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boro_boy
24-05-2007, 21:06
TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been criticised by the media watchdog Ofcom for using a term which was "capable of giving offence to homosexual people".
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Clarkson rapped over 'gay' jibe (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6676839.stm)

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I am really getting pissed of with people who pick up and anything slightly politically incorrect. what's wrong with saying a car is gay? I think we should complain about the people complaining. There was nothing wrong with it.
FourOneFourOne
24-05-2007, 21:07
I'm trying to think of a good joke which involves an exhaust pipe.
boro_boy
24-05-2007, 21:07
I must admit it is an incredibly gay car :)

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boro_boy
24-05-2007, 21:16
Well, it seems to work on the logic

Car = bad, gay =bad, thus car=gay, doesn't it?
Middlesbrough No1 Fan
24-05-2007, 22:00
The people who complain need shooting..
Craig
24-05-2007, 22:07
Last year, he was cleared of making a racist slur about Germany because this was adjudged to be amusing rather than offensive.


I never knew Germany was a race? :S Wow, you don't have get some idiots in this country.
Simonutd
24-05-2007, 22:33
i think ppl go to far, so what call me a manc i dont care,
kiko
25-05-2007, 14:43
I think about this now and again. No not gay cars. More the insult "gay".

I reckon our grandchildren/children will look at us with the same disgust at it as we do when you hear your grandparents say a racist comment.
westboy
25-05-2007, 14:51
Not only do people who work at ofcom not have a life and need to get out more and should realise that they themselves are not representative of the public, they are wrong. The word "gay" now has other meanings, it means homosexual and it can also be used in a negative way. Therefore Clarkson's comments had nothing to do with homosexuals at all.

If only they employed people with half a GCSE at ofcom...
Ronaldo
25-05-2007, 15:11
Oh f*ck off, I also heard something embarrisingly bad on HL's forum a while back, the NHS were advising Nurses not to say Husband or Wife in the wards as it may offend gay poeple

Like Westboy said, it has other meanings nowadays. Hate the f**king PC Brigade :ranting:
westboy
07-06-2007, 09:19
I heard that gay people on talksport actually saying they were offended by offcoms decision