Intrepid reporters stumble upon ‘Stig Farm’

Top Gear may roll out as much opinionated codswallop as it likes BUT it must(for the sake of our grossly misled youngsters) get its grammar correct!

To see what I mean, read the first few words of the article ‘Intrepid Reporters stumble upon Stig Farm’.

The Sun newspaper instantly becomes PLURAL!!

Yes,God Help US! There would seem to be more than just one Sun newpaper reporting!

It might be multiple reporters covering the story

Where is that b####r Ben Collins?

how very intrequing

You know, I wonder how the smell of a Stig farm compares to the smell of a pig farm?

@Yank.

It’s worse!

some say he was born on the stig farm others say he has just always been! all we know is he is called THE STIG

some say he was born on the stig farm others say he has just always been! all we know is he is called THE STIG that was my comment i just forgot to join!!!

some say he was born on the stig farm others say he has just always been! all we know is he is called THE STIG….. PMSL i forgot again!!

@ Youknowitmakessense

You do realize that there may have been several reporters on the story, don’t you? Reporters is plural while the Sun Newspaper isn’t.

Nope, read it again.
It actually says…….’The Sun newspaper …….are today reporting…..’

The subject of the sentence is indeed The Sun newspaper and that is a single entity.

A single Sun newspaper should be referred to as ‘ The Sun newspaper…….IS today reporting that IT has….’

Nothing at all to do with the reporters.

Hey ho.

Hi Guys (Top Gear People) and Hi Fans! (everyone else)

I have been watching the news about Ben Collins and his fight with Top Gear and it’s all too sad but I really can’t blame Collins for his book though ….

Yes, it’s about money but considering how well everyone else on the show has done – from Clarky and May to Hammond and Andy Wilman you really can’t blame the guy for wanting to get in on the action can you?!

What the heck, he’s got the sack and we’ll all move on – remember Perry!?

What the heck, the show is still the best thing on TV no matter who does the driving. Keep it up !

Cheers’
Dave Cason

get steve coogan to be the new stig character

well done!
is the white stig pooping in pic one?
top gear USA is a carbon copy ripoff, it blows…
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MY UK FRIENDS..
(you people speak American very goodly)

Durn rite. Theys is good talkin folk. Quins English yano.

Seriously, the plural obviously refers to the reporters. What a dim.

Try replacing every “are” with “is”, and “they” with “it”. Doesn’t make sense at all.

It doesn’t take an Einstein to understand that.

Know what, I’ll do that for you.

The Sun – a popular newspaper in Great Britain – IS today reporting that IT has discovered what IT calls ‘a Stig Farm’. Employing IT’S full range of investigative power, IT seems to have got IT’S hands on the pictures below.

The last contributor is so very right! God help the poor person who really cannot speak the Queen’s English.

I guess that a ‘family’ or a ‘team’ are also plural?

Ignorance is bliss, they say. Maybe, but it sure as hell will not help others understand your verbal drivel.

come on, make an effort, thats clearly Paris Hilton in pink.

I cannot understand the moral high ground held by the presenters. They object to the ‘betrayal’ from the Stig for capitalising on his TG career. Yet both Richard and James have made millions on work in new TV based solely upon TG. How many books has JC sold from this or DVD specials?. Isn’t it one rule for us and the another for the rest? Live and let live – bring him back, let hime make some money, make it up and have a big laugh!

It is not about money, it is about complying the contract. The Stig has to be anonymous, that’s the major rule. If your identity is revealed, you are done. If you don’t like this rule, don’t sign the contract. But if you did sign the paper, stick to it or get lost.

It’s about fairness and contracts that are reasonable. Stig’s significant contribution over 6 years is a good reason to expect and allow him to share the benefit of his work. TG’s quality and reputation was never threatened and there was no need for anyone to ‘get lost’.

A compromise allowing everyone to benefit from TG was available. The BBC could easily have declined to comment or confirm Stig’s identity, so maintaining the ‘secret’ and had some fun with it.

Dear readers, dear TopGear Management, BBC Board of Management, dear TopGear Team

Thanks for the apology to Mexico, i believe at these point makes no sense, the people from all around has spoken their points of view about the embarrassing situation for all parts involved.

if this was a strategy to rise the rating, well first an aplause for the smart team that created this nonsense conflict. btw that was a really bad taste strategy
well, now all around the globe Asia, Latin America and Europe people are speaking about the issue. for the Mastretta Cars great publicity, i didnt know about this car, now i am interested on it.

thanks to the incompetence of the TopGear Management to handle this issue. Now they are many reactions in many sectors of around the Globe specially in Mexico (but not just the Goverment, but the whole country) regarding this nonSENSE kostenlose Probleme.

now the BBC histerically is posting with strategic Youtube accounts seasons of topgear for free every hour, to try to avoid the audience to find something about the problem with mexico that could affect them in the long term. well that is just so obvious. May be to late, looks that the Fans supporting the Mexican complain are posting at the same speed as you, many responses to TopGear in youtube.

Regarding the apology letter published

How you (Lawyers and Management of TopGear) justify the totally Dumb and ignorant comments from the 3 TopGear presenters, just by saying that the audience of this program is intended only for the UK, and therefore there was no issue to talk like that on it, because in the UK ussing stereotypes to entertain the public is fine.

Well TopGear is nowadays an International Program, you know it better than anyone, because you Managers of TopGear do the marketing strategies for the global market.

And yes, thanks to the SatTV and youtube you have lots of fans all around the Globe, please at least take care of them and think twice before making the lines for the next program.

i am sorry, but every country is full of traditions and culture, if for the neighbours of the UK in Europe. There is no issue with the program using stereotypes jokes regarding them, fine for them/us.

but please be more aware with the scripts, it is now a program with audience all around the Globe. consider it before saying something. Some countries tolerate certain things, others doesnt. Just put your people to do some research before doing the skript, just to know what can be considered as a serious ofense. otherwise certain comments will cause this nonsense conflicts.

Thanks to the internet and Satellite TV TopGear Fans had the chance to enjoy the crazy things the TopGear guys do with cool cars, we like it, is funny, please keep doing it, but from now WISELY or youll have lots of complains knocking at your door in seconds.

Regarding the idle state of the TopGear Management in front of a demand from the fans all around the world, please someone teach them how to react to accept what was wrong since the beginning.

I dont know but, twitter and Facebook and youtube accounts from thousands are now under firing creating a virtuall wave of disqualifications and insults between all kind of TopGear Fans.
What for??? againg and aplausse to the Manager in charge of the marketing strategies

Please use your most powerfull weapon (The 3 show presenters) to put peace on this and let them talk to the Fans… let them talk to the FANS, as a matter of respect to all of us.

hope this will server for something to anyone at the TopGear Team as a lesson to learn at least something.

Greetings from Germany
Steffany Galas

What i dont get is why Mexico thinks the rest of the world isnt allowed to make fun of them, everyone makes fun of our monarchs!
thats one of the reasons we still have them. every day there must be new jokes about prince phillip alone, about him being a racist dithering old fool who swears at trees.
Top gear Austrailia said ”this car is running as well as the mexican economy”
I take it thier next on mexico’s hitlist of people who said nasty things about us.

Its akin to a kid at school going to the head teacher because another kid said he smells. now i am sure that would upset a 6-9 year old very much, but usually the insulted kid would turn around and say something like why are you smelling me? are you gay or something? and all would be well.
Mexico is now going to be subject to more slander because they cant take a joke about them making a car.
If England made a real spaceship, not a remtoe controlled one but something on the scale of what the americans and russians do,
everyone would be having a laugh at us and for the most part we would too. its not something we have done before and we should expect to get some stick from the contries that have invented/pioneered it.
Richard, James, And Jezz have been doing this for a while now and yes, they get paid, yes it must be one of the best jobs in the world, but they have done some amazing and very dangerous things for our amusement. everyone who sent richard a card will know exactly where i am coming from. They drove to the north pole and now people are calling for the show to be banned because of something as petulant as this?
Family guy have been doing the housekeeper joke for years now, why is it so different for top gear?
The really dumb thing is Mexico will now be the subject of more jests because of thier inability to take this as a joke.
I would hate to think that this great show could in some way be affected by this whole fiasco just so a country that doesnt make cars (apart from one that now has loads of publicity thanks to TG) can dictate how we make a show about cars.
And who made Cogan the emperor of comedy? i like him, but when did he get a high horse to preach from?
I dont see why mexico doesnt just insult us back, send thier car over and see what cuddles makes of it.

I find it interesting all the comments made by Europeans about this whole Mexico debacle when none of you have ever seen a Mexican up close, much less know how they feel about being made fun of. As an American living in Texas, we’re practically tripping over the damn things, and I can tell you for a fact that if the Mexican people were truly upset about being ridiculed, the entire country of England would have been killed in a massive drive-by shooting. It’s been my experience that Mexicans have a good sense of humor unless you’re talking about their Mama or their car. Don’t touch those subjects, and you’re golden. It’s only the Mexican Ambassador and the cranky Mexi chicquita who wants to make a name for herself with a lawsuit that are really pissed (upset, not drunk) about it. The rest of them are busy dodging bullets from drug dealers or working jobs Americans don’t want to do. Trust me, they don’t care that some limey with bad teeth and a car show doesn’t like the food they eat. They have other things to worry about. And so, I think do you.

Yes, Steve Coogan, I was talking to you. And by the way while I have you here Steve, Hamlet 2 wasn’t bad, but everything else you’ve done? Crap.