And now the Director General of the BBC is getting death threats over it.
*frustrated sigh*
"Yup. That tasted purple."Yeah, I saw that earlier on. It's stupidity. Using death threats only makes Clarkson's case look worse because it allows the BBC to go "Look, those fans of Clarkson are so violent they've threatened to kill our boss." and splash it all over their headlines like a rash. Even though the vast majority of us wouldn't go along with anyone taking violent action or threatening murder...
Telling someone you're going to kill them on the school playground or in the pub is one thing, doing it on a public forum where people outside your circle take notice and hence action is quite another thing entirely these days. People tend to take it seriously, and there's prison cells full of idiots who do stuff like that, get caught, get put on trial and sent to gaol for it.
What these fools are doing should stop immediately.
I think that May could be good doing educational programs, he's pretty good at those. Also props to Clarkson for telling people to leave the guy alone, so far he seems to be dealing with it all in a pretty adult manner.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyranjust felt the need to share this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBi_h282p8![]()
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Been a bit since anyone posted so here's some news that I was fully expecting to hear. Jeremy Clarkson has pulled out of his scheduled and fully BBC-sanctioned ritual humiliation at the hands of that disgusting duo of Merton and Hislop, that would have masqueraded as a "comedy" news based programme. (Ya know, exactly the same kind of ritual humiliation that the disgusting duo dealt out to Angus Deayton when he annoyed the BBC bosses.)
Well. Done. Jeremy. Clarkson.
Jeremy had a cancer scare just before the fracas
. Oh, and both James and Richard are making YouTube videos now.
Yeah I noticed that. There was a particularly good article in yesterday's i newspaper (not a typo, that's what it's called, the "i"), by Grace Dent, which laid into the critics who took to twitface in their droves to pour scorn on Jeremy and of his explaining some of the reasons behind the blow-up which cost him his career.
It's available online here:
I love this bit the most:
“I’ve had ... *insert miscellaneous terrible life threatening illness here* ... and I was never violent!” tweeted angry throngs of Clarkson despisers, to which I thought quietly, “Oh well, whoopy-doo for you. You were probably a massive pain in the arse in other ways.” Because none of us are faultless, selfless, above reproach at all times beings. None of us are above being absolute dicks under the correct tricky set of circumstances."
OK, so James
and producer Andy
have both said they're not coming back either.
At what point does the BBC just give up and can it all?
"Yup. That tasted purple."There's too much money at stake for that. At least that's what the gin-swillers in W 1 A think anyway.
Reminds me of a verse from one of my favourite Pogues songs, "Transmetropolitan"
"and when we've done those bastards in we'll storm the BBC!"
I can understand the thought process that led to writing that one.
James has suggested that the trio may still return sometime later, though
. Apparently "at least one" of the hosts have no-compete clauses in their contracts.
I think the renegotiation died on its backside when Clarkson allegedly put Tymion on his.
A re-booted Top Gear might be a good watch - I remember when it happened the last time. No-one would have predicted that the show would end up being as big as it was when the original Top Gear was a penny ante show reviewing Austin Allegros, Vauxhall Novas and other such rot and had no international appeal whatsoever. Or celebrity laptimes. Or the Stig. Or races between a Bugatti Veyron and a Cessna. Or anything else that a fan of the show now would recognize as being "Top Gear". I grew up watching the original show so I know of what I speak.
But the new Top Gear had a season that they were allowed to throw under the bus - the first one with Jason Dawes instead of James May, of which I have not seen a single episode since first transmission. It's never been on Dave, so you know it must have sucked. The new new Top Gear isn't going to get that luxury even if they get the casting spot on.
It's also not on the show You Tube channel aside from small segments (possibly just the budget bond car skit) whereas all of seasons 2-4 are up as full episodes either.
"Yup. That tasted purple."

According to the poll most people want him to either be a DT, Science or History teacher.
Apparently no-one noticed the fact that he's got a degree in music.
"Yup. That tasted purple."