Bad car analogy

[chook]

Clarkson pulled over for remark

May 21, 2007 - 10:04PM

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was criticised by the UK media watchdog on Monday for describing a car as "very ginger beer", rhyming slang for "queer".

In a written ruling, Ofcom said the phrase could offend homosexuals and should not have been used.

Clarkson used the phrase during a discussion with the studio audience about the rounded, two-seater Daihatsu Copen.

An audience member described the car as "gay" and Clarkson replied: "A bit gay, yes - very ginger beer".

The watchdog said "gay" can be used to mean "foolish, stupid and socially inappropriate, or disapproved of and lame".

But Clarkson's response made it clear he was using the word to refer to homosexual people, Ofcom said.

"This ... meant that the use of the word became capable of giving offence," Ofcom said. "In the context, there was no justification for using the word in this way."

Five viewers complained about the show, broadcast last July on BBC Two.

Ofcom said the BBC had reminded producers and presenters to avoid using derogatory comments about sexual orientation and the matter was resolved.

[EDIT: Some people find the recent happenings in the Wallabies team and the AUS A team a .... bit 'ginger beer']



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[Burgs]

Ahhh, it's a lovely world in which we now live in....

[LarryNJ]

5 views complained...out of hundreds of thousands...they should simple tell those 5 to change the channel. It looks like a chicks car to me!

[hopep]

yes the thought police and the PC nazis are out in force again.

Top Gear is a great show watched by thousands, if not millions, and yes! the Copen is a ditzy little number I have not seen many driven but note that only women (or people who look and dress very much like women) drive.

[Flamethrower]

Some people need to get a life. Why would you watch Top Gear (a bloody funny show) if you were so anally retentive?

Ronnie Barker said this little gem in the seventies and no one even blinked. It still makes me laugh.

Cinderella

Bucking Frilliant!!!!

This was originally shown on BBC TV back in the seventies. Ronnie Barker
could say all this without a snigger (though god knows how many takes).

Irony is that they received not one complaint. Must have been the
speed of delivery was too much for the whining herds. Try getting through it
without converting the spoonerisms as you read;

This is the story of Rindercella and her sugly isters.

Rindercella and her sugly isters lived in a marge lansion.
Rindercella worked very hard frubbing sloors, emptying poss pits, and
shivelling shot. At the end of the day, she was knucking fackered.

The sugly isters were right bugly astards. One was called Mary Hinge,
and the other was called Betty Swallocks; they were really forrible
huckers; they had fetty sweet and fetty swannies. The sugly isters had tickets
to go to the ball, but the cotton runts would not let Rindercella go.
Suddenly there was a bucking fang, and her gairy fodmother appeared.
Her name was Shairy Hithole and she was a light rucking fesbian.
She turned a pumpkin and six mite wice into a hucking cuge farriage with six
dandy ronkeys who had buge hollocks and dig bicks

The gairy fodmother told Rindercella to be back by dimnlight otherwise,
there would be a cucking falamity.

At the ball, Rindercella was dancing with the prandsome hince when
suddenly the clock struck twelve. "Mist all chucking frighty!!!" said
Rindercella, and she ran out tripping barse over ollocks, so dropping
her slass glipper.

The very next day the prandsome hince knocked on Rindercella's door
and the sugly isters let him in. Suddenly, Betty Swallocks lifted her leg
and let off a fig bart. "Who's fust jarted??" asked the prandsome hince.
"Blame that fugly ucker over there!!" said Mary Hinge. When the
stinking brown cloud had lifted, he tried the slass glipper on both
the sugly isters without success and their feet stucking funk.

Betty Swallocks was ducking fisgusted and gave the prandsome hince a
knack in the kickers. This was not difficult as he had bucking fuge halls and
a hig bard on.
He tried the slass glipper on Rindercella and it fitted pucking ferfectly.
Rindercella and the prandsome hince were married. The pransome
hince lived his life in lucking fuxury, and Rindercella lived hers with
a follen swanny.

[RuckNMaul]

all a bit hows your fatherish to me

Remote controlls are great things

[Mtbeaver]

Tisk tisk tisk...

[The Lone Hydrangea]

A cucking falamity. Love it.

[Em-Forcer]

Some people need to get a life. Why would you watch Top Gear (a bloody funny show) if you were so anally retentive?

Absolutely! Couldn't agree more. It's hucking filarious... (sorry, couldn't resist - let's see the language software beat that!)

This was originally shown on BBC TV back in the seventies. Ronnie Barker could say all this without a snigger (though god knows how many takes).

Irony is that they received not one complaint. Must have been the
speed of delivery was too much for the whining herds.

D'you know what - we were a lot less uptight then!

There's a big difference between being insulting and being funny. I'm glad that attitudes have changed and people are protected from being discriminated against for whatever reason, but hopefully that means that we can now relax a bit and take a joke in the spirit it's intended.