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[rebness]

Charlie Higson, in The Observer: 'I still find it hard talking to working-class people. I'm like Ralph in [The Fast Show's] Ted and Ralph. I am pathetically keen and helpful when a plumber comes round.' 

WTF, Higson! How about treating working-class people the exact same way you would anyone else? I guarantee they won't come to you, cap in hand, talking about potatoes and carrots. *Gasp* Some of them can actually read these days!  How ignorant and patronising can you be? 

I have really lost respect for him, now.

In not-so annoying news, it's a gorgeous, if stuffy day today. I'm going to go for a swim. Only a month left before the Med becomes a little Baltic. :D

Comments

[rebness.livejournal.com]

That's exactly it.

I find The Guardian terribly snobby sometimes. You have the articles about organic boxes and childrens' clothing that costs an average weekly wage, as well as travel articles on where about in the Maldives to go this year, dahling.

[pandorasblog]

Yeah; it's kind of irritating that every paper seems to be gauged for a very specific lifestyle + politics combination. I find the politics of the Times mixed enough that it doesn't make me throw it across the room too often (and, well, I did manage to change that one journalist's mind for her), but the lifestyle stuff is again of the "Look, this face cream is a snip at £22!" variety. Like I can't be interested in Ken Russell's column and shop at Lidl?