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Post by coxy1979 on Jun 26, 2008 21:43:04 GMT
Please FUCK OFF you self-righteous, smug wanker.
If I have to see or read about him anymore (even though he's not writing for thelondonpaper anymore), I may not be responsible for my actions.
City Boy, your revelations about the financial sector are no shocking or stunning to anyone with half a clue, and falling on your sword to do something more worthwhile might have been more convincing if you hadn't stuck it out for about 10 years and made a fortune first.
(And relax. Sorry for this rather London-centric post).
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Post by Steven on Jun 27, 2008 8:27:12 GMT
I do like City Girl, though.
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Post by Nick on Jun 27, 2008 10:20:06 GMT
I think they're the same person.
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Post by booers on Jun 27, 2008 15:23:35 GMT
Thanks Coxy! I thought I was the only person who didn't like City Boy! The London Paper pretty much has one letter a day about how great he is and how hiLOLrious his column is, yet I don't think I ever managed to finish reading one of his columns as they were so dull. And he was minging as well when he revealed himself. I at least expected someone fit!
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Post by coxy1979 on Jun 27, 2008 15:55:54 GMT
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Jun 28, 2008 0:58:05 GMT
Wasn't he supposed to be intentionally knobish? That's the impression I got anyway.
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Post by booers on Jun 28, 2008 15:18:57 GMT
Wasn't he supposed to be intentionally knobish? That's the impression I got anyway. Was he supposed to be intentionally unfunny and boring as well? What annoyed me was the constant fan mail printed in the letters page. Still, they did print my letter defending Girls Aloud after some good-for-nothing slagged them off, so I can't complain too much.
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Post by Steven on Jun 29, 2008 22:32:17 GMT
I must admit, after reading Friday's edition I'm not keen on the idea of him documenting his life as a sub F-list celebrity in a weekly column. There comes a time when one should just move on, surely.
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Post by Maureen on Jun 30, 2008 21:45:00 GMT
I bet he has never put his penis inside anyone. Ever.
I avoid thelondonpaper like the plague but did catch the DPS celebrating his last column. Proof if ever it were needed that some people really should not be published.
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Post by Joel on Jul 1, 2008 13:03:02 GMT
I prefer thelondonpaper to the excrement that is the London Lite, but they really could do with being a bit less self-congratulatory about cityboy. His tedious 'come on guys, let's all quit our jobs and save the world' posturing drove me crazy. Yes, asshat, you have an enormous nest-egg and a (presumably salaried) newspaper column. Some of us need to work in order to not starve and be homeless.
And the new citygirl they got yesterday is mighty pleased with herself too.
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Post by jode* on Jul 1, 2008 16:09:44 GMT
Every time I see this thread I think of Peter Engel's shite teen-com "City Guys"!
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Post by zaffra on Jul 1, 2008 16:22:06 GMT
There was an interview with him in one of the posh property magazines that I flicked through before recycling last night. He's 35 and worth about £3million (not much in the city - his words) - he wants to buy a home in the country a place in northern Spain and a pied a terre in London. Then he's going to do a lot of work for charity.
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Post by Steven on Jul 2, 2008 8:55:26 GMT
I think thelondonpaper is pretty good for a freesheet - I tend to find it well-written most of the time, and the layout is more appealing than that of the London Lite. However, if they don't stop sticking Agyness bloody Deyn on every fucking page, I might actually lose my shit.
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Post by Nick on Jul 2, 2008 8:58:52 GMT
There was an interview with him in one of the posh property magazines that I flicked through before recycling last night. He's 35 and worth about £3million (not much in the city - his words) - he wants to buy a home in the country a place in northern Spain and a pied a terre in London. Then he's going to do a lot of work for charity. I wonder if 'Em' is worth £3million.
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Post by coxy1979 on Jul 2, 2008 10:51:14 GMT
Dare I raise the issue of 'Gay/Girl/Man About Town'?
Or is it too much shackle-raising for one thread
(I actually don't mind gay about town, but it does make me feel sad that I'm not having sexual encounters with strong, muscular, bearded men with an apartment in Rome every other weekend.)
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Post by Steven on Jul 2, 2008 11:55:25 GMT
(Have just edited the heading since the thread is a bit broader than when it started!)
I don't mind any of the "...About Town" features in particular, I actually find most of them quite entertaining most of the time. Soho Stories, on the other hand, is usually embarrassingly trite.
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Post by nixxxon on Jul 2, 2008 12:22:40 GMT
I got obliquely mentioned in this week's Girl About Town, after she found my blog post commenting on her enormous chin and tendency to imply that the trouble with English men is that they're just not American enough. Fair play though, she's been good-natured about it. Anyway, it's her own fault for googling herself.
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Post by lowculture.co.uk on Jul 2, 2008 12:24:35 GMT
(Have just edited the heading since the thread is a bit broader than when it started!) I don't mind any of the "...About Town" features in particular, I actually find most of them quite entertaining most of the time. Soho Stories, on the other hand, is usually embarrassingly trite. I agree. And whenever I see that man who writes it when I pass his horrible shop, he is always standing in the doorway with a "yes, it IS me!" expression on his face.
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Post by Joel on Jul 2, 2008 13:07:03 GMT
The Soho Stories make me retch. 'Ooh, guess what, sugarplum, in Soho, where my shop Dirty White Boy, where you can buy things, is, there are GAYS and also HOOKERS and sometimes FOREIGN PEOPLE. I watch them from my shop, where you can buy things. Did you ever fancy such a scandal!? Anyway, must pop, my shop, where you can buy things, won't run itself you know, and I've got a living to make! It's not cheap to have this many Brazilian houseboys you know.'
Fuck off.
I don't mind any of the 'about towns' and would quite like to sex the straight guy about town. That Zoe Strimpel was wretched though, and when I learned she was younger than me I loled, because she looks about 40.
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Post by Adrian on Jul 4, 2008 9:14:19 GMT
I only read the gay column - I quite like Joshua or Josh or Joe as he's probably known.
I think if I were to ever meet him, I'd ask if I could call him Barry Bradshaw.
I often wonder what the people he writes about think of his witterings.
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Post by Steven on Jul 4, 2008 9:22:28 GMT
Me too - you'd think it'd be difficult for any of these people to get dates because if it all goes tits up, the person they dated will find their business splashed across thelondonpaper next week.
Then again, I dare say there are a lot of people who would date them for precisely that reason.
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Post by Adrian on Jul 4, 2008 9:40:45 GMT
Unless, of course, those are not their pictures, and the mildly burly hirsute gay is, in fact, a pig farmer from Pontefract.
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