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Set my mind at rest please.Will Self,total wanker or utterly brilliant??

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moondog · 05/06/2006 22:17

Hmmmmm??

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bundle · 05/06/2006 22:18

gosh i found myself agreeing with him the other day, had to lie down.

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moondog · 05/06/2006 22:18

He was almost self deprecating on Steve Wright this afternoon....

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motherinferior · 05/06/2006 22:19

Horrid horrid man.

donnie · 05/06/2006 22:19

both. Sadly.

Fauve · 05/06/2006 22:20

Total wanker who believes self to be utterly brilliant. Funny, can't think of many men like that...

motherinferior · 05/06/2006 22:21

No, I've never gone out with anyone like that at all...

Snafu · 05/06/2006 22:21

Wanker with flashes of brilliance. Wouldn't want to get stuck in a lift with him, though.

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moondog · 05/06/2006 22:21

Why so MI (as an insider of course...)?
I had a bf who used to speak in that sort of weird throaty way.
hE WAS A cOCKNEY PAPARAZZO.
gOD KNOWS WHAT CAME OVER ME...

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Piffle · 05/06/2006 22:22

total wanker who thinks he is gods gift to wit, dry humour, masculinity, new man...
I loathe him...
Actively, sometimes it just pops into my head at random times, just how much of a twat I think he is.

motherinferior · 05/06/2006 22:23

I meant as in bloke believing self to be brilliant.

Although the ex of an ex (who then married the ex) did have a fling with him, while going out with the ex first time (I can provide a diagram if you like). So I have, when I come to think of it, shagged Mr Self by two degrees removed or something. However, I suspect I am not unique in that.

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moondog · 05/06/2006 22:23

tHE TWAT VOTE HAS IT SO FAR..AND ALL OPINIONS FROM WIMMIN OF CALIBRE.
i LIKE IT.

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Blu · 05/06/2006 22:23

he really makes me laugh!
And he was brilliant at a very po-faced lambeth libraraies event - viscious for all the right reasons. And apparantly he is a very good Dad-contributing-to-the -local-primary-his-kids-go-to.

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moondog · 05/06/2006 22:23

Gotta get a grip with this keyboard....

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Piffle · 05/06/2006 22:24

been on the turps Moondog? Grin

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moondog · 05/06/2006 22:27

No,surprisingly enough. Grin
Have just returned fromlong fortifying walk aux enfants through the woods near my parents' house which was idyllic until I stepped in human shit.
That must have thrown me off kilter...

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Blandmum · 05/06/2006 22:28

bit of an arse, but like all arses, real and metaphorical he has the odd moment!

spacedonkey · 05/06/2006 22:29

didn't anyone see him on Room 101? He was bloody brilliant on that!

sobernow · 05/06/2006 22:30

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bakedpotato · 05/06/2006 22:31

I think he's better as a talking head than as a novelist.
But then his novels are, IMHO, awful.
Didn't he actually write a novel about a man who was an arse? Or who had an arse on the back of his knee, or something?

spacedonkey · 05/06/2006 22:32

wheeze!

Heathcliffscathy · 05/06/2006 22:32

total brilliant wanker.

he makes me laugh but is definitely a wanker

sobernow · 05/06/2006 22:32

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bundle · 05/06/2006 22:32

pmsl sobernow Grin

NotQuiteCockney · 05/06/2006 22:33

Brilliant wanker.

I saw him read once ... he is lovely and actually quite hot. While still being a wanker.

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moondog · 05/06/2006 22:34

lol sn

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