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Rache
Beginner January 2004

Giles Coren on his ideal woman

Rache, 5 October, 2008 at 09:09 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 7

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article4790198.ece


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GILES COREN

Once upon a time, a man on the hunt for a wife would set great store by a woman who could cook. But things have changed. And to be honest, I’ll settle for a woman who can eat. A woman who doesn’t poke her food around the plate and hide things under her knife and claim to have a thousand intolerances and allergies. A woman who isn’t “off carbs”, “not drinking this year”, “toying with the macrobiotic thing” or made to “feel funny” by red wine. I don’t want to sound narrow-minded. If I truly love her, then I guess we could always work the food thing through. As long as she isn’t always “tired”. Men are either awake or asleep, but women are always “exhausted”. What the hell is that? If you’re tired, woman, go to bed.

Also, I want a woman who is prepared to admit that what she wants from a man is a big *** and a lot of money. I am fed up with women always claiming that what they find most sexy is a sense of humour. Because it isn’t true. I know this because I am hilarious. Way more funny than most of the slack-arsed, car-obsessed, office wonk baldies you’ll meet in a wine bar on a Friday night, and yet I practically never get laid. If it were true that women are turned on by a man who makes them laugh, Woody Allen wouldn’t have had to marry his own daughter.

As for a woman with a sense of humour, that’s fine, as long as it simply means that she will laugh at my jokes. Most women only laugh at their own jokes. Shut up. If you say something funny, I’ll let you know. And don’t give me “career”. Only women have “careers”. Men have jobs, to get money, and if we could stop and have babies while someone else earned the loot, believe me, we would. We don’t need a “career” to feel validated. We don’t want to feel validated. We just want to feel boobs. As many as possible. And then, at the last minute, quickly have babies and then die.

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Latest activity by Carrot, 5 October, 2008 at 10:19
  • Mr JK
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    Sorry, but I can't read this until I have Coren's personal assurance that when he wrote "what she wants from a man is a big ***", he personally typed those three asterisks himself.

    Otherwise, who knows how much his message could have been distorted, along with his mellifluous, perfectly scanned and immaculately stressed prose style?

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  • C
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    I had to meet Giles Coren at work and I told him I read his column every week. He looked at me like I was some kind of fruitloop stalker and said "Er, ok". Oh dear, so embarrassing. Mr JK is it not the done thing to tell people you read their writing?

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  • Ladelley
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    I think I love Alex James.

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  • Mr JK
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    Depends on the person, really - and the writing.

    For instance, I had to interview Armando Iannucci on stage last year, and I told him (truthfully) that I was an avid reader of his column in Gramophone. He looked genuinely surprised and pleased, and we spent twenty minutes or so before we were due to go on chatting about twentieth-century Hungarian composers.

    On the other hand, if I'd done a crap Alan Partridge impersonation, I suspect he'd have been less impressed.

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  • C
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    Thanks... ah well, he seemed in a foul mood anyway so probably was on high loon alert. I should have tried some other means of small talk.

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    My golden rule when talking to (or, especially, interviewing) celebrities is to find something they're really really passionately interested in but which they don't get much of an opportunity to talk about - as opposed to something they do for their day job, or the thing they're most famous for but which they're sick and tired of being associated with.

    Harpo Marx once discovered that the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov was going to be his next-door neighbour in Hollywood, so he thought he'd welcome him by mastering his famous Prelude in C Sharp Minor on the harp. Unfortunately, he found out the hard way that Rachmaninov utterly despised the piece, because it was disproportionately famous compared with his lesser-known (but, to him, infinitely greater) work, and it backfired completely - especially as he moved in a bit earlier than expected and had to put up with hearing Harpo practising it as well! ?

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    Thank you for the tip and Rachmaninov story- that all makes sense. Not that I'll get to put it into practice but will bear it in mind! Sorry to hijack the OP.

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