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is this the worst and most self-absorbed piece of journalism ever written? (most amusing)

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whensantagotstuckupAITCHimney · 13/12/2006 23:12

Without a word of a lie, this was printed in The Evening Standard the other day after the tornado. A friend of mine has picked it up and thinks it's worth celebrating in all its pompous, un-self-aware, London meeja whore bourgeois pig awfulness. it's not a piss-take. really it isn't.

"My tornado hell. This is to celebrate and remember the excellent article by freelance writer Caroline Phillips from the Evening Standard. When it was printed is irrelevant, the point is to keep it alive forever, long after the last landfill has rotted away, we are all dust, and your children's children's children may revel in the words contained herein." here

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Miggsie · 26/07/2009 18:00

This really reminds me of a friend who had a house fire and her house was unfortunately burned to the ground.
I asked her how she was feeling and she said "It started while we were down the pub. The whole village turned out to watch."
Then she said "I really am worried the oak panelled dining room can't be saved."

She has 3 kids under 5, 2 cats and a dog.
To this day I don't know where the kids were at the time of the fire, but apparently her £20k brand new kitchen was destroyed but half the oak panelling WAS saved.

As the christmas card still mentions the 3 children I have since inferred they all survived as well.

chegirl · 26/07/2009 17:30

Ok I will share any particular beauties I promise. They have peaches Geldof as an agony aunt.

Need I say more?

AitchTwoOh · 26/07/2009 17:10

you must link, chegirl. you owe it to MN.

chegirl · 26/07/2009 17:05

I buy the Evening Standard specially on a Friday so I can read ES magazine and get all and at its total upitsownarsiness.

Its a hobby.

pofacedandproud · 26/07/2009 16:59

she already had a brilliant trauma specialist. Genius.

'My muscles screamed like elastic bands stretched to their outer limits'

What editor in their right mind pays someone like this to write?

AitchTwoOh · 26/07/2009 16:57

"I already had a brilliant trauma specialist therapist. I went to see him on Thursday evening"

you know she was talking about us, btw, the people on the internet. that was US. i'm so happy.

HerBeatitude · 26/07/2009 16:55

I missed any reference to a therapist

AitchTwoOh · 26/07/2009 16:51

fortunately she has a therapist to deal with that for her.

HerBeatitude · 26/07/2009 16:48

Talk about false memory syndrome

HerBeatitude · 26/07/2009 16:47

OMG have just read the update with incredulity:

"In such a context, losing some of our possessions seemed irrelevant"

Irrelevant? I thought she screamed with grief about those Cath Kidston carpets?

AitchTwoOh · 26/07/2009 16:15

not just real, but repeatedly real. have you read the update?

CloudDragon · 26/07/2009 16:15

thank you for reserecting (sp? v. funny

HerBeatitude · 26/07/2009 16:06

oh lord I'd forgotten about this.

It did turn out to be real in the end, didn't it?

Stayingsunnygirl · 26/07/2009 16:05

This is why I should have discovered Mumsnet years ago!! Utterly and totally hilarious!!!

edam · 26/07/2009 15:02

"internet terrorism"

Maybe she should try googling 'self awareness' rather than her own ruddy name once in a while...

Jux · 26/07/2009 14:55

What utter tosh.

ThingOne · 26/07/2009 14:53

Ah, one of my favourite ever threads!

TwoIfBySea · 26/07/2009 14:49

Oh wait, I just realised the update I meant was this one. Which I found when I tried to Google pictures of the silly mare and her house.

At least her husband is learning Arabic now, I can rest easy.

Marthasmama · 26/07/2009 14:43

Oh My God! I have just realised that I read this thread back in 2006, two years before I joined MN, because I was looking for a Cath Kidston stair carpet. This thread came up. I remember thinking it was hilarious. Wow.

TwoIfBySea · 26/07/2009 14:39

The update is even funnier, if that could be possible.

Recommending a tornado for anyone rethinking their colour scheme.

But look what it did for her social life, now she can name all the professionals who live on her street!

This thread isn't just a classic it is pure mn gold!

pofacedandproud · 26/07/2009 14:15

oh sorry same thread.

pofacedandproud · 26/07/2009 14:14

there was a thread about this when it was first printed. I still cannot believe this woman can write like this without a hint of irony. It is quite an eye opener. How many people live like this without a glimmer of an understanding of how privileged they are? The feeling of entitlement that runs through it makes me want to heave. And it is unintentionally hilarious of course. 'Adrian explained there is only one hotel in London -Claridges'
It reads like something out of the Diary of Adrian Mole.

AitchTwoOh · 26/07/2009 14:06

oh, i didn't know this had been moved into Classixx. am rather proud.

ScarletBear · 26/07/2009 13:59

"I need my medicine. I'm a paranoid schizophrenic."

Northernlurker · 22/03/2009 23:14

You never forget the really great ones do you.....