This is (still) getting ridicilous

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11621083

[b]Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson caused offence when he described a car as "speciale needs" - a play on its proper name, Ferrari F430 Speciale.

Media regulator Ofcom investigated after receiving two complaints.

However, it did not censure the BBC as the broadcaster had deleted the comment from repeats and the iPlayer version, and apologised for causing offence.[/b]

TWO complaints! So what next? a programme that is KNOWN for non PC jokes will not be allowed to offend fatties? short people? bald people? People who were born in 29th of february, ginger people, people with a lisp? come on! he wasn't even referring to anything that is untrue. Do people with a down syndrome always look like they are smiling? - YES!
Are fat people bigger than slim people? - YES
Are short people always looking up at taller people? -YES

So why is a comparison that is actually true, cut out? The car looks like a down in his opinion. nothing more nothing else. what's teh big deal?

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ewenm said:

Shock horror! People complain about things! The ridiculous thing is that this story is on the BBC website. It's hardly newsworthy that some people get offended by stuff and complain.

Yes but the shck is that BBC has edited it out of the re-runs and i-player! non?

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Tiggsy said:

isee said:

So why is a comparison that is actually true, cut out? The car looks like a down in his opinion. nothing more nothing else. what's teh big deal?

Seriously? Thats your defence?

If they made it in brown could it call it a Special ?

While the joke is no big deal it is in poor taste and people are free to say so.....to "defend" it as some sort of statement of fact and not a joke is weak at best.

I am not defending the joke, but a principle. It should be disallowed to get offended at st like that or rather you can get offended, but your complaint should not be enforced in any way.

your example does not exactly comapre since it is racialist and the term itself is dergoatory.

so yes if they made it with a widebody kit they could call it Royale with cheese
if they made it in white polka dots, they could call it Head & speciale
and if they made it like the core of the batmobile, they could call it speciale anorexic