Liz Jones is Credit Crunched in the end.....

fc123

lemonjelly wrote: »

How do you read that stuff & manage to suppress the urge to kill? I really struggle.

Mind you, you've namechecked xfactor too! Another thing that makes me want to kill.

The beautiful south have the same effect on me too...

I am in touch with my trivial side.
I am double in touch tonight as I have played George Micheal and Joe play back about 6 times.

poppy10_2

lemonjelly wrote: »

How do you read that stuff & manage to suppress the urge to kill? I really struggle.

Me too. Grrr......:mad:

poppy10_2

The latest volley of solipsistic self-pity from Liz Jones:

Wish me a lonely Christmas, and spare a thought for the millions of women like me

As you all head home to your families for the holiday,spare a thought for the millions of women like me for whom it's the hardest time of year.

I moved to the countryside, where I thought there might be more of a community (in London, I never did find out the name of the girl who lived next door).
I was wrong, as it turned out, and have found I can go from one week to the next without speaking to a soul.

I have written my three Christmas cards: to my mum, who lives 200 miles away and has dementia; to John the postman; and to the dustbin men, a lovely trio who often bypass my house because I have so little rubbish.

Everywhere you look at this time of year, those of us who live alone are deemed wanting. The inevitable footage on the TV news of traffic jams on the motorways makes me wail: 'Why is no one driving to see me, laden with parcels and food hampers?'

This Christmas, having received not a single invitation to join them from family or friends - I suppose a single, childless, ageing, vegan woman plonked in their midst is not everyone's cup of eggnog - I am going to attempt to live out the rural ideal and spend the day feeding my animals. I have 17 cats, all of whom worship at the altar of St Michael, my sheepdog.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1237311/Liz-Jones-Wish-lonely-Christmas-spare-thought-millions-women-like-me.html

Lotus-eater

You can move to the country and not take on the ways of the village, not integrate, not be friendly with people, you may even find someone locally who thinks the same, but you won't get on with the majority of people.

I live in a position about the same as her, if I was spending Christmas alone, there is no way people I know locally would let it stay that way, just as I wouldn't let someone else spend it alone. You get out, what you put into a village.

sukysue

I like Liz Jones musings. First thing I read when I get the MOS .

lostinrates

Funny thing is, I suppose I am a bit of a Liz Jones....slightly batty animal woman who, while not alone, is around a lot and doesn't go out to work (though I recognise Liz does work). I'm also an incomer.

Today, having checked on a neighbour who lives alone and often needs help I have since received a couple of calls with ''If you go out can you get....'' requests. I'm pleased peole feel able to ask me, it means I'm considered useful member of our little society and trustworthy. Its not hard to be useful, and to be ''part of the village'' you need to mke an effort.

Lotus-eater

No it's not difficult, just be friends with your neighbours. Don't write about them in a upmarket version of The Sun, re them being yokal locals who don't have a clue what's going on, then insult them in various ways, then talk about your whole life being sh*t because everyone local is so horrible.

For some reason, that way of being friendly doesn't work very well.

lostinrates

I hink a lot of my neighbours would get a kick about being written about, even slightly cheekily, if the tone was kind and jokily cheeky and observant, not like pointing at the peasants.

Spartacus_Mills

poppy10 wrote: »

The latest volley of solipsistic self-pity from Liz Jones:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1237311/Liz-Jones-Wish-lonely-Christmas-spare-thought-millions-women-like-me.html

What a load of self-pitying !!!!!!!!. The woman is pathetic. She has earned, according to Private Eye, a salary around £450K for her warblings.

Look as someone like Singlesue on here. Far more deserving of our pity yet a fine woman with far more self-respect than to ask for it.

Liz Jones is utterly worthless.

Generali

What a peculiar column, I've never read it before.

Is the idea of it usually like this:

There is always someone worse off than you. Her name is Liz Jones and she lives somewhere in the countryside?