{"id":22745,"date":"2016-11-20T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=22745"},"modified":"2017-06-27T05:24:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T09:24:51","slug":"the-grand-tours-eboladrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=22745","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Tour\u2019s Eboladrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. Yesterday I reviewed the new Amazon Prime show, The Grand Tour. This is the far better replacement of the BBC\u2019s Top Gear, which basically collapsed after the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson. The review was positive, but as you might expect, some of the perpetually offended took offense at the name of their new test track.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/seen-coming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22259\" src=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/seen-coming-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"seen-coming\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/seen-coming-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/seen-coming.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Clarkson dubbed the track the \u201cEboladrome\u201d due to the layout being similar to the shape of the Ebola virus. Surprising absolutely no one, some morons took offense at the name \u201cEboladrome\u201d and promptly made their feelz known on Twitter. According to World News:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>Jeremy Clarkson new series has been greeted as a glorious comeback after an ignominious exit from the BBC. But Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s show The Grand Tour has brought with it the familiar whiff of controversy thanks to a tasteless joke about ebola. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>And what would that joke be?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b>The resemblance of a racetrack in his Amazon Prime series to a magnified image of the virus led Clarkson to dub it the Eboladrome. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Reagan_toasting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16344\" src=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Reagan_toasting-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Reagan_toasting\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Reagan_toasting-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Reagan_toasting-500x753.jpg 500w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Reagan_toasting.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><b>And the remark brought an immediate backlash from viewers startled by the former Top Gear star\u2019s apparent insensitivity over a disease that killed 30,000 in West Africa two years ago. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/steaming_pile_of_horseshit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-20194\" src=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/steaming_pile_of_horseshit-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"steaming_pile_of_horseshit\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/steaming_pile_of_horseshit-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/steaming_pile_of_horseshit.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excuse me? This offends you? My, but you are easily offended, but then, those who found this offensive are part of the \u201cPerpetually Offended\u201d class. Besides, this is Jeremy Clarkson we\u2019re talking about. He sent his verbal filters in to be refurnished decades ago, and the Royal Mail lost them. One of the reasons Amazon bought this show was due to Clarkson saying the first thing that pops into his mind. And the second thing&#8230;and the third.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Macaque-Selfie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19152\" src=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Macaque-Selfie-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"Macaque-Selfie\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Macaque-Selfie-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Macaque-Selfie-500x569.jpg 500w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Macaque-Selfie.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My advice to all of you who can\u2019t handle Jeremy Clarkson\u2019s way of saying things is simple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/suck-it-up-Buttercup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14458\" src=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/suck-it-up-Buttercup-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"suck it up Buttercup\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/suck-it-up-Buttercup-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/suck-it-up-Buttercup-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/suck-it-up-Buttercup.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to watch the Series Premier again. No one at Anger Central belongs to the Perpetually Offended class, and frankly, if you started waving something that offended you in our faces, we would just taunt you unmercifully.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[yasr_visitor_votes size=&#8221;large&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13627\" src=\"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Angry Systems Administrator\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dr_strangelove_1ed07.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day all. Yesterday I reviewed the new Amazon Prime show, The Grand Tour. This is the far better replacement of the BBC\u2019s Top Gear, which basically collapsed after the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson. The review was positive, but as you might expect, some of the perpetually offended took offense at the name of their new test track. <a href=\"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=22745\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,100,71,315,62,115,57,68,219],"tags":[4,222,6,90,34],"class_list":["post-22745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-moonbat","category-news-of-the-day","category-precious-snowflakes","category-reviews","category-stupidity-crime","category-technology","category-television","category-the-good-idea-fairy","tag-entertainment","tag-good-idea-fairy","tag-humor","tag-moonbattery","tag-stupidity"],"views":601,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24440,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22745\/revisions\/24440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}