to be impressed by Frankie Boyle's hunger strike?

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Maybe if the thread title had been about Guantanamo Bay, or the campaign, then we would be discussing it, but it was about FB. I for one will always point out how vile and damaging his 'jokes' are, whenever I see his name mentioned. Whether he involves himself in a worthy campaign or not, is moot.

I might be impressed if he apologised for his disablist jokes.

sorry, meant to say - I agree!

A hungry wanker is still a wanker.

Well presumably he's not actually going to starve himself to death is he, so as someone upthread said, it's simply a 'desperate squeal for attention'. Can't stand the man, he's vile, and his thought processes are truly disturbed if he genuinely believes that he's funny and that other people find him funny. I think less of people who like him, to be honest.

A hungry wanker is still a wanker.

^ this.

I can't stand he who I wont name! If I see his books when I am out shopping I either turn them round so I don't have to see his hideous face or cover them up with other books! It makes me feel a little rebellious!!

Fasting for 1000 days? Is that actually possible?

So unless he hunger strikes to the point of death or cons, hes actually going on a diet? Possibly a diet where he eats in the evenings or consumes plain foods or eats at weekends?

Attention seeker. There seems to be a trend in some British men right now of attention seeking through their behaviour, not their actions, deeds or talents.

Death or coma that should read. Because thats what a real hunger strike would biologically do to the human body.

He isn't hunger striking for 1000 days, the campaign is various people including celebrities fasting for a week, then passing the baton on to someone else who will then fast for a week, in support of Shaker Ahmer who is a Gauntanamo Bay prisoner, who has been on hunger strike for 150 days.

I am mystified by him. He clearly perceives himself as a left wing liberal, he is very clever, does genuinely good things like this and some of his jokes are very funny. But then he does the disablist stuff which he is surely clever enough to realise that only the people whose attitudes he professes to despise are laughing at. Bizarre.

On the hunger strike, I think it is great. The idea that hunger strikes don't usually work is laughable- they don't work because they are usually the last means of protest for people without power or liberty. Like those in Guantanamo.

A week?????

Exactly. A week. He's pathetic.

I think perhaps what Wonderstuff is failing to understand about the level of dislike on here for FB is that he isn't being vile about random stuff like politics or yummy mummies or teachers or religion.
We take specific exception and despise him to the core because he attacks our children and others like them.
The climate he generates with his jokes and attitude leaks out into the real world and makes the lives of those with disabilities and those who love them harder by validating the opinions, words and actions of others who see themselves as minifrankies.
So we'd like one of the sources to dry up, so it will no longer feed all the tributaries.
Does that make any more sense to you?

I hope the people shocked that he is 'only' not eating for a week will be volunteering to do a week as part of the 1000 days of hunger strike. I wouldn't as it strikes me as being very difficult and quite impressive.

Well. he described it like feeling a bit drunk, so he's on home turf there.
Is he still doing a full week's work, including family, or lounging around in his mansion, tweeting to the adoring multitudes?

I'm shocked that he's only fasting for a week. If there was a campaign aimed at shutting Frankie Boyle up for the rest of his time here on earth then I would think seriously about fasting for a week, yes.

So what do you think of Clive Stafford Smith doing the same thing? Unimpressed?

I might be impressed if he apologised for his disablist jokes.

This.

And this

A hungry wanker is still a wanker.

To make mocking unpleasant joke about people with disabilities is very unpleasant. To make a disgusting repulsive joke about a specific named CHILD is vile. Frankie Boyle could have apologised afterwards but he chose not to.

(Incidentally Channel 4's 'apology' was pathetic and half hearted)

You can joke about people with disabilities. During The Paralympics the Mock The Week panalists made lots of jokes about the paralympians. There were funny and I didn't find them at all offensive.

Should I start a "Keep Frankie Boyle on hunger strike for 1000 days" campaign

Soloman - believe me, I've eaten virtually nothing plenty of times longer than a week in my life to stay the size I am. i still have issues with anorexic type behaviour. So, yes, a week of semi fasting, which us what he will be doing, is not in the most mi ute shape or form I.oressive. And talking of form, itsnot as if a mo the fasting us going to do him anything but good qmanyway.

choose my causes myself, not on the basis of what some semi educated oaf does as a publicity stunt. Seriously, a weeks diet - no, not impresive in the slightest.

Jimmy Savile did a lot of charity work. Didn't make him a nice person.

He's a twat. And it's not a bloody hunger strike.

I don't, for one minute, buy the whole "oh it's ironic" thing. He's not a stupid man (despite being a twat of the highest order) and I have no doubts that if he wanted to do ironic, he could pull it off perfectly well. Other comedians have done it.

He's just made a career out of being vicious because there are people who will titter at that sort of thing. And it doesn't matter if he's privately thinking that his audience are a bunch of vicious red-necks, when he's doing nothing to make them question their beliefs, or open anyone's eyes.