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Abbey 
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 Topic: AA GillPosted: 12 January 2009 at 9:45am |
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OK, to continue from the hijacked thread.......
I know that AA Gill called the Welsh "Ugly pugnacious trolls" (come out to Bridgend and you'll have to agree with him), "stunted" (I'm 5ft 6), "Small minded" (I think the comments on the other thread as well as reaction to Ann Robinson concur with that view) and "gargoyle-visaged" (Bridgend again)..............but.........
He also hates the English - saying he can't warm to the "lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd of England".
I have met him once and listened to him talk three times at the Hay Literary Festival and he is outstandingly funny and tongue-in-cheek. What's not to like? Read his column in the Sunday Times as a TV critic. It is just brilliantly funny and acidic - like the following:
"So it’s always a particularly piquant and poignant pleasure to watch the retired politician make a thorough prat of himself, and in Prescott — The Class System and Me, John Prescott delivered in spades. He is desperately crap at television.
There is the added joy of the realisation that while most politicians have skins like linoleum, Prescott’s is thinner than the finest damascene silk. Every cross word, sideways look and imagined put-down is felt and remembered like the lash of a cane. Getting him to front a series on class was a stroke of stinging genius, because while the subject is dull, dead and as unlamented as the trade-union movement, it gives Prescott an opportunity to publicly squirm at every disrespect he suffered since he had hair. He’s like a big oyster squeezing lemon onto himself... Barbara Cartland is really just John Prescott in a fright wig. With Mrs Prescott’s eye-make-up. They are remarkably similar." By the way - be honest - how many of you presumed he was English? |
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Posted: 12 January 2009 at 9:56am |
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He's a dyslexic alcoholic too.
I think alot of people just don't like him because he hardly ever says anything POSITIVE about ANYTHING.
He's a miserablist. But i do think he's quite funny with it.
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Posted: 12 January 2009 at 10:06am |
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He's a try-hard. A poor man's Charlie Brooker.
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Posted: 12 January 2009 at 11:10am |
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His best was when he reviewed "Paul Merton in India" and said:
"And Schama’s America looks like a work of unsurpassed genius compared to Paul Merton’s India. I thought Merton’s China was a low point in comic xenophobia, but apparently someone else thought it worth repeating and, in Paul Merton in India, sent him to the next-most populous country full of funny little people who eat weird stuff. Perhaps he’s compiling The Beano Guide to Life on Earth.
Merton didn’t disappoint. I mean, he did disappoint, but he didn’t surprise. The disappointment was of the predictable sort. The show was a litany of behind-the-fingers spersoning and ironic mockery of good-natured, polite and hospitable Indians in their own homes. We were shown fakirs who did tricks with their penises. Well, that was worth the ticket alone. What’s not to laugh at? But, then again, I thought, not quite as silly a trick as Five has perpetrated with this knobhead."
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Are you saying there's something wrong with that? I think it's a shows strength of character to overcome such difficulties and still have the capability to be one of the UK's top pessismists! |
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Posted: 12 January 2009 at 2:04pm |
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 Fair point. I'm just waiitng for the day when he commends somebody for doing something good. I'd never guess he was dyslexic mind, he writes very well, and has a great command of the English language.
His ability to generalise is second to none.
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Posted: 12 January 2009 at 3:50pm |
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Does being a dyslexic alcoholic mean he can't choose his drinks properly at Tescos? |
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No, it means he choked on his own Vimto.
I thank you, I'm here all week.
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Posted: 12 January 2009 at 3:57pm |
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Boom boom! Took me a few seconds that one did!  |
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Posted: 12 January 2009 at 4:16pm |
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Aha. I bet you thought I'd never find something positive. Well prpppppphhh to you all:
If you really want to see India on screen – rich, poor and every clashing cymbal in between – see Danny Boyle’s fantastic new film "Slumdog Millionaire" when it comes out in January (or at the London Film Festival later this month).
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Posted: 13 January 2009 at 4:56pm |
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I'm not remotely bothered by anything Gill has to say about anything. I suppose vitriol makes good copy, though, so good luck to him. I would also not expect him care a fig as to what I think about him.
However, I do think irony, or tongue-in-cheek humour, has become a bit of a rhetorical get-out-of-jail-free card, though. And taking the piss out of the Welsh/the English/ the Albanians/ the John Prescotts of this world is a little bit tiresome by now, surely? Yet, to get het-up about 'tongue-in-cheek' comments from the likes of Gill (Clarkson and Littlejohn are other examples of this kind of figure) inevitably invites the counter-accusation of lacking a sense of humour'. It's nothing to do with a sense of humour; it's more a case of pointing out that there's no reason why the opinions of right-wing, middle-class men should be privileged over and above the opinions of any other demographic.
The lad mag/Yorkie bar ("It's not for girls") attitude towards women is another example where people hide their hatred of women behind 'irony'; in fact, irony, ironically, becomes the means by which you can continue to undermine, attack or oppress other social/gender/ethnic groups.
[That was a party political broadcast by the Politically Correct Alliance.] Edited by unllygeidiog - 13 January 2009 at 4:59pm |
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He also turned to devil worshipping and sold his soul to Santa.
Thang yew thang yew, everyone a winner.
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Posted: 14 January 2009 at 12:02am |
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Gill what a danny.
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Up the bum no harm done.
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he`s a druggy as well as an alcaholic, he is addicted to "f`s"
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