Blindboy cancels himself.

Ah, that's the way on Boards. The angry people get worked up about someone who admits their failings. The same posters would probably like him more if he pretended he was never wrong. The kind of people who might acknowledge the importance of mental health will despise any man who actually talks about it.

I'm similar to you in that I knew little about him before the podcast. I find the podcast interesting. I don't have to agree with everything he says to find them interesting. Some are better than others, but that's the way with podcasts in general. I

Isn't this exactly what BB said? The way gay was used complete out of context is similar to how spastic was used out of context, except gay has a well established meaning as a synonym for homosexual. I'm not sure when I learned spasticity was specifically the proper name for a disorder of muscles tightening and contracting. Anyone with any kind of disorder, physical or mental, or someone who did something unusual or made a mistake, said something incorrect, was liable to be called a spastic. I knew it was a disorder but I though it was an intellectual disability for years. I knew it was an insult, but I didn't know its accurate meaning for years.

Why does mental health have to be non-profit?

So If someone makes money, they can't talk about mental health in case it boosts their profile and leads to profit? That's a bit wild, wouldn't you say?

So, should someone take a vow of poverty before talking about mental health?

If you spend time on Boards you'll see that they absolutely dispise a man who actually talks about mental health.

Sure he is. Why? Because you say so?

You can't countenance the fact that the evidence of his podcast success speaks for itself.

I'm laughing here at the multuiculturalism is a bad thing/Greta should shut up/footballers shouldn't be kneeling people hate a guy confident enough to do what he does the way that he does. Way too free spirited for many stuck in the last century.

Confident enough to write with a straight face that at age approx. 22, with a university education behind him that he didn't know that "spastic" was a derogatory slur against people with disabilities?

That's not free spiritedness, that's rather ironically, more like gaslighting.

He has created some wonderful things, but has absolutely evolved into "spent / uninteresting" in the same way as Russell Brand. Never mistake a vocabulary for having something to say.

I've tried to put my finger on what boils my piss about BB so much. I liked the rubberbandits a lot. I have no real issue with the wokies either, though I think theirs is a daft dogma.

So what is it?

Well firstly is BB a caricature or a real person? Clearly he's a caricature, an outrageous over the top character who is (or was at least) pretty funny.

But then, when it comes to 'being all serious' he stays in character. This is akin to Mrs Merton, Agnes Browne, Alan Partridge, Edmund Blackadder being interviewed and talking seriously about needing equality and mental health issues. 

Getting weird, but OK, fair enough, let's roll with it and see where it goes.

"Is she a big fat slag or a big fat ride... oh my god I can't decide.... there's no way I'm riding you, unless I'm wrecked on bags of glue"

Amusing lyrics eh?

The same character who wrote them also came on live TV and, without a hint of irony told me, as an Irish man, that I 'need feminism', almost wagging his fuking finger down the camera lens.

Fcuk right off.

This is a really nasty little thread. With really nasty people on it.

Just overall nastyness level rating 10/10

The folks going out of their way to be ultra nasty no doubt are gods gift to planet Ireland. An absolute model of humanity. All bow before them and bask in their glory as they do in their own reflections.

Yeah I mean it's pure down right annoyance that people don't act like they did in their teenage years and their twenties all the way into adulthood in their 30s and 40s.

The fact people change throughout their life really boils my piss.

Why can't we all just be the same always until the end of time and never evolve

Anger fever . Grrr

God's gift to planet Ireland, a model of humanity - sounds just like blindboys opinion of himself.

I get it, people don't like being called nasty at all. But when you make personal nasty comments about someone you never met or don't know then it makes you a nasty person.

It's not my role to make you live with how you are acting. Be comfortable lean into how you are acting and see where it takes you.

Really horrible thread with no point to it

Ya but do not come back 10 years later andd say you did not know the meaning of the word spastic. The politically correct brigade would have hung him out to dry if he was of more middle of the road or to the right politically.

Just because he blind boy he gets a free ride on the horse outside.

I really enjoyed those satirical songs but he should have apologized for using the word without saying he did not know the meaning

Wow you're really not getting this. I have no issue with change - it is normal and to be expected. I just find it incredibly annoying that someone would shamelessly present themselves as a champion of virtue, encouraging others to follow in their virtuous path in life, while having a back catalogue like that.

Once again Listermint, for clarity, I have no issue with people, or made-up characters changing.