Clarkson: Outrage over Clarkson's 'sick' prostitutes joke

The way i look at it was it was just dam funny. Not like taking something a little to seriously...
 
My god - some people have far to much time on their hands if they can be bothered calling up to complain about that. I am surprised that people lacking in the ability to recognise sarcasm, void of a sense of humour and an inability to take everything Jeremy says with a grain of salt watch Top Gear at all. Do people just sit around and wait for him to say something they can complain about?

As for prostitutes - perhaps once they respect themselves a little more others will respect them enough to stop making fun of them.
 
bugs said:
I mean TG is rated for 'parental guidance' it doesn't mean that the show will be entirely suitable for younger people.

I can think of many episodes where the content would not be deemed appropriate for young children.

Still, the content of the magazines was never shown, the covers dont show much..
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The problem is neither the TV, nor the things shown on TV.

I always have the feeling that many parents today are both overprotective with their children, while at the same time are not really willing to invest much time in their upbringing - because they do not want children to interfere with their career, freedom or self-realization.

They park them in front of a TV set or a Playstation, hand them a pizza and go after their own interests - and complain when the children see or do something not suitable for their age. I'm not saying anyone here does it this way and I'm looking at no one in particular (how could I?) but it's a clear tendency in our modern society and I can see such things happening all around me.

Thing is, though: When it comes to raise children it's still the parents' responsibility in the first place, whether they grow up to become decent persons or not. Unfortunately many parents today seem to think they can share this responsibility with other institutions, like school or TV, and blame them if something goes wrong.

"My daughter has become a selfish tyrant and pregnant at the age of 13? Must be the TV's fault."
Yeah, right...

"My son has become violent? Must be those damn Playstation games!"
Well, who gave that thing to him in the first place?

"My son brings home bad grades? Must be the teachers' fault."
Of course... surely he can't be just lazy or stupid...

For anything that goes wrong with a child, parents today look for outside reasons, a.k.a. "bad influence". It seems impossible for them to understand that the main reason is that they were simply not able to bring them up right and that the major bad influence is their own bad example.

Therefore I always frown and shake my head when people, magazines, so-called "experts" or shady studies from America want to make us believe that we are not responsible anymore, when something goes wrong with our children and that we have a problem with outside influence.

Rubbish, I say. Absolute and utter rubbish. Parents are always responsible for their children.

Outside influences can only play a role, when the inside influences failed.
 
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wtf? Are kids these days still shocked when they hear the word "prostitute" on TV or when they see some very blurry shots of porn magazines?

Are kids really that lame and overprotected these days? SRSLY?
 
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these press outcries about some "tasteless" joke make me laugh..

/sits back and waits for complaints about TG allowing children and dogs driving supercars/ :p
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Mineworksfine said:
FYI all my children are in bed before 8pm, not that I see how it's any of your business how I raise my family or what I allow them to watch either as broadcast or on sky+ (our version of tivo).
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You have a fwd button on your Sky+, you could easily fwd through the bits you deem unsuitable.
 
I woke up in a right bad mood today so I'm gonna get this off my chest ....

You know what really boils my piss..? Whining maggots, that's what. People who can't take a joke, people who get offended on behalf of someone else who they probably even don't know, people who get offended by mere comments on tv when there are the most horrendous things going on in the world, people who can't switch over, people who jump on the bandwagon of offence over things they didn't even witness first-hand. Dear God! It's pathetic! Who do I write to to complain about them and get them all sacked? :blink:

Over the years Jeremy has had a go at just about everybody - French, Germans, stupid people, Belgians, Americans, fat people, poor people, rich people, Americans, vegetarians (of which I'm one ), Americans, Koreans, James May, business men, Northerners, tea drinkers, Richard Hammond. It's what he does. Sweeping generalisations and ridiculous exaggerations - and that's what makes it funny. I thought we all knew that he knows that he's exaggerating but obviously I was wrong. Or are this country's sour-faced, miserable, professional offence-takers riding the wave of smug self-righteousness after the Brand/Ross thing and going for the throats of anyone who have had the word 'millions' mentioned within 6 inches of their name in a newspaper headline over the last 6 months. Have a go at the American film industry as well while you're on a roll - every truck driver that's appeared in a horror movie has either been a psychopathic killer or implied to possibly be one...

That goblin-faced tart Joan Rivers offends me greatly - I switch her off. Same for Gordon Ramsey and Eastenders. It's easy.

And as for the porn mags - well we only saw the covers which are on display in any newsagent up and down the country. Kids can't reach them on the top shelf but unless I'm sadly mistaken, they are able to tilt their heads up and see them. And hell, the Daily Star and the Sport have some tart from Big Brother with her bum out on their covers nearly every day.If you don't want them to hear the word prostitute or anything else that concerns issues that are too mature for them how do you manage to have the tv on at all? Prostitutes get a regular mention on the news for one reason of another. I kinda would've thought that if you feel that the content of TG is a little too old for your children you probably would've stopped them watching it after the vibrating seat or the travel rabbit (just as awkward to explain as pornography surely) but none of it is explicit enough to have to be post-watershed.


So nerrrr..... :p

/rant

phew I feel better after that. Cup of tea and a biscuit anyone? :)
 
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Jesus effin christ wat will people complain about next? Don't ike it don't watch simple as that! I think people do this to try and get a reaction out of TG and get all happy about it, its their own little power trip stimulation. Its the same with advertising on TV, it gos for only a couple seconds yet people still manage to complain and demand it get off air...seriously WTF?

If i aired an ad and got it banned i'd track the whiny a'holes and sue for damages!!
 
Glopaticki said:
Jesus effin christ wat will people complain about next? Don't ike it don't watch simple as that! I think people do this to try and get a reaction out of TG and get all happy about it, its their own little power trip stimulation. Its the same with advertising on TV, it gos for only a couple seconds yet people still manage to complain and demand it get off air...seriously WTF?

If i aired an ad and got it banned i'd track the whiny a'holes and sue for damages!!
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To be honest I think some advertisers deliberately try to get their ads banned - the publicity involved reaches far beyond what the original ad would be expected to achieve. 2 people complained about Brand's Show when it was broadcast but that rose to 30,000 once it was in the papers. I suspect that next weeks TG viewing figures will be considerably higher that this week's....
 
Dicky's hair reminds me of Russell Brand, I am outraged that the BBC could allow this.

I think it's dis-tasteful and not funny, bring back Tony Mason I say.
 
I also think that showing that a kid/granny/dog can drive a Lambo fast is much worse... but still funny

/random

I like the fact that the dog is yawning while "driving" the Lambo. it's like it's so boring to drive :lol: :lol:

/random
 
pebblepixie said:
To be honest I think some advertisers deliberately try to get their ads banned - the publicity involved reaches far beyond what the original ad would be expected to achieve. 2 people complained about Brand's Show when it was broadcast but that rose to 30,000 once it was in the papers. I suspect that next weeks TG viewing figures will be considerably higher that this week's....
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Advertisers aim for complaints to be made, many companies i work for have 'complaint targets'.

It not only gets people talking about the product/ad however you know that people are taking notice.
 
It was funny. It was a joke. It wasnt real
its as if the truck drivers want top gear to be boring again.
 
So that's what this is all about then. I saw the end of a news segment on this, and I had no idea what was going on, but they were stupid enough to follow it up by mentioning an actual murderer who was a lorry driver. :roll:

Idiots, the lot of 'em.
 
pebblepixie said:
To be honest I think some advertisers deliberately try to get their ads banned - the publicity involved reaches far beyond what the original ad would be expected to achieve.
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Ever see the VW Polo "suicide bomber" ad? That was banned before it even reached the TV, and VW knew full well that would happen.

H?pla for Youtube!

See also: Bollocks!
 
I see the BBC now has over 500 "complaints" about this nonsense.

Might be an idea to write in to them and OFCOM in support of JC, before he gets the chop like Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross!

Can't believe what the country has turned into, and how spineless the BBC management now is thanks to the Nu-Lab witchhunt of a few years back.
 
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I would have thought there would have been more complaints about these.
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im more concerned about the dog not wearing a seatbelt lol

and im a truck driver and i wet my self laughing i think people should find a hobby if they have so much time on there hands to conplain
 
originalkk said:
I see the BBC now has over 500 "complaints" about this nonsense.
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So... at least 500 people without a life are watching Top Gear.

Interesting...
 
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