Right Tom, I guess I'm gonna have to take this slowly so that I can clearly get my point(s) across to you.
Yes, I'm 22. Maybe you're having a difficult time understanding my posts. Just look at otispunkmeyer's post above yours. When someone says that you have "no right" to complain about a show because you're not from the same country that made the program and they'll put you on ignore if you keep complaining, that's just a polite way of telling someone to STFU. I thought schools in Europe were so much better then America's, but apparently reading between the lines is a lost art. All you have to do is start going through these last few threads about the American special to see those same posts.
If anyone's having difficulty understanding anything, I'm afraid it's you. Listen, when you
quote a person and respond straight after that quote, it is taken as meaning that you are directly responding to that person. If you go back to your previous message you'll see you quoted me (twice, and Otispunkmeyer once), and thus to any rational person each quote would be taken as a response to the individual who is being quoted. And if you go back and look at my subsequent response, I only quoted the parts of your message which were directed at me (or percieved to be directed at me). Otispunkmeyer's may have posted something before my post. So? Doesn't mean I share the exact same opinions as him and neither does it mean I am responding on his behalf (or vice versa).
I think I've mentioned this before but I think the problem is you might be clumping together the opinions of a group of
brit's and automatically assuming every brit is of the same opinion. Well, just for purposes of clarity, in future if you would like to respond and quote my posts, please only respond to things which I actually type and don't use other people's quote in your counter argument against mine.
It's either this that your having problem with, or difficulty in using quoting appropriately. Hopefully I've clarified your confusion on this matter.
Like I said, you can do exactly NOTHING. You either watch TV or you don't. Are you really going to throw your television in the garbage because TopGear offended you? No, of course not. If not a single person watched TopGear for the rest of the season, BBC would loose exactly.... nothing in revenue. Because no one is going to throw away their TV based on a single, insignificant show. They'll send in a complaint and get brushed off.
You don't appear to be reading either my posts or any of the other posts which have already addresses this issue several times over. Let me repeat myself. The BBC is a publicly funded organisation, which has to justify it's expenditure on the viewer figures it get's. Hence, lots of viewers for a programme = continue that program. Zero viewers for that programme = axe the programme. So yes, zero figures for TG won't make a difference to the BBC's budget, but in very simply terms,
if Top Gear get's zero ratings, it's dead. As it stands, I'm loving TG at the moment so I'll continue to watch, plus the fact that the American road trip episode got one of the highest ratings for TG gives the BBC and TG encouragement that, by and large the British public loved the episode and it's American bashing humour.
If Top Gear get's zero American ratings, it will still continue. If TG get's zero Swedish ratings, it will still continue. If TG get's zero Autralian ratings, it will still continue. If TG get's zero Chinese ratings (and it probably does!) it will still continue. But if TG get's zero British ratings, it will not continue (at best it's fate will be sealed).
I hope this is clear enough for you now and I don't have to repeat myself.
p.s. Just one more 'repeat' to avoid any further confusions, as I have already said this does not mean I don't support people's right to complain about the show here.