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HOORAY! Liz Jones Hates Me!

186 replies

CockyPants · 27/01/2013 11:14

Cos I was unreasonable enough to have DD when I was 35.
and I'm a bit middle class too.

The feeling is mutual, you hateful witch.

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PetiteRaleuse · 27/01/2013 14:27

Hadn't heard that. Good for her.

KC225 · 27/01/2013 14:28

Petite - she's also doing ivf which is pretty time consuming

SoleSource · 27/01/2013 14:29

Grin Nancy you naughty

I did read it but get.this.. I feel GUILTY if I do so never.do...

ScampiFriesRuleOK · 27/01/2013 14:30

What a waste of skin.

On the plus side- at least she hates me. Grin

. Sad

FlorriesDragons · 27/01/2013 14:33

Well I'm ok, I'm still in my twenties and have a defined stomach so at least my husband isn't leaving. Er, phew!

The rest of you though. [tut] Grin

ISpyPlumPie · 27/01/2013 14:33

A few years back, our local radio station had a late-night show that basically consisted of a vile man ranting on offending pretty much everyone until someone finally took the bait and rang the (no doubt premium-rate) no to remonstrate with him. I think they got fined eventually as he was so inappropriate.

Having read this article, and the astoundingly entitled piece she did a while back bemoning the fact the nhs wouldn't drop eveything to sort her travel jabs out at the last minute, I am firmly of the opinion that the Daily Mail are employing exactly the same professional troll technique. I will hold my hands up and admit I'm as big a sucker as the next person - I would never actually buy the DM but cannot resist clicking on a Liz Jones link.

WitchOfEndor · 27/01/2013 14:37

I agree with one line she wrote. "Maybe I'm just spiteful and bitter".

QuickLookBusy · 27/01/2013 14:44

I used to think she just wrote things very loosely based on her life and it was all a bit tongue in cheak.

Having seen her on the TV being interviewed a couple of times, I now think she's not quite on the same planet as everyone else and is in her own little world. Unfortunately she doesn't seem at all happy there.

SolidGoldBrass · 27/01/2013 14:48

She's not very well. I do think that (up to a point) newspaper editors should take a little bit more responsibility when it comes to commisioning work from people who are clearly a bit disturbed. But I think what's motivated this latest pile of shite is not so much envy of mothers as envy of Julie Burchill. Liz Jones is trying to get herself MOAR HATERZ and have a bit of controversy attached to her. Once again.

What must really boil her piss is that Burchill, however obnoxious the content of her columns, is a much, much better writer than Jones could ever hope to be.

discorabbit · 27/01/2013 14:51

why is her not agreeing with the masses mean that she isn't very well?

TheCatInTheHairnet · 27/01/2013 14:56

I agree with Joining. This reads as the kind of ramble written after five too many glasses of wine. The whole 'article' makes no sense at all.

alphablock · 27/01/2013 14:57

How heartless of the Daily Fail to point out that Nicole Kidman didn't give birth for the first time until she was 41. So even though she adopted 2 kids whilst in her 20s due to fertility issues, and lost custody of them following her divorce, she is still considered fair game for criticism. Very cruel.

KC225 · 27/01/2013 15:01

I do agree with Solid - Julie Burchill is a better writer. Not only that I've always got the impression that Julie Burchill really does not give a toss what people. But Liz Jones spews out this bile and then is constantly poor me, I'm alone, no one cares, India Knight was horrid to to me

navada · 27/01/2013 15:04

Where would we be without Liz Jones? - we'd have nothing to moan about. Grin - she's addictive reading.

Brodicea · 27/01/2013 15:20

This is just the sort of toilet-doings some people are paid to scrawl out in five minutes flat -and it is designed to irk.

But rising to the bait: The reason I and a lot of people I know waited until our thirties to have kids was because we had such shit relationships in our twenties - nothing to do with rejecting our men for being too strong (she says not malleable - TOO malleable!) and poor (my chaps were all very materialistic), but rather they were men-children too scared to commit. Everyone always blames women and their 'careers' - what balls!

It annoy me I even feel like I have to defend myself to this lazy fart of an article.

Plomino · 27/01/2013 15:21

Oh thank fuck for that !

I don't know what I'd do if I thought Liz Jones actually liked me. Now THAT would be be horrifying .

Like I give a shiney shit .

WhatsTheBuzz · 27/01/2013 15:38

don't know who this woman is but read the link, what is her problem? I don't get it!

AlanMoore · 27/01/2013 15:55

alphablock I'm also disgusted at the choice of Kidman to illustrate the article, though the Mail do think that adoption exists solely to remedy the fertility issues of the white middle class and that all adoptees should be docile and grateful...

I think Liz has finally flipped and agree with posters who suggest she was trying to stir up some Burchill lite controversy. It does read like she's drunk/on something, it's not very coherent and not her usual writing style.

NorthernLurker · 27/01/2013 16:19

I thought the universal Liz Jones rule is that she hates anybody who has something she doesn't. So women with children, careers that don't involve ranting in the DM etc etc. This hypocritical piece is just par for the course.

TheCatInTheHairnet · 28/01/2013 00:41

I don't think the DM meant to post this. There have been no comments made on their site since this morning (34). She really was a bit drunk, after all.

LineRunner · 28/01/2013 00:47

Is it true she's sent her chicken for chemotherapy?

AmberSocks · 28/01/2013 00:52

I cant take anything Liz Jones says seriously,i honestly think she does this on purpose and is laughing at us/you all.

SoWhatIfImWorkingClass · 28/01/2013 00:54

She'll love me, I had DS at 21 :) And I'm about to have DS2 at 23.

AmberSocks · 28/01/2013 00:55

I think most people,if they met the right man/got to where they wanted in their career/owned their own house/all the above in their twenties the most would have babies in their twenties,but life doesn't always work like that and people have different priorities.

I had my first at 21 as i met the right man, didn't want a career,although i had worked for a few years as a nanny which i wanted to do,and financially we were secure,so that was right for us.

MrsDeVere · 28/01/2013 01:04

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