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OMG .. Jon Ronson's speaking voice ..

551 replies

Twiglett · 20/01/2007 16:45

NOT what I imagined at all

just seen a strange ad on More4 with him in it

he sounds so drippy

oh gawd I'm not going to enjoy his columns any more now, cos I'll hear the weedy crappy voice

OP posts:
ruty · 16/07/2007 17:01

I know LL, she's a bit scary. In the nicest possible way of course [crawl]

Quiddaitch, obviously, in a bare fisted knuckle fight between you and JR, I'd be on your side, and not just because I know you'll win....

LittleLupin · 16/07/2007 18:39
Filchymindedvixen · 16/07/2007 18:57

How did i miss this thread?
Am sticking my hand up and joining the minority who stuck up for him on the last thread.

Anyway, last thread i said
''I will also join the ranks of weirdies on here with a penchant for jon ronson and louis theroux. They fit in very well with my life-list of floppy, confused, young men I used to date who were actually not at all floppy and confused in the bedroom... ''

Does that make you feel better, Heston/Elaine?

morningpaper · 16/07/2007 19:46

Yes and I said:
"he would be nice on the end of a key ring
you could press his head and he would say something funny"
which is DEEPLY complimentary, I'm sure you will agree??!

scampadoodle · 16/07/2007 20:02

Quiddaitch - sorry, haven't been able to log on for a bit.
What was WL like? Well, I was the transitional girlfriend, between the neurotic one he wrote his IoS columns about, & the neurotic one I introduced him to & whom he started seeing while we were still an item (bitter? me? nooooo! No really, I was a bit pissed off at the time as I felt foolish, you know?) Anyway, he was very funny - we had eachother in fits a lot of the time - very clever (although he over-intellectualises EVERYthing) and he has beautiful hands - which you wouldn't think from looking at him generally. He was food-combining when I knew him, though I never realised he had such a complex about food & his weight. This was years ago, by the way, early '90s.

Filchymindedvixen · 16/07/2007 20:03

MP - I'd buy one

scampadoodle · 16/07/2007 20:06

Oh, & I can't STAND Zoe Williams. Well, her style of writing, anyway, (not as a person, obviously, as I've never met her) even when she's written a feature as opposed to a column. It's like she wants to show off how clever she is, but still be with the cool kids in the class, so she does it in a matey "no, really, I'm a bit thick, honest" sort of way.

Quiddaitch · 16/07/2007 20:22

i do quite fancy William Leith, always have. i heard ZW on woman's hour banging on abut how awful it is being pregnant and how she needed a drink so the new govt guidelines are evil, so i think we can safely say that there will be a slew of Williams' 'oooh gawd well i never, here's what it's like to have a baybee' pieces.

morningpaper · 16/07/2007 20:24

lol yes @ baby pieces

very true

Pruners · 16/07/2007 20:30

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morningpaper · 16/07/2007 20:31

ha yes

She thinks she needs a drink NOW...

ruty · 16/07/2007 21:36

on introspective neurotic navel gazing...
I really like Ariel Leve too.

Quiddaitch · 16/07/2007 22:01

do you? wow. why does everyone like the whingers so much? [baffled]

BocoBeak · 16/07/2007 22:07

This is so unfair. I missed this thread. Why could jr not have googled himself and found the post where i said how much i like him, i've always liked him for years and years, he's great. So why couldn't he have seen my gushing praise and emailed ME instead, saying thank you for being so nice about me. I've put my email address on here loads of times. It is not fair.

But no, he emails aitch to complain. It's just not fair, it really isn't.

Elaine don't hate us all, some of us think your husband is very funny. Come back!

WendyWeber · 16/07/2007 22:11

I see JR has emailed the rest of his fan club

Pruners · 16/07/2007 22:12

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WendyWeber · 16/07/2007 22:15

(Just kidding Pruners/i - since he emailed Aitch because he didn't like what she said, I am pretending to infer that he has been scanning MN to find out who does like him and has emailed them begging them to post in his favour)

Aitch · 16/07/2007 22:16

because, boco, as a whiny neurotic he can't see a compliment when it's square in his face but the mindless 'thank fuck the children are in bed' chit-chattery on an MN thread you've never seen torments you to a point beyond reason.

BocoBeak · 16/07/2007 22:17

Oh i wish that was true wendy, if he emailed me to ask me to post in his favour i would gladly oblige. I have no major pride issues.

But he didn't.

He should.

Aitch · 16/07/2007 22:19

he didn't KNOW what i said!!!

he was responding to the fact that his friend (some friend) told him that there had been a thread on here and that i had been involved, that's all. plus i recently bought a flipping parasol off bethandherbrood so my email address was on here. bloody weirdy stalker.

which reminds me, must post cheque to bandherbrood.

hoxtonchick · 16/07/2007 22:24

jr's column in the guardian is so not funny.

FirenzeandZooey · 16/07/2007 22:26

Jon Ronson is our friend, he's blowing in the wind, Jon Ronson is blowing in the wind

BocoBeak · 16/07/2007 22:26

hahaha, Aitch i just thought, this is the second time a wife has come to tell you off for picking on their man isn't it? That blogger person who was writing a kind of pg diary, didn't his wife come on to mn to tell you off for being a meany about her boyfriend? Maybe you have a skill at touching some protective spousal nerve.

BocoBeak · 16/07/2007 22:28

Yeah, like, whatever hoxtonchick, jon ronsons column is like VERY funny, actually. So.. yeah.

WendyWeber · 16/07/2007 22:29

JON RONSON IS THE MARMITE OF THE GUARDIAN