She told me, 'You need to forget about that show and focus more on our relationship!' 'Okay fine', I responded. 'I mean, how hard can it be?'
Top Gear is a staple of British television and has been since James May started buying his shirts from Dunelm. It began with a beard called Noel Edmonds in the late 70's and has evolved into what it is today, a show about two fat post middle aged men and a rodent who prat around for an hour while sometimes driving cars and talking about them. The name of one of the fat dudes is Jeremy Clarkson, who has once again reached the news because of his above average sized mouth. James isn't that fat to be fair. Sorry James.
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The latest shitstorm has developed because of the resurrection of an unseen piece of cutting room footage that has made people very angry indeed. In this footage Clarkson was standing in between two cars while mumbling, 'eenie, meenie, miney, mo, catch a n****r by it's toe.' There was probably a reason the BBC didn't broadcast this. That would have been idiotic and got Clarkson in all sorts of trouble...
Well somehow the footage got out and as a result the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail are furious! Other than that, nobody else really cares. He did mumble the word and I don't think there is any doubt about what he said, but what he said was never intended to reach the light of day so I don't quite understand why these newspapers are so pissed. Then again, one look at the Mail Online website tells you that they will do anything to get their fascist hands on a story of any note. Hmm, a story about Jeremy Clarkson saying the N word or a story about a pair of identical twins having identical plastic surgery for 15 years. They went with both because, why the fuck not?
We all know the BBC are not going to sack Jezza. He has avoided PC brigade arrest several times through the years 'insulting' Mexicans, Indians, Germans, the Burmese, the French and pretty much every other country with absolutely hilarious national stereotypes. In my opinion Top Gear is one of the only decent, unfiltered TV shows left in this country and it is pretty much the only show I will completely go out of my way to record or patiently watch online on my piss slow excuse for a laptop.
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I mean who dreamed up Gogglebox? A show about people watching TV? Next channel 4 will set up cameras in front of people who are watching Gogglebox and record their hilarious reactions to people's hilarious reactions while they watch TV shows. Just send me my cheque now, Channel 4.
I'm not actively seeking for people to disagree with my opinion, but I think that people who are offended too easily should just chill out. I kind of understand why people would get so pissed off by words, but at the end of the day that is all they are. Words. The Clarkson incident was clearly just a slip of the tongue. He certainly meant no malice towards any individual when reciting the rhyme and if you look back at history, the version he relayed in that clip was actually an early version of the rhyme so why don't the accusers blame the people who came up with it hundreds of years ago?
And on that bombshell...
