Jamie Oliver and snobbery

I agree with him. "enormous televisions" ?

LOL. Took a while.

Yes, well you would wouldn't you, what with your multiple khazis and cleaning lady? ?

The "enormous televisions" thing did amuse me. I remember one of the outreach workers from a school I worked in saying that a lot of the families he visited had an enormous TV in the corner and no other furniture except plastic garden chairs ?

As Sparkley would say . . . Waaaaaah!

So, does my averagely sized television, cheap mobile phone and general pub avoidance make me "a bit posh" ? ?

i only have one shed though.

No, no just a little...errr...'festive'.

On second reading, that article really is a wealth of gems:

We used to call them "the working classes"; now we look at them as ***-eating tossers.

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As someone who comes from a family of eight in a terraced house, and whose mother necessarily took a conveyor-belt approach to dinnertime (serving up fish fingers, mashed potatoes and a clip around the lughole if you took more than five minutes to eat it),

So, crap food and low-grade domestic violence . . . shame she hadn't heard of contraception ?

I watched Oliver's snide, aloof, unsympathetic series and continually thought: who's the real tosser here?

FWIW, I think you can share the title.

I think JO has a point, TBH.

That article makes a good point imo. JO can't be an "of the people" geezer and sneer at the very class her purports to come from - and you don't get people to change their habits by vilifying and alienating them. (Although it is fun to do so ?)

Hmmm although that presupposes that "working class" and "***-eating wastrel" are the same thing. I'm sure JO would counter that his comments relate only to people who eat rubbish rubbishly while spunking their money on TVs and booze, not to anyone working class.

I agree with your second point.

I'm not in the mood to construct a sensible argument today, but I would like to say that we have a massive telly. And that I think JO is an irritating mockney twat.

That is all. Thank you.

I think JO should do a Children's Saturday morning kitchen & target kids while they are watching a big telly & eating coco pops off their laps.

I'd prefer one where the kids could target JO. Preferably with half bricks.

I hate JO. Fat tongued lisping twat.

WSS. It reminds me of the whole "chav" = "working class" arguement

As someone who ate at 15 on sunday, he may be better advised sorting his own kitchens before he starts on the masses. In 2 hours we saw at least 8 meals go back, mine twice.

Maybe as a mother of 5 I should have saved my money and put it towards a bigger tv?

Oh Fifteen is rubbish- when we went the whole basement was tasting menu only and (as non-tasting menu customers, sitting upstairs) we were made to feel decidedly second best. My fish was completely overcooked, the service was off-hand and the whole place felt like a big marketing swizz.

Actually, we have one massive telly each.

So what's Jamie Oliver going to do about that then, eh?

Just when you think JO can't seem more of a tosser...

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Without wishing to start a domestic online, we do not have a telly each. You have a telly to yourself in the Shed, I have a telly which I share with you and our pesky, Cbeebies-addled brats.

I do not have a telly to myself at all. And if I did, where would I put it, hmmm? I think I'm the only person in this house without a room to themselves either. Unless you count the kitchen. Harrrumph.

<crosses arms nudging up bosom>

(Please don't reply dear, you make us look mental ?)

Waaaaaaaaaaaaah? I'm so glad that Mr "three screens" Layabout and I aren't the only couple who have these issues ?

Our TV is small-ish, and not even widescreen, let alone flat. My phone dates from 2001. I do have a dreadful fondness for *** food though.

And I have TWO sheds.

We have THREE. ?

(Frighteningly, that's actually true, though one is a total waste of space - we've never even managed to get the door open, and its sole contents seem to be a rusty barbecue).

[swoon]

We have a forlorn patch of hard standing, where our vendors came back 6 months later to collect their shed (we had agreed to this, but 6 months was a little longer than expected!) because we didn't want to pay an additional £500 for it. Ditto £1000 for a 'summerhouse'. We got to keep the greenhouse. So at one point we had 3 shed-type outbuildings.

If that does make us posh... we certainly undo by having a 50" TV ? (for 'we', read MrMG)

PMSL and at Mr JK's new nickname "Three Sheds"

I'm with JK and I only have a moderate old-fashioned telly.

PMSL at JK and his three sheds ?

Pieman - I don't have a shed, I need a big strong man to build me one, can you help? <flutters lashes>

I don't have a television, but I am awfully fond of the pub.

I can see exactly where Jamie is coming from, annoyingly (because he makes my teeth squitch).

"The Bob Geldof of chefs". ? ?

Any time Sparks, I've got my own hammer and everything.

But what about old Tantric Tony - why can't he do it ?

[studiously avoids using words like wood or erecting]

you know lesser women would get upset at the constant flirting between her husband and a gorgeous booberella. I however will not make a scene ?

Tantric Tony ? ?

Gin, you can come too, I make make us cocktails while we watch your man hard at work ?

Pieman, I look forward to seeing you hammering away in my garden <rubs thighs>

Rumbled ! ?