"Top Gear" host offends Argentina with plate stunt
As if the economic woes and losing the World Cup weren't enough woes for the Argentinians...Jeremy Clarkson offends Argentina with Falklands war numberplate stuntTop Gear presenter drives though...
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Throd wrote: If I go to a right wing Alabama gun show and throw on the Bar-B-Q there I'll probably deeply regret it.If you are the sort who "deeply regrets" being yelled at.Contrary to bigots like...
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I wouldn't put it past Clarkson and Top Gear to be gratuitously offensive to their host country but the linkage of those number plates to the Falklands war seems so tenuous that I really doubt it was...
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Throd wrote:Publicly insulting the war dead of a volatile country when you're actually in it is asking for trouble.Good job they didn't do that while they were there then...... seeing what trouble you...
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If that plate wasn't registered to the car then they would have broken the law, doesn't mean it wasn't especially transferred.The shows history shows it almost certainly was intentional.
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Throd wrote: If that plate wasn't registered to the car then they would have broken the law, doesn't mean it wasn't especially transferred.The shows history shows it almost certainly was...
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Still too much of a coincidence that the car wasn't deliberately selected. I'm surprised they didn't carefully place a dollop of mud on the first half of the H.
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I tend to agree- it's way too tenuous to be plausible. More like the Argies looking for an excuse to enter high-dudgeon mode, their favorite state. Kirchner after all is a champion sh!t-stirrer. Had...
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The trouble with all these fancy number plates is that they have to be allowed in the UK - not always acceptable - and actually registered to the car to be legal in a foreign country. This isn't...
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"and actually registered to the car to be legal in a foreign country. This isn't Hollywood." WTF? All US plates, vanity or otherwise, have to be registered to the car.
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Not for films made on private sets.
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Throd wrote:The trouble with all these fancy number plates is that they have to be allowed in the UK - not always acceptable - and actually registered to the car to be legal in a foreign country. This...
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"H982 FLK" isn't a fancy number plate - but "FI 4 UK" is.
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Local councillor Juan Manuel Romano said the digits 269 on the number plate of the Ford Mustang Mustang Richard Hammond was driving were close to the 255 Britons killed during the 1982 war. He added...
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Throd wrote:"H982 FLK" isn't a fancy number plate - but "FI 4 UK" is.Ahhhh... apologies!
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IcelofAngeln wrote:Contrary to bigots like Moskit..... You don't really get humour, do you
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It is Argentina, who !$+%%%+ cares what any of them say or think.
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A wise man once said "He who takes offense when it is intended is unwise. He who takes offense when it is not intended is a fool."
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Even my acrostic-happy brain doesn't read FKL for falklands, I think Nathan has the most likely explanation. As to the numbers on the other cars, that's a stretch.
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Top Gear number plate row: Argentinian ambassador seeks apology Embassy claims Jeremy Clarkson wrongly accused officials, criticising his ‘provocative behaviour and offensive remarks’...
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