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Post by Moose on Nov 6, 2014 19:45:13 GMT
I am starting to find this guy seriously annoying - there's something very irksome about seeing a multi millionaie rampaging through London with a gang of Anonymous figures protesting against capitalism. I can't work out if his rhetoric about revolution is meant to be taken seriously or not but he seems in serious danger of disappearing up his own backside
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Post by JoeP on Nov 6, 2014 21:32:52 GMT
May I just say how much I appreciate you sharing your thoughts here and not just on Facebook.
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Post by JoeP on Nov 6, 2014 21:33:15 GMT
He is pretty annoying, too.
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Post by tangent on Nov 6, 2014 21:33:47 GMT
I don't watch him because nothing he says makes sense to me. It's not that I disagree with him, I can't make head or tail of what his individual sentences mean so I can't assimilate what he's saying, as though he's speaking a foreign language.
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Post by Moose on Nov 6, 2014 21:43:12 GMT
I don't think that they mean anything much. I read some extracts from his book. I knew the individual words but strung together they meant nothing at all.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Nov 7, 2014 0:32:09 GMT
I strongly suspect that Mr Brand's desire for publicity ( any publicity ) exceeds all other considerations in his life.
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Post by Moose on Nov 7, 2014 1:27:33 GMT
Yeah I think that it may well be a big windup. In which case - shame on him
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Post by tangent on Nov 7, 2014 10:58:11 GMT
That's the conclusion I've come to.
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Post by Moose on Nov 7, 2014 18:12:02 GMT
Wind ups can have pretty unpleasant and unforeseen consequences
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 7, 2014 22:56:37 GMT
I don't hear much about him anymore, sometimes he makes an appearance on someones's facebook page but otherwise he is non news here. There are definite benefits to being in Oz. We just don't care so much about what happens in Europe.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 7, 2014 22:57:00 GMT
On the other hand, I do have to put up with news about Jackie Lamby and Tony Abbott all the time.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 11, 2014 0:38:52 GMT
Whoever they are!
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Post by Carly on Nov 11, 2014 5:22:56 GMT
Who is this person? He needs to come over here and liven things up a little.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 11, 2014 10:23:00 GMT
Carly, he did! I remember seeing him wreak havoc on one of your tv shows.
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Post by tangent on Nov 11, 2014 11:58:41 GMT
Didn't he make an appearance on Fox News? Seems about the right TV company for him.
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Post by Carly on Nov 11, 2014 13:30:37 GMT
I don't watch Fox. :-) And the name is familiar and associated with some hubbub, I recall.
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Post by Moose on Nov 11, 2014 20:57:03 GMT
I dunno why you think that Brand and Fox News would go together . They certainly would not. Yeah he did something on US TV but I forget what
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Post by kingedmund on Nov 11, 2014 21:13:35 GMT
I do t keep track of any of it. News especially.
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Post by tangent on Nov 11, 2014 23:40:09 GMT
I dunno why you think that Brand and Fox News would go together . They certainly would not. Yeah he did something on US TV but I forget what I was being flippant.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 12, 2014 9:32:40 GMT
He did actually make the news here...think it was yesterday. On the radio they were talking about him because they were chatting to some guy who'd made a bit of a funny, spoof song using something Brand had said which apparently pissed him (Brand) off a bit.
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Post by Carly on Nov 12, 2014 13:21:38 GMT
So this is some entitled jerk, then? Someone who thinks money buys him something to say?
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Post by kingedmund on Nov 12, 2014 15:13:22 GMT
Interesting.
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Post by juju on Nov 12, 2014 18:50:47 GMT
Russell Brand didn't come from money. He had a difficult childhood as the son of a single parent with cancer. He suffered bulimia when he was a teenager and got unto drugs. He's had a remarkable career, considering.
I don't agree with everything he says but I admire him speaking out about issues he feels passionately about. If he makes people question the status quo, that's a good thing.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Nov 13, 2014 9:56:57 GMT
He talks about wanting to make people think, he doesn't like phoneys and that seemed to annoy him in the US - the hosts of the TV show didn't know what to do with someone who started asking them questions. I rather enjoyed watching that one. I think this is the one youtu.be/s2eDj39q0Fo - on the MSNBC morning show. I can't watch it all to confirm as I'm listening to something else right now.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 13, 2014 18:41:43 GMT
You can't teach people to think by just doing what you say!
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Post by Moose on Nov 16, 2014 19:58:44 GMT
He's not entitled, no. But he's way off on this one I think. Telling people NOT to vote is stupid and misguided.
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Post by Carly on Nov 16, 2014 20:23:44 GMT
I agree. Opting out of the system is stupid. Trying to change it from the inside and the outside is smart.
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Post by Moose on Nov 16, 2014 21:57:40 GMT
Yup. He's just enabling a bunch of nasties like UKIP
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Nov 17, 2014 19:02:35 GMT
Sadly I don't think that Russell Brand is in the "making sense" business. He just spouts the most nonsensical and childish blather in the knowledge that it will gain publicity. His worst fear is the day he gets no publicity at all.
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Post by Moose on Nov 17, 2014 21:53:50 GMT
It is dangerous nonsense though. I would be pissed off to think that any young people might actually be listening and not voting because of him
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