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To dislike Brian McFadden

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madamezouzou · 04/03/2013 13:34

There's a quote from him in this DM article where he says:

'They [the kids] have got really terrible northern, Manchester accents. They're really common because of where they live and who they live with.?

AIBU to think that it's just not on to criticise your children- or anyone's children, really- like that? Personal feelings about accents/ "common-ness" (blergh) aside. Imagine how they will feel when they read that some day.

Sounds like he's buggered off to somewhere more glamorous and now regards his old life, and his old family, as beneath him. Not on.

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Oblomov · 06/03/2013 17:59

"Brian makes the Andre look like a fucking God of parenting. " Grin

japonicabumsplatt · 06/03/2013 18:04

Lets put out a hand to him...a cookie dough hand. He seems happiest with confectionary symbolism. Or we could do a marzipan porn animation? Marzipan and sour kraut he would looove that. With a northern voiceover.

StuntGirl · 06/03/2013 18:08

Oh god, I'm dying with laughter at those lyrics - are they real?!?! Christ on a bike...who is funding this man's vanity projects?!

MarmaladeTwatkins · 06/03/2013 19:01

I am now singing "Head like a Ham" to the tune of Nine Inch Nail's fucking excellent "Head Like A Hole" Thanks for that!

AllYoursBabooshka · 06/03/2013 19:21

:o I love that song.

Head like a hammm
Covered in jammm
I'de rather dieeee
Than admit that it's Spam

cornycruzcampo · 06/03/2013 19:51

sadly there are no books available by ham head on amazon

Snowme · 06/03/2013 20:08

Kerry Katona sold her soul a few times over just to keep her children in a good school and with a roof over their heads and (as far as I know, I don't watch many reality shows) she's kept them out of the media. She's to be applauded in my mind. She comes across with true Northern grit.

And I bluddy love a Northern accent, me :)

Snazzynewyear · 06/03/2013 21:16

Just read his Wikipedia entry and of all the madness there, the following sentence leapt out at me:

'After joining [Westlife], he changed the spelling of his name Brian to Bryan to make it easier to sign autographs'

Eh? Why is a y so much easier to write than an i? You can do both in joined up writing, surely? Presumably the author of the entry didn't want to put 'to make him sound more cool' (or perhaps 'kool').

Real To Me was number one in both Britain and Ireland, too. The shame. The lyrics annoyed me hugely at the time. English tea (who SAYS that?) and what have you. Hmph.

MarmaladeTwatkins · 07/03/2013 09:47

"'After joining [Westlife], he changed the spelling of his name Brian to Bryan to make it easier to sign autographs'"

Grin

This is what we're dealing with here. A massive himbo, worse than Pete because whilst Pete was a himbo, he wrote Insania which pisses all over Auf Weidersein Bitch AND he is an exemplary father. Brain could only hope to be a quarter of the man that Pete is.

EarlyInTheMorning · 07/03/2013 10:08

I love that some earlier on this thread said he's got a potato face
He so does

MarmaladeTwatkins · 07/03/2013 10:11

That was me Ithangeweverymuch!

EarlyInTheMorning · 07/03/2013 10:12

Marmalade I think you are my hero

Potato face potato face potato face
so true

MadamGazelleIsMyMum · 07/03/2013 10:15

YANBU. Knob of the highest order.

And those lyrics have made me wee a tiny bit.

Please, PLEASE someone tweet this thread to his PR people.

Binkyridesagain · 07/03/2013 10:18

I have to agree that Bryan/Brian is scum, I have to take exception to some of the comments posted on this thread, IMO they are out of order and uncalled for.
What have ham, potatoes and twats ( plus all the other names used) done to deserve being used in the same sentence (and as an insult) as that thing? Grin
PS Bryan if your man tastes like marzipan. You need to wash it, you dirty bastard!

UnknownGnome · 07/03/2013 10:27

I love this thread! Those lyrics! I love how he's incorporated some gcse german into his song. Showing off his intellectual side there! Though he's missed a trick, if I may make a slight improvement...

She licked my man
Like it was marzipan
Like a German can
It was sehr gut, danke shon
She really got me off
Wo ist der bahnhof?

I'll await my royalties Bry Grin

MarmaladeTwatkins · 07/03/2013 10:40

What is "Like a German can"? I found myself pondering this at 3am this morning...

LadyBeagleEyes · 07/03/2013 10:48

Yes Marmalade, what is a German can?

MarmaladeTwatkins · 07/03/2013 10:51

I have no idea. Shall I tweet Bri and ask him?

MarmaladeTwatkins · 07/03/2013 10:57

This little ditty is called "Lose Lose Situation" and it is from the seminal (seminal as in covered in semen, not seminal asin groundbreaking) album Wall of Soundz (playing with the spelling again there Brian, I like what you're doing)

"Lose Lose Situation"

When we fall out I like to go driving in my car
Listen to something ironic and end up in a bar
Get an ear full of shit from a stranger who's got a broken heart
Weighing up what would be more painful
Staying with yer man or going back to her

Doesn't everybody feel this way sometimes?
It's a lose, lose situation for a shitty little crime
You can never win with women
Its pointless trying to try
It's a lose, lose situation until the day you die

Everybody knows the score
She'll be crying to the mother in law
Then I'll be sleeping out with the dog
Must give Inter Flora a call

Then we make up I'll be walking on egg shells for a day
I'll clean the house in the hope that I might get a lay
I think back to that drunken stranger, something that he said
"You made your bed so lie in it she'll be quiet when your dead"

Doesn't everybody feel this way sometimes?
It's a lose, lose situation for a shitty little crime
You can never win with women
Its pointless trying to try
It's a lose, lose situation until the day you die"

I think that this song is about how Brian doesn't understand wimmin and what they're all about. Perhaps you should spend less time hanging around the Autobahn Brian?

TheCraicDealer · 07/03/2013 11:05

"This album is something I have wanted to do for a long time. Ireland has produced some of the greatest songs in history and I decided I would put my own twist on a collection of my favourite ever Irish songs."

Hate to break it to you Bri, but Nothing Compares 2 U was written by Prince. Who is American. Soz.

TheCraicDealer · 07/03/2013 11:07

Also- how the fuck did he convince Sinead O'Connor to feature on his newest album?! Ronan Keating I get, but would've thought Sinead was a bit pickier.

UnknownGnome · 07/03/2013 11:08

I get the impression he doesn't much like women. Unless they're, you know, licking his man

Hmm
MarmaladeTwatkins · 07/03/2013 11:10

He didn't even like the woman that was licking his man all that much!

twitchycurtains · 07/03/2013 11:17

I know its been said before but the man is a complete knobber. I don't really like Kerry but its obvious to everyone her problems escalated when he took off and left her with 2 kids to raise. She has openly said he was the love of her life, he on the other hand gets his mother to see his kids during custody visits, shacked up with Delta Goodrem within 2 secs of their duet being released and chooses to live on the other side of the world. He never gave a fuck about either of his two kids even at the height of all the drug allegations. He is a complete and utter cock!.

Also, he was one of fugly ones from westlife, so glad they carried on being successful after he left to become a solo star (arf) dick!

KenDoddsDadsDog · 07/03/2013 11:18

He's a turd with highlights.