Right . I saw a crash test video from I think IIHS that tested various types , the ones with supports in the middle and corners seemed to prevent decapitation . The ones with just two toward the center did not IIRC . Just another reason not to tailgate trucks . <| sep |> More bailouts for the Vikes . <| sep |> As someone who ' s circumcised , I really don ' t see the issue here . It makes it dead easy to keep clean compared to my uncut friends . I feel those are two very different type of procedures . I know some people who have had it by choice as young adults even for medical reasons . <| sep |> This is what the Top Gear producer said about itWhen we used the word slope in the recent Top Gear Burma Special it was a lighthearted word play joke referencing both the build quality of the bridge and the local Asian man who was crossing it . He does go on to say more about how they hadn ' t realised it was racist . I ' ve highlighted the important bit though , they recognised that it was a term that referred to Asian people . So did they think that was a respectful way to refer to the person crossing the bridge , did they think it was neutral ? I appreciate you weren ' t aware of the term ' s existence , let alone racist origins but given they did know the term existed I find it hard to believe they didn ' t realise that it was at least a disrespectful term , even if they didn ' t realise it was flat out racist . With the other thing , yes , he mumbled the words . I ' m not sure how that precludes him from accusations of racism . This wasn ' t a rap song , where the lyrics aren ' t actually racist and he embarrassedly skipped over the words , it was the lyrics to the racist version of a nursery rhyme . He doesn ' t react to it as an accident at all , infact he even recorded a different version , knowing the implications of the what he did . As I ' ve said , if you want to believe his excuses and apologies that ' s fine by me . Just as I think it ' s fine for the comic to not believe his excuses and believe he was being racist as there is justification for that too . Personally , I don ' t buy the excuses and I don ' t believe he is actually racist , rather a puerile idiot with no respect . In both instances the recordings are inkeeping with his character , trying to be as bigoted and controversial as possible , which would rule out the idea that he didn ' t know slope was offensive , or that he accidently mumbled the racist line rather than simply doing a different version which he was clearly capable of doing as he did so later . I really don ' t get why you have such a problem with him being called racist though . It ' s clearly not unfounded , even if you don ' t agree with the statement , if you can ' t see that then I think you have a very limited view of what is racist . The entire right won ' t turn racist because people think it ' s an issue worth discusing and criticising people for , that ' s ludicrous .