xp

As long as there are cars that require unsustainable fuel to run, there'll be a Clarkson. So ban cars, frankly.

that toaster was behaving in an almost sentient way. haunting

Actually I was watching this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUPSGvWr6xE

Dean Burnett ‏@garwboy

Calling what Clarkson did a 'Fracas' must be like salt in the wound for him, given that it's a French term.

haha

what a palaver!

Who's Limmy, btw?