Clarkson: Racist
Discussion
Fishtigua said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
How about we go to Argentina?
Having lived in South America, nothing is easy. Just popping over to Argentina takes months of planning, visas, paperwork, insurance, valid carnets, you name it.Nothing is that easy. As Hammond said, it's their biggest filming shoot of the year, you don't want to norrs that up for a silly joke.
what is interesting is the forum members who think it was fixed suggest that anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot and they think Clarkson and TG are arrogant.
There is NO evidence this was a set up lots of people would love it to be but there is no smoking gun.All the while the TOP GEAR Christmas special will be watched by millions.
There is NO evidence this was a set up lots of people would love it to be but there is no smoking gun.All the while the TOP GEAR Christmas special will be watched by millions.
johnxjsc1985 said:
what is interesting is the forum members who think it was fixed suggest that anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot and they think Clarkson and TG are arrogant.
There is NO evidence this was a set up lots of people would love it to be but there is no smoking gun.All the while the TOP GEAR Christmas special will be watched by millions.
Having had to deal with the TG press officers on a semi-regular basis I am in a position to at least comment on the arrogance of anyone associated with the program - an arrogance that is truly outstanding.There is NO evidence this was a set up lots of people would love it to be but there is no smoking gun.All the while the TOP GEAR Christmas special will be watched by millions.
Considering that it's a BBC production, funded by the licence payer, their flat refusal to do any sort of press or PR for the program always amazes me - and contrasts sharply with the situation when May or Hammond have some other s
t to peddle, when you can't get their agents and PRs off the phone...The production crew are just as bad and the whole thing is run like a silly little boys' club.
TTwiggy said:
johnxjsc1985 said:
what is interesting is the forum members who think it was fixed suggest that anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot and they think Clarkson and TG are arrogant.
There is NO evidence this was a set up lots of people would love it to be but there is no smoking gun.All the while the TOP GEAR Christmas special will be watched by millions.
The production crew are just as bad and the whole thing is run like a silly little boys' club.There is NO evidence this was a set up lots of people would love it to be but there is no smoking gun.All the while the TOP GEAR Christmas special will be watched by millions.
Hugo a Gogo said:
would almost be easier buying a car over there wouldn't it, like they've done in almost all the other specials (not India I think) so why did they feel they need to ship 3 old second hand cars around the world?
928 for sale in Argentina. About 26k. http://mardelplata.olx.com.ar/porsche-928-s2-iid-6...
JF87 said:
Extreme naivety if you really don't believe this was deliberate.
No way of knowing if the Argie-baiting plate was chicken or egg as regards the trip, but either way it's frankly impossible to imagine JC in particular driving right through Argentina without indulging himself in regular Falklands jibes. Indeed much easier to imagine him agreeing to go there purely in order to have a Falklands-based laugh at their expense. No surprise that he was behind the wheel of that Porsche.
The plate would never have been the basis of the entire show - just one of those chortling, faux 'oh st!' asides. You know the score: after a few days in Argentina, one of the trio (probably James May) belatedly identifies the "unfortunate significance" of the reg plate, obliging a "worried" JC (to aren't-we-awful sniggers all round) to switch the plate for the Porsche's previous H1 VAE personalised plate, which happily is still in the boot. The next night, JC says he's also been alerted to some obscure potential source of offence in Hammond's plate, and says he's taken the opportunity to change that too - camera pans round and, tee-hee, there's the BE11 END plate that was found in the back of one of the other cars after TG fled and dumped them... Anyway, that scenario or something like it.
Just to emphasise that I really don't care about the offence caused - just find it a bit pathetic that JC and TG in general aren't man enough to fess up. Can only assume that after the slope/ episodes they genuinely feared they might not have been given another last chance...
Naivety?! Hope you never do jury service.No way of knowing if the Argie-baiting plate was chicken or egg as regards the trip, but either way it's frankly impossible to imagine JC in particular driving right through Argentina without indulging himself in regular Falklands jibes. Indeed much easier to imagine him agreeing to go there purely in order to have a Falklands-based laugh at their expense. No surprise that he was behind the wheel of that Porsche.
The plate would never have been the basis of the entire show - just one of those chortling, faux 'oh s
t!' asides. You know the score: after a few days in Argentina, one of the trio (probably James May) belatedly identifies the "unfortunate significance" of the reg plate, obliging a "worried" JC (to aren't-we-awful sniggers all round) to switch the plate for the Porsche's previous H1 VAE personalised plate, which happily is still in the boot. The next night, JC says he's also been alerted to some obscure potential source of offence in Hammond's plate, and says he's taken the opportunity to change that too - camera pans round and, tee-hee, there's the BE11 END plate that was found in the back of one of the other cars after TG fled and dumped them... Anyway, that scenario or something like it. Just to emphasise that I really don't care about the offence caused - just find it a bit pathetic that JC and TG in general aren't man enough to fess up. Can only assume that after the slope/
episodes they genuinely feared they might not have been given another last chance... Ayahuasca said:
Hugo a Gogo said:
would almost be easier buying a car over there wouldn't it, like they've done in almost all the other specials (not India I think) so why did they feel they need to ship 3 old second hand cars around the world?
928 for sale in Argentina. About 26k. http://mardelplata.olx.com.ar/porsche-928-s2-iid-6...
and how much is shipping to S. America?
Dr Jekyll said:
Hardly. When they played silly buggers in the US they painted huge red slogans on the cars, they didn't rely on a number plate that might possibly be construed the wrong way if anyone actually noticed it.
Exactly. They're not exactly subtle. A 928 done up to look like a Vulcan bomber would have been more their style.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff