More handwringing over Top Gear’s Argentina Special.
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| Quote: The Argentinian ambassador has accelerated her argument with the BBC over a controversial Top Gear special filmed in the country. Alicia Castro, the country’s ambassador to the UK, has written to BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead expressing her “discontent” after a meeting with the corporation’s director of television Danny Cohen. The motoring show’s crew fled Argentina after trouble erupted when it emerged they were using a Porsche with the registration number H982 FKL, which some people suggested could refer to the Falklands conflict of 1982. | |
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The phrase “some people suggested” sounds very woolly to me. It’s not connection I would have made without prompting from some of the easily agitated media. Unless that H was a more vertical letter form, such as an I (which you can”t use) or even a J or a L (with a bit of a push), I don’t see it. Some people would have made the H LOOK more like II (two capital Is) by putting a white screw cap on the bar, but then you’d get something that looks almost, but almost entirely unlike 11982