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Mexican takes legal action against Top Gear . . . calls her nation 'lazy, feckless and flatulent'
Daily Mail UK ^
| February 3, 2011
Posted on 02/03/2011 5:44:58 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
A Mexican has instructed lawyers to bring a test case against Top Gear after her countrymen were branded 'lazy, feckless and flatulent' on the hit show.
Iris de la Torre, a jewellery design student in London, is bringing the claim under a new equality law. Her lawyers claim it could cost the BBC £1million in damages.
They have demanded the hit BBC1 motoring show is taken off the air and an investigation made into the comments.
The lawyers, Equal Justice, have previously taken action against Channel 4 over comments about Indian actor Shilpa Shetty, made on Celebrity Big Brother.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: mexicans; topgear
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Well, the lazy, feckless, and flatulent stuff is due to a combination of warm climate, delicious, extremely high carb food (with lots of gas creating beans) and tequila-based cocktails.
I am the same way when I eat Mexican for lunch on Fridays.
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:51:18 AM PST
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Has anyone spotted any "together we thrive" tee-shirts yet in the news feeds from Cairo?)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The BBC show Top Gear is the best program on television.
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:52:13 AM PST
by
reg45
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:53:20 AM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
So if I call a specific Mexican female in Britain a lazy, slimy, flatulent whore (puta perezosa, babosa y flatulenta) I’d be in trouble? Thanks for the warning.
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:53:41 AM PST
by
katana
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Three words: freedom of speech.
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:54:54 AM PST
by
Ev Reeman
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Mexico should be glad they didn’t tell the truth.
However its kind of hard to call a car chaotic, violent, and out of control.
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:55:16 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: rightwingintelligentsia
That is so wrong - they are not feckless....
To: reagan_fanatic
They are feckless as they support liberals and democrats.
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:57:58 AM PST
by
Ev Reeman
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Proving that humourless needs to be added to “lazy, feckless and flatulent.”
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posted on
02/03/2011 5:58:08 AM PST
by
FourPeas
To: Ev Reeman
Three words: freedom of speech. In America, yes; it's part of our Constitution.
In Great Britain, No. They don't have a written constitution. Well, unless you're trashing Christians and Westerners. Then it's alright.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Maybe the guys at Top Gear should have added:
and whine like a Frenchman...
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posted on
02/03/2011 6:02:21 AM PST
by
Hodar
(Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Read the comments...
Stereotypes are funny because they're true. Now, if you don't mind, I'm off to get drunk, march through contentious areas and throw stones at the police.
- Brian, Belfast, 03/2/2011 11:54
LOL
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posted on
02/03/2011 6:02:57 AM PST
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: reg45
I concur.
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posted on
02/03/2011 6:03:49 AM PST
by
WSGilcrest
(Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus ad erit.)
To: reg45
I concur.
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posted on
02/03/2011 6:03:58 AM PST
by
WSGilcrest
(Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus ad erit.)
To: Alas Babylon!
No wonder the UK is so screwed (up).
To: cripplecreek
However its kind of hard to call a car chaotic, violent, and out of control. I think they've done that with some of the over-powered Mercedes.
To: WSGilcrest
That sounds like something Jeremy Clarkson might say. Three cheers for Jeremy Clarkson.
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posted on
02/03/2011 6:10:20 AM PST
by
reg45
To: antiRepublicrat
However its kind of hard to call a car chaotic, violent, and out of control. I think they've done that with some of the over-powered Mercedes.
Vauxhall Vectra: "This was the 4th Fastest 4door saloon on the market and it has the worst understeer you could ever imagine. This is scary from such a fast car."
It almost killed the Stig
http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dyy4kPODqv58
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posted on
02/03/2011 6:16:34 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce - Karl Marx)
To: reg45
It was Hammond. I had to abbreviate the title to fit FR.
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posted on
02/03/2011 6:17:52 AM PST
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
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