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Motorsports

Aquavit

(488 posts) Tue Mar 10, 2015, 07:13 PM Mar 2015

Oh Clarkson....

You wooly-haired pillock (with apologies to Richard Hammond)...

[link]http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31824040[/link]

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Oh Clarkson.... (Original Post) Aquavit Mar 2015 OP

This doesn't sound like the ape's MO. sir pball Mar 2015 #1

He apparently turned himself in about the incident...whatever it was... truebrit71 Mar 2015 #2

sir pball

(4,941 posts)

1. This doesn't sound like the ape's MO.

Reply to Aquavit (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2015, 09:38 PM

Mar 2015

He has a longstanding tradition of speaking before (or without) thinking, but I've never heard anything of him being a hothead let alone violent. I'll be interested to see how this turns out; the axing of the rest of the season kind of smells like a grinding axe to me..

truebrit71

(20,805 posts)

2. He apparently turned himself in about the incident...whatever it was...

Reply to Aquavit (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2015, 11:55 AM

Mar 2015

...but the BBC has to be very careful here, Top Gear is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge and to blow it up will cost them plenty of the readies...

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