Hope that Chiles' drivel in this week's column about university contact hours and funding will finally stop the love-in about his journalism. Jesus wept.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/29/english-students-spend-a-fortune-to-go-to-university-shouldnt-that-buy-them-more-teaching-and-less-partying
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 30 March 2023 08:00 (one year ago) link
whenever he drops the ingratiating performance shtick all that remains is a clueless arsehole with reactionary and bad opinions, "he never misses" though. I guess you can get away with any old ill informed shit when you are married to the editor.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 March 2023 08:14 (one year ago) link
Heaven spare us from Adrian Chiles expounding on yet another thing he knows nothing about. Who the hell is paying him to compare a single French fashion student to the entire English university sector (based on a handful of people he vaguely knows)? Oh, wait...— Caroline Dodds Pennock (@carolinepennock) March 30, 2023
― calzino, Thursday, 30 March 2023 09:08 (one year ago) link
Is he wrong? Maybe things have changed but when I spent a semester at Glasgow in the 90s it was party time, all the time. I had been intending to go for an entire year but I realised that I wasn't really learning anything so I went back to the US early.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 30 March 2023 11:42 (one year ago) link
The partying is as important a part of the uni experience as the learning, I think is the point. I learned way more about how to socialize and deal with ppl from my uni years than I learned about the subject I was studying.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 March 2023 11:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CS7Afry.png
― ledge, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/IfBiSEN.png
― ledge, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
The bloom may be off the semi ironic “he never misses” rose but chiles generator is still a banger is basically how I break it down to an extent
― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
It's now updated with all of his columns (260, apparently) and I've automated the parsing, though it's a bit buggy. Next stop a twitter bot, unless twitter dies first.
― ledge, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
tired: most pooterish AC columnwired: most 'pooterish AI column
― mark s, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
People are too in on this now e.g.
I thought I was immune to being fooled online. Then I saw the pope in a coatJoel Golby
― nashwan, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
https://twitter.com/_ChilesBot
― ledge, Thursday, 30 March 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
i like these columns.
― treeship., Thursday, 30 March 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
Fake
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/05/pet-ill-never-forget-sea-monkeys-orgies
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 5 June 2023 14:04 (ten months ago) link
The mere mention of some of the people on this podcast will make some people spontaneously combust but, there's no doubt about it, Adrian Chiles gives a great interview: https://www.anotherslice.com/quicklykevin/dc181a49-e557-4e4b-8e13-706976ce6632
(It's the Quickly Kevin 90s football podcast. Chiles is on to talk about West Brom obviously, but he talks a lot about his time hosting BBC/ITV football coverage.)
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Monday, 5 June 2023 15:18 (ten months ago) link
Quick let's do ten incredible and super-British Adrian Chiles columns in a row one pic.twitter.com/wtOvto1bBP— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) June 15, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 June 2023 02:31 (ten months ago) link
the most beautiful phrase in the English language is not "cellar door" it's "I panic-bought a dart board"
― frogbs, Friday, 16 June 2023 02:39 (ten months ago) link
Some even need to be seen in context to be even funnierhttps://t.co/FgddxIiAG0— The 984 (@The_984) June 15, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 June 2023 16:59 (ten months ago) link
That's easily the best column, you don't even need to read it.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 June 2023 17:23 (ten months ago) link
You don’t need to read any of them, that would be doing it wrong
― Grandall Flange (wins), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:26 (ten months ago) link
Ok Chile's has competition
I'm not sure what the Daily Mail thought they were getting for their six-figure Boris Johnson column, but I doubt 1,000 rambling words on why he took appetite suppressants for a bit, but gave them up after they made him feel a bit sick, was it. pic.twitter.com/naN1B3q4yy— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 June 2023 19:02 (ten months ago) link
I want the follow-up where he tries meth instead.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:30 (ten months ago) link
Ha, my first thought when reading Johnson's column (yes, I went there) was "he's no Adrian Chiles". It's surprisingly poorly executed, and does nothing for his alleged reputation as an eloquent and witty columnist.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 17 June 2023 12:14 (ten months ago) link
I had a torrid time with some pitiful, dried-out geraniums on a three-for-£5 offer. They just wouldn’t scan. I got them for nothing in the end, but they all died anyway.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2023/aug/02/want-a-glimpse-of-dystopia-visit-the-self-service-checkouts
― Alba, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 18:37 (nine months ago) link
he's our Larkin
― rob, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 18:53 (nine months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/30/have-i-told-you-about-the-time-i-split-my-trousers
Haven't read beyond the headline because I don't need to, and neither do you
― look i'm not sally fucking rooney (Matt #2), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 14:19 (eight months ago) link
i'll wait for have-i-told-you-about-the-time-i-shat-meself
― da elephant in daruma (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 14:20 (eight months ago) link
This is actually very well done
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/02/the-left-lane-on-a-motorway-is-for-the-virtuous-and-the-good-thats-why-i-love-it
― Alba, Thursday, 2 November 2023 07:26 (six months ago) link
Sublime
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 2 November 2023 08:04 (six months ago) link
When the dog shook its head I lost it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 November 2023 08:37 (six months ago) link
ITV Sport Presenter Adrian Chiles eats a banana during the second half of the FIFA World Cup Qualifier - Group H - Ukraine v England (2013) pic.twitter.com/29yzrJ6OGJ— Great British Getty Images (@shitbritishpics) January 14, 2024
― nashwan, Sunday, 14 January 2024 20:38 (three months ago) link
Actually felt quite emotional after reading this.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/14/i-was-injured-miserable-and-lost-then-steve-wright-saved-me
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 15 February 2024 07:38 (two months ago) link
And even more so reading this. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/ive-spent-a-lifetime-dreading-the-loss-of-a-parent-and-now-its-finally-happened
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:40 (one month ago) link
My god
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:14 (one month ago) link
that was very moving.
― goole, Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:46 (one month ago) link
A stunning piece. My wife's father passed two years ago, this story matches that one in many ways.
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 March 2024 07:58 (one month ago) link
i think its all the better because there's still the odd hint of pooterishness
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:03 (one month ago) link
It'll be a bit jarring when next week he's back to how he folds his underpants or whatever...
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:10 (one month ago) link
that's kind of life though isn't it? you suffer some tragedy but the laundry still has to be done
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:46 (one month ago) link
That's a terrific articulation. My dad died at the same age as Chiles' father when I was in my late 40s, and this all seems tremendously familiar to me.
― ailsa, Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:20 (one month ago) link