I'm still assiduously updating the chileswriter but I've refrained from going public with it.
― In the wastelands of Birmingham and Manchester, massages are back (ledge), Friday, 18 June 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
Obviously mike t-diva should also meet the great man.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Friday, 18 June 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
The straight-razor shave and waxing one…it should honestly be taught in writing classes.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 18 June 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
"Humans can be a wonderful species, as I was reminded on a journey to Plymouth last week."
Classic Chiles this week, on inimitable form: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/14/a-stranger-on-a-train-and-a-small-stunning-act-of-kindness
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 14 October 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link
Chiles's columns have also been parodied - rather well - by Craig Brown in the new Private Eye.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 14 October 2021 12:50 (two years ago) link
He's a master of the en dash.
― jmm, Thursday, 14 October 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
"parodied - rather well - by Craig Brown"
^^^not having this, brown shd be chased into the thames with a cattleprod
― mark s, Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
he posted very reasonably
― mark s, Thursday, 14 October 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
His Beatles Band book is good not bad! As is his Princess Margaret book. His PE parodies are variable, but this one works pretty well. Or maybe I was so thrilled to see it, that critical faculties were suspended...
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
Chiles is just getting started tbh.
This one is the odd one out. He is playing it straight and political.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/13/in-the-pandemic-27bn-worth-of-was-committed-why-arent-we-angrier
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 October 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link
Not that I've read any of it beyond the headlines. But I might read that one.
https://www.gawker.com/media/adrian-chiles-does-not-miss
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 28 October 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
Chiles is bad now.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 October 2021 09:15 (two years ago) link
He's baconed but hey I don't think it'll change him
― maybe these baps are legends (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 October 2021 09:27 (two years ago) link
The baconing continues: he's going to be on the Taskmaster end of year special.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 5 December 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
along with "Claudia Winkleman, Paralympian Jonnie Peacock, rapper, Lady Leshurr and former Conservative Cabinet Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi."
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 5 December 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
soon hes gnna thanos the h8as, cant be me dustified
― mark s, Sunday, 5 December 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
Would not have predicted Chiles as being the breakout star of the one-off New Year edition of Taskmaster
I think Adrian Chiles is acutely aware of how surreally mundane he is, and it makes him all the funnier for it. He's like a performance piece on how weird normality can be. #Taskmaster— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) January 1, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:31 (two years ago) link
I feel like seeing him consciously play up the surreally mundane thing just brings it to the point of curdling into schtick, it's only funny when you can at least half-believe it might be ingenuous
― soref, Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:40 (two years ago) link
Disagree in this one instance tho normally id probably cosign
Cant even say why, the man has a dull power
― pandmac (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:43 (two years ago) link
maybe what makes Chiles surreal is that he's trying to tread this well trodden path of John Peel's Home Truths style 'self-consciously banal in a quirky way' vibe, but there's something *off* about it, so he comes across not as charming eccentric but as genuinely mental, in which case it was always a combination self-conscious and oblivious?
― soref, Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:49 (two years ago) link
Oh hes a genuine threat, its like seeing boris on HIGNFY in 2004 or whatever
― pandmac (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 January 2022 11:44 (two years ago) link
damn right! when he gave that right-wing QC free rein on his show to state blatant falsehoods about Hillsborough some might say that is part of his guileless persona - I just think it makes him a class A cunt tbh.
― calzino, Sunday, 2 January 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link
Tim Dowling seems to cornered the 'self-consciously banal in a quirky way' market in the Guardian. I'm astounded that he regularly gets 700 - 600 comments a column.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 2 January 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
it was the last thing I cared about, and the squirrel ruined it
it would probably work as a Chiles column heading but when you see Tim's insufferably smug looking byline pic you immediately feel he's trying too hard and fuck off!
― calzino, Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:00 (two years ago) link
Reader, I clicked https://i.imgur.com/Ujcmqcf.jpg
― Alba, Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:41 (two years ago) link
Perfect.
― Blu Ray Davies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:47 (two years ago) link
Next week's column:
"Does anyonehave tips abouthow to unblocka toilet?Adrian Chiles
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:49 (two years ago) link
As someone who suffers from IBS I approve of comrade Chile's solidarity on this matter.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
I'm in Kyiv and awake at the darkest hour - do you need to use my toilet?
― ledge, Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:59 (two years ago) link
I have a question for Russian tank drivers...
― Blu Ray Davies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 February 2022 11:13 (two years ago) link
Fascinating
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 24 February 2022 11:14 (two years ago) link
having a good dump after a Chile
― calzino, Thursday, 24 February 2022 11:22 (two years ago) link
Piles of Chiles: The collected columns
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:05 (two years ago) link
Chiles has really excelled himself this time:
I have a urinal in my flat and it has changed my life – so why are people appalled?
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 21 April 2022 09:25 (two years ago) link
tbf this is like the anti-pooter
― mark s, Thursday, 21 April 2022 09:46 (two years ago) link
👑
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 April 2022 10:03 (two years ago) link
Undefeated. Undefeatable. pic.twitter.com/bukRbsWEEr— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 4, 2022
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
just getting into this guy, such a life
― goole, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
not only did my mum have a favourite wooden spoon, but it was so chipped and ancient and gnarly that HER mum wd refer to it (with affection) as "e coli"
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link
I've got one.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link
i do too, coincidentally the cheapest one we have. here's 8 paragraphs about it.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:18 (two years ago) link
I still haven't forgotten the time Chiles just sat there while some right-wing barrister cunt was talking barefaced lies about Hillsborough victims on his R5 show, and he didn't challenge him at all. When he's not being ingratiatingly Chiles he's just basically another BBC cunt.
I've got a stainless steel Prestige saucepan that is probably from the 1950's. It was given to my mum by my grandmother when she was still living in Ireland in the early 60's. It doesn't even look old, no dents, can still tighten the handle tight with a driver, the thread and screw still fine. It's more of a design miracle than any NASA project.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
Kevin came bursting into my office this morning, asking if I'd read today's Chiles column... because "that's me, that's me, I have a favourite spoon too!"
(He doesn't read Private Eye, so knows nothing of the Me And My Spoon column.)
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:09 (two years ago) link
Gotta admit I kinda resent my wooden kitchen implements for having to be handwashed.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:37 (two years ago) link
tbh i dishwash my wooden spoons (all of which were my mum's before me and are decades old and in fine fettle)
(not e coli tho, my sister says that went on the bonfire when we closed up mum and dad's house: she was less of a fan than my grandma)
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:56 (two years ago) link
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man pic.twitter.com/15HvMl1gM5— HMP Groverhaus (@EssexFront) July 6, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
"Many men can look good wearing a codpiece. I am not one of them."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
Wise words. I went one step further than Chiles and downloaded a fauna-identifying app and deleted it as soon as it started aggressively prompting me for bank details before I'd even tried it out.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
I downloaded a couple of mushroom identification apps but they completely failed to tell me the one thing I wanted to know about mushrooms
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link