"Svend" (svend)
12/29/2014 at 03:40 • Filed to: None
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Now we've all seen on the news and some poor quality camera phone footage on YouTube but to see and hear how our guys (cast and crew) were hounded out of the country (very much in fear for their lives) and then the Argie government wants our government, the BBC and the cast to apologise. Absolutely disgusting.
I'm sorry to any Argentine Oppos if you take offence to my post, but the mob mentality of the ones attacking the vehicles is bang out of order.
Arben72
> Svend
12/29/2014 at 04:19 |
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'Murican here, an apology from the Argentina's government is required. Not due to the stoning, and I'm not 100% convinced that top gear didn't notice the plate before thy started either, but because they tried to trap them in Argentine's country by attempting to stop them at their borders. They were at risk and that's just unacceptable.
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Svend
> Arben72
12/29/2014 at 04:36 |
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The cars were bought for the cast, not by the cast and the son of the previous owner showed that it was the genuine licence plate for that vehicle when his father owned it. Clarkson wanted a 928, and had a valid reason for wanting one.
The thing is if you look hard enough you can pretty much make anything that you see into something you want to see. But for the BBC to look into how someone may possibly inconceivably see something and take action is an impossible task. Look at how many people interpret the bible to how it suits them.
TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut
> Svend
12/29/2014 at 04:53 |
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And they damaged the little 2CV. UNACCEPTABLE.
ARGENTINA I WAR YOU.
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Svend
> TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut
12/29/2014 at 05:35 |
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Actually have you seen 'James May Car of the People' episode 2, where he shoots up a Citroen 2CV (and a Renault R4) with a rifle, automatic rifle and then an RPG?
To put it into context he was demonstrating how unsuitable for the military they were when the French military used them.
Sorry man. :(
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TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut
> Svend
12/29/2014 at 06:02 |
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It hurt yes, but the ones the Argies beat up was more innocent than that. It was also a rarer pickup model.
//sniffles
FasTbird232
> Svend
12/29/2014 at 06:26 |
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"Was like that when we bought it."
"Factory paint job."
Yeah, Andy Wilman and Jeremy Clarkson are just the pinnacle of naivete. Sometimes it's funny, and sometimes, someone throws a rock.
Makes for good television, though.
Leon711
> Arben72
12/29/2014 at 07:47 |
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for the record, not one of the parties have apologised.
I read an analogy that said "Argentina is a country full of people not dissimilar to New Yorkers" make of that what you will.
Also,
Argentina lost the war.
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Svend
> FasTbird232
12/29/2014 at 08:01 |
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That truck was deliberate and they wrote it on each others vehicles deliberately.
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FasTbird232
> Svend
12/29/2014 at 08:41 |
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My point exactly.
AdverseMartyr
> Svend
12/29/2014 at 14:17 |
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(Slight spoiler)
The shot cutting to the car's license plate just after Clarkson saying not even he would make jokes about the Falklands shows that Top Gear was willing to use it once the problem had occurred. I'm not sure they would have had much of a special if they hadn't since the world already knew the ending.