A load of old cock
And for once I’m not talking about Nando’s haters.
Apparently the BBC Trust has complained that Top Gear presenters were drinking whilst driving to - erm - the North Pole. I saw the the bloody programme. Clarkson and James May (fine fellow) cracked open some wine, cheese and foie gras whilst the presenter - whatisname, the one who always gets bullied - was busy crossing the Artic by ski and sledge. With a woman he didn’t like at all.
Excellent TV if you ask me. Though I think it’s rather telling that rather fewer people complained about the pictures of frostbitten genitals.
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I think the fear was that it would encourage people to drink gin and tonics while driving to Milton Keynes, because you can’t trust people to tell the difference to that and a trip to the North Pole. One could see how the confusion might arise, but still.
Comment by bill — 2nd July, 2008 @ 8:37 pm
yep.
what Bill said.
eejits.
and what a nerve the BBC has to ‘complain’ to anybody about anything: I still haven’t forgiven them for wiping their tapes of all my favourite brilliant 60’s shows.
Comment by dysthymiac — 3rd July, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
Quink, this is quite the wrong view. It is worth complaining about. They could have hit a polar bear.
I think its completely unfair to imply the BBC Trust are crusty joyless busybodies with too much time on their hands.
Comment by The Pink Half — 3rd July, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
Force feeding a duck or a goose till its liver swells up is really sick and the BBC shouldn’t glamorize it.
Comment by Dominic Harvey — 4th July, 2008 @ 2:35 pm