I have lost count of the number of left-wing men whose chauvinism/sexism is swept under the carpet completely because they're Fighting The Good Fight, but I will give a certain amount of credit to RB for acknowledging his own lairiness and trying to work past it. I can think of dozens of men who'd be like "who, me?" or "but what about RACISM?" when challenged on this point.
― resting rich face (suzy), Thursday, 4 December 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm not really #teambrand either
I think you are a bit tbh
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 December 2014 13:49 (nine years ago) link
oh alright, fine. i'm still voting in the next election though.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Thursday, 4 December 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
Brand has acknowledged and apologised for his sexism/chauvinism and admits he's still carrying some of that baggage around after spending most of a lifetime with no-one telling him it was wrong. He seems to me like a man who's at least attempting to correct his attitudes and behaviour but there's still a feeling for me that this this whole crusade is something of a vanity project.
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Thursday, 4 December 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah because someone injecting smack for a decade is obviously complete at peace with himself
you brand haters are simply the worst. the guy has just literally changed some of thr most vulnerable womens and families lives in london, something I have never seen any celeb of any kind do before here
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link
My tanooky-wook
― why do I hate that thing (excluding imago, marcos) (wins), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
Ha ha, priceless! (xp)
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 December 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/c4Q3cs0.jpg
Stephan Shakespeare (born 9 April 1957) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the British Internet-based market research and opinion polls company YouGov. He is also chairman of the ed tech company Flooved. He is the former owner of the websites ConservativeHome (now owned by Lord Ashcroft) and PoliticsHome (now owned by Dods Parliamentary Communications Ltd) which he launched in April 2008 after closing down his Internet television channel 18 Doughty Street.
Nadhim Zahawi (Arabic: ناظم الزهاوي, Nāḍim az-Zahāwī; born 2 June 1967[1]) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stratford-on-Avon since 2010, after the retirement of previous MP John Maples.
He is also the co-founder of the international internet-based market research firm YouGov of which he was Chief Executive until February 2010.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 5 December 2014 09:37 (nine years ago) link
woah... wtf? And there's me confusing yougov with a public sector site.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 09:41 (nine years ago) link
Aren't they the ones who polled people asking them who they thought was having the most negative affect on politics from a lineup including Russell Brand, Jeremy Clarkson, Matt Damon, Lisa Kudrow and Worzel Gummidge or something?
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 09:51 (nine years ago) link
I was a big fan of "if Jesus was alive today would he be in favour of renationalising the railways"
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 5 December 2014 10:52 (nine years ago) link
lol sun gettin shook
― intelligent, expressive males within the greater metropolitan (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:11 (nine years ago) link
So, shorter version EXCLUSIVE: 300 Sun readers find Russell Brand a hypocrite in ridiculous push poll?
― resting rich face (suzy), Friday, 5 December 2014 11:40 (nine years ago) link
two covers in a day!? i mean you'd think they'd have better things to do. he's clearly pissed *someone* off..
― piscesx, Friday, 5 December 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link
's clearly pissed *someone* off
he was prodding Murdoch on twitter about tax evasion
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Friday, 5 December 2014 13:17 (nine years ago) link
given the subjective nature of comedy, if 36% of 'the nation' finds you funny then you're probably doing a pretty good job of it.
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
For the sake of comparison, they need to run a similar poll on Michael Macintyre.
― Mark G, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
now he's a massive hypocrite
― Hello, my name is Dark Chocolate Cookie (dog latin), Friday, 5 December 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
But will the readers think/vote so?
― Mark G, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
And, hey, let's roll it out to non-comedians!
David CameronRussell KaneJohn LydonAaron SpellingLollyEden KaneFlat EricNigel Farage
.. any votes as to who will come out as the most honest?
― Mark G, Friday, 5 December 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
flat eric ftw
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
whither Lolly?
― soref, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
Lolly Loses a leg due to steam roller incident[edit]
I can notfind anything about this on the internet and I believe if it was true then there will be some sort of reference, I'll give it about 3 weeks for someone to find a reference for it, if there is non I'll take it off Jonni Boi 15:40, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
― soref, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
She's in panto. Her real name is Anna Kumble. I am not sure why I know either of these things.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
playing Long John Silver
― soref, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
So Russell Brand's going on Question Time next week, alongside Farage. Should be worth a giggle.
― everything, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:33 (nine years ago) link
Dapper laughs not even making the lidt #robbed
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Tip for 2015- Dapper Laughs will be back, and into left wing politics. If I was his agent I'd totally be locking him in a room with a copy of '23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism' about now.
― intelligent, expressive males within the greater metropolitan (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 5 December 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
If Brand takes down Farage on Question time, will the Daily Mil explode like a car that has all gears working but can't go to neutral?
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 December 2014 08:44 (nine years ago) link
Two great minds meet, I can hardly wait. One good thing is that after appearing on Newsnight, Nick Griffin's popularity/ career/ life rapidly went down the toilet, one can only hope a similar fate awaits these two bawbags.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 December 2014 09:08 (nine years ago) link
[So Russell Brand's going on Question Time next week, alongside Farage. Should be worth a giggle.
― everything,
Not sure what to make of him right now, or doing things like this. It seems like he's realizing certain things about the way things are, but doesnt yet have the ability to articulate it, especially quickly under fire, so i sort of think fair play to him putting himself in firing line before he's really ready, against people who are practiced at this shit
anyway, ive no idea if his popularity will go down after this....Joey Barton's didnt, and in some ways they're sort of similar (though obv very different also)
― anvil, Saturday, 6 December 2014 10:47 (nine years ago) link
RB can only win a shitload more people over IMO; those who may never have seen the Trews, his comedy, heard him on the radio, read his stuff in the Graun etc. whereas Faragae is pretty much on home turf and he'll be reiterating all his usual stuff for all the nodding dogs. NF has been on about 17, 18 times so far already. RB has been on once.
― piscesx, Saturday, 6 December 2014 11:29 (nine years ago) link
http://4closurefraud.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Not-to-play.jpg
― poptimisty mounting pop (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 December 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
people dont' realise, non of it matters, brits are conservative, especially old brits, doesn't matter how much attention Brand gets. It won't change votes of majority of country. Rememmber Clegg? All that huge swell of support, huge popularity, as ridiculous as it sounds now. Lib Dems ended up getting less votes than their previous election.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Saturday, 6 December 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
They got more votes and a higher proportion of the vote than 2005 but fewer seats.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
Right, the only option we have is Milliband. Which is like an infinite amount better than the evil Cameron. People may like mock Miliband but he's not a nasty piece of shit like Cameron and his cronies so I don't get the debate here. No one is going to vote for Green Party.
Unless you actually want to tear up everything and start again, which as I said won't happen b/c brits are conservative in nature and has a long corporate and business first history which isn't changing, only becoming stronger. Most the country still enjoyes the presense of a fucking Royal Family for gods sake. All this political debate is a nonsense. Small fry. Trivial issues are encouaged with fervour, Bigger issues ignored. At least Brand looks at the bigger issues.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Saturday, 6 December 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
if 'brits are conservative' why haven't they won a majority since the year i turned 18 then? i'll be 41 at the next election.
― piscesx, Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure conservatives have swept the board in all those elections
― poptimisty mounting pop (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Are you sure you're not 36 next year?
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
Xpost
Obv noodles' point also stands
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Saturday, 6 December 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
?? They last won a majority in 1992, which will be 23 years ago come the next election.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 8 December 2014 10:15 (nine years ago) link
i guess i went by them having the majority until losing it in 1997
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 8 December 2014 10:55 (nine years ago) link
this is way more interesting than anything to do with russell brand imo
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 8 December 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
John Major lost his majority in 1996.
― doesn’t matter what the content is, as long as it’s content (onimo), Monday, 8 December 2014 11:02 (nine years ago) link
^ possibly an unfruitful tangent but that's correct iirc, Major chose to temporarily fuck up Northern Ireland peace process in order to get ulster unionist votes to keep his obviously doomed government in power for another year.
― intelligent, expressive males within the greater metropolitan (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 8 December 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
Hmmm he just tweeted a Daily Mail senior reporter's business card (implication is that the mobile number on it is a personal one but idk)).
― nashwan, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
You can only win a majority at an election. You don't keep winning it every day until the next one.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
No, but you *have* a majority until you don't got one. Useful for voting in changes you like and *they* don't.
― Mark G, Monday, 8 December 2014 14:58 (nine years ago) link
in that sense if you already had a majority coming into an election, kept power, but lost some of the majority, have you still "won" the majority? I'd say no and Tory hasn't "won" any majority since 83 and piscesx is 49
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 8 December 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link