Very Offensive Times Article

Jezzabelle

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I am so livid at this article...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,24390-2382687,00.html

It is the most offensive Richard Hammond accident related bit of 'journalism' yet.
I thought you may like to see it, and defend not only hamster, but yourselves. As we are all like minded petrol heads, to varying degrees, it concerns us all.
I should attatch a health warning really as your blood might just boil.
 
What a bitch.
 
Not a particularly well written article, but hey everyone can have their own views, who cares.

She seems a bit confused though, she seems to think everything men do is to impress women. Maybe she's bitter and starved of male attention?
 
Wow, that article managed to do something which very few articles do... it made me angry. :shock:
 
so shes saying noone would start a fundraiser if SHE were to be killed/injured. oh ok.

bitter old wh**e
 
Seems like shes suffering because her Daddy liked racing more than his daughter...
 
(Ugh, sorry, I was just venting at this cranky old writer. Didn't mean for it to sound as bad as it might have)
 
epp_b said:
She's a woman. Therefore, she has more estrogen than testosterone. Therefore, she doesn't understand driving and the thrill of speed. Therefore, she knows nothing of the subject. Therefore, her opinion is worthless.

'Nuff said.

I believe you are sinking to her level with those sweeping generalizations.

For example, there are girls that are motor enthusiasts. And there are guys who don't give a damn.
 
epp_b said:
She's a woman. Therefore, she has more estrogen than testosterone. Therefore, she doesn't understand driving and the thrill of speed. Therefore, she knows nothing of the subject. Therefore, her opinion is worthless.

'Nuff said.

Oh, I would disagree with you. Women are just as competitive as men are, probably more so, they just focus their energy on other activities / objects / interests on other things, for the most part. My wife for example is a rabid American LeMans Series fan and gets into it as much as I do.

This India Knight woman is just a bitter pill.
 
epp_b, you say that in a thread started by a woman? =)

I've always thought Top Gear is a great way middle ground for the sexes, since it seems that women like it as much as men do. Sociologists should study it...
 
TRANSLATION:

"How DARE you choose to live your life the way you choose.

And how DARE you enjoy it."
 
Well, I might just c/p what I wrote in a mail to her here..

"In your article "Learn your lesson, Hamster", I find you to come with some very, in fact, sexist remarks. You actually make a point in saying that men are more foolish than women. Not only that, you are sexist when you act as an representative for all women, as would I if I claimed that all men love pornography and all men thinks driving fast is really fun, you have no right to act on behalf of all women.

I am a person who likes to, what would you say, stamp on the accelerator occationally. This means accelerating on a long straight piece of road, not driving at 70mph through a village or areas of population. You say, and I quote, "..What drives me mad is that it always works, in that other men are inevitably impressed..", which frankly, I find quite offending. I am a person who normally will tell stupid fools who drive irresponsible that they are idiots, that they should take some time to think about what they are doing. So are many other young men. And many older men. At the same time, there are many women who drive like deranged morons, which I am sure you know.

If you watch Top Gear, you will see that they do their testing under very strict supervision. If you watched the episode where they made the amphebious cars, you see Hammond jumping on the "Toybota", but you don't see the water absorbing mats in his van, or the vast number of safety boats following the cars. Neither, have you heard the producers go "are you sure?", "are you really sure?" and "do you really want to go through with this?" before Hammond jumped into the rocket car.

Some speculate that the rocket car stunt was done because the producers wished more viewers, which is like saying that Saddam Hussein let people out of his prisons to get higher numbers in the election.

Top Gear is the most viewed car programme in the world, Saddam got 100 percent of the votes and the producers were the ones holding back, and the claim is really stupid when you take the programes vast number of viewers into consideration.

I would say that it is a good way of showing respect to Hammond to cancel the programme while waiting for his recovery.

When, however, some people who have wished the programme canceled - I am not claiming that you wish that sort of thing, you have stated you watch it yourself - for years, try to use this tragic event to get their egoistic views through, I find that strongly offensive, and I really think some people need a lesson in how to behave themselves."

And yes, I find it sexist. Women can be sexist too. All the time. Why do we let them?

Edit: Err, and as I am Norwegian, my English is not perfect, so please be understanding.
 
nomix - Go go go. I think that driving fast and drink/drug abuse are mutually exclusive, you'll do it once or twice and then you will be dead in a horrible crash.
 
yea some1 hasnt gotten any in a while, and she assumes that driving fast is done by drink crackheads all the time, and im srry about your father, but hes and idiot so stop takin your anger out on hammond and the world's petrolheads and why dont you stop being so goddamn ignorant about stereotyping us
 
Cobol74 said:
nomix - Go go go. I think that driving fast and drink/drug abuse are mutually exclusive, you'll do it once or twice and then you will be dead in a horrible crash.
Yes, I do believe that comparing something like speeding a little bit, not driving like an idiot on other words, to using 3 grams of cocaine in an evening, which would be really stupid and most probably will render you with some sort of problems, is really foolish.
 
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