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
xpost
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 8 December 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
i don't see how farage vs brand can ever live up to this.
― ^ 諷刺 (ken c), Monday, 8 December 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
*head explodes*
er anyway a lotta folk say RB's not well researched enough and suchlike and that's true often but he's getting better. this is greathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmSAvSfuiig
― piscesx, Monday, 8 December 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Imagine how stupid The Sun has to be to take this on like this. They're so easy to just rip apart like this. They must be petrified by him.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Monday, 8 December 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
That was too many like this, sorry for making you read that like this
Oh yeah, terrified. What planet are you from?
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Monday, 8 December 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
I am starting think Russell Brand is like the UK equivalent of Bill Maher - or at least, he seems to occupy a similar space on the socio-political spectrum
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 December 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Qfq3kkNYQyc/VJH43_KOjnI/AAAAAAAAAY8/4QZrfJt9YP0/s1600/Russell%2BBrand%2BInequality.jpg
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 December 2014 07:44 (nine years ago) link
c+p from The Sun website (not)
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 December 2014 07:45 (nine years ago) link
Turns out that over long, annoyingly written, confused, and whiny open letter from an RBS employee was written by an ex uni pal I defriended on Facebook ages ago for posting annoying and confused political screeds.
― ledge, Thursday, 18 December 2014 11:58 (nine years ago) link
ah so he wasn't just an RBS sock then?
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:02 (nine years ago) link
No just some self confessed right winger with opinions 4 u.
― ledge, Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
Ohhh shit, him!
― JimD, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
I should probably stop reading his blog now.
― ledge, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Turns out that over long, annoyingly written, confused, and whiny open letter from an RBS employee was written by an ex uni pal
What over long, annoyingly written, confused, and whiny open letter from an RBS employee?
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
... OK found it but can't be arsed reading it at the moment.
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
it's waaaay too long and whiny for anyone to read.
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/russell-brand-jo-rbs-open-letter.html
― dive inside water and you will know (dog latin), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
English speaking people: want to know what's even worse than having an audible, somewhat understandable Russell Brand in your country? Having Russell Brand as a guest in a non-English speaking country. Apparently this twat has a book out and is doing some sort of EU book tour. First stop: the most watched Dutch late night show. With Russell looking half dead and high on skelp cracking jokes about whatever issue he doesn't know a thing about. Being welcomed as some sort of an hero, solely because said late night show landed a guest that isn't Dutch. So proud, so glad. So fucked.
Good luck w/ "funnily" sticking up for the Dutch alt-right figurehead because you think he looks like you, you absolute twat. The violent communist revolution can't come soon enough. Off to the gulag with this fuck.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 February 2018 22:38 (six years ago) link
Be careful now, you can't be slagging off celebz on ILX, some people get upset :p
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Lol @ calzino trying to joke about other posters being predictable All in fun it’s the internet. also sorry LBI - why were you watching that anyway?
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
yawn btw, el tom.
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
I was trapped in the belly of the capitalist death machine we live in, Tombot; ie I was watching the tube. Should've known better, yes. But it was thrown in my face. Bloody Nora. Russell needs to be shot. We all deserve to be shot tbh. Russell first tho.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 19 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
he's good TV in America but only because our talking heads are so across-the-board pathetic
― trife's rich padgett (rip van wanko), Monday, 19 February 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link