Defend The Indefensible : Gordon Ramsay

Amazing his personality didn't take.

(My mother-in-law has a picture she had taken with Ramsay on her mantelpiece where my wedding photo used to be. A worse insult I cannot imagine.)

I want to eat at his restaurant though.

I think he's a dick but has an essential arrogance (i would say misplaced arrogance) that makes people great.

does anyone think that eating in restaurant is like visiting a prostitute?

it was clearly the idea of a failed KP...

I think arrogance is fine and right, as long as the perpetrator is right. Be wrong, and you lose all your points. (Isn't there a card game like that?)

Apparently he was pretty relaxed around everyone, cracking jokes, engaging in a bit of banter with dissenters etc. But the members of his own team he brought with him looked scared shitless, quivering in their boots, doing whatever he said within seconds etc. My friend said he'd never seen people fear a man so much.

I have never seen Hell's Kitchen.

Well she's not overly familiar with 18th century slang.

Which reminds me I really must try and cook something from his book that I have

Ramsay rules. except not so much on Hell's Kitchen, the british version of Kitchen Nightmares. Cocky, maybe, but that's only one side of him.

Kitchen Nightmares rules. Hell's Kitchen is fairly horrible.

BJO OTM

His fucking persona is fucking contrived, but his programmes are always enjoyable at the least. And his food always looks great.

i like his shows a lot. but yeah esp the brit kitchen nightmares.

Um he's been rude to his mom at times. That's terrible, terrible stuff.

he'll be thrown in jail

dr.c with first post truth bomb

I liked how he kind of stood up to that try-hard mafioso dude in that American kitchen nightmares episode. Showed he wasn't completely full of shit.

That guy was a total fuckhead btw.

this guy is great.

my favorite line on Kitchen Nightmares was to the guy who actually thought it was a good idea to combine Salmon and strawberries

"When you wake up in the morning, do you brush your teeth with toothpaste....or cigarettes?"

ah right, fair enough.

Still though, the presence of cameras 'on your side' does empower you in those situations, but I'll say GRamsay probably does not need too much extra empowerment.

didn't mafiodude also say at the end he was going to name his child after GR, but like his whole name "gordon ramsay marrietto" or whatev

the funniest part of that ep was when GR was holding a morning meeting with them all and then suddenly that dept collected dude just walked in demanding cash, and GR was all like "Wtf dude we're trying to talk FOOD here man"

Gordon Ramsay is rubbish at swearing, he doesn't swear like a person who actually swears out of habit, he seems to consciously TRY to shoehorn a swearyword in wherever he can. And it makes him look like a twat.

I can now tolerate him on the telly, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I like him.

I switched over just in time to see John Snow saying "fuck" last night.

guys, the first time i ever saw gordan ramsay was on some british show where each week a celebrity chef would help an ordinary person cook for a dinner party. i think in the ramsay ep the woman was crying and puking/almost puking from being forced to deal with a raw chicken? i cant remember the name of the show. i thought it was "guess whos coming to dinner" but i cant find anything on it. jamie oliver was on one week and another week was that guy who has a little dog named chalkie. Does anyone remember it?

yeah, I remember it.

The Jamie Oliver one had him 'available on the phone' during the do.

It was somewhat middle-class in outlook.

Do you rememeber the title?

Ramsay is quite nice and supportive to a lot of people when he isn't fucking bollocking them. Put-upon waiting staff in particular.

"guess whos coming to dinner" was an "Anne Robinson invites a celebrity guest to name people they would like to invite to a dinner party"

You know, Sharleen Spiteri invites Marvin Gaye, the pope, Mahatma Ghandi, Malcolm Maclaren and Tinky Winky, etc..

(Continuing to search)

(giving up search.. now!)

haha

i find gordo entertaining, but didn't he steal his entire act from marco white? i mean, like, his food, AND the yelling thing.

thanks anyway! (xp)

the original bad boy. anyone read this?

http://winechef.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/51adjprjesl_ss500_.jpg

They fucking hate each other, I believe.

he really should give the risotto and beef wellington a break already

He took over "Hells Kitchen" from Gord, but his eyes were "OK, whatever, I don't care anymore!!"

Marco's current series on ITV has been interesting, he really is fucking bonkers.

That Italian-American Kitchen Nightmares was repeated the other week, amazing television. If the owner guy had been written for a TV show, the idea would be rejected as too much of a caricature. Plus he used "you fuckin' blow job!" as a swear when the debt collector turned up the second time.

As for Ramsay, I'm with the "he's an arsehole, but I like him" people. Mainly for Kitchen Nightmares - he seems a bit of a cock at other times, but he's fantastic on that show.

What I like is how the tough guy persona becomes flustered gimp whenever he's confronted by someone posher or more confident than he is - much in evidence in that clip, and any time he meets another celebrity chef

someone give gordon & norm an hour-long cooking show immediately

"why did you become a cook?"

otm xp

also could someone translate this?

So you played a little fit of fitba as a wee laddie, did you Gord? Who fucking cares?

"So, you played Association Football as a small child did you Gordon? Who fucking cares?"

hmm

So you played SOCCER as a young boy...surely?

Apparently not, says Britain's finest news source

i for one am shocked that a chef would embellish something to make it sound better

I am quite impressed that Rangers allowed him to be associated with them for long enough without twigging or anyone at the club going "wait, hang on a second...". It's surely not that they were enjoying the publicity before Ramsay became a big cheating bastard rather than a popular likeable scamp, is it?

Oh, wait, I'm not impressed at all. My bad.

Used to think he was ok, but can’t watch kitchen nightmares anymore. It’s practically the same every week, mouthy owner proved wrong by Ramsay who walks off to say see I’m always right. Boring!

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To be fair to him, he hasn't embellished the story very much - he's only turned 'played with a Rangers team as a trialist in a couple of games of no consequence, then got an injury' into 'played for Rangers in a couple of games of very little consequence, then got an injury'. Must be a slow day for News of the World to be making that lead story

No, he turned playing in ONE game of no consequence, and not a game that could be accurately described as 'professional', into playing THREE 'professional' games. He also implied wrongly that, had he not got the injury, he might have had a future at the club.

A Trialist! All the Scottish football reporting I've come into contact with over the years is thrown into a whole new light, and from now on whenever A Trialist pops up in the Stranraer line-up I will think of him yelling and swearing and such and I will smile.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8091253.stm

Ramsay, who appeared on Grimshaw's TV show on Friday, made the comments at a Melbourne food fair the following day.

He showed an image of a nude woman on all fours with a pig's face and likened the image to Grimshaw.

o_0

That's gross, but why is the Prime Minister getting involved? I doubt Barack would yell at Tony Bourdain if he insulted Oprah.

I've met GR a few times while doing look-a-like work and I've gotta say he's the most affable of any of the TV chefs and not at all like his onscreen persona.

whoa whoa whoa...look-alike work?

stands in for jamie oliver iirc.

Are you sure it's the real Gordon Ramsay?

Are you all sure that's the real dog latin?

why is the Prime Minister getting involved?

what can i say, dude loves his opinions4u.

I don't know about this most recent incident but I love GR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcPUAW6u5ME&feature=channel_page

another snivelling apology. why?

in this day and age sorry seems to be the easiest word.

Sad news:

http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2011/09/gordondwarf1.jpg

headline not only writes itself, it cleans the sitting room before cooking dinner for you

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3727199/hells_kitchen_gordon_ramsay_gets_stuck/

Ramsay was in my hood:

http://movieluck.com/watch-kitchen-nightmares-us-season-4-episode-12-capri-online-free-streaming