soon hes gnna thanos the h8as, cant be me dustified
― mark s, Sunday, 5 December 2021 12:02 (two years ago) link
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
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:31 (two years ago) link
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
― soref, Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:40 (two years ago) link
Disagree in this one instance tho normally id probably cosign
Cant even say why, the man has a dull power
― pandmac (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:43 (two years ago) link
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?
― soref, Sunday, 2 January 2022 10:49 (two years ago) link
Oh hes a genuine threat, its like seeing boris on HIGNFY in 2004 or whatever
― pandmac (darraghmac), Sunday, 2 January 2022 11:44 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 2 January 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link
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.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 2 January 2022 12:41 (two years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Sunday, 2 January 2022 13:00 (two years ago) link
Reader, I clicked https://i.imgur.com/Ujcmqcf.jpg
― Alba, Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:41 (two years ago) link
Perfect.
― Blu Ray Davies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:47 (two years ago) link
Next week's column:
"Does anyonehave tips abouthow to unblocka toilet?Adrian Chiles
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:49 (two years ago) link
As someone who suffers from IBS I approve of comrade Chile's solidarity on this matter.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:51 (two years ago) link
I'm in Kyiv and awake at the darkest hour - do you need to use my toilet?
― ledge, Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:59 (two years ago) link
I have a question for Russian tank drivers...
― Blu Ray Davies (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 February 2022 11:13 (two years ago) link
Fascinating
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 24 February 2022 11:14 (two years ago) link
having a good dump after a Chile
― calzino, Thursday, 24 February 2022 11:22 (two years ago) link
Piles of Chiles: The collected columns
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:05 (two years ago) link
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?
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 21 April 2022 09:25 (one year ago) link
tbf this is like the anti-pooter
― mark s, Thursday, 21 April 2022 09:46 (one year ago) link
👑
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 April 2022 10:03 (one year ago) link
Undefeated. Undefeatable. pic.twitter.com/bukRbsWEEr— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 4, 2022
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
just getting into this guy, such a life
― goole, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
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"
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
I've got one.
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
i do too, coincidentally the cheapest one we have. here's 8 paragraphs about it.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:18 (one year ago) link
I still haven't forgotten the time Chiles just sat there while some right-wing barrister cunt was talking barefaced lies about Hillsborough victims on his R5 show, and he didn't challenge him at all. When he's not being ingratiatingly Chiles he's just basically another BBC cunt.
I've got a stainless steel Prestige saucepan that is probably from the 1950's. It was given to my mum by my grandmother when she was still living in Ireland in the early 60's. It doesn't even look old, no dents, can still tighten the handle tight with a driver, the thread and screw still fine. It's more of a design miracle than any NASA project.
― calzino, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
Kevin came bursting into my office this morning, asking if I'd read today's Chiles column... because "that's me, that's me, I have a favourite spoon too!"
(He doesn't read Private Eye, so knows nothing of the Me And My Spoon column.)
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:09 (one year ago) link
Gotta admit I kinda resent my wooden kitchen implements for having to be handwashed.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
tbh i dishwash my wooden spoons (all of which were my mum's before me and are decades old and in fine fettle)
(not e coli tho, my sister says that went on the bonfire when we closed up mum and dad's house: she was less of a fan than my grandma)
― mark s, Friday, 6 May 2022 09:56 (one year ago) link
Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man pic.twitter.com/15HvMl1gM5— HMP Groverhaus (@EssexFront) July 6, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
"Many men can look good wearing a codpiece. I am not one of them."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
Wise words. I went one step further than Chiles and downloaded a fauna-identifying app and deleted it as soon as it started aggressively prompting me for bank details before I'd even tried it out.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
I downloaded a couple of mushroom identification apps but they completely failed to tell me the one thing I wanted to know about mushrooms
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
it's not like identifying the edible ones and fatally poisonous mushrooms is any big deal!
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
"yes, it's definitely a pebble"
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
lol "it's a fucking cob"
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
I got a back-to-front West Brom tattoo - and I love it
Column doesn't say much more than the title so no real purpose in linking to it.
― I was horrified to discover the gap between rich & poor was so extreme (Matt #2), Thursday, 7 July 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
calzino at 9:14 6 Jul 22it's not like identifying the edible ones and fatally poisonous mushrooms is any big deal!
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 7 July 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
In the nation’s hour of needhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/21/i-recently-saw-something-in-a-petrol-station-toilet-southbound-on-the-m1-that-i-can-never-unsee
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
Misread the last sentence as Adrian offering his services to clean the bogs himself! No chance, best left to those who earn in 6 months what he was probably paid to dribble out this bilge.
― promised you a spiracle (Matt #2), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
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