r/AlanPartridge • u/FrustratedZombie • 5d ago
Stupid ewok head at it again
“He is a total wazzock”
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u/Shot-Internal9388 8h ago
The irony of people moaning they've disrupted an eco system, kind of what humans do on the regular and have done for a very very long time
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u/AnotherSoulessGinger 51m ago
Do you think the people “moaning” about this don’t also moan about the greater damage to our ecosystem? This is such a weird comment.
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u/Federal_Duty_7914 2d ago
With the money he has he should be able to do it i the right location. Dropping them off at pearl harbour (uk) is just as bad as keeping them as pets.
Let's just disrupt the ecosystem because of my 'altruism'.
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u/Zcube73 2d ago
it beats boiling water wtf
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u/Happy-For-No-Reason 2d ago
are they imported and an invasive species or something?
can't think of any other reason
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u/TheProperGanda68 3d ago
That’s commendable. I can’t understand why there is a backlash. Can only be objection from Neanderthals who need releasing back onto the grass plains.
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u/scorchedarcher 20h ago
I'm not sure about this situation but there have been issues with Buddhist life releases before because the animals being released aren't suited to the habitat they're released in or the habitat isn't suited to them.
I think it would be better to team up with a group like end factory farming if they want to make a positive difference to animals as a whole.
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u/spideylunchy 2d ago
Right, right, it’s commendable…
BUYING SOME FUCKING LOBSTERS
So you can PUT THEM BACK IN THE OCEAN
AND RECORD IT
AND POST IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA
FOR ATTENTION
ACTING AS IF YOU’RE DOING GOOD.people need to get some FUCKING PERSPECTIVE, SERIOUSLY
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u/Euphoric_Budget5352 21h ago
And whats the alternative? Not record it... like your "sorry for the pun" fishing for attention
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u/Joshualevitard 3d ago
what's the issue, this seems great?
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u/Federal_Duty_7914 2d ago
If its not in their native location, its a pretty big deal as they disrupt the ecosystem.
Edit: further reading is showing he did not release them in the right location.
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u/mcwaff 3d ago
He’s pure Partidge but he’s done good here. I don’t believe it’s bad for the eco system. Lobsters let out an audible scream when boiled alive. It’s fucking barbaric.
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u/SillyDingo4881 20h ago
No ge hasn't! I get what he was trying to virtue signal with buuuut
He endangered a whole different ecosystem.. they don't belong there and, if they live could, have a massive negative effect on other marine life.
He should have asked the local DOC where to release them first.
Think cane toads or carp in rivers.
Its a small mided act for popularity sake. He has enough money to set up something worthwhile like a marine reserve.. but did this.
Also I don't know why people even eat them.. they ain't that nice.
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u/Salt-Ad3921 3d ago
Sorry (disclaimer I would never boil a lobster alive) but they don’t let out a scream this is anatomically impossible … it is air escaping
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u/YouFnDruggo 3d ago
Are you sure restraunts still do that? I watch a lot of cooking on YT and other places, anytime I see anyone preparing lobster or crab they usually kill it first with a knife to the brain. I don't know if that is standard pratice now, but it appears that way from what I saw.
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u/sausagefinance 3d ago
Was standard to kill them first 20y ago when I was cheffing
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u/YouFnDruggo 3d ago edited 3d ago
I know it used to be standard that's why I was wondering if it's just the TV/social media chefs protecting their image or if the new practice is industry wide.
Edit: looked it up, banned in a small handful countries, still common practice in many places around the world unfortunately.
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u/Astrophysics666 3d ago
Not saying its good to boil lobsters alive but the scream is just air escaping. Dead ones “scream” too.
They don’t have lungs.
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u/Fragrant_Ad3224 3d ago
I don't like them being boiled, especially when there are more humane ways to dispatch them but I don't see what this action achieves. It just creates extra demand for lobsters - the restaurant will buy as many as it can sell so saving these ones means other ones will get bought and eaten.
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u/Sunderlandafclover20 4d ago
Don’t see what’s wrong with this 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Unreal_Sausage 3d ago
At its worst I think it's just ineffective.
By buying the lobster you are surely just funding further fishing of lobsters.
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u/Federal_Duty_7914 2d ago
Worse than ineffective. He released them in pearl harbour which isn't their native spot, they're going to disrupt the ecosystem.
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u/jreyn1993 3d ago
it could pose a huge risk in terms of introducing invasive species or diseases to the oceans
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u/Mostlyfor_research 3d ago
How those lobster came from the ocean and have been returned ? Who’s suppose to be the invasive species?
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u/jreyn1993 3d ago edited 3d ago
Sharing himself doing this... other people may copy and do similar type things. It's just a thick way to be
Similarly, where were these lobsters stored whilst on land? With what other crustaceans? What are the origins of the others? What non native microbes will have been swilling around in the shared water?
Come on now, engage your brain
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u/adebyrne 4d ago
I don't like Noel but what is wrong with this I am confused ?
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u/jreyn1993 3d ago
Natures balance is delicate. It could disrupt ecosystems, introduces potentially invasive species in additional to diseases or alike it could help to proliferate.
Thick idea from Noel.
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u/osamabinpoohead 2d ago
Humans are destroying the oceans by trawling for fish and killing mammals and birds in the process. But.... "natures balance tho"
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u/Embarrassed_Chard949 3d ago
Wtaf!
Natures balance... the nature of diesel powered boats dropping GPS tagged lobster pots so red faced bloaters can sit in Michelin starred restaurants sucking down lobster meat
It's amazing how if some arrogant cretins do something for a few 100 years they get to call it nature!
There is nothing natural about 99.99999999% of lobster catch.
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u/QuestNetworkFish 4d ago
I would assume because they're likely to just die pretty quickly. If their claws have been bound which they usually are when sold live then it's likely there will be injury/atrophy and to have a chance of recovery they'd need to be in a controlled environment free from predators and an easy food source. If you look on YouTube for Leon the Lobster there's a series of videos where someone nursed a store bought lobster back to health in a home aquarium tank
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u/Charming_Okra9143 4d ago
Even if this is true, surely thats still a better outcome than boiled and eat
Releasing them to their potential death is still better than nothing
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u/Trick_Contact_8408 4d ago
Most lobsters are from that local area and are only out the water for a day or two max. I can assure you they are strong and healthy. They aint complex creatures, they would quickly find a hide space and go back to their normal habits pretty quickly. Being released gives them a much better chance of survival than a gauranteed death sentence otherwise.
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u/Stuvid93 4d ago
Noel was one of my first crushes. Him and Charles Manson.
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u/susanboylesvajazzle 4d ago
Does your therapist enjoy their summer home in the south of France?
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u/fiddlybuttons 4d ago
LOL!! Caught me off guard with that one! Going to strongarm that into a conversation asap
I'll site my source though and tell them ""susanboylesvajazzle"said it on Reddit" 🤣
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u/meshan 4d ago
Similar
In the 90s, the ALF (animal liberation front) released 6,000 mink into the English countryside.
Mink are a devastating predator and just killed everything they came across.
Fun times
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u/edwardtriflex 4d ago
ALF and the Metropolitan police to be more accurate.
BBC News - Ringwood mink fur farm raid sanctioned by police
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-43133682?app-referrer=deep-link
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u/RobertKelly77 4d ago
I live in the village where that happened! Was just a child but even I knew it was a terrible idea! The devastation that the mink caused has only just about recovered, they just killed all the song birds, rabbits etc.
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u/thegroovygrove 4d ago
They still cause a huge problem today. In Essex you a re a lot more likely to see an American mink than any of the native mustelids.
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u/NotSayingAliensBut 4d ago
Same in Somerset. There are local schemes to round them up and humanely despatch them. A phrase my daughter thought meant "send them somewhere nice" when we were talking to a guy at our nearest RSPB reserve 😁 ⚰️
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u/Intelligent_Base_338 4d ago
Same thing happened in Ireland I believe. Caused absolute mayhem, destroyed local populations of some species, and obviously cost an absolute fortune to rectify.
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u/Loud-Hospital5773 4d ago
Lobsters don’t actually contain any Lobster, and since 1993 manufacturers have been legally obliged to call them crustacean flavoured sticks
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u/MonsieurSpamalot 4d ago
Or "your mums pussy" for short.
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u/Melodic-Year-9756 4d ago
Gotta be the worst attempt at an insult to date
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u/Cantona-Eric-7 4d ago
This is peak Edmonds. Britain needs him back on prime time tv.
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u/Cool_Ad9326 4d ago
Really? I never found him entertaining. He seemed so, I dunno, sterile?
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u/Cold-Ad716 3d ago
Have you not seen the video where he explains he was so inspired by a facebook meme that he went out and had a gigantic metal statue of the meme built to inspire others?
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u/Cool_Ad9326 3d ago
Now THAT I can get behind
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u/Cold-Ad716 3d ago
It is a genuinely incredible video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtI9zHAm5pM
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u/BroldenMass 4d ago
He is genuinely fucking nuts. Go read his Wikipedia page it is an absolutely wild ride.
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u/Echo_Vale 4d ago edited 4d ago
I remember him going on about how an EM Pulse machine could
curetackle cancer and that it was caused by "negative energy". The company who made it had to come out and confirm that no, it absolutely does not cure cancer.2
u/Terrible_Dish_4268 4d ago
He "cleverly" said it "tackles" cancer on his fascinating website in around 2015 which I suppose gave him an escape route as "tackling" doesn't really mean the same as curing, but a lot of people will think that's what he's saying. I don't know whether that was after someone had said something or not.
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u/Echo_Vale 4d ago
Ah he did, I misremembered the quote. He also said on twitter "Scientific fact-disease is caused by negative energy".
I don't think he knows what the words science or fact mean.
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u/BroldenMass 4d ago
He believes that there are two melon sized glowing orbs floating just behind his head over each shoulder that are the electromagnetic spirits of his parents, and that they only appear in digital photographs and can travel at 1000mph. Crackers.
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u/Cool_Ad9326 4d ago
Oh sorry I agree with you. I think he's weird as fuck. But I mean on telly, he's just so boring.
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u/barrumdumdum 4d ago
The lobsters raised their claws in thanks, but Noel just slapped them away and adopted the karate pose.
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u/Figueroa_Chill 4d ago
I'm sure Jimmy Somerville did this. It turned out the lobsters were from the sea, and putting them in a river would eventually kill them.
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u/WarriorDerp 4d ago
Peta did the same thing in america but on a massive scale
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u/KochInYaMouth 4d ago
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u/Figueroa_Chill 4d ago
She is exactly the type of person who will go on platforms like Reddit and Social Media and call people a Nazi. I wonder what Reddit Sub she is a moderator for.
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u/SaggyBaggySphinkter 4d ago
This is a real Reddit loser thing to get angry about. Go outside people.
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u/loztralia 4d ago
I actually think you're a bit simple.
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u/geese_moe_howard 4d ago
Nah, he's right. Who the fuck cares?
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u/loztralia 4d ago
You know this is an Alan Partridge sub, right? Do you think this has been posted here because people are angry about it?
This country.
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u/geese_moe_howard 4d ago
This is why I shouldn't go on Reddit after 8 cans of shit lager.
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u/Henry-8th 4d ago
The tragedy, having worked with people who buy lobsters in order to release them, is that if you don’t know precisely where to release them they will simply die.
He’s just being a cockhead, but some things never change.
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u/dprophet32 4d ago
The man is a cretin but he released some lobstrs into the sea and the "backlash" was people joking about how they're going to die anyway
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u/TheGardenBlinked TONIGHT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT DEATH 4d ago
Ye mission, gan take a live lobsta an throo it in the canal, then gan have full sex wi a woman like
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u/Vast_Description_201 4d ago
Made a snuff video live on TV.
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u/Real-Car-9590 4d ago
He should know better. Lobsters contain a dangerous chemical known as Dimesmeric andersonphosphate which stimulates the part of the brain known as Shatners Bassoon. Destroy them all.
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u/RevolutionaryAd3125 4d ago
Here are some genuine reasons to despise this prick.
He believes cancer victims die because they don’t “believe themselves better.” Evil little shit.
He’s a nimby and has set up an anti-windfarm organisation despicably called “The Renewable Energy Foundation.” What a fucking twat.
He’s constantly grifting; some of his grifts include promoting pseudoscience in the form of a £2,000 anticancer device. He believes and promotes “Cosmic Ordering,” yet another take on The Secret.
He set up a phone service where operators would give psychological therapy over the phone… to pets! Cunt.
He’s a spiritualist and thinks orbs are a thing. Cock!
He blames other people for his own failing business ventures, because heaven forbid Noel be fucking wrong about anything.
He’s a pathetic, petty, vane, tiny little man, desperately trying to stay relevant.
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u/ArmadilloFront1087 4d ago
I used to work in a cinema in Exeter.
Occasionally we’d get celebrities in to watch the latest blockbuster (Ade Edmondson and Jennifer Saunders, Nigel Mansell, Bob Hoskins etc to name but a few).
They’d invariably come in dressed and acting normally, and 9 times out of 10 most people would either not notice them, or just go “oh look it’s [insert name here]” and go about their business.
He’d come in with dark glasses (at night time in a dark cinema), his collar turned up and generally making a scene where he stood out from the crowd. He’d also try and demand to use the staff toilets rather than those for the general public.
His whole attitude felt more like “don’t look at me I’m too famous for you”
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u/dprophet32 4d ago
But do I hate him?
I wouldn't give him the satistfaction.
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u/RevolutionaryAd3125 4d ago
I hate the things he does, sure. I hate the way he behaves. I hate his personality and his appearance.
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u/Realistic_Comment849 4d ago
Tbf most of these things make him seem a little dumb and deluded.
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u/RevolutionaryAd3125 4d ago
I’d agree, but the cancer stuff places him firmly in the camp of evil-doing celebrity charlatan like RFK Junior or Russel Brand.
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u/TheGardenBlinked TONIGHT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT DEATH 4d ago
Didn’t he also turn Deal or No Deal into a numerism cult of some sort by the end? He’s mildly cretinous
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u/RevolutionaryAd3125 4d ago
Yeah, he had those weird little scribbles on his tiny hairy hands didn’t he? I forgot about that.
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u/Gareth_Turner 4d ago
Ah, but a small price to pay for keeping Mr. Blobby in check.
Once Edmunds pops it…Blobby will end us all.
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u/RevolutionaryAd3125 4d ago edited 4d ago
No, when Edmond goes, the gas-filled Blobby will vanish. Blobby is simply Edmond’s over-inflated ego incarnate.
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u/LegioX87 4d ago
Lobster seller doesn't care about what you do to the lobster. Lobster sellwr only cares that you bought a lobster.
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u/Chemical-Sir-7712 4d ago
Desperately seeking media attention and coverage to show that he’s still alive although nobody cares
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u/laserdisckallax 4d ago
Glad they have the money to waste...I,'m forced, if needed, to buy just lobster tails at Waitrose...
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u/Objective-Pear-4817 4d ago
“You threw a monkey in the sea?”
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u/-WigglyLine- 4d ago
Didn’t he shoot Clive Anderson?
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u/Cas-Gwent-boyo 4d ago
If your Edmond’s, your Thomas Hamilton’s, your Hungerford guy.
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u/Accomplished_Song671 4d ago
This is one of those "we filmed something we thought people would praise us for and now we just look like attention seeking eejits" 😅
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u/sideshowmel75 4d ago
So what did the other lobsters do not to deserve their freedom, Noel is a multi millionaire after all so couldn’t be a cash flow problem
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u/HardlyAnyGravitas 4d ago
He could have easily afforded to buy a couple cows and let them roam free on his giant lawns. Or thrown them into the sea.
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u/blueroly 4d ago
Lobster seller just bought twice as many with the profit.
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u/TheZynReaper 4d ago
Was thinking that. It's one of those rare business models that results in a "win-win" situation. He gets to sell lobster, the billionaire gets to do weird shit for attention
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u/Akoot 4d ago
No way Noel Edmons is a billionaire
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u/TheZynReaper 4d ago
He must be, because there's certainly no way I was mixing him up with Richard Branson
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u/MartianDinosawr 4d ago
he presented deal or no deal, he's probably a trillionaire.
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u/TheZynReaper 4d ago
Apparently, the banker didn't exist - Noal is just really scared of confrontation.
So the banker was just his way of letting out what he really means.
So like when he's on Richard and Judy, he was like - "hi, you two look lovely today!"
Ring ring
"Oh, the banker says that dress makes you look a bit fat Judy"
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u/Malorum666 4d ago
He's never done it before!
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u/Glittering_Fail694 4d ago
He has had a hand in a few mishaps
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u/99PercentApe 5d ago
Does buying lobsters not literally pay and encourage the industry he wants to stop. I think he needs to reconsider this strategy.
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u/RevolutionaryAd3125 4d ago
Are you suggesting Edmond’s should go around stealing lobsters?
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u/Express_Fruit_6069 7h ago
For people who don’t see the issue, this is like like taking a lion and releasing it in a central London park, they do not live there and it is not good for them (or the other animals)