Top Gear in trouble, Jeremy Clarkson 'stoned' in Argentina..

[Bernie Gunther]

Want to bet the Tory papers will be full of Falklands / Maggie bollocks for a few days on the back of this pointless media shite?

 

[Looby]

I find it very hard to believe this is a massive coincidence. Plus Clarkson is a massive cuntface.

 

[Wilf]

. Plus Clarkson is a massive cuntface.

That seems to be a constant in these stories about Jeremy Clarkson.

 

[billy_bob]

Reception was a little frosty 12 years ago when I was driving round New York with my '911 LOL' plates too.

Maybe we could have a whip round and send Clarkson to Liverpool to drive around with the numberplate '89 - 96 HAHA'....

 

[likesfish]

Haha argentinans did there stupid Olympic video dropped the oil/fishery sharing agreement in a strop deserve to get trolled a bit.

 

[maomao]

Apparently they managed to hit an Argentinian technician working for the BBC.

Pity a large sharp stone didn't split cunt Clarkson's head open though.

 

[Pseudopsycho]

its the beebs highest selling foriegn export program so I'd assume people might be aware of clarkeson and his little englander tendencies. So its entirely possible that it was an innocent mistake. Like the time he mumbled nigger, and the time he made a slope joke.

...and the time he joked about truckers killing prostitutes with hammers...

 

[Obnoxiousness]

H982 FKL

1 982 + FKL = April 1982 Falklands War.

I can see their point though... if Top Gear didn't actually choose that reg, then it's one huge, huge, coincidence.

 

[Tankus]

I'd have been more impressed if they used live rounds...rather than stones ...half measures or what ?

 

[8ball]

... if Top Gear didn't actually choose that reg, then it's one huge, huge, coincidence.

No, it's an incredibly trivial mundane coincidence.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

No, it's an incredibly trivial mundane coincidence.

The year of the war and a three letter abbreviation, both together on the same reg? I think it's too close to be coincidence.

 

[kittyP]

There was the whole, motorbike covered in the American flag following them around, thing while they were in Vietnam.
Made me a bit cold that.

 

[8ball]

The year of the war and a three letter abbreviation, both together on the same reg? I think it's too close to be coincidence.

Is 'FKL' a recognised abbreviation?

 

[Obnoxiousness]

Is 'FKL' a recognised abbreviation?

It's not.

But the actual abbreviation is pretty close... http://www.acronymfinder.com/Falkland-Islands-(Islas-Malvinas,-ISO-Country-code)-(FLK).html

 

[8ball]

It's not.

Ok, pretty close, but still no cigar. So they could have had a whole bunch of other combinations of letters from 'The Falkland Islands' as well as combinations from 'Malvinas' and whatever other references you could think up if deranged enough.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

Ok, pretty close, but still no cigar. So they could have had a whole bunch of other combinations of letters from 'The Falkland Islands' as well as combinations from 'Malvinas' and whatever other references you could think up if deranged enough.

True.

But I am wondering why the cars had British plates in the first place... don't they usually source vehicles locally??

 

[goldenecitrone]

H982 FKL

1 982 + FKL = April 1982 Falklands War.

I can see their point though... if Top Gear didn't actually choose that reg, then it's one huge, huge, coincidence.

H for Colonel H Jones? There are coincidences and there are coincidences, but Clarkson and co don't do coincidences. They do jingoistic shit-shirring.

 

[Obnoxiousness]

I just checked the registration to see if it always has belonged to that car... and it has.


Vehicle details

• Vehicle make PORSCHE
• Date of first registration 30 May 1991
• Year of manufacture 1991
• Cylinder capacity (cc) 4957cc
• CO₂Emissions Not available
• Fuel type PETROL
• Export marker No
• Vehicle status Tax not due
• Vehicle colour GREY

 

[8ball]

True.

But I am wondering why the cars had British plates in the first place... don't they usually source vehicles locally??

This is more fishy to me than the numbers. Or maybe there was a reason for the British plates and they were on some kind of wind up anyway and the plates were a coincidence and didn't help matters.

Seems odd to have such a fuss over the plates alone.

 

[goldenecitrone]

I just checked the registration to see if it always has belonged to that car... and it has.


Vehicle details

• Vehicle make PORSCHE
• Date of first registration 30 May 1991
• Year of manufacture 1991
• Cylinder capacity (cc) 4957cc
• CO₂Emissions Not available
• Fuel type PETROL
• Export marker No
• Vehicle status Tax not due
• Vehicle colour GREY

Easy for some eager beaver researcher to track it down and hire it for the programme, I'd have thought.

 

[8ball]

Easy for some eager beaver researcher to track it down and hire it for the programme, I'd have thought.

Or just happen across when looking at cars intended for a 'winding up Johnny Foreigner' trip.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Or just happen across when looking at cars intended for a 'winding up Johnny Foreigner' trip.

Indeed. I'm sure the BBC will investigate the incident thoroughly.

 

[likesfish]

Winding up Argentina is funny and well deserved a bunch of Spanish speaking Italian immigrants who celebrate the murder of locals on their banknotes and claim to be anti colonialists

 

[Awesome Wells]

Is this like the time they drove around america with cars emblazoned with 'I like man love' and 'NASCAR sucks' or somesuch.

Is the upshot of this story that Jeremy Clarkson is now back in the UK

 

[Pickman's model]

Is this like the time they drove around america with cars emblazoned with 'I like man love' and 'NASCAR sucks' or somesuch.

Is the upshot of this story that Jeremy Clarkson is now back in the UK

can't we deport him?

 

[T & P]

He doesnt't even have a sense of humour when it comes to people winding him up, judging by his regular Twitter moans.

 

[Wilf]

No, it's an incredibly trivial mundane coincidence.

The 'slope on the bridge' thing was just a misconstrued comment on a plane connecting 2 points with different elevations.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Reception was a little frosty 12 years ago when I was driving round New York with my '911 LOL' plates too.

Little did they know how ridiculous you found Porsches.

 

[Pickman's model]

Reception was a little frosty 12 years ago when I was driving round New York with my '911 LOL' plates too.

had some hairy moments in a mate's car - his numberplate binlad1 attracted opprobrium. and he was a bin man.

 

[ViolentPanda]

No, it's an incredibly trivial mundane coincidence.

Only people who believe in the Sidhe also believe in coincidence.
So tell me, do you believe in fairies?