is this the worst and most self-absorbed piece of journalism ever written? (most amusing)

[whensantagotstuckupAITCHimney]

Without a word of a lie, this was printed in The Evening Standard the other day after the tornado. A friend of mine has picked it up and thinks it's worth celebrating in all its pompous, un-self-aware, London meeja whore bourgeois pig awfulness. it's not a piss-take. really it isn't.

"My tornado hell. This is to celebrate and remember the excellent article by freelance writer Caroline Phillips from the Evening Standard. When it was printed is irrelevant, the point is to keep it alive forever, long after the last landfill has rotted away, we are all dust, and your children's children's children may revel in the words contained herein." here

That was so funny.

I really need to go to the loo but I can't walk through office just yet as I have been crying with laughter at that and people will think that I have been genuinely crying.

Bump - mumsnet has gone a bit mad and it's time to remember some good stuff

awww I looooooooooooved this one

You never forget the really great ones do you.....

"I need my medicine. I'm a paranoid schizophrenic."

oh, i didn't know this had been moved into Classixx. am rather proud.

there was a thread about this when it was first printed. I still cannot believe this woman can write like this without a hint of irony. It is quite an eye opener. How many people live like this without a glimmer of an understanding of how privileged they are? The feeling of entitlement that runs through it makes me want to heave. And it is unintentionally hilarious of course. 'Adrian explained there is only one hotel in London -Claridges'
It reads like something out of the Diary of Adrian Mole.

oh sorry same thread.

The update is even funnier, if that could be possible.

Recommending a tornado for anyone rethinking their colour scheme.

But look what it did for her social life, now she can name all the professionals who live on her street!

This thread isn't just a classic it is pure mn gold!

Oh My God! I have just realised that I read this thread back in 2006, two years before I joined MN, because I was looking for a Cath Kidston stair carpet. This thread came up. I remember thinking it was hilarious. Wow.

Oh wait, I just realised the update I meant was this one. Which I found when I tried to Google pictures of the silly mare and her house.

At least her husband is learning Arabic now, I can rest easy.

Ah, one of my favourite ever threads!

What utter tosh.

"internet terrorism"

Maybe she should try googling 'self awareness' rather than her own ruddy name once in a while...

This is why I should have discovered Mumsnet years ago!! Utterly and totally hilarious!!!

oh lord I'd forgotten about this.

It did turn out to be real in the end, didn't it?

thank you for reserecting (sp? v. funny

not just real, but repeatedly real. have you read the update?

OMG have just read the update with incredulity:

"In such a context, losing some of our possessions seemed irrelevant"

Irrelevant? I thought she screamed with grief about those Cath Kidston carpets?

Talk about false memory syndrome

fortunately she has a therapist to deal with that for her.

I missed any reference to a therapist

"I already had a brilliant trauma specialist therapist. I went to see him on Thursday evening"

you know she was talking about us, btw, the people on the internet. that was US. i'm so happy.

she already had a brilliant trauma specialist. Genius.

'My muscles screamed like elastic bands stretched to their outer limits'

What editor in their right mind pays someone like this to write?

I buy the Evening Standard specially on a Friday so I can read ES magazine and get all and at its total upitsownarsiness.

Its a hobby.