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Top Gear incident in Argentina: “Foreign Office did not incur in any additional assistance costs”
The Foreign Office did not incur any costs in providing assistance to the BBC Top Gear team which was recently in an Argentine tour and was forced to leave the country under protection, following alleged disrespectful references to the 1982 Falklands war by the team. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI trust Miss Castro enjoys Top Gear and the accompanying comments at Christmas.
Dec 06th, 2014 - 12:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0I may be too late but I am going to take photos tomorrow of all the vehicles around Stanley that have H982 FKL stickers on them and then send them to the Top Gear team. Maybe the show is already in the can but hopefully they might find a way to add the photos.
Dec 06th, 2014 - 12:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0haha!
Dec 06th, 2014 - 02:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Considering it was in pesos I expect that ”“The consular support provided to the Top Gear Team was covered by existing donations to the Tea & Bicsuits, (voluntary contributions only) jar.
I am sure that whenever a complaint from Argentina arrives at the desk of the FCO or BBC, they have a quiet chuckle and then file it in the shredder.
Really, these people are not so important.
*snigger*
Hahaha indeed! I'd pay money to see that uncultured rat run like a dog. Think they show the replay alon
Dec 06th, 2014 - 07:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0g with your stickers?
@4 Stevie
Dec 06th, 2014 - 08:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0“...that uncultured rat run like a dog.” I think 'giraffe with a paunch' would be more accurate.
@5
Dec 06th, 2014 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Please don't be so rude about Stevie. Or giraffes.
Thank you.
Of course you would Stevie (racist turd)
Dec 06th, 2014 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am sure you support the attempted murder by a violent mob of a British subject because of a number plate, which may or may not have been a coincidence.
Yet another example of your rabid racism....poor racist Stevie full of hate but impotent to do anything about it.
P.s.
I keep watching the news but haven't yet seen your “free energy” life's work helping to power the Planet, nor indeed you Nobel prize real-politic that nobody has yet thought of come to fruition.
Keep us posted on how that going....now that would be funny.
@ 7 Monkeymagic
Dec 06th, 2014 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0DAMN!
You beat me to it!
Remember when “Stevie” couldn’t even answer the simple question about fridges in sealed rooms?
That was the time I realised he was just a lying argie bastard.
FO did not incurr in any adittional cost....of course not: these animals of indios only threw stones, not like in other developed countries that they throw missiles all over the world and generally that gets more costs.
Dec 06th, 2014 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0perhaps the only costs they will have to pay is for changing the plate, that here is ilegal, and must be in some judge that situation and you should pay, but not much.
I expect the FCO bought Argie pesos on the black market so it wouldn't show in the accounts, damn clever these English after all the Argies think that London is the money laundering city of the world. Shhh who knows, wink,wink,nod,nod. Know what I mean Rodders
Dec 06th, 2014 - 12:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Malen - according to reports in the Daily Telegraph those “animals of indios”(as you call them!) couldn't throw very well - they threw like girls!
Dec 06th, 2014 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4. Oh poor girlie, was you upset? You will be when the programme is screened and the whole of Britain is laughing at you. Just a few reminders. YOU (i.e. your country because you wouldn't want to risk your skin) invaded territory that doesn't belong to you. YOU occupied it. YOU started a war. YOU committed various war crimes. YOU were beaten. By British forces that didn't even have all their equipment. YOU lost! YOU continue to try to spread your lies. YOU will NEVER win. But YOU are amusing, although pretty sick-making. I'm sure that most of Britain will be watching this programme. It may become the most popular TG programme ever! And here's some really good news. Top Gear is broadcast by a number of British tv channels. Sometimes years later. Britain will be laughing at you for years to come. I can see requests being made for it to be screened every Christmas. Ho, ho, ho!
Dec 06th, 2014 - 01:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@9. Strange. They looked like regular latino argie turds to me. Still, you never can tell with mongrels. You do understand the word 'mongrel', don't you? Basically, it means no breeding! By the way, index plates are proper to a particular vehicle. No plate is illegal anywhere if properly fitted in the country of registration. You really should get out more. What's your excuse? No airline will take you as an unaccompanied minor? Banned from nearly every country already? Criminal record already too long?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/11277217/Top-Gear-planned-to-set-fire-to-cars-for-dramatic-effect-claims-Argentina.html#disqus_thread
Dec 06th, 2014 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow that FOI request was another spectacular backfire for Argentina.
Dec 06th, 2014 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure Castro thought this would be a great idea and would finally have her AH-HAH moment in front of the cameras.
THE PLAN
1/ Find some sore loser Brit to make the request
2/ Make a fuss over the cost - nothing gets taxpayers riled up than wasted money
3/ Tie these tax pounds to those spent on the Falkland Islands
4/ Get mileage and turn attention away from the approaching disaster of the Xmas Soecial
5/ Another nail in the Engrish coffin in the South Atlantic.
THE REALITY
1/ Find some sore loser Brit to make the request
2/ Fart!
The BBC Top Gear program has received millions in free advertising.
Dec 06th, 2014 - 06:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thank you Argentina!
@8 ChrisR
Dec 06th, 2014 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Stevie actually lives in Denmark, I can tell you that he has admitted to being Danish, He is a poor sorry excuse of a child that has no concept of anything.
Top Gear incident in Argentina: “Foreign Office did not incur in any additional assistance costs”
Dec 06th, 2014 - 08:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This really is turning into a Jeremy Clarkson wet-dream ( ugh?? ). The rabid, La Campora hoards in Argentina, the jumped-up trolley-dolly in London, they have all played into The BBC's hands and given them no end of free advertising for this episode.
Top gear does tend tend to get a bit too silly or a bit too boring at times ( in my view ) but even I am looking forward to watching this episode, just to see argentina embarrass themselves on the world stage ( yet AGAIN !! ).
The only difference? this time it's the people doing it and not their politicians!!
Oh please, no one gives a fuck what you British think here in Argentina. About as relevant as cow excrement to a bee.
Dec 06th, 2014 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18
Dec 06th, 2014 - 09:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0None apart from yourself, I take it, since you are continually getting your knickers worked up into a lather over British opinions expressed on here.
Clarkson on ITV now
Dec 06th, 2014 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Clarkson
Dec 06th, 2014 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Even if it had been deliberate, which it wasn't, the Argentine reaction was ridiculous, when they unfurl their silly banners at football games, or realised their pathetic video before the Olympics, nobody stoned them”
He's loving every minute of showing Argentine insanity to a 300million plus audience across the world.
@21. Just to expand on your comment. Top Gear is estimated to have around 350 million views per week in 170 different countries. Then there are the international productions. There's TG United States, TG South Korea, TG China and TG France. All in addition to the UK version. More than 80% of the world will get to watch argies. Thanks, argies. Let's see how your 'support' goes.
Dec 07th, 2014 - 11:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0the banner and video didnt mention or make reference to 1982 war.
Dec 07th, 2014 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway, yes it is ridiculous, so ridiculous as in Malvinas an arg pregnant woman have been refused attention, and also so ridiculous like it has been shot the arg virgin in a cemetery. Its a sensible theme, so much that the islanders are saying they dislike arg flags in the isles, etc. what did they expect?? both sides are sensible.
but our police told and prevented them to go away, helped them in what they could and end of history.
@ 23 stupid woman
Dec 07th, 2014 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What pregnant woman has been refuesd attention in the Falklands, I don't believe you?
As for the little dolly of some non-existent “virgin” it was concluded a hammer had been used and the last people in the vacinity were a bunch of argies.
Try forgetting all about religion and calm yourself down. When you are dead, that's it, you are gone forever.
Live for now and leave TDC before it's too late.
www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/12/falklands.uk
Dec 07th, 2014 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0www.mercopress.com/2012/08/01/argentina-will-formally-protest-vandalism-at-the-darwin-cmetery-in-falklands
and if BBC is so terrified of savage reaction of arg in Arg Patagonia, why are they still here filming??
www.diarioelargentino.com.ar/noticias/145105/Malvinas-el-Gobierno-fueguino-envió-veedor-para-que-acompañe-equipo-de-la-BBC
@25
Dec 07th, 2014 - 12:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Christ Malcontent, get real, Argentina after making a huge gaff with regards to the Top Gear crew are hardly likely to throw out the crew filming in Patagonie. Christ it would really cook their goose. They ought to be trying to appease the BBC not attack it again. Christ, some of the Argie posters are stupid.
“no one gives a **** what you British think here in Argentina.” Speaking of free publicity:
Dec 07th, 2014 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This Chrismas Top Gear program will be a black eye for the false Argentinian image of a romantic wonderful tourist destination.
Once millions of viewers see just how unfriendly and barbaric they really are, they'll chose somewhere else to spend their money...
@ 25 stupid woman
Dec 07th, 2014 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ah! I see now. Dated 2002 (12 years ago).
I agree that it was putting the pregnant argie gold digger at risk by sending her to BsAs to continue her pregnancy.
Just imagine the state of the hospital, infested with dirty smelly argies, what would the local hospital rats think?
Grow up you stupid cow! There was never any risk to the mother in the Falklands. Had anything happened they would have treated her, they just didn’t want an pregnant argie going to term in a hospital that had seen local casualties during the war forced on them by: the fucking argies.
I bet the kid already has a string of convictions in TDC and wants to be a moto chorro when he / she is old enough. What else could he ever be growing up in the cesspit?
I have already answered you about the mythical little plastic dolly that some argie prat hammered hoping to blame an Islander.
The alternative is to remove the bodies and return the ground to normal, but that is down to the Islanders.
Agreed. Ship the entire cemetary to Argentinean soil.
Dec 07th, 2014 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Solves malen' problems perfectly.
malen
Dec 07th, 2014 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yep.
it seems that joke of bbc is very interested in filming the fauna and flora of patagonia, and most of all, in making a show called “walking giants”, which has to be filmed in the desert parts of patagonia.
now, considering their records to protect child abusers, that crap of bbc should be banned of working not only in argentina, but in the whole world.
@ 30 POLLY
Dec 07th, 2014 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The first line of your constitution invokes the RCC.
You know them: the kiddie fiddlers in dresses.
Did you ever have the experience yourself?
Yes, the BBC were at fault with Saville but things are being changed and frankly I think the BBC will be restructured within the next two years or so.
christine
Dec 07th, 2014 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0it was not only savile but many others.
more than a dozen and all of them working for that shite of bbc
wonder why you defend them so much.
maybe you are one of them and now try to hide yourself in uruguay.
you have to face justice, christine.
#30
Dec 07th, 2014 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If Argentina ban David Attenborough and the BBC from filming in Patagonia, it will be their loss. It will be obvious to the “whole world”, to quote your government's favourite phrase, that Argentina is run by petty, vindictive morons who would cut off their nose to spite their face.
Instead of showcasing the flora and fauna and presenting the country in a favourable light, it will give the impression that it is a country full of unpleasant people and best avoided.
They have yet to emerge from the Jurassic era.
@ 32 POLLY
Dec 07th, 2014 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please show me where I have defended the BBC over the abuse scandal.
You won't, because you cannot, because I never have.
@9 Malen : I am a bit concerned by your comment “ these animals of indios only threw stones ” .
Dec 12th, 2014 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are either suggesting that the local Mapuches are animals or
that the stone throwers behaved like Indians , suggesting that Indians are savages .
The rest of the world has become a lot more enlightened about the original races that populated the Americas . In fact , many other countries actually elect people from the original races as their heads of state .
How nice to see that the “ proyecto ” is made up of nothing more than xenophobic racist europeans still intent on getting rich wiping out the native American , I had hoped we had all moved on from that .
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