are all tv chefs totally obnoxious twats?

you and him both

You're determined to reach 3,000 this month, huh?

in it to win it

I've never watched a Slater show. I like his writing a lot. He writes about food like I do when I write recipes out for friends (doing this is how I ever got to read him; a friend I wrote a recipe for said I reminded him of Slater), basically "put some more butter in, it's fucking great".

I like Hugh Curly-Whittington and Gordon Ramsay. Jamie Oliver's grown on me over the years; he's still a fat-tongued cunt with no eyes, though.

I hate hate hate Rachael Ray but I think this idiotic

Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer? The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men.

Some observers, including ultra-conservative Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, were so incensed by the ad that there was even talk of a Dunkin’ Donuts boycott.

‘‘The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,’’ Malkin yowls in her syndicated column.

‘‘Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant and not-so-ignorant fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons.’’

The company at first pooh-poohed the complaints, claiming the black-and-white wrap was not a keffiyeh. But the right-wing drumbeat on the blogosphere continued and by yesterday, Dunkin’ Donuts decided it’d be easier just to yank the ad.

Said the suits in a statement: ‘‘In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.’’

(In case you’re wondering, the stylist who selected the offending scarf was not Gretta Enterprises boss Gretchen Monahan, who appears on Ray’s TV show as a style consultant.)

For her part, Malkin was pleased with Dunkin’s response: ‘‘It’s refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists."

The picture that goes with the story though? Uh...

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2008/05/27/1211929942_3205.jpg

all kinds of people are wearing these thing.

sometimes i'm really sick of this country

Fuck me guys, that's up there with our government trying to ban drawings.

This is FUCKING stupid.

Jesus, her face is the most offensive thing in that picture, not her scarf.

RIP vampire weekend

Some people have too much time on their hands.

Is that a Mormon temple in the background?

If those scarves are a problem there's an awful lot of 70s rock bands that are gonna need their album covers burning.

I've always like the keffiyeh, esp. after reading Joe Sacco's Palestine. They seem like a nice thing.

Stupidity abounds. It only seems to be increasing, but...

at least maybe hipsters will stop wearing them now?

There's a hipster keffiyeh movement?

oh dear

ohhhhh yeah
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Arcade Keffiyeh

palestinian states lose

PEOPLE

Dig this hipster:

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PLO Soundsystem

Antony Worrall Thompson 'sorry' for Tesco shoplifting but not for anything else.

According the Guardian story on this, he'd nicked stuff on 5 different occassions over the last few weeks - guess they must have check back on the cctv? Had been using the self-service checkout and hadn't scanned some of his stuff in.

Much as I'd love to sneer at the little Tory twat, I can't 'cuz that story's just sad :(

wonder if it was due to late life boredom. the only times i ever shoplifted was on really cheap items just to see if I could do it without being caught.

Not looking forward to the Ready Steady Crook headlines tomorrow then? xp

... so that's what the Ready Steady Crook headline in today's Sun was about then?

Oh well, there you go, I predicted it 18 hours after they went to print. Psychic or what?

They're quick off the mark

STATEMENT FROM ANTONY WORRALL THOMPSON

I am so sorry for all my recent stupid and irresponsible actions; I am of course devastated for my family and friends, whom I’ve let down and will seek the treatment that is clearly needed. I am not the first, and I certainly won’t be the last person to do something without rhyme or reason - what went through my head, only time will tell.

Of course, I must also apologise sincerely to Tesco, with whom I’m had a long and genuine working relationship, and to all the staff at the Henley branch, many of whom I’ve got to know over the years.

Once again, I am so sorry and hopefully in the future I can make amends.

Antony Worrall Thompson January 2012

Luckily for him he can seek 'treatment' without all that silly getting sent to prison or paying fines. I do actually feel sorry for him, clearly something's not right with the chap, but I wonder if he was inclined to take this enlightened view of petty crime before his recent difficulties?

that's some pretty tasty /addictive cheese then or some such?

amazing bit of this story; FOUR per cent of ALL Tesco cheese gets shoplifted! FOUR!! that must mean that pretty much every time you're in there someone else is on the rob. now i know why the store security bods are so damn twitchy.

still haven't ready anywhere what KIND of cheese and wine it was

i feel that information is crucial to my forming any kind of judgment or opinion here

If it's Mini Babybel they should bring back hanging.

I wonder if he was inclined to take this enlightened view of petty crime

The overrriding idea in such twats's heads runs something like this: although what I did is obviously wrong, I know I am not a criminal, so whatever it was I did, it doesn't qualify as a crime except in the most technical and trivial sense. It still makes perfect sense for us to hate criminals, but clearly that's not me, right?

Let's not be too harsh here. I mean he probably did pay up for the crackers, right?

insider fact: he's married to the daughter of the owner of the londis about 2 mins from my parents house in the north dublin suburb i grew up in.

shopkeeper father in law will be feverishly stocktaking now i'd say.

also i said this on facebook but is anyone in public life more gnome-like?

It's true. You' d have thought the security guard would have spotted what was going on when the fishing rod came in through the top window.

my brother says no one more gnome like since robin cook passed

To be fair I would much rather be trapped in a room with AWT than anyone else on this page...

http://www.ybf.org.uk/speakers-panel/

I've met a number of British TV chefs and I have to say the least twattish in person happens to be Gordon Ramsay. He always says "Hello everyone" when he comes in the room and shakes hands with a sincere "Hello, I'm Gordon", which is more than I can say for others in his profession.

nigel slater replied to a mail i sent him before, v promptly and he was incredibly polite and nice. though only barely a tv chef compared to some of the others.

I've met a number of British TV chefs and I have to say the least twattish in person happens to be Gordon Ramsay. He always says "Hello everyone" when he comes in the room and shakes hands with a sincere "Hello, I'm Gordon", which is more than I can say for others in his profession.

i can see that. he's probably terrified of how he comes across to people.

i'm amazed more celebs don't shoplift tbh, there's no downside, if you get caught you get a telling off, meaningless fine and some free publicity and none of yr fans are gonna abandon you over it. AWT shd man the fuck up imo and work out what other fun crimes carry a zero penalty if y're famous

Yeah, that worked for Wynona Ryder.

she shoplifted in a country that executes children with learning disabilities, different risk level.