Right Cunts You Like

[Merzbow]

For the longest time it was Kanye but fucking hell he's made it tough recently, it doesn't help that he's fell off with his musical output too as nothing in the past few years is worth defending. Same with Grimes.

If either put out a great album again I'd probably forgive them..

 

[Chest Rockwell]

He's a complete fucking dickhead but I still got excited when I heard he was producing an album for The Game, who is another dickhead. As bacon said, if be here all day if I listed out all the rappers I like who are twats ...

Less excited about him actually making his own music again based on recent output

Edited February 21, 2025 by Chest Rockwell

[Jazzy G]

Yeah, Clarkson's documentaries and Top Gear/Grand Tour are good, but the drivel he spouts in the newspaper columns about his politics is horrid. You can pretend it's a character he's playing in the car shows.

I like The Smiths, but the majority of Morrissey's solo stuff doesn't really do it for me. He's kind of a friend of a friend due to a guy I know who was in the band Bradford. They supported Smiths and Morrissey on some of their tours, and one of their songs, Skinstorm, was covered on the B-side of Morrissey's single Pregnant For The Last Time. It's on the 12" version.

 

[gmoney]

All the posters I like on here. 

[Chico Torres]

Conservative commentator, author and journalist Peter Hitchens. Clearly the superior Hitchens brother.

[Carbomb]

See, I'm the opposite. To me, Christopher was both much more likeable, and a much better debater, whilst Peter is a miserable old cunt, who spouts a load of absolute bollocks with the arrogance of someone who thinks his brother being hailed as an intellectual makes him one.

And I consider Christopher Hitchens to be a cunt because of his later cozying up to Bush, although there were a few other things. Still liked him because he broadly fought some aspects of the good fight, and made that shit-head Anne Widdecombe look ridiculous.

[BomberPat]

I love Kenneth Williams in pretty much everything, but he was a miserable strike-breaking old Tory.

My brother absolutely delights in telling people how all of my heroes shot women, because I used to read a lot of William S. Burroughs, and listen to a lot of music produced by Phil Spector or Joe Meek. 

[Carbomb]

1 minute ago, BomberPat said:

I love Kenneth Williams in pretty much everything, but he was a miserable strike-breaking old Tory.

Yep. Les Dawson too. Still like them both.

[Merzbow]

2 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

because I used to read a lot of William S. Burroughs

If we're doing dead old dickhead authors then Yukio Mishima, a beautifully complex man who was also a fascist.. luckily he only killed himself and not a partner.

[gmoney]

4 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

I love Kenneth Williams in pretty much everything, but he was a miserable strike-breaking old Tory.

That's a great shout. 

[Carbomb]

1 hour ago, Merzbow said:

If we're doing dead old dickhead authors then Yukio Mishima, a beautifully complex man who was also a fascist.. luckily he only killed himself and not a partner.

More than that, he killed himself attempting a fascist coup with his ludicrous cabal of ultra-right, hyper-closeted, young male acolytes.

An amazing writer, but a complete car-crash of a person.

"History is a record of destruction."

EDIT: I mean, when you think about it, a lot of artists have turned out to be cunts. Hemingway, Steinbeck, Dickens, Gaiman, Loudon Wainwright III, Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, the list goes on.

 

One of my favourite artists of all time is Diego Rivera. He treated his wife, Frida Kahlo, abominably.

Edited February 21, 2025 by Carbomb

[Thunderplex]

Another one for Clarkson.  Complete twat but despite himself very engaging.

[davertfnewman]

2 hours ago, BomberPat said:

I love Kenneth Williams in pretty much everything, but he was a miserable strike-breaking old Tory.

My brother absolutely delights in telling people how all of my heroes shot women, because I used to read a lot of William S. Burroughs, and listen to a lot of music produced by Phil Spector or Joe Meek. 

I've been considering whether to also include Robert Blake in this thread, who I praised as one of the best parts of Lost Highway in the David Lynch thread.

[Cousin Jim Bob]

I figure naming sportsmen is probably not allowed as you usually presume they are dickheads and are surprised if they turn out to be decent people. I follow boxing and MMA as well which increases the chances someone you like to watch is a total cunt to almost pro wrestling type levels.

 

In terms of celebs I have liked Gordon Ramsay since seeing the first UK Kitchen Nightmares. He always seemed a total wanker to work for but I admired his passion and drive. It does seem like he wants too help people on that show too. He is also very amusing when a chef or owner pisses him off and he goes absolutely nuts at them.

I am rather surprised he hasn't been Greg Wallaced/Gino D'Acampo'd yet. Can easily imagine him being a total twat or saying fucked up comments to crew filming his shows. 

[CTXRussomark]

1 hour ago, Cousin Jim Bob said:

 

I am rather surprised he hasn't been Greg Wallaced/Gino D'Acampo'd yet. Can easily imagine him being a total twat or saying fucked up comments to crew filming his shows. 

Funnily enough (and for reasons I can't quite remember) a while ago I ended up going down a rabbit hole of reading people's experiences of meeting Ramsay both as part of filming his TV shows and just generally in real life, and it was almost unanimously positive.  General consensus seemed to be his TV work (especially the US versions) was just everything turned up to 100 but behind the scenes he was actually a really sound bloke.  Lots of stories of him taking the time to speak to all the kitchen workers at restaurants he visits etc.