| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili 23:20 - Oct 3 with 986 views | Miaow |
Taking the Saudi money to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. |  |
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| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 00:23 - Oct 4 with 856 views | reusersfreekicks |
Awful
Jimmy Carr too? |  | | |
| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 00:30 - Oct 4 with 845 views | Perublue |
I’m sure he’s just doing his bit to improve Saudi - Iranian relations which are always a little strained let’s say.
I would myself be a little cautious about ANY joke I’d make if performing there though. |  |
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| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 02:35 - Oct 4 with 742 views | mutters |
Do you buy fuel from a petrol station in the UK? Chances are you are indirectly giving money to the Saudis.
This isn't a direct pop at you but more around how blooming difficult it is to decouple ourselves from certain regimes/practices. The same with fruit and veg, often I am about to buy something and then I see it's been flown in from halfway round the world. [Post edited 4 Oct 2:35]
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| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 02:53 - Oct 4 with 711 views | jontysnut |
| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 00:30 - Oct 4 by Perublue |
I’m sure he’s just doing his bit to improve Saudi - Iranian relations which are always a little strained let’s say.
I would myself be a little cautious about ANY joke I’d make if performing there though. |
Their contract allegedly forbids them from saying anything nasty about Saudi Arabia, the royal family or religion so Jimmy Carr's knob gags should be ok. |  | | |
| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 03:06 - Oct 4 with 696 views | J2BLUE |
Good. Hope he's coining it in.
None of us know what he plans to do with the money. |  |
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| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 08:29 - Oct 4 with 409 views | Kievthegreat |
| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 02:35 - Oct 4 by mutters |
Do you buy fuel from a petrol station in the UK? Chances are you are indirectly giving money to the Saudis.
This isn't a direct pop at you but more around how blooming difficult it is to decouple ourselves from certain regimes/practices. The same with fruit and veg, often I am about to buy something and then I see it's been flown in from halfway round the world. [Post edited 4 Oct 2:35]
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Being in the same economic system as an evil regime is very different to actively working for them. It's impossible to avoid indirect interaction because you can't check the origin of your fuel, your electricity, the oil that made your plastic, etc... Choosing to work for a state funded and state organised event is an informed decision you made to work with that regime.
Put another way, if it was 1938 and someone had just gone and done a performance for a Nazi festival, it's a bit rich to then turn around and say, 'well you ate some German sausages, none of us are perfect'. |  | | |
| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 08:33 - Oct 4 with 390 views | WeWereZombies |
| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 02:35 - Oct 4 by mutters |
Do you buy fuel from a petrol station in the UK? Chances are you are indirectly giving money to the Saudis.
This isn't a direct pop at you but more around how blooming difficult it is to decouple ourselves from certain regimes/practices. The same with fruit and veg, often I am about to buy something and then I see it's been flown in from halfway round the world. [Post edited 4 Oct 2:35]
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All very true but I think it was in one of Monbiot's books that I read a comparison of the environmental costs of growing under glass and other such intensive agriculture with importing from far afield, surprisingly the high food miles option is sometimes less of an impact on the environment. [Post edited 4 Oct 8:33]
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| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 08:37 - Oct 4 with 374 views | WeWereZombies |
| Bit of a shame about Omid Djalili on 08:29 - Oct 4 by Kievthegreat |
Being in the same economic system as an evil regime is very different to actively working for them. It's impossible to avoid indirect interaction because you can't check the origin of your fuel, your electricity, the oil that made your plastic, etc... Choosing to work for a state funded and state organised event is an informed decision you made to work with that regime.
Put another way, if it was 1938 and someone had just gone and done a performance for a Nazi festival, it's a bit rich to then turn around and say, 'well you ate some German sausages, none of us are perfect'. |
And yet the European Union and others tried to put pressure on Russia but limiting the import of their oil, so the concept exists that people can try to undermine distant oppressive regimes by economic choices. However when it comes to the crunch point of eating or staying warm the resolve falters. | |
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