Most pooterish Adrian Chiles column

Thought this revive would be about Edwin Poots

For fans of Adrian Chiles, be sure not to miss his Antipodean counterpart: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/18/my-microwave-door-got-stuck-with-food-inside-and-then-it-started-to-develop-a-malevolent-vibe

https://i.imgur.com/XFkgiYv.jpg

poll options not as enticingly phrased, but 3 Dec is a strong winner

i'm enjoying the laundry horror show tbqf

huge gratitude to this thread for introducing me to 'pooterish,' a perfect word

Chiles def. needs a Lupin Pooter figure to spark off; maybe the student son of his partner. Invent him if he doesn't exist: a columnist's goldmine.

this has definitely been a rookie of the year thread candidate

it's been a real joy to get to know Adrian

I hope one day he finds this thread and sees the joy he has brought.

I'm expecting ledge to end up being interviewed by Adrian Chiles about this.

― Wrote For Lunch (Tom D.), Friday, 5 March 2021 12:14 (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm still assiduously updating the chileswriter but I've refrained from going public with it.

Obviously mike t-diva should also meet the great man.

The straight-razor shave and waxing one…it should honestly be taught in writing classes.

"Humans can be a wonderful species, as I was reminded on a journey to Plymouth last week."

Classic Chiles this week, on inimitable form: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/14/a-stranger-on-a-train-and-a-small-stunning-act-of-kindness

Chiles's columns have also been parodied - rather well - by Craig Brown in the new Private Eye.

He's a master of the en dash.

"parodied - rather well - by Craig Brown"

^^^not having this, brown shd be chased into the thames with a cattleprod

he posted very reasonably

His Beatles Band book is good not bad! As is his Princess Margaret book. His PE parodies are variable, but this one works pretty well. Or maybe I was so thrilled to see it, that critical faculties were suspended...

Chiles is just getting started tbh.

This one is the odd one out. He is playing it straight and political.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/13/in-the-pandemic-27bn-worth-of-was-committed-why-arent-we-angrier

Not that I've read any of it beyond the headlines. But I might read that one.

https://www.gawker.com/media/adrian-chiles-does-not-miss

Chiles is bad now.

He's baconed but hey I don't think it'll change him

The baconing continues: he's going to be on the Taskmaster end of year special.

along with "Claudia Winkleman, Paralympian Jonnie Peacock, rapper, Lady Leshurr and former Conservative Cabinet Minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi."

soon hes gnna thanos the h8as, cant be me dustified

Would not have predicted Chiles as being the breakout star of the one-off New Year edition of Taskmaster

I think Adrian Chiles is acutely aware of how surreally mundane he is, and it makes him all the funnier for it. He's like a performance piece on how weird normality can be. #Taskmaster

— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) January 1, 2022

I feel like seeing him consciously play up the surreally mundane thing just brings it to the point of curdling into schtick, it's only funny when you can at least half-believe it might be ingenuous

Disagree in this one instance tho normally id probably cosign

Cant even say why, the man has a dull power

maybe what makes Chiles surreal is that he's trying to tread this well trodden path of John Peel's Home Truths style 'self-consciously banal in a quirky way' vibe, but there's something *off* about it, so he comes across not as charming eccentric but as genuinely mental, in which case it was always a combination self-conscious and oblivious?

Oh hes a genuine threat, its like seeing boris on HIGNFY in 2004 or whatever

damn right! when he gave that right-wing QC free rein on his show to state blatant falsehoods about Hillsborough some might say that is part of his guileless persona - I just think it makes him a class A cunt tbh.

Tim Dowling seems to cornered the 'self-consciously banal in a quirky way' market in the Guardian. I'm astounded that he regularly gets 700 - 600 comments a column.

it was the last thing I cared about, and the squirrel ruined it

it would probably work as a Chiles column heading but when you see Tim's insufferably smug looking byline pic you immediately feel he's trying too hard and fuck off!

Reader, I clicked

https://i.imgur.com/Ujcmqcf.jpg

Perfect.

Next week's column:

"Does anyone
have tips about
how to unblock
a toilet?
Adrian Chiles

As someone who suffers from IBS I approve of comrade Chile's solidarity on this matter.

I'm in Kyiv and awake at the darkest hour - do you need to use my toilet?

I have a question for Russian tank drivers...

Fascinating

having a good dump after a Chile

Piles of Chiles: The collected columns

Chiles has really excelled himself this time:

I have a urinal in my flat and it has changed my life – so why are people appalled?

tbf this is like the anti-pooter

👑

Undefeated. Undefeatable. pic.twitter.com/bukRbsWEEr

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 4, 2022

just getting into this guy, such a life

not only did my mum have a favourite wooden spoon, but it was so chipped and ancient and gnarly that HER mum wd refer to it (with affection) as "e coli"

I've got one.