Richard Coles embarrassing himself

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Why do these mediocre men need to keep speaking? You’d think this was written by a 12 year old, who uses the word ‘baddie’ ffs? 🤦‍♀️ It’s so full of virtue signalling, ‘look at me with all these young people showing them how cool I am’ it’s absolutely tragic.

I doubt that Richard Coles has any more idea than ‘middle-aged women’ (do I detect a note of derision?) of what ‘baddie’ means.

He’s just another self-serving gay man who doesn’t give a shit about women.

Just found out this about Richard Coles this morning. 🤯🤯 Don't think he has any right to be calling others "baddies".

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/reverend-richard-coles-hiv-aids-b2562557.html

You’re a little late to the party!

I looked him up and discovered he played Elizabeth Sprigg’s son in an episode of Midsomer Murder. They were hilarious in a very sinister way.

Yep, totally remember reading that! I think Jimmy Sommerville fell out with him for lying about that as they had both lost mutual friends. What a thing to lie about !

You’re a little late to the party!

I know!! 🤯

Perhaps Jesus cured his HiV

Total cringe, he doesn't give a fuck about women.

He what, now?

I'm even later, I'm going to have to start from the very beginning.

Who the fuck is Richard Coles?

Oh, right. The one nobody remembers from the Communards. As you were.

he was a bore on saturday morning radio 4. i was glad they took him off, waffling on and on. likes the sound of his own voice.

The geeky one behind the keyboards in an 80s synth pop duo.

I wonder what Chris from the Pet Shop Boys or Dave from Soft Cell thinks of all this

Yep, he pretended for years to have AIDS for attention apparently. He said even though he knew many people that had died from it, pretending he had it gave him ‘a weird glamour’. I just don’t know how sick you have to be to do that, it’s reprehensible.

My daughter uses "baddie" to mean "attractive young man" 😄

He agrees with you.

I’d rather they do that and listen to each other than be dismissive.
Rather smug of him to post it though, I feel.

Urgh! I didn’t know that!i never liked him much before, but gone right off him now.
What a horrible thing to do.

he's a bit of a self absorbed nob who, while he was still a priest, lied to his bishop about not having sex with his "husband" who he, against the rules in place at the time "married" secretly in a church, IIRC

and is no longer a Ref but writes (of course, big names can always get published) books.

he can nob off.

yep, i was there. It was awful.

Nothing to with Richard Coles, but Dave Ball and Mark Almond when they were planning to retire and had a farewell gig seemed to have a respect for each other.

He agrees with you.

Surely the issue is that he was sat with proud homophobes and misogynists and refusing to call them out.

No good person sits with proud homophobes and misogynists unless they absolutely have to, or unless they use their time with them to call them out. I don;t believe he had to sit there, and I don't believe he couldn't have called them out

i think his plan to be seen by loads of people who then thought how wonderfully right-on he is by tagging JKR on his post has backfiree. He's now deleted his X account.

I couldn't work out why, given how anodyne his account was (flowers! seabirds!), but it looks as if he got piled on because everyone thought he was calling jkr a baddie:

https://x.com/AjaTheEmpress/status/1957019590761775566

Ludicrous.