Jeremy Clarkson Strikes Again

He would be appalled to think that anyone took him seriously!!;)

Guys, it doesn’t matter if you like the guy or not. Rules here don’t allow you to insult anyone.

So, please keep this tidy.

There’s this one http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?132562-Virgin-Galactic-spaceship-crashes-during-California-test-flight

Rats. Ok, I admit I’m the idiot who clicked on Trip Reports by acciddent… It was the next one down from Commercial, I tell you!

Good to hear – might be an interesting episode to watch if they include all the pertinent footage!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2815884/BBC-refuses-apology-Top-Gear.html

Indeed – it never occurred to me that it was that to which Snafu was referring as we are all a click away from Commercial.

…As for wondering who would post a thread… I’ve noticed no one has posted anything about another rather devastating event that occurred the other day. Is that because, maybe, they didn’t know where to put it (we don’t have a space forum, or maybe it hovered between the commercial and general aviation forums) or just because they couldn’t be bothered, do you think?

There’s this one http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?132562-Virgin-Galactic-spaceship-crashes-during-California-test-flight

Which was……?

Charlie, I’ve been rather busy for the past few days… But I do sometimes wonder about the criteria of some members for making threads – some appear trivial but generate lots of responses (mostly moaning ones from Edgar if it was mine) whilst others which might be important or enlightening sometimes sit there without comment. Clarkson makes a tweet mentioning driving with a beer in the car – nothing to say he is actually drinking it or that it was a can that was even open, but a connection between drinking alcohol and driving nevertheless – and that is ignored by you lot because it is ‘good old Clarkson’. Yet our friends around the world might not have heard about his most recent publicity screw up (not every country’s media is transfixed by Jezza’s every utterance like ours appears to be) – do they not ‘deserve’ to hear the latest foot-in-mouth antics of this buffoon?
As for wondering who would post a thread… I’ve noticed no one has posted anything about another rather devastating event that occurred the other day. Is that because, maybe, they didn’t know where to put it (we don’t have a space forum, or maybe it hovered between the commercial and general aviation forums) or just because they couldn’t be bothered, do you think?

Wake up Snafu – this story is several days old and I wondered who if anyone would post it!! I might have guessed……Refreshing to read a female columnist singing his praises this morning!!;)

I feel terrible for not being suitably outraged & horrified.

Oh dear…guess who has dropped himself in it. Again?

Jeremy Clarkson is in trouble again. This time, the controversial Top Gear presenter has been slammed for glamourising drink driving after a tweet about beer in his cup holder.
While the rotund broadcaster did not suggest he was drinking the ale, he was heavily attacked on Twitter and Instagram, and branded a “bloody idiot”.

Jeremy Clarkson
One of the best drives of my life. Gravel road. M6. Sun going down. iPod playing Blind Faith. Beer in cup holder.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11200881/Top-Gear-Jeremy-Clarksons-biggest-bloopers.html

On that link there is a list of other events where Clarkson has acted the fool.

Well it isn’t if you read the statement from the BBC. So either the Grauniad has got it wrong or he wants two apologies!!

Either way the story rolls on achieving nothing but publicity for the programme.

I think the apology is more for Clarkson’s Sun column rather than for the cars:

The ambassador said Clarkson had made “serious accusations” against the government of Tierra del Fuego, a province off the southern tip of Argentina, in subsequent newspaper columns in which he said the cast and crew of the BBC2 programme had “walked into a trap” and described it as a “mafia state”.

In a statement, the Argentinian embassy in London said the ambassador “deeply regretted Jeremy Clarkson’s entirely false accusations of alleged resentment against British citizens in Argentina”.

It said Argentina was home to more than 250,000 British descendants, the largest such community in Latin America.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/21/top-gear-number-plate-row-argentina-jeremy-clarkson

I sincerely hope the BBC treat it with the contempt it deserves much as Cameron gave Mrs Kirchner short shrift at the UN a few months ago. Talk about clutching at straws……

Apparently the Argentine Ambassador is ‘demanding’ an apology from Top Gear / the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29706449

I’d say that the Falklands are owed an apology from Argentina first!

So what? He only states what people with common sense thinks, the same ones that are affraid to speak out because of “Political Correctness” bollox.

“Well its just common sense, innit mate? You’ll never guess who I had in the back of my cab last week…”.

Do continue!

It seems that, to a certain minority of the population, common sense equals ‘I lack the intellectual and emotional depth to be able to grasp concepts in anything other than a simple binary manner’.

Jeremy Clarkson may appeal to the petrolhead unreconstructed lad movement that grew out of the ’90s, but he is part of the set that invites Rebekah Brooks round for dinner. You don’t think he might be, in any way, putting on an act do you?

Just common sense, innit.

The guidelines, of course, were way out of touch. “‘Nigger’ is a good case in point,” Clarkson went on. “When I was growing up it was no more shocking than ‘cauliflower’.

Clarkson born 1960.

It was in the US army. Just one case of racial abuse is recorded in the second Air Division Memorial Library archives: a private in 491BG is charged with using the “N” word to the soldiers of company B, 827th Engineer (Aviation) Battalion at Metfield on the night of 17th June 1944. The man was court-martialled and fined $40 with three months hard labour, but the confinement was suspended.

Most here know my opinions on Clarkson.

But this story did make me smile.

Moggy

No doubt Moggs because YOU used to drive a Porche??:D
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Vegetablist!!

Broccoli!