First: I don't like Clarkson at all but he manages to make me smile sometimes. Second, some humourless Union woman was comparing Clarkson to Ghadaffi on the radio. WTF?! I think it unlikely anyomne actually thought he meant to take people out and shoot them.....
There is a world of difference between this idiocy and the quite right challenge to Ricky Gervais inappropriate use of slang abuse terms for people with a learning disability, which was, rightly, villified as offensive. Perhaps it is that people cannot tell the difference that is really offensive.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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This is the problem we have these days. There are far too many people who are far too touchy and are lacking in any kind of sense of humour, context and common sense. They are constantly vigilant for anything that might cause some kind of offence to complain about. These must be very sad people with something missing in their lives.
So what if someone offends you anyway? It wont kill you and if you were never offended life would be dull and boring.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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As Chipping Norton is an important annexe of the cabinet..............Clarkson joins the Minister Buffoon list.
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Lets have a straw poll of forumites' attitudes to this. I shall shortly start a new thread.......
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 39.........................deserves a few reads.
Keith Sansum1
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peter;
think a number of forumites have already commented
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According to the BBC lunchtime news complaints are up to 21,000 now. Just as well Clarkson has now gone to China.
I suspect loads of people dont like some of these so called celebrities and as in the case of Jonathan Ross or Jim Davidson are just dying for an opportunity to stick the boot in...sooner or later the opportunity presents itself and zap!!!
One of the union leaders made a great suggestion to Clarkson..why doesnt he spend a single day with one of these lower paid hospital workers and see how the other half, the lower half, of the payscale live. Sounds a good plan..will give some perspective to Mr Clarkson.
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yes your right paulb
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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He was just joking PaulB - these people complaining are utterly pathetic and the BBC should just tell them to grow a spine, apologising just panders to their stupidity.
I loved Littlejohn's comment in the Mail - he disagreed with Clarkson, in his view the strikers should be hung drawn and quartered not shot... yes he was also joking and having a go at the stupidity of these people who are complaining. They really should get a life.
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the snowball effect usually kicks in, people suddenly remember a day later how mortified they were.
incidentally the programmes producers approved the joke before it went out.
I think Jeremy Clarkson is a wonderful man....a shining example to the youth of this country.....Ofcourse, anyone showing his human spirit by sticking up for his rights in the working place, deserves to be shot in front of his friends and family....
Jeremy Clarkson, has always shown sensitivity to his human kind...especially to woman ..woe betied if they answer him back, they might get served with an injunction... ..........and to anyone who would like to roam and walk along the beautiful common law footpath near his amazing home near the coast....which, ofcourse , he enclosed to stop the peasants coming close to him..........
He has always shown true Communist passions of equality towards his fellow workers.....I am sure, he will find, all the kindred spirits he so enjoys in China....
where you can get incarcerated for even thinking.....
May we have lots more Jeremy Clarksons to cheer up our lives.....
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Joking or not he is either a prat and totally naive (unlikely), or a prat and deliberately out to enrage the New Puritans of the PC brigade. It worked! The New Puritans look more ridiculous than he does.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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More likely he did it to continue being offensive in order his ``kindred`` will buy his Christmas DVD.
He has a DVD out soon........job done
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I don't know if anyone is aware but his words were cleared by BBC producers before the programme went to air.
When I first saw the piece I was struck by how the two presenters feigned indignation at exactly the same time, perhaps milliseconds before the punchline. It also occured to me that the rest of the production team found it absolutely hilarious.
Now we are talking about Guardian TV here. Not Foxnews. Even the lefty liberal beeb thought his words amusing.
Seems to me that the strike did indeed turn into a damp squib and the only thing they could rescue from the dying embers of publicity was this non story which, ironically, backfired totally.
Expect even less sympathy from the majority of the public during the next day of action.
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philip
see post 50.
the strike did fail abysmally and dave stirred things up deliberately with his "damp squib" comment.
a few po faced trade unionists tried to grab back public sympathy on the back of clarkson, if they had said nothing then they would have grabbed the sympathy vote.
everything that unison does plays further into the hands of dave.
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I am always amused by the "he was only joking" and/or the "get a sense of humour" defence - most often trotted out by those who too often themselves cannot take a joke or insult and get on their high horse when the tables are reversed.
As they say up north "nowt as queer as folks"
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Point taken.......
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post 57 says a lot
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Sorry, I don't agree with Ross's post 57.
I watched Peter Kaye on TV last night and I thought he was incredibly clever and funny.
Some PC people would take offence at some of his sketches.
Jeremy Clarkson was joking - pure and simple.
Roger