My thing of the day is the crazy USD to EURO exchange rate at the moment. As I get paid in USD into my EURO bank account, I got about €400 more from my last gig than I expected. Which is cool.
Just going to roll the dice here, he's going to say the opposite of what everyone thinks, and then justify it with ten minutes of pretentious, pseudo-intellectual waffling that means absolutely nothing under examination, because he's talking out of his arse more than Ace Ventura.
Just going to roll the dice here, he's going to say the opposite of what everyone thinks, and then justify it with ten minutes of pretentious, pseudo-intellectual waffling that means absolutely nothing under examination, because he's talking out of his arse more than Ace Ventura.
What do you mean a multi millionaire who has lived nothing but a hedonistic life style can't relate to people. I mean Katey Perry is exactly the same as our Sharon from down the road. Its like he doesn't even have a grip on reality any more. What with telling us banks and taxes are bad, except when they let him make loads of tax free money. Then thats ok. Oh and who ever gave him my first thesaurus needs to be flensed.
Now, that's a bit much. He wasn't quite as poor as he likes to make out(Mostly when accused of being out of touch with those in poverty, with being a multimillionaire) but it's not like he was born into wealth, he grew up in a pretty middle-class environment in Essex, and the hedonistic(or rather, self-destructive) lifestyle only came in his teens, when he left to go to school in London on a scholarship. Which he lost because he was taking a shitload of drugs and bringing girls back to the dorm on a regular basis, so start as you mean to go on, I suppose. Still, it's not like he's a private school rich kid. Just a dickhead.
That said, it's still real easy to talk big about poverty, when you're tapping away on an expensive laptop on your mansion's main bedroom, with 15 million pounds in the bank.
Its like he doesn't even have a grip on reality any more. What with telling us banks and taxes are bad, except when they let him make loads of tax free money.
Yes, for someone so fond of talking about how the rich don't pay their taxes, he hardly sets a leading example.
Speaking of being out of touch with reality, let's not forget we're talking about someone who literally thinks that he's putting himself in danger by spouting all of this crap. He genuinely thinks that the government(Or someone, at least - this is a man who thinks David Icke has ideas worth seriously discussing) is going to take him away for his fiery, word-a-day calendar styled but generally milquetoast political philosophies and generally wrong ideas about how the world works. Sorry, Russ, the government isn't going to do a black-bag job on some rich comedian who, to paraphrase Frenzal Rhomb, is desperately trying to fuck the system when he just can't get it up.
Basically, if Brand hadn't become famous, he'd be that bloke down the local magistrate's court shouting about how he's Russel of the Family Brand, that you can't charge him with tax evasion because this isn't a court of admiralty law, and asking the Bailiff if he's being detained.
Oh and who ever gave him my first thesaurus needs to be flensed.
Flensed, that's a good word. Bloody horrific practice, but a good word.
Middle class Essex is pretty safe all things considered, hell you only need to see shows like "The only way is Essex" to get an idea of what things are like over there. He is the epitome of middle class dick bags in the UK. That was the biggest rub. He was on a show talking about herroin addicts and far from trying to help people he milked them for ratings. It was pretty disgusting seeing someone who supposedly knew what it was like and doing nothing to help them.
If he wasn't famous he'd be in a caravan commune dodging tax and trying to create his own state. He feeds of this idea that he is some sort of revolutionary, this Che Guevara character that is fighting the good fight against the man. In reality he's some nob that should have stayed making jobs and nobbing people.
Flense is the best of words its up in the top three of gruesome threats. Along with fillet and debone.
If he wasn't famous he'd be in a caravan commune dodging tax and trying to create his own state. He feeds of this idea that he is some sort of revolutionary, this Che Guevara character that is fighting the good fight against the man. In reality he's some nob that should have stayed making jobs and nobbing people.
Russell Brand has always been frank about his own narcissism, personal history and background. Celebrity culture is full of narcissism and promoting consumerism etc. etc. He's made a point to use his fame to challenge the status quo.
His core argument is shrouded with his verbosity and sense of spirituality. It's not difficult to understand the core points that he makes, whether you agree with them or not, people just not seem to like listening to him regardless.
My point is, he's making a point. Also, he makes me laugh.
There was a parody in Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe of exactly this.
edit: I think he's expressed that he's pro tax. In multiple videos
Russell Brand has always been frank about his own narcissism, personal history and background. Celebrity culture is full of narcissism and promoting consumerism etc. etc. He's made a point to use his fame to challenge the status quo.
Being honest about being an irredeemable fuckwit doesn't mean he's not an irredeemable fuckwit. And he's not challenging the status quo, he's basically just spouting bland, rote left-wing political thought that's been boiled slowly with a thesaurus in the pot for flavor, while wrapping himself in the usual conspiracy theorist comfort blanket - Yes, I AM important! They MUST be coming for me to shut me up, because I'm so important, and the complete and total order of the world means that I must be disrupting things! There's no way the world could be as confused, chaotic and random as it seems!
His core argument is shrouded with his verbosity and sense of spirituality. It's not difficult to understand the core points that he makes, whether you agree with them or not, people just not seem to like listening to him regardless.
To quote part of Robert Webb's response to his anti-voting screed: "You’re a wonderful talker but on the page you sometimes let your style get ahead of what you actually think... Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of “thinker”, with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won’t really do."
His core points, on the occasion they can be found, are not hard to understand, it's true. It's just that they're easy to understand because it's basically the 101 class of left-wing political thought, buried under a mountain of bullshit. And that's on the occasions where his core point isn't tainted by his own stupidity and lack of understanding, becoming bullshit itself. In reality, he's little more than a crass, shallow hypocrite, albeit one who has the gift of the gab.
edit: I think he's expressed that he's pro tax. In multiple videos
Oh, I know, he's very pro-tax. Quite vocally so. It's just that he's not very good at, say, paying those taxes he keeps saying that all the rich people should pay. HM's Revenue and Customs has been after him for quite some time about it, in fact - which he views as being persecuted by the government for speaking out against them. Rather than the just reward of being a tax-dodging asshole.
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That said, it's still real easy to talk big about poverty, when you're tapping away on an expensive laptop on your mansion's main bedroom, with 15 million pounds in the bank. Yes, for someone so fond of talking about how the rich don't pay their taxes, he hardly sets a leading example.
Speaking of being out of touch with reality, let's not forget we're talking about someone who literally thinks that he's putting himself in danger by spouting all of this crap. He genuinely thinks that the government(Or someone, at least - this is a man who thinks David Icke has ideas worth seriously discussing) is going to take him away for his fiery, word-a-day calendar styled but generally milquetoast political philosophies and generally wrong ideas about how the world works. Sorry, Russ, the government isn't going to do a black-bag job on some rich comedian who, to paraphrase Frenzal Rhomb, is desperately trying to fuck the system when he just can't get it up.
Basically, if Brand hadn't become famous, he'd be that bloke down the local magistrate's court shouting about how he's Russel of the Family Brand, that you can't charge him with tax evasion because this isn't a court of admiralty law, and asking the Bailiff if he's being detained. Flensed, that's a good word. Bloody horrific practice, but a good word.
If he wasn't famous he'd be in a caravan commune dodging tax and trying to create his own state. He feeds of this idea that he is some sort of revolutionary, this Che Guevara character that is fighting the good fight against the man. In reality he's some nob that should have stayed making jobs and nobbing people.
Flense is the best of words its up in the top three of gruesome threats. Along with fillet and debone.
His core argument is shrouded with his verbosity and sense of spirituality. It's not difficult to understand the core points that he makes, whether you agree with them or not, people just not seem to like listening to him regardless.
My point is, he's making a point. Also, he makes me laugh.
There was a parody in Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe of exactly this.
edit: I think he's expressed that he's pro tax. In multiple videos
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Being honest about being an irredeemable fuckwit doesn't mean he's not an irredeemable fuckwit. And he's not challenging the status quo, he's basically just spouting bland, rote left-wing political thought that's been boiled slowly with a thesaurus in the pot for flavor, while wrapping himself in the usual conspiracy theorist comfort blanket - Yes, I AM important! They MUST be coming for me to shut me up, because I'm so important, and the complete and total order of the world means that I must be disrupting things! There's no way the world could be as confused, chaotic and random as it seems! To quote part of Robert Webb's response to his anti-voting screed: "You’re a wonderful talker but on the page you sometimes let your style get ahead of what you actually think... Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of “thinker”, with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won’t really do."
His core points, on the occasion they can be found, are not hard to understand, it's true. It's just that they're easy to understand because it's basically the 101 class of left-wing political thought, buried under a mountain of bullshit. And that's on the occasions where his core point isn't tainted by his own stupidity and lack of understanding, becoming bullshit itself. In reality, he's little more than a crass, shallow hypocrite, albeit one who has the gift of the gab. Oh, I know, he's very pro-tax. Quite vocally so. It's just that he's not very good at, say, paying those taxes he keeps saying that all the rich people should pay. HM's Revenue and Customs has been after him for quite some time about it, in fact - which he views as being persecuted by the government for speaking out against them. Rather than the just reward of being a tax-dodging asshole.
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