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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To be dreading telling DS Clarkson was fired.

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TwinkieTwinkle · 25/03/2015 15:09

Right decision by the BBC. Absolutely dreading collecting my son from school and telling him though...

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SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 25/03/2015 17:15

I wasn't making a judgement when I asked if a lot of children watch TG, I was genuinely surprised to hear that any child did. I really did think it was a programme that appealed to middle aged, car coat wearing men. I'd be just as surprised if I found out thousands of 8 years old were watching Crown Green Bowling, or those talk programmes they show in the morning because they don't seem like things that would appeal to children.

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TwinkieTwinkle · 25/03/2015 17:16

dita that's made me your poor daughter.

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Christinayangstwistedsister · 25/03/2015 17:18

It's the fast car thing I think, and the stig

NickiFury · 25/03/2015 17:21

I think that's a valid point farewell. I did make a point of gently explaining that you can't go around punching people without consequences, but only after ds was over the worst of his tears and even famous people aren't above that.

ditavonteesed · 25/03/2015 17:22

lts face it the stig is essentially a power ranger.

shitebag · 25/03/2015 17:22

In all fairness Saskia I would've thought the same before DS came along and became obsessed with all things car related at 2 and he still goes on and on and on...

Top Gear gave me an hours peace on a Monday after school as he got to watch Sundays recorded episode.

I'm not sure I'd class him as your "typical" 8 year old though given the level of obsession which has led to ASD assessments more than once

meglet · 25/03/2015 17:23

Zayn has left?!!!

today gets worse. these things always come in threes.......

NickiFury · 25/03/2015 17:24

Ds has a lap with The Stig in May. He got it for his birthday. Not sure if he will want to do it now .

shitebag · 25/03/2015 17:24

I'm telling you Meglet the suns crashing down on us aaaaannnyyy minute now.

ilovesooty · 25/03/2015 17:24

I do accept that the "surprise" was expressed prior to me expressing it. I don't accept that it was expressed repeatedly. And yes: I simply had thought of TG as a programme likely to be watched by teens and upwards.

Anyway, my apologies for expressing something that had already been expressed while I was otherwise occupied that I missed when I looked through on my phone.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 25/03/2015 17:25

I think this is an excellent lesson for young boys. You can't hit someone and get away with it, no matter how big and popular you are. And how many young lads get picked on by the 'big, popular boys' every day? I was dreading the BBC letting him off (again). It would have sent a terrible message. Shame they don't seem to want to can Top Gear. I'm putting a bet on now, if Farage doesn't get far in politics, he'd probably be first choice replacement. Racist, bigoted, white, English, middle class, he's bloody perfect.

NickiFury · 25/03/2015 17:27

Oh it wasn't just that I took issue with, it was your implication that the OP was a bad parent because she lets her child watch it. Which is BS.

Christinayangstwistedsister · 25/03/2015 17:38

Nicki

Ooh do it, it will be fun

farewellfigure · 25/03/2015 17:49

Sorry Nicki I really didn't mean to cause offence. I was just being up my own. I have a pure hatred of children swearing and I know the time will come, but DS has just turned 7 and I plan to keep him away from hearing it for as long as possible....in my own house anyway. I can completely see why kids are fascinated with fast cars and the daft antics the presenters get up to.

I did read the whole thread BTW. I just couldn't help myself.

Personally I used to love Top Gear, watched it avidly, and read loads of JC's books. I've just gone off him majorly recently after the whole racism debacle and that awful fake apology.

Anyway, as you were. I didn't mean to derail.

Costacoffeeplease · 25/03/2015 17:50

Ah that's so sad dita much more understandable, poor baby giraffe, not at all comparable to knob head clarkson deservedly getting the boot

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TwinkieTwinkle · 25/03/2015 17:53

Ah that's so sad dita much more understandable, poor baby giraffe, not at all comparable to knob head clarkson deservedly getting the boot

I don't really think it is your place to decide what is acceptable for children to be upset about and what's not acceptable. What a very odd statement.

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Costacoffeeplease · 25/03/2015 17:56

I'd say needlessly killing a baby giraffe is way more valid a reason to be upset than a dickhead like clarkson getting the sack for violence (never mind everything else) - very strange to think that it's not

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TwinkieTwinkle · 25/03/2015 17:58

You do realise we are talking about children? I don't really think anyone has the right to say whether a young child has a valid reason to be upset. Peculiar...

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Costacoffeeplease · 25/03/2015 18:03

Yep, I think I got that in the op, thanks anyway

I don't think it's peculiar to understand anyone being upset at the killing of a baby giraffe - if it is, I'm happy to be peculiar. For anyone to be upset about clarkson, however, is not so understandable, nor is it comparable

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TwinkieTwinkle · 25/03/2015 18:07

Children's emotions are different than adults so it's really not your place to dictate what children can and can't be upset about. I agree the death of a giraffe is sadder than Clarkson being fired, kids don't view things like that though and it's really not up to you to say they should. Especially when it is just to try and reinforce your point that Clarkson is a dick and my son shouldn't be watching him.

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Christinayangstwistedsister · 25/03/2015 18:07

I can't see where anyone has said that the doc shouldn't be upset re the giraffe

It's not an either/or situation , dcs weren't given an option to pick one to be upset about, one was upset about giraffe...fair enough, one was upset about the future of his favorite programme.....fair enough

shitebag · 25/03/2015 18:08

Costa if a child wants to be upset that their favourite TV show will possibly be cancelled or if their favourite band are splitting up then who are you to say they shouldn't be able to express that?

That's like me saying why you have no righr to be upset about a dead baby giraffe when there are millions of children dying needlessly around the world everyday.

Everyone has their own perspective in particular children who don't necessarily have empathy for the worlds problems yet.

Christinayangstwistedsister · 25/03/2015 18:08

Doc not doc!

ditavonteesed · 25/03/2015 18:15

sorry thats what I was trying to say it was something that I knew dd wuld be upset about so I dreaded having to tell her, the same way that op didnt want to tell her son something that he would be upset about. Nobody wants their dc to be upset and their world is a much smaller place than the real world, tvprograms and things offer constants and ofte have little rituals around them that make the child feel at home. I remember ones from when I was little, we would always wtach the same thing while my mum did my hair on a sunday, it becomes part of the constant of your world.
Sorry I started rambling so that probably doesnt even make sense.

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TwinkieTwinkle · 25/03/2015 18:15

Let me help you christina... dc.

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