Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has dubbed Ed Sheeran a “p****” who has “done the wrong thing” amid the ongoing controversy over Macklemore being pulled as a support act from Sheeran’s tour after expressing solidarity with Palestinians on stage.
For anyone who doesn’t want to watch the included video: p**** = prick
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2nd Edit: I have just learned that Waters has very publicly supported Putin in the war on Ukraine saying, that Putin governs carefully and makes decisions based on consensus? So it’s pricks all around in this story.
I doubt it’s crumbling. Most Americans can’t even point to Palestine on a map. Most Palestine supporters probably can’t even point to it on a map
People who like Ed sheeran do not care lol
Money? Or Soul?
I’ll admit, I’ve never been put in a position to choose between a shit ton of money or my soul. But I would like to think I’d acknowledge that I’d feel like a fucking trashcan for the rest of my life if I took the money. And factor in that it could kill my career and then there wouldn’t be anymore big paydays.
“A week before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Waters told an RT interviewer that rumours of Russia launching an invasion were “bullshit” and Russophobic propaganda.”
For some reason when people become very successful in one field, they act like experts in everything.
Ah, the old Aaron Rodgers “I can throw a ball very well, so I must be a genius” syndrome.
For some reason when people become very successful in one field, they act like experts in everything.
I think it’s more “very successful in a public-facing high exposure field” rather than generally very succesful in a field.
Human beings tend to look up to those who are famous and, IMHO, because many if not most of famous people end up interiorizing on their side of that equation that, since so many look up to them, their opinion is more important than that of other people.
I’m not sure if they end up believing that they know better than others in fields that have nothing to do with their expertise, if they’re just leveraging that human behaviour and their fame to convince people of something they think is important, or even if they’re publicly opiniating in controversial subjects purelly to get more media attention because in their domain more public attention turns into more $$$ for them, but ultimatelly from the outside all 3 motivations yield the same behavior from the famous and hence look the same.
Censoring “prick” as “p****” makes it sound a lot worse than it actually is. I can think of other five-letter words starting with P…
The word is PUSSY right? Like PRICK they can be used on the internet.
That’s what I expected but in the video he actually calls him a prick. I left it censored in the headline just to be true to the original on the source.
I’m not sure if the mods allow it, but journalistically I believe using “… p[rick]” or “… p**** [prick]” would have been a clearer way to include it.
A mod bot might be too dumb to get it though, not sure.
Yeah, prick isn’t what I was expecting it to be either, though I’d accept either of the two obvious options as accurate. 😀
Oh it was prick? I thought it was pussy lol
Uh I know! Is it a prawn?
Fookin’ prawns
*Fokken prawns.
He’s actually speaking the world’s (probably) youngest language - Afrikaans. South African Dutch.
Penis?
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Waters is a fucking prick for siding with Russia over their genocide of Ukraine.
I hadn’t hear this so I looked it up. You aren’t kidding.
The veteran Pink Floyd rocker, Roger Waters, has addressed the UN security council at Russia’s invitation, and called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine. But he was denounced by the Ukrainian ambassador as “just another brick in the wall” of Moscow’s propaganda.
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The Russian delegation’s invitation followed an interview Waters had given to the Berliner Zeitung in which he had been highly complimentary towards Vladimir Putin, who he said, according to a translation on his own website, “governs carefully, making decisions on the grounds of a consensus in the Russian Federation government”.
What the fuck. Putin governs carefully and makes decisions based on consensus? I guess you’re right. It’s pricks all around.
But he was denounced by the Ukrainian ambassador as “just another brick in the wall”
Savage.
At least he wasn’t Amused to Death
the thing with Waters is that he’s an oldschool conspiracy nut - so for every reasonable point he makes about 50-100 bullshit points that negate one good point he makes every now and then. He could’ve said stopped at ceasefire without elaborating and it would’ve been naive but benign - but he decided to elaborate and it was downhill.
At least he’s not making documentaries whitewashing the dictators like Oliver Stone.
Is it lead poisoning or something making these people who should absolutely know better, show their whole arse?
Putin
someone tells me waters is being paid as a shill to be the face of his propaganda, much like others: tulsi, seagull,etc.
I lean more towards Putin having kompromat on them.
He might be a prick for a whole lot of reasons, but he’s right about Palestine.
IMO it makes it better. If this is too wrong for waters then you know Sheeran fucked up bad.
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Roger Waters is famously a fucking douche canoe. I wouldn’t trust anything that comes out of his mouth. He has an agenda.
Or an account of, “Takes one to know ones.”
Also: Waters supports Russia, so they’re both *****
I like to think there are levels to Pickery
even a broken clock is right twice each day…
Your underlying point is correct and I agree
But the pedant in me hates this saying. It’s almost never true. A clock broken in a very specific way is right twice a day, but how many clocks get broken like that? If they get smashed, and hands fall off, they can’t even show a valid time. Even then, they’re more likely to just run at the wrong speed, which makes it VERY unlikely they’ll show the correct time even once a day. Also most clocks are digital now! If those break, they show nothing!
Thank you for coming to my Tod Talk
If you would have said “Thank you for coming to my Tick Talk” you would’ve won the internet! /s
It’s because the correct saying is “a stopped clock is right twice a day”.
That makes way more sense!
You used to have to wind up your clocks so having a stopped clock was a regular occurrence.
I have a mechanical wrist watch, so I do know this, but it’s got an automatic winding mechanism and I pretty much never take it off, so I rarely think about winding it except when it drifts too far. I really should have put 2 and 2 together before now. It never occurred to me to check that people were using the idiom correctly.
literally “the worst person you know makes a fair point”
I knew it was over for Sheeran when I read his excuses post on social media and he included a paragraph that started with “I am not complicit.”
If you have to come out publicly to argue you’re not complicit you’re probably complicit.
He is, too, he really both-sides’ed the whole situation and went on to do the tour even after every other act pulled out.
IDK what sort of cancellation fee they’re threatening him with but I think he had a great excuse for the courts when the producers and venues sabotaged his tour.
He’s a Putinist and an anti-vaxer.
has been a staunch Palestinian supporter. can’t win them all.
Love his music.
Fuck Putin. Free Palestine.
*Insert confused Jackie Chan face
Waters thinks all war, and imperialism, is bad.
Waters thinks that when the war started in Ukraine, Biden should’ve called Putin and told him to cut it out, because the US is a major world power. Waters thinks (or at least claimed at a concert) that Zelensky should be sitting down and making a deal with Putin for peace, because war is bad so ending it should always be the goal regardless of what you lose or give up… He didn’t say that last part, that’s me being uncharitable.
I mean, just listen to The Wall and realize he’s had almost 50 years to calcify on “War is Bad.”
Though, he does correctly point out that every modern US president is a war criminal.
Jackie Chan is another piece of shit, the CCP gave him a theatre chain to operate in China and now he works for them, he also opposes democracy in Hong Kong where he was born.
Thanks. I edited in the Putin information when I learned of it about an hour ago. Might not have propagated to your instance yet though.
Waters is a prick, fuck that guy.
Roger Waters
Oh boy, this is going to invite some hot takes in the comments.
Why’s that?
A controversial figure. Very out spoken against Israel, but has sided with Russia in a few occasions. While he did call Russia’s invasion of Ukraine illegal, he stated that the West were provocateurs. Also there’s the whole Waters versus Gilmour battle over the years.
he’s said far more than “the west were provocateurs”. https://piefed.social/comment/12993281 he is a kremlin supporter and i’d say a tankie
IIUC, he denies there’s a genocide against the Uighurs.
Is he controversial because he has nuanced opinions?
I would say a lot of people would claim someone is controversial if their opinions differ. Roger is complicated, some would say he’s on the spectrum, (I think some people would say we’re all on the spectrum though), but everyone is complicated.
this entire reply chain has been too charitable in representing his opinions. see my other comment
you definitely shouldn’t have gotten these downvotes though. the person you replied to made him sound fairly tame
He’s also very passionate about exposing his views and says exactly what his uncharitable opinions are about people. He’s intense to the point of being rude, in other words, so people react more strongly to him and that makes him a more controversial figure.
Depends on your perspective
Around here, yes, that’s not permitted. See how you’re being downvoted for even asking?
S l a m s
If I went to school for journalism, and my editor told me I needed to use the word slams in my headlines, I’d start looking into careers in woodworking.
“Hit 'em with a chair! Flying elbow! HE’S GETTING THE LADDER, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.”
A complete POS called Sheeran a name and is right. You are really at low point when that asshole Waters calls you out and is right.
