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The US is certainly more violent than the UK. Frankly, if a columnist in the LA Times wrote something like the Abbott piece, he or she would need armed protection. I'm not saying that's good; I'd love a much less violent country. But deeds and words from silly, vain, racist columnists have consequences in the real world.
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What an absolute load of drivel combined with nasty racist comments.
It looks like she's boxed herself into a corner and is trying to find a way out to save face. The FRS and SAMM are obviously figments of her imagination and it would appear that they'll be written out shortly. Goodness only knows what she'll come up with next because her Diary and articles are becoming more obnoxious lately, if that's possible. Should she revert to sick animals and a return to poverty, the Daily Mail may just pull the plug on her ramblings. As for the 24 year old cat, I've a feeling she said it was 22 last year but I could be wrong. She never checks her facts and assumes that readers won't notice the discrepancies. Finally, if she wants her privacy, why the devil does she keep on harping about herself all the time?
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Hi everyone, I've had to re register my forgotten password to come on here, I've been lurking and enjoying this thread.
l have a theory on the RS, I don't know if you have thought of him but ...Howard Jones ( he's no Jim Kerr or Robert Plant!) kind of fits the bill too ?? He played Live Aid in 85, he's still touring, lives in Taunton I gather, and is a Buddhist and vegan from what I remember. I've met him, I'll be kind ...I thought he was a little odd. As I say he's no glamour arm-candy but could he be the "RS" ??? |
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Hi everyone, I've had to re register my forgotten password to come on here, I've been lurking and enjoying this thread.
l have a theory on the RS, I don't know if you have thought of him but ...Howard Jones ( he's no Jim Kerr or Robert Plant!) kind of fits the bill too ?? He played Live Aid in 85, he's still touring, lives in Taunton I gather, and is a Buddhist and vegan from what I remember. I've met him, I'll be kind ...I thought he was a little odd. As I say he's no glamour arm-candy but could he be the "RS" ??? |
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Hi everyone, I've had to re register my forgotten password to come on here, I've been lurking and enjoying this thread.
l have a theory on the RS, I don't know if you have thought of him but ...Howard Jones ( he's no Jim Kerr or Robert Plant!) kind of fits the bill too ?? He played Live Aid in 85, he's still touring, lives in Taunton I gather, and is a Buddhist and vegan from what I remember. I've met him, I'll be kind ...I thought he was a little odd. As I say he's no glamour arm-candy but could he be the "RS" ??? It's all a complete fantasy: that she's admitted twice in print in under two months it's not Jim Kerr despite dropping ridiculously heavy-handed hints for close on two years that it was leads me to believe that his lawyers have had a sharp word with her, and rightly so: for someone who studied journalism at college, she has an almost non-existent grasp of the laws of libel and defamation. She must keep the legal department at the Wail going full-tilt. |
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Only just read the Diane Abbott peice
Must be her best effort yet to get so much unrelated offensive drivel into one feature, most bizarrely the "I will continue to do as I please. I have complained often and loudly about a passenger being served meat next to me on a plane...". So we are meant to have segregated areas on planes for vegetarians now? Where did 'Mad Richard' come from? I don't recall her mentioning this charming wife and taxi driver beating gentleman before - boy, can she pick them.
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Liz Jones managed offend every ethnic group under the sun in her Diane Abbott piece. The bit about her Black ex-boyfriend ("sometimes people conform to stereotypes") had me slack-jawed in disbelief.
How the hell did this clown-faced bat become a journalist and stay being one? Is it that she's so clearly unhinged that the DM think it's best to keep her on for all the controversy she whips up? And to be a Buddhist, one has to turn the other cheek- she's so rude I want to kick her arse! |
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Liz Jones managed offend every ethnic group under the sun in her Diane Abbott piece. The bit about her Black ex-boyfriend ("sometimes people conform to stereotypes") had me slack-jawed in disbelief.
I notice there are comments appearing on the MoS column now, but they mostly seem to be addressing the Diane Abbott issue rather than the jaw-droppingly offensive stuff Liz has written. |
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That was the part that I found most shocking, too. I had to re-read it a couple of times to check that she'd really said it. How has she got away with this sort of stuff?
I notice there are comments appearing on the MoS column now, but they mostly seem to be addressing the Diane Abbott issue rather than the jaw-droppingly offensive stuff Liz has written. Second of the internal austerities: “Practice politeness and humility” Fourth of the external austerities: “Practising humility and thankfulness – by seeking help and offering assistance without egoistic tendencies” But, and herein lies the rub, Buddhism and Jainism popped up for the first time in an article of such immense impoliteless, lack of humility, blatant self-importance, self-entitlement and word-mongering horror. Of course, neither Buddhism or Jainism is proclaimed to be a belief, just a dual tendency (which, when you think about it, doesn’t work because they march in parallel but they are not the same). A device to suit the moment with LJ not adhering to local conventions because, well, why should she. The article is inflammatory, ill-informed, ill-judged and a mishmash of thought – and, that old chestnut, badly-written. Like Cathrin, my jaw dropped. Actually, my jaw hit the floor and hasn’t quite returned to its normal position. And, apart from all the other bits of nastiness, the use of the words “late Victorian holocaust” I found to be distasteful in the extreme. (I guess, in LJ’s eyes, I should apologise for my colonial forebears) |
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That the Diane Abbott piece is awful, there is no doubt. So she's gone back to harping on about plastic surgery (just how many articles can she squeeze out of that one?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...lain-ugly.html Included are these two little gems: "The truth is, I had no choice but to change the way I looked." "When I last had Botox, my nurse deliberately left a frown above the bridge of my nose to make it look as though I hadn’t had work done." The second from someone who as soon as she had had plastic surgery rushed to inform anyone who has ever learned to read of the fact - and keeps on reminding us. |
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"When I last had Botox, my nurse deliberately left a frown above the bridge of my nose to make it look as though I hadn’t had work done." QUOTE] Ahh, now I see what Liz has done, geeeeenius! So when I had my roots touched up at that new ultra expensive hairdressers last week and came out with dark roots STILL showing it was DELIBERATE to make it look like I'd not had anything done - that's why it cost so much and I have to go to another one next week - hopefully they'll do nothing either and charge me another fortune. I'm a bit slow on this beauty business malarky but Wor Liz is thankfully keeping me updated. |
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When she had her facelift, the surgeon deliberately left her looking haggard (if tighter) so that it would look as if she hadn't had any work done. That explains a lot.
Is "I left part of the job undone so you'd look more natural and less like you had work done" a clever out for a person who did an incomplete job? There's something I don't understand about Liz and her facelift. Surely the point is a certain amount of secrecy because the patient wants people to feel she just hasn't aged? So why shout it to the rafters? I just don't get it. It's one thing to have a facelift, I guess. It's another to say "Look at me! I just had a facelift! How 'bout that, huh?" Perhaps it's just a feature of Liz's normal inability to understand how certain behavior will make her vanity and egotism horrifically obvious. Why else would anyone be idiotic enough to say she shouts at other air passengers for eating meat, that she has a hot FRS boyfriend when she doesn't, that she routinely shouts at call centre people (we all have hobbies), that she practices a faith that advocates compassion, that all white people are guilty of Victorian racism, and so on? (My Victorian Welsh forebearers were down the mine decorating themselves with coal dust, actually, and came up looking a bit African themselves.) The "shouting at meat-eaters on planes" biz gives some indication of why she's been barred from fashion shows. Did she stand up at a few of them and castigate all and sundry because the models are too thin? I'd love to see her shouting at other diners at an actual restaurant, only because I'd like to see her thrown out onto the pavement on her supposedly scrawny arse. Is she barred from any airlines, I wonder? |
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So, Jainism:
Second of the internal austerities: “Practice politeness and humility” Fourth of the external austerities: “Practising humility and thankfulness – by seeking help and offering assistance without egoistic tendencies.....) ![]() 7th Jan 2012: Quote:
Well, until Muslims come to my neck of the woods and adhere to my own Buddhist, Jainian ideals and beliefs out of respect for me, I will continue to do as I please.
13th November 11: (Pre conversion) ![]() Quote:
I’m not religious, but I admire those who adhere to Jainism: they even wear masks to avoid inhaling a bug by mistake. They are my kind of people. Higher Beings. And most definitely not celebrities.
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Liz Jones. Ideals. Guffaw snort horselaugh.
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That the Diane Abbott piece is awful, there is no doubt. So she's gone back to harping on about plastic surgery (just how many articles can she squeeze out of that one?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...lain-ugly.html Included are these two little gems: "The truth is, I had no choice but to change the way I looked." "When I last had Botox, my nurse deliberately left a frown above the bridge of my nose to make it look as though I hadn’t had work done." The second from someone who as soon as she had had plastic surgery rushed to inform anyone who has ever learned to read of the fact - and keeps on reminding us. Quote:
Even on my Facebook page, the only photo of me is one aged five — I cannot bear to look at images of myself after that age.
So why did I see a 52 year old photo on her Facebook page? The only photo on her Facebook page.
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At work there is one secretary who is early 50's, single, (never married) and whose only interest in life appears to be dogs and horses.
Most of us find her quite boring, because if in the unfortunate position of having to sit next to her for a day, all she will witter on about is getting up at 3 am to feed and walk the dogs and horses (she lives more than 200 miles away from the office and has a very long 2 - 3 hour commute) and doing the same in the evening, walking the dogs and then going out to her field to care for the horses and say good night to them (often 9 or 10 pm) ...... then she gets a few hours sleep and gets up at 3 am to start the whole pallaver over again the next day. She has NO interest in anyone else's lives or human interest stories, no interest in men (not sure she has ever had a relationship, or only bad ones -- if any of us try to have a chit chat about "men" the horse lady is very negative about men in general). The only thing she doesn't do (unlike Liz) is MAKE UP fantasies about fictional men thinking it will make her more interesting, and make us like her !!! ![]() Perhaps she should, though, because 7 hours of sitting next to someone wittering on about the minutiae of walking and feeding dogs and horses is extremely yawn making.
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All good and well talking about this dried up old self obsessed narcissist. Does anyone know where she gets all her money from?!!
Moving to Devon isn't cheap. A facelift isn't cheap. She has never married anyone with any ££ and she only seems to write occasional articles for The Mail - where the hell does the rest of her money come from?!! |
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All good and well talking about this dried up old self obsessed narcissist. Does anyone know where she gets all her money from?!!
Moving to Devon isn't cheap. A facelift isn't cheap. She has never married anyone with any ££ and she only seems to write occasional articles for The Mail - where the hell does the rest of her money come from?!! |
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All good and well talking about this dried up old self obsessed narcissist. Does anyone know where she gets all her money from?!!
Moving to Devon isn't cheap. A facelift isn't cheap. She has never married anyone with any ££ and she only seems to write occasional articles for The Mail - where the hell does the rest of her money come from?!! I doubt she gets any freebies from Mary Portas though.
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She does seem to churn out a few articles a week for the DM (even if some are heavily recycled). The figure I seem to recall being bandied about as her salary is in the region of 250k pa, which is not to be sneezed at even if she does admit to a lot of expensive habits.
Whenever I accidentally click on one of "her" other articles all this plastic face has done is copy and paste someone elses article from the net. I make no apology but this woman is so cringeworthy, so awful, so self centered, ugly not just pyhsically but mentally. She actually looks like she stinks to me. There is nothing attractive about her. She is not funny, humble, kind. Sorry but I find Liz a joke. I think that may be why this board is so popular... |
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I have seen her salary estimated at between £250,000 & £400,000 - I have no idea whether or not that's accurate.
Her friend is the editor of BA Highlife magazine, so Liz freelances for her and gets freebie holidays (including her honeymoon, if I recall correctly). The facelift, hair colouring, dental work, therapy sessions etc all apear to be freebies, as she constantly name checks the companies concerned. Perhaps she's on notice now? It appears that Jones Moans on Thursdays is finished. |
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Final Jones Moans:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...n-like-me.html Liz's columns are clearly designed to provide hits to the Daily Mail website - hence her articles are nothing more than inflammatory stories. Regardless of that, she should check her facts. Her mother will not have required a television licence for years - she will be exempt. Wheely bins are not attractive, we all know that, but they can be kept in a shed or outhouse - or you can buy a 'wheelie bin store' designed to keep them out of sight and from blowing over. But then, if Liz took positive action she wouldn't have a column, would she? Would she? Would she?? |
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Other facts she needs to check: she boasted about campaigning against the use of anorexic models but accuses tv presenter Kirstie Allsopp of being fat. She claims to have no friends yet boasted a few weeks back about dining with a group of her long standing female friends at a trendy restaurant, whose chef knew her exacting dietary requirement. She complains about the lack of chivalry from "white van men, taxi drivers, even normal men in suits walking past, either ignored me, or shook their fists, or called me the ‘C’ word" after she had broken down in a cul de sac? Why would pedestrians be so threatening towards her if she was parked in a cul de sac?
![]() I am the same age as Liz Jones but I was raised to be polite and in general I receive courteous service in return. Liz plays Lady Bountiful and expects to be treated like Lady Muck. Most mothers would have more sense than to put their baby in a £300 cashmere cardigan to vomit and dribble over. Liz does not seem to give any real thought to the recipient of her presents: the fact it is expensive and by a top designer does not cut the mustard with most people.. |
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Someone at the Mail really, really hates Liz. That's the only explanation possible for the piece of "art" illustrating the current Moans. Even on a drawing, the kohl on her lower lids looks more like mascara that ran. And in the photo, is she under the impression that someone actively wants to see her dressed in a flesh-colored camisole, a garment that would be more ideal underneath other clothes (especially in a woman of Liz's years)? Yes, it's got a pattern of stitching on it. Big woop. I have a camisole with lace trim. That doesn't make it something the world would like to see me wearing alone on top, trust me. And what is her obsession with flesh-colored (well, caucasian-colored) clothing? Glamorous, it ain't.
Mind you, this is a woman so in love with caucasian-colored everything that she gets a full Brazilian, not something that I want to think about on a full stomach. Granted her fondness for this shade, do you think we could talk her into shaving her head? Or is even Liz aware that doing so would leave the enormous Dumbo ears open to painful public comments from casual passers-by on the street? Not that she'd hear them, of course. (Partially hearing people get to make un-PC if not very funny jokes about deafness, I figure, and I just did.) |
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Okay, I didn't even read the first paragraphs carefully before getting irked, but what are the rules for returning knickers, I wonder? Do they need to have the labels attached? Does Liz normally check the care labels of clothing only once she gets it into the privacy of her own home (while whispering "My precious, my precious"? That seems unlikely to me, somehow. Okay, I'm just a malicious, evil being, but somehow I suspect that Liz got them home, wore a pair, washed it, and discovered that fine underwear is not routinely machine-washable (something you'd think Madam Fashion Guru would be right on top of). Is Marc Jacobs a store in which one would expect wash-and-wear undies?
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Must be her best effort yet to get so much unrelated offensive drivel into one feature, most bizarrely the "I will continue to do as I please. I have complained often and loudly about a passenger being served meat next to me on a plane...". So we are meant to have segregated areas on planes for vegetarians now? Where did 'Mad Richard' come from? I don't recall her mentioning this charming wife and taxi driver beating gentleman before - boy, can she pick them.


