I don't know how much of it was just for the show or if he really feels that way.
Maybe the fact he went out and bought one, and imported it into the UK is a small hint?
Although he's recently commented that it turned out to be a truly shit car to own, and he regrets the purchase. But that's because it was a shit car to own.
Other staff members at the BBC win. They know that their safety and working conditions matter more to the BBC than the bottom line.
Which is appropriate.
For the money? BBC will not loose any money for the lack of advertisement. So what other reasons could there be?
Maybe the extensive international sales that pay for the filming, pay for the trips, pay the wages of everybody involved including Clarkson himself.
The BBC just took a massive financial hit by choosing not to renew his contract. It's the right decision, but don't go pretending that it hasn't hurt them.
Remeber what he did in Argentina?
No, what did he do in Argentina? I mean, other than admire the stunning scenery and drive a car around?
People in Argentina bleat on about other shit, but they're talking total nonsense - much like their comments on the Falklands.
Sorry but the jokes about prostitutes, Mexicans, cheese-eating surrender monkeys and bridges with their ends at different heights should not be disciplinary offences.
Shit, I've heard Ben Elton make cunt jokes on the BBC, but he's a lefty darling so nobody sacked him for it. Clarkson employs similarly edgy humour to entertain and I'm fucked off with the PC brigade that caused him so much shit about it all.
Learn to take a fucking joke.
Incidentally, which n-word? November? Nostril? 'Nuh nuh' as someone below has commented? Whichever one you're referring to, you do realise that Clarkson himself reviewed that tape and requested that it wasn't broadcast. Hardly the act of a man intent on inciting racial hatred is it.
You can bet that if the producer had punched Clarkson there wouldn't be all this fuss with people endlessly making excuses for him.
No, they'd be congratulating him, wishing they'd had the chance, putting him forward for the honours list.
If my company was providing me with accommodation, food and a 20 hour working day, and I was on a final warning, and then I hit the colleague providing me with the food as part of his job?
Yes, I'm very ok with the company taking a dim view on that.
Are you really suggesting this is acceptable behaviour?
Are people really going to miss yet another totally fake show pretending to be reality? Is it just because this one combined cars and Daily Mail-style politics?
I'm going to miss it because it was fucking entertaining. It was irreverent (except to certain classic cars), it was happy to mock everybody, it gave a voice to the idiot within me. It had cars that cost more than my lifetime earnings and the camera work of dreams.
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for a primadonna for whom curses at an employee for 20 minutes and then physically assaults him up for half a minute
Me either, but I'll still very much miss the tv programme.
never let them review an English car (because they obviously can't do that objectively)
This is probably why the American Top Gear never worked.
The British hosts never review any car objectively. They don't even pretend. That's half the fucking point.
its not Clarkson that has make it work. Its the producer
You seriously underestimate the creative input from the presenters, and the other two happily acknowledge that Clarkson makes a massive contribution.
some of the best editing and camera work in the industry.
..although it's worth watching the show just for this, yes.
See, if you'd said "not the cock" it would've stayed in canon, we'd have been fine.
That's why I don't get this "he hit someone, and done". Even if so, there's very probably enough provocation on the failing there by the Producer alone.
You hit someone in the office, you get sacked. Gross misconduct. Gone.
You hit someone while working in a highly unionised organisation, while on a final warning, you really expect to not get sacked?
Provocation may be a defence against a legal assault charge, but not against gross misconduct. "Here's a perfectly edible meal freshly prepared and ready for you" is not fucking provocation.
I loved Top Gear, I had no issues with Jeremy Clarkson's lack of PC but don't go pretending that he didn't fuck up massively on this occasion, or that the BBC had no real choice but to reduce their income by around £50m/year and get rid of him.
And if they don't?
Suspension of business. All business. Until the line is connected.
Crikey. You made the points I was about to respond with, except you managed to be constructive and polite and not swear. Thank you.
Nah. I'd guess maybe 4 were innocent, if that.
But seriously: What the fuck does living with his parents have to do with shit?
It's an expensive world, people live with their parents.
Which is why companies provide tax engines, that take on the complex calculations and that can be updated by the company providing the engine rather than the many thousands of retailers that use it.
It's not a single central database, it's one per vendor, and the tax jurisdictions don't update them, the vendors do, but otherwise it's the solution you're suggesting.
The downside of course is that those vendors want paying for this service...
Ok, could you list the tax rates and rules across a range of goods in each country within the European Economic Area please?
Oh, and provide an update ahead of any changes, so that I can assure I stay current?
Incidentally, while you're at it, could you build the business logic and rules into my website so that it correctly calculates that tax, and reports it in a compliant fashion to each relevant jurisdiction?
Would it be too much to ask that you make this a robust repeatable process, that it's invisible to customers, that it doesn't cost me anything to operate, that it's secure against fraud or tampering, and that it doesn't rely on external services that might be unavailable?
Is it so hard to implement the different tax rates for different countries?
Yes, it fucking is.
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