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Russell Brand 🤢🤮

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Netcurtainnelly · Yesterday 18:28

🤢 🤢 Russell Brand. I never liked him anyway, Now he's on trail. Denies all charges of course.

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Fortuity · Today 08:28

tarheelbaby · Yesterday 19:19

Rationally, I know that a major plank of English Common Law is the right to trial and innocent until proven guilty but I'm slightly questioning why there has to be a trial for this: of course he did it; they wouldn't have accused him for no reason. Maybe the trial is just to determine how bad RB really has been and thus to decide the length/severity of his sentence?

Please never serve on a jury. If you really believe that no-one brought to trial is ever innocent, how do you account for all the known miscarriages of justice?

IamtheDevilsAvocado · Today 08:29

Tinydanceer · Yesterday 20:42

Yes - they both should have been cancelled for good then

how could they not think it would distress Andrew Sachs…says so much about brand and how out of reality he is

Let's no forget Jonathan Ross was in his mid-20s when he got together with the 16-year-old Jane Goldman that he's now married to.

Weeellokthen · Today 08:43

TallSturdyGirls · Today 00:36

Yes it is. Its just always reported and acted upon. Where as rape and rape trials aren't.

No, it is not always reported and "acted" upon.

Imdunfer · Today 08:44

IamtheDevilsAvocado · Today 08:29

Let's no forget Jonathan Ross was in his mid-20s when he got together with the 16-year-old Jane Goldman that he's now married to.

And been married to for 38 years. What's your point?

SevenYellowHammers · Today 09:25

Nursingcare · Yesterday 22:20

Ive never looked in to it because my husnand simularly thought i was blaspheming even thinking it

It does seem if people like the perpetrator (or alleged) they don’t get so outraged. Look at people taking their kids to the Michael Jackson film.

MadnessInMyMethod · Today 09:37

Nursingcare · Yesterday 23:10

you are telling everyone to stop having their opinions and reserve judgement because we have to wait for what the court says

we are trying to discuss what we think now whilst you guys saying “no you cant possibly say” over and over again

that isn't a discussion, its censorship of others

You don't seem to know the difference between 'censorship' and 'expressing an opinion'.

Or, it's expressing an opinion when you agree with it, and censorship when you don't.

SevenYellowHammers · Today 09:37

Confession: I liked Brand in his heyday. He had a working class accent and spouted about philosophy and critical theory and I thought that was cool.

I did tire of him, obviously.

He is undoubtedly a total sleaze but on the news his flatmate said he boasted he wanted to sleep with 5000 women and that he could be charming to get his own way and then be creepy and cruel.

I mean totally yuk but not crimes in themselves.

Can you imagine if it were? All the apologies of men we hear about on here banged up. Put like that there’s a certain appeal.

But unless actual abuse is proven I don’t think Mr Brand is going to be locked up. We will see.

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