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Post by aeromanda on Jul 27, 2010 17:52:40 GMT
Well, I haven't seen any of series 15 yet (  >: ( Blast and Damnation! I hate that BBCA is so far behind! Not to mention the editing.) But I have been reading about what just happened in episode 5. Here is one article: www.metro.co.uk/tv/836266-bbc-receives-top-gear-complaints-after-jeremy-clarkson-s-g-string-under-burka-jokeJeremy Clarkson has landed himself in hot water after making a burka joke while discussing checking out women in short skirts, resulting in complaints by Top Gear viewers. The presenter was in a discussion with co-stars Richard Hammond and James May about dangerous driving conditions.
Instead of fog or wet weather harming their driving skills, the presenters agreed that eyeing up women in short skirts and summer wardrobes is the biggest distraction while on the road.
‘Sunny skies, light breezes, girls wearing short skirts, because the thing is, you can’t not look. You can’t physically not look,’ Jeremy said.
Clarkson went on to describe a women he saw recently wearing a burka that he spotted in saucy lingerie.
‘Honestly, the burka doesn’t work. I was in a cab in Piccadilly the other day when a woman in a full burka crossing the road in front of me tripped over the pavement, went head over heels and up it came, red g-string and stockings.’
Despite the presenter insisting the event happened, seven viewers complained to the BBC and Lily Allen wrote on Twitter that the joke was ‘distasteful’.I can't believe that people get so upset over such tiny things! You would think that people would expect Jeremy to say things like that by now and if it upsets them they should just ignore him.  |
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Post by chariset on Jul 27, 2010 17:54:47 GMT
Seven viewers out of.... how many million? Get some perspective!
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Post by devil-may-care on Jul 27, 2010 18:02:36 GMT
I love the fact that the article is written to make Jeremy look insensitive... again, but they put in a photo of him with Cruise & Diaz. Love the juxtaposition!!! ;D ;D
And get real people. They may have the custom of wearing the burka, but I don't think there's anything written about what they wear under it.
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Post by jacqui on Jul 27, 2010 18:10:43 GMT
Oh for gods sake why don't these 7 people just turn the tv over, lets face it we (& TG) ain't going to miss them As said before 7 out of what 6 - 7 million wow  get a life people  |
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Post by Wyvern on Jul 27, 2010 18:33:13 GMT
And since when was Lily Allen the voice of good taste???
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Post by lindenchase on Jul 27, 2010 18:41:38 GMT
And since when was Lily Allen the voice of good taste??? Talking of Lily Allen, good taste and underwear...   |
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Post by lymaze on Jul 27, 2010 19:17:10 GMT
As he said it I thought he's going to get in trouble again. ;D He reels them in and they flap about like dying fish. Lily Allen! Obviously nobody is really bothering about her anymore so she needs a bit of publicity! I take it she has never been a SIARPC as you need to be one to go on it.  |
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Post by inky on Jul 27, 2010 19:36:24 GMT
Lily Allen = oxygen thief. Talentless waste of space. I really can't believe that seven, yes....SEVEN complaints warrant space in the press. Slow news day by the sound of it.
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Post by chariset on Jul 27, 2010 19:46:47 GMT
I admit to being mildly disappointed James didn't jump in with a comment about the billboards around his house. Maybe he did but it was cut from the final edit.
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Post by violetrose on Jul 27, 2010 20:38:53 GMT
Ohh, I had a feeling someone was going to say something about that joke. *cringe* I can't say it was in good taste, but I thought it was not much worse than the multitude of other sorts of jokes Jeremy tells all the time. I thought it redeemed itself a bit by the fact that Richard and James were telling him off for having a rather vivid imagination.
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Post by From Afar on Jul 28, 2010 7:02:29 GMT
And get real people. They may have the custom of wearing the burka, but I don't think there's anything written about what they wear under it. I live in the Middle East.... in an Islamic State where the local Arab ladies all wear the Abaya and most the Burka to cover their faces partly or completely (even though I am an expat there are strict decency laws here about what bits of your body you can show in public which I have to adhere to as well.... ). Having said all that.... I have female Arab Muslim friends here who wear the Abaya / Burka in public and have underneath it absolutely nothing but their undies - in 60 degree heat it's sensible! And when they are not in public and with their husbands or other ladies they very often wear sexier clothes than we westerners do! So those seven people who know nothing and have probably not lived in an Islamic State should get over themselves and not comment on things they know nothing about! OK I'll stop ranting now |
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Post by jacqui on Jul 28, 2010 8:36:43 GMT
Go girl ;D  |
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Post by Wyvern on Jul 28, 2010 10:16:55 GMT
I was in a department store in Leeds a bit back, in the queue for the changing room in the lingerie department. There were two Muslim ladies in front of me, not niqabis, but very modestly dressed all the same. They had the most amazing selection of exactly the kind of thing Jeremy was joking about - one was about to get married and was selecting some things to 'entertain' her new husband on their honeymoon  People forget that the modest dress code thing that the burqa has grown out of is only about covering up in public. What you do in private is still up to you, and the variety of clothes worn under abayas and khimars and niqabs and burqas is as varied as what everyone else wears! |
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Post by From Afar on Jul 28, 2010 10:28:54 GMT
People forget that the modest dress code thing that the burqa has grown out of is only about covering up in public. What you do in private is still up to you, and the variety of clothes worn under abayas and khimars and niqabs and burqas is as varied as what everyone else wears! Some one else who gets it - thank you Wyvern!!! ;D The Muslim modest rules are only when a woman is in public or in private with a man who is not her Husband or Family member.... in the company of only ladies or their Husbands Muslin woman are actually just as liberal (if not more so) as the rest of us. Here thet are very very consious of their appearance and it is considered an "art form" to paint their bodies with henna patterns - they take great pains to have their bodies completely hairless - yes everywhere if you get my drift - and to "paint" their make up perfectly even though no one other than their Husbands or girl friends will see it. Here in the local Arab culture particularly it is a very deep routed cultural thing to be "perfect" visually for your Husband. This is only my personal opinion: but as most Arab men here do actually have two or three wives, I guess the ladies have to remain as perfect as possible to stop being succeeded by another wife may be? |
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Post by SonicSophie on Jul 28, 2010 21:19:39 GMT
I knew as soon as he said that, there'd be people writing and phoning Ofcom and moaning and whinging... just stop, please, that is his humour, leave TG alone...! Also, seven people complained? Really? Out of what, seven million viewers? Great argument they got there... |
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Post by xjsarah on Jul 28, 2010 23:10:43 GMT
Call me unimaginative if you like, but it simply didn't occur to me that people might be offended. I thought it was really funny! ;D
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Post by chariset on Jul 30, 2010 15:16:31 GMT
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Post by Wyvern on Jul 30, 2010 15:25:09 GMT
Ah, The Daily Mash. How I love them ;D |
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Post by jacqui on Jul 30, 2010 15:26:49 GMT
haven't seen that pic for while - thanks ;D |
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Post by violetrose on Jul 30, 2010 18:52:02 GMT
Oh my, I really love that picture. It's an oldie but goodie!
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Post by dit on Jul 30, 2010 19:12:49 GMT
I really laughed at that article. Just love clever, funny writing.
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Post by katherine on Jul 31, 2010 0:54:45 GMT
Just reminds me that my decision to ditch religion and its anti-freedom messages to women was entirely the right one.
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Post by dit on Aug 5, 2010 10:57:25 GMT
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Post by lew on Aug 5, 2010 11:01:38 GMT
Y'know you'd think they'd realise that Mr Clarkson, is being Mr Clarkson.......wonder if it was more than seven complaints.
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Post by chariset on Aug 5, 2010 15:13:33 GMT
There are only two people quoted in the article. Maybe that was it.
These complaints are so stuffy and petty -- they make the Great British Public look completely humorless.
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Post by lew on Aug 6, 2010 8:34:47 GMT
Chariset, the humour is hanging on.....tis sad times here |
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 6, 2010 10:17:01 GMT
Surprise surprise I knew it though. As soon as he said it, I thought "I wonder if anyone will complain about this?" And lo and behold, they did. And the thing is, Jeremy, like anybody else, is entitled to say as he likes - surely, if the Beeb were that worried, they'd check the final edit before transmission? |
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Post by brilliantrubbish on Aug 7, 2010 0:35:59 GMT
Could the UK members advise me on this: if members of the Great British public get in high dudgeon over Jeremy's remarks, how on earth do they respond to Frankie Boyle?
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Post by violetrose on Aug 7, 2010 3:39:18 GMT
LOL! brill, that is an excellent question! I frigging love Frankie Boyle, heh!
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Post by dit on Aug 11, 2010 15:36:46 GMT
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>: ( Blast and Damnation! I hate that BBCA is so far behind! Not to mention the editing.) But I have been reading about what just happened in episode 5. Here is one article: 
get a life people 
I love a man who can handle a gun 
I held you, you felt me, I touched you, you kissed me.......
