Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 October 2010
19:4076616Apparently Ofcom costs about £150million each year to run and just look at some of the complaints they have to 'investigate':
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb168/issue168.pdf
Jeremy Clarkson
Violence on the news
Gordon Ramsay swearing
Amazes me that they even need to consider a single complaint, when I am sure that someone onewhere could be offended by ANYTHING on the tele in one way or the other
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 October 2010
20:5776622I read the complaint about Top Gear and what a sad and pathetic thing it was too.
The BBC and Ofcom should have told the two complainants to go and get a life. Saddos, but its even sadder that they actually sympathised with the humourless morons complaining.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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25 October 2010
21:0276623there have always been people that make a point of being offended by something.
most of us are offended by something on a regular basis, such is life.
Ross Miller
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25 October 2010
22:0976638I agree Barry
Top Gear and its presenters really are sad pathetic things
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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26 October 2010
06:4476660Its the best programme on TV Ross and the presenters are excellent. We need more of them and programmes like theirs and to do away with the politically correct bull**** that dominates most other scheduling.
26 October 2010
08:5876680howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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26 October 2010
13:2876712never watch top gear so haven't got any strong impression on jeremy clarkson either way.
seen him interviewed a few times, he likes to pretend he is a bit of a buffoon, knows what his audience like.
usually laugh at something he says, i remember him being at the motor show, going up to the malaysian manufacturers stand.
upon finding it unmanned he averred "probably popped out for a dog sandwich".
Ross Miller- Location: London Road, Dover
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26 October 2010
19:0976766Sorry Barry, each to his own
I find them to be asinine in the extreme, Clarkson is like some brat teen being obnoxious purely because he can.
Having said that I do agree with the view that to often the TV companies overdo the PC bit rather than just reflecting the rich pageant that is everyday British life
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
