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

pepitko said:
that's was really and excellent read! Thanks for sharing. Is it really the case in UK that schools don't let kids outside, when its a bit slippery??
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Not sure about that, that exaggering to the exterme, however on Wed we got a phone call from the school "Your daughter has been sick can you come and collect her". Turns out she was in fact fed something we specifcally told them she don't care for and threw up. Bearming in mind it is a Wed and she was perfically healthy "She has been sick so she has to remain off school for 48hrs, we will see her on Monday".
 
In America now, everyone wants to be a victim.

Slip and fall down, has to be somebody's elses fault. And that could be the place you were at, the maker of the shoes you were wearing, another person, it has to be something.

We have forgotten what an accident is.

And it does not end with personal responsibility, everyone also wants to be handicapped.

My dad really was handicapped. He could barely walk on his own, but he would have beat the hell out of anybody that called him handicapped. It you called someone that in his eyes, it was the same as calling you retarded.

As most of you know I work in a very small rural hospital and a clinic for one of the casinos. Every child that comes to the ER has asthma, ADHD, and GERD. We are talking about children. I couldn't figure it out. So I ask my coworkers. Well it turns out that the government gave the local rural county doctors money for signing up children with these problems. They placed ads in the paper saying as such and the waiting rooms were not only standing room only, but it was standng room only outside the office too. The parents then filled out questionaires and checked yes to everything in the belief that this would get them money somehow.

There was a super duper minor bus accident where a car clipped the bumper of the bus. EVERY chld was brought to the ER, all 54 of them and every single one of them had neck and back pain. Me: Where did you get hurt? Child: (looks at mother) My neck and my back. Me: Where does your neck hurt. Without exception, every child put their hand on the side of their neck or just pointed at the general direction. If the child was right handed, their neck on the right hurt and if they were left handed, it hurt on the left.

WHen I ask where their back hurt, that got funny, because they had been told by "somebody" to say their back hurt, but no one told them WHERE it was suppose to hurt.

It makes me sick when adults are doing this stuff, but when it is being taught to the children, I just want to scream.

People just have to be offended or injured about something all the time now. I am a woman, from a hillbilly family, from the deep south and I could easily be offended everyday if I let myself because someone somewhere will say something, but there is nothing anyone can say that will offend me. I am too smart for that.

And apparently the person that wrote that aticle is too.
 
pepitko said:
that's was really and excellent read! Thanks for sharing. Is it really the case in UK that schools don't let kids outside, when its a bit slippery??
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Sadly I'm another one who can vouch for the truth of that. I am a volunteer at my local cemetery and part of my role is teaching Victorian history through symbolism. Every year, in March or thereabouts, I take a group of 8-year-olds around the flat bit of the cemetery (where all the paths have been resurfaced) and tell them what the pictures on the gravestones mean. A couple of years ago, we had snow and they weren't allowed to walk the couple of hundred yards on thoroughly gritted pavements from the school to the cemetery. Now, when I say "snow", what I really mean is "half an inch of slightly wet stuff" because we really don't get snow in my part of Devon. :rolleyes:

I have to take some university students around next week. Unless it rains, because the grass might be a bit hazardous then, obviously...

But on a happier note, glad to see the broadly supportive tone the media is now taking.

EDIT: I have to add this! I've just been speaking to a friend of my almost-ex husband who, it turns out, works in the 'sex industry' not as a prostitute but as a dominatrix to fund her way through university (I swear to god). She's also a TG fan, but has been working on a dissertation all week so has not only missed the show but also the media furore that followed. She asked me what caused all the trouble, so I repeated the "change gear..." thing. Was she offended? Shocked? Outraged? Was she buggery, she laughed her head off. I think she found it funnier because she's "in the trade", so to speak :D
 
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Do people these days have no sense of humor anymore?
 
I got bored after 50k...

And I'm outraged by the lack of outrage in this thread over the lack of outrage by the truckers! :mad:
 
Interesting start to Jeremy's Comment column in the Times today:

Greetings from the bunker. As I write, the MP for Ipswich is running around the country calling through his beard for me to be sacked. And the English Collective of Prostitutes is out for blood as well.

But let?s be honest, shall we? There are more important things to worry about than what some balding and irrelevant middle-aged man might have said on a crappy BBC2 motoring show.
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You can read the rest at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article5113220.ece
 
DTMracer said:
Do people these days have no sense of humor anymore?
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Sure as hell seems that way.
Noone has a sence of humour. noone can take a joke.

But, the thing i find most annoying is this.
The people that have complained, probably watch the show all the time, and are fans of the show.

So it brings me to this: What kind of idiot, watches a show, that they more than likley like to watch, and then complains about it because they cant take a joke.

IMO, it was halarious, and everyone else that ive talked to that has seen the ep also thinks so.

and to all the Morons that complain about this crap. "THERES TWO SWITCHES ON YOUR TV, ONE TURNS IT OFF, AND THE OTHER CHANGES THE CHANNEL"
and also, LEARN TO TAKE A JOKE.
 
Andy Wilman was on "Points of View" (BBC programme for viewers to complain or otherwise about the weeks viewing) this evening defending Jeremy's joke as being "utterly, absurdly exaggerrated as to have no meaning so that's why it stayed in" (paraphrasing here) He also said there were as many comments supporting the programme as against it if "you look on the internet and so on"
That'll be us then :)

On the iplayer here -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fh5dt
 
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Wonderful - on tonight's show Richard and Jeremy set up what looked like was going to be an apology and Jeremy ended up "apologising" for having burnt the timeslip for last week's GT2! Just like Jeremy's apology over the caravans which went something along the lines of "I'm sorry we didn't destroy more".

Excellent!

And bollocks to the retards who call for resignations when they hear something they don't like.

ETA I read a letter in Metro from someone who called modern humour cruel - which it is in some cases - and who considered Coronation Street to be a decent source of humour - which it is never is in any cases. But I'm not aware of there being very much humour in general - not just now - which works when there isn't a victim of some description. A future wherein humour is cleansed of every possible offensive connotation is a grim one indeed. It isn't such a ridiculous possibility either. This is why its important that the kind of people who complain about something they clearly shouldn't be watching have the piss taken out of them - they should be regarded as a comedy turn.
 
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JPD said:
Wonderful - on tonight's show Richard and Jeremy set up what looked like was going to be an apology and Jeremy ended up "apologising" for having burnt the timeslip for last week's GT2! Just like Jeremy's apology over the caravans which went something along the lines of "I'm sorry we didn't destroy more".

Excellent!

And bollocks to the retards who call for resignations when they hear something they don't like.

ETA I read a letter in Metro from someone who called modern humour cruel - which it is in some cases - and who considered Coronation Street to be a decent source of humour - which it is never is in any cases. But I'm not aware of there being very much humour in general - not just now - which works when there isn't a victim of some description. A future wherein humour is cleansed of every possible offensive connotation is a grim one indeed. It isn't such a ridiculous possibility either. This is why its important that the kind of people who complain about something they clearly shouldn't be watching have the piss taken out of them - they should be regarded as a comedy turn.
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Gah! 23 minutes! You couldn't have waited 23 minutes! (haven't seen it yet as I am still downloading).
 
Momo63 said:
Andy Wilman was on "Points of View" (BBC programme for viewers to complain or otherwise about the weeks viewing)
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Usually with letters starting "Why oh why..."

this evening defending Jeremy's joke as being "utterly, absurdly exaggerrated as to have no meaning so that's why it stayed in" (paraphrasing here) He also said there were as many comments supporting the programme as against it if "you look on the internet and so on"
That'll be us then :)
On the iplayer here -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00fh5dt
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Said episode of Points Of View, being on the BBC iPlayer, is downloadable. But now I've given the iPlayer Download Manager a go, I find it wants to update all the DRM on Windoze Media Player, and only run the file through there... when I'm supposed to be going back to Linux at some stage!

Again, it's delivered via Flash, so if there's someone out there who can piece together a URL and get a proper download of this, it'd be appreciated. I was going to download it and then burn it to a CD-RW to preserve it until after the expiration date, etc... but, yet again, getting the download right seems to be beyond my programming capability. I hate the way Flash is used to mask downloadables from us non-programmers. I hate it so much.

EDIT: I found a 64 MB file in my "Downloads" folder, possibly generated by the iPlayer downloader. It is a download of POV, in .wmv format, but there is no picture, just a mish-mash of coloured blocks. It's as if they've deliberately scrambled it until the net-nanny Gestapo is in place. Bastards!
 
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Greece is playing the part of a toilet in the EU and telling every one else that they need shit (sic) loads of money to do something about the er shit! Look at who gets the had outs to clean up their shit . ... Its Greece! Woa what a surprise! Give me my money back now.
 
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