Thread: AA Gill has the 'Full English' of cancers.

Originally Posted by crackerjack101

Originally Posted by ENT

I have

Which ones ?

His widely acclaimed supposed masterpiece anti-Brexit elitist rant and a couple of restaurant reviews, other than that, nothing.

I read about him by accident, not by design.

Originally Posted by JayZee

I don't think the differences between the English, Scots, Welsh & Irish are anything to do with race. The cry of 'racist' in a totally inappropriate context merely highlights the intellectual inadequacy of the caller. It is a sort of corollary to Godwin's Law.

Whether you found Gill's writings disagreeable or not, he certainly had an admirable grasp of the English language - no matter which country in which he was read.

Gill was a clever wordsmith, no doubt, but that doesn't make him right, nor his opinions on anything accurate, as most of anything he wrote was pure exaggeration designed to stir.

A professional critic.

Originally Posted by ENT

A professional critic.

Which was all he ever claimed to be. Well, as I understand it he's still claiming that.
Unless he's dead.
Is he dead yet?

Originally Posted by ENT

A professional critic.

We could hardly accuse you of that.

Nor you.

He lost a lot of fans about 7 years ago when he had a long article about going baboon hunting for fun in Africa and delighting about killing one .
I remember reading it , disturbing, but I guess well written .
It was in the Sunday times food column so is now behind a pay wall .
Some fragments of it here

Gill recounted in detail how he shot the creature from 250 yards while hunting in "a truck full of guns and other blokes" in Tanzania. He said he felt the urge to be "a recreational primate killer" before shooting the animal through the lung....

"I took him just below the armpit. He slumped and slid sideways. I'm told they can be tricky to shoot: they run up trees, hang on for grim life. They die hard, baboons. But not this one. A soft-nosed .357 blew his lungs out."....

"I know perfectly well there is absolutely no excuse for this," he wrote. "There is no mitigation. Baboon isn't good to eat, unless you're a leopard. The feeble argument of culling and control is much the same as for foxes: a veil for naughty fun. I wanted to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone, a stranger. You see it in all those films: guns and bodies, barely a close-up of reflection or doubt. What does it really feel like to shoot someone, or someone's close relative?"....

Some frogs, a pig, a chicken, a cow and a baboon all died in the writing of this column

Originally Posted by ENT

I have, and he's no different from any foody or art critic, an up himself elitist waste of time.

Unlike you of course who is but a mere lower end, resentful, perverse little shit of a waste of time, no different to a rock on which a dog might piss.

Har, har.

but that doesn't make him right, nor his opinions on anything accurate, as most of anything he wrote was pure exaggeration designed to stir.

Since the definition of an opinion is a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge, then being right or wrong, accurate or exaggerated is largely irrelevant. But your opinion of him and his work is acknowledged...

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Originally Posted by ENT

I have, and he's no different from any foody or art critic, an up himself elitist waste of time.

Unlike you of course who is but a mere lower end, resentful, perverse little shit of a waste of time, no different to a rock on which a dog might piss.

Har, har.

Piss off y'bog-trotting ulster oik.

Originally Posted by JayZee

but that doesn't make him right, nor his opinions on anything accurate, as most of anything he wrote was pure exaggeration designed to stir.

Since the definition of an opinion is a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge, then being right or wrong, accurate or exaggerated is largely irrelevant. But your opinion of him and his work is acknowledged...

As is yours,

Good news for Baboons at least.

Har har har!

Restaurant critic AA Gill dies aged 62 after short fight with cancer

RIP.

Restaurant critic AA Gill dies aged 62 after short fight with cancer
The final column penned by the "giant among journalists" will be featured in this weekend's Sunday Times.

RIP AA Gill

Not just desserts

who cares

I'm certainly not forking out £2.50 for the Sunday times.