I'm fairly sure there won't be deep running tensions between Mexicans and Brits

over Top Gear. This will all be forgotten in about 2 weeks.

I have no idea what is said about Brits on foreign tv and quite honestly would not take offence if they called us layabout, chav scum in a "comedy" show.

In fact I'm almost certain hugely negative stereotypes of Brits abroad will be all over foreign comedy shows.

Posted By: Charles21 on February 10th 2011 at 18:56:26

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the full quote here... (General Chat) - Only1Doherty, Feb 10, 18:19:02
- wow........ they made fun of mexican food............... (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 10, 19:13:52
  - this is a country whose second largest revenue stream is tourism (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:16:57
    - besides, it's not teh food comments that have fucked them off (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:18:32
      - those comments seem to be quoted everywhere about the food thing. (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 10, 19:21:44
        
        yes, but I assume it was the lazy comments that have really pissed them off (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:28:21
        
        Of course he is going to say that........... (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 10, 19:34:26
        
        yes but the US is ridiculously ethnically diverse. No one can seriously generalise (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:40:12
        
        You mean like this............ (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 10, 19:53:49
        
        see the comments above (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:59:19
- You're in a room with a gun, Clarkson, Hammond and one bullet. What would you do? (n/m) (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Feb 10, 18:39:58
  - Killing people for shit jokes does seem a tad extreme....... (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 10, 19:20:02
    - yep especially when we're deadly seriously about it (General Chat) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 19:21:13
      - what? oh (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:29:07
      - You are in a room with a gun with George Michael, Elton John and John Inman's corpse...... (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 10, 19:28:09
  - shoot myself? Actually, I wouldn't. They're not so bad as to deserve murder (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Feb 10, 19:01:29
  - i'm glad you've left May out of the room. i like May (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 10, 18:59:34
    - I like him equal leaast of the three, level with the other two (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Feb 10, 19:02:35
      - lol (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:07:18
      - i've heard they're going to throw a lemon party just for you Suggsy (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 10, 19:06:38
  - i'd probably kill Clarkson, as Hammond would have nobody to sniff around and laugh with (General Chat) - Only1Doherty, Feb 10, 18:52:50
  - I'd shoot the bullet into the floor (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:49:04
    - which is worse than a harmless joke imo (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:49:32
      - disagree (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 18:51:06
  - leave the room (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 18:42:18
- Don't see the problem (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 18:32:11
  - the difference Charles is that in comedy this is done with irony (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:37:26
    - wasn't that the point though? (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 18:41:51
      - exactly just banter (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:44:11
        
        ^^^ yep this. (General Chat) - usacanary, Feb 10, 19:36:18
        
        mexicans? (General Chat) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 18:51:56
        
        well if they worked a bit harder... (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:55:21
        
        that shit dull program is transmitted worldwide you fool (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:56:59
        
        it's on bbc america (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:58:44
        
        wrong again (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:01:40
        
        no i said it was on bbc america which is a fact (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:03:28
        
        When you go abroad or you broadcast abroad (General Chat) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 19:07:31
        
        when you go abroad you should behave (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:12:44
        
        well I disagree I'm afraid (General Chat) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 19:18:30
        
        your behaviour should be associated with how you behave (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:21:00
        
        well it is but it's also associated with my country (General Chat) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 19:24:35
        
        it's not only on BBC america, it's acquired and rebroadcast by many other channels (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:06:49
        
        good for them! (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:07:58
        
        Mexicans are fiercely patriotic precisely because of things like this (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:12:07
        
        then they need to get a grip (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:13:34
        
        if you really think that then you're just a vile individual as she was (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:15:27
        
        Jade Goody was not racist (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 19:18:34
        
        i'm vile cos i think it's a massive over reaction? (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:18:03
        
        oh goody (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:22:07
        
        ^^^doing his best to prove AB's point^^^ (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 19:10:31
        
        agreed, SCC's trolling shite is so boring now (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:14:15
        
        yep being over offended is very normal (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:16:49
        
        send an email to the Mexican embassy to tell them to cork it then, since they're overreact (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:20:42
        
        why would me thinking it's been an over reaction (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:24:56
        
        you said it was just a harmless joke. That implies it doesn't offend you (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:30:55
        
        of course it doesn't offend me (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:32:42
        
        I get offended by offensive things, which is exactly what labelling Mexicans as lazy is (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:35:36
        
        can you not just ignore it? (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:37:35
        
        1 bloke who reaches millions with his opinions via a TV program on our state broadcaster (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:38:52
        
        you can reach millions on youtube too (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:41:23
        
        we shall see (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:44:57
        
        if they apologise (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 19:47:20
        
        sigh (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 20:05:27
        
        keep getting offended worz (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 20:10:28
        
        keep being facetious (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 20:15:17
        
        cheers mate (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 20:17:10
        
        I am, and so should you be. It reflects badly on us all (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:50:09
        
        it doesn't reflect on me at all! (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:52:12
        
        of course it does, stop being a trolling twat for 5 fuckign seconds (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:54:17
        
        no it doesn't (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:57:29
      - I presume you are familiar with the views of Clarkson? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:44:09
        
        now, i've never met Clarkson (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 10, 18:54:47
        
        not really (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 18:47:58
        
        unfortunately his vile opinions reach millions (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:50:32
  - Thing is: he didn't look comfy saying it (General Chat) - Sugbad The Bad, Feb 10, 18:36:30
    - I've not seen it, but I think Coogan misses the point somewhat (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 18:39:30
      - That does not make it acceptable (General Chat) - Brandonio, Feb 10, 18:43:29
        
        ffs (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:45:50
      - there might be now thanks to these three dull men (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:42:44
        
        I very much doubt that (n/m) (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 18:48:41
        
        really? Presumably that's why the Mexican ambassador is absolutely furious (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:52:03
        
        I'm fairly sure there won't be deep running tensions between Mexicans and Brits (General Chat) - Charles21, Feb 10, 18:56:26
        
        on the whole I think stereotypes of the British are pretty positve (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 19:00:26
- "Hahahahahahaha! Gypsies!" (n/m) (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Feb 10, 18:25:06
  - "I'm sorry, but just imagine waking up and remembering you're Mexican: 'awww, no'." (General Chat) - Only1Doherty, Feb 10, 18:30:07
    - He's not even a hampster, he's nothing! He's worse than a hampster! (General Chat) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Feb 10, 18:33:13
- corrupt is a shocking omission (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:19:58
  - yes, because we British aren't corrupt are we? (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:21:30
    - not as corrupt (General Chat) - SCC 28, Feb 10, 18:32:10
      - it would be in Britain too if police earned what Mexican police do (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Feb 10, 18:35:48

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