Brave.
Oooooeeeee these here are the most dangerous of days for which to open a mouth and use that mouth to utter words. How many celebrities have been recently “canceled” for past remarks? Completely erased from the hearts and minds of a once adoring public for saying, even thinking, currently out of vogue things. How many ordinary folk have been set upon by the mob, houses figuratively, jobs literally, burned?
Very many.
The field of discourse, once relatively open and sun-dappled, is now pitch black with landmines littered everywhere, big holes dug with pointy sticks placed in their bottoms too.
Well, at least free speech has a great hero in the form of world-famous surfer Kelly Slater. I am not allowed to see what Kelly writes, or thinks, due to the fact that he cancelled me, but wonderful friends forward his important missives and here we see him wading into the Instagram comments of his great hero Joe Rogan.
You’ll recall Slater’s recent appearance on Rogan’s podcast where the 11x professional surfing champion tried to make the fight enthusiast and comedian like him.
Rogan’s most recent guest is a comedian named Bill Burr. Rogan declared, “Spent 3 hours smoking cigars and talking shit with my brother @wilfredburr! We had a great fucking time and I hope you enjoy it.”
All fine but somebody must have become sad by something Burr said, something maybe sexist and/or racist, and let it be known in those Instagram comments.
Kelly Slater, defender of free thought, free speech, wasn’t having it, responding:
“It’s called comedy. If it was too real for you to hear without being triggered you might have some issues. Sometimes you need to hear other people’s perspectives and understand them to acknowledge situations properly. But it doesn’t sound like You heard what he said much and are gonna turn it into some anti women rant. Good humor pulls no punches. His just wasn’t outright comedy like we are used to. I got no problem when a woman makes fun of a penis and calls it small or whatever (smiley face emoji).”
Whoa.
And my heart is beating out of my very chest. I wish so much that I could go do applause hand emojis or even raise the roof emojis but, alas, my perspective is not one of the ones Kelly Slater needs to hear to acknowledge any situation properly.
Still, it makes me impossibly happy that our GOAT is out there defending free speech for some and also free speech for women making fun of penises and calling them small or whatever.
Robust.
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Where’s Kelly?
Twin boys my wife was thru the roof!!!!!
In this day age when to be a man is to be ridiculed it’s always good to hear Bill Burr.
Does anyone remember when being the best at something, universally heralded and respected was enough?
Yeah that works until you start opining on anything other than what you won 11 WTs for
This is great
But blackface, woah, fuk that
Easy for Kelly to not be offended by dick size jokes, he’s got a massive pecker!
Not everyone feels your pain Tom … in fact very few of your girlfriend do …
And yet Kelly blocked you over a bit of ‘comedy’. Glass houses.
He might have been triggered and may have some issues.
Perhaps issues with his diet ?
After breakfasting on his favourite ‘frank n beans’ he’s probably foregoing the luncheon fish course (and given up on bearded clams completely) in exchange for ‘meat n two veg with creamy sauce’ at dinner time…
In fairness…you are being pretty generous with your use of the term ‘comedy’
Kelly blocked beachgrit because it’s a waste of time written by smartasses with 0% credibility.
Because it means nothing.
Just endless yadda yadda floating around the babbleverse.
Kelly’s got places to go and minds to blow.
Put a feeler out Chas, I reckon Slater sounds ready for a detente.
good comedy pulls no punches…..thats a cry to be brought back into the fold.
Or is the goat a comedic dilettante ?
Debutante?
Both…
I really don’t understand how you have come out of this saga unscathed Tom, you were the main antagonist, making that with a bullet call…chas the one well and truly wedged under the beachgrit bus
That really worked
You have a lot of pull
Can you get them to sens us all a tee-shirt?
This only proves one thing…kelly definitely has a big dick.
No way is that a voice of empathy, he can’t possibly know the real pain, humiliation, shame, embarrassment…
But for future reference Chas…go with worlds smallest penis, over worlds biggest polluter
The movie channels have been doing re-runs of ‘The Momentum Generation’, in which Bob ‘Baldy’ Slater makes mention of Pat ‘Elf’ O’Connell’s unfeasibly large balls and feasibly tiny weiner.
So maybe dicks and nutsacks (especially other guys’) are of real interest to him after all ?
I know it’s been rumoured for the last 30 yrs so perhaps it’s the start of his coming out, especially since the appalling ‘guru’ and (apparent) girlfriend video at his bosses wavepool on the WSL site months ago…
How the fuck did you get a down vote for that?
Silence is violence.
Update on CHAS: if Capitol Hill Autonomous Sone is a new nation, free from law enforcement, free from U.S. governance, and in fact, perhaps just theory, sovereign, why do they believe they can make demands of the United States that we provide amnesty for 22 million illegals, provide free college, free healthcare, close prisons, no bail, no cops etcetera etcetera? You can’t just willy nilly, even a little willy, nilly, go and demand other countries do what you want them to do.
Their ambassador
Is about to beg for cash
To maintain freedom
I know the going can be tough for new nations, but it seems a little early to ask for foreign aid.
CHAZ needs cigarettes, pants, tents, soy-based products and tofu.
Can’t they start selling
Sex, drugs, oil, gold and weapons
Like everyone else?
I think they’ve adopted a strict barter system.
Update: CHAS is now cultural inappropriation. So is CHAZ.
It’s now known as CHOP. Autonomy has been too rough for these go-getters, so now it’s Capitol Hill Occupy Protest.
Why is it that people that press for no border walls built border walls to demarcate their autonomous zone?
I wonder will it become like that spot in Copenhagen, christianna I think it’s called. Good for tourism and druggys
Probably not, but once I read “Copenhagen” all I want to do now is snap a can.
How’s ya pandemic going , economy bouncing back , health system coping , law and order seems on track?
what happened to Antifa , how many were arrested, got any stats Otto ?
We needed this Sl8s treatise on comedy. As probably the least funny public figure in existence who can’t take a joke or criticism, it is fascinating to read his thoughts! Gnarly penis head looking midget.
He seems to have a better handle on comedy than marcus, cote, or matt George, though.
Yeah I love hearing condescending messages from celebrities with no grip on reality.
I think he said that when he was young he wanted to be a comedian when he grew up! Was that a joke? I’m confused
he could have picked any end of that post and he chose to talk about dick size thats not normal
…it’s the motion of the ocean
Guessing He’s been told that by pam and a few other models when making his member outerknown to them for the first time. When you have 11 trophies that’s enough compensation I reckon.
Would you have preferred he spoke about his feet?
It’s not normal to win 11 titles either.