[lagerstarfish]

can we also ask that Clartson be sent off with Jeremy Wade on his next angling adventure to the arse end of sowhere?

[shark]

My son tells me (having picked it up on the web) that he called the producer a lazy Irish cunt and then punched him splitting his lip. Unlike most here I enjoy his writings (though less his TV persona) and up till now I was sympathetic to Clarkson having a read a defence of him by his chum AA Gill on Sunday but if the above is true then suspension was inevitable and nothing to do with him being awkwardly at odds with the prevailing PC culture.

[slackline]

From 2011

Steve Coogan: I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough

[Sloper]

My son tells me (having picked it up on the web) that he called the producer a lazy Irish cunt and then punched him splitting his lip. Unlike most here I enjoy his writings (though less his TV persona) and up till now I was sympathetic to Clarkson having a read a defence of him by his chum AA Gill on Sunday but if the above is true then suspension was inevitable and nothing to do with him being awkwardly at odds with the prevailing PC culture.

I'm just suprised the producer didn't punch him back.

[T_B]

Seems like the right decision to me.

Nah, punching someone in the face at work is fair game I reckon. Presumably the million people who signed the petition to reinstate him think so #depressing

[Sloper]

According to The Lawyer

BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has instructed Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to represent him in any potential commercial dispute against the BBC for breach of contract, pending the outcome of his employment hearing

T_B, never rule out stupidity, I mean look at all the people who supported the child rapist because he was a film director or that chap in the Embassy (mind blank for names but you follow the argument I'm sure) it's just human nature, no more no less

[tomtom]

AFAIK he's not been 'sacked' more that his contract will not be renewed..

And N.Yorks police are looking into the matter.. Given the profile I suspect the BBC would have gone over the legal implications with several fine toothed combs - and a large magnifying glass just to be sure.

[Jaspersharpe]

@T_B #helmets ;-)

[Sloper]

AFAIK he's not been 'sacked' more that his contract will not be renewed..

And N.Yorks police are looking into the matter.. Given the profile I suspect the BBC would have gone over the legal implications with several fine toothed combs - and a large magnifying glass just to be sure.

It is interesting to see the difference between the treatment of Clarkson and the people who exposed Saville who have basically been bullied and hounded out of their positions.

[petejh]

For an illuminating example of how myopic public adulation can be see Loius Theroux's blog post on Saville and the comments below it (which soon change from adulation to horror), written shortly after Saville's death but before his true nature came to light.

http://louistheroux.com/jimmy-savile/


Theroux's programe about Saville makes compelling viewing with the wisdom of hindsight. I watched it when it was first broadcast and I remember thinking then what a weird and completely alone person Saville was.

Clarkson's on a different page (unless he's been buggering Hammond) but he's another example of the halo effect.

[lagerstarfish]

what's this about a rumor that he's been offered a regular column on UKC?

[danm]

The guy is a massive tool and good riddance to him. What I really despise is the deliberate mild racism and middle aged, middle England slant on rebellion - "Look at me, I'm not PC." Fuck off dickhead, I grew up with the NF marching outside my house and I'm glad those days are over. Hammond is the classroom bully's sycophantic sidekick who really should have died in that crash. He can fuck off as well.

[petejh]

what's this about a rumor that he's been offered a regular column on UKC?

Can't imagine Theroux going for that.

[lagerstarfish]

yes, but has clarkson accepted it?

[Oldmanmatt]

Faith in local Gov. = restored.

[fatneck]

This made me chuckle too!

https://twitter.com/ClimbingRumours/status/581208586036056064

[finbarrr]

either hell just froze over, or it's april 1st
 

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/01/jeremy-clarkson-joins-guardian-drive-for-fossil-fuel-divestment

[Mike Tyson]

Chris Evans taking the wheel at Top Gear.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33158464

[tomtom]

For years now, a vast, gaping inter-dimensional sphincter, the size of a gothic cathedral rose window, has throbbed and dilated silently at the heart of the BBC buildings on Upper Regent Street, belching fossil fumes and foul thoughts from a dark realm of negative space. I saw inside the pulsating meat oculus once, caught unawares as I stumbled across the Dave channel late at night, drunk. There, between Lee Mack’s laughing face and Robson Green’s leaping fish, compelling footage of the fetid portal’s sickening interior unfurled endlessly into the small hours.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/21/top-gear-chris-evans-sphincter

[dave]

Classic Lee.