Top gear racism

[Bruno]

Well I like the show and find it entertaining, to me there loads of other not very entertaining program's on.

 

I also do NOT think Jeremy Clarkson is a Racist.

[CHarrison]

I wonder how much the BBC paid the local people for the acts?

[spooky3]

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I can't stand Eastenders, Emmerdale, Neighbours etc and think the story lines in them can be rather upsetting for a lot of people not to mention a pile of bad acting.

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Yes, there is a lot worse stereotyping elsewhere, and much of it teaches very bad practices.

 

 

 

 

I didn't watch Top Gear but I am now off to iPlayer to do so...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b018ydx6/Top_Gear_India_Special/

 

 

 

P.S. I take it that anyone here who is complaining, also don't take vaccines and such before travelling. There are certain facts of life and this world...

[mort]

Any further bickering will result in suspensions.

[spooky3]

5 minutes in...

 

I feel like going to India! Looks beautiful!

[chorba]

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[mj.scuba]

Actual facts being any change in water can affect a person. I got the trots in Cornwall. I remember lugging bottled water from the supermarkets in Spain. Making it specifically about India is where offence is possible.

I didn't see it myself.

 

But the show was specifically featuring India

 

As you say any change in water can give you the trots, but I doubt this thread would even be here if the show was set in somewhere like Spain, making similar gags specifically about Spain.

[spooky3]

If anything, James May and that small one should sue the big loud one...

 

 

I bought a great book the other day if anyone is really interested... The 8 Characters of Comedy

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eight-Characters-Comedy-Sitcom-Writing/dp/0977064107/ref=sr_1_1

[theplasterer]

Top Gear is class, they all have the moments of being idiots but dont we all?

[Halibut]

I find all these false accusations of racism quite worrying. They set a dangerous president. Soon nobody will dare say anything without fear off offending someone. Its gone too far. Paradoxically, they won't stop racism, just make it more common but not as visible...

 

Get real Frank and give over with this 'you can't say anything for fear of being called racist' nonsense.

 

Thirty seven complaints out of an audience of several million isn't really that worrying.