Reply to: No, it's because you're a munter

[DodgyAgent]

So you would then? Ewwwww!

[bless 'em all]

Her looks are beginning to stand out as her saving grace because her personality is pretty repulsive.

So you would then? Ewwwww!

[DodgyAgent]

Reverse the roles and it sounds very sexist, or is it only blokes that you are allow to call sexist these days...

I am not sure I understand what you mean. My point is that it does not matter whether you are male or female or friend or family, to do this leaves the person you are with feeling uncomfortable and ignored. As I say if you are chatting up a member of the opposite sex in order to wind your friend up then that is just banter. If it had been a man chatting to a receptionist the his female companion would equally have been annoyed.

[d000hg]

Sas appreciates someone able to keep up with him in the brains department. Maybe we could hook them up.

[amcdonald]

The more of it I read the more I can see that she should certainly not be judged by her looks. Anyone taking a fancy to her would be allowing their willy to lead them into a very unpleasant relationship:

Three months ago I went to Italy with my then boyfriend, Philip. As we were checking into the hotel, I struck up a conversation with the receptionist in Italian (just one of the five languages I speak). But while I was enjoying myself, chatting away, it became clear that Philip most certainly was not.
He shuffled from foot to foot, muttered something under his breath and rolled his eyes like a stroppy teenager.
Then in the lift he turned on me. 'I was wondering when you were going to let me join your conversation,' he snapped. I tried to laugh it off but I knew this was the beginning of yet another argument.
'You always have to be the star of the show,' he continued in our bedroom, as he began to systematically work his way through the mini-bar. Apparently I was argumentative, a know-all and an intellectual snob.
What had I done? It should be depressingly obvious. I had dared to dent his fragile male ego.
By speaking in a language Philip didn't know, I had managed to make him - a successful writer, ten years my senior - feel small. How selfish of me to embarrass him


It is OK to talk to someone you do not know in their language whilst you are in the company of a friend (male or female) or family if it is out of necessity or it is just a few words , but it is quite another to engage in a full blown conversation in a language that your "comrade" has no understanding of. I do not know if anyone here has had this experience but striking up a conversation whilst you are having to stand there dumbly is actually quite rude because it automatically and crudely cuts the other person off the conversation. She doesn't seem to get that so either she is scoring points or she is showing off or she simply lacks the emotional intelligence to understand the impact her behaviour has. Her looks are beginning to stand out as her saving grace because her personality is pretty repulsive.

Reverse the roles and it sounds very sexist, or is it only blokes that you are allow to call sexist these days...

[OwlHoot]

She only looks like a bloke in the current picture... ugh. Something rather dramatic has happened in the last 13 years, in the other pictures she's just an average-ish looking woman. Nothing to write home about, but not horrific for her age.

WHS. Nothing dramatic, just holidays every year in sunny places like Italy.

Jesus, from some of the comments in this thread, if I hadn't seen the article, I'd picture her looking like some demon from the depths of hell.

They say guys tend to age a lot between 50 and 60, and I guess for women with their thinner skins it's more like 40 to 50.

That said, she does look and sound a bit demanding and assertive, intellectually and possibly in other ways, and maybe a bit too much of a handful (figuratively speaking) for many guys.

[vetran]

Ugh, god. She's got a book out. What a tosspot.

yep its product placement & endorsement and click bait a very Wail style of operation.

You have to admire them, the Microsoft of the tabloid world.

[DodgyAgent]

The more of it I read the more I can see that she should certainly not be judged by her looks. Anyone taking a fancy to her would be allowing their willy to lead them into a very unpleasant relationship:

Three months ago I went to Italy with my then boyfriend, Philip. As we were checking into the hotel, I struck up a conversation with the receptionist in Italian (just one of the five languages I speak). But while I was enjoying myself, chatting away, it became clear that Philip most certainly was not.
He shuffled from foot to foot, muttered something under his breath and rolled his eyes like a stroppy teenager.
Then in the lift he turned on me. 'I was wondering when you were going to let me join your conversation,' he snapped. I tried to laugh it off but I knew this was the beginning of yet another argument.
'You always have to be the star of the show,' he continued in our bedroom, as he began to systematically work his way through the mini-bar. Apparently I was argumentative, a know-all and an intellectual snob.
What had I done? It should be depressingly obvious. I had dared to dent his fragile male ego.
By speaking in a language Philip didn't know, I had managed to make him - a successful writer, ten years my senior - feel small. How selfish of me to embarrass him


It is OK to talk to someone you do not know in their language whilst you are in the company of a friend (male or female) or family if it is out of necessity or it is just a few words , but it is quite another to engage in a full blown conversation in a language that your "comrade" has no understanding of. I do not know if anyone here has had this experience but striking up a conversation whilst you are having to stand there dumbly is actually quite rude because it automatically and crudely cuts the other person off the conversation. She doesn't seem to get that so either she is scoring points or she is showing off or she simply lacks the emotional intelligence to understand the impact her behaviour has. Her looks are beginning to stand out as her saving grace because her personality is pretty repulsive.

[MaryPoppins]

Ugh, god. She's got a book out. What a tosspot.

[TykeMerc]

TBF, whatever you think of the Mail, their website is very clever at getting clickthrough through the use of obviously manipulative articles. The reaction elicited here was no doubt calculated to the nth degree.
Full marks to the munter for going with it, shows she's a game lass after all - or just needs the money.

Did you get much of a fee for the photoshoot and article?

[BrilloPad]

You can now say you have arrived

At a state of insanity?

[AtW]

And told her that his killer app is kept in a cage rather than a datacentre

Faraday Cage for security ...

[DodgyAgent]

I agree with you twice here DA

You can now say you have arrived

[MaryPoppins]

I am not sure I like this judging women by their looks.

The looks have nothing to do with why people do not like her.

I agree with you twice here DA

[DodgyAgent]

I have sent her AtW's CV

And told her that his killer app is kept in a cage rather than a datacentre