Chris Barrie has updated his website

[Bargain Bin Holly]

http://www.chrisbarrie.co.uk/

He mentions the weather, tanks, and his dislike of people requesting his appearance on podcasts; but he also included this tidbit on future Red Dwarf and Brittas Empire:

“At the risk of repeating something I seem to have said many times over the last umpteen years, I simply do not know if/when we will be doing more Red Dwarf. Over the winter of 2015/16 when we made series 11 and 12, some common sense momentum seemed to be building, but, since then, the project seems to have juddered to a halt. In the desert of silence I do encounter the occasional droplet of positivity but that’s it. If the droplet ever becomes a trickle, I shall of course leap to the keyboard and let you know.

The Brittas position is not dissimilar. Since the promising newspaper articles of a couple of years ago and the enthusiasm of the Reunion last year, it all seems to have gone all quiet on the Whitbury front. All I can do is continue to express my desire to recreate the chainsaw voiced ogre and that is something I shall certainly keep doing.”

Thanks to Chris Barrie Fans for making this known on Twitter.

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[The Data Doctor]

Yeah, the “naturally” is so suspect. Either he worded things very clumsily or he wanted to signal that he’s against some major types of medicine.
God, imagine if the show actually makes it through its current difficulties and a new series/special gets commissioned, but it can’t go ahead because Chris refuses to get vaccinated… I hope I didn’t will that outcome into being just by thinking of it.

Well if nothing else, it would certainly be in character for Rimmer!

[Warbodog]

I thought he was just doing a conspiracy theorist joke to complain about things vagely without getting into a genuine and potentially alienating political rant. If so, that worked well.

[RunawayTrain]

Updated again – I thought hooray, phew, maybe he’ll have thought better of it … nope, still left it in there (and added a couple of other, erm, remarks).

I know it’s his own site and he can say what he wants, it just seems unexpectedly unprofessional.

[Flap Jack]

Incredible. Not only did he ensure that the most offensive parts of his last update were repeated – as if he’s hoping to make it permanent until he can replace it with “and now that the downward spiral is complete and humanity has been fully enslaved by the technocratic tyrants” – but he added that we’re only a few months into the “agenda”??? Does he think the globalist psychopaths only started up in February of this year?

I know we’ve all been taking the indefinite TOS maintenance badly, but you’ve got to keep a sense of proportion.

And “anti motorist agenda”… are you kidding me Chris.

[loadoftottnumb]

I feel a bit sad really, he seems a bit paranoid and bitter, hopefully it’s just a case of misinterpreting text and he’s not being too serious. 

[Dave]

Yeah, I am hoping that this is intended as exaggerated humour that is being lost slightly in text form.

[Jonathan Capps]

The anti car agenda stuff is almost comforting as it’s more like the grumpy old Chris you’d expect but yeah… What the fuck is the other agenda supposed to be?

[Dave]

I think I’ve just found the most controversial statement of all, buried in the Biography section:

“The return of Red Dwarf continued in 2012, reviving the original format of six half hours recorded in front of a studio audience. This series is accepted as being RDX, with Back to Earth labelled as RDIX.“

[Kris ‘Drivaaar’ Carter]

Just imagine if Chris would be allowed to update TOS. That’d be… something.

[Pete Part Three]

Look, I think we’ve all got something to bring to this conversation, but I think that from now on what Chris Barrie should bring is silence.

[Moonlight]

[Dave]

[Flap Jack]

[Stephen Abootman]

[Stephen Abootman]

Looks like it’s been amended slightly again:

“Speaking of agendas we are now a few months into the ‘new’
agenda and Britain stumbles on with its incompetent (by design)
leadership. There is a pitiful list of candidates vying to take over
from the outgoing self serving con artist, but whoever ‘wins’ the
contest will simply continue to take the instructions laid down by the
globalist psychopaths to carry on with the relentless downward spiral
towards total technocratic tyranny and human enslavement… But that’s no
reason to feel down!

We must hold our heads high, straighten our backs and gather our
tools. We must climb up into the cab, fire up the slumbering beast and
crack on. Come what may, we must keep our businesses afloat, stay as
naturally healthy as possible and pursue enjoyable stress relieving
pastimes. Above all, we must stay positive!”

[Jonathan Capps]

Somehow, the slight tweaking and making it fit the exact same rant feels even worse.

[RunawayTrain]

Oh, for …

*facepalm*

[Dave]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Dollar Pound]

this thread is so mean and bullying

[Flap Jack]

this thread is so mean and bullying

[Dollar Pound]

cb is not being antisemitic.  he is a cool dude and a lovely guy

[Formica]

cb is not being antisemitic.  he is a cool dude and a lovely guy

lol. lmao

[Formica]

if you’re being serious. it’s up for debate whether he means to be antisemitic. in fact, he almost certainly doesn’t. but he is objectively is spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

The dude has posted conspiratorial drivel on his website and you don’t expect us to at least mock it?

[Dollar Pound]

i guess i should expect total human enslavement even from fans of a witty, deep, smart show, yeah

[Jenuall]

[Dave]

There is a pitiful list of candidates vying to take over
from the outgoing self serving con artist

In fairness Boris Johnson is very outgoing.

[Stephen Abootman]

Another edit. Naturally the ‘main stream media’ would get a mention at some point.

August 2022

Hello Everyone…

It was great to see those who came to recent events, most of which
were well organised and a pleasure to attend. There remain some
outstanding issues with the Southampton Comic Con and I am still hoping
that these will be resolved sometime soon.

Meanwhile the destructive agenda continues and the British state/main
stream media is playing its part by updating us on the two pitiful and
entirely unsuitable candidates vying to take over from the outgoing self
serving con artist. Whoever ‘wins’ the contest will of course simply
continue to take the instructions laid down by the globalist psychopaths
to carry on with the relentless downward spiral towards total
technocratic tyranny and human enslavement… But that’s no reason to feel
down!

We must hold our heads high, straighten our backs and gather our
tools. We must climb up into the cab, fire up the slumbering beast
(petrol or diesel of course!) and crack on. Come what may, we must keep
our businesses afloat, stay as naturally healthy as possible and pursue
enjoyable stress relieving pastimes. Above all, we must stay positive!

[Jonathan Capps]

(petrol or diesel of course!)

Is this new? Up yours, Bobby!

[Dave]

[Jenuall]

[Rudolph]

[Ridley]

This has been sat on my desktop since May. You’re welcome.

[Moonlight]

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

[Jonathan Capps]

That is perfection, Ridley.

[The Data Doctor]

I feel sorry for him. Assuming this isn’t some sort of elaborate wind-up, Chris seems to have gone off the deep end big time. I hope he can get the help that he needs. 

[International Debris]

Four months into being housebound with long Covid and I have very, very little sympathy for people who think the suffering of hundreds of millions of people is some kind of conspiracy to enslave us.

[RunawayTrain]

Ugh, so sorry to hear that ID.  I have ME and it’s had me housebound a lot so I profoundly sympathise. There’s lots of support online if you haven’t found it already – I hope for you that you don’t become a permanent member of this most rubbish club, but you are welcome for however long you might be here.

[Warbodog]

“(petrol or diesel of course!)” was where it all went from pitiably amusing to oh fuck off for me.

[International Debris]

Ugh, so sorry to hear that ID.  I have ME and it’s had me housebound a lot so I profoundly sympathise. There’s lots of support online if you haven’t found it already – I hope for you that you don’t become a permanent member of this most rubbish club, but you are welcome for however long you might be here.

Thank you. My girlfriend has ME, which is a double-edged sword: I have more support and sympathy than I could imagine due to her own experience, but we were also due to move into our own place this summer (currently ‘temporarily’ at my parents) and that’s up the creek as we don’t have the combined energy to actually look after ourselves currently.
I’m doing all the ‘right things’ – ie eating super well and resting as much as physically possible – so I may be lucky enough to get back on my feet within a year or so, and from the extensive reading I’m doing it does look likely that some kinds of treatment will be on the horizon within the next couple of years too, with the likelihood that these could be extended to people with ME, fibromyalgia and other chronic illnesses, all of which are clearly closely linked (and you all deserve it, I have so much respect for people who’ve lived through extended periods of this and the way the medical profession has pretty much overlooked those illnesses is abhorrent). But in the meantime it’s up-and-down, and frankly on my down days when I just want to go to sleep for the next six months, it’s honestly very difficult seeing one of my favourite comic actors ranting on as if this is all some kind of hoax. 
It’s a down day today, you see.

[Stephen Abootman]

Another edit:

“Meanwhile the destructive agenda continues and we now know who
the British state/main stream media has put in place to take over from
the outgoing self serving con artist. I am not sure whether the new
incumbent could even cut it as a deputy leisure centre manager, never
mind allegedly run the country. Of course the actual role is to simply
continue to take the instructions laid down by the globalist psychopaths
to carry on with the relentless downward spiral towards total
technocratic tyranny and human enslavement… But that’s no reason to feel
down!”

[Dave]

Oh good, I always like it when he gets back to the chorus.

[Future Producer of Series IX – aaaaany day now]

Is he talking about the prime minister or the monarch?

[Jenuall]

[Flap Jack]

Is he talking about the prime minister or the monarch?

… well, I don’t think even Chris on this level of conspiracy theorizing would think that the mainstream media chose Charles to succeed Elizabeth.

[RunawayTrain]

He seems to be forgetting that actually deputy leisure centre manager is a pretty high bar, given how Julia was the one that held the place together. 

[Jonathan Capps]

One again, I find the fact that he just edits the original rant far more disturbing than if he just wrote new madness every time.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

One again, I find the fact that he just edits the original rant far more disturbing than if he just wrote new madness every time.

The fact there is no edit history is the real crime, I agree Cappsy.

Do you think he realises he is updating his website? Maybe its just a word doc that he think he is pissing around in bet every time he hits save it publishes.

Is he talking about the prime minister or the monarch?

… well, I don’t think even Chris on this level of conspiracy theorizing would think that the mainstream media chose Charles to succeed Elizabeth.

I didn’t see the media supporting anyone else now, did you?

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