Curtain Twitchers and Permanently Bewildered03 Nov 2008 04:42 pm
By Nelson
Thanks to Sam for this one about that Brand/Ross wank.
Absolutely appalling behaviour. Were I to do similar in my job I would have been immediately sacked.
Dick Clegg, Preston
Sam asks:
The thing is, if Ross and Brand kept asking their audience, “Do you want fries with that?” they’d lose their jobs pretty fast. Does this mean Dick should be fired?
110 Responses to “Appalling”
Absolutely appalling behaviour. Were I to do similar in my job I would have been immediately sacked.
Dick Clegg, Preston
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Dick Clegg sounds like something you would find on an unwashed todger.
Absolutely appalling behaviour. If I started navigating HYS in order to make pithy comments while at my workplace I would be fired from a cannon into a massive bust of Princess Diana kissing a dolphin with leukemia.
Fitting end, ‘tho.
Well if you did that at work, whoever you insulted would be making a mint from the newspapers like that Satan’s Slut is!!!!!!!
“Dick Clegg, Preston” sounds even worse.
If I sliced the top of someone’s head off and started pissing about with the innards while at work I would, no doubt, get the sack.
And yet those cunting brain surgeons are elbow in the shit all day and no one says a word.
If I went to the pub and called a total stranger a cunt for staring at my pint, I might get sacked.
Funnily enough enough I’m paid to abuse pensioners.
Relax, I’m a care worker.
I was amazed at the number of comments which said something like:
A quick browse of the HYS rules states that you cannot:
-swear
-say the same thing twice
-say anything sexually oriented
-use capital letters (ie raise your voice)
-mention other websites
-mention your workplace
-imitate someone else
-only speak in English.
I, for one, am glad that they haven’t banned people from doing all this on television.
?? “you cannot … only speak in English ” ? ? ?
That explains a lot !!
To be fair their job is to “push boundaries” with humour, in a way that listeners find inoffensive. Most of the people listening at the time thought it funny, if a little OTT and misguided. The fact that only 2 people who did listen when it was aired were offended enough to complain (and that that was for swearing) means that Brand and Ross were doing their job.
Preston is, however, a top place and Clegg has reduced its grandeur somewhat. Most people from Preston are not complete walrus cloacas.
I believe repetition, hesitation and deviation is banned too.
The second sentance is a grammatical nightmare, implying a regime of pre-emptive sackings on gournds of imaginary acts of future misconduct.
If Dick was to do similar no one would know the fuck what he was talking about and simply dismiss the call as a wrong number, probably traceable to a care home or something.
I’ve just noticed the link “Feed on comments to this Post” down the bottom here. MMmmmmmmm. Dick Cleggma.
Hurrah, at last a part of the BBC free from Jon Culshaw!
I see that Georgina lass is now appearing on a channel five show to cash in about this!
“It’s my private life…” so lets share it with the Sun, News of the World and channel five!
If I were to crack a few innocent gags about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes (as they do) there would be another front page media frenzy and calls for me to be suspended from my job.
I know Dick Clegg, he is an answering machine salesman.
The Mail’s got the smell of blood in its nostrils and is now trying to start a similar outrage over Jeremy Clarkson’s joke that prostitute-killing lorry drivers are all prostitute-killers.
What a load of crap. My uncle was a lorry driver, and he barely made it into double figures.
Give the guy a break. He’s working as the voice of the speaking clock FFS. To be fair:
WOULD constitute gross-misconduct.
Besides, dick clegg is a minor side effect of charlie bumsex. As any fule kno.
ZOMFG! A black man in the Whitehouse – TEH END IS REALLY FUCKING NIGH!.
Can someone please explain Sam Weller’s logic to me? I’ve tried to figure it out but now I can’t feel or move anything down the left side of my body. I also appear to have pissed myself.
But if we get a Black man in the White House the end really is nigh.
Take my word for it. We’ll be hit by a comet, slaughtered by space aliens or detroyed by a rampaging evil entity before his term is out.
If Obama gets in our only hope will be to get Bruce Willis to standby the hotline, Robert Duval to round up some scientificaologists, Kiefer Sutherland to call in some favours and Milla Jovovich to run round in her scanties.
You have been warned. End of.
The Mail is trying to get that cuntface Clarkson in trouble now? But that would mean… the Mail doing something GOOD… does not compute. The end really is nigh.
Isn’t Sam Weller Mr Pickwick’s servant? Obviously got a bit of a chip on his shoulder there.
I object to clarkson saying we murder prossies. I spend at least 20% of my time murdering hitch-hikers.
I’ve been murdered by 32 lorry drivers, but it’s still better than watching Jeremy Clarkson
“are you mad? they’ll kill him in the 1st day”
with all this fuss about clarkson the theiving gypsies’ll start moaning about viz.
oh wait.
*uncontrolled weeping*
b..b..b.but… the d..d.daily mail is my FRIEND!!!!
An…an…and Jeremy Clark..ark..arkson is my friend….
*huge snot-suck-up*
*blows into utterley sodden hanky*
I can’t s..ss..stand it. How d..did it come to th..th..this?
I wouldn’t mind if he never appeared on our screens again.
But we can’t have a repeat of last week’s 30,000 complaints and you are out. Grade is in the paper today talking about banning swearing and there was an article in the Metro (ahem) yeaterday that said girls that watch Sex In The City get preggers at 8 or summink.
It’s fucking not on. I’m an adult, I’ll decide what I like by watching it/listening to it, or not.
Won’t somebody give me a Bank?
@Setyourfacestostunned
You can have one of those Icelandic ones if you want one, but I think your getting into the market at the wrong time really.
I imagine Michael Grade’s a bit upset since Chris Morris described him as a “cunt” on Brass Eye…
I just want all of the UK to fuck off and leave me alone. Why can’t I enjoy my country in peace without all these dickheads swarming around me?
Won’t someone rid me of this troublesome population?
I don’t think he’s talking about that kind of ‘bank’ Robert, he means like this, surely?
@alt-f4:
If we’re going to be pedantic about grammar and spelling, it’s spelt ’sentence’
Since we’re into the business of being pedantic, it should have been Command-Q and not Command-X.
Yes, I was Command-X in a previous life.
@Setyourfacestostunned
I’d like to give you a ‘Bank’ but I’ve come to hate the Weakest Link and find I much prefer the simple purity of William G Stewart’s Fifteen-To-One.
Question or Nominate?
188 complaints to the BBC so far and rising.
Please, Dear God, guide the British Public in this mighty task. They have proved to be utterly mindless and confused in the past, Please God, let them be so this time! May the same people who for so many years have nodded ‘wisely’ everytime Clarkson opened his loud, smug, intolerant, stupid, fucking cake-hole now turn on him and rips his intenstines from his screaming, jerking body in a mindless frenzy of self-righteous mob violence. I, and millions like me, will light a candle in thanks if you make this so. Thank You God, Amen.
@ Tonymac
I will have to nominate I think.
Tel you what, you give me a question and I’ll see if I can’t post it on HYS. We can then kick back and watch the vitriol pour in? Tell you what again, make it a really bad bleeding heart moan.
If you feel like giving Jeremy Goebbels-Clarkson a big slap in the mush for generally being a cunt then you can chivvy on the hysterical stampede, (if my shoddy linking skills don’t fail me)…
here
of course, when we do it, it’s with ironic detachment and OK. Go on… you know you want to, we’re talking about Jeremy Clarkson FFS. (Just imagine walking into a book shop and NOT seeing his twattery plastered everywhere.)
But if we rise up and ban Clarkson, who will protect us from the dreaded and oh so very scary Euro! We’ll be forced to straighten our bananas and all road signs will be rewritten in kilometres.
My PC has gone mad
But if we rise up and ban Clarkson, who will protect us from the dreaded and oh so very scary Euro! We’ll be forced to straighten our bananas and all road signs will be rewritten in kilometres.
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If Clarkson was a black poof he would be prime minister by now. He’s been held back because he is straight and white.
<blockquote.And THAT’S why the bigoted, sneering imbeciles who run this country’s media, and in particular the BBC, would love to see him taken down.
So the BBC don’t want Clarkson on the BBC. I wonder what they could do about that.
One day it will work properly.
Clarkson at 517 complaints and rocketing…. GO ON MY SON!
Full marks to Dave from Edinburgh for somehow relating some minor BBC controversy to the greatest atrocity of the 20th century.
What a sense of perspective. He probably summons up imagery of wholesale incinerations at German concentration camps when he burns the cheese on his pizza.
Why do people always reference that poem when talking about something trivial and bollocks.
Also, he gives perfectly good reasons to not give a shit about all those people. Other than the fact that he needs something to be on tv. Or he might have to do something with his life.
How profound.
Dave of Edinburgh may have rushed at Nazi analogies like a bull at a gate, but I’m fucked if I want the daily mail to dictate acceptable standards.
The BBC should dedicate 1 hr of primetime a day to a program where “national treasures” say “Cunt” repeatedly whilst staring directly at the camera. Week one, Richard Briars.
Thank you Dingle for the link to the BBC complaints section. Sadly, I’m unable to vote in the US election on the frankly preposterous grounds that I’m not a US citizen (as if such an important task should be left to them) but I’ve done the next best thing, and performed my civic duty by adding someone else’s false name to a campaign to get Clarkson booted off the BBC.
Can we have Brian Blessed on week two? Pretty please.
Watching The Daily Mail mob Jeremy Clarkson is like watching a mad dog savage its own tail… fucking blooming marvellous!
@Call of Davrodu. How about the nation’s ‘bad boys’ read from chintzy armchairs in cosy parlours with clean ’slap on’ smiles and lots of gentle oh-ho-ho-ho laughter. Week One: Ozzy Osbourne reads Agatha Cristie. Week Two: Amy Winhouse reads Wind in the Willows.
Blessed is in. No doubt.
Maybe a panel discussion show is the right format, like question time. Where members of the audience can suggest swearwords to be delivered by our world class actors, performers and grandaughterfuckers.
Oh sod it. I’ll comission all three shows.
Relax! I’m Mark Thompson.
Haha, yeah! How’s about week three could be Johnny Rotten reading a script for a butter advert… LOLZ
Imagine that! It’d be a world gone mad.
Yeah Dingleberry, thanks for the link. I just used it tell the BBC how much I enjoy watching Clarkson on Top Gear.
We need MORE stuff that annoys Daily Mail readers – not less, FFS.
True, but virtually anything except televised stoning of illegal immigrants/paedophiles/benefit-cheats &c. would annoy Dail Mail readers.
skunkpussy
Yeah Dingleberry, thanks for the link. I just used it tell the BBC how much I enjoy watching Clarkson on Top Gear.
We need MORE stuff that annoys Daily Mail readers – not less, FFS.
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Daily Mail reader love clarkson, this will make their heads explode, its brilliant!!!!!
The correct pay-off to this gag is, as ane fule kno:
“And then they came for Jimmy Carr, and I said ‘He’s there – behind the wardrobe’”
Everything and anything annoys Daily Mail Readers, they are mad sheep, nothing more, herded this way or that by their ridiculous newspaper. This tornado of ‘decency’ will very soon disperse (and probably already has) But if in the meantime they bring down a show as primitive as the sit-com known as Top Gear, that is a ‘good’ thing.
That cunt Clarkson is/was the UK focal point for scoffing at Global Warming, for that alone I’ll cheerfully watch as the very sheep he led so smugly, now rip the hole out of his arse.
On second thoughts, maybe stoning is too Islamic. What do you say Simon Skuse:
Thanks, Simon. What makes a good joke?
To relate this back to the original post, I work in logistics. Much of my day is taken up with jokes about lorry drivers killing sex workers. I have never gotten the sack, makes me feel so much better about my crappy job that I can do things Clarkson can’t. Also if you ever get bored of the prostitute jokes reminding them they smell of wee and that they kids they think are their’s most likely aren’t winds them up quite a bit too.
B-b-but… I, erm, do actually, kind-of, enjoy Top Gear. A bit.
There, I’ve admitted it: I like watching Top Gear.
Is everyone going to pelt me with fair-trade tofu now?
@skunk-pussy
You can have Top Gear, sans Clarkson, with my blessing. I just want to see that over-sized Nazi hung from Nelson’s column by a rusty fish-hook jabbed through his cock, until he suffocates to death on pigeon shit.
Uhm, he does realise that the teacher arreted over the Teddy Bear named Mohammed wasn’t arrested by the Labour Government.
He must do, otherwise he’s thicker than a thicky thick thing that’s thicker than the average thicky thick thing and that is very thick indeed.
@ skunkpussy, You’re safe with me, I don’t come here for the hate, I come here for the mockery of the afflicted.
So its only fair I mock you now. Do you watch it for the fast cars? Do you go Bruuuuur! Screeeeeech! Crash! When you watch? Does it oil your bracket when they talk about big ends? Do you actually *LOVE* Clarkson and want to have his curly haired, macho babies? Do you imagine him describing your ride quality and optional extras to a slavering studeo audience?
No but seriously, fill your boots, I watch it for the truckie murder jokes and the chance of seeing the hamster self-immolate. Invaluable.
I like Top Gear, too. And I quite like Clarkson on the TV, mainly because he’s funny. In the same way that watching old clips of Oswald Mosley is funny. I readily admit that he’s a complete bollocks, though.
Jesus fucking Christ.
I kind of like Top Gear a lot and freely admit that Clarkson is a royal cock knocker.
But I just can’t let Topsy and the Gache dictate what I watch on the box.
Or Final Arbiter Joy Pattinson!!
Nooooooooooooo.
I’ve arranged for Top Gear Live to be filmed in ROLLE next year, and for Clarkson to repeatedly run over the twitching corpse of Joy Pattinson.
Relax, I’m just messing with your sensibilities.
I don’t mind Clarkson, personally. I look at him in the same light as the mildly racist, dimentia-suffering grandparent you only ever see at Christmas. You have to turn a blind eye to thier offensive comments cos, gawd bless ‘em, they just can’t help it.
Also, it’s funny.
Also again, I used to work with that Steve Wright bloke who actually is a mudering ex-truck driver. So it’s not like Clarkson didn’t have a point…
Good example. I never understood how Joseph fell for that “Nah Joe, I told’s yer – it’s the son of God innit? Coz I not never did give it to your younger brother behind the bus shelter when you was pissed mortal asleep that time after the Christmas party when’s I ‘ad 14 Bacardi Breezers did I?”
This is all too perfect. The Daily Mail turning on a man who all their readers adore because he made a joke about killing prostitutes in the media.
If I was Richard Littlejohn I’d be crapping myself right now.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-423549/Littlejohn-Spare-Peoples-Prostitute-routine-.html
Ross and Brand get taken off air for upsetting an old man, yet Steve Wright is still allowed to broadcast a pisspoor Radio 2 show after murdering a load of prossies? That really is appalling.
@ Call of Davrodu
Yes. Sometimes. Definitely. Not so much. Do ’spare tyres’ count as “optional extras”?
Now, quickly changing subject, did someone mention Joy?
Debate: Who should replace David Tennant as Doctor Who?
Then, 2 days later, on the same debate:
I anyone out there happens to find Joy’s marbles, please return them to:
Joy Pattinson,
c/o Wilhelm Gustloff Memorial Care Home
ROLLE,
Switzerland
Nice spot on Joy’s Dr Who thoughts… wonder if she’s like that all the time. Like Father Jack Hackett and his brick.
Freddy Two Trousers
Arse!!!
Arse!!!
Arse!!!
One day it will work properly.
You have no idea how much this comment brightened up my day…
Also, I sort of like Top Gear too. And have Jeremy Clarkson books.
I do think he’s a jug for his global warming and speed cameras views, but he is quite funny at times.
[sigh] I’ll get my coat again
I think he’s a cunt.
Relax, I present a rival show.
I think he’s a cunt, too.
Relax, I’m just a really bad pun on the previous guy’s badly-spelt name.
I read ‘books’ as ‘boobs’. I believe my coat is under yours…
Oi, Scaryduck!
That’s *my* line…
I also think he’s a cunt.
(If you don’t get it, I’m not going to explain).
Yay! I won!!
I demand a re-cunt. I mean count.
Full text of “Dawn of the Dumb” is here.
Brooker. Is. God.
END OF!
The Daily Mail continues to play the part of the terminally confused but still outraged colonel, while the Guardian carries on being “liberal left and proud”. Then all the journalists go and get pissed together and joke about how they all managed to write exactly what their audience expected without actually needing to go and do any journalism.
Finally a use for the yellow button. Every complaint should cost £1; they’d make more dirty money than an Ant and Dec phone-in.
Can I be the first to call for Quayle/Palin in 2012?
Can I be the first to call for George Dubya, at the wheel of his SUV, to be stopped by a state-trooper in 2011, wrecked off his face on Scotch, preferably extremely verbally abusive, with semen stains round his unzipped fly and a copy of Barely Legal on the passenger seat. All caught on Police camera.
I’m thinking of writing to Santa and asking for this as my Christmas present.
What is Doom’s fate??? Will my poor children’s children have to play Mario Bros instead. Tell Me!!!
I think Babber Dabber’s god-awful attempt at portentous gravitas qualifies him as a chafed Chiff-Chaff’s Chuff, so there.
What if Jezza Clarkson and Sarah Pales-into-insignificance (I hope) breed! Yikes. Oh for the love of all that is beautiful and pure, NO.
Relax – It was just a nightmare.
I stopped watching TV ten years ago, but this appalling incident was so bad that I went out and bought a television ’specially so that I could put my foot through it in disgust. It cost me 200 quid, and a couple of broken toes. I think Clarkson should pay the costs of my treatment.
clarkson is a massive wanker.
thanks.
“put together wrong
What if Jezza Clarkson and Sarah Pales-into-insignificance (I hope) breed! Yikes. Oh for the love of all that is beautiful and pure, NO.
Relax – It was just a nightmare.”
A nightmare come true. Both Palin and Clarkson have lots of children.
Relax – I peed in the gene pool.
“Babber Dabber”? Isn’t that West Country for Paedo? No wonder he/she/it is so worried about the chillun. I bet they didn’t think about that while they were sat there hammering at the keyboard, mouth frothing like bottled Bass.
Relax – he’s a stoat-the-baw
I am not Babber Dabber. Let me make that clear.
Looks like Babber Dabber has HYS form.
Would anyone care to contribute a few pounds to a slush fund enabling us to send Babber overseas. Preferably so they can learn what
a) Communist
b) Dictatorship and
c) Labour
actually mean. I’ve heard that the North Korean Detention Camps are nice at this time of year.
After all, Kim Jong Il could do with the company – he’s ronery.
it ver true, *sigh*, I’m so ronery.
Nearly 24 hours on, NOBODY has thought fit to make an ‘oo-er, missus’ riff on Dingleberry’s mention of ‘Nelson’s column’. He might’ve sold out, but surely we can’t miss out of an opportunity to make fun of Nelson’s cock? It’s political correctness gone mad!
I’m conflicted – much as I hate The Cunt Clarkson and would love never to see or hear anything of him for the rest of eternity, I don’t want the Daily Mail – or anybody/anything for that matter – deciding for me what I can and can watch or listen to. Although I’m hoping they’ll broadcast an episode of ‘My Family’ where Robert Lindsay and Zoe Wanamaker tag-paedo a 5 year old Asian kid with Down’s Syndrome (played by Warwick Davis, of course, not a real child) and the ensuing outrage gets that shite taken off air for-fucking-ever. It deserves nothing less.
Incidentally, yay Obama. Now let’s get Brooker for P.M.
(I’ve had no t’interwebnets access since the weekend, so I’m making this a multi-comment post. God, I’ve missed you miserable, pedantic, heartless, misanthropic, smart-arse bastards* and your snarky comments. Now fuck off)
*My only real friend is a purple sock named Timothy. And even he hates me.
Compare with…
Not understanding the post or approving of the post didn’t stop robbing the post blind , eh Andy? Twat.
And have Jeremy Clarkson books.
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oh dear. he’s the pin-up of the “silent majority” pricks.
clarkson should investigate which new car has the best exhaust for piping into the car and sealing airtight from the inside (whilst making xenophobic or chauvinistic comments with his last struggling breaths (the cunt)).
@ Bit Special
Hate’s a very strong word. I don’t hate you. Hate would imply that I have some kind feelings for you.
I’m indifferent to you, that is all. My feelings are ambivalent. If anything they waver between contempt and pity.
Now stop fucking whining, there’s a good chap. Or I’ll unplug the router again.
BRITAIN NOW AT ITS MOST OUTRAGED SINCE 1747
Yes, Timothy. Sorry, Timothy.
PS I’m a lady, not a chap.
No, Timothy, I wasn’t talking back, don’t hit me agai…… ARRGHH!
The state trooper or the first bloke?
Funny, I’ve just been overcome by a wave of affection for Clarkson now that the Mail’s turned on him.
(Those of you who watch QI or have seen his documentaries will know the man’s perfectly capable of not being an arse when he chooses. Oh, and while he IS mostly an arse on Top Gear, the other two are fun enough to make up for him – but then, I watch it for the challenges and switch over when they start actually talking about cars.)
Sorry, I realise this post is much too even-handed for SYB.
Bit Special:
Comme moi.
Fuck off, Walliams. I’ve got a proper foofoo* and everything.
* and not a scrofulous salmon’s one, either!
Oh god, I’ve met Clarkson. Twice. He cadged a rollie off my dad at Gatwick a few years ago, and then about six months back he was a total arse in a restaurant in Primrose Hill, didn’t like the table they sat him at or something.
He writes books?
She has indeed. And a very fine one it is too.
Although it would be less confusing for everyone concerned if he/she stopped dressing like a docker and more like a laydee. A nice laydee. Like that Walliams.
And not like some bulldyke lezzer.
Now back in your box, Special or I’ll tell the ISP that you’ve been pirating Billy Ray Cyrus’ back catalogue. Again.
That is all.
Speak for yourself, Timmy, I think she looks great in DMs and a crew cut