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Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear.
I couldn't sleep last night so in a bid to find something to watch I stupidly (i know i know) clicked a a new series of Top Gear. It was predictably shit from the get go; scripted "banter" and rehearsed "happenings". Bead necklaces, shaggy mid-life-crisis hair, paunches, boot-cut jeans, casual racism and crap similes about tacky footballer's cars that cost more than most of us will earn in half a decade. I really don't know why I bothered. But then Clarkson made reference to the English football fans mocking the Americans over the Deepwater Horizon disaster and referred to their "You're not *swimming *any more" (see what they did there?) chant as "Brilliant!". Chortling away, he seemed to be revelling in the fact that not only had a dozen people died in presumably horrible agony, but that hundreds of thousands would lose their livelihoods and huge swathe of unique ecosystem has been potentially destroyed forever. Haha! But it's funny because they're AMERICANS, i.e. not us. In fact I got the distinct impresison that it was even more lol-worthy to him and his audience because this disaster had been inflicted by a British owned company. Ha!
I've tried to write it off as part of a constructed persona, pandering to a certain demographic or whatever, but fuck it... the biggest star at the BBC got the boot last year after mildy insulting one bewildered old man on some obscure podcast. Clarkson gets up on primetime terrestrial BBC and makes a gloating, xenophobic joke about an ongoing social, environmental and potential economic disaster and no-one bats a fucking eyelid?
I'm not ashamed to say i've just comlained to the BBC about it. For the first time too. Maybe i'm getting old or whatever, but I can't stand that that revolting, bigoted, hate-mongering CUNT is what passes for mainstream entertainment in this country.