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By (user no longer on site) OP
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reminds me of the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand story, only a handful of people complained at the time but once it hit the headlines, everyone else thought they would too having not even heard the broadcast, talk about going with the masses. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"No different from the forums on a bad day then "
on any day - if you look at most originating posts, you'll see that most reply to something that OP has written, but infact nothing to do with the OP has written - they have just made it up in their heads..
Goes to show most do not actually read. |
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"reminds me of the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand story, only a handful of people complained at the time but once it hit the headlines, everyone else thought they would too having not even heard the broadcast, talk about going with the masses."
Actually I thought that was much worse, that was a personal attack on innocent individual.
Brand and Ross were totally out of order. |
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How is that jumping on the bandwagon?
Clarkson says something that offends some people, they write or phone in to complain because they are offended...
How exactly are they jumping on a bandwagon by exercising their right to complain?
Or are you suggesting that a celebrity can go on television, say what he/she likes, and people dare not complain?
I wasn't personally offended....some were....as is their right. |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
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I read that there were 5000 complaints before the show even ended, so nothing like the Ross/Brand event at all. That one was whipped up my the Daily Mail nearly a week afterward.
Clarkson is an over paid, over hyped, tory idiot. How he dare complain about 'gilt edged pensions' when he earns as much as he does is beyond me. However, he has a right to express his opinion. I just don't understand why he didn't do it in his column, where everyone would have agreed with him. |
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Just because Clarkson appears to ad-lib on Top Gear, it doesn't neccesarily mean he is ad-libbing...
He is an accomplished journalist and writer, he has a knack of penning very witty and often very funny articles and scripts....in all probability he was dreaming up his quip about the striking workers while laying in the bath that afternoon, or while he was driving in to the studio.
If anyone is in any doubt about Clarkson and his witty remarks they should visit the Top Gear show recording, my sons did as they are car mad, but they were a little dismayed to see it was very scripted in parts, with more than one take often occuring when something Clarkson, May and Hammond were joking about never came out right and had to be repeated once or twice.
So yes Clarkson is very amusing, and yes he is also a very good writer of articales and books, but he is also a very polished act....and should be seen as such. |
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As I suggested above....it now appears that Clarkson was indeed quoting from a script he had previously cleared with the producers of the One Show according to an inter_iew he has given with The Times....
Things are not always as they first appear, Clarkson is a very able and very good writer of some seemingly witty phrases and punchlines.....his skill is in making them appear as ad-libs, as they often do on his TV shows.
So all pre-arranged, not unlike much of the reality TV shows people take to heart in these modern times.
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"As I suggested above....it now appears that Clarkson was indeed quoting from a script he had previously cleared with the producers of the One Show according to an inter_iew he has given with The Times....
Things are not always as they first appear, Clarkson is a very able and very good writer of some seemingly witty phrases and punchlines.....his skill is in making them appear as ad-libs, as they often do on his TV shows.
So all pre-arranged, not unlike much of the reality TV shows people take to heart in these modern times.
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That is how he earns his money, anybody could be a star if the camera was in the right place at the right time, faking it and making it look real takes rare skill. |
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It's also like being back in the 70s. It makes me feel at home somehow," said the Top Gear presenter, before adding: "But we have to balance this though, because this is the BBC" and went on: "Frankly, I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families. I mean, how dare they go on strike when they have these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?"
he has been completely mis-quoted, it was a poke of fun at the bbc if anything
read it in full
FFS-more something about nothing
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"reminds me of the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand story, only a handful of people complained at the time but once it hit the headlines, everyone else thought they would too having not even heard the broadcast, talk about going with the masses.
Actually I thought that was much worse, that was a personal attack on innocent individual.
Brand and Ross were totally out of order."
What has happened to free speech in this country? the PC brigade are at again. Surely it's his 'uman rite' to say what he likes   |
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"reminds me of the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand story, only a handful of people complained at the time but once it hit the headlines, everyone else thought they would too having not even heard the broadcast, talk about going with the masses.
Actually I thought that was much worse, that was a personal attack on innocent individual.
Brand and Ross were totally out of order.
What has happened to free speech in this country? the PC brigade are at again. Surely it's his 'uman rite' to say what he likes "
I personally felt for Andrew Sachs in this instance, to humiliate an old man in this way, deserves a bloody good kick in for Brand and Ross. |
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