AIBU to be incensed by this DM article - reluctant 'housedad'

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What a juvenile, petulant, pathetic, sniveling excuse for a 'man'. Am racking my brains for what his good-looking wife sees in him.

Must give up reading the DM.

Imagine publicly saying all this, even if you thought it ...

why is she with him?? she is pretty, he looks like he comes from the magic faraway tree

I asked the father of my children who he'd save from a fire once - me or the baby.

he looked cornered for a second and spluttered "Err, err, the baby butI'dcomebackforyou!!!"

I said "Well done"

His is a dick with a big fat pumpkin head.
God she could do so much better.
I'd leave him to his infantile snivelling and go and find a real man.

He looks very much like a miserable hamster. I wonder who thought out the child placement in the first photo with the step daughter at the back.

I personally would not want to live with someone who did not place out children first.

X posts - agree has with colditz. Had roughly the same "talk" with DH.

Also am I the only one who if forced to choose between my partner and my childs life would not hesitate to choose my child?
I don't know maybe that makes me strange or says a lot about my relationship with DP.

I think the seeds of his odd attitude probably stem from his nutty mother saying she would put his father's life ahead of her children's. That would screw anyone up.

I think most people would choose their child, wouldn't they?

Sorry for typos, can't get used to laptop

There have been quite a few threads where some people would choose their partner, there was a big one after a female journalist wrote something about her husband.

I found the piece not especially shocking actually. Many men do exist in two states of mind - love the kids/resent them when they get in the way.
It all boils down to this: men can be selfish. Well, stripe me pink.

That first photo looks tampered with. He and the step-daughter have different colour faces to the rest.

I can not stand this ASS , I made the mistake of reading another of his wailings a while back .

Look at his face , like he has too many female hormones plus a set of hips !

Anyway ,its a poorly written article, purely done to whip up the masses !

YANBU, but it's the usual OTT DM fare. Pays the mortgage.

Weird looking guy though, made me think of moon-face from the Faraway Tree.

"I just keep scrolling back to look in gobsmacked horror at his face."
"he looks like he comes from the magic faraway tree"

OMG I am screaming with laughter at these.

"His is a dick with a big fat pumpkin head."-I presume you mean "he"-but funny either way

"He looks very much like a miserable hamster."-and that is just insulting to hamsters, miserable or otherwise & gives the guy way too much credit

I do think most would choose the child.
However, if he was as much of a dick as a teenager as he is an adult, I think his mum answered quite well!

In his wedding photo he looks like Jonathan King

Sigh

Basically what they do is pay someone for an interview and a photo. Then the journalist makes something completely different up, which may or may not have a passing similarity to the words spoken in the interview. Most people are too poor to sue them for defamation.

One of the reasons I don't read newspapers.

This is how it works:

nosleeptilbrooklands.blogspot.com/2011/01/true-story-of-daily-mail-lies-guest.html

Have just read the first bit again.

Talks about asking his mum a "challenging" question, that he was a "challenging" boy & that she "gave as good as got".

So you would think that by now he would have moved on.

"Basically what they do is pay someone for an interview and a photo."

But I thought it was his own piece, not by a journalist.

Not that it means it´s all true, of course, but rather that he has made it up about himself.

Insomnia is totally right
And as I have already said, it may be his own piece but it will have been heavily tampered with and almost certainly bear no relation to the light-hearted piece he originally wrote

Isn't his wife the one who wrote about her life every week in Take a Break? I quite liked her.

"it may be his own piece but it will have been heavily tampered with and almost certainly bear no relation to the light-hearted piece he originally wrote"

Perhaps he should have had more sense than to sell to the DM, then?

Posted this on a thread in Chat but I'm making no apologies for repeating myself because I think more people should know about Keith Kendrick's special talents.

www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/apr/03/pressandpublishing5?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

this was the leaked memo:

www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/apr/03/pressandpublishing4

Looks like a 14 year old's fantasy school project (the mens mag list).