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Richard Hammond under fire after saying men who eat ice cream are "gay" |
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I hope so, although the 5 people in this thread demonstrate that there are people like that, maybe the new forum could have a ❅ symbol next to their name so we know and can be careful around them.
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I've never heard it until recently, and I've been around since the early days of the internet!. It's only in the last few months that it seems to have caught on in general use.
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I'm surprised that anybody cares what Richard Hammond thinks.
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I hope so, although the 5 people in this thread demonstrate that there are people like that, maybe the new forum could have a ❅ symbol next to their name so we know and can be careful around them.
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No, bur there's a difference between making an edgy joke that is funny, and being a moron. Hammond is a moron.
Can you explain how that joke wasn't homophobic/offensive to gay people? The whole point of Amazon Prime is that people can stream episodes of The Grand Tour whenever they like. Therefore, not everybody watches the episode at the same time, and so any offensive caused by stupid comments on the show will take time to trickle through. Doesn't make Hammond any less of a dick. Just because offensive comments are branded "a joke" doesn't mean they aren't offensive. Whether humour was intended or not doesn't mean that what was said is any less offensive or wrong. This really isn't a big thing, so silly for people to get so upset on Twitter over it and it just demonstrates how silly this political correctness thing has gone. I wish we did'n't have people like you spoiling comedy and being so over sensitive. |
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Kids were also being sexually and physically abused by people in positions of power; girls who got pregnant were sent away and shunned; gay people were beaten up routinely for being gay. Yep. The 'good old days'. The problem with the 'good old days' is that those jokes made discrimination and hate acceptable. It made crimes against people based on ethnicity or sexual orientation more acceptable. That atmosphere was toxic.
To qualify as a joke, it has to have some kind of pun or punchline. What's funny about saying that eating ice-cream looks gay? And mine. Calling someone a snowflake is just so bloody lazy. No attempt at a counter argument, discussion or debate. Just shut it down with 'snowflake'. Lazy. Lazy. Lazy. |
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Some people find things funny that others don't. As I said earlier we all have something that would potentially match "us" gay, straight, black, white, fat, thin, ginger, pale, Irish, Tory, Labour (keep going...)
This really isn't a big thing, so silly for people to get so upset on Twitter over it and it just demonstrates how silly this political correctness thing has gone. I wish we did'n't have people like you spoiling comedy and being so over sensitive. |
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Completely agree with everything here. What amazes me is that some people will defend the Top Gear trio to the death even if they have quite clearly made offensive comments. Children watch this programme- do we really want Richard Hammond telling them that homosexuality is wrong/bad?
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Completely agree with everything here. What amazes me is that some people will defend the Top Gear trio to the death even if they have quite clearly made offensive comments. Children watch this programme- do we really want Richard Hammond telling them that homosexuality is wrong/bad?
Have you actually watched it? |
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It's not comedy. It wasn't even a joke. Just a moron making a tasteless remark. That's not "comedy".
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To be fair it's origins are American, sometimes those things take a while.
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I think it does if you've taken to the Twitter storm over something so minor.
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No, bur there's a difference between making an edgy joke that is funny, and being a moron. Hammond is a moron.
Can you explain how that joke wasn't homophobic/offensive to gay people? The whole point of Amazon Prime is that people can stream episodes of The Grand Tour whenever they like. Therefore, not everybody watches the episode at the same time, and so any offensive caused by stupid comments on the show will take time to trickle through. Doesn't make Hammond any less of a dick. Just because offensive comments are branded "a joke" doesn't mean they aren't offensive. Whether humour was intended or not doesn't mean that what was said is any less offensive or wrong. It wasnt homophobic and it wasn't offensive. It was merely a joke that YOU didn't like. I didn't find it funny either, but i wasn't offended! The problem here is people like you who carry on about how everything is homophobic and offensive, Sure we have to have a line, but you are taking this too far now. So again, care to furnish us with what you watch? |
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He didn't say it was bad if you watched the joke.
Have you actually watched it? |
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Well I don't have twitter and I'm not easily offended, but it seems you're easily offended about other people being offended!
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He didn't say it was bad if you watched the joke.
Have you actually watched it? |
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So what was he saying?
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So who's more offended? The people who think Hammond's a moronic idiot for saying that it's gay to eat ice-cream? Or the people who think that you can't call him a moronic idiot for saying it? The latter seem angrier to me.
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Do men actually like ice cream? I never realised
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So who's more offended? The people who think Hammond's a moronic idiot for saying that it's gay to eat ice-cream? Or the people who think that you can't call him a moronic idiot for saying it? The latter seem angrier to me.
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No just annoyed that we don't see half the comedy that we used to because of the serially offended and fed up with seeing Twitter storm in a teacups over such minor things that usually only last a day or so.
You see more people moaning, but what exactly has stopped? |
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I'm willing to bet he hasn't watched the full thing at all.
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You'd be out of pocket. I watched it last night and was appalled at both the homophobia and the poor quality of the programme in general. The phrase "how the mighty have fallen" came to mind.
I take it you've watched the old Top Gear before? Yet your suprised about seeing non-pc jokes in it? |
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I don't know who came up with that ridiculous new term but it REALLY gets on my tits.
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You may be overreacting, as I doubt it's quite as bad as that. Anyway, there's no particular merit in being deliberately offensive.
I imagine it's in the job description.Quote:
I'm not offended, in fact I am glad he said it. I now know the half-pint prick is a dick head and a moron and I can ignore anything he may have to say in future.
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And mine. Calling someone a snowflake is just so bloody lazy. No attempt at a counter argument, discussion or debate. Just shut it down with 'snowflake'. Lazy. Lazy. Lazy.
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I'm surprised that anybody cares what Richard Hammond thinks.
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No just annoyed that we don't see half the comedy that we used to because of the serially offended and fed up with seeing Twitter storm in a teacups over such minor things that usually only last a day or so.
![]() ETA: Love the Daily Mash article - the voice in Hammond's head The voice added: “Clarkson is the star. Sure, we don’t really know why, but there it is.“James May has a slightly awkward, fogey-ish quality that makes him sufficiently different from Clarkson. “But you’re just a little fart. So do us both a favour and stop calling things ‘gay’. I don’t want to be the voice inside the head of a bitter has-been who’s selling smoothie makers on a shopping channel.” That's comedy
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Eating ice cream makes me happy
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I imagine it's in the job description.