Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson accused of saying the n-word; people are freaking out.

[slugg]

Link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-presenter-3480875

You've gotta be fucking kidding me. You know what, if the BBC fires him, he's more than welcome here in the "uncivilized world" to make another badass TV show.

 

[gorcorps]

Link: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-presenter-3480875

You've gotta be fucking kidding me. You know what, if the BBC fires him, he's more than welcome here in the "uncivilized world" to make another badass TV show.

Well... you can't even make racist remarks in your own home here without losing millions so he's probably not welcome here either

 

[MagickMan]

It's a load of shit. He was mumbling, you can't make out anything.

 

[Triumph]

anyone else think we are overreacting to this stuff? guy loses multi million dollar sports team because of his attitudes. i bet if he literally beat his girlfriend, the backlash would not have been as serious.

besides clarkson is an entertainer, who often says things that are meant to offend. how often does he use stereotypes about germans, brits, french, and italians in his car reviews? well those stereotypes are ok, because they're all white people.

 

[darkewaffle]

Yeah, he's practically humming that part. I think if you want/expect to hear him say it, you will/may. But you could make as strong of a case for "weiner", "minger", "liar", "ginger" etc. Basically it can sound like almost any two syllable word that ends in a strong "er" sound.

 

[sourceninja]

Look the guy does nothing but drive cars and make offensive statements. That's part of the shows charm. Is there any group he hasn't made a comment about?

 

[Williz]

I don't care, now if he was calling someone a ****** as an insult that's different. I say ****** now and again. Even call one of my friends ****** but he's cool with it.

 

[Genx87]

anyone else think we are overreacting to this stuff? guy loses multi million dollar sports team because of his attitudes. i bet if he literally beat his girlfriend, the backlash would not have been as serious.

besides clarkson is an entertainer, who often says things that are meant to offend. how often does he use stereotypes about germans, brits, french, and italians in his car reviews? well those stereotypes are ok, because they're all white people.

Yeah isn't it a bit much? That racist rancher in NV. People dismissed him not paying grazing fee's for 20 years and having an armed militia ready to have a shoot out with the feds. But he says something racist and now everybody wants blood.

 

[Tweak155]

Oh wow. Even if he "said" it, I think it was just a combination of "blah" he was trying to portray. Completely incidental to his point.

What a joke if they get rid of this guy.

 

[SlitheryDee]

By the time he got to that part of the rhyme he was saying nonsense syllables. Just his bad luck that he accidentally started that nonsense syllable with what sounds like an "n".

 

[Tweak155]

Oh wow. Even if he "said" it, I think it was just a combination of "blah" he was trying to portray. Completely incidental to his point.

What a joke if they get rid of this guy.

By the time he got to that part of the rhyme he was saying nonsense syllables. Just his bad luck that he accidentally started that nonsense syllable with what sounds like an "n".

That's pretty much what I was trying to say. Someone gets me!

 

[SaurusX]

Society has gone off the rails.

 

[Mermaidman]

I was puzzled at first, but apparently a traditional version of this rhyme in Britain is
Eenie meenie minee mo,
Catch a N***** by the toe

Had no idea.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I was puzzled at first, but apparently a traditional version of this rhyme in Britain is
Eenie meenie minee mo,
Catch a N***** by the toe

Had no idea.

They say it that way down here a lot, but we at least see "Tiger" as the traditional word to put there.

Really this is because Brits know how the rhyme usually goes. It wouldn't have mattered what he said, because saying the rhyme at all made them all think about it.

 

[ElFenix]

is this the same paper that made up stuff about him 5-6 years ago?

 

[mnewsham]

They didn't even air this version, this was a scene that was never used in the real show.

 

[Fritzo]

It's a load of shit. He was mumbling, you can't make out anything.

Even worse, he mumbled something and it sounded too close to the word, so THEY DIDN'T EVEN AIR THAT VERSION.

That's a bit over the top.

 

[rudder]

Society has gone off the rails.

No, just since 2008. I mean with all the beer summits, could have been my son quotes, and other nonsense from the whitehouse.... the media is on edge.

That Sterling guy is a douche. You have to be a douche to make $2 billion. But you can't make him sell a business because of something he said in private.

Now someone thinks they hear a racist word... and people go batshit crazy.

 

[Jaskalas]

We found a witch, may we burn her?

 

[HOSED]

Don't any of you Americans realize we have a multi racial president and we are in a post racial society?
Too bad Clarkson is not a rapper, he could make $$$ by rhyming that offensive wurd.

 

[slayernine]

Jeremy Clarkson is a a bumbling buffoon who is more often than not teetering on the edge of politically correct. But isn't making a big deal and stirring up sh*t about racism a giant waste of time?

Why do people care about this mundane crap while more serious matters are afoot.

 

[BudAshes]

They played it 3 times in a row and I heard the word ****** 0 times. But that wont stop everyone from calling him a ****** guy for a few weeks.

 

[Koing]

They say it that way down here a lot, but we at least see "Tiger" as the traditional word to put there.

Really this is because Brits know how the rhyme usually goes. It wouldn't have mattered what he said, because saying the rhyme at all made them all think about it.

I"ve never heard of the racist version.

I can't believe people are making this big of a deal about JC.

Koing

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Of course he said it. That's a common way of doing the poem in England, it goes all the way back to Rudyard Kipling. I just don't give a shit that he said it.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, he's practically humming that part. I think if you want/expect to hear him say it, you will/may. But you could make as strong of a case for "weiner", "minger", "liar", "ginger" etc. Basically it can sound like almost any two syllable word that ends in a strong "er" sound.

this

he prob was saying "tiger" which is how that normally goes