Welsh Wonder
A dribbling mess on the sauce
The Boy With Four Bums in absolute tears in work
Indeed, but it's hard for my outrage to outweigh my amusement when anyone championing Clarkson complains about a tasteless statement exagerrated for effect. The words irony, hypocrisy, medicine and taste of spring to mind. Also cnut.
It's a pretty bold assumption that an institution that's run for 92 years, is renowned throughout the world, accounts for 14 of the top 20 most popular shows in UK broadcast history, all 10 of the most watched 'events' and 17 out of 20 in the BFI list of the best British programmes of all time and probably accounts for more of your favorite comedies, dramas and docs than all of the commerical channels combined when you actually think about it, is apparently universally accepted to be reliant on niche sport shows and currently popular presenters.
Even in a country where the furiously anti-Beeb tabloids, pushing an agenda for Fox News style TV, are read by more people than all the broadsheets combined, it's still a bit surprising anyone is myopic enough to believe this kind of thing.
The BBC's very nature as the world's biggest public broadcaster makes it a unique target for knee-jerk nonsense, but however much it stumbles in the mind of Johnny Lunchbucket, it's still far more useful and relevant than not. ITV produces next to nothing but "karaoke and trick shows" but when the Beeb follows suit - entirely within it's remit to account for the tastes of the public who fund it - it's the one in the firing line of whatever section of the populace are annoyed they're not paying for a personally tailored output.
Even in this scenario, where you assume a majority of the 64 million people who pay this tax genuinely want Jeremy Clarkson reinstated, it's doomed to incur the wrath of either Johnny and Judy Lunchbucket, or Sam and Sarah Sandlewearer, whatever it's final decision. All the while ITV broadcasts Keith Lemon and fake hypnotism gameshows, Channel 4 pumps out a million variations on The Boy with Four Bums, and Channel 5 does....whatever Channel 5 does, all to amused indifference.
But yeah, snooker and Clarkson. It'd be dead on its feet without them.
ITV >>>>>>> BBC for snooker.
Didn't know they did snooker on ITV.
Didn't know they did snooker on ITV.
There's one tournament going on at the moment on ITV, World Grand Prix. It just has much better commentators than BBC, Clive Everton, Neal Foulds are way way way better than BBC's tired old gang of incompetent turds.
Hammond can go back to opening supermarkets and doing voiceovers for stupid challenge tv shows.Yup, that's not a surprise really. Apparently May and Hammond's contract are up soon, I can see them all leaving BBC.
Hammond can go back to opening supermarkets and doing voiceovers for stupid challenge tv shows.
I don't mind him tbh, although I can see why people find him annoying.
I can see someone like Sky signing all three up and starting up Top Gear again, under different name obviously.
From what I've heard the guy he hit didn't even report him, it was Clarkson who told the powers that be what had happened.I read that he went round the house of the guy he assaulted and tried to apologise but the he wouldn't let him in.
He's a gonna, I think.According to this, it says Clarkson has been sacked. I don't see it anywhere else though.
http://www.independent.ie/entertain...-he-has-been-sacked-by-top-gear-31081414.html
Crikey, it's nip and tuck in Mockney and Claymore's competition to see who can write the longest single sentence paragraph.
My chairman bollocks if I let a 40-50 word sentence slip through in the mag. He'd probably have a stroke if he read this thread.
I liked Claymore's post, it was insinuating Mockney might be a bbc pedo-covering sympathizer of whatever mental point he was trying to make. I also like how no-one quoted him too just in case he lost it at them as well.
It has an impressive angriness I guess. Almost like a twisted tv-themed riff on the trainspotting end monologue.
Way out with his numbers though. Billions is laughable and he forget channel 4 gets some of the licence fee.
But yeah, Mockney's a paedo apologist.
Its not like he's never going to be on TV again.Good, the guy is a giant walking twat.
Great news if true. Be interesting to see if those who who voted in that that petition will follow Clarkson and walk away from Top Gear.According to this, it says Clarkson has been sacked. I don't see it anywhere else though.
http://www.independent.ie/entertain...-he-has-been-sacked-by-top-gear-31081414.html
If he starts up new show I'll definitely watch it, especially if its with Hammond and May.Great news if true. Be interesting to see if those who who voted in that that petition will follow Clarkson and walk away from Top Gear.
I don't think there'll be a Top Gear at all if those 3 are gone.If Clarkson, Hammond and May start a new show on a different channel there's a good chance no one will watch Top Gear at all anymore.
Its not like he's never going to be on TV again.
The Top Gear thread was so quiet before this 'fracas' happened.To be honest it makes no difference to me, I don't watch Top Gear anyway so never, ever see him. I just saw a good opportunity to call him a giant twat.
This is all very reminiscent of the entire panel of Gardener's Question Time defecting from the Home Service back in the '90s. They all bogged off to commercial radio en masse, led by the Polish guy, and what happened, eh? eh? They were never heard of again, not even the Polish guy, while the BBC just carried on with some new geezers in their place, that's what happened. Conclusive proof that no one is indispensable, even at the BBC.
Speaking on another Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, the academic said: “Gardeners’ Question Time is not the most controversial show on Radio 4, and yet it is layered with, saturated with, racial meanings.
“The context here is the rise of nationalism. The rise of racist and fascist parties across Europe. Nationalism is about shoring up a fantasy of national integrity. My question is, what feeds nationalism? What makes nationalism powerful?”
Dr Pitcher said the “crisis in white identity in multicultural Britain” meant people felt unable to express their views for fear of being called racist, so expressed their racial identity in other ways, such as talking about gardening.
However Mr Flowerdew, a regular panellist on the show, denied that people who enjoyed talking about gardening were closet racists.
He said: “People aren’t gardening because they have some narrow nationalist view of the world.
“They are gardening because they enjoy it and they like to be outside in nice surroundings.”
He added: “We’ve been out in our gardens for more than 150 years so I don’t quite see how that fits. I think it’s ridiculous.
Is Gardners Question Time Racist
There was defo a thread on this. I remember the rhodedendron bashing with middle englanders fantasising about slaying foreigners.I googled "Gardners Question Time" as I hadn't heard of it before and the results had some articles debating whether or not it's a show layered with subtle racism, which seemed pretty weird.
mental
The BBC is fecking weird. I had an interview for a business reporter role their about eight years ago. Pay was shit, was a massive panel interview with loads of weirdos- beardy sandal man, clear lesbian, boring cnut etc..- and the old White City HQ had massive words on the wall like 'inspire', 'create' and 'dream'.
Also I have my doubts about the BBC being an entirely paedo-run safe haven, that has some kind of trickle-down effect even onto its viewers who somehow manage to get past this tragic fact purely because they enjoy their programs so much.