yeah I was thinking exactly the same tbh - "I'd make sure the toilet cleaners did a proper job" is not exactly "he never misses". But I realised he was a lickspittle that day he gave some barrister arsehole free reign to slur Hillsborough victims on 5 live.
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
The King is BACK pic.twitter.com/xvBtldmunB— Badger Meinhof (@Badger5000) October 27, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 27 October 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
sad to discover Chiles has never seen The Jerk
― saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 27 October 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
https://theap.substack.com/p/the-honourable-schoolboy
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 November 2022 03:59 (one year ago) link
The one time Adrian Chiles says something moderately serious, they take the piss out of him with the photo... pic.twitter.com/OA3GZvdw1a— David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) March 2, 2023
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 2 March 2023 08:58 (one year ago) link
Another classic has dropped
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/15/i-have-a-naked-lookalike-and-he-is-making-a-fortune-on-onlyfans-adrian-chiles
― Godzilla: (laughs) You are a fool, Mozart. You will never defeat me. (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 16 March 2023 06:07 (one year ago) link
Incredible development
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 16 March 2023 06:21 (one year ago) link
https://t.co/Uxx5zi26Qc pic.twitter.com/nx8tg3jBnQ— stephen (@stepheniscowboy) March 19, 2023
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 20 March 2023 22:36 (one year ago) link
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/03/adrian-chiles-guardian-column-interview.html
Your columns have this cult appeal. People really love them. Has that surprised you?
Well, it does surprise me, but I’m always thinking people are half taking the piss, just because it can be so pooterish.
― symsymsym, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 04:40 (one year ago) link
What a blessed human being. I reread the straight razor shave and nostril wax one regularly.
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 04:57 (one year ago) link
Hope that Chiles' drivel in this week's column about university contact hours and funding will finally stop the love-in about his journalism. Jesus wept.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/29/english-students-spend-a-fortune-to-go-to-university-shouldnt-that-buy-them-more-teaching-and-less-partying
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 30 March 2023 08:00 (one year ago) link
whenever he drops the ingratiating performance shtick all that remains is a clueless arsehole with reactionary and bad opinions, "he never misses" though. I guess you can get away with any old ill informed shit when you are married to the editor.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 March 2023 08:14 (one year ago) link
Heaven spare us from Adrian Chiles expounding on yet another thing he knows nothing about. Who the hell is paying him to compare a single French fashion student to the entire English university sector (based on a handful of people he vaguely knows)? Oh, wait...— Caroline Dodds Pennock (@carolinepennock) March 30, 2023
― calzino, Thursday, 30 March 2023 09:08 (one year ago) link
Is he wrong? Maybe things have changed but when I spent a semester at Glasgow in the 90s it was party time, all the time. I had been intending to go for an entire year but I realised that I wasn't really learning anything so I went back to the US early.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 30 March 2023 11:42 (one year ago) link
The partying is as important a part of the uni experience as the learning, I think is the point. I learned way more about how to socialize and deal with ppl from my uni years than I learned about the subject I was studying.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 March 2023 11:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CS7Afry.png
― ledge, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/IfBiSEN.png
― ledge, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:45 (one year ago) link
The bloom may be off the semi ironic “he never misses” rose but chiles generator is still a banger is basically how I break it down to an extent
― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
It's now updated with all of his columns (260, apparently) and I've automated the parsing, though it's a bit buggy. Next stop a twitter bot, unless twitter dies first.
― ledge, Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:59 (one year ago) link
tired: most pooterish AC columnwired: most 'pooterish AI column
― mark s, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
People are too in on this now e.g.
I thought I was immune to being fooled online. Then I saw the pope in a coatJoel Golby
― nashwan, Thursday, 30 March 2023 14:27 (one year ago) link
https://twitter.com/_ChilesBot
― ledge, Thursday, 30 March 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
i like these columns.
― treeship., Thursday, 30 March 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link
Fake
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/05/pet-ill-never-forget-sea-monkeys-orgies
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 5 June 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
The mere mention of some of the people on this podcast will make some people spontaneously combust but, there's no doubt about it, Adrian Chiles gives a great interview: https://www.anotherslice.com/quicklykevin/dc181a49-e557-4e4b-8e13-706976ce6632
(It's the Quickly Kevin 90s football podcast. Chiles is on to talk about West Brom obviously, but he talks a lot about his time hosting BBC/ITV football coverage.)
― Stars of the Lidl (Chinaski), Monday, 5 June 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
Quick let's do ten incredible and super-British Adrian Chiles columns in a row one pic.twitter.com/wtOvto1bBP— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) June 15, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 June 2023 02:31 (eleven months ago) link
the most beautiful phrase in the English language is not "cellar door" it's "I panic-bought a dart board"
― frogbs, Friday, 16 June 2023 02:39 (eleven months ago) link
Some even need to be seen in context to be even funnierhttps://t.co/FgddxIiAG0— The 984 (@The_984) June 15, 2023
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 June 2023 16:59 (eleven months ago) link
That's easily the best column, you don't even need to read it.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 June 2023 17:23 (eleven months ago) link
You don’t need to read any of them, that would be doing it wrong
― Grandall Flange (wins), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:26 (eleven months ago) link
Ok Chile's has competition
I'm not sure what the Daily Mail thought they were getting for their six-figure Boris Johnson column, but I doubt 1,000 rambling words on why he took appetite suppressants for a bit, but gave them up after they made him feel a bit sick, was it. pic.twitter.com/naN1B3q4yy— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 June 2023 19:02 (eleven months ago) link
I want the follow-up where he tries meth instead.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:30 (eleven months ago) link
Ha, my first thought when reading Johnson's column (yes, I went there) was "he's no Adrian Chiles". It's surprisingly poorly executed, and does nothing for his alleged reputation as an eloquent and witty columnist.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 17 June 2023 12:14 (eleven months ago) link
I had a torrid time with some pitiful, dried-out geraniums on a three-for-£5 offer. They just wouldn’t scan. I got them for nothing in the end, but they all died anyway.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2023/aug/02/want-a-glimpse-of-dystopia-visit-the-self-service-checkouts
― Alba, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 18:37 (ten months ago) link
he's our Larkin
― rob, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 18:53 (ten months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/aug/30/have-i-told-you-about-the-time-i-split-my-trousers
Haven't read beyond the headline because I don't need to, and neither do you
― look i'm not sally fucking rooney (Matt #2), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 14:19 (nine months ago) link
i'll wait for have-i-told-you-about-the-time-i-shat-meself
― da elephant in daruma (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 14:20 (nine months ago) link
This is actually very well done
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/02/the-left-lane-on-a-motorway-is-for-the-virtuous-and-the-good-thats-why-i-love-it
― Alba, Thursday, 2 November 2023 07:26 (seven months ago) link
Sublime
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 2 November 2023 08:04 (seven months ago) link
When the dog shook its head I lost it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 November 2023 08:37 (seven months ago) link
ITV Sport Presenter Adrian Chiles eats a banana during the second half of the FIFA World Cup Qualifier - Group H - Ukraine v England (2013) pic.twitter.com/29yzrJ6OGJ— Great British Getty Images (@shitbritishpics) January 14, 2024
― nashwan, Sunday, 14 January 2024 20:38 (five months ago) link
Actually felt quite emotional after reading this.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/14/i-was-injured-miserable-and-lost-then-steve-wright-saved-me
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 15 February 2024 07:38 (three months ago) link
And even more so reading this. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/ive-spent-a-lifetime-dreading-the-loss-of-a-parent-and-now-its-finally-happened
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 20:40 (two months ago) link
My god
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:14 (two months ago) link
that was very moving.
― goole, Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:46 (two months ago) link
A stunning piece. My wife's father passed two years ago, this story matches that one in many ways.
― Mark G, Thursday, 21 March 2024 07:58 (two months ago) link
i think its all the better because there's still the odd hint of pooterishness
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:03 (two months ago) link
It'll be a bit jarring when next week he's back to how he folds his underpants or whatever...
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:10 (two months ago) link
that's kind of life though isn't it? you suffer some tragedy but the laundry still has to be done
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:46 (two months ago) link
That's a terrific articulation. My dad died at the same age as Chiles' father when I was in my late 40s, and this all seems tremendously familiar to me.
― ailsa, Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:20 (two months ago) link