ST3PH3|\| BaYL3Y - U R A LAYMUR!!!!!

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"Stephen Bayley is a design guru and commentator on modern culture. He is best known for his brief spell as creative director of the Millennium Dome"

Feh

Y'know, it takes a lot to make nu-labour apparatchiks, esp MaNDY seem sympathetic, but our k-rad DeSiGN GuRu managed this w/considerable ease, no?

Typical sunday supplement 2-pager by he o guru ov all that is like, uh, neat, & righteous to own

The millenium dome is rubbish!!!0 (goes on at great length abt this) that f3wl peter mandleson treats thee gen publick like idionts! (goes on even more in thiz vein) (trans. I hate U fux0rs for giving me the sack 6 mnts into the projeckt)

Here he is from thiz weex new statesman:

"At lunch the other day, one of the most attractive women in British media leant over and said: "You look so Italian, just like Bernado Bertolucci's younger brother". While still analysing the ageist nuances, I was not at all displeased with this judgement (hence its repetition here) Readers may want to know the formula. Paul Smith suit (made, in fact, in Italy); haircut by Bev at Richard Ward in Chelsea, and the very lightest of tans following a week of icy winter sun in Venice. All that and a little bit of muscle tone from a very great deal of tennis. I play as often as possible with the Wimbledon commentator Bill Threllfall, a maestro de tennis from Ventimiglia in 1947, hence old enough to be senor Bertolucci's nonno. This may seem extravagant, but hitting balls is cheaper than psychotherapy. A guru's life is not always an easy one: it is very stressful always being right."

There was 1 whole page of this, which he no doubt was paid for. He should have paid the highest advertisers rate to foist this utter nonsense on the poor readers of NS. The fact that he is paid to appear on radio, & in once highbrow, but now middlebrow sunday newspapers, & on thee radio, is a microcosm ov some of the things wrong w/Britain to-day. He has nothing worthwhile to say, bnever has to the best of my knowledge (90% of his message = i am more worty, erudite, & own fancier knick-nacks that you) and I wish our media paymasters would impose a moratorium on MOTHERFUX!|\|G STUPID FLUFF like this.

(veins stand out on neck, steam escapes from nostrils)

thank you.

― Norman Phay, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"worty" = "wordy", "bnever" = "never" etc etc I'm sure U can figure it out. I remain, sirs, thee most useless qwerty keyboard operator on this list.

― KING TYPO, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Are his sour grapes Frascati or Orvieto?

― Momus, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you.

― Norman Phay, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Norman - a moratorium on stupuid fluff in the media? Then want would propel the public school gits to do then? If not produce fluff like the above mentioned?

It's what we talked about. England is a system of mediocrity of classes.

― sonny tremaine, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In the distant past, I believe the more useless children of the upper classes went to the clergy. Obv this is not the option it once was, I suppose, hence the idiotic fluff one reads in "G2" for example, like that "power surge" quote I posted a little while ago.

― Norman Phay, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ans = i gwee with everyone so far, eg n.phay, s.tremaine and m.momus... except england = not even sorted enuff to be a "system", really, more like just a kind of slumped over pile which ponces itself up to be a system...

i am embarrassed to say that, in the course, of my job, i haf been present while s.bayley gave a speech opening an exhibition at a certain v.minor london museum: i am however proud to say that NO ONE WHO CONTRIBUTES TO ILE cd not haf given a superior more elegant and funnier speech, at say 35 seconds notice

also how he dresses = sorry rubbish

n.phay RAISE YOUR STANDARDS!! eg take g2 by corner and toss it over into yr neighbour's arboretum

― mark s, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

More like - England raise your standards. That is not likely to happen. The only cultural confusion came about with punk rock and acid house. The mediocre thought will grow until all "new media" is utterly pointless. North American journalism keeps a higher more thought provoking standard. England as currently counting has a magazine per celebrity and an article per every public school git promoted through their new media class system. It is sad to say the least.

PS. Norman do you want that adventures in stereo cd that I had bought? I know you mentioned liking the guitarist - it is yours if you want it.

― sonny tremaine, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

probably you are right sonny, i nevah read the papers any more

― mark s, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Faycycler's example: one of many reasons I no longer read newspapers (as with Mark S) but I notice that Tony Blair has described those of us on the left who oppose the use of the private sector in the public services as "small-c conservatives".

How dare the bastard put me alongside Arthur Scargill and his braindead anti-modernist acolytes? How dare he treat those of us on the left who don't buy this post-Thatcher free-market bullshit as though we were closed to all new ideas and all new thoughts? Fuck them fuck them fuck them fuck them fuck them.

Blair = LAYMUR!!!!!

*stands back, desperately tries to control his anger, works it off by listening to The Human Zoo*

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If we set up a Norman Phay Cardiologist Phund can he write a rage- filled post every week? They're the funniest things on the forum (& also true).

― Tom, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree Mark S. Norman is the thinking man non new media non intellectual bs response to things.

I have an opportunity brewing for Norman to perhaps write about music. But did he take the bait?

No.

: - (

― sonny tremaine, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But did he take the bait? No.

Eh? Damnit!

PS I like intellectuals, & wish I were one. a 2yo in the house does tend to turn yer brain to mush tho. My capability for reasoned thought has declined by approx.90% in thee last 2 years. Stephen Bayley is not an intellectual. He is a poseur with a good vocabulary.

Robin is OTM, as often is the case. Blair - "If you're against us flogging off public utilities to useless companies who have a track record of pathetic inefficiency, then you are a wrecker/c-conservative. I wish he'd fux off

― Norman Phay, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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