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this whole Jeremy Clarkson thing

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Also when white people talk they talk like that. All the people calling him racist prolly say it on the daily. Seriously. As if black people don't know the **** white people say when we aint around
 
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January!!!!!!!

These guys are taking their sweet time but I'm looking forward to the 918 vs P1. I hope they incorporate the LaFerrari in the season somehow.
 
Clarkson, 54, is at the centre of a controversy over the plate - H982 FKL - that is being seen in the country as a reference to the 1982 conflict

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The Top Gear team and a police escort came under attack from angry Argentinian protesters as they tried to leave the country last night.

Jeremy Clarkson and colleagues yesterday cut short filming in the country after being advised to leave following protests by local Falklands war veterans, upset over the use of a number plate that is being seen as a reference to the 1982 conflict.

Although it was initially believed Clarkson and his co-hosts had been among a group given a police escort by road towards Chile, a local official today said the three presenters and programme chiefs had flown out of Ushuaia to an undisclosed destination outside of Tierra del Fuego province.

The production crew meanwhile tried to leave the country by road, until demonstrators stoned their vehicles at a petrol station as they crossed the town of Tolhuin on their way to the Chilean city of Punta Arenas.

Clarkson’s Porsche - which has the offending number plate - was reportedly abandoned by the side of the road along with the Lotus and Ford Mustang used by his co-presenters after they came under attack.

The impromptu end to Clarkson’s south American adventure came after they spotted the number plate on the Porsche he was driving - H982 FKL - appeared to reference the Falklands War.

Top Gear producers insisted the plate had not been chosen deliberately and was a pure coincidence.

But as paranoia gripped the southern Argentinian city of Ushuaia, officials upped the ante against Clarkson and his co-producers by accusing them of 'deliberate provocation'.

The Top Gear trio and their film crew are understood to have packed up and left three days ahead of schedule after a tense meeting at the Hotel Arakur in Ushuaia where they were staying.

Local war veteran association member Osvaldo Hilliar, referring to the Falklands by their Spanish name, said: “Our position from the outset was to demand the withdrawal of the TV team from our province, which includes the Malvinas, by 8pm yesterday, with the warning we’d organise a demonstration to reject their provocation if not.

“What they did was an offence that through no coincidence was committed in the capital of the Malvinas, without any regard to local feeling about this cause.

“They said they didn’t want to upset anyone but we know the British have lied for the last 200 years.

“We told them we couldn’t guarantee their security if they didn’t leave.”

The controversy over his number plate erupted as he neared the city.

Leading daily Clarin, predicting Clarkson was unlikely to come out unscathed, said: “This is highly sensitive for Argentinians and he could have problems.”

Angry locals took to Twitter today to gloat over the apparent early deparure. One said: “It looks like Jeremy Clarkson got a taste of his own medicine."

The 54-year-old presenter has yet to comment on the row.

Clarkson has made a habit of insulting his foreign hosts during Top Gear’s jaunts abroad.

In August Ofcom ruled he deliberately used racist language when he referred to an Asian man as a ‘slope’ during Top Gear’s Burma special. He was forced to apologise in May after appearing to mumble the N-word as he sang a racist rhyme for Top Gear.



http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jeremy-clarkson-falklands-row-top-4370792#ixzz3F6UsfHCq
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Wonder if they will still air the episode with the footage. i don't wanna make a comment without seeing the vid but I wouldnt put it past Jeremy.
 
Idk who would believe this wasn't on purpose. Dude is more famous for being a jimmy rustler than he is a top gear host :lol:
 
^up until a few years ago all uk license plates were a letter, 2 or 3 numbers, a space and 3 letters. The letters at the beginning says the year the car was registered - K for 92, L for 93 etc). You can't just have a vanity plate with anything on it so you got a lot of people mucking about with them to try and make words - there's a guy near me with a Jaguar with B16 KAT which he obviously thinks is clever.

They sell the ones that make good words - and the less letters and numbers the more expensive generally. H1 was especially popular.

Still a tremendous reach for this one though.

They ran out of letters a few years ago (mine is a Y and the last year they used that format) so the new ones are 2 letters, a code for the year (it was 14 and in September I think it changed to 64), a space and 3 letters as before. Before that they were backwards - the single letter was at the end after 3 numbers.
 
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