Carlos The Badger wrote:oboogie wrote:I saw the Top Gear India thing [...] I noticed nothing offensive [...]
I watched it and found it offensive.
That is, it offended me by being so frigging bad.
To paraphrase someone else, it was as if they'd had the (very good) idea to go to India but when they got there they'd run out of ideas of what to actually do. It wasn't a patch on previous efforts like Vietnam or Bolivia.
Racism? None at all.
I watched bits of it and found little to cause offence.
Sure, Top Gear ran out of ideas and failed to break new broadcasting ground - Welcome to 2004!!
Clarkson on pretty good behaviour, and a bit of banter between the hosts.
I was disappointed the Stig didn't feature, but it must be bloody awful wearing white overalls while fighting off Amoebic Dysentry.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle