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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    02:57 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    Does this mean that Ford Probes aren't allowed in the parking lot?
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    02:49 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    Here's a radical idea... how about an audience made up of enthusiastic fans who want to be there? I mean... WTH - affirmitive action on audience allowance? What next, concerts that have to be 50/50 so it will look better on the DVD?
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    Image of VeeArrrSix VeeArrrSix
    02:11 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    Funny how calling Jezza a pig isn't an issue. It's called comedy people! Anyone ever seen Jonathan Ross's showon the BBC? The house band is called "Four Poofs and a Piano"... "poof" being slang (slur) for homosexual.

    Nice faux outrage Stonewall.
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    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    01:02 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    The key is, one must be intelligent enough to accept stereotypes for what they are, and laugh.

    There's not much of this available on the rock we call Earth, however.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    12:55 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    GasGas up the AssAss.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12:38 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    You know, watching many motorcycling events over the years, I've seen GasGas bikes doing trials, hopping boulders and bouncing carefully over tree trunks or stumps. Yet I've never seen one go up Hammond's bum.

    No offense to anyone here, but I'm really kind of glad that I missed that episode.
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    12:32 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    Why not invite both the sides? Problem solved.
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    Image of PowerTryp, Starless wonder. PowerTryp, Starless wonder.
    12:47 PM

    @FTGDWolverineEdition'09: I approve of gay marrage... As long as both chicks are hot.
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    FTGDWolverineEdition'09 promoted this comment PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was starred PowerTryp, Starless wonder. was unstarred
    Image of comedian comedian
    12:28 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    Are you guys using the archives to phone it in today?

    This "news" is over a year old.

    [www.digitalspy.co.uk]
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    Image of bzr bzr
    12:27 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    That's hardly banning gays, is it? They'd just have to find a few more girls to join them. Hardly a slap in the face of Stonewall.
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    Image of snapoversteer 'bout to get told snapoversteer 'bout to get told
    12:24 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    What if they did a show reviewing the Ridgeline, Amarok, and Forrester? Oh wait, I'm stereotyping again.
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    12:21 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    "Each booking requires equal amounts of men to women, so please ensure that you have a 50/50 split of guys and gals in your party."

    People offended to easily reading into something that isn't.

    They just don't want a Sausage feast. That is it, I don't see anything about not wanting Gays. Just not a audience full of fan boys.

    It took the poor offended this long to realize the hotter chicks are front row?
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    Image of Rust-MyEnemy Rust-MyEnemy
    12:17 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    I'd like to make it public that I am a great believer in equal opportunities. Man, Woman, Gay, Straight, people is people.

    However, if Top Gear were to enforce a strictly pro-18-30 year old Attractive Lesbian policy on audience management, I could be persuaded to turn a blind eye.
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    Edited by Rust-MyEnemy at 12/01/09 12:19 PM Rust-MyEnemy was starred Rust-MyEnemy was unstarred
    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    12:10 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    If anything, this new policy doesn't go far enough. All female studio audience FTW, not that it could happen.
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    12:06 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    "There is nothing sinister going on. Viewers don't want to just look at a load of ugly men."

    Uhhhhh....
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    Image of Joe Valasek Joe Valasek
    12:09 PM

    @Scandinavian Flick:
    He may be a load, but there's only one of him.

    That's why they need so many females in the background.
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    Image of Bret Bret
    01:46 PM

    @Scandinavian Flick: Aww... I didn't know Jezza was pregnant.
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    12:05 PM

    In reply to Top Gear "Bans" Gay Couples From Studio Audience
    Sounds like the gay groups are bad at math. For every gay male couple, they'll just need a couple of female friends (with benefits) to balance it out.

    And a great lead picture, Wes.

    Edit: Maths, not math. Stupid language.
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    Image of Mischif Mischif
    01:36 PM

    @Ash78, tryptophanatic: Actually, the British do say "maths". So stupid Britain, not stupid language.
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    01:40 PM

    @Mischif: That was my point. I'm always reluctant to say "Stupid Britain" (even in cases where it is stupid) because they always reply with "We had the language first," as if that excuses lunacy.
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    Image of Mischif Mischif
    01:49 PM

    @Ash78, tryptophanatic: Well when they do reply with "we made it first", tell them America assumed ownership as the spoils of the Revolutionary War. Eliminates that excuse and riles them up.
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    Image of metrawatt metrawatt
    01:57 PM

    @Ash78, tryptophanatic: So it's ok for you and your wife to go but not my BF and I? We have to balance things out to make it more 'normal'? I guess I'm bad at maths too.
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    02:03 PM

    @metrawatt: You and your boyfriend go, then TG just has to wait on a couple of women to sign up, too. In other words, there was nothing in this about sexual orientation, they're just looking for a gender balance in the crowd.

    If they wanted to be extra-PC, they could just say they're looking for a studio audience that reflects Earths 51/49 split (one of the women has to be extra fat or something).
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    Image of metrawatt metrawatt
    02:18 PM

    @Ash78, tryptophanatic: Perhaps they should pay some skankly clad not-so-fat hookers to sit in the front row, that could make for some REAL entertainment. I don't know it's a show for dudes, dudes will be in the audience. I don't see 'The View' saying they want more men in the audience.
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