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# I don't give a damn what he's said about women's sexual appetite.
What worries me the most is how fickle his 'supporters' are. During the Jan Moir incident he was practically called a God, he could do NO wrong! Then he makes a public faux pas and shoves his foot in his mouth on a subject that he has no real authority about and then suddenly the homophobic and mental illness comments come gushing out from people who previous only gushed over his every wonderful word.

As for me I can take him or leave him, he was good in Black Adder and such but I never glorified him as a celebrity god who could do no wrong!

So all this proves is he's very human, just like all of us.

Let him be!
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 9:54, archived)
# Take him or leave him...exactly right
He's a chronic flip-flopper and it's not just shades of opinion. He was all over the shop a few years ago doing an hilarious
opinion pastiche about a 'portable data storage technology for information that is lightweight, durable, you can read it
in the bath - it's a book" Geddit! and computer technology will never replace it.

Then he fell in love with Jonathan Ives' pretty computers and it was all different.

Let's not forget he is a certified fraud and menatlist too: not a very reliable authority on anything, despite an eye-wateringly expensive education.

(Mind Forged Manacles Me nice to society, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:07, archived)
# "a certified fraud and menatlist "
sorry but I find those comments more offensive than anything Stephen Fry has ever said, or reportedly said.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:15, archived)
# I'm not sure what a menatlist is
maybe he means mentalist like the psychic tv show person?
The fraud thing is accurate though, or close enough, credit card theft
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:27, archived)
# Really? I wasn't aware he had done that.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:29, archived)
# he went to prison for 3 months or so in the 70s
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:33, archived)
# I'd say there's a difference between
being a fraudster and being a fraud

AT least that was the inference I got from the comment.
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:36, archived)
# I suspect it's probably also fair(ish) comment to describe that episode
when he had a breakdown, disappeared mid-run from that play he was doing and high-tailed it to Belgium as a bit "mental"

insensitive, perhaps, but not inaccurate
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:38, archived)
#
"At 17, after leaving Norfolk College of Arts and Technology, Fry absconded with a credit card stolen from a family friend, was arrested in Swindon, and as a result spent three months in Pucklechurch Prison on remand."
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:38, archived)
# surely Pucklechurch Prison is in Trumpton
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:51, archived)
# He'd probably get off with a fine nowadays
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:52, archived)
# or 3 book deal
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 2 Nov 2010, 10:54, archived)