How many people have seen Rory McGrath in public?

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This is a submeta of this thread but it deserves it's own as I reckon that either:

a. Rory McGrath has found a way to clone himself in order to be able to potter around several different towns looking grumpy at the same time.

b. He is out to get me.

I have seen him in Cambridge several times, in Colchester a couple of times and also I'm sure I've seen him in London. It's been a while since my last encounter with the furry television personality but since then, I noticed that Viz ran a feature for a short while where people actually posted in their sightings of McGrath. Coincidence or just plain spooky?

What I want to know is, have any of you lovely people had the same thing? Are you living in fear that maybe while you're shopping in Poole, he may appear out of nowhere, push you into a back-alley and bugger you gently with a chainsaw?

Right now I fear for my life. It's been too long since I last spotted him. Maybe his clones died prematurely? Or maybe he killed himself? Who knows. All I know is that I want to avoid any hairy situations.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 March 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

fear the dark side of the cheese.

― omg, Thursday, 4 March 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry; wrong thread

― omg, Thursday, 4 March 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind. People don't often post to my threads so you're more than wel... wait where are you going?!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i was thinking about the side of the cheese that gets exposed to more air. i don't like eating it, but this means i waste about forty pence every time i buy a block of cheddar.
what do other people think?

― omg, Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i have set McGrath stalking you until you revise your opinion of Spaced ;)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I watched the first three episodes of Spaced again tonight and had to stifle quite a few laughs. I think I was just watching it WRONGLY, if that can be done. There is a certain element of "I've been there and done that before" but this time I found myself relating it to my own experiences rather than thinking "bah, I could do that in my own house". You are right, there is a lot of stuff going on in the background but somehow the way it's all edited together makes you skip it. The script is pretty well written, sometimes a little badly executed by the actors but not too bad. Daisy's job interview was superb as I've recently been having to do the whole "meeting people and having to be polite" thing of late and I could see it being funny.
Still some pretty ass-clenchingly embarassing bits though, like the "join us" zombie-take off which really has been done to death. The "rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit" bit made me switch off for reasons I've said before about it being too easy to make fun of such stuff. And also, why did they need to show the same sequence in two different episodes (Brian explaining his art "Fear, Pain, etc)? Did they think it was so funny they'd show it again?
Still, I realised even at the time that I was being harsh on Spaced but I take it back. Still not my favourite, but not bad at all.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

This has to be the most irrelevant thread yet.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah there are some crap bits and i was defending it too much before, fair compromise

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i like you stevem. you are great :-) !

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.icr.ac.uk/everyman/press/images/rory.jpg

(actually an accurate representation of how I feel on ILE lately)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 March 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i have seen him, many times. at least a two figure number i'm sure. all in cambridge, usually in pubs but sometimes on his bike. on a couple of occasions i saw him going into/coming out of what's presumably his house. this was all a few years ago, though.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 4 March 2004 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lakelandlimited.com/intershoproot/eCS/Store/en/images/340/5073.jpg

Omg, I give you the Tefal Cheese Preserver...in its way as life-changing an invention as the i-pod

― winterland, Thursday, 4 March 2004 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw him once in Cambridge. He was eating an ice cream.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 4 March 2004 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

If anyone sees him, can they tell him to fuck off, as he's not funny, and what pisspoor excuses he has for wit and humour are shot through with a quite unpleasant streak of misogyny. Alternatively, just give him a slap.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen him a few times in Cambridge!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to see him a lot around 1990-2 when I lived round the corner from him in South London. He did some comedy gigs in the local pub too, and I went to one to see if he was funny. He did ok.

― run it off (run it off), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen him coming out of South Kensington tube station.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I've saw him lurking in Kings Cross station bar, waiting for a train. He looked scared. Perhaps he was worried that a gang of gay men were about to descend on him from Central Station and beat the shit out of him for being a nasty little homophobic arsehole.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 4 March 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

He has just started a new column in the Metro about being an Arsenal fan.

Can the back of the Metro get any better?

― the bellefox, Thursday, 4 March 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

See, he's everywhere!

First time I saw him I was about 17 and yelled at him "Oi! Famous bloke!". He gay us the most evil-est evil I've ever beheld.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 March 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw him on the lift in Hampstead station. He looked grumpy. I saw Jimmy Mulviile at a quiz show taping last year. He looked bald.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I served him in a shop in Oxford last year.

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, but was he grumpy?

did he gay you the most evil-est evil you've ever beheld?

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 5 March 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

twelve years pass...

Should warn you the photograph accompanying this article is Not Safe For Anywhere

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:51 (eight years ago)

... I feel I also should point that I only clicked on the article in the first place because I thought it was about Rory McIlroy. Fame, fickle fame.

― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:52 (eight years ago)

jesus god tom that is haunting

― not all those who chunder are sloshed (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:54 (eight years ago)

Thinks about linking to a photo in my own Flickr of Rory McG descending Arthur's Seat in Aug 2013, without a shirt on. Thinks better of it.

― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:55 (eight years ago)

I saw him on the circle line about 20 years ago. I was thinking hmm it is that guy from ermm... fuck knows but from something that wasn't any good in the 80's.

― calzino, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:57 (eight years ago)

he's going to cite this thread in his defence, isn't he?

― mark s, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 18:00 (eight years ago)

always hated fuck out of the big chap. posho, rugby lad, alchy prick. now a stalker. wank.

― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:17 (eight years ago)

when I google imaged him earlier (just when you thought life couldn't get any better etc) it struck me that I can remember hating him as a teenager on some lame comedy-fail shit on C4. He normally doesn't half love having his pic taken as well, his default facial expression when not getting done for being a repulsive old perv is normally more of a forced look of beaming self-contentedness, totally belied by those beady little pissholes for eyes that are like looking into oblivion on closer examination.

― calzino, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:17 (eight years ago)

two months pass...

ilxors' chances to see rory mcgrath in public remain high as potato-faced funnyman avoids jail despite being found guilty of harassment

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/3BC6/production/_93820351_rory.jpg

― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 January 2017 15:16 (eight years ago)

By August 2014 the victim had begun to "find Mr McGrath difficult and unpleasant company" and wanted to end the affair, he said.

The most shocking aspect of this case is it took her 4 years to find that out.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:16 (eight years ago)

maybe she doesn't have a TV

― Onanisi Paizuri (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:18 (eight years ago)

perhaps he's an incredible lover

― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:26 (eight years ago)

mm maybe

― Houston John (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 27 January 2017 11:13 (eight years ago)

perhaps he's an incredible lover
― the greg evigan school of improvised explosive devices (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, January 26, 2017 6:26 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This short post has created more disturbing mental images than anything else this year, well done there.

I have lived in Cambridge for nearly a year and am yet to see him. Was completely indifferent to him until I saw him on this and decided I couldn't stand to watch him again.

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 28 January 2017 01:36 (eight years ago)

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