Now look what the Complainers have started!?

Question

So thousands of people complained about Ross and Brand WITHOUT even listening to the clip or the show.

Now it's Jeremy Clarkson in the 'limelight'
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20081103/ten-clarkson-comments-spark-controversy-5f8abb3.html

I'm not saying I agree with either situation BUT there's far worse stuff going on out and there and....

But see what they've done - the complainers!

Now the political correctness army are marching forth.

I can now see every comedian / person with a little sense of humour being clamped on.

There will no longer be freedom of speech. It all starts here

Answer 1

Hi Sparki. I think the problem here is that these glib comments although funny can be pointed at an individual person. Ie. the murderer but who cares about him? There is his family of course and the many prostitutes and their families. A certain lack of respect here but then who hasn't taken the brunt of jokes however unfair it seems. Life is life and if we can't laugh at it we must surely be dead or dying.

It's a shame I hope it doesn't become a real issue as I love Jeremy's live instant, get it as he thinks it, humour. I find it spontaneous, witty and very much alive. A pure pleasure to listen to

Answer 2

The top gear lorry sketch was the best BBC entertainment in ages had me splitting my sides when Clarkson mentioned the prostitutes wrong for me to do so maybe but i was born with a sense of humour.Every programme aired is open to attack from some easily offended person and now that the ball is rolling its not going to stop,i wonder how many have complained about the new seat-belt ad already.

Answer 3

I just heard on Radio one that the BBC only recieved 200 complaints about his comments, which, any way you cut it is naff all.

The BBC complaints people should look at it in context.

If, for the sake of arguement 7 million people watched Top Gear on Sunday night and only 200 complained. That means that 6,999,800 people found it either funny or in-offensive. Programs like Top Gear are always going to piss someone off, and to have managed to piss off such a small percentage of the viewers should be considered a triumph.

Answer 4

I find it quite amusing that Jeremy Clarkson saw fit to have a go at truckers - the very people that actually like him.



Not that I really agree with this curbing of free speech, but on the other hand, if it gets that tosser off our screens.....

Answer 5

Brand was the school boy in the playground boasting about his sexual achievement. Ross was the fat spotty kid he was trying to impress and between them and broadcast was a battery of highly paid BBC staff. There was no question of freedom of speech, it was a failure of broadcasting standards.



Clarksons joke was actually part complement as to the difficulty of the task he was doing and jokes about prostitutes are older than Noah.



Ban public toilets next incase George Michael is offended by whats written on the bog doors?

Answer 6

I find the presence of Sharon Osbourne on my telly far more offensive.

Jonathan Ross is a **** though. I shan't miss him.



Only 2 people originally complained about the Ross/Brand thing. The rest of the complainers just jumped on the media bandwagon.



Clarkson is SUPPOSED to say stuff like that. That's what he's there for. It's his job, he's a professional knobhead. We're supposed to hate him but still rather like him for it.



I find it strange that so many people don't realise that they don't have to watch something if they don't like it.

Answer 7

well i like jeremy clarkson very much but saying what he said was a bit insensitive and i think he should aplologize but at the end of the day dont we all open our mouths without putting our brains into gear at some point ? i should be constantly apologizing if i had to say sorry every time someone got a bit hoity toity about summat i had said, not that i would apologize because i'm a woman and we dont admit to doin g or saying anything wrong lolol x

Answer 8

agree with you somewhat. I also think there is a slight difference between the two recent cases in that Clarkson makes comments like that because that's what he does and if people don't like it they shouldn't watch it. :-) But Brand and Ross actually phoned someone's personal number and made unnecessary comments. Still, its all been blown out of proportion imho

Answer 9

Just like the trolls here on yahoo. 177 people were offended...out of 7 million viewers.

Eff 'em I say. Don't they have an off switch?



I don't like Songs of Praise or any televangelist...and many things said on these shows are highly offensive to me. But I resist the temptation to lobby for their removal from the airwaves, as I really do feel that those who wish to partake of the mind numbing qualities of such shows are entitled to do so without interference from me.



Pity the moral majority never feels the same way in return!!!



And Jeremy Clarkson is a crack!! I love his irreverence.



Please don't get like us in America...with no sense of irony and our sensitivities set to high all the time, for fear of offending the moral MINORITY. I keep planning to move to Britain when I can no longer cope at home...but I can't if you become just like us!!

LMFAO!

Answer 10

Hmmm - well, whilst the Clarkson comments were in bad taste perhaps, they werent actually aimed at anyone in particular so were not personal in their delivery.

The whole nub of the matter me dears.

Answer 11

Well do what I done and email a complaint to the Truckers Union - they are the people making such a bloody fuss about it.



Jeremy is amazing and I laughed my head off at the joke.



IT WAS A JOKE - FOR ALL THOSE TENDER PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO CRY AT THE THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING.



I think it's a cheap and nasty way for the truckers union to get publicity. And they should be publicly attacked for it (verbally - not physically - in case any sensitive soul complains about me)



AIRES 69 - If we all took your attitude the world be a far far more miserable place than it is now and you wouldn't be laughing at ANYTHING - BECAUSE EVERYTHING CAN BE TRACED BACK TO SOMETHING SAD.





GET A GRIP ITS A JOKE NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT.



Now wonder the country is in such a mess when people aren't allowed to laugh freely anymore.



Soon all jokes will have to be pre-approved by the government, unions, disabled groups,minorities, green freaks, and any other pathetic and irrelevent pressure group that wants to get it's name in the papers.

Answer 12

the pc brigade would like to take away our freedom to have a laugh now. soon our lives wont be worth living in this country. that might seem a little over the top but its getting impossible to do anything without some boring **** saying its wrong. i like jeremy . i like top gear. if anyone doesnt approve they should stick to the sound of bloody music or something equally mundane.

Answer 13

id rather listen to clarkson as those other t1ts any day unfunny poofters. he is right change gear mirror check, but he left out: BARGE through, toot horn, undertake ,think they own the road, have affairs, have no morals. the perfect job to cheat , and yes maybe a prostitute murderer has driven a truck and driven hundreds of miles from the scene and also they all pick up prossies. as the reputation goes before them. I am afraid he is correct to joke, as in 90% of cases he nailed it. sarcasm is though, not a personal attack and he makes me laugh , unlike brand and ross. pair of losers. i love the dry sense of humour he has.

Answer 14

How funny would you find it if you were related to any of the murder victims of the Yorkshire Ripper. I'm sure that families of murdered prostitutes find it hilarious.



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@ sparki: Yeah but that's like saying it's okay to kick a dog because it's not as bad as rape. Neither of them or right - Brand & Ross were way off beam and from time to time Clarkson goes to far. If I remember rightly, he had to apologise for some comment he made not too long ago. Like someone said, he's a professional kn0bhead and sometimes he goes too far. (An example - Jeez. Do you know what an anology is?).

Answer 15

I know....but it's all about making a mountain out of an ant hill isn't it?

Answer 16

What he said was improper