Nice one, it is just a pity you made an assumption that everyone had seen that and, therefore, understood the context of your single line 'joke'. Stewart Lee worked very hard to construct the context and then stay in character, you didn't, but I now understand.
As I have said on the other post (partially), it is down to the context of the joke, its delivery and the taste of the audience. I have never heard the 'blind' joke, as delivered by Clarkson, so I can't honestly comment.
No one. I was talking about people working at the BBC who read the Guardian influencing things.you mentioned the owner being the ones who influenced things so I presumed you thought they must work there.
I can recognise misplaced sarcasm, which is a pity as I gave you and OLM a reasonable response; you might just have included the link., as you did, eventually.
OT but I'd love to know the ratio of success from petitions. Everyone seems to start one about anything but how many actually influence policy? All 350,000 people signing this shows me that there are loads of ****s in the world.
Posting this link has no bearing on my comments, as I have no intention on playing catch-up on folk putting their wit in context. I simply pointed out that the line used had no hint of humour for me, as it lacked any context - that is now added, so time to move on, unamused.
You said 'I have never heard the 'blind' joke, as delivered by Clarkson, so I can't honestly comment' so I thought you might want to see it.
I think the 1.8million who signed the anti-road charging petition a few years ago had a decent influence. Hopefully this one will do the same. Over 400,000 signed now. That shows me that at least 400,000 people are not ****s. It's easy to make sweeping assertions like that.
I'm not following the heated debate on all media closely so I guess it's already been said that if the producer had punched Clarkson he'd already have been sacked?
How do they know? Maybe people were out and had just left the telly on so burglars would think they were in?
Earlier on the outrage was about telling a grandfather that one had carnal knowledge of his granddaughter, now it's oversensitive to be outraged when joking about almost being blinded as a child. And there in a nutshell is the internet.
