my Ha'penth worth
I’m a bit torn by this, as I actually like both Ross and Brand, (Brand’s technique and skill as a stand up is of an unbelievable quality, even if his material doesn’t always match his ability).

What pisses me off is that the BBC took so long to do anything. They’ve caved to the howling press and the herd of people who complained based just on what they had read (which, admittedly, didn’t seem very funny in writing).
Now, I’m not saying they should have gone and dug out the podcast and listened to it, cos I can understand why they wouldn’t want to boost its audience. But that leaves them talking about something about which they know nothing.

So, you know what they should have done? Shut the fuck up as they didn’t have the full picture.

No one comes out of this well in the end, not even Sachs & co. (Isn’t that a shop?).

The BBC shouldn’t have let a pre-recorded segment air if they weren’t happy with it. Once they had, they should have either acted immediately or stood by their presenters. This is a half assed cave in.

Ross & Brand come across as puerile (no surprises there, really) and childish but ultimately, potentially offensive but harmless idiots.

Sachs has been nothing but a bag of mixed messages – ‘I want them sacked’ ‘I accept their apology’ and having Clifford involved just tells you that him or his granddaughter (or both) are loving this excuse to extend their careers/raise their profile.

And, Gordon Fucking Brown, what the fuck he is weighing in for is beyond me, don’t you think he might, just might, have more important things to do with his time at the moment, like, I don’t know…THE COLLAPSE OF THE CAPITALIST ECONOMIC SYSTEM?

And I can’t believe I wasted that much time on this. It’s a non event that’s been blown up into something far beyond any of it merits.

Fuck ‘em all.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:50, Reply)