Top gear

[mushRTID]

Anyone just seen that? Wow. Serious shit.

[River Don]

Do you believe the FKL 82 number plate was just a coincidence?

[mushRTID]

Absolutely not. I think clarkson is an absolute dick and his stunt completely backfired.

Could have got someone killed.

[River Don]

Yeah, I reckon it probably was a piss poor joke, they completely misjudged.

The geography of that southern part of Argentina and Chile looks stunning.

[mushRTID]

Agree mate, stunning part of the world.

[Jenny]

My biggest travelling regret is heading north from Buenos Aires and not south. Amazing part of the world.

[biggle]

Come on lighten up, like him or not Top Gear is one of the BBC's biggest earners. This shows one major thing ITS POPULAR. 3 blokes behaving in a childlike manner, that's why it is what it

[Glyn_Wigley]

Come on lighten up, like him or not Top Gear is one of the BBC's biggest earners. This shows one major thing ITS POPULAR. 3 blokes behaving in a childlike manner, that's why it is what it

Yep, you could see those Argies chuckling away to themselves as they chased them out of the country..! A blight upon the reputation of Britain and the BBC? Nah, just lighten up...

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

I don't see the need to take it so seriously, it's fun and that's what you should make of it.

Also always amuses me that the ire is directed at the presenters.  As if they write and plan the whole thing, when in reality a lot of it will be producers and directors...

[BillyStubbsTears]

Clarkson's a bell end who makes humour for bell ends. His stock in trade is very obvious jabs at self-righteous liberal types. There's a role for that humour. It's not massively clever or innovative but plenty of people lap it up.

My real grouse with him is not that. That's just being a second rate comedian. My grouse is the several newspaper articles and TV programmes that he's made about South Yorkshire. He's from here. And he makes deliberate, nasty, stereotyping digs at the place he came from, for other people's amusement. That puts him on a par with the black house servants who would perform for their white masters' amusement by taking the piss out of the shortcomings of their own kin.

He's a pathetic Kitson and I'd gladly punch his f***ing lights out for that reason alone. But I suspect he's actually a very needy man. I guess he feels a need to apologise for and belittle the place he came from. And in that sense, I suppose we should pity the tosser.

[IDM]

Sitting on the fence re JC I see there, BST?

[Glyn_Wigley]

I don't see the need to take it so seriously, it's fun and that's what you should make of it.

Is that what you'd say to the people who actually live on the Falkland Islands? You know, the people who have to deal with being next-door to Argentina 24/7 and have to live with the outcome from this when Clarkson and his chums are safely back in Chipping Norton where it doesn't affect them in the slightest? Should we tell them to just lighten up and enjoy the jolly japery of it too?

[BobG]

He's lived in ther Isele of Man for several years now Glyn.

Why is almost everyone in this country these days unwilling to allow someone to express their views? I thiought that was what we are supposed to be here to 'defend'? Whether you agree or disagree with what he sayss, what he does and what he is, it's his business. Not ours. If he makes out he's a Kitson, what's the matter with that? Just form your view and deal with him accordingly.

And BFYP is right. The script is not written by presenters. Yes they adapt it into their own language - hence JC's ridiculous right wing crap - but the concept, the plan and the decision making has sod all to do with them. Presenters, of almost any programme, are fairly low down in the food chain. So blaming JC for programme concept and philosophy simply demonstrates the ignorance with which many view him.

Love him or hate him. That's up to you. But he's only following the tradition of centuries in this country. Why do so many want to bring that to an end?  If I could be a little hyperbolic about it, this, along with many, many other things,  suggests this country is progressing increasingly rapidly along the path towards fascism.

BobG

[BillyStubbsTears]

Bob

My philosophy is that I support someone's right to say whatever they want. And to take the consequences, which might include a smack in the gob from the people you offend.

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

I don't see the need to take it so seriously, it's fun and that's what you should make of it.

Is that what you'd say to the people who actually live on the Falkland Islands? You know, the people who have to deal with being next-door to Argentina 24/7 and have to live with the outcome from this when Clarkson and his chums are safely back in Chipping Norton where it doesn't affect them in the slightest? Should we tell them to just lighten up and enjoy the jolly japery of it too?

Well I know someone who fought in the war there and subsequently has returned to work there a few times - his views of the Argentinians are not positive and from what he says on the matter, the islanders would have much worse to say about the Argentinians then anything in last night's episode of Top Gear.

The Argentine football team has paraded with banners on their opinion of the islands.  I'm no fan of that, sport and football should be seperate, however we didn't see hundreds of youths turning up at Sergio Aguero's house to hound him out did we?

[Glyn_Wigley]

I don't see the need to take it so seriously, it's fun and that's what you should make of it.

Is that what you'd say to the people who actually live on the Falkland Islands? You know, the people who have to deal with being next-door to Argentina 24/7 and have to live with the outcome from this when Clarkson and his chums are safely back in Chipping Norton where it doesn't affect them in the slightest? Should we tell them to just lighten up and enjoy the jolly japery of it too?

Well I know someone who fought in the war there and subsequently has returned to work there a few times - his views of the Argentinians are not positive and from what he says on the matter, the islanders would have much worse to say about the Argentinians then anything in last night's episode of Top Gear.

The Argentine football team has paraded with banners on their opinion of the islands.  I'm no fan of that, sport and football should be seperate, however we didn't see hundreds of youths turning up at Sergio Aguero's house to hound him out did we?

I'm sure what you say is true, the point I'm making is that I don't think the perpetrators of this have had one thought beyond what they obviously thought was a spiffing wheeze, and left other people to pick up the pieces whilst they walk away. Those who say 'just lighten up' appear to have that mindset too - have a laugh and damn the consequences.

[River Don]

Clarkson actually has quite a lot of control over Top Gear.

After the BBC cancelled the original show it was Clarkson and his old school pal Andy Wilman who pitched the new format. Wilman is executive producer and he works closely with Clarkson.

This is why Clarkson earned so much more from the show than his two co-presenters. They sold the rights to the new format Top Gear to the Beeb recently, earning Clarkson and his mate a fortune.

[IC1967]

JC is a top bloke who says it as it is (not quite as much as he used to because the lefties are there ready to pounce on anything they can that might get him in trouble in our politically correct world).  He hasn't got a problem with this part of the world. He is one of our finest sons and puts us on the map. He does though have a problem with the way the area has been run into the ground by successive left wing Labour councils and governments. I'm glad he speaks up about that. It needs to change.

Anyway the Argentina trip was meant to build bridges not take the piss. Top Gear were trying to use the huge popularity of the show to mend some bridges with the Argies. They were going to play a game of car football. Unfortunately the argy bargy that went on before this due to some politically correct nutjob not seeing the funny side of a number plate made this impossible.

Just makes you appreciate what a tolerant country we live in. Top Argentinian footballers get no grief here. Imagine if a top English player wanted to play in Argentina. It just wouldn't happen.

[dknward2]

Maybe we should send ched over there

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Maybe we should send ched over there

And Mick?

[DRFCSouth]

They got it wrong with this joke IMO. They knew fine well the significance. A lot of people on both sides lost their lives and this was alwaysvlikely to provoke hostility. Admittedly, the Argentinian authorities should have done more to protect their exit, but they overstepped the mark.

[bobjimwilly]

Jeremy Clarkson puts us on the map? Really?

[Dr Fundlekrotch]

Jeremy Clarkson puts us on the map? Really?

Yes...I clearly remember him putting Doncaster on the map as that town where everybody has bad teeth and the local football team hilariously can't beat Frickley Miners Welfare

I don't think the Ordnance Survey made that update, though

[IC1967]

Jeremy Clarkson puts us on the map? Really?

Yes...I clearly remember him putting Doncaster on the map as that town where everybody has bad teeth and the local football team hilariously can't beat Frickley Miners Welfare

I don't think the Ordnance Survey made that update, though

Here's an example of him putting us on the map.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-biggest-threat-to-ed--in-the-world-jeremy-clarkson-threatens-to-stand-as-mp-against-miliband-in-doncaster-seat-8817672.html

[IC1967]

Jeremy Clarkson puts us on the map? Really?

Yes...I clearly remember him putting Doncaster on the map as that town where everybody has bad teeth and the local football team hilariously can't beat Frickley Miners Welfare

I don't think the Ordnance Survey made that update, though

That's called having the ability to laugh at yourself. Something lefties find very difficult to do.

[IC1967]

Another example.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2573790/Jeremy-Clarksons-idyllic-childhood-country-home-sale-595-000-But-Top-Gear-fans-beware-theres-ONE-garage.html

[IC1967]

Clarkson's a bell end who makes humour for bell ends. His stock in trade is very obvious jabs at self-righteous liberal types. There's a role for that humour. It's not massively clever or innovative but plenty of people lap it up.

My real grouse with him is not that. That's just being a second rate comedian. My grouse is the several newspaper articles and TV programmes that he's made about South Yorkshire. He's from here. And he makes deliberate, nasty, stereotyping digs at the place he came from, for other people's amusement. That puts him on a par with the black house servants who would perform for their white masters' amusement by taking the piss out of the shortcomings of their own kin.

He's a pathetic Kitson and I'd gladly punch his f***ing lights out for that reason alone. But I suspect he's actually a very needy man. I guess he feels a need to apologise for and belittle the place he came from. And in that sense, I suppose we should pity the tosser.

I'd be grateful if you could prove your comment. Shouldn't be too hard to find 10 articles. Evidence man. Where is it? I thought you prided yourself on backing up your fatuous statements.

[Sprotyrover]

 Just watched the show on catch up they deserved a bloody good hiding particularly that Moron Clarkson with his Falklands Quits
What an idiot!

[Iberian Red]

Clarkson's a bell end who makes humour for bell ends. His stock in trade is very obvious jabs at self-righteous liberal types. There's a role for that humour. It's not massively clever or innovative but plenty of people lap it up.

My real grouse with him is not that. That's just being a second rate comedian. My grouse is the several newspaper articles and TV programmes that he's made about South Yorkshire. He's from here. And he makes deliberate, nasty, stereotyping digs at the place he came from, for other people's amusement. That puts him on a par with the black house servants who would perform for their white masters' amusement by taking the piss out of the shortcomings of their own kin.

He's a pathetic Kitson and I'd gladly punch his f***ing lights out for that reason alone. But I suspect he's actually a very needy man. I guess he feels a need to apologise for and belittle the place he came from. And in that sense, I suppose we should pity the tosser.

I'd be grateful if you could prove your comment. Shouldn't be too hard to find 10 articles. Evidence man. Where is it? I thought you prided yourself on backing up your fatuous statements.

Betting slip and purple helmet spring to mind.

[IC1967]

Well I've looked everywhere and can't find where JC has slagged off his roots. Maybe some of Billy's mates can help him out and prove what Billy is saying is true.

I've also got more evidence of JC putting us on the map. Has no one heard of Paddington Bear? JC was the first person to have a Paddington Bear toy.

Paddington Bears were first created in JC's Doncaster home.

The early models were  handmade by JC's parents in a small factory, latterly known as the Bear Garden, in Doncaster.

Paddington Bear is world famous. Thanks to JC, Doncaster is now world famous.