I have never heard this "intellectual" make a profound statement. Everything he says is surface level. Is this the power of a Cambridge education?
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Fry is only impressive to Labour voters
He’s also a nonce
Where’s your source on this quotation, OP?
So are you.
Is he one? I thought he was just an actor.
Why does he have to say something profound?
What would you consider profound?
I think OP is making the point that Stephen Fry is often held up (at least in Britain) as some sort of highly intelligent and sophisticated man, sort of a 'national treasure', when in reality he really hasn't done anything to distinguish himself as such. He is essentially King of the Midwits.
>when in reality he really hasn't done anything
he is the presenter on QI, which is one of the few good britkino panel shows, be a bit more respectful m8
see? this kind of pushover nature of Bri'ish people just showcases their feminine passive-aggressive nature, which is why the brash American comeback of "blow it out your ass" has more visceral impact, and is more respected. hence, Adorno was completely wrong, people love and respect authoritarian personalities, just look at how well Chad gets along with women as opposed to the meek nature of someone like, lets call him "poindexter", shy, grotesque (the dental histories of English people come to mind) and overall spineless nature of your average Brit exemplifies. he is not respected, honored or favored (no "u" needed) for his opinions. meanwhile, the Chad archetype of "John Galt" assumes a very headstrong, socially apt, straight-from-the-hip authoritarian mindset so many people crave being around. Hope that helps.
>insulting people in the most lazy way possible is more respectable
disrespectfully, it isn't. Typically Americans can't tell when they are acting low class or not. People think your archetype are loud, apish and nothing more than pithy amygdala people.
internationally that is, remember we are national solipsists, we don't have much of a care that other countries exist, as long as we're number #1, even in such things that we ought to not be proud of. it is what it is.
>Typically Americans can't tell when they are acting low class or not
A lot of us don't give a shit about social class. In fact, a lot of our ancestors left Britain specifically to escape the immensely homosexualy way in which that "country" is still in the grips of a nasty, aristocratic hangover. While it might surprise you that Americans aren't just unaware that we don't confirm to your super-special-I'm-sure notions and mimicry of how Lord Baron Cobblystone Clickyclack, GBE., behaves, in reality, we really just don't give a frick because that shit is pure and unmitigated homosexualry. There are lots of things I hate about the Average Person in my country, but that sure as shit isn't one of them.
But hey, I'm sure it's super compelling that Prince Bill fricks black girls. Why don't you concern yourself with that, instead, innit?
the greatest Americans had black women alongside their wives, not the best 'le own' you could have picked.
You completely missed the point. The absolute state. The point, since I have to spell it out, is how slavishly the insipid British "populace" follows the gossip of the royal family. Your nation is obsessed with royalty and with the "class" they represent because it's the last, fading vestige of your national glory. The sun has well and truly set over the British empire, and all you have left are juvenile rumor mills and assumed airs of superiority over a group of colonists over which you somehow managed to lose control... almost 300 years ago. The "class" you reference was a group of people who fricked the world up over their reign as hegemons that the rest of us are STILL picking up the pieces.
Frick off. Tune back into whatever incestuous, internal dramas captivate your subservient and fading nation of inbreeding-depressed swamp dwellers. See a dentist.
You confuse southerners and the upper class for the whole of England in your great and overwrought ignorance.
You do not type well and Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the greatest American, either him or Ben Franklin, had his favourite pastime in his black concubine.
To be an American is to mix races. And that is what you are, that is your legacy.
>Americans don't realize how low class they are
>uhhhhh... no i meant "low class" as in uhhhhhhh... high class!
You are dumb. You are very, very fricking dumb. You are the dumbest gorilla Black person moron in the history of gorilla Black person morons.
You deliberately make a fool out of yourself, and for what? Any excuse for an American to once again re-introduce himself to thoughts of african americans.
Who gives a frick about whether or not he’s on television? That doesn’t make him an authority on anything.
He played the role on QI, but he was never really any more knowledgeable than the panellists.
I heard Fry described once as "what a pleb thinks an intellectual look like".
He's a nonce who would be happy destroying all this country stood for so he can bugger little boys.
Bolsonaro laughing him out of the room was very satisfying to watch.
He was an actor, this is celebrity autobiography. If you expected some deep philosophy, maybe it's the power of your education we should be asking about.
The English think it immature and in poor taste to philosophize too deeply. They prefer gathering impressions of the phenomenal world and expressing them in an amusing way.
half close,
the English sensibility is privately serious and publicly whimsical.
not anymore though, we are just americans: the prequel but with accents.
Makes sense I wouldn't care for them. If it produces midwits like Orwell and Russell its probably safe to say their culture isn't a deep thinking one, at least at face value. In fact I'd go as far as saying America produced better thinkers such Peirce and better literary prose with people like Kerouac
>better literary prose
>Kerouac
Apollonian-British yoke on Dionysian-German soil
people who can coast by on their voices (and even get famous) are the luckiest people in the world
He's a comedian and actor primarily
Smart enough to set the bar low and make money.
Stephen Fry has this thing where he tries to live as if he's still 20 with his hairstyle. It looks fricking moronic.
He's a comedian who reads audiobooks
And he's still making your tiny bigboi nuts shrivel up 'till you squal like a postmenopausal spinster