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
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:01 (nine years ago) link
yeah that too
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
burn him and burn all his fans, anyway
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:05 (nine years ago) link
lol, not sure i would go that far but
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:10 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:17 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:25 (nine years ago) link
Wasn't he suspended for racism before he non-apologised?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:26 (nine years ago) link
The producer has been named. He looks a bit like a cross between Limmy and a young Jah Wobble.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:37 (nine years ago) link
You're going to need to be more specific as that description covers a lot of white men.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:47 (nine years ago) link
Can they not just keep the internationally celebrated cars & racism hour going just with the other two shit racist car dudes
― prole, you'll be a yeoman soon (wins), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 10:57 (nine years ago) link
Can they not just cancel Top Gear?
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
(If indeed they are, Vauxhall Legal Team.)
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:09 (nine years ago) link
what the heck is overclocking?
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:10 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew2YN2mGKts
watched this but I'm still not any the wiser tbh
― soref, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
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
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
agree it's more interesting than top gear though xp
― soref, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:15 (nine years ago) link
As long as there are cars that require unsustainable fuel to run, there'll be a Clarkson. So ban cars, frankly.
― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link
that toaster was behaving in an almost sentient way. haunting
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:21 (nine years ago) link
Actually I was watching this one.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUPSGvWr6xE
― Hugh G. Wreckjoke (snoball), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:21 (nine years ago) link
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.
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:30 (nine years ago) link
haha
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:33 (nine years ago) link
what a palaver!
― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:36 (nine years ago) link
Who's Limmy, btw?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:51 (nine years ago) link
"What's overclocking?" "Who's Limmy?" Where are we, NoGoogle Island?
WINKY SMILEY FACE
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
What's a Tuomas?
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:01 (nine years ago) link
Yet no-one blinks an eye at William Woollard being referenced.
― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:05 (nine years ago) link
Mark G, you need Limmy in your life.
― mcayrshire (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:07 (nine years ago) link
He's almost as good as ILM's Bobby Gillespie skits
― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:12 (nine years ago) link
I remembers William Woolard, just like it was yesterday, but it wasn't it was Tomorrow's....
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
OK, I googled him, was just wondering if it was a typo for Lemmy.
I'd have been impressed if JClarkson had attempted to biff a Lemmy lookalike.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
i'd pay a lot of money to see a clarkson/lemmy rage in a cage match
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
354,170 signers.
At this rate, they'll be forming the next coalition.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:21 (nine years ago) link
my 8 yr old loves top gear so much, but even he confided to me the other day that he thought clarkson was 'a peanut'
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:25 (nine years ago) link
nick b's eight-year-old otm
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 13:28 (nine years ago) link
@Maria_MillerMPBBC has clear obligation to staff and obligation to licence fee payer-need to better manage relationships with stars like Clarkson
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:29 (nine years ago) link
are you fucking kidding?
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
Maria Miller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_MillerMaria Frances Lewis Miller (born 26 March 1964) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Basingstoke since ooh ...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
I read 'need to better manage relationships with stars like Clarkson' as 'don't let them get away with all kinds of shit just because they're popular and profitable' but I guess it could be taken the opposite way
― I took part in a race last week and Jenny was the name of my horse (soref), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
LOL Tories
― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
so the reason for this dust-up was that jfc's dinner wasn't ready at the end of a shoot?
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
I wonder what Clarkson would have to do to lose the support of the Top Gear fan base.
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
be reasonable.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
heartfelt commitment to environmental agenda, adopt enthusiastic homosexual relations with ever-changing group of dreadlocked eco-warriors
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Have sex with Nigel Farage
― Walking Close to Melton Mowbray (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
Although I wish Clarkson nothing but humiliation and would not miss the tv show, I hope that Top Gear magazine, which is not the nasty racist cartoon JC is but which contains some of the best English-language writing on cars, would be able to survive, perhaps under a different name.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
def think he'll end up in a more obnoxious role if the bbc lets him go
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link