>“I don’t do a lot of reading because don’t like spending that much time in someone else’s imagination. Flann O’Brien and James Joyce would be my two favourite writers. I love The Third Policeman and At Swim Two Birds. I love Kevin Barry’s work too.
"I don’t do a lot of reading because don’t like spending that much time in someone else’s imagination." - What did he mean by this?
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"I don't do a lot of reading because I'm kind of a gobshite and can't even get through this 5 minute interview without making myself out to be an awful tit"
Why would I care what a soy abuser that looks like a lost member of 21 pilots thinks anything?
it's pretty difficult not to spend time in other people's imaginations. do you think he listens to music other people write, or watches tv, or plays video games, or has conversations, or watches movies, or looks at billboards, or observes architecture, or eats food based on recipes other people designed? i wonder why reading gets special treatment
The Rubberbandits are the Russell Brand of Essex. Someone with a slightly above average education goes on the telly and makes ever so rude comedy jokes while *ALSO* using big words and talking about social issues and everyone reacts like he's fucking Zisek.
What he means is that he finds reading boring and difficult.
Nietzsche had a similar stance when it came to binge reading philosophy. It produces confusion, and clarity of thinking can be better stimulated by quietness, loneliness and great paciente. You're silencing your "self" if you make reading an obligation, constantly engaging in other minds when not for study and, more importantly, self study.
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literally who
Whhhooo gggives a shit mate? Ya retarded? There's plenty of other social media networks for the kind of socialising you're looking for. Get fucked mate.
>"I find it mental that the debate about mental health isn't healthy at all in this coo-ntry..."
*applause*
>"We've got young kids, four-deen, feif-teen, who're on drwgs..."
*whistles*
>"As a white male I have absolutely no place, no place at all, to even complain about a single ting in life because frankly I have it easy"
*audience stands as one and yell their praises*
>"You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to castrate meself, that's right, cut me balls and thingy off to show these capitalist globalist neo-liberal patriarchs that I won't be a pawn in their game"
*audience rushes on-stage and carries him out to a larger crowd waiting outside*
OP what the fuck is your problem by the way?
I see you are using the same image, with the same filename, as this post on /pol/
Are you retarded?
HIS NAME IS DAVE, DAVE CHAMBERS, EXPLORER OF THE SEA.
NO BUDGET TOO STEEP
NO SEA TOO DEEP
WHO'S THAT?
IT'S HIM
DAVE CHAMBERS.
I love that this cunt had to use his dead 2007 era republic of telly personality to foist his shit writing on the general public. Also stop posting him please you're only giving him more attention, propagating his autism only leads to more of it.
Ever notice how he goes on about who we can't trust the government and this and that, yet he always hides his face from his fans and followers with the bag, and ever drops the Blindboy image for talk show interviews and that? What's that about? definitely something unpleasant boiling beneath the surface there. I'd say he uses it as a front to distance himself from all the despicable crap he does.
I'd say you are really, truly a weirdo who posts shit like:
Take your meds my man.
Yeah no, the conclusion I've been forced to arrive at about this guy is that he's sadly got something going on in his head or in his personal life that he's super not proud of, so he uses the mask and the blindboy image to create a barrier between himself and the clown, so he can get get away with justify all kinds of shit as being part of his gas cuntist philosophy. It's only a matter of time before this all comes to be public knowledge, and I'll take no pleasure in seeing him suffer, but there definitely needs to be some bit of intervention here so we get this boy on the road to recovery. As it stands, he's more of a threat to himself and the general public then he'd probably like to believe.
He got BTFO by him on twitter and he’s really upset about it.
What links are those? For this board?
"Don't worry folks...he'll get the help he needs.."
Yes
It's an admission of cowardice. Somehow who respected themselves on any real level would never say something so pathetic for fear of being laughed aftwards, even if it were true. They'd make up some bullshit like "Ahh you know, I was addicted to Flann o Brien and Kevin Barry growing up, and I love a bitta Dan Brown aswell" or something to that effect, and just leave it at that. To admit that you don't give a fuck about the medium of storytelling in that way, is to admit that (at this point in time) you don't see yourself as contributing anything worthwhile to it. You're just pissing around, killing time. It doesn't matter that Russell Brand or whoever else said something nice on the cover, the point is, you yourself are still shucking off the responsibility of taking yourself seriously. You're just waiting to hear what others are saying and then using that as your defense to assure yourself that what you're doing is indeed good, even if you don't inwardly feel like it's as good as it (or you) actually could be.
Instead, he's going "Ah well, you know, I'm basically kind of a loser who'll probably never do something genuinely exciting, because to do so would be take on too much responsibility, and giving you a half-baked answer saves me the trouble of ever having to worry about things like self-actualization, and knowing how far I might actually have gone, and how much of a difference I might have made, if there was something hanging between my legs other than two sceartaín's and a half melted freeze pop, mr. interviewer, sir!
I know this because it's a feeling I can relate well enough to myself, having brushed aside a lot of my responsibilities for most of my life. Sadly, life, as I've discovered, and the apparent powers that be seem to have other plans for me regardless of what I'd have liked to have done with myself.( probably spent the days lazying around playing Doom and eating too many salt n' vinegar taytos until I grew old and died of heartfailure or wankers cramp)
P.S. It doesn't matter a damn how many fucking podcasts, or music videos, or tweets, or decorative cakes you put out emphasizing the importance of the individual over the collective, or how much pseudo psychology you try to dispense in my direction in a crude attempt to try and tear me down. It's all fueled by the same underlying problem, one that lies exclusively on your shoulders Blindboy - That you decided to attack me, ignore me and then make life as difficult for me as you possibly could, because you were afraid that working with me would mean assuming a level of responsibility you weren't ready for.
He's dyslexic and Irish.
Well, it definitely speaks to some morbid underlying problem he has anyone. I assume it's a rejection of responsibility, and the stubborness and ego of wanting to exercise your own right to threat some like shit for your own sad amusement, even if you manage to make yourself into a huge hyprocrit, and look a completely mad, and evil fuckhole in the process.
FOr any irish guys and gals in the thread, I'm an Irishguy myself who's currently working on a cartoon for the youtubes. I've also been struggling with mental health issues of my own over the past number of years that have finally been dealt with with the aid of a few weeks therapy. I've also been on the recieving end of a fuckton of dogs ugly abuse from the rubberbandits online, and intend to go public with my experiences with them providing my show takes off and gets some recognition. Get ready for some hyprocrit exposition the likes of which you've never seen before.
I'll believe it when these hopeless eyes see it
Who the fuck is blindboy?
sorry I should say over a months therapy, okay not a tremendous amount, but honestly made a huge difference.
lads we need to make a comfy /eirelit/ and leave these fags behind I love you guys
lol how did he hurt you
>Flann O’Brien and James Joyce would be my two favourite writers
I hope he gets stuck at a table between Tommy Tiernan and David Norris. Not only can they sense pseuds, they'd grill him on them like they believed him.
Broke into my parents old bedroom while they were gone out to dinner and robbed three months worth of soy products, and then gave 83 bed-ridden grandfather the most obnoxiously self-righteous speech you've ever heard on the dangers of living in the era of social media. What does he do then? Fucks off back under the floorboards with scrawny, imbecile of friend, never to be seen again. Stupid cunt.
Being outed as a pseud doesn't seem to falter him at all. There's an old interview between him and Brendan O connor bouncing around somewhere, where O Connor cuts him off pretty quickly before the bullshit is given a chance to seep out, He has no shame. He doesn't care about superiors giving him a hard time, he just revels in his own stupidity like a true fuck up.
Great reply
I swear half this board are Irish sometimes
>tfw I read this as "Dave Chalmers"
>P.S. It doesn't matter a damn how many fucking podcasts, or music videos, or tweets, or decorative cakes you put out emphasizing the importance of the individual over the collective, or how much pseudo psychology you try to dispense in my direction in a crude attempt to try and tear me down. It's all fueled by the same underlying problem, one that lies exclusively on your shoulders Blindboy - That you decided to attack me, ignore me and then make life as difficult for me as you possibly could, because you were afraid that working with me would mean assuming a level of responsibility you weren't ready for.
what
He looks like one of the flowerpot men with that hat and bag mask
+exists in another's culture, uses technology, engages in traditions, etc.
He literally wakes up every morning and does his best to avoid any and all contact with the outside world. ''Variety is the spice of life'' is a phrase he's never been acqaunted with. He just does his best all day to avoid contact with the fruits of other people imaginative thought. The bag is kinda like a cheap version of a Hasmat suit. Probably not talented enough to afford else. You'd have to wonder what the women of Ireland will make of his anti-feminist carry on.
My generation can't afford houses.
My generation can't afford to have children.
My generation are either leaving the country or jumping in rivers.
My generation are developing into a pile of fat, hypocritical limerick knackers.
My generation are preeching the virtues of maintaining good mental health, then cyber-bulling their fans online.
My generation are shit-posting newbs on reddit.
My generation don't like spending that much time in some else's imagination.
That's my generation, man...
''My generation would rather spend their time masturbating to Drawn Together and porn inspired by it, rather than helping out someone with mental health issues'' would probably be more accurate.
I'll tell you one thing he'll never do though, despite his best efforts, and this much is absolutely certain; Stop me from enjoying way more creative success than he'll ever know. As if maintaining the number one spot on the irish podcast charts for literally any lenght of time at all was a worthwhile achievement. Especially when you've already got in excess of a couple of hundred thousand twitter followers starting out.
>The Rubberbandits are an Irish comedy hip-hop duo from Limerick city
I tell you, tis times like this I'm thankful my parents aren't a pair of dosey losers who did a piss poor job of raising me...ha? I mean I'd be in an awful Dave Chambers of a way altogether llike.
Nigga,you just got Dave Chambers~
It's kind of a new phrase they're breakin' out at the moment to signify a tremendous loss of potential. If you look it up in the dictionary you just see a picture of David trying to conceal his visage with a tesco bag..
he's probably just lazy, but i can see where he's coming from a bit. i often choose daydreaming over movies, books, tv, etc. not always, but when you're inside your head all the time, it can become as much a form of entertainment as anything else.
Yea, for some reason I literally cannot read fiction anymore. I don't care about other people's stories, I have my own. The only thing I read now is non-fiction desu.
BLIND BOY PLEASE FUCK OFF OF Veeky Forums
I KNOW YOU'RE HERE
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO BE A RELEVANT ARTIST THEN STOP SHITPOSTING HERE WITH THE REST OF US.
You have no idea how bad it gets...
Does your man have the shirt off all the time because he think it's funny, because the other guy thinks it's funny and keeps telling him to leave it off, or because he likes having it off as often as possible?
Because whatever the case, it doesn't really do much more than inspire feelings of grave disappointment considering his apparent age.
who the fuck is this degenerate and why should I give a fuck
He's desperate to signal to other morally superior young Irish folk, like Liam Hogan, they love fellatiating each other with bad news
A celebrated artiste and wordsmith to rival Yeats himself, endorsed by the likes of Russel Brand (so you know he's good)
Look at that fat pig body on boatclub. What an oinker. Those man-tits are bursting through at the seams.
It’s a little unsatisfying but the verb form is fellate.
more like boatblob I'd say
Wtf happened here
"When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher. Accordingly, in reading, the work of thinking is, for the greater part, done for us. This is why we are consciously relieved when we turn to reading after being occupied with our own thoughts. But, in reading, our head is, however, really only the arena of some one else’s thoughts. And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal — that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk. Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid. For to read in every spare moment, and to read constantly, is more paralysing to the mind than constant manual work, which, at any rate, allows one to follow one’s own thoughts. Just as a spring, through the continual pressure of a foreign body, at last loses its elasticity, so does the mind if it has another person’s thoughts continually forced upon it."
-Schopenhauer
"I don’t like spending that much time in someone else’s imagination." - Dave Chambers
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What he reminds me of, right, is there was this one guy I went to secondary school with years ago, he was one of the tossers who dropped out after jr. cert to learn out to fix toilets or whatever, and could not stop acting like a complete twat at all times. But where this guy hadn't a hope outside of manual labour, Blindbags has just enough going on upstairs to be able to record a bitta music and make a bitta noise, but you can still sense the obnoxious shit head who thinks waay too highly of himself a mile away. Notice how nothing he says in this interview is even remotely funny.
It's incredible listening to him. I don't how exactly you get to a point where you're convinced enough of yourself to go ahead and and come out with this stuff and still honestly think you're being funny or otherwise clever. The whole thing is just "lol I mentioned arse children, HA, Michael Collins has an immaculate. I'm getting away with mad banter here lads!"0
The fact he feels the need to wear the bag all the time (even when he's on talk shows like the Late Late where literally every other comedian makes appearances in and outside of the various characters they play, like Patt Shortt for example) is an excuse to not have to be a recognizable face in the eyes of the public, so that he can keep doing the edgelord routine as an act. The bag is his get out of jail free card to say and do whatever he wants without having to worry about the potential consequences of being recognized in public as someone with a deeply unloveable exterior. Like, you couldn't say half the things that Blindboy says in his 'comedy' without looking like a proper nut, so this makes it so he can stay hidden. He then feeds off the attention he gets from getting laughs like any comedian, but the thing is, the edgier than though shit has barely any staying power as he does it, because he's simply not very good at it. The fellow behind the mask then has to balance his day-to-day living and connecting with people on a meaningful level, with the times of the day where he has to bag-up and say the saltiest shit that crosses his mind, which obviously isn't a very clever approach for long term sustainability when you also lump in the fact that he's decided to get really political too. The whole act is a mess. That's why they're old manager dropped them and said as much before doing so, that they needed to change their act. It's amazing how adamant he is at trying to convince himself that what he's doing is actually worth pushing on with.
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He puts out things like this to try to convince people that this is the one and only reason he wears the bag, when of course, the first lightbulb that goes off in the heads of anyone with a bit of common sense says "No wait, I think you're bullshitting us, otherwise why you need to explain it to us in a podcast wherein you are literally the only fucking one speaking, and nobody directly asked you the question, you just decided to fill us in case our minds would wander where you don't want them going..."
God this generation is such a waste of flesh.
>BOHOOOO I don't read because reading pierces my weak soul what if I stop being ME? ME is very important!
Fucking idiots i see your corpses hanging and it's wonderful
What did he do to you OP
I read a bit of his book in Easons and it pained me, it's in the bargain bin now
Used to have mental health issues, tried tweeting at them again and again (I'm also relatively unsociable but was going through a particularly weak, unsocial phase here) I basically was reaching out to them because I know they were big into the mental health rigamorale inbetween playing playstation and trying to figure my life out, but they kept trolling me via their twitter. Some of it was really fucked considering his public persona..
He basically has zero integrity and the whole 'using humour to prod' thing takes precedence over actually having compassion for people as he likes to preech.
Post the tweets if you're telling the truth.
Also he's dedicated a significant amount of his time to trolling exclusively me, because to him subversive humour literally seems to mean waiting for someone to have a stance or opinion on anything, and then saying something contrary to that ideal. Waiting in front of twitter to accompish this end is totally par for the course by Blindbugger standards.
I tried it before on reddit and most folks seems to think it was all in my head so I'm not doing it again. basically it was whole lot of him "subtely" mocking me by saying things on his twitter page contrary to what I was saying...
I'll give you one example of a really sad thing he did. He tweeted something to the effect of "Why do people always call us comedians? We just write music that happens to be funny sometimes!.."
To which I replied..
"Especially since one of the really cool things about the rubberbandits is that there's clearly a very serious side to them (an obvious reference to the fact that he's so deeply involved in the political debates and mental health advocacy).
As soon as I gave my reply, he then tweeted
"Flash back to however many years ago when somebody from 2FM asked us to name our favourite songs of 20XX and we couldn't remember 'em so we made 'em all up and changes the names! teeheehee!!"
He pulled that kinda thing a few times, but most of it was just him stalking my twitter and facebook page and then tweeting things on his own page that were intended to get my goat. The thing is, it would have been one thing if he was just teasing me, but this was during a time where I was genuinely going through a really inhibited patch (it stems from being bullied years ago in school essentially, I wont go into it) so he was basically incessantly baiting, teasing and targetting someone who had actual mental health issues over and over again on and off for a period of about 8 months, until I finally snapped out of it and got the help I needed. The way I feel now, I can't imagine ever falling into such a trap.
I think you have mental issues matey, get help
and again, I can easily appreciate how light-hearted and harmless that sounds, and how you could never imagine being actually insulted by it, but if you got a taste of the frame of mind I was in at the time, and saw how impaired I was, you'd realize the shittyness of it.
"ARGHHH MATEY, NO MENTAL ISSUES HAVE I, ANY LONGER, YA-HAR!"
It's a Schopenhauer quote that he have stolen.
«Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.»
Here's that tweet: twitter.com
But I don't understand why you feel persecuted here. How does their tweeting that relate to you at all?
I already said why.
Is this you?
Yes but your explanation does not make sense.
>they tweet something
>you respond
>they tweet something totally unrelated
>you sperg out and post shit threads on Veeky Forums every day
another example, he implied I was like this dude.
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It's hard to explain, but it was just a whole lot of him observing me and then pondering what he could say to ridicule based on what little he knew about me from my online persona, and it got weirder and darker as time went on. Don'lt worry you'll be hearing all about it one of the days anyway. Tis only a matter of time, laddie.
He has tweeted about Twilight Zone several times, and it looks like that episode is his favorite:
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What's your point? Honestly my man please seek help from a mental health professional.
You're in deep shit, David. Make no mistake.
>I remember being [in school at] seven years of age and it was before we had our first confession. I was acting the maggot in class, and the teacher who was a nun, got a clean jam jar, filled it full of water, put it up at the top of the class, and then said “this is Blindboy’s soul” and got a load of dirt from a pot and started throwing it in there. And I had to look at my dirty soul in a jam jar. She said that’s going to be clean next week when you talk to that man in the box, a stranger. My dad was pure socialist, he was a trade unionist, didn’t believe in religion. Luckily when I went home, my dad would say to me “that’s bullshit, don’t mind that stuff”. It’s a very odd thing to do to a child. I wouldn’t do that to a child, tell them something mad like that.
Probably a more interesting quote from him
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I actually think the two of us are a lot alike really, Dave, but the impression I get is that you're far more damning than I'm willing to be. You must have had a harder time than I did from the teachers in primary school considering the bizarre lenghts you're apparently willing to go to just to put me down. Better to prove them wrong, than right though. I mean if they're still kicking around you've got a great chance to sock it to 'em by doing the right thing now, you know? Proving 'em right by acting despicable when you've be given a golden opportunity to turn the tables is just silly.
hard to believe that even back then, the teacher's used to call him Blindboy.
Also I did seek help as I already mentioned and my therapist didn't approve of the bandits and reckoned that Blindboy's public image is indicative of some odd underlying stuff. It's actually really sad when you think that my therapist was able to pinpoint that, but the likes Niall Breslin and Brian Higgins and the rest of the Pieta House crowd take no notice of it, and continue to use him as a poster boy for mental health. Bressie is right. The mental health services in this country really are in a bad way.
Sounds like you're suffering from some sort of paranoia. There's no reason he'd single you out for making cryptic bullying comments about.
There is, I'm working on comedic cartoon and you're an Irish comedian who's carved out a bit of a niche as the voice of his generation, who would potentially see that as a threat and act out unfavourably as a result. The thing is, I'm not interested in competition here, only co-operation as I think nothing but good things could come from it. In anycase, I'm certainly not interested in seeing some make a disgrace of themselves in the eyes of the Irish public for no good reason.
I'm not Irish, mate. Best of luck to you.
Cheers, bruv. Didjaree doo, Kangaroos, wallabies, shrimp on the barbie~
m8, if you can't get over him, you might have to marry him and that's legal here now. just because you're obsessed with him doesn't mean everyone else has to be. i'd prefer to find out what happened to the blizzard of odd than rep of telly tbph, and they're both still
Here lad, you're a bit tapped in the head it seems. Don't like the rubberbandits socialist bollocks and hate how they're held up on a pedestal by young Ireland but you just come across as paranoid and obsessed.
Not at all. The level of vitriol and obsession stems purely from the fact that they caused that much a problem for me over an extended period of time. Once I've finished outing them as hypocrits and seen justice done this will all blow over like last weeks storm.
you're the only reason it's this week's storm. they're literally who's on Veeky Forums and you're the reason why they're mentioned at all. you look like you're advertising for them.
Maybe if you call venting about rampant hypocrisy and shithead behaviour advertising. That's not the kind of advertising I'd want hurled in my direction if my public persona was as self-righteous as Blindboy's. That's the kind of stuff that get's people talking. Once I've gone public with it, they'll be doing more than just talking about it though.
I'm going to start writing to RTE about renewed interest in their act if you keep bumping your shitty off topic thread about nobodies.
1. I was replying to the previous posted, which isn't bumping.
2. No amount of letters sent to RTE could possibly overwhelm the fact that almost a full year of my life was all but wasted because Dave Chambers was too busy acting the maggot on his twitter account to engage me in conversation and help pull me out of the rut in.
Why waste your time writing letters to RTE when you can sit back and watch comfortably as "impassioned" statements he's made in the past like this one here are all suddenly being used against him: i.pinimg.com
Cheese and onion taytos or nothing at all, man.
I don't know what that P.S is about there but I enjoy your constructive cynicism. Keep up the good work.
>1. I was replying to the previous posted, which isn't bumping.
MODS pls ban this new fag shitposter until he learns how to operate Veeky Forums
Jesus, it's like you feel nothing at all. They'll be hearing every grim and gory detail of it Dave. Don't worry, the right people will be thinking a lot less of you alright. You seem pretty stupid, so I'm guessing it'll take anywhere from up to a full year or two before the guilt finally catches up with you and you fully appreciate how much of a problem you were, and easily you could have been the biggest help in the world. Back to your preparing your next speech there on the importance of having love and compassion for your fellow man, you complete and utter joke.
> I enjoy your constructive cynicism. Keep up the good work.
I fucking know you do, sure you wouldn't have a book deal or a podcast if it wasn't for me calling you out on your own bullshit on here anyway. I hope you're enjoying yourself.
Show proof of the tweets and not the ones above which prove nattin