Wow, this turned into a silly-season story over the last couple of days, didn't it.
I still think they're a pair of horrible cunts for phoning some old guy and leaving a message boasting about fucking his grand-daughter, I guess that'll get obscured in all the fuss now. I guess I'd probably laugh if either of them got worked over by some irate bod or other over this. Like, as long as they didn't get worked over too hard?
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Thursday, 30 October 2008 10:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess that'll get obscured in all the fuss now
otm, this happened about 200 posts ago.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
who else can we complain abt and get rid of? will ofcom do gordon brown too? (joeks bruv)
I wd really like to see if we cd get rid of george lamb tho pls
― coznebb (cozwn), Thursday, 30 October 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
For all RBrand isn't the 'kiss and tell' type, he is the 'kiss and blurt it out when it gets too much' type.
I think everyone's forgetting it was Ross who did the public blurting. ...
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 October 2008 09:57 (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yes, but RBrand presumably mentioned it to JRoss.
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I think "you can get away with threatening to beat up someone who is physically much weaker than you as long as that person has somehow insulted your ex-girlfriend" is just as bad a message to send as "it's OK to prank call people and leave offensive messages on their answerphones as long as you're a highly paid comedian". With the exception of Sachs, everyone involved in this comes out a bit tarnished.
― snoball, Thursday, 30 October 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
And another thing...
Didn't Russell Brand make some "edgy" comments about some Christian pop band at the MTV Awards and then, after a quick word in his ear, apologise for the comment in the same show? The Quick Word being, I imagine, that his career in the US might not go much further if he continued to mock high-earning employees of powerful corporations. But how ballsy and rock 'n' roll of Russell to defy Censorship and The Man for all of, oh, 20 minutes. Of course no such prickly career advancement problems when commenting on some girl he met in a pub in Camden and subsequently shagged.
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, how about getting (George Lamb) to phone a 60's rock/pop star, annoying him to the point of the 60's pop star politely ringing off, and then wishing a death on his ill brother?
Or is it too late to bring this one to the world's attention?
Or is it because he's not famous enough?
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:01 (fifteen years ago) link
link me a youtube of tht and we can all strt filing our complaints
― coznebb (cozwn), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
We've covered it on ILX already!
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, yes, but going "see 'er, I shagged 'er" to your mate over a pint in the pub or whatever is hardly the stuff to cause a national outcry, is it? Especially when said lassie is now telling the press it was an ongoing relationship of over a year.
― ailsa, Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Peter Tatchell coming on all Marge Simpson defending Michaelangelo's David
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:I7JIt9tENEqFCM:http://simpsonspedia.net/images/thumb/5/54/Marvin_Monroe.png/500px-Marvin_Monroe.png
― Local Garda, Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
link
let's do this
― coznebb (cozwn), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
no cozwn, get yourself over to guess the game and tell me if my answer is correct
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ta
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
thread's gone quiet...
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i was busy complaining about george lamb. seriously. come on, ILX, we can do this.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I think I agree with everything in that Tachell article but blimey anyone could have written it, did he get paid for stating the obvious, etc...
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Who are are complaining to OFCOM, or some BBC dept.?
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:29 (fifteen years ago) link
oops misplaced comma.
But you didn't write it and just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's not true.
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Agreed. The world will be a better place if this cunt's career is brought to a swift end and he is returned to the fiery depths of hmv's stockroom from whence he came.
― senator which fanta girl u blap? (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Turns out we may have been beaten to it though:
http://www.teletext.co.uk/planetsound/news/7c26419878bf187dafcbf57c7a6f08a5/Exclusive+Ofcom+on+Lamb.aspx
Well, I wasn't asked.xp
― A country only rich people know (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't believe you actually complained, Cozen, even if you just did it because you thought it was funny. That's insane. And from you of all people!?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
lamb's show got six complaints at the time of broadcast -> 4 more than brand/ross
we are off to a flying start!
― coznebb (cozwn), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
well, it's got one more now. COME ON!
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:35 (fifteen years ago) link
It won't go any further because George Lamb is not a Well-Known High Earning Celebrity and so for the tabloids it's not a Good Story.
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd settle for causing him mild irritation for a couple of days.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"We have received six complaints, and are looking at what action - if any - will be taken."
haha such a cocky remark from ofcom.
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I complained to the BBC. About them taking Ross's Friday night show off the air.
Marcello pretty much otm through the entire thread. If the BBC had people like Hugh Greene and Huw Weldon in charge who'd be prepared to stand up to bullying by the rightwing press then it would have been defused days ago instead of dragging on and on.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:56 (fifteen years ago) link
i looked up Press Complaints Commission's list of what you can complain to them about but apparently they don't deal with 'offensiveness'.
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
If the BBC had people like Hugh Greene and Huw Weldon in charge
... then i very much doubt russell brand would have a radio show anyway. and jonathan ross would probably have been put out to pasture some time ago.
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
And as for George Lamb...
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
they would kill Lamb mercilessly. it would be quite a vicious execution of Lamb. he would be very much like a lamb being put to death.
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
... *drifts off into blissful reverie*
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:09 (fifteen years ago) link
What is it with all these Cockney Wankers anyway?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
... then i very much doubt russell brand John Peel would have a radio show anyway. and jonathan rossDavid Frost, Peter Cook, Dennis Potter, Ken Loach and Alf Garnett would probably have been put out to pasture some time ago.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Bollocks
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
you never get cockney continuity announcers
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Jonathan Ross, Scourge of the Establishment, aye right
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
No, without support from Weldon and Greene those talents wouldn't have been allowed to blossom on the BBC in the way that they did.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't think of Huw Wheldon without thinking of John Bluthal impersonating him on Milligan's Q series: "Good evening and, um, OBE"...
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
"Good evening and expenses" surely?
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
The operative word here being TALENT
― Ich Ber ein Binliner (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
see, there's the rub: i do think RB and JR are talented. but you wouldn't know it, judging by their recent output.
george lamb, though: hmm. (i should add that i was drifting into a reverie upthread thinking about a world in which he didn't have a radio show; subjecting him to a brutal death is a bit much.)
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Let's remember the real victims here.
― cold and super-rational with anger (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Even Greene, though, had to stop TW3 after undue, tabloid-bolstered political pressure and the Whitehouse demon aided his premature retirement.
― Doreen, Dorset (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Brand was sacked from MTV after arriving at work dressed as Osama Bin Laden, on 12 September 2001
lol forgot about this
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
that's unfair dismissal based on religious grounds
― Fake Tuomas (ken c), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:31 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck me, i think i'd rather my share of the licence fee went to jonathan ross than on this kind of jism
― remorseful prober (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 30 October 2008 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link