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Relapse is always a possibility. That is why it is important to acknowledge how well someone has done in remaining abstinent - it takes effort to overcome addictions and staying well takes effort too. And some people don't make it or have a fatal relapse. Acknowledging the blessing of life/sobriety is important for an addict as the alternative is something deadly.

I think Brand has searched for his spirituality alongside his recovery journey. This is the latest part of it.
He's doing it publicly though which looks insincere. So even if he is trying beat his demons, he still looks a prat.
 
He's doing it publicly though which looks insincere. So even if he is trying beat his demons, he still looks a prat.
The choice of pants was entertaining though (for me. Reminded me of the pants my dad wore in the 70s. Classic and very unsexy y fronts). I mean he wouldn't wear a stringfellow-esque thong for baptism because that wouldn't be appropriate.... :)
 
We had a music teacher who had been a soldier after the War (1950s? I dunno), and was involved in some LSD experiments they did on soldiers. His mind was shot.
Ken Kesey did ok out of it.
Despite his working class roots, thinking of all the £s and privilege Brand now has - he probably thinks it will insulate him from consequences to his actions. Why do these people always find god? I know they do it to look better in front of potential future juries but also... is there a part of them that genuinely thinks they find god as some sort of comfort? Expiation? It makes them look like charlatans but there's probably also a bit of them that does buy into religion, briefly, as the thought of legal consequences looms..?
He's certainly made more of his life than I have. Not the most significant correlation I admit, but still.
All I've ended up with is you lot.
 
Ken Kesey did ok out of it.

He's certainly made more of his life than I have. Not the most significant correlation I admit, but still.
All I've ended up with is you lot.
Given the choice between ending up like Brand (creepy, sleazy, weird, life a shambles), or us lot (cake, scantily clad men, fascinating book recommendations, a brutal mockery of @Swifty's town) - I'd pick the latter, every time....
 
Can I chose both?.
There is, of course, The @Swifty Option, reenacting moments of cinema...

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Remember the Polish farmer who got into a drunken macho chainsaw-waving contest and cut his own head off?
Now, that'd be impressive. :cool:
My thumbs up was purely due to you mentioning a hilarious tale I remember reading about ages ago. Unless there has been more than one of these unfortunates who decided cutting his own head off was a great idea?
 
My thumbs up was purely due to you mentioning a hilarious tale I remember reading about ages ago. Unless there has been more than one of these unfortunates who decided cutting his own head off was a great idea?
It was a Polish farmer called Krystof Asninski. The incident occurred during a drunken chainsaw-wielding session.
 
It was a Polish farmer called Krystof Asninski. The incident occurred during a drunken chainsaw-wielding session.
Juggling with chainsaws is not a good idea....(I know, he wasn't juggling...)

Just had a cartoon image of a chainsaw juggler...and an idea for a silly poem.... :chuckle:

That story must have been a long time ago. I need to google. I seem to remember it being quite a long time ago I must have heard about it....
Yes 1995. I knew it was from the 90s.....

https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1996-07.html

It is also the getting naked and engaging in manliness competitions that adds to the hilarity of the story...
 
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It almost feels just too much like shooting fish in a barrel now, and I've actually spent the last ten minutes wondering if this is a clever spoof. But...

Russell Brand is selling a ‘magical amulet’ to protect you from WiFi....

Russell Brand has taken a break from preaching about his unlikely conversion to Christianity to sell something equally hard to believe in – magical amulets to protect you from WiFi and WotNot...
See here.

As my old boss used to say - when lost for words at the assorted pisswittery of the world - Fuck my old boots!

To be fair, I've had a quick look at the website and I'm not sure that Aires Tech use - or would be happy with - the term 'magical amulet' (which may just be Brand riffing on his bizarrely placed Narnia references); because - obviously - all their gear is based on proper science and so on, and is proven to be efficacious against things and stuff.

I honestly sometimes wonder if Brand is playing the long game here, and is working towards doing a full-on Vincent Gigante in anticipation of any future legal shit coming his way.
 
It almost feels just too much like shooting fish in a barrel now, and I've actually spent the last ten minutes wondering if this is a clever spoof. But...

Russell Brand is selling a ‘magical amulet’ to protect you from WiFi....


See here.

As my old boss used to say - when lost for words at the assorted pisswittery of the world - Fuck my old boots!

To be fair, I've had a quick look at the website and I'm not sure that Aires Tech use - or would be happy with - the term 'magical amulet' (which may just be Brand riffing on his bizarrely placed Narnia references); because - obviously - all their gear is based on proper science and so on, and is proven to be efficacious against things and stuff.

I honestly sometimes wonder if Brand is playing the long game here, and is working towards doing a full-on Vincent Gigante in anticipation of any future legal shit coming his way.
Last I'd read was that Brand headed for the Florida hurricane as a way to listen for the voice of God or some such tripe.
 
It's what annoys me about todays culture, at is peak he was reasonably talented probably enough to make a decent living off and never have to do a days work, we have 100s of them now, not particularly talented or no talent whatsoever, they are creations to fill websites that sell advertising

Of course the most famous one was the late Jade Goody, how they must have laughed as they propelled an overweight foul mouthed woman who had no talent for anything into stardom, I remember asking someone who was an admirer as to what the aforementioned actually did, and she could not name one thing, it still amazes me to this day ow they got away with it
 
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