Top Gear Expelled From Argentina

[ghost]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/top-gear-crew-barred-in-argentina-30634459.html

 

[glasgowjohn]

Clarkson is a fool.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

He has the sort of face you'd never get tired of slapping.

It's the entirely tolerable James May I feel sorry for.

 

[semigoodlookin]

I think the film is still being made here and they were only barred from one province. The show itself is opinion dividing, but it is a machine and extremely well made, they use fixers and the production team works its nuts off, I know that for a fact. They have been around the world and taken the piss wherever they have been, I am not sure I like the show itself, but I hope Argentina does not kick them out, I would just prefer the country take it on the chin I suppose. What's wrong with the word Falklands anyway?

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

I think the film is still being made here and they were only barred from one province. The show itself is opinion dividing, but it is a machine and extremely well made, they use fixers and the production team works its nuts off, I know that for a fact. They have been around the world and taken the piss wherever they have been, I am not sure I like the show itself, but I hope Argentina does not kick them out, I would just prefer the country take it on the chin I suppose. What's wrong with the word Falklands anyway?

No one kicked them out, they decided to leave after annoying a bunch of veterans with a childish stunt.

That's Clarkson's M.O of course.

He's now offended the Mexican ambassador, anyone in Burma who heard him call them "slopes" and was caught off camera using the work "n$gger" in a joke.

Right wing upper class buffoonery, English public schoolboy style.

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

Confirmed by BBC Press Office....Top Gear team are leaving Argentina. Have a relative "inside"...

ARGY BARGY OVER TOP GEAR CAR PLATE
By Robert Dex, Press Association Showbusiness Correspondent

The cast and crew of TV's Top Gear had to abandon their cars at the roadside
and flee Argentina after being pelted with stones by an angry crowd.
The attack happened after it emerged they were using a vehicle with a number
plate apparently referring to the Falklands War.
That vehicle - a Porsche with the registration number H982 FKL which some
people suggested could refer to the Falklands conflict of 1982 - was among those
abandoned.
BBC bosses have said the number plate was merely a coincidence and was not
chosen deliberately, but it led to protests in Argentina, including a
demonstration by a group of war veterans who protested outside the hotel used by
the show team.
The programme has already run into problems this year, with one edition found
to be in breach of Ofcom's broadcasting code for the use of a racially offensive
term during a two-part special filmed in Burma, following a complaint from a
viewer.
And presenter Jeremy Clarkson apologised after unbroadcast footage emerged in
which he appeared to use the n-word, although he denied actually saying it.
The team from the BBC2 show are in South America filming a special on a remote
highway passing through Chile and Argentina.
A story about their visit in the Patagonian daily newspaper Diario Jornada is
headlined: "Top Gear is filming in Patagonia and there's controversy."
The paper says: "Even though the BBC authorities asked the popular presenter
Jeremy Clarkson to behave himself during his time in Argentina, he chose to use
the provocative number plate H982 FKL on his Porsche, in reference to 1982
Falklands (Malvinas)."
But the executive producer of Top Gear, Andy Wilman, said: "Top Gear
production purchased three cars for a forthcoming programme; to suggest that
this car was either chosen for its number plate, or that an alternative number
plate was substituted for the original, is completely untrue."

 

[glasgowjohn]

if these cars were recently purchased , the license plates seem very strange to me.

The H part would indicate a car first registered in 1990/91

I know that you can order personalised plates but if you are buying cars especially for TOP GEAR , why get special plates?

 

[sleslie23]

When I move to the UK, my license plate will be 1776USA1. It will be a mere coincidence, however.

 

[semigoodlookin]

When I move to the UK, my license plate will be 1776USA1. It will be a mere coincidence, however.

And no one would care honestly

 

[Dublin2BuenosAires]

And no one would care honestly

I imagine in 2314 in Ushaia attitudes may change to.....