acooling08 Posted 1 February 2011 Posted 1 February 2011 Mexico's ambassador in London has complained to the BBC over "offensive, xenophobic and humiliating" comments made about his country on Top Gear. Eduardo Medina Mora has written to the BBC about "insults" made by Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May. Discussing a Mexican sports car, Hammond said vehicles reflected national characteristics so "Mexican cars are just going to be lazy". The BBC did not comment but said it would respond directly to Mr Mora. Reviewing the Mastretta on Sunday's show, Hammond said: "Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat." The presenters, known for their edgy jibes, then described Mexican food as "refried sick". Clarkson said he was confident he would not receive any complaints about their comments because the Mexican ambassador would be asleep. However, the ambassador did complain, and demanded an apology from the BBC. "The presenters of the programme resorted to outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults to stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people, their culture, as well as their official representative in the United Kingdom," he wrote. "These offensive, xenophobic and humiliating remarks only serve to reinforce negative stereotypes and perpetuate prejudice against Mexico and its people." It is not the first time the driving programme has caused controversy. Hundreds of viewers complained in 2008 after Clarkson made a joke about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes. Last week, the programme was named most popular factual show at the National TV Awards. Who was actually offended by this? Where is everyones sense of humour? I bet the ambassador was just pissed because he had to get up to write the letter.
ajthefox Posted 1 February 2011 Posted 1 February 2011 The Daily Mail probably got 100's of complaints from people who didn't even watch it too I'll bet
acooling08 Posted 1 February 2011 Author Posted 1 February 2011 Spelling fail. Where? Any relevant comment to make?
sdb Posted 1 February 2011 Posted 1 February 2011 Where? Any relevant comment to make? 'New' is spelt 'knew'. And Clarkson is a ****, even if this joke isn't that offensive (or funny).
acooling08 Posted 1 February 2011 Author Posted 1 February 2011 'New' is spelt 'knew'. And Clarkson is a ****, even if this joke isn't that offensive (or funny). Oh shit, that'll bug me now. Clarkson brightens up Sunday's, and to be fair it was Hammond who had the rant, and May who made the refried sick comment.
acooling08 Posted 1 February 2011 Author Posted 1 February 2011 Acooling is a berk. Haha I didn't even say anything bad this time, just laughed collectively (with the sensible side of the country) at some banter on a TV show. If your on about the spelling, then yup, I spelled new wrong. So what?
Jon the Hat Posted 1 February 2011 Posted 1 February 2011 The correct response for any serious diplomat would clearly be to dismiss this as a complete irrelevance. Them getting upset just makes it look close to the truth;)
Houdini Logic Posted 1 February 2011 Posted 1 February 2011 They must be working very hard if they can sit around watching Top Gear
Fosse Boy Posted 2 February 2011 Posted 2 February 2011 The Daily Mail probably got 100's of complaints from people who didn't even watch it too I'll bet Yeah I'm sure Daily Mail readers were well upset about white English people being xenophobic...
z-layrex Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 This is just going to make the BBC dumb down top gear. The BBC are fooking pathetic. A few sad people get offended by something and they make their entire catalogue overly-PC just to appease sad cu*** who like to be offended. Also, considering his country is a fooking warzone he should have more important things to be worrying about.
Head Honcho Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 The whole show is fcuking retarded Juvenile journalism at best.................which would explain it's popularity to many posters on here.
Finnegan Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 This is just going to make the BBC dumb down top gear. The BBC are fooking pathetic. A few sad people get offended by something and they make their entire catalogue overly-PC just to appease sad cu*** who like to be offended. Also, considering his country is a fooking warzone he should have more important things to be worrying about. 1. I love Top Gear, but how the fuck do you dumb it down any further for Christ sakes?! 2. I'm not Mexican and I was not offended but I do think if you were from Latin America you wouldn't be being "overly PC" if you found it GENUINELY offensive. It wasn't just a quick Clarkson joke it was a several minute tirade of abuse from all three presenters. I think I've watched close to every, single episode of Top Gear over the last four years and that was the worst I've ever seen them come out with. But to be honest, just as significantly to me, I don't actually even think it was funny. I giggled at the truck driver gag (sorry) but this was just predictable and dull. 3. It won't change at all. It won't make the BBC "do" anything to Top Gear. In the next episode they'll reference the fact they've had complaints, half-apologize / half-joke and that'll be the end of it. Six months later Clarkson will be back to making some other comment that makes headlines. There's no such thing as bad publicity and it's keeping the ratings up.
samjohnson Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 I couldnt stop laughing... But thats my sense of humour
Jon the Hat Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 Juvenile journalism at best.................which would explain it's popularity to many posters on here. Everyone should watch some low brow silly TV once in a while. If they don't they are clearly pretentious wankers.
martyn Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 Have no problem with them joking in this way, just the fact it wasn't funny in the slightest. I can only imagine the furiously defensive response from our nations morons had a Latin American nation made disparaging (yet jokey) remarks about this country. The Mrs (who happens to be Mexican) agrees (although maybe too lazy to form own opinion).
Alexikokopops Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 1. I love Top Gear, but how the fuck do you dumb it down any further for Christ sakes?! 2. I'm not Mexican and I was not offended but I do think if you were from Latin America you wouldn't be being "overly PC" if you found it GENUINELY offensive. It wasn't just a quick Clarkson joke it was a several minute tirade of abuse from all three presenters. I think I've watched close to every, single episode of Top Gear over the last four years and that was the worst I've ever seen them come out with. But to be honest, just as significantly to me, I don't actually even think it was funny. I giggled at the truck driver gag (sorry) but this was just predictable and dull. 3. It won't change at all. It won't make the BBC "do" anything to Top Gear. In the next episode they'll reference the fact they've had complaints, half-apologize / half-joke and that'll be the end of it. Six months later Clarkson will be back to making some other comment that makes headlines. There's no such thing as bad publicity and it's keeping the ratings up. Point 2 sums up my feelings. Especially the "it just wasn't funny" bit
Jackirius Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 On a slightly related topic, Youngy on commentary was laying into the Spanish on Saturday, slagging off an apparent Spanish player who was Portuguese I think. Stringer was anxious to calm him down.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 If you want to enjoy a bit of Top Gear bashing, watch Stewart Lee's 'If you prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask for One'. There's a tirade in there about Top Gear that goes on for about 40 minutes, and includes the infamous bit where he says he wishes Richard Hammond died in that crash (he doesn't really of course)
StanSP Posted 3 February 2011 Posted 3 February 2011 On a slightly related topic, Youngy on commentary was laying into the Spanish on Saturday, slagging off an apparent Spanish player who was Portuguese I think. Stringer was anxious to calm him down. It's because he was saying that he wasn't good at all - yet nearly bagging an equaliser. Youngy's so biased it's funny sometimes.
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