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

[MrsLadywoman]

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?

YANBU...........I said this week to Dh " If I ever meet Alex James, I will quite happily shove his cheese up his arse"
He is EVERYWHERE!!
Fine, If you want to up sticks, move to the country and farm / make cheese/live a happy and fulfilling life then good for you.....just don't prattle on to everyone else about it

Well, in the words of an infinitely more talented band than Bleurgh , namely The Smiths, that joke isn't funny anymore.

I quite liked it wamster

but then again, I quite like Alex James, so am clearly not a reliable judge....

Ergh. Nothing to add to this apart from to echo others. Used to fancy him. Love cheese but would now quite happily buy nasty cheese slices just to spite him.

DaveGrohls you may have to wait until he invents cheese of a suitable cylindrical character to enable easier insertion. Heaven forbid you'd have to chop it yourself.

arf@ "the Nathan Barley of Cheese"

ha yes - riding round his farmyard on a tricycle

I can just imagine him sitting smugly laughing about the joke he is playing on people with these cheese cubes.

Perhaps they are ready-cubed because his fingers aren't that co-ordinated to hold the knife. His bass-playing suggests that this may be the case.

Well, one positive thing Alex James has going for him is he isn't Damon ALbarn....

I am laughing so much at 'nathan barley of cheese'

buppy- I think you're just too young to get blur (in a positive way I mean)

I'm surprised he didn't call his children Phoebe, Io, Calliope.

Does Flea from the Chili peppers need anybody to chop up his cheese should he feel the urge for a quick sarnie and no staff about? Like he does!

Does anyone remember him being on that BBC TV thing The Verdict where he was part of a celeb jury to a faux rape trial? There was an issue that came up during the jury discussions about whether the girl would so willingly have had anal sex and AJ's comment was that anal sex was actually completely normal and acceptable among teenage girls now because they didn't want to get pregnant.

I thought, REALLY?! Or is that just what you'd like to believe...

Oi! I am thirty something! I get Blur. They're still idiots. Albarn is an idiot with his cartoon band.

Rise of the Idiots!

Two things that make me favour Albarn over James:
1, He seems more than an averagely-talented music-maker.

2, He is not taking the piss big-time out of people by flogging them cheese cubes.

Nuff said and there really is no need for further evidence.

Albarn: 2 James: 0.

Cheese Blankets. Totally fucking Mexico.

You would think the spud came with it wouldn't yah

leco0rnsillk - I did indeed feel very foolish that I paid £95 to park in a field and (try) to buy stuff. At the end of my hideously expensive day that bore more resemblance to a village fete than a 'festival', I tried to buy an icecream for my dd (4) (and for me). Couldn't find any icecream. Could find seeds, yogourt or weird dried fruit resembling 'shrooms. What the hell is wrong with an ice-cream van? And I burnt my foot on the helter-skelter. Arse.

YOGHOURT

You burnt your foot on the helter-skelter?

I wonder what other fete-related injuries have been suffered by MumsNetters. Hair tangled in the maypole ribbons? Jam-poisoning. Hit in the eye by a projectile scone.

Someone should start a thread...

He must smell like feet.

One of his sons is called Artemis? Er, wasn't Artemis female?!

As for the cheese - as a fully functioning adult who can cut their own slices of cheese, I think I'll be giving it a miss thanks

MinesaBottle You're right. The Greek version of Diana goddess of the hunt?

I had to watch the video, and they look like the kind of thing you do in college for a laugh in film class. Using your best haughty accent to discuss your newest invention -- melting cheese in the microwave and pouring over baked potatoes! Give that man a Nobel Prize!

He's got a totally smug face while he's saying it, like he's more clever than you for making up the phrase "cheese blankets".

But...I have to admit, cheese with tomato sauce flavor sounds yummy, as does the tikka masala one. Sorry....carry on....

I have just remembered a splendid schadenfreude moment. I was at a Blur 'secret' gig once in a really small back room in a pub in Camden. Alex James did one of those jumps that bassists are so fond off to make them look exciting and he cracked his head on the strip light which fell off and clocked him over the head. Twas most amusing

Artemis was indeed female. My friend's hamster is called Artemis. It's a girl hamster. I don't know what she thinks about cheese.