BBC in £1MILLION racism lawsuit over Jeremy Clarkson's 'slope' quip

[Dedworth]

BBC faces £1MILLION racism lawsuit over Jeremy Clarkson's 'slope' quip on Top Gear Burma special


Somi Guha, 36, is suing BBC over alleged racist remark on Top Gear
Jeremy Clarkson caused outrage by using word 'slope' in Burma special
Term is a derogatory phrase for people of Asian descent
Actress Ms Guha's lawyers say action could cost the BBC £1million
They demand organisation apologises and takes show off the air




Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591500/BBC-sued-1-MILLION-Jeremy-Clarkson-racism-allegations-presenter-makes-slope-remark-Top-Gear-Burma-special.html#ixzz2xHI8wdiH


Our crackpot legal system allows chancers to start these spurious actions :mad:

[les_taxi]

Tell em to .... off they're not part of the EU :biggrin:

[raynaputi]

So I can't use the word "slope" now in front of the Asians? :cwm24:

[grahamw48]

It's a good thing Jeremy doesn't sue every time HE feels insulted. :NoNo:

Clearly some people are having far too easy a time of it in life, if that kind of stuff upsets them. :yawn:

There are far far more important injustices going on in the world that merit the attention and the time of lawyers and judges.

[joebloggs]

Sue Clarkson, he's the one that said it :doh

[cheekee]

Anything for easy money.

[Terpe]

Jeremy Clarkson's a :censored: IMO
........But he makes me laugh sometimes :icon_lol:

TBH I also feel there's more important things to consider.
I don't even understand what the negative meaning of 'slope' is.....must be leading a sheltered life..............thank goodness. :wink:

[grahamw48]

I thought that Burma special was one of the funniest programmes I've seen in years.

Sometimes they get on my nerves these days, but well done to the Top Gear team for putting that one together. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Michael Parnham]

I agree with Graham, really funny. Must admit, that's the first time I've ever heard that the word slope referred to Asians, slope to me is a place where you go for a ride on a sledge! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[SimonH]

I don't even understand what the negative meaning of 'slope' is.....must be leading a sheltered life..............thank goodness. :wink:

Surely the negative meaning of slope would be incline, or maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong angle :Erm:

[Terpe]

Surely the negative meaning of slope would be incline, or maybe I'm looking at it from the wrong angle :Erm:

Yep it depends which way you look at it.
I look at it this way, but others might look at it that way......
different slopes for different folks :biggrin:

[Steve.r]

I Googled it because I had never heard it used before either, I found this..."A derogatory term for people of Asian decent. It is an acronym for Silly Little Opium Peddling Easterner"

ref:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slope

Some people need to get a life!!!

[Terpe]

I Googled it because I had never heard it used before either, I found this..."A derogatory term for people of Asian decent. It is an acronym for Silly Little Opium Peddling Easterner"

ref:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slope

Some people need to get a life!!!

Well you live and learn ......thanks for enlightening those of that didn't know Steve....:icon_lol:

[johncar54]

Well, I'm going to slope off and think about that !

[fred]

Is it in the new dictionary yet?
Like "selfy" for instance?
If not then who pronounced it as an official racist term?

[johncar54]

Having just taken a look here :- http://www.slangsearch.com/insults.html
first thing in the morning I am off to see my solicitor to start suing just about everybody I have ever spoken to in my life !!!!!!

[Michael Parnham]

Having just taken a look here :- http://www.slangsearch.com/insults.html
first thing in the morning I am off to see my solicitor to start suing just about everybody I have ever spoken to in my life !!!!!!
:laugher::laugher::laugher:

[RickyR]

I also have never heard the word slope before, it all seems very OTT.

[Terpe]

Having just taken a look here :- http://www.slangsearch.com/insults.html
first thing in the morning I am off to see my solicitor to start suing just about everybody I have ever spoken to in my life !!!!!!

I looked at that link ........very educational too :xxgrinning--00xx3:

:icon_lol:

[Dedworth]

I always thought it was a derogatory term for Orientals not Asians in the wider sense.

Apocalypse Now :-

Kilgore: We'll come in low out of the rising sun. About a mile out, we'll put on the music. Lance: Music? Kilgore: Yeah, I use Wagner. Scares the hell out of the slopes. My boys love it.

http://076dd0a50e0c1255009e-bd4b8aabaca29897bc751dfaf75b290c.r40.cf1.rackcdn.com/images/files/000/540/062/original/original.jpg

[Dedworth]

http://vimeo.com/38265622

[Arthur Little]

:doh ... just shows how far down the "slippery slope" society has slid when the racist card is trumped up for the use of such a simple word. :crazy:

[Dedworth]

The pathetic BBC have apologised to this attention seeking woman :mad: :-

Top Gear: BBC issues apology over Jeremy Clarkson's 'slope' remark

Read more: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a566046/top-gear-bbc-issues-apology-over-jeremy-clarksons-slope-remark.html#~oCkRee74nzNuAq#ixzz2zn044lmU

[lordna]

Andy Wilman, executive producer for the BBC show admitted that their use of the word 'slope' in the recent Top Gear Burma Special was a light-hearted word play joke referencing both the build quality of the bridge and the local Asian man who was crossing it. Therefor the complaint against the BBC is justified and they have rightly apologised.

That should be the end of it, hopefully, particularly if they do us all a favour and take those 3 idiots off the air before they offend someone else.

[les_taxi]

Worlds gone mad!
Everyone offended these days:doh

[grahamw48]

Let's all just wrap ourselves in cotton wool and hide in our houses in case someone looks at us the wrong way or we accidentally say a bad word. :NoNo:

[johncar54]

Let's all just wrap ourselves in cotton wool and hide in our houses in case someone looks at us the wrong way or we accidentally say a bad word.

Or you could come and live in Spain where we don't have all that 'PC' rubbish.

[Arthur Little]

Worlds gone mad!

Everyone offended these days :doh

:iagree: Les ... it seems folk everywhere are being forced into keeping their mouths shut for fear of causing offence to the over~sensitive, "politically correct brigade".

Thinking back to my formative years in the mid to late 1950s, I'm reminded of the rhyme, "Sticks 'n' stones may break my bones ... :anerikke: ... but names will never harm me"!

Okay ... Jeremy Clarkson might not be the most tactful of celebrities - given his reputation for outspokenness - but I'm sure (like myself) very few of us here were aware of the connotations in this latest tongue in cheek :Rasp: gaffe of his before reading about it 3 weeks ago.

Changed days. And NOT for the better ! :NoNo:

:icon_rolleyes: ... whatever happened to freedom of speech?

[Dedworth]

I love the clip of the Huey Gunships filmed in Luzon - my #21. No doubt Somi Guha would find that offensive :smile:

[les_taxi]

As always offended especially if there is money to be made :doh

Blimey, if we were at war with Germany we could not say 'Hun' anymore in case we upset Hitler :icon_lol:

Bunch of oversensitive, pc knobs :biggrin:

[raynaputi]

Jeremy Clarkson was in the news again 2 days ago..this time about his new black dog. He named it Didier Dogba and people reacted again of him being a racist! :icon_lol: Freaking heck! I don't even see why it will be racist! :doh

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jeremy-clarkson-and-his-black-dog-didier-dogba-unsurprisingly-manage-to-offend-another-group-of-people-9273173.html

[grahamw48]

He's just a harmless overgrown schoolboy...teasing people.

Those who are offended are just miserable and pathetic, with no sense of humour and probably even less brainpower.

Humour is actually a great way of bringing together people from different races, cultures and backgrounds.

[lordna]

He's just a harmless overgrown schoolboy...teasing people.

Those who are offended are just miserable and pathetic, with no sense of humour and probably even less brainpower.

Humour is actually a great way of bringing together people from different races, cultures and backgrounds.

I agree that humour IS a great way of bringing people together whatever culture, race etc. However, it is important to remember that what might not appear offensive to us MAY well be to people from other races, cultures and backgrounds. So using the word "Slope", which personally i had never heard of in this context, WAS offensive as clearly the BBC sanctioned its use as a "light hearted play on words .ie both meanings of the word were intended.
To say those offended are just miserable and pathetic, with no sense of humour and probably less brainpower really just just shows no consideration or understanding for those who might be affected. Thankfully, we are not all the same and its always worth remembering how others might react to something said or written. This is particularly important for the BBC where any program is watched by a very mixed audience.

I must admit to being initially suprised at someone being offended by the word "slope", but now i understand the meaning this can have to others, i can appreciate their point. If we can get through life without offending people then in my eyes that has to be the preferred way, even though sometimes it can be difficult.

[Dedworth]

I agree that humour IS a great way of bringing people together whatever culture, race etc. However, it is important to remember that what might not appear offensive to us MAY well be to people from other races, cultures and backgrounds. So using the word "Slope", which personally i had never heard of in this context, WAS offensive as clearly the BBC sanctioned its use as a "light hearted play on words .ie both meanings of the word were intended.
To say those offended are just miserable and pathetic, with no sense of humour and probably less brainpower really just just shows no consideration or understanding for those who might be affected. Thankfully, we are not all the same and its always worth remembering how others might react to something said or written. This is particularly important for the BBC where any program is watched by a very mixed audience.

I must admit to being initially suprised at someone being offended by the word "slope", but now i understand the meaning this can have to others, i can appreciate their point. If we can get through life without offending people then in my eyes that has to be the preferred way, even though sometimes it can be difficult.

I don't give a toss that people from other races, cultures and backgrounds MAY be "offended" by what as you've confirmed is a little known term. As far as I'm concerned it's a case of fit in or :censored: off - we speak English and have a British sense of humour

[Michael Parnham]

I don't know what is racist these days, we were always taught to refer to dark skinned people as coloured and today I still use the word coloured because I think it's a much nicer and polite way than using the word b***k, we may as well put the Gollywog back on the jam jars! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[les_taxi]

I don't know what is racist these days, we were always taught to refer to dark skinned people as coloured and today I still use the word coloured because I think it's a much nicer and polite way than using the word b***k, we may as well put the Gollywog back on the jam jars! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Oops you're in trouble now - you are not meant to say coloured! And you can't say Wog!

I have thought of this scenario, I drive past 3 people, one white, one coloured and one black, copper stops me and says can you describe the people you have just seen as they are wanted men.

So I say one white, next one if I cant say coloured what do i say? He clearly isn't black. Can't say Asian as, although that may be correct, it's not a colour.

So I say he look like a Pakistani! Oops trouble there no doubt.

Think it's all gone mad, would it be ok to say - with a different group of people - Aussie, jock and Scouser, or would they be offended?

Not to upset the delicate flowers on here I will keep it to myself what I would say :biggrin:

[Michael Parnham]

Oops you're in trouble now - you are not meant to say coloured! And you can't say Wog!

I have thought of this scenario, I drive past 3 people, one white, one coloured and one black, copper stops me and says can you describe the people you have just seen as they are wanted men.

So I say one white, next one if I cant say coloured what do i say? He clearly isn't black. Can't say Asian as, although that may be correct, it's not a colour.

So I say he look like a Pakistani! Oops trouble there no doubt.

Think it's all gone mad, would it be ok to say - with a different group of people - Aussie, jock and Scouser, or would they be offended?

Not to upset the delicate flowers on here I will keep it to myself what I would say :biggrin:

Just say "beautiful" Les! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Iani]

Nah please don't say "coloured", that's a term which was only ever used by liberal white types who were trying too hard, and it's one of the times the black community realised how patronising these white libs were and took offence to the word - actual serious offence.

The word to use is just "black", it's direct and respectful, or just (A term the liberal elite seem to like to overlook in their drive to make everyone white feel inferior, and grab votes amongst the people they would themselves least like to live next to) fellow humans?

But anyway, as for this ridiculous shoulder-chipped woman, who decided to sue our institution the BBC (Did she get legal aid? She can't have much money as for a so called famous actress, few have ever heard of her), she isn't even from Britain - she came here for a better life and is our guest.
Well she got her 10 seconds of fame, now she can just slope off back into well deserved obscurity.

I'm now off to sue the Philippines over the number of times I get called "kanu" over there. Then I'm sueing Crawfords because they make cream crackers. Disgusting!

[Michael Parnham]

The N word that all the fuss is about, if it's what I think it is I have never used it, but in the Philippines it's the word most used to describe a black person, that just proves to me that different countries use different words to describe different cultures. If Clarkson was to lose his job It would be a sad loss to Top gear and its viewers over what I think is something so trivial. I think Jeremy Clarkson should be knighted for the amount of outspoken humour that has made so many people smile in the last however many years. No one takes his comments seriously but enjoy the way he entertains many of the British people with his light hearted comments. It's true what someone said, he's just a grown up kid, just my opinion! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[les_taxi]

i have recounted on here before how I used to pick up this black guy who's name was 'DAISY' and he would say to me as he got in the car "Hey les take this n..... into town" ya Honkey :laugher:

He was great fun and on purpose used to use words like 'Dang'.
He actually played on it and everyone loved this kid and he was so popular.

A fantastic example of not taking life too seriously and just getting on with things.

The Pakistani's in Harrogate are a different breed. Every time they parked illegally, every time they have no idea where destinations out and anything said - race card apperars :mad:

A new driver came to chat to me yesterday - he was from Afghanistan! Seemed a nice kid - been here since 2001 and was now a British citizen. He was a very pleasant guy and I could see he was not going to rip anyone off.

I had to ask him if he was Taliban though as you know how gobby I can be - he laughed and said no.

Imagine if I had asked a Pakistani that :yikes:

[KeithD]

After what just happened in the US NBA with Sterling, some of the players have said they would form a black only team. So that would be racist then, as it would be if an all white one was formed on purpose. :Erm:

[grahamw48]

Keith, you know racism only works in one direction. :wink:

Black police officers here have their own 'club', for example. :smile:

[johncar54]

Keith, you know racism only works in one direction. :wink:

Black police officers here have their own 'club', for example. :smile:

The Met Police Black Police Section has existed since 1994 along with Women and Gay sections.

The UK National Black Police Association (NBPA) has existed since 1999

There are also civilian groups for black employees of police services.

When a white officer asked (tongue in cheek) if he could form a white officers group he was of course told that would be racist and he would be prosecuted.

[joebloggs]

Sack Clarkson, he's used up his nine lives, i :mad: the smug :censored:

Waste of £1m licence payers money :cwm23:

[stevewool]

i dont like the man he is so far up his own :action-smiley-081: , its about time he just disappeared off the screen now, just my thoughts

[johncar54]

i dont like the man he is so far up his own :action-smiley-081: , its about time he just disappeared of the screen now, just my thoughts

I guess the audiences in the 214 countries where the program is screened, who pay good money to the BBC (to reduce your licence) do not agreed with us.

[stevewool]

I guess the audiences in the 214 countries where the program is screened, who pay good money to the BBC (to reduce your licence) do not agreed with us.

well its good then there are others out there that will save our tv licence going up, long live Clarkson then

[joebloggs]

I guess the audiences in the 214 countries where the program is screened, who pay good money to the BBC (to reduce your licence) do not agreed with us.

if that is so, then why hasn't the licence fee ever gone down :cwm25:

[johncar54]

if that is so, then why hasn't the licence fee ever gone down :cwm25:

Maybe it explains why it has not gone up even more

PS in Spain we don't have such things.

[joebloggs]

Maybe it explains why it has not gone up even more

PS in Spain we don't have such things.

i think the gov put a 6yr freeze on the fee which ends in 2016.

Clarkson on his last warning :pray:



Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson says the BBC has told him he will be sacked if he makes "one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time".

Writing in the Sun, Clarkson insisted he did not use a racist word while reciting the nursery rhyme Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe in an out-take from the show that was published by the Daily Mirror

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27266102

[johncar54]

Just heard Top Gear earns the BBC 150 million pounds a year.

PS can I sign this 'Paddy' ? I have dual nationality or is the English part of me being racist !!!

[Dedworth]

if that is so, then why hasn't the licence fee ever gone down :cwm25:


Because all the apologists, lefties and fellow travellers on the BBC payroll are on obscene salaries and huge expense accounts