yeah, trouble is he writes travel regardless of what he should be writing. i have a couple of his travel collections, and they're great reads.
― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I won't fault his morbid curiosity but killing creatures for the sake of experiencing killing is the height of wankery.
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
is it hard to say that as an absolute position without trying it first?
― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Kill a friggin' deer, then. You can at least eat that or donate the meat.
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that's true.
― you can have this tapdance here for free (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
in any case, writing about it to be cool is probably the height of wankery
here's a straw man, now where's my advance?
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/07/america-with-love-aa-gill-excerpt
― Neil S, Thursday, 20 June 2013 10:49 (ten years ago) link
I don't think I have ever properly read anything by him, but everything I hear about what he has written makes him sound like a cockfarmer of the highest order. Like when he said that Mary Beard was too much of a minger to be on television.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 24 June 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
i like him tbh. far more perceptive and less insensitive than the easy caricature he loves to play up to
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 June 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
terrific restaurant critic (who totally does write about food?) at the very least - everything else he does is up for quarrel but not that
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 June 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
Mary Beard's looks arent an issue but her am-dram delivery is- tbf she shares that with every other bbc science/nature/history presenter atm
I think gill is a very good writer
― should we bin tapping? (darraghmac), Monday, 24 June 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
He is.
I don't think I have ever properly read anything by him, but everything I hear about what he has written makes him sound like a cockfarmer of the highest order. Like when he said that Mary Beard was too much of a minger to be on television.― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 24 June 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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Or the stuff around Clare Balding - in the end he is saying that TV is a visual medium therefore better looking people appear on most of its programmes for a reason. Whether its a programme about cars or the classics.
He attacked Paul Morley a few weeks ago, calling him a 'kidult' etc. Newsnight Review is such a shambles you'd go along with most of it.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 June 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
saw this and thought of youhttp://www.chortle.co.uk/steveimages/nomad.jpg
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Thursday, 21 July 2016 10:23 (seven years ago) link
in treatment, his own quotes dont suggest he's planning any long excursions
― the kids are alt right (darraghmac), Sunday, 20 November 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Hope a baboon comes and kills him
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Sunday, 20 November 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link