I have heard the expression a few times in American films used by GIs in the Vietnam conflict.Full Metal Jacket or maybe Platoon.Usually "Slope Heads" or "Gooks" also.
/// I have heard the expression a few times in American films used by GIs in the Vietnam conflict.Full Metal Jacket or maybe Platoon.Usually "Slope Heads" or "Gooks" also. ///
But Jeremy Clarkeson, didn't say their was a 'Slope Head' or a 'Gook' on the bridge.
I wasn't aware and also watched that episode last night; I think you'd really have to take his comment completely out of context to get any racist remark out of it. Bit barmey.
I have never heard the expression, and I ao perfectly willing to accept that Mr Clarkson did not mean any racial slur in his use of it.
Mr Clarkson is far from a shrinking violet when he wants to speak his mind - if he wished to use a racial slur, he would have picked one that his entire audience would understand - ecxept I don't believe he would.
I find Mr Clarkson a stratospherically irritating TV presenter, a wonderful writer, but a racist? I don't think so.
I've never heard of it. No idea whether Jeremy Clarkson has or not. Andy, it's not so much that he might be racist, but i can see him thinking it's clever.
I am aware he did not say there was a slope head or a gook on the bridge.It was,I think, an innuendo.How can he be accused of racism when the other presenter says"You're right one side is definitely higher than the other?" meaning "a slope"I'm sick of small minded trendy lefty bleedin heart brigades trying to make something out of nothing.The more this remark offends these idiots the funnier I find it.
I've never been a fan of Top Gear, but after it's first run of success, Jeremy Clarkson was given his own talk show. I thought I'd give it a try, I watched one episode and decided JC was a knob, nothing I've read about him since has changed my mind.