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To think Alex James should be drowned in a vat of Spudsworth Melting Cubes?

241 replies

MrsLadywoman · 30/09/2011 12:21

Here's Alex James, friend of Cameron and Clarkson and fellow member of the Chipping Norton set, coining it in by flogging cheese to the plebs at Asda.

Surely 'bread-shaped cheese blankets' are just cheese slices. And Spudsworth? Chop up a small quantity of 4 cheeses and put them in a bag. Bingo, a brand new product.

Can we all just stop this collective madness and stop buying any old shit, just because it's sold by a celeb?

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Proudnscary · 30/09/2011 12:22

He is an extremly irritating, smug, self publicising twat so YANBU.

Proudnscary · 30/09/2011 12:23

extremely (sticky keyboard)

nethunsreject · 30/09/2011 12:25

Yanbu.

What a load of wank.

IT'S JUST FUCKING CHEESE, ALEX!

WidowWadman · 30/09/2011 12:25

Would you be less annoyed if he flogged them at Waitrose?

squeakytoy · 30/09/2011 12:26

he does have a face which invites you to slap with some very smelly rancid stilton...

smug, patronising, and irritating..

nethunsreject · 30/09/2011 12:27

I'd be just as annoyed if he sold them at Fortnum and Masons, never mind Twatrose.

ViviPru · 30/09/2011 12:27

YABU for including the words 'bread-shaped cheese blankets' in your OP only for me to google them to find they are not only bread-shaped but bread-sized too (not, as was in my mental image, blanket-sized)

Bet01 · 30/09/2011 12:27

I forgive him a lot because of Blur's awesomeness, but he really has turned into a prize knobber.

Lizzylou · 30/09/2011 12:28

I always fancied him when he was in Blur.

The crap tacky cheesey shots have put me off now though.

Callisto · 30/09/2011 12:31

Why shouldn't he flog them? If there are arseholes out there that will buy shit like this, why shouldn't he take advantage of it? Your OP sounds vastly chippy tbh.

BupcakesandCunting · 30/09/2011 12:31

His idea is shit.

His cheese blankets will only fit certain brands of bread, surely? All bread is shaped/sized differently. Confused

ViviPru · 30/09/2011 12:32

I'm with callisto. If I was a bored ex-rockstar I'd be all over the cheesemaking. And if I could monetise it, all the better.

ScottOfTheArseAntics · 30/09/2011 12:33

Another whore at the capitalist gang bang. Does he not have enough cash already that he has to sell us this mass produced, overly processed sheeeeeee-ite.

Greythorne · 30/09/2011 12:35

This. Is. Shocking.

paddypoopants · 30/09/2011 12:36

Is he doing his cheese blankets in different sizes or do you have to buy Alex James bread to get an exact fit.
Hasn't he heard of a cheese slice- I have no problem cutting my cheese to fit the bread.

redlac · 30/09/2011 12:37

he was a knobber in Blur and a bigger knobber now

PeneloPeePitstop · 30/09/2011 12:40

He's got a bit know all in his old age.
I thought the same when he did that homeless project thing for tv.

Fo0ffyShmooffer · 30/09/2011 12:41

Are we all 3?
Bread shaped fucking cheese blankets?

" here, have some bread shaped cheese blankets to go with your broccoli mini trees and cauliflower clouds"

In the words of the kid from Meet the Fockers. " Asshooooooole"

ScottOfTheArseAntics · 30/09/2011 12:42

I think the comments at the bottom of that article were written by his PR. They are such concise little compositions covering all the key messages. Also what ordinary mortal would write something like 'Thanks for making cheese RELEVANT' again'?? FFS.

MrsLadywoman · 30/09/2011 12:45

To be fair, I think the 'blankets' and 'spudsworth' jargon is being used precisely because it is aimed at kids. But that somehow makes it even worse...

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Fo0ffyShmooffer · 30/09/2011 12:45

See Spudsworth knobbing melting cubes might take over Chocolate dipping sauce and the most patronising fucking marketing ploy on the PLANET.

Fo0ffyShmooffer · 30/09/2011 12:46

My 2 year old would be patronised by that.

BupcakesandCunting · 30/09/2011 12:46

"I think the comments at the bottom of that article were written by his PR"

EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!

BupcakesandCunting · 30/09/2011 12:49

The more I think about the cheese blankets, the more wound-up I am getting.

How long exactly does it take to slice some cheese and assemble it on some bread? A minute? Thanks for saving us a MINUTE, Alex! It's probably cost us more per gram in money but you saved us a minute! Applaud that man!

They're perilously close to Toastie Pockets territory.

MrsLadywoman · 30/09/2011 12:49

Watch the video if you can bear to, but make sure you have a bucket close by

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