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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:
scampadoodle · 13/07/2007 20:03

I used to go out with William Leith...

ahundredtimes · 13/07/2007 20:08

That could just be the best thread killer line ever

scampadoodle · 13/07/2007 20:09

Stone dead...Think I could get 500 words out of it?

aloha · 13/07/2007 20:12

Look Mohze, I have come to see your other qualities, but can I say that I am not completely surprised you have trouble with some RL colleagues? (many people would say the same about me, I'm sure)
I cannnot agree with you more about the hideous Nirpal - 'girls just can't get enough of me. The losers' - No Talent.
He is so transparently ploughing a controversialist furrow that even he doesn't really believe in because it pays. I think I am even more depressed that fake misogyny pays so well.

aloha · 13/07/2007 20:12

Scampadoodle... I think you could probably get a book deal out of, not to mention the film deal...

ahundredtimes · 13/07/2007 20:16

lol, I want a share of the subsidiary rights scampa, I pointed out its potential.

TheDuchessDeMimsyNorkington · 13/07/2007 20:25

If I posted on all the websites and emailed all the people that insult my husband I'd have no time to Mumsnet. Er, or do any er, parenting-thing, you know with children

southeastastra · 13/07/2007 20:35

did anyone hear the interview with nirpal on the vanessa show? he was such a plank and just ranted over the callers it was cringey. vanessa had to turn him off in the end.

aloha · 13/07/2007 20:37

Oooh, Duchess...that is too intriguing. Go on give us a clue...what line of work?

willow · 13/07/2007 20:45

I fucking love JR - makes me giggle like a loon. (Am not in institution btw, Heston.) Don't care if he's self-obsessed. He's writing a column about his life, ffs. He's got to mention himself, hasn't he?

But as for that Nirpal chap. God almighty, how I cannot abide him - to the point where I was deeply saddened by his divorce as I felt that he and Liz truly deserved each other. Odious.

willow · 13/07/2007 20:45

So, Camilla PB finally makes her Mumsnet debut. Good evening, mam.

mozhe · 13/07/2007 21:08

Aloha....100% agreemnet re:Nirpal....am getting het up just thinking about him...my,( slighty weird I admit..), fantasy is that he will be referred to me as a patient.....( unlikely..buy hey a girl can dream...)
Am ALWAYS surprised when RL and MN folk take against me....see myself as the eminent voice of reason...
Has ANYONE had a 27 weeker,( as in baby...!!), and do they all sleep this much ?
Tristan now on hourly foot tickling programme to wake him up a bit

UnquietDad · 13/07/2007 21:12

God, that Nirpal twonk... I'd managed to excise him from my conscious mind until just now. I can't believe men like him exist.

willow · 13/07/2007 21:29

vile - do you think he's given all those column inches because he's such a twonk?

UnquietDad · 13/07/2007 21:30

Oh, indubitably.

Pruners · 13/07/2007 21:33

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TheDuchessDeMimsyNorkington · 13/07/2007 21:37

Aloha - DH is in IT . He gets equal amounts of worship and abuse from all around the world.

If it's a really good insult, I tend to borrow it

imaginaryfriend · 13/07/2007 21:40

My dp has never had a single bad review, not one. I sometimes wonder what he'd do if he got slated. He expects it every time but it never happens.

Nirpal. Grrrr ....... Now that's embarrassing.

Pruners · 13/07/2007 21:46

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Heathcliffscathy · 13/07/2007 21:47

it is not what you expect at all is it? that's for twig's original post btw.

Pruners · 13/07/2007 21:49

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Quiddaitch · 13/07/2007 21:50

exactly, pruni...

didn't you get an email, by the way? and you lot talking about nirpal, you'd better expect emails in the morning too. apparently you're not allowed to express an unfavourable opinion about someone's writing any more.

Pruners · 13/07/2007 21:54

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ruty · 13/07/2007 22:12

aw Aitch sorry.

I got a horrible review in the Evening Standard once. I was gutted. All the others were spectacular, obviously.

ProjectSeverus · 13/07/2007 22:14

sorry Aitch

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