Remember that time he said that Rebecca Adlington looked like the reflection of somebody's face in the back of a spoon
and she subsequently spoke about the online bullying she'd received the whole time she was competing? Haha, a woman's appearance!
(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Tue 2 May 2023, 12:25, archived)

He and Gervais have an extremely lazy schtick, which is to whip an audience of middle-class liberals into a howling frenzy
by picking on the easiest, least risky targets possible: Tory voters, Daily Mail readers, bankers, blah blah blah - but they also have the playground bully's instinct for being really fucking nasty. The pair of them need binning.

Stuart Lee has a schtick too, but at least he occasionally challenges his audience and makes them think about their own prejudices, rather than just pandering to them.
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Tue 2 May 2023, 13:51, archived)

At least Boyle has been funny on occasion. A lot more so than Gervais, at least.
I can never shake the very strong impression that if you met either of them in real life, they'd be deeply unpleasant and more than a little creepy in person. See also: Russell Brand.
(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Tue 2 May 2023, 14:49, archived)

He's gone full right-wing conspiracunt these last few years, hasn't he?

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Tue 2 May 2023, 15:22, archived)

So I believe.
Colour me unsurprised.
(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Tue 2 May 2023, 15:24, archived)

"Don't bother to vote, all parties are the same" bore to Corbyn supporter to Tesco-value Alex Jones.
Who saw that coming, eh?
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Tue 2 May 2023, 16:00, archived)

Katy Perry, apparently.
She certainly got out of that marriage in enough time.
(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Tue 2 May 2023, 16:04, archived)

Good for her.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Tue 2 May 2023, 16:38, archived)

Until I blocked the channel I kept being recommended videos of his.
They all had titles like "They lied to us" and "You won't believe this TRUTH".
www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/u309hi/russell_brand_revises_his_click_bait_video_titles/
( Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 2 May 2023, 15:36, archived)

"No one can tell me what to think" somehow morphing into "I should think this instead", see also Kanye West

( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 2 May 2023, 15:36, archived)

Many years back, I read a thing he wrote about how to treat addicts.
I couldn't stand him then either, but I was genuinely interested in his take on it since he'd had well-documented addiction issues.

It was indeed enlightening to read how he tackled them, but what was also striking was that his relentless narcissism meant he was totally unable to conceive of how anyone else's life, personality and circumstances could possibly differ from his. In short, his solution to addiction problems was: be me, and do what I did.
(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Tue 2 May 2023, 16:03, archived)

My Curee Wuree

( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 2 May 2023, 16:07, archived)

Or alternatively don't, if that's how you'll turn out.

( Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 2 May 2023, 16:16, archived)

With hindsight, we'd all have been better off if he'd accidentally OD'd in 2001

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Tue 2 May 2023, 17:54, archived)

Or if HAL had deactivated his life support, obvs

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Tue 2 May 2023, 17:55, archived)

Not for the first time, I find myself wondering how many hundreds if not thousands of innocent people would still be alive if Trump or Boris or both had died of COVID.
r/trolleyproblem
( Turtle Power & Knuckles, Tue 2 May 2023, 18:59, archived)