Oh dear, Jeremy has to make public apology for "mumbling" that word

[Voltaire]

Everybody on this planet is racist at some time or other ... maybe people are acting just a little too precious!

Us precious people take offence to that, I going to tell our leader Russell Norman

[HenryDorsetCase]

actually, what I object to more than racism, are people who pronounce the word "racist" as "ray shist".

Those people should be put to death unless they have a medically confirmed speech impediment. If so, their sentence is commuted to transportation to a sub-Antarctic island for life.

[Robert Taylor]

No one has mentioned that the 'newspaper' that broke the story (The Daily Mirror) was the one who employed Piers Morgan, the twat who has been having an ongoing stouch with Clarkson for quite some time now. Perhaps some of Morgan's old mates are stirring things a little on Morgan's behalf?

Jeremy was seated at St Pauls at dear old Maggie Thatchers funeral. Top bloke cut from the right cloth. All power to him and I hope in some way he nails that left leaning trashy excuse of a newspaper

[Robert Taylor]

Us precious people take offence to that, I going to tell our leader Russell Norman

You mean that Aussie weasel?

[Maha]

I searched and found that famous Clint Eastwood scene form 'Escape from Alcatraz' the 'I hate Niggers' scene... it is on YouTube but the audio has been replaced with music.

[Woodman]

I was watching a re-run of Top Gear yesterday.

In the news segment, JC was all agog describing some valve in the exhaust of some car, that made it louder when you accelerated hard. It was great *, apparently. Then he was all angry about "noisy" motorbikes. (Sport-bikes using the roads near his house in the country). Then he liked the noise of some other car.

This was all without the slightest hint of self-awareness about his hypocrisy.

That offended me.

* what's worse, is in a fairly recent column by him I read in the paper, he was all against that kind of artificiality.


(Though for the record, I generally find him amusing; you just need to know how big a dose of salt to take with him. And the current issue is a stupid media beat-up.)

That offends you? seriously? that offends you??

How the fuck do you get through the day?

[Smifffy]

“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
― Brigham Young

[Oakie]

“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
― Brigham Young

Bugger! No win situation then, taking offence, huh!

[pzkpfw]

That offends you? seriously? that offends you??

Yes. I wrote a letter to my MP, and emailed the Pope for advice.

How the fuck do you get through the day?

Valium and alcohol.

That, and writing half-serious posts that dimwits take seriously.

[Woodman]

Yes. I wrote a letter to my MP, and emailed the Pope for advice.



Valium and alcohol.

That, and writing half-serious posts that dimwits take seriously.

Which half was serious?

[mashman]

“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”
― Brigham Young

Wonder what he would have said some 100+ years later about the internet?

[pzkpfw]

Which half was serious?

A quarter of it was being "offended" - but only using that word because of the very existence of this thread. It was largely hyperbole. If I'd written "slightly miffed" or "a portion perturbed" would that have been better for you? I do think some reaction to what I'd seen was warranted. (Whether it was designed to get that reaction from certain viewers or not.)

A quarter of it was to give an example how little I cared about the "offense" this thread is actually about, by saying I was offended by something pretty trivial.

[Woodman]

A quarter of it was being "offended" - but only using that word because of the very existence of this thread. It was largely hyperbole. If I'd written "slightly miffed" or "a portion perturbed" would that have been better for you? I do think some reaction to what I'd seen was warranted. (Whether it was designed to get that reaction from certain viewers or not.)

A quarter of it was to give an example how little I cared about the "offense" this thread is actually about, by saying I was offended by something pretty trivial.

You know, I reckon that a lot of folk who get "offended" by shit e.g. the Clarkson thing, are not actually "offended"but feel they should be for some reason.

[pzkpfw]

You know, I reckon that a lot of folk who get "offended" by shit e.g. the Clarkson thing, are not actually "offended"but feel they should be for some reason.

Possibly. Being taught something is wrong (in this case, rightly so) but then ignoring all context when reacting to it.

[PrincessBandit]

Lol, the ripple effect is still being felt on radio in NZ - this morning on More FM Gary and Simon were doing a p't of the whole Beyonce, Solange JayZ lift thing. They read their "transcript" of the conversation in the lift starting like this: (older whitey man doing best imitation he can of fierce black woman) Solange snaps at JayZ "Ground floor, black man" ... and it deteriorates from there.

Now what made me laugh was not so much his bad imitation of fierce black woman voice, although it was pretty funny, but the fact that we all know what she reeeeeeaaaaaalllllly would have said would've been "Ground floor, nigguh" But, as we all know, no one will dare say the word any more in the public arena.

How 'bout that for flow-on??