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This is a link post HERE IS THAT VIDEO OF CLARKSON SAYING AN OFFENSIVE WORD!
YOU WONT BELEEVE WHAT HAPPENZ NEXT

fucking tin foil hat conspiracy theorist balls IMHO
(I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:04, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm no fan of Clarkson.
Probably punch him in a dark alleyway for unrelated offenses given the chance.

But if you hear "nigger" in that sentence, bravo, you speak Romulan.

For reference, this is somebody saying "nigger" properly:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x5ZRAVXxr8
Notice the slight intonation difference?
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:11, Reply)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T_jwq9ph8k#t=547
it's amazing what you can hear once your brain has been 'primed' for it by a headline. i'm no fan of clarkson but check out this led zep example.
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Bingo
Bitch slap that!
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:15, Reply)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IMOSN0WYvg
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Well, if that don't make my Katie Melua fantasies even hotter...

(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:27, Reply)
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yeah but that is a real version of the old rhyme so the context is already there regardless of the headline. i liked the katy melua re-recording.
 (itilliterate, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:39, Reply)
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i only a heard an indecipherable mumble. perhaps someone who can be arsed could run the audio through hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/ or some such and confuse the issue further. clarksons' shtick is his bread and butter. this is just more publicity selling the product known as clarkson and nothing else.
edit: nothing else a stick to beat the bbc with.
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:46, Reply)
This is a normal post copied and pasted from wikipedia:
Some older versions of this rhyme had the word nigger instead of tiger:

Eeny, meena, mina, mo,
Catch a nigger by the toe;
If he hollers let him go,
Eena, meena, mina, mo.[2]
This version was similar to that reported as the most common version among American schoolchildren in 1888.[9] It was used in the chorus of Bert Fitzgibbon's 1906 song "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo":

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo,
Catch a nigger by his toe,
If he won't work then let him go;
Skidum, skidee, skidoo.
But when you get money, your little bride
Will surely find out where you hide,
So there's the door and when I count four,
Then out goes you.[10]
It was also used by Rudyard Kipling in his "A Counting-Out Song", from Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, published in 1935.[11] This may have helped popularise this version in the United Kingdom where it seems to have replaced all earlier versions until the late twentieth century
 (itilliterate, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:49, Reply)
This is a normal post We always said, "catch a tiger by the toe"
I missed out?!?!?!?!
 (I helped save b3ta! gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:50, Reply)
This is a normal post You were lied to.
All your life.
I suggest seppuku to save face.
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:52, Reply)
This is a normal post i thought it was nickel.
i never understood it though.
 (augsav forgot about B3ta, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Do I have time to start being racist this late in life? Or should I focus on anti-religious bigotry?

(I helped save b3ta! gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:16, Reply)
This is a normal post i am aware of the historical context
my point was that i could perceive no clearly pronounced actual words in the clip linked to.
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:51, Reply)
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oh. my point is that given the rhyme's well known historical use of the word, he was deliberately sailing very close to the wind in order to provoke and be obnoxious. i normally spend my time on here defending this kind of non PC crap. i think i need a lie down.
 (itilliterate, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:52, Reply)
This is a normal post yeah.
and you ignored the commercial aspect of my argument too. so ner.
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:54, Reply)
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er, casual racism is not a commercially viable product in the UK coming from a white man on the BBC, so ignored it so not to embarrass you. ner ner nah ner ner.
 (itilliterate, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:58, Reply)
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nice ninja edit
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:00, Reply)
This is a normal post exactly
I watched it first without reading any of the background info and heard gibberish

then i read what the phrase apparently was ...and I kinda heard it. But fuck, this is a stretch.
 (I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:35, Reply)
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when it's a well known version of the rhyme?
 (itilliterate, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:45, Reply)
This is a normal post srsly dude
i heard nothing first listen
 (I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:01, Reply)
This is a normal post The you're deaf
And naive
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Thu 1 May 2014, 22:24, Reply)
This is a normal post That was nigger you twat
It couldn't be anything else? Have you heard a version no one else has. It sounds exactly like nigger mumbled, because he knows iiTs bad to say it. Why else do you think he mumbled that part?? Fucking hell, retard.
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Thu 1 May 2014, 22:22, Reply)
This is a normal post woah dude chill the fuck out
I've offered my retraction above.

we cool?

edit

that comment wasnt aimed directly at me, still my apology stands either way.
 (I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Thu 1 May 2014, 22:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah sorry lol
I flounce at times sorry about that! Lol
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Fri 2 May 2014, 22:43, Reply)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_6-iVz1R0o
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 22:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Clarkson's in the news again for doing something controvertial.
Is there a new series of Top Gear on the way then?
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:15, Reply)
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huh. i thought all the outrage about mexicans was pathetic and fatuous, but when he made that 'slope' remark i thought that was gratuitous and a bit nasty. this is a very bad look indeed. how depressing for me that my opinion of him now aligns somewhat with all those right on bien pensant pinko twats that look for offence and victimhood everywhere. not sure he can weather this one out given his past form, but top gear is past its sell by date and has been for a while,so no great loss.
 (itilliterate, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Vote Hitler.

(pissflaps. FSPW, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:20, Reply)
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i'm voting for the caliphate. they'll know what to do about all them gayers.
 (itilliterate, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:28, Reply)
This is a normal post He actually says '9/11 was an inside job'

(I helped save b3ta! $$ ✅, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:19, Reply)
This is a normal post And "Obama was born in the (former) Ukraine"

(I helped save b3ta! gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:21, Reply)
This is a normal post He clearly says ninja....
which proves he's an idiot as you'd never catch one by the toe.
 (I helped save b3ta! NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:21, Reply)
This is a normal post You are wise in the ways of the "hidden ones"
I am looking for training, can you help?
 (I helped save b3ta! gunmetal drove slowly in the passing lane on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:27, Reply)
This is a normal post No tlaining
Only killing.
Silent killing, total massacle!
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Psst! Gunmetal, I never showed this too you. *touches side of nose*
www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm

EDIT: 'to', not 'too'. (facepalm)
 (I helped save b3ta! NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Thu 1 May 2014, 22:07, Reply)
This is a normal post I hate to side with the complete shit of a bloke but that's a playground song that almost every kid in the UK sang without intending any offence
It's also possible that he's mumbling knicker (as in female underwear or possibly thief) which is what I recall thinking the word was when I was 7.

I imagine there might have been some uneducated racism when it was bastardised from the original Tiger text, but I'd guess what he was doing was pure unthinking repetition from his childhood.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe

All that said, he does have a history for it, so maybe even though he mumbles it, he meant every word
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:37, Reply)
This is a normal post I think his main problem is that
he's built up the image of an old bigot for so long, that there isn't much in the "he couldn't be racist" camp to counter-balance any sleight claims like this.

I personally felt he mumbled it more with an air of "it's political correctness gone mad that I can't just say it" than out of good manners (or, indeed out of racism).
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:16, Reply)
This is a normal post this is the problem
his views are widely known and sometimes pointed at and laughed at, challenged and, sadly, somewhat agreed with.
edit: oops - clicked post accidentally and lost my thread...
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:38, Reply)
This is a normal post oh yeah - i only forgot one word and an ellipsis. it was:
yet...
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 21:22, Reply)
This is a normal post i guess i meant to continue:
...it continues. - or we allow it to continue. in that it is just one of many issues that we seem to endlessly discuss and never resolve.
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 22:07, Reply)
This is a normal post or something.
g'night.
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 22:24, Reply)
This is a normal post So what *does* he say?

(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:37, Reply)
This is a normal post My own expertish opinion
"...mo my adult diaper is letting go, I'll have to Tesco to get more..."
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:41, Reply)
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:41, Reply)
This is a normal post His response is good Accidental Partridge
twitpic.com/e2mc8b
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:02, Reply)
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silly man is silly. if he was so keen to avoid saying nigger why not clearly say another word. he's shitting it after the 'slope' remark. and someone in the production office has the knives out.
 (itilliterate, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:08, Reply)
This is a normal post haha
there's prolly gonna be some psychological freudian slip or tourettes spectrum speculation flying around the interwebs soon
 (I helped save b3ta! artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 1 May 2014, 20:09, Reply)
This is a normal post You are without a doubt, a fucking nob
Recite a version of that rhyme it could of been and explain why he mumbles the controversial part but not the rest.
 (I helped save b3ta! Firkinfedup last shat on your wife's tits at, Thu 1 May 2014, 22:27, Reply)