I'm just going to have a good bitch once again about the Nobserver

[moondog]

Apparently there is an article in the magazine about Tony Parsons' sex life.

It's put me off my dinner.
I can't even bring myself to open it.

Worse even thah Jay rayner's staggeringly self indulgnet witterings about 'my life in food' last week.

God,where did it all go so wrong?

I love Lucy Mangan!

I stopped buying the grauniad completely though, about 8 months ago- its just so dire these days- there is NO NEWS in this so-called newspaper!

no really... why? i cannot make myself read it, what does she write about? it's so densely-written, i need to go for a nap half-way through.

She is same gen as me, and what she says I relate to.
Perhaps less so now I have a child (?)

What would you say of Zoe Williams?

how could you not realise?

i like the torygraph a lot, actually. although it is owned by my enemies the barcay brothers.

but what does she actually say, eachpeach?

and ZW = Money For Old Rope.

lol at that.
I wnet through a lost phase between ages of 12 and 15 when I took (so grand, don't you think to 'take' a paper?)the 'Daily' 'Rail' in boarding school. my father put a stop to that pdq.

I knew no better,being surrounded by pleasant but brainless Cheshire girls.

Well, Aitch- she doesn't really say anything!
But after all these years, its just like a weekly 'phone call you have with an old college friend IYSWIM.
I relate to her issues with her mum.

Ah, the barefoot doctor. Greasy little creep got busted for fiddling with his patients. How I laughed. There was also a funny story in Private EYe about him (prior to disappearing in a flurry of sexual harassment suits) having his own website and it having to be taken down because all the fed-up sub-editors at the paper had filled the question pages with 'why are you such a fucking wanker?' type stuff.
But agree that the merest contemplation of tony pARSEons having sex is enough to make anyone ill. Nearly as upsetting as that Mike Skinner song which suggested that he might have had sex, WHich put horrible pictures in my head.

i miss the barefoot cocktor, me and dh used to have a bet about his diagnosis every week. i cleaned up, having spotted that it was almost always an interruption in the kidney chi, to be cured by sensual massage.

I didn't know he got busted for harrassment. I could never make out whether his column was a spoof. Everything that went wrong with anyone's body was ascribed to kidney energy. (Or was it liver?)

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See below Aitch for more musings on BD.
He used to come on Johnny Walker too.
Hilarious.One always sensed Johnny wanted to ask
'How can I get over my all consuming passion for cocaine??'

lol LL

Tinker my dh was disappointed about the hare but seemingly in Ireland it is verrrry bad to eat/kill hare (he is Irish) - because they are witches (you wouldn't learn that in the Observer lol)

so what is our fave paper failing to report, where can we read the actual, real, news, instead of all about these media whores that you get in the Observer....?

I have read most of it now, apart from the travel section.

Why poor Johnny?

it was liver energy only around ten per cent of the time, much to dh's disappointment.

Tony Parsole
Zoe Williams
Lucy Mangan
What women aren't interested in don't understand about men
Kathryn Flett
Sam Wollaston
Reams of car adverts
American psyche
Invisibles
David cunting Shrigley
Jon Ronson (column only)
Priscilla Kwateng
Zoe Williams (so hateful she deserves mentioning twice)
Lowri Turner and her "I'm so scarred my baby is brown" shitery
Euan Ferguson

These are just some of the reasons the Nobby and the Grunner bring me out in hives. I still read the Saturday Guardian, but only in this order: Guide, Weekend (spitting all the while), Family, Review, the rest if I can be bothered.

this whole tony p and sex thing is really getting to me, I am trying to blank it out but

i like shrigley, he's hilarious, and am fond of flett. but yes, including your hateful double-entry. good list.

charlie brooker, however, is a HUNK.

But I know he really dug all that shit.

cyteen, do you not read the comic?

I like Dan Leopard and the weekend vegetarian and I can't help it but I like the guy who does the column at the front of the weekend (not sure what his name is Tim/Tom...)

I think the Saturday Guardian makes the Observer unnecessary.