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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 17, 2023 18:24:12 GMT -5
The incels and other loons on the fringe are some of the easiest marks to take advantage where any two-bit grifter could peddle complete bullshit and be hailed as a "truth-teller." Just as long as it justifies their opinions. I reiterate, Warrior was ahead of his time
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 17, 2023 20:45:13 GMT -5
This guy called it
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Sept 17, 2023 22:46:56 GMT -5
Such a weird career. He was the lead in one movie (which flopped) in 2011 and hosted a few chatshows (ironically Channel 4 was his main employer) he was a standup who I've never seen a gig or joke of his pop-up on TV or online and has left such little footprint on pop culture. Yet despite such an unimpressive resume, he was once a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. The former president of the US tweeted about him regularly (pre-presidency tbf) and Vince McMahon created a gimmick for one of his promising developmental wrestlers based on Brand (Adam Rose). I know he had a famous wife but his PR team (perhaps he used the same one as her) must have been amazingly good at giving what was a D-list celeb such a large profile.
Might be related to how pre-COVID he was known as an activist yet no one could name his political position or views, same as being a standup who no one could remember a joke of. Brilliant smoke and mirrors PR making him famous for being famous.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 17, 2023 23:14:51 GMT -5
Such a weird career. He was the lead in one movie (which flopped) in 2011 and hosted a few chatshows (ironically Channel 4 was his main employer) he was a standup who I've never seen a gig or joke of his pop-up on TV or online and has left such little footprint on pop culture. Yet despite such an unimpressive resume, he was once a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. The former president of the US tweeted about him regularly (pre-presidency tbf) and Vince McMahon created a gimmick for one of his promising developmental wrestlers based on Brand (Adam Rose). I know he had a famous wife but his PR team (perhaps he used the same one as her) must have been amazingly good at giving what was a D-list celeb such a large profile. Might be related to how pre-COVID he was known as an activist yet no one could name his political position or views, same as being a standup who no one could remember a joke of. Brilliant smoke and mirrors PR making him famous for being famous. Wasn't he involved in Big Brother or something like that to a degree? The host or an interviewer or something? I never watched Big Brother, but I am sure it was appearing on that which got him "famous". But yeah, overall his "fame" far exceeds the content he's done.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 17, 2023 23:18:46 GMT -5
Jesus Christ .... look at the dregs who are defending him.
"Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, Tucker Carlson, Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Alex Jones, and Michael Barrymore have defended Brand"
So, he has an egotistical manchild loser who is in Putin's backpocket and has been accused of sexual assault A sexual predator and his brother A serial liar and con-man An anti-vax crackpot A rascist who formed a street gang to go around attacking Muslims A crackpot conspiracy theorist grifter And Michael Barrymore who was linked with the sexual assault and death of a man at one of his parties.
What a great bunch of f***ing character witnesses there.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 17, 2023 23:23:55 GMT -5
Jesus Christ .... look at the dregs who are defending him. "Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, Tucker Carlson, Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Alex Jones, and Michael Barrymore have defended Brand" So, he has an egotistical manchild loser who is in Putin's backpocket and has been accused of sexual assault A sexual predator and his brother A serial liar and con-man An anti-vax crackpot A rascist who formed a street gang to go around attacking Muslims A crackpot conspiracy theorist grifter And Michael Barrymore who was linked with the sexual assault and death of a man at one of his parties. What a great bunch of f***ing character witnesses there. Hey, hey, be fair. Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk are both also sexual predators.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 17, 2023 23:44:16 GMT -5
Jesus Christ .... look at the dregs who are defending him. "Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, Tucker Carlson, Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Alex Jones, and Michael Barrymore have defended Brand" So, he has an egotistical manchild loser who is in Putin's backpocket and has been accused of sexual assault A sexual predator and his brother A serial liar and con-man An anti-vax crackpot A rascist who formed a street gang to go around attacking Muslims A crackpot conspiracy theorist grifter And Michael Barrymore who was linked with the sexual assault and death of a man at one of his parties. What a great bunch of f***ing character witnesses there. Hey, hey, be fair. Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk are both also sexual predators. I should have added homophobic and transphobic to Fox's description too.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 17, 2023 23:56:54 GMT -5
I expecting more to come out to be honest --- there's a lot of dodgy stuff about Brand's best friends, Jonathan Ross and Noel Fielding, too.
Fielding, when he in his 30s, was "dating" 16 year old Pixie Geldoff Jonathan Ross was said by Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington to love flashing his knob at people and walking around the studio with it hanging out -- the same thing that ended John Barrowman's career.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Sept 18, 2023 1:37:08 GMT -5
I expecting more to come out to be honest --- there's a lot of dodgy stuff about Brand's best friends, Jonathan Ross and Noel Fielding, too. Fielding, when he in his 30s, was "dating" 16 year old Pixie Geldoff Jonathan Ross was said by Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington to love flashing his knob at people and walking around the studio with it hanging out -- the same thing that ended John Barrowman's career. OK it turned out that Pixie put that she was dating Noel on her MySpace page as a joke as a teenager without thinking about the implications, and then had to apologise for it. That was Peaches Geldof. Pixie is her younger sister, and she and Noel were confirmed to be dating when she was 16. www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/pixie-16-falls-for-noel-33-but-don-t-tell-her-old-man-7259708.html
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Sept 18, 2023 2:46:40 GMT -5
Wouldn't at all be surprised about Noel Fielding, guy was inseparable from Brand for a while and hides a nasty streak beneath his carefully crafted 'I'm quirky! And I went to art school!' gimmick. He was one of the first celebrities to master Twitter as a weapon for harassment, unleashing his fanbase on critics.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 18, 2023 4:06:24 GMT -5
I'll just say as a mod, let's not be accusing people of anything all off hunches and such. The last thing we need is for someone to find it and for us and ProBoards to get in trouble with stuff too.
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 18, 2023 6:09:30 GMT -5
Jesus Christ .... look at the dregs who are defending him. "Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, Tucker Carlson, Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Alex Jones, and Michael Barrymore have defended Brand" So, he has an egotistical manchild loser who is in Putin's backpocket and has been accused of sexual assault A sexual predator and his brother A serial liar and con-man An anti-vax crackpot A rascist who formed a street gang to go around attacking Muslims A crackpot conspiracy theorist grifter And Michael Barrymore who was linked with the sexual assault and death of a man at one of his parties. What a great bunch of f***ing character witnesses there. At the risk of breaking rules-Musk is a perv too. He has a breeding fetish; he is outspoken in his belief that there is an impending population collapse and people need to churn out babies en masse. It’s why he’s had so many himself.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Sept 18, 2023 6:19:49 GMT -5
Jesus Christ .... look at the dregs who are defending him. "Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate, Tucker Carlson, Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Alex Jones, and Michael Barrymore have defended Brand" So, he has an egotistical manchild loser who is in Putin's backpocket and has been accused of sexual assault A sexual predator and his brother A serial liar and con-man An anti-vax crackpot A rascist who formed a street gang to go around attacking Muslims A crackpot conspiracy theorist grifter And Michael Barrymore who was linked with the sexual assault and death of a man at one of his parties. What a great bunch of f***ing character witnesses there. At the risk of breaking rules-Musk is a perv too. He has a breeding fetish; he is outspoken in his belief that there is an impending population collapse and people need to churn out babies en masse. It’s why he’s had so many himself. Seriously, Simpsons, can we get an apology for that episode?
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Sept 18, 2023 6:29:56 GMT -5
dispatches need to come back and do Jonathan Ross and Noel Fielding then come back with a special on Jimmy Page.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 18, 2023 6:31:21 GMT -5
dispatches need to come back and do Jonathan Ross and Noel Fielding then come back with a special on Jimmy Page. *taps sign* I'll just say as a mod, let's not be accusing people of anything all off hunches and such. The last thing we need is for someone to find it and for us and ProBoards to get in trouble with stuff too.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 18, 2023 7:24:54 GMT -5
OK if anyone needs me I'll be throwing up.
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Post by stoptheclocks on Sept 18, 2023 7:35:26 GMT -5
This guy has been a prick in plain sight his whole career. I'm still mystified that his career even survived the Andrew Sachs incident, or the fact that his first response to it was to call the girl in question a "satanic slut" For whatever it's worth, and these allegations are obviously far more serious than leaving a an ill-advised voicemail, 'Satanic Sluts' wasn't an insult it was the name of the burlesque group she was a part of.
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Post by salz4life on Sept 18, 2023 9:12:11 GMT -5
So this agency is also part of the problem (assuming it's true) as well.
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Post by willywonka666 on Sept 18, 2023 9:16:17 GMT -5
Something I find troublesome is when so many come out and say that this was really well known and nothing was seemingly done.
Remember the Cosby thing was brought to many peoples' attention by Hannibal Burress-that's where I first heard of it anyway, otherwise this is a story filled with those who supposedly knew about it and others who have been name checked and again, nothing is happening to them as of right now
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 18, 2023 9:27:57 GMT -5
Something I find troublesome is when so many come out and say that this was really well known and nothing was seemingly done. Remember the Cosby thing was brought to many peoples' attention by Hannibal Burress-that's where I first heard of it anyway, otherwise this is a story filled with those who supposedly knew about it and others who have been name checked and again, nothing is happening to them as of right now Again, it's to do with the libel laws in the UK. If you said someone did something publicly, there are more protections for the person accused than there are in most places which, for how this whole thing has been, can sometimes be a positive (Cliff Richard got money from the BBC for him basically being lumped with the Yewtree investigations in the news despite having absolutely no evidence he was involved besides coincidental) but all you can do if you were affected is just to warn people from your experiences and hope you can build a case some day. And that's before you realize the authorities won't listen to you anyway, the UK has a terrible reputation of going forward with S.A. cases. And yeah, again, names have been thrown out but considering this was a 4 year investigation to make sure there wasn't a hole a lawyer could wiggle into and spoil the entire case, these things aren't taken lightly with those in mind.
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