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To Call Liz Jones a Self Obsessed Entitled ****

117 replies

Chockyeggpants · 07/04/2013 12:35

Apparently she DELIBERATELY parks in disabled spaces.
Being childless is a disability.
Oh and deafness prevents her from walking....

OP posts:
Lovecat · 07/04/2013 23:36

So Emmon, who has not posted before now on MN and claims to be logging off and not returning to MN, has managed to get this thread title changed?

Wow, such power! C'mon MNHQ, admit it, she was Liz, wasn't she? :o

ComposHat · 08/04/2013 10:38

Bloody hell MNHQ ahow some back bone!

Changing the thread title on the say so of a troll and then allowing said troll to get away wirh using sectarian abuse - a left footer is a term for a Catholic and the land of the left foot is a reference to Ireland.

fromparistoberlin · 08/04/2013 11:34

so bored of people pouring hatred onto a complete stranger

and yes she IS annoying

Its pathetic

and people who call her names are just as bad

and I am not a Liz fan!

PickledInAPearTree · 08/04/2013 12:14

That's how she seems to make a living though.

WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo · 08/04/2013 12:50

fromparistoberlin I think it has gone beyond pouring hatred onto a stranger. Did you read the piece that sparked this thread? I said upthread that as a disabled person I am deeply, deeply offended by the article and the opinions that the author has.

She says there are far too many of these disabled parking bays, she says that they are designed or people with 'no arms or legs or eyes' then asks 'why are they driving anyway?'
She likens Richmond to Lourdes due to the number of disabled bays.
She asks if we have ever seen 7 paraplegics all at once at our local cinema.

So please forgive me if I reserve the right to hate her. She may be a total stranger to me but I believe she hates me and her writing is inciting others to hate me too.

Maggysinge · 08/04/2013 13:08

She wrote that article for one reason and that was to get the mumsnet masses in a fit of rage and lo and behold you're all foaming at the mouth. I guess she knew how easy it would be to get a bite.

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 08/04/2013 13:17

Thing is, she earns her living expressing, to an audience of 2m, opinions that make her sound like a bit of a cunt*. She can hardly be shocked if she gets called a cunt occasionally.

She probably thinks we're just jealous - damn right I'm jealous of a job where you earn six figures for writing utter tripe. I'm not jealous of her life though, in many ways it's very worrying.

I'm going by calculators* here, cause I don't click on Mail links

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 08/04/2013 13:18

Tsk. bold fail.

BegoniaBampot · 08/04/2013 14:23

she's doing her job, can't understand why so many folk let her get to them and take her seriously. I doubt many DM hacks actually believe the shite they write.

fromparistoberlin · 08/04/2013 16:15

WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo

But every week there is a "Liz Jones cunt" post, fortnightly at least!

again.....I am NOT a fan, but neither am I am fan of people calling a complete stranger a cxxt

and as her opinions seem to offend all MN, its OK to pile in

and I can see why she offended you, but I genuinely dont understand why people allow her to rile them

Life is too short

WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo · 08/04/2013 18:28

You are right, fromparistoberlin I should ignore it and not let it rile me. To be honest it's a very bad time for disabled people. I'm worried that I will no longer be eligible for a blue badge/disability benefit in the light of the new Personal Independence Payment coming in today. I use a wheelchair, it's been suggested that this means that I mobilise successfully so won't be eligible for anything. So this sort of article just adds to the stress.

fromparistoberlin · 11/04/2013 11:38

and I am sorry to hear that, really

DONT read it I urge you

I just hate pack mentality!!!!

quoteunquote · 11/04/2013 12:34

Is Liz single?

disabled parking
jealous very funny, to listen to.

The idiot Anthony Steen is perfect for her, her soul mate.

ComposHat · 11/04/2013 12:41

Is Liz Jones really deaf?

If so it might be a blessing....so that she can't hear the world yelling 'Twat' at her.

petre1954 · 12/04/2013 16:12

This silly girl (I refuse to accord her the status of lady or woman) has the most incredible sense of entitlement. She thinks that parking in a disabled parking bay is striking a blow at the establishment and is an act of non conformity. Actually what it is is an act of monumental cruelty. I suffered a stroke last year and my husband is disabled with severe mobility problems. When we find no spaces available for the disabled because unthinking people have parked there without entitlement it causes us real pain and real inconvenience.

She then goes on to include her poor mother in her ridiculous comments by uttering what must be lies about her experiences. She maintains that she gave up on getting a Blue Badge for her mother because you have to renew it every year -"like she is going to suddenly walk again". This is a lie - Blue Badges are renewed every 3 years and yes some peoples conditions do improve so it is right that the authorities review individual circumstances. She then goes on to utter another lie by claiming it is too complicated to complete the paperwork - well if you are unfortunate to have Learning Difficulties it would be a little difficult but the helpful people in your local office will help you complete the form. However, I assume that as Miss Jones is a journalist that she has a grasp of literacy that should make the completing of this form a very simple affair.

I am convinced that she has never attempted to fill in a Blue Badge form in her life.

This article is only one of many in which she has displayed her crass stupidity and cruelty. She writes about colleagues and "friends" in a way that ensures their humiliation. She obviously believes that you give to receive because she is always moaning how her saintly kindness and generosity is never repaid.

In the stupidity stakes she excelled herself recently by berating various Express outlets of various supermarkets for not stocking low alcohol wine which she wished to provide for an alcoholic friend. My husband is a recovering alcoholic(by God's Grace 9 years sober as of yesterday) and one of the worst things you can give an alcoholic is low alcohol or even no alcohol wine - ridding the body of its craving for the taste of alcohol is part of the cure and Miss Jones is causing her friend real harm . A little knowledge is certainly a dangerous thing.

She bemoans the fact that her RF-BF never wants to be intimate but her self absorbed world does not link this with her need to have umpteen cats on, and in, her bed, The truth I believe is sadder than this. I really believe that the RS-BF is an imaginary figure because no one could possibly put up with her behaviour for more than 5 minutes.

She is also a menace behind the wheel of a car. Now I would never undertake on a motorway but I do understand how a frustrated driver might succumb to the temptation when confronted by Miss Jones breaking the law - yes Liz that's right - if you are being undertaken it means you cannot, at the same time, be overtaking yourself and the purpose of ALL outside lanes is for overtaking ONLY.

One of the contributors here says she refuses to get angry with LJ because that means you win. That is all very well but when someone's bad behaviour is risking another persons well being then those of us who understand civil behaviour need to point out to her, and people like her, just how disgusting her behaviour is.

Poor Liz needs to stop writing completely and seek out some serious help because if she does not address her problems someone is going to end up hurt.

petre1954 · 12/04/2013 16:17

No she didn't. She truly believes in her own entitlement and believes that her position is 100%. I have been reading her drivel for some time and trust me LJ does not do irony or tongue in cheek. For instance she does not get the contradiction in her continually pleading poverty whilst a few paragraphs later talking about her newest vanity shoe purchase.

Why do I keep reading - to remind me that I am not such a bad person myself.

OhLori · 12/04/2013 17:05

I don't really understand the vitriol directed at her either. She takes a different and sometimes controversial look at life. Sometimes I agree with her, sometimes I don't. She's not my cup-of-tea in her OTT animal-lover stance, but I see no reason to hate her Confused.

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