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Cunt

Chap.

Yes, that must be it.

If that account is accurate he deserves to be charged with assault as well as getting the sack.

Well it could have been "cock", right?

"cleek"

they tend to print that on full.

Surely that depends how big it is?

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Davpaz?

'Clarkson'

Why, thanks. No complaints so far

Right now that's you. No-one else has said anything of the sort.

Nah, he's too busy playing Cornerback for the Broncos.

Advice and advise, that's wot how I remember it.

It's just a TV show. A very popular and lucrative one, but the world won't come to a grinding halt if it's cancelled. Many popular shows have been cancelled, resulting in public outcry for a couple if months, then viewers move on to the next shiny object, like 5 year olds all chasing after a football.


I used to watch TG avidly, but for no particular reason I stopped around 2 or 3 years ago and I don't seem to have suffered any long term effects as a result. I think Clarkson may have cleverly kept himself in public consciousness by doing something controversial from time to time and it'll be ironic if he's made himself persona non grata for a while for spitting his dummy out over the lack of a hot meal. I couldn't care less.

Clarkson once said that striking workers should be taken out and shot in front of their families.

Hammond and May are refusing to film Top Gear without Clarkson.

The way forward seems clear.

just prior to saying that, he had said something in support of the striking workers, but then added "but as this is the bbc, in the interests of balance they should be shot" which was clearly a dig at editorial policy but goes unreported as it doesn't fit the narrative.

You can ruin any good joke with the facts.

As superpowers go, I am disappointed

So was Cassandra.

Good.

It's the right decision in the circumstances.

The thing is, he's at the stage where he thinks he is untouchable and his sacking will make him a martyr to those that think he's a "proper bloke" alongside Boris Johnson thus solidifying his God complex.

I reckon he will shortly release a book called something like "Punching above my weight" or "Knockout" or the like because FUCK YOU ALL I CAN DO WHAT I WANT.

Anyone who finds martyrdom in a racist bully getting sacked for thumping someone because he couldn't get steak and chips is beyond salvation anyway IMO.

Good to see the correct decision being made, and it's not like Clarkson needed the money.

Hopefully they'll get someone new in to do the job, Hammond can go back to not being a twat, James May can carry on being himself - and Top Gear may actually be worth watching again.

BBC News has run this story which sort-of maybe denies the claims the papers are making, in a really odd way. It also agrees with them, kind of.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32048660

I think they're just trying to report on the story because a) they're not allowed to say what's going to happen yet (even though everyone else is), or b) because there's nothing to report yet.

Facts! Finally.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32052736

Coming soon to Sky!

The article (or one of them) mentioned Netflix.

I think it's going to be pretty interesting to see what Hammond and May do now.

Wouldn't the producer man have to press charges for it to become a police matter, or is it just an automatic criminal offence?

If it's the latter - shouldn't they have got involved a little earlier?

BBC report: http://t.co/Qw2uxgzDsW

If I was the producer, I'd totally press charges now that the vile arsehole has found himself shitcanned.

I think I would have smashed the fat old turd in the face with the nearest heavy object there and then.

The producer probably wants it all to just go away. It's criminal that he was publicly named by the BBC in my opinion, I wouldnt be surprised if he's been hounded online and offline by Top Gear / Clarkson fans.

The only saving grace is the producer wasn't a woman.

Imagine the volume and severity of the hate mail then? We'd probably get Gamergate on the case as well.

It looked like it had all been settled between them or he was not prepared to take it further for fear of career issues.

Loved the PC statement from North Yorkshire Police, they can't help themselves, if this guy doesn't want to press charges then they would be better served doing some police work.

Odd it was Clarkson who raised this with BBC but I guess he was just getting out in front of it as somebody would have told his bosses in the end.

All the "sacking" headlines are rubbish as well, the BBC have got a nice out by simply not renewing his contract which expired at the end of the month.

BBC got the decision right in the end, when it became clear how badly he behaved they were right to cut him loose.

I'm annoyed that Top Gear is no more, as I enjoyed watching it. But that annoyance is firmly towards Clarkson, as it's his fault.

No. He should have been sacked post investigation. He physically and verbally assaulted a colleague. Just what does one have to do to be put on the ship Doone?

The BBC has taken a poor stance on this.

Too late for that - he was named by the newspapers a while back and has indeed had a load of abuse on twitter etc. On the up side, he's apparently passed this to his lawyers so they may get a nasty surprise.

Or the papers were ringing him up and saying "guess what we know?".

Like Trooper, I am most sad that I won't be able to watch Top Gear for a while, and I think (now that there's actually some facts) that he should have been actively fired rather than just not re-hired.

People are treating it like it's a bad thing for him, but there's going to be a huge bidding war and he's going to make a killing.

I suspect that's a pragmatic choice based on the timing. If he had six months to run on his contract he would have been sacked, but as it is, by the time the BBC got the sacking paperwork in order the contract would have run out anyway. I agree that it would have been nice to send that message though.

I wonder how many of the million signatures on that petition feel differently now. Too few, I suspect. There were a lot of people on Twitter saying, basically, "I don't care what he did." HuffPo rounded some up here.

I like to think there won't be any bidding war for him now that the truth is out, and that the severity of the verbal and physical assault he subjected someone to is known.

I mean, is someone at ITV going to say 'Well yeah he's a bullying oaf with the capacity for verbal and physical violence against his own team, get the chequebook out!' ?

Who would want to work with him now?

It'll be interesting to see if the police get involved too, a 30 second physical assault is quite a serious thing, and whilst I imagine a lot of that was pushing or poking or whatever, it appears there was at least one proper punch in there too - and that's a criminal assault by any definition.

(Battery)

I think Sky have ruled out any interest, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they end up doing a motoring show on Netflix.

I've just come up with a lawyer joke. Hang on, picture incoming...

Best I could do on short notice.

Bonza

I like that. It's the kind of thing that Viz would print.

The title of chapter in one of my chemistry books was, 'Heavy metal - A salt and battery'.