[Andy McDandy]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... worse.html

Liz decides to examine the challenges larger people face by wearing a fat suit, as opposed to - oh, I don't know - talking to a few.

It's actually a book plug. Many years after Ugly Betty was a thing (and Bridget Jones before that), she's decided to revisit that territory by writing about an overweight woman working in a glamorous trade.

This stands out though:

Despite being well-informed, spending much of my career as a magazine editor trying to highlight the problem of eating disorders

...followed by...

I was 29. I was 8½ stone: which is now the title of my first novel. The revelation that I was deluded, that extreme thinness is neither beautiful nor healthy, came when I was made editor of a fashion glossy in my early 40s. After the Dior show, I went backstage to be confronted by supermodel Gisele.

Six foot, a teenager in jeans and flip flops, as etiolated as a Giacometti sculpture. I realised I could never be thin enough — and should be encouraging young women not to waste their lives obsessing about food.

That is why I wrote the book, its title my target weight throughout the Seventies, Eighties, Nineties, Noughties.

She says she's 62, so born in 1958/9. Turned 29 in 1987/88. Fair enough. Turned 40 in 1998/99. So yes, there is some potential overlap between her meeting Gisele Bundchen, being a magazine editor, and the "noughties", but not much.

Anyway, she seemingly doesn't learn anything. She decides at the end that we need to be nice to fatties, because they're all self-loathing losers so why make things worse for them. Fuck her.

[Youngian]

Liz received much vitriol for this article but we have her back at Mailwatch. One of the least obnoxious and spiteful columnists on the Mail. Sadly a bar so low, adders are concussed.

[davidjay]

She's been quite clearly off her trolley lately, dating men she 'met' on Twitter, ranting about her exes and bemoaning the ingratitude of everyone she knows. She gets dog's abuse BTL, but not today. Today most posters agree with her, and why? Because today she's complaining about the NHS.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/ar ... ltant.html

[AOB]

I remember she was due to leave the Mail a few years ago. Not sure what happened. I remember agreeing with her once. She was talking about gig goers who spend the entire time filming the thing on their mobiles instead of enjoying the experience. I can understand a few photos but I wonder why some people bothered going if they're going to stand there for two hours with phone in raised arm. Especially if it's high profile and the performance is being professionally filmed. Enjoy the moment instead.

[Fz750]

I used to agree with the why all the constant filming.

Until last night.

Have just been to my first big gig since the start of the pandemic. Bring Me The Horizon at Birmingham NIA ... A band my son got me into a number of years ago as revenge to all the old foggies I take him to. Now this is a band for younger people 20 -30 year olds so mobile phones are everywhere. Also compared with the rock concerts I went to at that age much more balanced between the sexes.

So a lot of phones in the air.

Then I noticed the number of these set to video with the little red box that says ready to record ...but not recording yet .. the timer.

Then I saw that these were being used by the smaller people in the audience. They were being used to actually see the stage. So rather than distancing them from the experience they were being used to enhance it... still being able to stand in the throng of the crowd ... rather than stuck at the back watching on the screens.

So again Liz Jones was/is wrong.

[davidjay]

My wife is losing her sight and she uses her phone camera to see things at distance. That's a good point.

[davidjay]

Bear in mind the title of this section, and try not to throw up.

In which I learn to lighten up (a little)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/ar ... ittle.html

[Bones McCoy]

Warning, contains description of Liz Jones having sex.

Bear in mind the title of this section, and try not to throw up.

In which I learn to lighten up (a little)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/ar ... ittle.html

[Andy McDandy]

I was annoyed as he’d made a mess in my little annexe

So that's what you're calling it now.

[Bones McCoy]

I was annoyed as he’d made a mess in my little annexe

So that's what you're calling it now.

Does Barbara Windsor mean nothing to you?
Did she die in vain?

[davidjay]

May as well resurrect her as nothing much else seems to be going on.

A quick recap - Rock Star is back on the scene, he's playing a festival, with a 6,000 seater 'warm-up' gig like that ever happens, then she says he's doing a few more shows before that. Liz isn't all that good at making music shit up and seeming realistic. This is today's offering, in which she mentions her brother Nick, who she says played with Cockney Rebel in 1972 and died eleven years ago. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... other.html

You'll be amazed to learn that the band's first gig was in 1974, none of them were named Nick, or Jones, and none died in 2011.

[Snowdrop]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... vorce.html

Nirps shows himself just as awful as Liz.

[davidjay]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... vorce.html

Nirps shows himself just as awful as Liz.

To be fair, she did well to find a husband worse than her.

[davidjay]

If you've not been following her column, and frankly I don't blame you, strange things have been happening. First she got shifted onto You, then it was back to the Mail, but on Saturdays with never any comments. Then the comments started again and were, as previously, the best part of the page. Lately, though, she's still coming out with the usual vacuous, product-placing, woe is me in this ungrateful world guff, but it's getting a very sympathetic hearing with any criticism heavily red-arrowed. Strange days indeed.