KyAllroad wrote: I had never heard that nursery rhyme using the N word but I just asked someone older than myself to complete "eeny meeny......." And he used it!! I had no idea but the video is clearly just a mumble that I think someone with a preconceived idea of what is going to be said is going to hear what they expect.
I remember it from "Pulp Fiction", but there were so many N-bombs in that movie I had no idea that the original rhyme used it, too.
The UK's version of the National Enquirer. Who needs facts when you can invent stories and small-minded people eat it up. Regardless, it always takes two - we can only blame these "news" sources 50% - the other half is on the morons that feed them.
FWIW, that picture of Clarkson and the woman looks odd, very much like it's been photoshop'd - big surprise there.
Sometimes I think humans are too dumb to run this planet...
Apparently "murmur murmur murmur" is offensive these days.
KyAllroad wrote: I had never heard that nursery rhyme using the N word but I just asked someone older than myself to complete "eeny meeny......." And he used it!! I had no idea but the video is clearly just a mumble that I think someone with a preconceived idea of what is going to be said is going to hear what they expect.
Yup. That brought back memories of growing up in Georgia... although my parents, being a bit more educated, taught me the PC version that is more common up here in PA (as well as use of the N-word being never appropriate). Although there were few blacks in my schools in PA, the GA version of that rhyme probably wouldn't have gone over well and my parents would have gotten a phone call.
LMAO at the nips. 
I think James May summed it up nicely. I would love to meet those guys someday. The only reason I would want to be a celebrity is to get to drive their reasonably priced car around their track with the stig. 
In reply to EastCoastMojo:
Thats hilarious, my buddy and I were saying the same thing. Only reason to become famous is to be invited to star in a reasonably priced car
EastCoastMojo wrote: LMAO at the nips.
I would like to do a commentary while driving the reasonably priced car as Clarkson:
" I make fun of the American's because I have the smallest penis in the WORLD! EPICALLY SMALL!!"
I think every week they should put not only a star, but an audience member in the car as well. Maybe a lottery. I so want to go set a time.
I put down a faggot of wood to read this?
Some of you know... you know....
In reply to aircooled:
When I was very small, I remember my great grandmother would offer those at holidays. In a proper, stiff-upper-lip, Welsh brogue accent like they were important tradition.
I wonder how awkward that would be now (I do love a good cringe moment).
aircooled wrote:
/Are those @#$%^ toes?
All I heard was mumbled and yes they are!
aircooled wrote: Clarkson bigoted? Have you heard what he says about the French, or the Americans? I am pretty sure that is one of the reasons he gets paid what he does. It's one of his "things", it's his act. Pretty weak charge BTW.... Donald Sterling he's not... If you try hard enough, I am sure you could charge almost anyone in a similar way.
On my commute home I was singing along with Snoop's Gz and Hustlas on Pandora. Guess I'm a racist for repeating someone else's words...
aircooled wrote:
That is the only name I ever heard them called in my house growing up. I honestly believed that was what they where called...until I met my first black friend in high school and went over to his house. They had some in a bowl and I said;
"Ooh, #&*!@# toes, I love those"
That was the first time that I found out what that word meant. I never knew that was a derogatory term, or had any kind of bad connotation at all. I still don't know what the actual name of those nuts are but I damn sure know that's not it.
My parents where both born in the 1930's and were from the south. They used the word in conversation. I never heard them use it towards anyone and as a kid it didn't seem derogatory in the least. Just another word until I found out what it meant. They were from a different time though, I do know that my kid will never hear me say that word because I don't use it. It's still a conversation that I will have to have with him someday because he will hear it somewhere and I don't want him to learn about it the same way I did.
Brazil nuts
I grew up in the Deep South. I'm 47 and the rhyme always used tiger. Not tigger, not anything but tiger. Obviously the Brits are a country of racists. 
I got my education about the n word in 1st grade. I call someone that on the bus. He was bigger and stronger than I was. It was a short, but memorable lesson. Now I just use ass hole.
They obviously didn't fill out the proper form
The Mirror, trash. General controversy over "n-word", I'm staying way the hell out of that.
Semi-related, I love how the in the UK, the "C-word" is a run of the mill profanity, but here it is basically the "n-word" for women.
neon4891 wrote: ...I love how the in the UK, the "C-word" is a run of the mill profanity, but here it is basically the "n-word" for women.
Father Murphy was working on a crossword puzzle, one afternoon. He was stumped on a word. He asked the vicar, who was reading the newspaper, "What's a four letter word for woman, ending in U-N-T?"
The vicar looked up, thought for a split second and answered, "Aunt."
"Thanks," replied the Father, "Pass me the eraser, please."
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/c_word
Well they have said racist things on the show like calling that asian on the bridge a slope and that comment on the mexican sports car. I always took it like Louis CK racism as in not racist but a off color joke.
On my commute home I was singing along with Snoop's Gz and Hustlas on Pandora. Guess I'm a racist for repeating someone else's words...
Context matters when discussing racist comments. If he was saying racist E36 M3 just to be racist then it's racist. Like the Mexican comments on the show. Or the slope comment.
They flat out called an asian guy a slope on the show and they said that mexicans are "lazy, feckless, flatulent oaf with a moustache, leaning against a fence asleep, looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.". How is that not racism? Sure it's "joking" but at that rate I can just call someone a n word or say a car built by black people must mean it drives like it's lazy and on welfare and say it's a joke. There is no context there other than being racist for laughs. It's not Louis CK "racist" joke style as well, it's always in a context of "we're better than they are" where his humor is very self deprecating. People say why Louis CK can say what he wants yet Rush Limbaugh insinuates racist E36 M3 and gets destroyed by the media. That is entirely what it's about, context and delivery, which top gear needs to work on if they want to continue pointless racist comments.
I watched the video. I didn't even here the N-word at all.
kanaric wrote: Well they have said racist things on the show like calling that asian on the bridge a slope
That was one that I had never heard of. My coworker (from the phillipines) was in my cube while I was reading that, he had never heard of it either.
Shrug
The whole race thing is getting out of control when an allegation is enough to pretty much ruin someones life.
Maybe I should jump on the bandwagon and sue next time someone makes fun of me for being so pale, or implying that, as a result of my red hair, I have no soul. 
ryanty22 wrote:aircooled wrote:/Are those @#$%^ toes?
I remember that too, only it referred to the non-shelled variety.
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