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Russell Brand... your thoughts?

Perkins : Reborn said:
If you put Bear Grylls and Ray Mears on an island together in a survival situation, only Ray is coming out alive.
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Yeh proper outdoors man
Loved that episode where he dug a pit like the Polynesians do and cooked a leg of venison ,man I bet that's the best way to cook large pieces of meat
Sorry for all the vegetations on the forum
 
'Gone for a Burton' is one of those odd phrases in that both source and meaning are both uncertain.

WW2 RAF parlence for 'ending up in the drink' WOULD fit the sort of fit the fatalism common at the time but it's also been suggested that Burton was the one of the first pilots who went MIA over water and that double meaning would make it more memorable. Burton's ale was popular so would also fit the reason why it referred to 'going into the drink'.

But I admit, I've NEVER heard a donkey use that phrase.

Now if that first RAF officer named Burton who went MIA over water WAS a donkey, that would neatly fit neatly.

If he was flying a donkey when he went MIA, that would be an amazing coincidence. You may laugh but the Soviet Polikarpov I-16 fighter was nicknamed 'donkey' although I grant you an RAF pilot who was a donkey MIA in an aircraft nicknamed 'donkey' sounds a bit unlikely to me, if I'm honest.

A phrase remembered 80+ years on referring to a donkey flying a donkey going MIA is niche to say the least.
 
Sorry for the OT.

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Russell Brand lands ‘headliner' billing at New York conference amid criminal case

Russell Brand is set to appear at a private conference on New York's Shelter Island next week as the comedian faces seven sexual offence charges involving six women in the UK. The stand-up, 51, has be...
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It was a round-table discussions (£1 that he demanded to stand on a pulpit in the middle). But trying to nail down who the 100 hand-picked guests were revealed a huge number of 'representitive of...' Not OFFICAL representitive. See the semantic difference? If it all went horribly wrong the various institutions would have plausable deniability with senior staff claiming they had no idea an employee of their institution would be present.

This reminds me a lot of when RB hosted the quarter-finals of a US boxing-league I had never heard of. There will always be minor public roles where someone on the way down can still get paid a few $ for just being a 'name', what they say and do being immaterial. The name is just so the story ends up in the news.

Readers may be pleased to know that the bloke who played saxaphone on not one but TWO Pink Floyd albums in the late 1980s was also present! Does that get us all on the same page as regards to which list we are now talking about now?

Lovely detail that now a lot of news outlets mention the story, mention the charges against him and at the bottom of the page add the footer 'If you or someone you know has been the victim of sexual violence...'

To be clear, I think it's horrible that 'the process is the punishment' has now become a way to avoid the need to prove a case beyond reasonable doubt BUT even after winding down his UK based legal entities and paying of his debts, this is still someone with a net worth of $15-$20 million. You cut your coat according to your cloth and this person isn't exactly short on cloth.

With all due respect to Samual Johnson, while in 1776 he noted 'patritosim is the last refuge of the soundral' was on the nail.

I may suggest 'Hosting, scripting, recording and editing your own show on Rumble Monday-Friday each week IS the last refuge of the scum'.

I couldn't quite bring myself to watch one (I've eaten today) but I note that after a few peaks and troughs, each one gets 35000-45000 views (a few are more, a few are less) which I am informed pays $2-$20/thousand views i.e. $70-$350 (depending on who is prepared to allow their ads to bookend a show). I can only presume he sells his own tat as even 1 producer/editor will charge that much per episode so the show itself likely doesn't make him any money.

But I have clan who were journalists so I know that control-rooms have kill switches, a dump-delay and ALWAYS have safety-reel (a pre-recorded section to cut to). In essence it's presented as a fair interview but guests are cafefully selected and in this on-demand era where everyone goes on everyone else's podcasts, being nasty to each other is a zero-sum game.
 
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His conversations may not have much mercy on the king's english so far as conventional pronounciation is concerned but it shows an aquaintance with terms of many syllables and of imposing sound.
 
The gift of the 'heroin' gab... met so many addicts like that over the years.

The idea of rock stars sleeping with teenagers does not phase me, it was expected of them for a least half a century.
 
Chaurus said:
The gift of the 'heroin' gab... met so many addicts like that over the years.
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Yep - not once has he EVER accepted fault for anything whatsoever. Drug addiction is a reason, not an excuse. Sex addiction is a reason, not an excuse. Anyone who has been through rehab will tell you that you have to admit that you f*cked up to then be able to go on to say you will go on to be better.

So user or not, he still exhibits classic addict behaviors.

I'm convinced that in his own head he is able to justify everything he does. The fact that he's 'born again' while at the same time selling 'magic amulets' tells you all you need to know.

There is a lovely line in a radio play written by Robert Barr in which a criminal points out that 'case law is like the bible. You can always find something to prove your point'.
 


Wow.

I'm not an expert on such things but clearly a rented chauffeur-driven vehicle (that 'brand new car' luster is the give-away) and just look at the single man 'close security detail'! Not a group of totally unmemorable people in well tailorered suits but crucially cut so PDWs may be concealed, but ONE geezer in a tight leather jacket and what I suspect is a dead rat on his head.

I would love someone to ID that geezer as one he's totally at odds with the image Brand was attempting to radiate but he clearly has no experience. One is not a detail and the only way one can work is if that officer has a ranged weapons (gun).

So in essence Brand made himself LOOK like a criminal who is trying but failing to appear a professional of some sort.

I bet anyone who will take it £1 that the security geezer is an ex-boxer or something of that ilk. He certainly isn't a licenced SIA member as they are legally required to wear ID.

Apparently the 'rat pack' of journalists who end up filming Brand's frequent court appearences are still puzzling out who the guy is.

Any ideas?

FYI he doesn't turn up in the USA so he is likely British. Hope it's not a BLer ;-)
 
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Update - the bouncer IS an ex-boxer! Specifically a 'friend' of Tyson Fury (ex boxer) and so is almost certainly part of Britian's traveller community.

In retrospect, people who grew up in or entered that community would have good reason not to be photographed. Close ups of the guys neck tattoos are clearly a 'cover up'.
 


Russell brand clumsily getting out the back of a hired Mercades people-carrier; eventually. Only two people in the back yet he used a people-carrier?

Having hired a LOT of vehicles in my time, I know when someone has been offered 'a cheap deal' when I see it.

Same one-man security detail who is clearly an idiot as he repeatedly leans into the vehicle to ask Brand exactly what to do for NINTY SECONDS thus NOT looking for potential attack vectors. While the rat on his head has got a bit fatter, I think it telling that he's wearing that same tight (and very tasteless) faux-leather jacket. You know the one.

Then we clearly see there are six uniformed police officers and a couple of security guard of the court, so it's self-evident that faux-rathead is just a motley.

I asked someone about RBs 'burn rate' i.e. how much money he's chucking about to APPEAR the success he isn't. Shades of the Tates, methinks. It seems he goes to great lengths to avoid his name being on bills but the bloke with the rodent on his bonce likely hired the vehicles (for example) and he's employed by someone else so on paper the known outgoings are all to shell companies.

But the burn-rate is clearly hurting.

When he turned up hosting the semi-final of some obscure US boxing league, that tells us he will do anything that pays... as long as his viewers don't get to learn of it.

I tell you what, how quickly things change. A 2023 article in The Guardian claimed he had 500,000 viewers on his Monday to Friday one hour 'Aren't I great' Rumble channel but as I noted after checking, they only get 35,000-45,000 views in total, not the 500,000 of two plus years ago.

It's wisdom taught to me by my grandparents that you cut your clothing to your cloth. But Brand if anything is going the other way.

To me, this all smells of desperation.

He doesn't need any security as the only people who turn up to his court appearences are the press, apart from that one bloke on the other side of the street who clearly just stopped to see what was occuring. Everyone else is seen just walking past totally disintereted. But he feels the need to project the sense that he IS in physical danger BUT it's sad because he clearly cannot afford a professional security detail so it all ends up looking EXACTLY like a disgraced ex-TV personality who thinks if he just stays calm and looks hard, the jury will take a gander and remark how nobody that much like a rapist could possibly BE a rapist.

With my home-made psychiatrist's hat on, it demonstrates that Brand is a narcissist and a psychopath. He feels the constant need to project an image BUT he doesn't have the intelligence to understand basic things like the permanence of objects. I bet he thinks nobody has noticed what a sad display he in fact makes of himself because he THINKS he's more intelligant than EVERYONE else.

Any competent KC would tell him NOT to look in any way threatening. Things like smiling and waving so people see him as a normal person who by pure bad luck to have been targetted by someone who must have a personal grievence. Not to look like an East End villian who knows they are on their way to a long stretch in chokey. But that's a narccicist for you. They need to feel superior.

He's going down.

I'm going to guess 10-12 because like the rest of us, I don't have access to all of the evidence but this wasn't a one-off. The police advised the CPS to focus on the charges between 1999-2009 in spite of futher claims made in 2013. Now when a police force essentially asks only for specimen charges, that generally means they feel their is sufficient evidence so the cost of adding the charges made in 2013 won't materially alter the outcome.
 
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OK.

Right now I'm wondering how long hamsters live for.

In 'The Young Ones' Vyvyan Basterd has a pet hamster called 'Special Patrol Group' and maybe we stumbled upon yet another star destroyed by drink and drugs and reduced to demeaning stereotype roles.

The Brian Harvey of the 80s BBC2 sitcom world, if you will.


Oh, and rapey Russell as well...

Sorry for the OT.
 
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