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Top Gear and "The Falklands"

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  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    OK. If you say so. That is exactly how TV works.

    #shakes head and prepares for trip to The Valley.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    edited October 2014
    I thought it was a brilliant stunt made even funnier by Jes a pretending they didn't know.
    My message to Argentna is simple. If you can't take a joke about your humiliating defeat on you own door step; you shouldn't have started a war in the first place.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,927
    A publicity stunt, and I suspect that plenty of people in Argentina watch the show and are annoyed that the filming there was cancelled - Top Gear has incredible global appeal
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,818
    Wake up sheeple.
  • theeenorth
    theeenorth Posts: 2,280
    The problem with any stunt by celebrities or the tub thumping speeches made by politicians is that the impact is never felt by those who conduct the stunt. The real results are felt by the young back packer that gets a kicking in Buenes Aires or the night out in Madrid that ends in tears because a tanked up local hero spots a union flag or overhears a conversation and thinks he'll get one back.
    Easy to laugh off, easy to condemn, but ultimately somebody else will get hurt.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    http://youtu.be/dc-pcrfE6eM
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,813
    smudge7946 said:

    I thought it was a brilliant stunt made even funnier by Jes a pretending they didn't know.
    My message to Argentna is simple. If you can't take a joke about your humiliating defeat on you own door step; you shouldn't have started a war in the first place.

    I think you should consider a career here...

    https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-office/about/recruitment
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    I'm sorry, am I missing something? WTF does it matter if Clarkson's number plate says "IN 1982 WE SMASHED THE FASCIST LED ARMY WHO INVADED A LAND THAT WAS DEMOCRATICALLY UNDER THE RULE OF ANOTHER SOVEREIGN STATE AND REMAINS SO 32 YEARS LATER AGU 441S"?
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,867
    You don't see the problem with a show made by our state broadcaster going to a foreign country and trying to antagonize them?
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    C_A_F_C said:

    You don't see the problem with a show made by our state broadcaster going to a foreign country and trying to antagonize them?

    Not in this case, no.
    And the BBC are hardly our state broadcaster, they may get funded by the state but they have a pretty free reign to do what they want. A lot of the time they wind me up but right behind them on this one, as if they knew!

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  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588
    Abuse flag smudge? Strange.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    It's Top Gear FFS! Get over it and then get over yourself!
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,786
    smudge7946 said:

    I thought it was a brilliant stunt made even funnier by Jes a pretending they didn't know.
    My message to Argentna is simple. If you can't take a joke about your humiliating defeat on you own door step; you shouldn't have started a war in the first place.

    It wasn't a war, it was a conflict............... ;-)
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Of course Clarkson knew about the number plate.

    They've done loads of this type of stuff before with number plates and the fake advertising on the cars they 'prepare' for racing'. Penistone Tyres is one I remember, that just spelt 'Penis' when the rear door was open.

    If they'd got away with it, it wouldn't even have been mentioned on the programme - just a lot of people would have noticed and said "Oh my God - how did they get away with that"......... and smiled.

    It's Clarkson. He's a shock jock FFS. It's what he does. And he's very good at it.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,201
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    Wake up people.
    they weren't responsible for the car purchases nor the number plates.
    It is the editorial team behind it.
    Surely you guys realise this dont you?
    Blaming the presenters is like blaming that Scottish lady on BBC breakfast for bad weather.

    True. Well sort of. Until 2012, Clarkson and the producer of the show, a long-time buddie of Clarkson's owned 50% of the rights to top Gear and made millions out of selling their share of the brand to the BBC. So, Clarkson, through his producer chum will be only too well aware of what is going on. The other two morons, I suspect, are just Clarkson's lackeys.
    charltonkeston said:

    SELR_addicks said:

    Hope the BBC ditch them soon, 5 years past their sell-by.

    Wont happen. One of the BEEB's biggest exports.
    Unfortunately true. If only the rest of the world would grow out of this so-called show. It's market in the UK is surely now only pre-pubescent boys? All that silly contrived "race from A to B" stuff - you want to know who gets there first, every time? I'll tell you, it's the Ford Transit carrying the camera crew.



  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    They use Range Rovers for the cameras.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    RedMist said:

    redsek said:

    paulie8290 said:

    Jeremy Clarkson number was a bit more obvious
    H982 FKL

    And does anyone really believe that was a coincidence? Disregarding the politics of it all, this bafoon is going to get himself and his two sidekick mates lynched if he carries on like this. The wrongs and rights of it are irrelevant - you go to other people's countries and pull stunts like that then you deserve everything you get.
    Stoned apparently, had to abandon the cars at a checkpoint.

    That happened to me once but in a whole different context.
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    AddickUpNorth said:

    RedMist said:

    redsek said:

    paulie8290 said:

    Jeremy Clarkson number was a bit more obvious
    H982 FKL

    And does anyone really believe that was a coincidence? Disregarding the politics of it all, this bafoon is going to get himself and his two sidekick mates lynched if he carries on like this. The wrongs and rights of it are irrelevant - you go to other people's countries and pull stunts like that then you deserve everything you get.
    Stoned apparently, had to abandon the cars at a checkpoint.

    That happened to me once but in a whole different context.
    Checkpoint Charlie? :-)

  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    It surely doesn't matter if we are upsetting the argie bstds

    Keep doing it jezza
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,201
    edited October 2014
    Addickted said:

    They use Range Rovers for the cameras.

    I apologise. :-) In that case, they won't get there first. It will be the breakdown trucks carrying the Rangies.

    BTW, according to checks with the DVLA, the Porker still has 8 months tax on it. I guess the BBC will be getting it SORNed and claiming a refund just to take the pressure off their programme budget?

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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,995
    Seems like a lot of fuss over nothing.
  • Addickforlife
    Addickforlife Posts: 2,101
    I personally really enjoy top gear.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,334
    Why were they there?
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Redrobo said:

    Why were they there?

    So Jezza could wind up the Argies.
  • charltonkeston
    charltonkeston Posts: 7,371
    Addickforlife said:

    I personally really enjoy top gear.

    So do I,Sunday night entertainment. There are hundreds of other channels to watch for that 1 hour 6 week season once a year. Unless you just watch Dave.
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    charltonkeston said:

    SELR_addicks said:

    Hope the BBC ditch them soon, 5 years past their sell-by.

    Wont happen. One of the BEEB's biggest exports.
    This.
    For example, in South Africa there is a channel virtually dedicated to Top Gear Repeats.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    edited October 2014
    Childish publicity seekers seek publicity using childish stunt.

    How is this news?

    Although fair point made here about potential risks for backpackers in Buenos Aires
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,618
    Could have been worse, the number plate could have read - G0TC4A
  • redsek
    redsek Posts: 656
    More of a Wheeler Dealers man myself - used to love Top Gear but the presenters are just prats - Steve Coogan got the three of them about right:

    "Richard has his tongue so far down the back of Jeremy's trousers he could forge a career as the back end of a pantomime horse. His attempt to foster some Clarkson-like maverick status with his "edgy" humour is truly tragic. He reminds you of the squirt at school as he hangs round Clarkson the bully, as if to say, "I'm with him". Meanwhile, James May stands at the back holding their coats as they beat up the boy with the stutter."<</i>code>
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,371
    ValleyGary said:

    Seems like a lot of fuss over nothing.

    On CL?

    Never!

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