Pointing out stories you may have missed. Jeremy Clarkson has been rapped for calling a car ``gay''. The British TV presenter said the Daihatsu Copen was ``a bit gay'' and ``a bit ginger beer'' - rhyming slang for ``queer''. Media regulator Ofcom said ``gay'' was not necessarily offensive, but citing the Oxford English Dictionary definition of the word as ``foolish, stupid and occasionally inappropriate, disapproved of and lame''. But Ofcom added: ``In this edition of , the use of a rhyming phrase made clear he intended to give a particular meaning to use of the word gay ... clearly linking the reference to homosexual people.’’News source: Gay.Com.
FOOTNOTE: According to a report by Adrian Hearn at AutoTrader.co.UK Jeremy Clarkson should be the new British Prime Minister with Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig in the cabinet. So say more than 70,000 fans who’ve joined the ‘Jeremy Clarkson should be Prime Minister’ forum on Facebook.
6 comments:
Ha! Daft lad married a Manx woman, and owns a farm over here. The locals were up in arms recently when he gave a nation-wide radio interview, castigating the lack of edible cusine on the island. (I'm so with him on that front.)
Hi Carol,
Hark, 'tis the sound of drums - no, forsooth, 'tis the Islanders, beating an angry tattoo upon your drawbridge, demanding right of reply.
(Or your head on a platter, whichever comes first)
Fly away, fly away, lest they hurl their home-grown radishes upon thy table ....
Sorry, I'm just being daft myself.
David
He's lucky he's not on American TV. He'd have special interest groups of all ilks calling for all kinds of apologies and resignations and such and such.
Hi Bart,
The program is so good - and so popular - that it probably does run on US TV somewhere in the vast land of yours.
Cheers
David
Oh, it does. But not enough to get the special interest groups REALLY riled up. See Imus, Don.
Nice point of view, Bart
I was gobsmacked by what he got away with in an open media forum.
David
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