Sad day...

runnah · Mar 25, 2015

Noooo!

Jeremy Clarkson Officially Fired From Top Gear

Forkie · Mar 25, 2015

Yeah, just been reading it.

That's end of Top Gear, then...

Derrel · Mar 25, 2015

It was a long, fun ride!
I can say, yet another news item I heard about first on TPF!
Jeeze, what a bunch of weenies...a guy punches his boss, and then they fire him because he punched his boss...I mean, wow...talk about thin-skinned.

Railphotog · Mar 25, 2015

RIP Top Gear.

runnah · Mar 25, 2015

Derrel said:
It was a long, fun ride!
I can say, yet another news item I heard about first on TPF!
Jeeze, what a bunch of weenies...a guy punches his boss, and then they fire him because he punched his boss...I mean, wow...talk about thin-skinned.

Yeah he did kind of screw himself.

Shows the difference between BBC and US TV. In the US you can bunch all the people you want and as long as the advertisers are happy you'll still have a job!

Braineack · Mar 25, 2015

I'd punch someone if they served me cold food too.

limr · Mar 25, 2015

Well, to be fair, it was getting a bit stale.

tirediron · Mar 25, 2015

limr said:
Well, to be fair, it was getting a bit stale.

What?????? 'You an' me need to step outside???? :irked:

Gary A. · Mar 25, 2015

LOL ... he needs a union. I know of a Los Angeles City employee who accidentally shot a co-worker and wasn't fired. He was suspended a couple of weeks w/o pay and that was it. (It was one of incidences where an employee was showing off his new toy type of things and it accidentally went off. If he had actually shoot his boss instead of a co-worker, that apparently nobody liked, the story may have been different.)

407370 · Mar 25, 2015

limr said:
Well, to be fair, it was getting a bit stale.

Top Gear was the last bastion of politically incorrect TV. I will miss them for as long as it takes them to produce a new version on another channel.

limr · Mar 25, 2015

Meh, it was getting all shiny and focusing more on shtick than on the cars.

And, yes, they were often politically incorrect, but there's also a difference between being political incorrect and being an arsehole. Clarkson was very entertaining and I'll miss the chemistry the three of them had, but there were also things I've seen on that show that I thought crossed the line into meanness, and I won't miss that.

Forkie · Mar 25, 2015

runnah said:
Derrel said:

It was a long, fun ride!
I can say, yet another news item I heard about first on TPF!
Jeeze, what a bunch of weenies...a guy punches his boss, and then they fire him because he punched his boss...I mean, wow...talk about thin-skinned.

Click to expand...

Yeah he did kind of screw himself.

Shows the difference between BBC and US TV. In the US you can bunch all the people you want and as long as the advertisers are happy you'll still have a job!

He was on a final warning though from a fair few previous misdemeanours. And with no advertisers, his wages are paid by me and the rest of the TV licence payers, so to keep him employed with public money after he assaulted a co-worker wasn't really an option for the BBC.

limr said:
Meh, it was getting all shiny and focusing more on shtick than on the cars.

And, yes, they were often politically incorrect, but there's also a difference between being political incorrect and being an arsehole. Clarkson was very entertaining and I'll miss the chemistry the three of them had, but there were also things I've seen on that show that I thought crossed the line into meanness, and I won't miss that.

Top Gear was never about the cars. It was a motoring magazine show about 3 mates playing with cars.

The meanness you mentioned was never malicious. It was laddish behaviour that goes on in every male group of friends that get together for fun and frolics. That's why it was so popular. It was like going on a track day with your mates and having a laugh. That's why there was an 18-year waiting list to be in the audience.

As much as I love Top Gear and although I don't agree with most of Clarkson's political views, he is a very good entertainer and journalist, but punching somebody in the face over an argument about a hot dinner is grounds for immediate dismissal from any type of employment - especially one that is paid for by the licence paying public.

407370 said:
limr said:

Well, to be fair, it was getting a bit stale.

Click to expand...

Top Gear was the last bastion of politically incorrect TV. I will miss them for as long as it takes them to produce a new version on another channel.

It will never be the same though, when they have to start pandering to advertisers

Fred Berg · Mar 25, 2015

Over a million sign petitions to save Clarkson's job at the BBC, whilst more than 20,000 queue to see the coffin of the usurper in Leicester. England is going to the dogs!