Jezza does it again

Stretch said:
Truth hurt much?

Just make the man MP and be done with it. At leased then we can go down in a blaze of controversy, hilarity and hysteria. I kind of like the idea of Top Gear meets numbers 10 and 11.
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The only truth that hurts is him being Scottish ;)
 
It takes a big man to make fun of someones disability.....

I like Clarkson, I think he is quick witted and I like his no nonsense approach to the world.....but this is just lame.

There is far too much blind faith in Clarkson on this board, some of you need to realise that unfortunately sometimes even your hero's get it wrong.
 
Sounds like he hit the nail on the head to me.

It's just a pitty he didn't hit the "one eyed Scot" on the head, might have knocked some sense into him.
 
I don't see what the problem is. If JC was to comment that GB had only one eye, then go on to make jokes about his lack of [finnacial] vision then this could be offensive to epople with sight problems.

I doubt these compaints come from the RNIB or from many blind people, so it's either idiots taking offence at being branded the same as GB or Scottish people being branded the same. These seemed like abstract (and mostly accurate) observations.
 
"Most people here are proud that the prime minister is a Scot and believe him to be the right person to get the UK through this global economic crisis."
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This made me Larf!!... Name me on person who actually thinks this!?!... Scotish or otherwise!!... I don't know any!!..
 
callmeBadger said:
I don't see what the problem is. If JC was to comment that GB had only one eye, then go on to make jokes about his lack of [finnacial] vision then this could be offensive to epople with sight problems.
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"One eyed Scotish idiot" is an insult not a joke....and he is using the disability to up the level of the insult.

It's a totally cheap shot and I would expect better from Clarkson.
 
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MookJong said:
"One eyed Scotish idiot" is an insult not a joke....and he is using the disability to up the level of the insult.

It's a totally cheap shot and I would expect better from Clarkson.
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Oh come off it. It's hardly that serious... I suppose you take offence when you go to a comedy club and they start laying into disabled, foreign, religious, politically incorrect jokes? Seriously? I have a crippled cousin (brain damage at birth) and it pains me every time I see her, however I've made those jokes, and I've smirked at them... Gordon Brown's big bad and ugly enough to fend for himself and probably makes one eyed jokes himself. Why are you taking offence for someone else's problem?
 
MookJong said:
"One eyed Scotish idiot" is an insult not a joke....and he is using the disability to up the level of the insult.

It's a totally cheap shot and I would expect better from Clarkson.
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So if i were to say that some bloke is short, then latter say that he can't do his work as he's an idiot, would i then be insulting all short poeple?

Also if i say David blunket, the blind former Minister, lost his cabinet posts after scandals and due to conflicts of interests / dodgy business practices, would this be accurate or would i be insulting all blind people by mentioning a fact?
 
I dunno, GB, he aint done much wrong. Not enough for me to have a problem with him.
MUCH better than having the money loving, people hating idiot traditionalist tories.

Jezzer just likes to think he's really clever.
 
I get around said:
I dunno, GB, he aint done much wrong. Not enough for me to have a problem with him.
MUCH better than having the money loving, people hating idiot traditionalist tories.

Jezzer just likes to think he's really clever.
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Aint done anything wrong? You have noticed the near total economic collapse that we are currently flying blindly into, with GB at the helm? but no.. lets blame that on the former PM and his Treasurer.. oh yeah, the treasurer was GB too...

so, he screwed the economy, got made PM by way of the fact that nobody else wanted to captain a sinking ship, and now.. you say he's done nothing wrong? blah..

BLAH I SAY!
 
Am I the only one to spot the irony behind the one eyed comment.

'Gordon Banks, Labour MP for Ochil and South Perthshire, said the remark was "unforgivable".'

Gordon Banks the football legend only has one eye :D
 
MookJong said:
It takes a big man to make fun of someones disability.....

I like Clarkson, I think he is quick witted and I like his no nonsense approach to the world.....but this is just lame.

There is far too much blind faith in Clarkson on this board, some of you need to realise that unfortunately sometimes even your hero's get it wrong.
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It's only getting attention because it's Clarkson. Clarkson has made hundreds of lame jokes but that's what people do sometimes. It doesn't make him the devil just cause he said it and he's famous.
 
Love Top Gear and usually have a laugh at the antics and opinions. Not that bothered about the comments but he should have left out the Scottish bit. If GB had been English, would he have called him a one eyed English idiot? He should stick to on screen acting like a ten year old in a super ca.... oh wait a minute :D
 
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