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
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, March 11, 2015 6:24 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 6:24 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
read that as "humiliated and penisless" and was all like "jeez, when did lex get so raw?"
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
am already pitching jezza's lunch or punch to itv tbh
― we reward the hake (NickB), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
literally can't believe Jeremy clarkson exists and is popular quick to the jeremy clarkson thread I have bona fides to demonstrate
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link