This blog is about me, right? So I don’t link to other stuff. In this case, though, I’ll make an exception. Well known food critic Giles Coren got seriously seriously steamed up with a sub editor or sub editors unknown at The Times. Why? Because they removed one letter from his piece.
One letter, eh? So what? But read his letter (here) and you’ll see how utterly important it was to the piece. Well, as far as he was concerned anyway. Note, the letter is more than a little sweary. Sit well back from the monitor if you don’t want to get flecks of furious spittle in your eyes.
As an amusing adjunct someone (likely not Giles himself) set up a twitter account @GilesCoren and has spent the last 3 hours (at the time of writing) being utterly, profanely furious with a rather bemused set of British journos and bloggers.
Yeah, I got a follow from @GilesCoren and I returned it. It was like opening a Pandora’s box of expletives. Ace!
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So sad that person or persons unknown took down the Twitter page – I didn’t think to take a screenshot, but I thought Giles’ reply to you particularly fine. I wondered if it was perhaps Charlie Brooker?
A few people suggested CB as a likely candidate. He’s certainly got a rating of 99% on the Sweary Top Trumps.
I didn’t realise the page had gone. I wonder if Coren himself got on the blower to Twitter Towers and waved his little fists at them.
Sweary Top Trumps – now there’s a stroke of genius. There would have to be the traditional lame category that let people win the rudest cards with swearing lightweights like, say, Noel Edmonds.
I don’t know what that would be, though. Perhaps Edmonds would swing it with a nine for good old-fashioned offensiveness?
I wonder if swearytoptrumps.com is registered…hmm. I swore I’d give up speculative domain name purchases back in 2001 but I’m still tempted.
Edmonds would be ranked on offensive appearance (which emcompasses poor dress sense and beardyness – aside: Beardy Top Trumps, another whole world of fun)
Perhaps the ratings would be around sweary mouth, sweary writing, offensive actions, offensive appearance and fundamental downright unpleasantness (the latter rating scoring highly for Stalin, Hitler and Piers Morgan, for example)
Hey – The Times’ subs have replied.
Thanks for the link. Nice one, Mia and Joanna. ‘having “Giles Coren is a sanctimonious little twat who needs to get over himself” could be quite costly in T-shirt lettering’ – owie! Sharp and sweet.
subs 1, coren 0.