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Live web-chat with Tony Parsons, 9pm-10pm, 6 October

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rachel(mumsnet) · 01/10/2008 15:59

Columnist and author Tony Parsons will be joining us here on Monday 6th October from 9-10pm for a live chat. Tony's sixth novel, 'My Favourite Wife' has just been published and is described by The Independent as 'a much bigger, more ambitious book' than million-selling 'Man and Boy'. If you can't make the chat you can post your questions in advance here.
Hope to see you here on Monday.

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zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 14:32

what do you mean by all ben deleted

donnie · 07/10/2008 14:40

not at all Mrs Mattie: I have no interest or opinion in connection with Tony Parsons' books -I don't think I ever read any of them - but I am surprised at the degree of vitriol and hatred doled out on this thread. It really does make you sound like a nasty spiteful group of bullies.

Monkeytrousers · 07/10/2008 15:02

He practicaly did say that MrsM.

We have been removed from active convos Zippi. Such is Parsons legacy. Just keeps getting better

Monkeytrousers · 07/10/2008 15:05

Oh, why is eveyone 'suprised' by the strength of opinion on mediocre writers doled out to cheer up the invisible class?

Rather than justifiably pissed off and thinking we deserve better. Fair enought Donnie. If that's your considered opinion.

WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 15:08

"removed from active convos"?

Do you mean unstickied, mt? Hardly censorship

zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 15:08

still on my active convos

zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 15:08

oh i see i dont do stickies

zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 15:09

no point being stickied when it is over lolol

WendyWeber · 07/10/2008 15:10

They're always unstickied when they're over

And there are 2 others up there now anyway

WaynettaSlob · 07/10/2008 15:27

just catching up on this now......practically PMSL at all the confusion about who he was, particularly at Tutter's comment about the fridge

Monkeytrousers · 07/10/2008 15:47

It wasn;t on my active convos for ages. Maybe it';s just me

zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 15:48

maybe it wasnt on active convos cos no one was psoting on it

Monkeytrousers · 07/10/2008 15:49

I can hardly believe people got themselves into a lather for TP, though. Like he was a personal friend and without any means to defend himself.

EffiePerine · 07/10/2008 15:55

less getting into a lather

more it actually made MN posters look a bit silly

which is not unusual but not ideal either

Monkeytrousers · 07/10/2008 16:28

How so silly?

Silly to ne squabbling amongst themselves or about Parsons of all people. The latter I would agree with! What a waste fo precious effort. I am defending myself though, not arguing about Parsons.

MinkyBorage · 07/10/2008 17:52

Do you know the saddest thing of all, he's such a trivial, vain, little man, I would be amazed if he isn't actually reading this!

BitOfFungusthebogeyman · 07/10/2008 18:04

I thought he was very sarcastic to me, but someone else said he was being nice, so maybe I am just paranoid. Anyway, I don't much like his books, but I'm sure he's nice enough when you get to know him. I've liked some of his mirror articles even, but lots are a bit too ranty. Still, nothing wrong with that either - MN specialises in ranting...I don't understand why everyone thought his typing was amazing though - I thought he was using cut and paste from earlier in thethread? Good idea actually. Now I will have to try and predict what my next post will be here, and have it all prepared

zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 18:06

if people were posting about me on s forum i contributed to i would read their responses too

oh actually i do lol

BitOfFungusthebogeyman · 07/10/2008 18:12

He said (or implied) that my name suggested I loathed myself (it didn't have the bogeyman bit on then). I said back that at least no-one loathed me enough to call me Tony Parsehole (childish, I know). DP hadn't heard of TP or the viz column, and just thought I was being pathetic like calling him pooface or something. His respect for me plummeted

zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 18:13

er i thought he said you had a good name fuun?

thats how i read it

BitOfFungusthebogeyman · 07/10/2008 18:16

I thought he was being sarky, like I was putting myself forward as trivial. Had my guard up after the misogyny warning! Maybe I just made myself look stupid and paranoid. Ahem. As you were...

zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 18:17

lol if someone pays me a compliment i tend to believe its a compliment

BitOfFungusthebogeyman · 07/10/2008 18:20

Oh I have been such a bitch then! I can feel the self-loathing taking over, thus making TP all insightful and brilliant and proving us all twittering fools...what have I done?!!

Monkeytrousers · 07/10/2008 19:12

And all tabloid journos dfo is sit on their arses bitching and af he thinks that's pathetic...

All his columns are like that.

And his 'but thanks for letting me into the debate' - cos he then obvioulsy demonstrated such a cutting edge understanding of it, friend of Greer or no - but maybe he thought he'd better dumb down for us being a herd of dumb muthas

What constructive criticism can one give to someone who writes for therapy?

zippitippitoes · 07/10/2008 19:13

you seem a bit cut up about something mt?