H982 FKL a coincidence - do you buy it?
Barbra
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30175708
"The BBC and Clarkson have maintained that the plate was a coincidence, saying that no deliberate offence had been intended."
Very poor excuse given by the BBC don't you think?
"The BBC and Clarkson have maintained that the plate was a coincidence, saying that no deliberate offence had been intended."
Very poor excuse given by the BBC don't you think?
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All the evidence in this case (note: not their past transgressions) suggests this was not deliberate. The presenters seem genuine on this and they do a lot of work with Help for Heroes etc. When they are actually swearing on their childrens' lives that it was not deliberate, I think we have to give them the benefit of the doubt as I doubt that would sit well with their families and friends!
Also the logistics of deliberately actually procuring a car with that reg are mind boggling.
The BBC and Clarkson are absolutely revelling in all this negative publicity. They feed on it.
No I don't think that it's a poor excuse.
Your three letters are FKL... let's play... :cool:
Does anyone really care...apart from Argentina?
Nope, and that is the point. There president must have some bad news to break, or her approval ratings are about to come in showing low numbers, or they have another loan to deafult on, and so on.
It's always the case, they bring up the Falklands whenever they want to distract their people from something else.
Having seen a car with that registration - did they realise the possibilities and buy it? Yes.
Do I have a problem with that? No.
I do wonder who tipped off the Argentines regarding its significance, though.
WTF cares if it was a coincidence or not? It was funny.
No one gives a damn about the Argies if we offended them.
If the BBC Trust rejecting the complaint makes the papers days before the episode airs, I'll think that's as much a coincidence as the number plate being what it was in the first place.
I wonder if they'll try to get Simon Weston as the "Christmas star in a reasonably priced car"?
Made me chuckle as well.
I think you've nailed it. The researcher in charge of buying the car was probably just looking for any cheap Porsche and possibly realised later (or at the time) the great numberplate. Don't forget in the random nature of things you also need to include all combinations of "Malvinas".
The other thing that jumped out to me when reading the entire story is how little input Clarkson has in some of Top Gear content. His role in this scenario was literally to turn up on Day1 of filming to drive the car they'd bought for him, without any ideas/input from him.
The mock media outrage gets on my nerves a lot though. If Clarkson didn't work for BBC the right-wing press would love him. After all his manufactured screen persona completely comes across as a walking talking DailyMail/Sun newspaper. For them to pretend to be annoyed about his Argentinian escapades is ridiculously hypocritical.
However, in this case I understand that the contentious number plate was swapped between cars so indicating that it was a deliberate (and very juvenile) provocation.
Whereas I understand that this particular car has always held this number plate since it was first issued with one. There was no swapping of plates.