Top Gear UK may be in trouble

[lupinus]

Maybe American top gear will hire him and actually be worth watching.

[mtnbkr]

1. It's germane to the question that you asked.

Which was prompted by your original, out-of-the-blue,and non-relevant statement:

So letting a hardline socialist, free speech hating fed.gov control a nation's broadcast network causes problems? Here is my shocked face.

2. Lol

So you've got exactly nothing to add.  Gotcha.

Look, I get that you hate you some socialists, but this entire event wasn't about Socialism vs The Free(er) World.  It's all about a guy who let his anger get the best of him again and again, and may find himself out of a job for it.  You can't find one organization that would tolerate that sort of behavior time and again. 

Have there been new developments? I haven't seen anything yet.

Vaskidmark's post a few posts up...  It does seem Mr. Clarkson was quite the prat. 

It's a shame we'll lose the show over this.  I do enjoy his on-air barbs and the way he describes, well, most anything.

Chris

[Angel Eyes]

The Tweet from May seems to indicate that they are not The Three Musketeers

Possibly, or it might just be British humor (humour, whatever)

There seems still to be no corroboration of the story broken/carried by The Mirror  http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jeremy-clarkson-suspended-producer-top-5309060

The Top Gear presenter allegedly ripped into his stunned colleague after arriving by helicopter at a hotel from a pub where he had been boozing heavily for several hours with co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond to find no hot food.

If true, that would explain quite a bit.

Doesn't excuse it, of course.

[Calumus]

May calling him a knob sounds like just their normal back and forth. Last I read, Clarkson actually reported himself for the incident.

[K Frame]

The three have worked very closely together for a number of years (over 10 now, I think), all three are very strong personalities.

It's likely not be all roses and champagne all day every day between them.

Biting commentary towards one another has surfaced outside of the show occasionally in the past.

[Balog]

Which was prompted by your original, out-of-the-blue,and non-relevant statement:So you've got exactly nothing to add.  Gotcha.

Look, I get that you hate you some socialists, but this entire event wasn't about Socialism vs The Free(er) World.  It's all about a guy who let his anger get the best of him again and again, and may find himself out of a job for it.  You can't find one organization that would tolerate that sort of behavior time and again. 
Vaskidmark's post a few posts up...  It does seem Mr. Clarkson was quite the prat. 

It's a shame we'll lose the show over this.  I do enjoy his on-air barbs and the way he describes, well, most anything.

Chris

Nice cherry picking to ignore my point. Your hardon for defending the censorious thugs in the BBC is laughable.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

Yea the bbc are the thugs clearly. Not the guy who punched someone because there was no free food. The ones whose friends are talking intervention. It was a punch for freedom! Wolverines!


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[mtnbkr]

Nice cherry picking to ignore my point. Your hardon for defending the censorious thugs in the BBC is laughable.

We're not talking about censorship.  We're talking about an HR issue with Clarkson. YOU keep bringing up censorship.

I'm not defending censorship.  Show where I am. 

Chris

[Balog]

We're not talking about censorship.  We're talking about an HR issue with Clarkson. YOU keep bringing up censorship.

I'm not defending censorship.  Show where I am. 

Chris

You're defending the BBC and the British fed.gov it is a part of.

[mtnbkr]

Sorry, but I'm defending the HR decision to suspend, if not fire, Clarkson.  That is irrelevant to their political beliefs.

You keep trying to redefine censorship. 

Chris

[Balog]

Sorry, but I'm defending the HR decision to suspend, if not fire, Clarkson.  That is irrelevant to their political beliefs.

You keep trying to redefine censorship. 

Chris

Again, lol.

BBC has been trying to censor Clarkson for years. Just like the UK fed.gov has been censoring their citizens.

[mtnbkr]

Again, lol.

BBC has been trying to censor Clarkson for years. Just like the UK fed.gov has been censoring their citizens.

And now he gave them the ammo to accomplish their goals.  Evil socialists or not, what has been reported would be a firing offense at just about any company. 

Chris

[Balog]

And now he gave them the ammo to accomplish their goals.  Evil socialists or not, what has been reported I am baselessly assuming happened would be a firing offense at just about any company. 

Chris

FTFY

[K Frame]

You're defending the BBC and the British fed.gov it is a part of.

With all due respect, that is the LAMEST *expletive deleted*ing argument I've ever seen you pop up with.

While I disagree with Mtnbkr (I don't want to see Clarkson tossed, because I love Top Gear), I agree that this has NOTHING to do with censorship.

Just because Clarkson works for an arm of the government, HR actions against an employee are NOT automatically censorship. You've got to be kidding me that you actually think that they are.

Whether you like it or not, every job, regardless of employer, has certain standards of conduct associated with it.

[K Frame]

FTFY

Fail again.

You do realize that Clarkson himself reported the incident to BBC management, and provided them with an account of what happened, in which he admitted to getting into a physical altercation with a coworker?

[Balog]

With all due respect, that is the LAMEST *expletive deleted*ing argument I've ever seen you pop up with.

While I disagree with Mtnbkr (I don't want to see Clarkson tossed, because I love Top Gear), I agree that this has NOTHING to do with censorship.

Just because Clarkson works for an arm of the government, HR actions against an employee are NOT automatically censorship. You've got to be kidding me that you actually think that they are.

Whether you like it or not, every job, regardless of employer, has certain standards of conduct associated with it.

I love the with all due respect part. You've made it abundantly clear that you have no respect for me, a sentiment I return in full. Science has not yet invented an instrument sensitive enough to detect the amount of fcks I give about your opinion of me Irwin.

Fail again.

You do realize that Clarkson himself reported the incident to BBC management, and provided them with an account of what happened, in which he admitted to getting into a physical altercation with a coworker?

At the time mtnbkr and I started this argument, the only report was that there had been "a fracas" and that Clarkson denied punching anyone. Mtnbkr had nothing but speculation fueled by Clarkson's past actions. My comment was based on the BBC's well known loathing for Clarkson, and their previous censorious actions against him.

[RoadKingLarry]

 

 

[Scout26]

And I thimk this one has run its course until Clarkson is either re-instated or sacked.