DovertheRoad Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Today's news...cenotaph...surely a Mash article anytime soon.... "Top Gear replaces twat presenter with another professional twat". etc etc.Yet millions watch it. What's wrong with acceptable alternatives, like River Monsters for example? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seabag Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Bring back Tiff Nedell I say🙄 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 My understanding was that disrespecting the war dead (France, Argentina, Germany etc) has always been an integral part of the show, so surely donuts around the cenotaph was only a matter of time? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Chris Evans has always been an arrogant twat.. and always will be... I have no time for the man.. DulwichFox Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Fuss about nothing... two American presenters were driving round London and creating a racket for a TV show. They'd probably never even heard of the Cenotaph. Apologies have been made and the footage won't get used. End of. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkdrive Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Jeremy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Fuss about nothing... two American presenters were> driving round London and creating a racket for a> TV show. They'd probably never even heard of the> Cenotaph. Apologies have been made and the footage> won't get used. End of.American presenters never heard of the cenotaph? Really? The BBC should know, so you'd hope they might mention it. Twaterry in its purest form Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladygooner Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Westminster council agreed to the road closure and the police sent a 5 strong police motorcycle escort for Matt LeBlanc's Ford Mustang - what a waste of public money Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruffers Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I'd be surprised if it was the presenters who designed the segment. Blame the producers. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973757 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I can't believe they actually closed the road for an unadulterated piece of cr*p like that.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Aelfheah Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Jeremy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Fuss about nothing... two American presenters were> driving round London and creating a racket for a> TV show. They'd probably never even heard of the> Cenotaph. Apologies have been made and the footage> won't get used. End of.Agreed. I don't see what the fuss is about. They drove a car through central London. That said, it's a tedious show. People who obsess about their car seem weird to me. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-973987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 The Cenotaph happened to be in the background (they weren't even all that close) while pulling doughnuts along Whitehall. All very banal, and I can see why some would consider it inappropriate. The producers probably should have stopped it. But honestly - barely newsworthy. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I think a producer deserves a smack in the mouth for this Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Aelfheah Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 They drove down Whitehall that's all. Yes, they were driving like Tw8ts but apparently that's what people who watch Top Gear get exctited about. The fact that they passed a war memorial doesn't seem like reason to get upset to me. It wasn't as though the cenotaph was the focus of the 'stunt', it was incidental. There is so much more about this incident which is in bad taste. For example, the more general issue of making an 'entertainment' programme that glorifies hooning it round the streets of London doing donuts. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974037 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Aelfheah Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Probably the most 'shocking' thing about this, is that such programmes still have an audience. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Permission to get notable areas of the city closed down is usually tied to alleged benefit to UK PLC, hence Top Gear - with its massive overseas audience - has some clout. That's why Bond films always scoop top city locations. That said, I'm sad to say that even Top Gear beats the utterly dire 'Spectre'. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earl Aelfheah Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 This made me chuckle http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/right-wing-dad-fails-to-see-irony-of-top-gear-cenotaph-stunt-20160315107152"Estate agent and father-of-two Hobbs felt that American Matt LeBlanc driving near the Cenotaph was ?a step too far?, despite loving it when Clarkson went to foreign countries in big cars and antagonised them as much as legally possible.....?I blame that American ? when celebrities travel they should take time to learn about local culture and history before attempting to make so-called ?jokes? that could hurt people?s feelings.?Hobbs, who laughed like a drain when Top Gear pissed off Mexicans, Romanians and Argentinians, added: ?This kind of crass, insensitive stunt is not funny and panders to utter morons. That LeBlanc is just a cocky millionaire posing as a maverick outsider.? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I read this morning that this piece of self-indulgent twattery is costing the LICENCE PAYER i.e us ?100,000 for goodness' sake BBC (aren't a lot of them Oxbridge 'educated'?) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974137 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 Top Gear makes the BBC loads of money through overseas sales. They'll recoup that 100K easily. Enough of the tabloid headlines, uncleglen. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I hate Tog Gear, and I think the presenters past and present are like children who've been told they can do whatever they like.But I'm basically with Jeremy and rahrahrah on this. It's a non story. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974147 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I do not read or buy tabloids- never have done- never will do-newspapers are so full of yesterday's news. I happened to read it online by accident fyi Jezza Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 I meant that it is the kind of pointless trivia a tabloid would report as "news"... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/97961-top-gear-in-another-twt-presenter-shocker/#findComment-974312 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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