oh you
― But doctor, I am Camille Paglia (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:18 (six years ago) link
ogmor otm
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:22 (six years ago) link
I didn't know Russell speaks big words fast = Joycean, but it's just another day on ilxor dot com.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, February 14, 2018 5:30 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I was saying that Dag’s post was Joycean, in its phrasing, because. The typos seemed like neologisms. “slapped with good vocabular momentum.”
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
I’m going to make Genius annotation pages for each of my posts from now on.
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:29 (six years ago) link
He's completely fallen off my radar since the Miliband era tbh, now we've got Corbyn after all, so maybe he's really great now ...
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:31 (six years ago) link
i dunno he seems to be posing approvingly with an actual fascist dick upthread so maybe not
― "oh no my cheds" man had dark to black packet (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:32 (six years ago) link
'slapped' was a typo but 'good vocabular momentum' was excellent
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
agenbrand of inwit
― I'm walking on Sondheim (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:35 (six years ago) link
darragh can turn a phrase
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
ogmor makes a good case for Brand - its hard not to feel cynical about his motives at the same time though
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:43 (six years ago) link
my feelings on Brand kind of vacillate wildly but I'm not against him going tete-a-tete with a walking alt-right meme so long as he bodies him
that C4 interview with Peterson was an absolute disaster on account of the dreadful interviewer who wasn't interested in calmly picking off the giant holes in Peterson's arguments. how many times: show, don't tell
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
Whoever commissioned that interview should be shot.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
yep. C4 knew what it was doing and knew what would happen
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
Whatever you think of Brand's "don't vote" position surely it's hard to take seriously when after one interview with Miliband he decided "oh no actually vote labour" after the deadline to register had already expired?
Like I understand that there's something to learning and growing in public but that was just taking the piss.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
Brand appeared with Ed before the election despite saying don't vote. I just wouldn't trust a thing he says. Xps Too erratic.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
Who could we trust to interview Jordan Peterson in this damned country? Paul Mason? No. Marina Hyde? Yeah maybe, but she doesn't really do TV work
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
Maybe that Chakrabortty dude
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
Are there any homegrown comedians that UK ilxors can stand
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Or maybe interviewing him in the first place is a lose-lose game, as SV has said before
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
We only like Stewart Lee and there's a guy called Kitson too but none of his stuff's online. Everyone else is awful (or something)
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:07 (six years ago) link
Does he even have a cult here? It's one thing to confront someone who's already popular, another to introduce new opponents to yr audience.
xpost imago otm afaict. As an immigrant I can never summon the hatred that only true Brits can feel for pretty much all of their celebrities but I will say seeing all these ppl appear on panel shows constantly and have their own dumb history shows on BBC4 has made me understand that rage a bit more
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:10 (six years ago) link
I like Sean Lock but I'm not a Brit
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
that Gary Younge guy made pretty short work of Spencer.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
yeah because he actually examined what he said and showed it up for being bullshit - rather than most interviewers who encounter him by going OH NO YOU DIDNT
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
If you lived here you'd be the same. Does Russell Brand still consider himself a comedian?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
Love how Mordy looked into worker run enterprises and inferred a whole little dystopia out of it. Are you writing this shit up as a novel Mordy where can I buy it?Wtf are you talking about I said I didn’t think it could be a model for running an entire country where in your fevered idiot brain did that become a dystopia?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
Guess I shouldn’t expect more from a tankie.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
Tom D, it wasn’t a judgement. I’m sure I would be, or at least if I was native. I do think there’s something cultural to the general dislike of people who think they’re funny, that we aren’t brought up with over here. I’m not sure who counts as a comedian these days. There are plenty of people who are generally famous for and make living by joking and clowning but don’t do stand up or act much.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
I do think there’s something cultural to the general dislike of people who think they’re funny, that we aren’t brought up with over here.
Maybe you have funnier comedians.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
i think they do
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
Maria Bamford and Gregg Turkington alone push them over the UK
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:31 (six years ago) link
None of the "big laughers" who risk serious hilarity induced self-harm by attending the Edinburgh Festival on ILX?
― calzino, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
Comedians of a certain age (as most cultural journos) of a certain age have the usual garbage politics
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
Yeah practically none of them think Stalin was a pretty cool bro.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link
Calm down Mordy, lock yourself up in your room. Stay safe.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
I don't think this is a comedian thing, really, Brit ILX opinions on British actors, directors, "cultural commentators" equally hostile. Not saying they're wrong mind.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
Joanna Hogg is s good Brit director. ILX generally likes her.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
I think it's the excess of ghastly comedy panel shows which really puts ILXors off British comedians, especially when they seem happy to share a laugh and a joke w/ despicable pols like Boris Johnson or Ruth Davidson - I'm right in thinking that these shows don't really exist in America?
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
Loads of good ILX-approved Brit directors
― imago, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
(xp) OTM, and these shitty, cheap to produce, panel shows need more and more of these talentless cunts to keep going.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:33 (six years ago) link
― treeship 2, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:40 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
If I'd only Russell's (any Russell's) looks
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
tbh I have it when good ilxors fight about stuff as meaningless as leftist politics
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
http://www.motivatorcoach.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bertrand-russell.jpg
― I'm walking on Sondheim (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
ws russell morelike
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
Jack Russell you mean.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link
Rosalind Russell
― I'm walking on Sondheim (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 15:24 (six years ago) link
As alluded to above, multiple pics here:
I can't even handle this, Jordan Peterson got upset by Zizek's recent article about him so he's trying to pick a fight with a Zizek quotes account pic.twitter.com/ul8e45d3fi— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) February 14, 2018
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
that is amazing
is it gauche to say that i know haider IRL? i have always though of him as a smart guy and good musician and he hooked me up with some crossword books one time; i find it totally delightful that he's becoming this big of an internet voice.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
*so* gauche, strewth
― ogmor, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:21 (six years ago) link
He got targeted for some twitter bullshit a couple days ago, too
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link