Weekend Read: GeneralTheDestroyer on BBC’s Russel Howard’s Good News
I’m in the middle of some Uni work, BBC iPlayer on the side for background noise when I hear on Russell Howard’s Good News programme, a very familiar voice.
GeneralTheDestroyer?! Did a youtube video spontaneously load? Nope, GeneralTheDestroyer was on the BBC programme (3rd October) being quoted contrasted against some die hard iPhone fans, with his usual colourful language, “iPhone 5 is a f*** piece of s***!”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01n2184/Russell_Howards_Good_News_Series_7_Episode_1/
Love him or hate him, GeneralTheDestroyer is one vocal guy that knows what he likes regarding tech. Fortunately, he’s a big fan of Nokia things. Nokia Lumia, Nokia 808 PureView, and now Nokia Lumia 920.
Russell Howard’s Good News is a pretty popular show in the UK, kudos to GTD for being on UK tv 
. I’ve not watched the full episode or even the latest one so GTD might make multiple appearances (as Russell enjoy’s long running jokes in between his episodes, maybe they’ll even talk about his crazy Nokia obsession 
). Hopefully, since Russell’s show is pretty much a snapshot of Reddit, he’ll pick up on some of the ridiculous tumblr Apple maps stuff.
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general ftw!
+1
yep! Nokia should have hired him…
Or did it?
Made me realised how much the tech population changed since the 90s. Back then it was just skinny, wart-faced geeks. Now we have this. Awesome.
Only working in UK.
Ok his with type of person we want nokia to be associated with? An absurdly uneducated piece of “white trash” (me think its just a character so the insult is on the “persona” and not the guy impersonating it).
Jay IMO you are doing a bad favor to Nokia by publicizing his rants.
You don’t win over users of other OS’s brands by calling them “stupid” and worse.
LOL
For someone who bitches and whines about Nokia, providing nothing but baseless scarmongering, you’re not doing damage to Nokia but this youtube user who is INDEPENDENT from Nokia, who is pro-Nokia is doing damage to Nokia?
Well, I don’t go around here being a “red neck” about it that, and the things I say are most of the time pointing the elephant in the room, (elops uter incompetence) and I do so in the limited space of MNB and people reading the comment section, that are rather limited and already are nokia fans so its more internal comments, in part what makes MNB fun and more interesting than other forums.
This guys is much more a public statement made in the possibly loudest fashion.
Its like a family if a guy like that is your cousin I will not want to be part of your family, but maybe my vision of life is squed to hate this sort of guys that made my life hell wen I was in school, I hate bullies of any kind wen ever I see one I tend to go the other way no mater what..
+100
Honest question every one do you prefer that I leave MNB?, so that you can collectedly pretend everything is going allrighty?
Cause honestly if it is the sort of character like the “GeneralTheDestroyer” that you think is a cool guy then I’m clearly on excess here.
-100
Anti-Elop / Anti-WP comments are just too 2011. If 99% of your comments are going to be about that, then yes, honnestly, you better leave.
Yeah you are right me better stay out of nokia, keep living the dream, all is well elops is genius Nokia is sealing like never before, and ideots like me don’t get it only “General” grade fans should exist any way…
I get depressed by this mindless fact void world more and more people like to live in…
Good Luck Nokia, I wish you get rid of the Elop disaster soon.
No, I don’t wish you leave if you continue to have a genuine interest in Nokia and Nokia products. (If you have already mentally moved on and stay just for “fun”, then I might differ.)
However, I think a lot of people are really tired of the split between Nokia fans. I doubt anyone here is harbouring any illusions about Nokia’s situation, but the two-year war is taking its toll on people. Many would rather move on from that.
The thing is, this is a Nokia fan site. People interested in and liking Nokia products want to come here for useful information while having fun. That’s my guess anyway. But the fighting is ruining that. Every other thread is Elop this and that, N9/MeeGo this and that, like a broken record.
People like General bring positive distractions to a painful wait for Nokia’s next product offensive. Nothing wrong with having a little of that and some hope for the future. We can’t change what Nokia is or does, but we can change how we are towards each other.
It is one thing to remain realistic in the future prospects of Nokia and completely another to rain on other fans parade… Let people be fans and have their harmless fun.
By the way, I don’t have a problem with your comments on General. I was commenting generally on the rift in de facto pro and against camps and how tiresome that has become. At some point it would just be better to let things be and move on with Nokia or without Nokia.
I chose to move on with them. I still make my disagreements known (looking at you exclusive carrier deals), but also try to keep a positive frame of mind about the future of a “team” I’ve chosen to be fan of. Repetition becomes boring. (That goes for my messages too, hence my frequent attempts at breaks.
Janne it as been overall good fun talking to you and a few others around here, like Jesse, and Jay. Or reading the Incognito’s posts. (I managed to actually learn and even change my positions on some maters), Also loved the ocasional N9′s article.
But you have a point its time to move on, I’m sure Elop will move on as well soon enough, and truly hope Nokia will be able to as well.
The fact that “general” is so popular among some people here is enough to tell-me that I should move on and that I really don’t belong.
Find it sad that I live in a planet were that sort of character is approved but, as reality TV points out it sells.
Any way Best of luck to you all, Noki.
I appreciate the comment, noki. And I can respect the slight sadness in your voice. Nobody here wanted the Nokia story to go like it did. The rift was unfortunate and unnecessary – and it is not our fault here. But then again, at some point one just has to take the next step and move on from that. Feb11 was 18 months ago or so, at some point past is past.
Perhaps you will find interest in the upcoming (or later) Nokia products and find a good reason to come discuss them again. And as for my opinion, like I said, I don’t think you need to go anywhere if you continue to have a genuine interest in popping back. It is your clal of course to do as you see best. Nobody wants fights and endless rants, but good, balanced discussion is always welcome from all angles.
Well, that’s my opinion anyway. Take care and see you anytime.
I choose what I publicise about him and what I don’t. Some of the recent videos of his are not posted by me. But he has his fans, he’s a vocal character that some Nokia fans like to rally behind. I thought it was cool to see him noticed on BBC.
It’s better to be noticed than be ignored. Being noticed, people can have good and bad opinions. Being ignored, people have no opinion of you.
“You don’t win over users of other OS’s brands by calling them “stupid” and worse.”
Tell that to Samsung and Apple.
fair argument…dough i dont think Samsung and Apple call other oss users plain stupid, I know many “fandroids” and “ifags” do but that does not help Apple of Samsung…
As I think this does not help Nokia just marginalizes it further. its the sort of stuf that burns bridges that are needed for people to migrate to Nokia.
Are you saying we now have to worry about what independent third parties with relation to Nokia at all do?
Does Tim Cook send out a hitsquad to get rid of that weirdo girl in the iPhone 5 queue waiting 2 days for her “Apple 5″, not able to mention one feature she’s actually interesting in, representing in one fell swoop what “iSheep” really means?
No I’m saying that in humble opinion Jay should not promote in any way this sort of character, If others do that’s their problem.
But as you noted ” hat weirdo girl in the iPhone 5 queue ” is not good publicity and probably something apple would prefer to live without.
Marketing is about image projection, about projecting a better version of yourself something that would fit a vision that possible consumers have of themselves, aka “hey I’m like that” or “I would like to be like that”, “that guy is using that phone so I should do 2″, this types of characters develop no empathy, at lest i don’t think the vast majority of the population relates to that…
I think Jay agrees, and the occasional post is mostly to vent some frustration towards the “ifags, and fandrids”, but you should be aware that its probably bad for nokias goals.
I say this not because I dislike Nokias current path, but because I simply hate this sort of characters, as they represent IMO the worse we have inside. the ignorant bully that will smack you in the face if its worth the laughter.
Every group of fans have their extremes. GTD is a very extreme one that is very positive on Nokia things.
I’m not keen myself on the excessive cussing, some things I find are too harsh, too blunt, although he has a knack of saying what some Nokia fans feel, others might want to express that in a more mature way. I think the first time I featured him was because he showed so much enthusiasm for Nokia, which I really liked. He was a fan of all tech things but also really enjoyed Nokia products. Some other videos I find unnecessary, but they’ve garnered their own appreciative viewers.
He’s growing his own followers, those that will ‘counter the iSheeps and Fandroids’ i.e. the extremes of the other OS.
The rest of us can continue to enjoy discussions that don’t resort to obscene language or mutual trolling.
The reason I chose to make a public post about him again is that this is someone who is part of the Nokia fan community (though extreme) who appeared on live, national TV in the UK at a popular show. You know how much I like making note of Nokia related appearances on TV
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Yeah I know, the fact that he is becoming famous and having more and more publicity is the thing that concerns me, this sort of guys are not good for nokia as it portraits Nokias fans as ignorant rednecks, I would understand malicious interest from apple and Samsung to promote him, but not Nokia.
And yeah I do get how come you posted about it, and its good that apparently we mostly agree that in the grand view, fun as it might be, guys like this do more harm than good to nokia.
I for one find his rants entertaining and informative at the same time.
Relax man, you sound like a broken priestess on a witch hunt…
No one but you believes GTD is an ignorant redneck. And while I’m on that topic, this is the first time I have ever seen someone accuse Nokia fans in general being as such…
Just do yourself a favor, and take the hate elsewhere.
It’s laid on a little too thickly, in typical diva fashion.
Most of the time I want to be nothing like the people used for marketing…
I just know what I like, which companies and which products…
No amount of bad advertising will change my always informed decisions.
Your an ass…
I’m an ass and you are a gentleman and a scholar…
I’m happily neither of those things!
And yes, you’re an ass.
It was obvious your were not, neither of those things, but thanks for pointing the irony out.
Yes I know I’m an ass, stating that seams it is the cornerstone of your very well thought argumentation. Bravo!
You’re also a stalker I think…
And a little sensitive perhaps?
Either way you have assumed I am arguing a point, of which is that I am arguing you to be an ass, when in fact I am merely stating you to be an ass. And there is a clear difference between the two approaches.
Anyway, Bravo is a compliment you should be awarding yourself.
Behind the persona is an individual who is passionate about Nokia products, end of story.
And that’s something Nokia can do with a lot more of, mate.
I personally think he does a great job, in a sledge hammer sort’a way…
“You don’t win over users of other OS’s brands by calling them “stupid” and worse.”
Dude that is right on the money, but misses the point! You don’t win over the fanboy’s, only alienate them. And sometimes that’s actually a good thing. Most Apple only types swear by a product so devoutly it makes my spine tingle!
If they so blindly follow the gospel of Apple then please Apple don’t change a damn thing!
In the end they aren’t interested in being won over.
Anyway soldier on GTD! Love your work.
Let me guess, you’re using a “SamDung Gaylaxy Shit 3″ and the Destroyer hurt your feelings ??
I have 2 N9′s and a N950, had a L800 plus a have a hole bunch of other phones (developer) I use the N9 as my day to day phone.
So no it does not “hurt my feelings”, but i dont like this sort of characters, like i don’t like that cast of Jersey Shore, or most of “on your face” reality shows, I don’t think ending a every sentence with “mothfke” makes you more right, in fact I usually have a rather viral reactions to this sort of “white trash” of doing exactly the opposite of what they are saying..
I bet most adults around here feel the same, at lest I hope they do or like i said before if this is the type of person you think best represents, Nokia fans then I’m clearly a surplus.
But hey if it makes you feel better call me an “ass”. or what ever makes you feel better, since civilized argumentation is not your forte.
general FTW.
general FTW.he can single handedly handle all those fandroid and sheep trolls
We need General to come comment on this forum, so I can retire. I must recommend that to Elop at our next astroturfing steering group (in front of the mirror, that is).
You have a strange and commendable sense of humor, Janne. Commendable.
And I agree, General The Destroyer FTW.
lololol :p
LOL… “SamDung GAYlaxy Shit 3″
Love this guy
Nokia’s smartphone marketing director leaves Nokia. i suugest nokia take to this job our general . he know iphone and samdung funboys.
he will kick apple in the ass
Actually, I think this guy is doing a great job!
If I want Nokia to do the same? Of course not! The winners of the Lumia 920 contest on facebook won with sentences ditching the iphone and the galaxy sIII. I sent a message to Nokia telling them how ridiculous they were for chosing sentences like that instead of something that actually tells why Lumia 920 is better.
But General is NOT Nokia, so he can say whatever he wants. He just says what all of us think but keep to ourselvs: that crapple and samdung fanboys are a bunch of idiots!
General rocks!!
Samdung! lol!