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Old 07-11-2016, 07:54
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I'm fascinted by her belief that hot drinks are a weakness, if only because I've never know of anyone else who has ever said/thought this. What is her reasoning behind it, if she has any?
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Old 07-11-2016, 11:25
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I do wonder if the Baker is entirely well. According to Liz he's forgetful and slowmoving, and these are crimes against her, not indications of age-related changes, which they seem a lot more likely to be. How old is he now? He must be closer to 70 than 60 yes?
Yeah, she's pretty much acknowledged that he isn't in the best of health but she of course doesn't care. Like how she "Power-walked her way around Covent Garden" leaving him wheezing behind her and struggling to keep up; or when she became concerned he might fall down her basement stairs so, rather than take any safety precautions she just shouted "I REFUSE TO BE YOUR CARER!" at him
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Old 07-11-2016, 11:57
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Presumably all that woo DNA bollox and treatment has been funded by the Mail itself.

Yes, it very much annoys me too that she refers to ADs as happy pills and 'mind-altering'. As one who's been on and off the blasted things a few times over the years, they are not something you take to feel "happy", but just to feel functional and normal. Her ignorance should not come as a surprise, but it always does.

I find it odd that she says 'Being anxious is who I am.' I've been that five year old who was terrified of the playground (early onset agoraphobia probably - literally a fear of the market place), and I still find places full of activity and people very difficult to enter. My anxiety has been something I have done battle with daily for as long as I can remember, and affects me in many different ways. But I'm fcked if I'm going to define myself by it. It's just something that is part of me, it isn't ME.
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Old 07-11-2016, 15:38
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In reply to Roesia's question about Liz Jones saying hot drinks are a weakness, I'm sure the bold Liz hasn't come up with any satisfactory reason for this statement. It's just another of her many contradictory ramblings as it's well known she loves drinking Illey coffee.:
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Old 07-11-2016, 16:15
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The hot drinks are the same as the food tales. Some of her stories are about not eating for days, and others have her spending hundreds on "lovely" food.
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Old 07-11-2016, 16:44
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I wonder if Liz even rememebers what she's written each week. Somehow I doubt it!
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Old 07-11-2016, 17:13
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At least the gene farticle confirms my suspicion about the brand of water she uses to steam her knees...
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Old 07-11-2016, 17:34
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At least the gene farticle confirms my suspicion about the brand of water she uses to steam her knees...
That article annoyed me so much. Not only the "happy pills" part, but also her claim that "I have been profoundly deaf since childhood". From the NHS website, being profoundly deaf means "the quietest sound you can hear is more than 90dB"!
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Old 07-11-2016, 18:31
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The throwaway phrase 'happy pills' annoyed me intensely. Seems to imply you pop an antidepressant and you're instantly 'happy'. Far from it - they normally take weeks, maybe as long as four to six weeks, to 'kick in', and during those initial weeks, one can often feel far worse than one was before. People prescribed ADs should be carefully monitored during the initial period - unfortunately, there have been suicides during this time. Irresponsible of Jones to blithely call them 'happy pills'. By the way, she did, some months back, mention that she'd been prescribed this particular AD but didn't take it because the tablets were too big. Actually, they're not, quite small in fact.

As for the entire article about this latest 'therapy', bet she was offered it free in exchange for the feature. Much of it reads like the usual press release handed out ... just copied word for word. Lazy journalism.

And ... I seem to remember that in her recent farticle about her drinking habits, it was Prosecco that's her tipple. Now it's champagne.

I still want to know what's going to happen to her menagerie. And is The Baker, aka 'Cat Snatcher', dumped or not? I am wondering if she emails several weeks' worth of 'Diaries' to the MoS and some poor sub mixed them up and got them out of sequence?

As for suggesting that The Baker should take her along to Cartier to choose a ring ... something makes me think that bankruptcy/IVA or whatever notwithstanding, Jones is NOT going to change.

IF,of course, anything about her 'Diary' is actually true. Though the IVA/bankruptcy whatever seems to be - but the rest? As for whining about people not 'stepping up to the plate' or whatever? Is she expecting them to bail her out financially? She's earned eye-watering fees for years ... but still managed to mess it all up. As for the woman who has offered her use of a flat for £1 - really? Hope she hasn't any nice soft furnishings that Jones's untrained dogs will chew to bits/wee on.
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Old 07-11-2016, 18:37
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That article annoyed me so much. Not only the "happy pills" part, but also her claim that "I have been profoundly deaf since childhood". From the NHS website, being profoundly deaf means "the quietest sound you can hear is more than 90dB"!
She has progressed from being severely deaf to profoundly deaf 🙄. If she is really profoundly deaf (she is not, just a bit hard of hearing, possibly) it makes her article about Nic's stalker in which she calls him" deaf and dumb" even more offensive and insensitive.
He is profoundly deaf.
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Old 07-11-2016, 22:10
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Actually I wonder if she will be allowed to have her dogs in the new rental?
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Old 07-11-2016, 22:19
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I have taken citalopram for more than a decade. It's not "happy pills" you ignorant bitch. UGH I hate people who know nothing about it pontificating on mental health issues.

I don't know how I missed Liz's gigantic article about her genes. Now that I've read it all the usual suspects are being rounded up, to wit:

1) Can't live without morning espresso despite considering hot drinks a weakness;
2) Is a vegan but does not know the names of any vegetables;
3) Addicted to champagne despite being in the direst depths of poverty, PS no drinking problem to see here no no no;
4) Able to book hotels in case of "fits" despite being in the direst depths of poverty
5) Able to take pricey supplements rather than presumably subsidised and therefore cheaper antidepressant medications despite being in the direst depths of poverty
3. Addicted to sugary, calorific alcohol despite being anorexic? Hmm.
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Old 07-11-2016, 23:22
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Haha yes! I suppose she thinks sugary calorific alcohol is OK in the form of champagne since all the supermodels lived on it in the 80s and 90s and still managed to thinspire.
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Old 08-11-2016, 04:14
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it makes her article about Nic's stalker in which she calls him" deaf and dumb" even more offensive and insensitive.
He is profoundly deaf.
Whenever I think Liz has become as nasty as it's possible for anyone to be she still somehow manages to surpass herself.

She's truly irredeemable.
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Old 08-11-2016, 09:43
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I'm fascinted by her belief that hot drinks are a weakness, if only because I've never know of anyone else who has ever said/thought this. What is her reasoning behind it, if she has any?
Was it originally in one of her rants about working Mums who have coffee breaks (along with ordering their Ocado shopping online during work and then leaving on time as they have somebody to go home to)?
I'm sure one of the very detail-oriented FMs will remember more accurately.

She has progressed from being severely deaf to profoundly deaf 🙄. If she is really profoundly deaf (she is not, just a bit hard of hearing, possibly) it makes her article about Nic's stalker in which she calls him" deaf and dumb" even more offensive and insensitive.
He is profoundly deaf.
I too find it interesting that she's now stating she was always profoundly deaf, when she said in 2012 "I have ‘severe’ hearing loss. The only stage worse is ‘profound’: someone who is completely deaf."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...rpowering.html
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Old 08-11-2016, 20:24
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And still she doesn't wear her hearing aids!

PS Would she be allowed to have a lovely gold and diamond Cartier ring under her present financial regime? I rather think not as she can't justify needing it for work or anything.
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Old 10-11-2016, 01:14
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How can the Baker even afford Cartier? I'm shocked he can even afford a jag, pension or not. Would someone who worked primarily as a baker have a pension like that?

(Not being snotty, I just don't know how it works)
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Old 10-11-2016, 02:25
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How can the Baker even afford Cartier? I'm shocked he can even afford a jag, pension or not. Would someone who worked primarily as a baker have a pension like that?

(Not being snotty, I just don't know how it works)
It could be a crappy old Jag. My brother has had several Mercedes and they're old cruddy ones, still perfectly acceptable vehicles but not exactly the drive for the Groucho darling.

Or, the Baker, too, could be a profligate spender who doesn't know the value of a thing.

Maybe he had a super scheme he was allowed to cash in when he turned 65 and he's just spending up large on things like putting lighbulbs in and elderly Jags?
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Old 10-11-2016, 02:51
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I thought the baker's mother had died recently - maybe he bought th Jag with his inheritance?
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Old 13-11-2016, 01:13
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In which it finally occurs to me that living in London where I mostly work instead of the back of beyond would be a good thing.

And also occurs to me to mention to the powers that be that I am going bankrupt so I get to pay less money, but instead of taking responsibility for not doing so right away like any other mortal on a limited income would have done, I complain bitterly about how awful my alleged austerity measures have been.

But does not occur to me to tell my readers where the 20 cats and multiple horses would be going while I walk my three collies across the Swale.

And the idea of having to pay more because I have dogs sends me into a spiral of despair that is not mitigated at all by wondering whether the landlady has in fact read my columns and therefore knows exactly how bad my particular dogs are.

Oh woe a thousand grumbles deep.
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Old 13-11-2016, 04:22
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I just looked up 2 bed, 2 bath flats in Belsize Park and they're in excess of £2200 a month, so hardly cheap. Hilarious that she thought the landlady would be okay with her incontinent collies and only told her after David insisted. All the grim, ailment-laden cats aren't going to be made welcome by the landlady either and what's she going to do with the horses?

Unrealistic as ever.
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Old 13-11-2016, 05:20
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How is she able to write about falling asleep at the wheel multipile times without being investigated? It sounds like she should be banned from driving for the sake of others.
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Old 13-11-2016, 07:51
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Always remember, as she told the IVA people, everything she writes is a fiction.

Or as my father would have said, she's a lying liar, who lies.
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Old 13-11-2016, 08:32
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Belsize Park is lovely but I don't see how it's within her budget. It's probably one of the most expensive places to live outside of central London.
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Old 13-11-2016, 08:46
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I thought the big focus of The Girl on the Train was the main character witnessing a murder from out of the train window? Not just being "alone. mad. grieving for my old life" on a train?
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