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AIBU?

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To think AA Gill must be the most joyless journalist on the planet.

242 replies

Vintageclock · 23/09/2013 13:38

He just moans and drones about everything. His restaurant reviews are almost unreadable and he seems to make a point of despising the kind of television programmes that the Hoi Polloi love. Why doesn't he just go and live on top of a tree someplace where he can look down on the rest of us, lip curled with total disdain.

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LeGavrOrf · 26/09/2013 16:06

Planks in your eyes Grin

I have never read Tatler either. Do they have pictures of the best deb of the month or something?

LeGavrOrf · 26/09/2013 16:07

Good lord.

I just went on the Tatler website to try and find pictures of posh gels with overbites to laugh at when I see Giles Coren has written a piece about spanking and rough sex

www.tatler.com/news/articles/september-2013/giles-coren-on-spanking

Lovely

mignonette · 26/09/2013 16:15

Please, no more Mummies. That description really makes me want to barf.

I'm judging people by their writing and their actions BTW.

I don't have cellulite either and I buy and read Vogue like my religion each month. Your mate Alex (who is a GREAT editor) should be very grateful to me because it is people like us magazine buyers who are spitting into a wind of downward sales trajectories.

ubik · 26/09/2013 16:17

You do wonder why AA Gill is always in such a bad mood when he has a lovely job; go to restaurant, eat tea, go home, consult thesaurus.

LeGavrOrf · 26/09/2013 16:19

God knows. Sounds like the life of fucking Reilly.

ubik · 26/09/2013 16:19

Luckily for me, Ade loves me for who I am - a luscious, blonde, youngish underwear model

PMSL. Very Good.

NickerlaGill · 26/09/2013 16:22

Ubik.. you don't think it could be because he's not happy with me, do you? Oh God.

ubik · 26/09/2013 16:50

Maybe you should ask for a review..

NickerlaGill · 26/09/2013 16:50

Mignon... that's a steak dish, right? We ordered one last week down in the Cotswolds somewhere. At least Ade did. I am a vegetarian so I only eat veg, and fish, and game and sometimes roasted marrow bones and lamb's brains.
Anyway, don't be offended by the term Mummy. I think it's rather sweet. In fact Ade calls me 'Mummy' sometimes - out loud even - when we are sharing our most private moments. How lovely is that?
Have mentioned you to Alex and she says 'bless you'.
Hugs.

Kinnane · 26/09/2013 17:07

My view only, I think the difference between AA Gill and Giles Coran is that AA Gill is not cruel. Both brilliant writers though.

mignonette · 26/09/2013 17:32

Nickerless I live w/ a flexitarian too. He is of the persuasion that fish do not consist of flesh...Grin. I too eat brains, calf brains and save the occasional walking at right angles into walls, i can honestly say my life has been enriched by eating them.

Mignon can mean a lot of things. It can also refer to the vinegary garnish one eats w/ oysters (if one has no taste buds that is). I myself like it because I share a certain vinegary take on life. In fact your dear dear husband may well have been separated from me at birth.

If you truly have the ear of Alex please ask her for more models on the cover of Vogue as opposed to tawdry actors/pop stars such as 'pioneered' by Wintour. It is their job after all and one would hate to see them suffer even more than they do already i.e having to face the wrath of Giles 'Tubster' Coren.

NickerlaGill · 26/09/2013 17:33

Ubik..thank you. Ade says I get 4 stars for taste and 5 stars for presentation. And I have 'a scintillating mouth feel'. So pleased.

mignonette · 26/09/2013 17:36

My horse has a nice soft mouth too. When he has the bit between his teeth...

NickerlaGill · 26/09/2013 17:36

Mignon...it's an education being here. Will pass on your comments to dear, dear Alex.

mignonette · 26/09/2013 17:38

Smile Thank you Wink. And my DH (Mr EE) says not to get me started on the total lack of ethnic diversity on the catwalk and in print media.

My imaginary friend dear Yves is turning in his grave over it.

southeastdweller · 26/09/2013 20:59

Oh God, I forgot about Grace Dent (easy to do). That Twitter thing left a very bad taste in my mouth.

She can also do one, as well as her mate Sali Hughes, who didn't come across that well on here last year when she tried to defend her chum Gisele India.

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