To: tolerance, understanding and democracy: please return to sender

**SwordsMaster** · 02-12-2007, 20:58

Hey,

Stumbled into this one recently, and initially wasn't going to post it, but then decided to have my name associated with some controversy, so here I am.

Don't know how many of you watch Top Gear, but this is a recent episode.

<Edit: Video removed from host>

Sorry.

**The_Doctor** · 02-13-2007, 00:07

LOL

, I should watch Top Gear more often.

**BDC** · 02-13-2007, 00:30

Yes, that was classic.

Watch as tourism and foreign investment in Alabama plunge (further?).

Althought the New Orleans ending was a bit more moving. Even Clarkson looked a bit put off by the devastation.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 02-13-2007, 01:12

OMG, that was hilarious!

And there I was, thinking hicks in pick-up trucks and ready to crash onto the scene at any time were just a movie cliche.

Ah, I feel like going on a rant about the deep south now, but I'll just quote this YouTube commentary instead: I've seen what happens when someone wears a Rangers shirt and walks into a Celtic pub.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 02-13-2007, 01:22

Heh, I wondered if someone was going to post this.

It certainly doesn't paint the south in a very good light.

**Vladimir** · 02-13-2007, 01:31

Wow, how lame. Aussies and Brits shouldn't try to offend Americans, they just embarrass themselves (where the hell are these guys from). "Country and Western is Rubbish?

Oh dear, I want to shoot them myself.

Haha, the lady called them out! And who tries to put diesel into their car?

**Louis VI the Fat** · 02-13-2007, 17:49

I was a bit lazy I guess. I'll quote myself and rephrase it properly.

Originally Posted by luigi VI di Fatlington

Ah, I feel like going on a rant about the deep south now, but I'll just quote this YouTube commentary instead: I've seen what happens when someone wears a Rangers shirt and walks into a Celtic pub.

I could go on a rant about the deep south here. But wouldn't people respond like this in a similar manner elsewhere? You'll find the same sort of lower class people responding to provocation with physical threats everywhere. Fists, not wit, are their means of defense.

This tv-show could find themselves in the same situation without ever leaving the UK. Take for example this clever quote which I took from the same YouTube page as the video: I've seen what happens when someone wears a Rangers shirt and walks into a Celtic pub..
These presentators could simply walk into a catholic Glaswegian pub wearing an emblem of protestantism to achieve the same result. Or I could drive down to Orange or Marseille, paint some fine references to pied-noirs or harkis on my hood and get myself into trouble really quick.

So no matter how ridiculous the agression of these trigger-happy hicks is, there's really no point in turning this into a dismissal of the South at large.

See?

**English assassin** · 02-13-2007, 18:25

These presentators could simply walk into a catholic Glaswegian pub wearing an emblem of protestantism to achieve the same result.

Actually that wouldn't be funny. Death or serious injury would be nearly inevitable.

No one would be that mad. Not that you have to go as far as Glasgow. I remember walking down the Kings road (in Chelsea) behind a beefy skinhead in a West Ham top, with a pit bull on a lead. He was merrily shouting out "Chelsea are ****. Chelsea are ****." (Shakespeare lives!)

Now, at the top of the Kings Road you are about as likely to meet a Chelsea headhunter as you are to meet a Wildebeest. In fact you have to get a long way down before that is much of a risk, (the mad fans, not the wildebeest) but before that bit, only a part of the way down the road, there is a pub, the Trafalgar, which is as close to rough as it gets around there. (Ie what anyone else would call "normal".)

Aha, I said to my wife, lets see what he does when he gets near the Trafalgar.

Wisely, matey shut up, and crossed the road to boot. Otherwise he would have got a beating.

So there you go Don, you could get you head kicked in on the Kings road if you annoyed people enough.

**Prodigal** · 02-13-2007, 14:31

Originally Posted by BDC

Althought the New Orleans ending was a bit more moving. Even Clarkson looked a bit put off by the devastation.

I thought that too, then after they'd given away 2 of the cars for free & switched back to the studio it turned out a lawyer turned up & threatened to sue because Clarkson had claimed his car was an '89 when it was a '91, (but the suit could be made to "go away" for $20k). Then a pickup full of armed men appeared to told them to get off their street...I wish I could remeber Clarkson's quote early on in the show saying what he thought about the US.

Anyway, loved the show, the best parts had to be driving along with the shower unit on, & turning up with the cow on the roof.