Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...

[ATTAK Z]

mybrainhurts said:

A golden cattle prod, turned up to 11, would be more appropriate, followed by exile to North Korea for re-education and anti aircraft gun testing...

I love your posts ...

but you've missed out castration

[FiF]

mybrainhurts said:

Countdown said:

Laurel Green said:

Jeremy Clarkson: 'Top Gear exit was my own silly fault'(speaking to Chris Evans).

Clicky

So not some long standing grand master plan by a cabal of LeftyBeeb management then.....

There's a turnip for the books....

Don't quite follow your argument there. Clarkson cocking up and getting the boot does not eliminate the existence of lefty BBC cretins' hatred for all things car related and un-PC.

They've been seething for years over Top Gear.

Indeed he mentions that there are both brilliant and dreadful people in the BBC. Just depends which of them has the most influence.

[Countdown]

Corpulent Tosser said:

Possibly a ploy by Clarkson to publicly show contrition in the hope of being reinstated ?

That was my first guess as well. I'm a bit surprised he hasn't gone to one of the other channels. Maybe the grass wasn't greener?

[Countdown]

mybrainhurts said:

Don't quite follow your argument there. Clarkson cocking up and getting the boot does not eliminate the existence of lefty BBC cretins' hatred for all things car related and un-PC.

They've been seething for years over Top Gear.

It's the apparent Beeb "hatred for all things car related and un=PC" and "They've been seething for years over Top Gear." comments which don't make sense.

TG appears to have been both popular and profitable for the Beeb for a long time. They've been broadcasting it for over 20 years. If they had wanted to they could have stopped it at any time (and for various reasons). The fact that they didn't suggests there isn't some Beeb PC anti-car agenda. With the tinfoil hat firmly in place you could make an argument that Sky is PC Anti-car as they don't broadcast a mainstream car programme. You probably wouldn't because it would be obvious swivel-eyed frothery. yet strangely people make such comments about the Beeb with an apparent straight face?

My original comment referred to the fact that several posters stated that JC wasn't at fault and that it was some culmination of a sinister lefty beeb plot. Hopefully JC's comments have convinced them that it wasn't.

[Mr_B]

dudleybloke said:

Utterly fantastic !

[simonrockman]

Clarkson and Evens, happy and smiling, Clarkson saying it was all his fault.

How can this not be a softening up for Chris Evans to present Top Gear?

Then they can have Chris Evans, Chris Harris and Chris Moyles.

Although I think they should have a female presenter. And take the piss on parking.

Simon

[MarshPhantom]

Countdown said:

mybrainhurts said:

Don't quite follow your argument there. Clarkson cocking up and getting the boot does not eliminate the existence of lefty BBC cretins' hatred for all things car related and un-PC.

They've been seething for years over Top Gear.

It's the apparent Beeb "hatred for all things car related and un=PC" and "They've been seething for years over Top Gear." comments which don't make sense.

TG appears to have been both popular and profitable for the Beeb for a long time. They've been broadcasting it for over 20 years. If they had wanted to they could have stopped it at any time (and for various reasons). The fact that they didn't suggests there isn't some Beeb PC anti-car agenda. With the tinfoil hat firmly in place you could make an argument that Sky is PC Anti-car as they don't broadcast a mainstream car programme. You probably wouldn't because it would be obvious swivel-eyed frothery. yet strangely people make such comments abouthe Beeb with an apparent straight face?

My original comment referred to the fact that several posters stated that JC wasn't at fault and that it was some culmination of a sinister lefty beeb plot. Hopefully JC's comments have convinced them that it wasn't.

Everything is the culmination of some sinister Beeb plot.

[MartG]

Andy Wilman has been reported as saying that BBC officials tried to interfere with TG on several occasions

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/former-top-gear...

[Dr Jekyll]

MartG said:

Andy Wilman has been reported as saying that BBC officials tried to interfere with TG on several occasions

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/former-top-gear...

I've heard of that kind of thing happening a lot with TV shows.

Kenny Everett was once told by management that although his show was successful he nevertheless had to change the format to appeal to children

"Why?" Asked Kenny
"Because we've discovered that a lot of children are watching it, so naturally you have to include something that appeals to them"
"But if they are already watching it, it must already appeal to them."
"That's not the point."

[98elise]

Countdown said:

mybrainhurts said:

Don't quite follow your argument there. Clarkson cocking up and getting the boot does not eliminate the existence of lefty BBC cretins' hatred for all things car related and un-PC.

They've been seething for years over Top Gear.

It's the apparent Beeb "hatred for all things car related and un=PC" and "They've been seething for years over Top Gear." comments which don't make sense.

TG appears to have been both popular and profitable for the Beeb for a long time. They've been broadcasting it for over 20 years. If they had wanted to they could have stopped it at any time (and for various reasons). The fact that they didn't suggests there isn't some Beeb PC anti-car agenda. With the tinfoil hat firmly in place you could make an argument that Sky is PC Anti-car as they don't broadcast a mainstream car programme. You probably wouldn't because it would be obvious swivel-eyed frothery. yet strangely people make such comments about the Beeb with an apparent straight face?

My original comment referred to the fact that several posters stated that JC wasn't at fault and that it was some culmination of a sinister lefty beeb plot. Hopefully JC's comments have convinced them that it wasn't.

Agreed. The BBC hated Top Gear so much they bought the rights to it a couple of years ago.

[MartG]

Dr Jekyll said:

MartG said:

Andy Wilman has been reported as saying that BBC officials tried to interfere with TG on several occasions

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/former-top-gear...

I've heard of that kind of thing happening a lot with TV shows.

Kenny Everett was once told by management that although his show was successful he nevertheless had to change the format to appeal to children

"Why?" Asked Kenny
"Because we've discovered that a lot of children are watching it, so naturally you have to include something that appeals to them"
"But if they are already watching it, it must already appeal to them."
"That's not the point."

Doesn't surprise me at all - unfortunately it seems to have reached the stage where it is self perpetuating where the existing idiots keep hiring new idiots

[Cheese Mechanic]

carinaman said:

Despite the backdrop, repeated utterances of 'POWER!!!' and impending invasion of England the assessmbled throng insisted that they were not auditioning for Top Gear.

That piccy always makes me chuckle, the SNP posing under a great monument to ENGLISH engineering

[Halb]

MartG said:

Andy Wilman has been reported as saying that BBC officials tried to interfere with TG on several occasions

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/former-top-gear...

Suits...Bean counters. They're all so fking paranoid that ratings will drop.
It's why THronecast has morphed from a great informative nerdy show featuring nerds and people who know what they are one about to some celeb-wkfest hosted by Perkins.

[Beati Dogu]

Cheese Mechanic said:

That piccy always makes me chuckle, the SNP posing under a great monument to ENGLISH engineering

Paid for by London-based investment too.

[marshalla]

Halb said:

Suits...Bean counters. They're all so fking paranoid that ratings will drop.

One of the things I really hate about BBC "management" is their obsession with ratings - they need to be reminded that they don't need to worry about audience share because they don't need to generate income from commercial sources. It's handed to them on a plate. They should just get on with producing good programmes and forget about chasing the "trends". Their role should be to do exactly what the commercial outfits don't.

[mph1977]

marshalla said:

Halb said:

Suits...Bean counters. They're all so fking paranoid that ratings will drop.

One of the things I really hate about BBC "management" is their obsession with ratings - they need to be reminded that they don't need to worry about audience share because they don't need to generate income from commercial sources. It's handed to them on a plate. They should just get on with producing good programmes and forget about chasing the "trends". Their role should be to do exactly what the commercial outfits don't.

Reithian principles , Educate, Inform and Entertain ... people who are quick the write off the BBCs output o n the basis of stuff put on BBC1 on a Saturday teat time seem to forget aobut the children's programming , BBC3 and 4 some of the more esoteric BBC2 output , plus of course the radio and online content ...

[zygalski]

Wonder if Clarkson's quit the booze?
Punchy really needs to sign a contract that prevents him from chugging it down when around his production crew...

[dandarez]

Cheese Mechanic said:

carinaman said:

Despite the backdrop, repeated utterances of 'POWER!!!' and impending invasion of England the assessmbled throng insisted that they were not auditioning for Top Gear.

That piccy always makes me chuckle, the SNP posing under a great monument to ENGLISH engineering

At the time I think you'd find it was BRITISH engineering, and Watanabe would probably argue it was 10% Japanese!

Edited by dandarez on Saturday 23 May 13:10

[Cheese Mechanic]

The two designers of the bridge were both English

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Fowler,_1st_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Baker_%28eng...

The actual builders, were multinational , a French company (as example) built the main caissons. ( If there was nobody called Murphy involved in the construction I'll eat my neighbours dog )

The fact remains though, the bridge is an example of English engineering design and implementation.

[FourWheelDrift]

Cheese Mechanic said:

carinaman said:

Despite the backdrop, repeated utterances of 'POWER!!!' and impending invasion of England the assessmbled throng insisted that they were not auditioning for Top Gear.

That piccy always makes me chuckle, the SNP posing under a great monument to ENGLISH engineering

Owned by the UK State owned Network Rail and if Scotland goes independent they have every right to dismantle it and ship it south of the border