Reply to: Russell Brand

[NickFitz]

RC, I can't agree with you on this one.

Nobody's suggesting that he abused the 999 service. However he abused a public service which, despite its apparent status of being a "Company Limited by Guarantee" is, in practice, funded entirely or almost entirely by the local police authority and local authority in any given area.

This Brand (never was a name so apt) simply wanted to raise some laughs from his audience, and was unable to do so on his own merits. If he is unable to entertain his audience through his own innate wit, then he shouldn't bother trying to recycle Dead Ringers which did silly things like getting Tom Baker to call a minicab firm and ask for a taxi to Gallifrey (Radio 4 original version) - Brand's puerile attempts are purely derivative, and unworthy of notice.

As he has nothing more original to offer than the abuse of a service intended to help people report crime in circumstances where they are too frightened to do so by the normal means (and such places and social contexts exist less than a mile from where I sit typing this) I would suggest that his career (such as it is) has run its course, and he should now be permitted to sink back into the obscurity that he so justly deserves.

[Churchill]

RC, good post.

Personally I don't find the guy funny and know nothing about the incident but good point well put.

[RichardCranium]

Oh, please, people

Stabbit stab stab.

What a tosspot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7508863.stm

Oh come one. You're all intelligent. Read between the lines.

He did NOT phone 999. He did NOT phone the Police.

He phoned Crimestoppers, AKA "the anonymous snitching service". "Crimestoppers Trust is a Company Limited by Guarantee". Not paid for by the taxpayer.

"Northamptonshire officers have not confirmed whether any action would be taken against Brand" - that's because there is none they can take. He has not wasted police time nor committed a crime.

He wasted three minutes of a volunteer's time. That's all. Three minutes.

Now consider the far more high-brow programme on Radio 4: Dead Ringers. They've been making prank calls FOR YEARS and then broadcasting their poor humiliated victims on national radio.

You are all choosing to believe a news story and behaving like Daily Express readers with a knee-jerk reaction, and just because it is Russell Brand and it is fashionable to pick on him.

OK, so you want to show how clever and classy you are by joining the hate club and hating him.

It's not working. Your behaviour reminds me of the tossers that stood outside cinemas with placards when Life of Brian came out: "I don't need to see it to know it is sinful".

[eliquant]

I always remember watching a 'on the road documentary' with Brand where he was following the footsteps of some Gonzo journalist from the 1960s/70s and he came to a notorious druggy area of full of drop outs.

Brand was cautioned by an American community worker for handing out bribe money on camera to many of the homeless junkies there ... and brand just turned round to him and said "what do you know, if she's a crack addict and whether or not drugs are bad for you !"....

I just thought to myself 'this guy is the biggest wanka on planet Earth' ... the shameful product of our British society ... proping up the scum and the filth and elevating them seems to be the in thing these days.

[Bagpuss]

Stabbit stab stab.

What a tosspot.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7508863.stm

Oh yes can't stand that odius moron, second only to Chris Moyles on my talentless celeb shhhitlist

[Diver]

I suspect CFK is a product of the current educashun system.

an aberration

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I 'ad that Jean-Paul Satre in the back of my cab once.

[sasguru]

I think any right-minded citizen is entitled to condemn his abuse of a phone line set up for the purposes of combatting crime simply to massage his own ego before an audience.

Apart from anything else he was wasting taxpayer's money. That isn't usually so popular around here. Are you saying it's OK for a chav to make hoax calls to the fire service if it brings laughter to his chav mates?

I suspect CFK is a product of the current educashun system.

[NickFitz]

Who are you to condemn? He has brought laughter to people, what have you ever done for the world?

I think any right-minded citizen is entitled to condemn his abuse of a phone line set up for the purposes of combatting crime simply to massage his own ego before an audience.

Apart from anything else he was wasting taxpayer's money. That isn't usually so popular around here. Are you saying it's OK for a chav to make hoax calls to the fire service if it brings laughter to his chav mates?

[Xenophon]

Who are you to condemn? He has brought laughter to people, what have you ever done for the world?

He told two herberts not to leave a bin in the middle of the road.

[sasguru]

Who are you to condemn? He has brought laughter to people, what have you ever done for the world?

cretins

[TheBigYinJames]

Who are you to condemn? He has brought laughter to people, what have you ever done for the world?

We laugh at NF all the time

[Charles Foster Kane]

The imbecile has now apologised but, in the true style of the narcissist, his apology is for "offending vulnerable people"... with the implication that if they were as clever and invulnerable as him, they wouldn't have been offended. Typically self-absorbed and unable to accept that he in fact acted like an idiot.

His pomposity is further demonstrated by his statement of "apology":

I maintain that through discourse we can illuminate these dark behaviours but that ought not to be at the expense of people's feelings.

FFS, what a pretentious tosspot - does he think he's Wittgenstein or something

Who are you to condemn? He has brought laughter to people, what have you ever done for the world?

[TimberWolf]

Let's get it all out in the open...


Imannuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach yer 'bout the raising of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed...

John Stuart Mill of his own free will on half-a-pint of shandy was particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whisky every day,
Aristotole, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And René Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am".

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.

This doesn't rhyme but:

In a recent scholium Professors Robert Brumbaugh and Jessica Schwartz argue that the Pythagorean prohibition of beans is best understood as a commonsense injunction aimed at preventing acute hemolytic anemia in individuals with a hereditary deficiency of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in their red blood cells.
http://users.ucom.net/~vegan/beans.htm

(Pythagoras didn't eat beans)

[NickFitz]

Let's get it all out in the open...


Imannuel Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Schopenhauer and Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach yer 'bout the raising of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed...

John Stuart Mill of his own free will on half-a-pint of shandy was particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whisky every day,
Aristotole, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And René Descartes was a drunken fart, "I drink therefore I am".

Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he's pissed.