Russell Brand vs. Jeremy Paxman

[Banditbandit]

Lol. Reckon! Who needs blankets to keep warm once you've been introduced to whiskey!?

Yeah .. liked that thank you. Whiskey makes your women hot and horny ... must be because your male ancestors denied it to them for so long ... (both the sex and the whiskey ...)

[husaberg]

Forget that detail. The BIG question is "how does that small bit of fabric keep the jubblies inside?".

Seriously, if bike frames were made of that material, they would be un-breakable! Perhaps Suzuki should get in contact?

Same way the jubblies are held in you use to stop her talking, you also use the same to hold a race bike together ..................Gaffa tape

[carbonhed]

Go Russell go.

[mashman]

As it turns out, Paxman never voted in the last election either.

[BoristheBiter]

Go Russell go.

Fuck me he is a politician, 7 mins of jabbering away and said nothing.

[mashman]

If someone came up with a new one, would he vote them into office to implement it? Probably not.

He says that he would

[Damantis]

He says that he would

I like this bit ...

"Some people say I'm a hypocrite because I've got money now. When I was poor and I complained about inequality people said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want inequality on the agenda because it is a real problem that needs to be addressed."

[husaberg]

Rich he only meant to be worth 15 million US... is he really that rich at the end of the day
Compared to the real rich that he is targeting, he is a bellboy.....

[avgas]

I dunno - I had little to no respect for Brand up until recently.
While I don't agree completely with what he is saying - I am starting to fall into the following catagory:

[mashman]

I like this bit ...

"Some people say I'm a hypocrite because I've got money now. When I was poor and I complained about inequality people said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want inequality on the agenda because it is a real problem that needs to be addressed."

Aye, damned if you do and damned if you don't. Hypocrisy is an easy label to hide behind. It's amusing to think that the people calling him a hypocrite haven't taken any steps to raise the issue themselves. Kinda puts their opinion into perspective.

I dunno - I had little to no respect for Brand up until recently.
While I don't agree completely with what he is saying - I am starting to fall into the following catagory:

You gotz to getz lots of money before you're allowed to actively take part in that pursuit and unfortunately for you, those positions look to be taken.

[BoristheBiter]

Aye, damned if you do and damned if you don't. Hypocrisy is an easy label to hide behind. It's amusing to think that the people calling him a hypocrite haven't taken any steps to raise the issue themselves. Kinda puts their opinion into perspective.

The people that are calling him a hypocrite don't think there is anything wrong with the system so why would they want to change it?

The only issue is some celebrity thinks he knows better than everyone else in regards to equality but wont give them his millions.

But we have equality now, anyone can work for a living, it's not just a benefit of the rich you know.

[husaberg]

The people that are calling him a hypocrite don't think there is anything wrong with the system so why would they want to change it?

The only issue is some celebrity thinks he knows better than everyone else in regards to equality but wont give them his millions.

But we have equality now, anyone can work for a living, it's not just a benefit of the rich you know.

True but.
Have a look at the propping up of Wall street and other financial institutions.
the bailing out of the finance companies.

The buy out by Soild energy of the Todd families share of Spring creek mine, The buy out of Pike river mine all just months before it apparently collapsed and the subsequent deals by NZ oil and Gas regarding Pike.
who benefited who lost.
Transpowers Cayman Island Tax dodge
Anyone remember how the CHCH rebuild management was tendered out???????????????

[avgas]

You gotz to getz lots of money before you're allowed to actively take part in that pursuit and unfortunately for you, those positions look to be taken.

Not always true. It will be the poor who start the fires - and the rich who will be unable to help them to prevent them starting the fires.

Who is John Galt?
He is the great destroyer apparently. Or the guy who could have fixed it but didn't

Who is Howard Roark?
He was the person who didn't want to do things the traditional way. Because it was ineffective.

If we can kill off fictional characters.....my guess is this guy is next in the real world


Top Gear, VW and GM have already had a crack at it. US Govt will be next.

[mashman]

The people that are calling him a hypocrite don't think there is anything wrong with the system so why would they want to change it?

The only issue is some celebrity thinks he knows better than everyone else in regards to equality but wont give them his millions.

But we have equality now, anyone can work for a living, it's not just a benefit of the rich you know.

Fair point

Why would he give them his millions?

[avgas]

True but.
Have a look at the propping up of Wall street and other financial institutions.
the bailing out of the finance companies.

The buy out by Soild energy of the Todd families share of Spring creek mine, The buy out of Pike river mine all just months before it apparently collapsed and the subsequent deals by NZ oil and Gas regarding Pike.
who benefited who lost.
Transpowers Cayman Island Tax dodge
Anyone remember how the CHCH rebuild management was tendered out???????????????

Tip of the iceberg. I worked for my family company that took on the big boys at a particular industry.
We had the resources, the knowledge and the skills. We also were cheaper and more reliable.

Do you think we could crowbar the big boys hands out of the council/govt pockets while they jerked them off.
Hell no. They got the contracts, under-quoted, and were allowed to run 7 times over budget. In many circumstances we got sub-contracted the work.
So we did the job - you paid 5 times for it.

This happened to me in my engineering career in NZ for the last 14 years. Working for 3 separate, small and efficient companies.
Sometimes I would throw a spanner in the works - just to watch the fat fucks squirm a little. Of course these were purely for my short term entertainment. Cost the tax payer millions......but you would have lost that any way.

Big boys have been jerking off the govt for a long time.