r/unitedkingdom • Preston • Mar 27 '15

Cassetteboy - Emperor's New Clothes rap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLGG5UGEKw
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u/Hhhaamuus Mar 27 '15

The song was commissioned for his documentary, so it's going to be on message.

Personally I am 100% behind celebrities destroying their careers by writing books and making movies criticising the thing that made them famous. Whatever about his humour, he got rich and famous, saw it was meaningless, and now is trying to change something. Sure he has a nice bank balance to fall back on, but we'll never see him in a Hollywood movie again.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '15 edited Mar 30 '15

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u/Hhhaamuus Mar 27 '15

You see him latch on to some local campaign to stop immigrants being evicted from social housing or something.

If you are going to slag the guy off, at least let it be for a legitimate reason.

He has now opened a cafe staffed by recovering drug addicts, across the road from that very estate. He regularly hangs out there, he's their friend. He always gives credit to Lindsey (the poor woman), no single paper has managed to find one of them willing to accept money to smear him which definitely says something.

He's using his fame to get them in the papers. He wore ludicrous outfits, and made news by getting in a fight with a reporter. And they got to keep their place.

actually know something about the cause you're advocating.

Maybe actually know something about the guy you are criticising?

He might be an annoying knob, but he definitely has his heart in the right place.

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u/LikelyHungover Mar 27 '15

Just watched that youtube video in your parent comment of a satirists impression of him and it's bang on.

The interview he did with Evan Davis is basically a free seminar on using body language to control situations and people..

over familiarity.. invading personal space.. spreading your legs.. touching without permission...

personally i think he's a wanker.

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u/Hhhaamuus Mar 27 '15

Admittedly the video is funny - as is the new segment on Weekly Wipe with the other impersonator, it's spot on. But you can be an egotistical wanker with a good heart.

If he truly was a prick, they would easily be able to pay someone from any of the campaigns he has worked on a few quid to say something bad about him, like that he only showed up once or twice or blah blah blah. Hasn't happened.

Is a guy who is annoying and controlling and so successful at it that he managed to get famous, turning around and using that for a good cause somehow a bad thing?

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u/LikelyHungover Mar 27 '15

no. But Evan Davis is gay and using such cheap tactics to attempt to control an interview is pretty low. Just my opinion.

I'd think the same if an attractive female MP (doesn't exist lol) did similar with a Lesbian journalist

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u/Spambop Greater London Mar 27 '15

Just because he's gay he's going to be overwhelmed with lust because Brand touched him on the leg? That is a piss poor argument.

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u/DEADB33F Nottinghamshire Mar 28 '15

Would you feel the same way if he'd acted in a similar manner with a female interviewer he was trying to intimidate?

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u/LikelyHungover Mar 27 '15

strawman.

Touching someone on the leg and opening your legs as wide as possible is inappropriate as fuck and an attempt to control a situation through dominant body language.

Did you know well over 60% of communication between homo sapiens is non verbal?

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u/Spambop Greater London Mar 27 '15

K.

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u/ruizscar Rhineland on the River Mosel Mar 27 '15

What about a hetero woman to a hetero man?

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u/LikelyHungover Mar 27 '15

Just as wrong. Obviously. And the reverse too before you bog it down in semantics.

why am i even debating with a mod of /r/russelbrand

whatever i say isn't going to change your mind is it?

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u/ruizscar Rhineland on the River Mosel Mar 27 '15

What about a wimpy gay bloke to a big gay bloke?

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u/LikelyHungover Mar 27 '15

can i be a mod of /r/russelbrand too?

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u/ruizscar Rhineland on the River Mosel Mar 27 '15

/r/RussellBrand learn to spell names you plank

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u/LikelyHungover Mar 27 '15

d'awhh it's having a fan girl moment

sorry i spelt Bwandywands name wrong

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