Mexican woman gets litigious on Top Gear's ass A Mexican woman has instructed lawyers to take action against the BBC's Top Gear over unflattering remarks made by the show's presenters about her native land. As we reported yesterday, the programme is already in hot water with the country's ambassador to Blighty after Richard Hammond likened a Mexican sports car to "a lazy, …
Nuff said.
I'm from Liverpool. If i was able to sue the BBC every time i heard one of those annoying scouse stereotypes, i could retire. As with most stereotypes, there *are* scousers like that, but their not common. (I imagine the same is true of Mexicans)
I'm sure my collegues around birmingham and Yorkshire will agree.
There is a certain kind of "conservative" that thinks that everyone who doesnt subscribe to their exact views are "Liberal" and "Lefties". Even when the policy is quite obviously far right.
Hell, there are some who consider the Nazi's Liberal, on the rather dubious distinction that Nazi is short for "national socialist", All Socialists are Commie Liberals, therefore The Nazi's were filthy liberals.
Its more common in the US than here.
While I agree that the Mexicans seemingly can't take a joke - albeit a piss-poor one - it is hard to champion the sort of deliberately confrontational oafishness of Top Gear and the trio of excruciatingly bloke-ish Neanderthals who present it.
Ask yourself this: would you rather be stuck in a pub with a 30-year-old female jewellery designer or Jeremy Clarkson?
Mine's the blanket with a hole in it
However, to get the question correct I also appended the words; " who's PC-fixated and right up her own arse" to "jewellery designer".
The answer came back Clarkson. Far more likely to be a good laugh over a few beers and he's very unlikely to have me arrested for suggesting a curry later, whereas any suggestions I may make to Ms Prissy there after a skinful are bound to cause trouble.
@sceptical bastard
>> would you rather be stuck in a pub with a 30-year-old female jewellery designer or Jeremy Clarkson?
I'd opt for Clarkson every time. Being stuck with some vacuous bimbo would drive me nuts. Clarkson would be great for a chat and a laugh.
To be honest, I laughed at the Mexican comments but also inwardly flinched, especially as he said no mexicans would sue... that seemed to be a blatant dare.
if no one had kicked up a fuss, all this would go away and nobody would remember it.
So what do these people do, lawsuit, make a big deal in the press. Now nobody can forget it, and what's worse...
I thought it was quite funny and didn't take it in any serious context.
Why are butthurt people there own worst enemies?
Paris, cause I bet she loves a big burrito!
the Australians are suing because of the same episode which.... oh, wait. They can take a joke. Amazingly, even the Germans can take a joke (the presenters arrived in Spitfires, for christ's sake!)
Anyway, the Mexicans have allowed themselves to be portrayed in this way for the last few hundred years. Where was the lawsuit over Speedy Gonzales?
"Amazingly, even the Germans can take a joke (the presenters arrived in Spitfires, for christ's sake!)"
The Germans can probably take it as a joke because the country (at least the western part) has had the chance to reflect on, and for the most part draw a line under, a particularly painful period in their history. Thus, many Germans watching are likely to be reasonably well-educated people able to see that Clarkson and pals are just a bunch of braying Britards who, like a significant number of people in British popular culture, are obsessed with the continual reframing of historical glory in increasingly simplistic and juvenile terms, resulting in idiotic Britards jeering puerile insults at Germans - even in this day and age - about things which neither party's parents were alive to experience, let alone accept any responsibility for.
because the bit of the show we didn't see (the episode was aired in Oz months ago as their season openerbut with the Ferrari bit and the star replaced by a tour of England) was them going on about the British, and their cars, which included an Allegro and a Marina. Of course, they kinda took the sting out of it by then going to hte IoM and having a big blast in 3 modern british cars - the Atom, a Nobel and something else I can't remember.
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Mention "black coffee" (or anything remotely connected to race) at the BBC and eyes will dart here and there in fear. If the breach should become public, copious and abject apologies must follow, as will sackcloth and ashes (if the offender isn't just asked to resign). But the rest of us, apparently, are fair game.
Go for it, Iris de la Torre!
Will the French now decide to sue anyone who shows the Cheese-Eating-Surrender-Monkey episode of Blackadder?
This is crazy and I really hope that all this gets laughed out of court for being a huge waste of space and time.
Time for people to grow up and focus on sorting out important issues rather than taking offence at a program which never pretends to be anything but a shouty, blunt and funny TV program.
The BBC have been very careful not to show repeats of the cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys episode of Blackadder to avoid lawsuits. They've even avoided including it in any of the DVD boxed sets, to avoid lawsuits. They have removed all trace of ever having filmed the episode to avoid it being used as evidence in court. In fact, they were so concerned about lawsuits that they went as far as never filming it, never writing the script and never even thinking once about that line.
If the Belgians reacted this badly every time they were the butt of a joke in entertainment/comedy program, all the Belgians would be bloody rich.
I feel the British and other nations take their fair share too from various sources, as others have already said.
I enjoyed the entire episode of Top Gear and hope this over the top reaction to the section of the programme in question does not result in the changing of the programme or the pushing back of boundaries.
Clarkson and Co: Keep up the good work.
Mexican Ambassador and lady taking the legal action (especially the lady taking legal action): You have succeded in giving us a view of your country and yourselves much more negative than any television show could hope to achieve. Well done.
She's an alien according to the papers "the woman is a "a 30-year-old jewellery design student in London" is what the has been said of her.
WTF -- by this as an alien I got to believe she has NO rights to bring forward a suit at all. She's not a citizen, has no Permanent Residency RIghts / card so where the fsck does she get off? She should get OUT and go home!
BTW I'm offended by Mexican TV -- it's in fucking Spanish and no one sits and explains it to me, thu it not only is racially offensive, it's violating my human rights.
El Reg, please let me know who can I sue?
I'd sue your parents if I were you, for allowing you to grow up to be a massive bell-end. Of course she can sue - anybody in the country has access to civil law, guest or not. Nobody "gives up all there rights" when they come to study here for fuck's sake, what planet are you on?
The Asperger quotient on this comments thread must be off the scale. The least you xenophobic Daily Mail reading fuckwits should do is not post anonymously.
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