Worst member of Blur

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I do hope Jo Guest still gets royalties from the "Country House" video now she has a painful terminal illness

aspie one is most handsome

Farmer twat, obviously. I mean, just everything about him.

I love Farmer Twat so much. I want to buy his cheese, but I'm not going all the way to Dalesford to get it. When will they start selling it in Neils Yard?

I don't like the way that Farmer Twat seems to be taking the piss out of that BBC2 "Maestro" programme.
Meanwhile, those four poll names sound like characters in an edgy re-imagining of Bod...

The milk carton was just as annoying as some of the others.

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"I get up when I want, except when I'm ruuuuuudely awaken..."
SHUT UP ALFIE MOON/SHANE RITCHIE/PAUL DANIELS/PHIL DANIELS/WHOEVER

The King of Cheese seems to acknowledge what a twat he was,whilst in Blur doesn't he?

Did anybody see him floundering on Question Time though? Jesus christ - he was embarrassingly bad and totally drowning - not just under the weight of his enormous sideways haircut either.

It depends what you mean by 'worst'.

All Bran always came across along with farmer wanker as the conceited pricks.

My definite non worst was Coxon -when the bumbling nerd was always falling over pissed up. Then he found skateboarding FFS...

Aspie. I saw him playing a quarter-assed show supporting Franz Ferdinand (at the Albert Hall for some reason). During his set he ducked offstage for a few seconds. He came back and explained: "I was just checking how long we've got to play for". He bent to check his guitar pedal, had a think about what he'd said, and came back to the mic. "We'd play all night if we could". Freddie Mercury he ain't.

Apparently Coxon is known to repeatedly bang his head against the side of tables until he passes out. Which is weird, as I'm sure he could find someone to smack his skull into furniture for him.

'Harasser of Africans', don't you mean Renaissance Man?

Dunno who to vote for, I love them all to a greater or lesser extent.

if only Albarn had no marf he would be well the best

who is bronson? Ten points for username.

This is a hard poll! Basically love farmertwat for being so great at his job of Being A Pop Star (and having fun sideprojects and being ludicrously goodlooking and knowing a) how much of a wanker he was and b) when to get out); Allbran hugely annoying and unlikeable but most of the music and label actually pretty enjoyable; Other One a bit laughable for Mars and politics and whatnot but hard to slag him for having interests; Aspie pretty awful musically but gets a million bonus points for walking at the right time and sticking to it.

Coxon is thr Aspie?

Cheese is a good interest to have IMO

I'm voting Noel

The guitarist I've got a lot of time for.

blur were greater than the sum of their parts. end of.

Farmer twat

Apparently Coxon is known to repeatedly bang his head against the side of tables until he passes out. Which is weird, as I'm sure he could find someone to smack his skull into furniture for him.

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"A dig at troubled singer Amy Winehouse has been declared the funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe.

Comedian Zoe Lyons took the top spot after her jibe star was chosen in a public vote on digital TV channel Dave.

Her winning one-liner is: "I can't believe Amy Winehouse self-harms. She's so irritating she must be able to find someone to do it for her."

yeah, was going to say that as well....

How many ways could that get ILX'ed?

*falls asleep in fits of laughter* (xpost)

Yo Zoe Lyons, do some Kyran Prince gags if you think you're hard enough.

I like how The Other One stood for election as a Labour councillor and promptly lost a seat that the Conservatives had never won in 100 years of trying

No Ken Livingstone, no credibility.

Alex Get Orf Moi Laarnd James is very watchable on Maestro. So far he isn't actually very good as a conductor but I'd much rather he stayed in it than jolly japes Jane Asher.

He was very good on Saturday kitchen as well *hangs head in shame*. He came across as likeable and unpretentious (i.e. asking lots of questions instead of playing the big man) which is a bit annoying as I suspect he is neither of these

Useless on Question Time of course

The thing where he followed the cocaine trail and met some very. nasty. men showed him in a very good light, as well (though totally unprofessional as a 'journalist' / tv presenter). I fear we may have to accept that, in his 40s, he's not so much of a cockfarmer.

I missed him on Question Time; did he sit on the Left or the Right?

You mean liderally? He came across as a run-of-the-mill middle class bloke in his 40s, I imagine he'll be voting for Cameron.

Yeah, like traitor Berkoff.

The thing where he followed the cocaine trail and met some very. nasty. men showed him in a very good light, as well (though totally unprofessional as a 'journalist' / tv presenter). I fear we may have to accept that, in his 40s, he's not so much of a cockfarmer.

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yeah he totally overturned the cocaine business's 'cool' image. good job alex!

I fear we may have to accept that, in his 40s, he's not so much of a cockfarmer.

He's only 39. (He's got to learn, etc...)

I'm guessing that 'Aspie' here means 'person with Asperger's Syndrome'. Perhaps I am wrong. If I'm not wrong, then I don't know if that is a sensitive word to use. Isn't this syndrome a condition which people experience - or even suffer; which science and medicine are trying to understand, and about which social workers, carers et al would like us all to be more thoughtful? In that case I don't see why it is a more appropriate nickname than, let's see, 'spastic', 'wheelchair boy', or the like.

It is very strange, what one and cannot say, on ilx, nowadays. One can say 'Aspie' as a term of casual abuse, but one cannot talk about who should be in the Tottenham team without people complaining. A white person can write in mock black street language, and still accuse other people of being conservative.

I don't like Graham Coxon, and will vote for him in this poll. But that's because he's an irritating, conceited art-student wanker - he has never recovered in my estimation from his terrible, terrible contribution to the Blur South Bank Show, which may have been over 10 years ago.

What you have to realise is that we're claiming the term back a la the current "untitled" Nas album.

I will add that the sight of Blur at the top of the thread reminds me of how I did like them, and did think they were a vital pop force (yes!), in about 1994. I thought that Alex James was very attractive; I thought Allbran was too, in fact. I don't like Allbran, and have heard that he is a terrible arrogant interviewee, but he does keep on keeping on, musically. The drummer is inoffensive I would think. Coxon is definitely the worst.

I'd vote for Albarn, but can't because I don't know if thats "aspie" or "harasser of africans", I haven't followed them much in recent years. Up to, er, the one after "parklife" I liked them, after that, YAWN. Albarn's mockney affectations still irritate even after all these years.

Would it ever have mattered if Rowntree were never there?

TS: Blur vs Flipper

dave rowntree was a good drummer and the only one who wasn't irritating, but then he was so inoffensive he couldn't really compete with the rest of them.

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I'd vote for Albarn, but can't because I don't know if thats "aspie" or "harasser of africans",

He is "harasser of africans". He was on TV last night on that "pop britannia" programme, and I could agree with most of the points he put forward on it. It's just that the residual Mockney geezer thing puts me off.

its really cute how you guys say things like 'africans' & 'programme'

its really cute how you guys say things like 'africans' & 'programme'

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its really cute how you guys get everything wrong and call it english

its really cute how we saved your ass in that one war

its really cute how you turned up eventually

I don't get the 'africans' complaint. Albarn worked with Malians; is that what you were expecting?

lost and found, hanging around, banging around

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aspie is dave rowntree right

no, graham

well shit

thread beats radiohead at a game they weren't even bold enough to play

ahhh, rage.

i love them all the same.

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lol

It's really cute how you guys almost gave the nazis europe http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7590445.stm

lol

You have tried to insert a duplicate message.

it's really cute how you've all managed to help Jon evoke Godwin's Law.

it's really cute how you motherfuckers don't know what a pizza is

Ladies, ladies, you're both pretty.

hey man if I had to tip someone every five minutes and my parents had had my genitals mutilated when I was a baby I'd probably get pissy on the Internet too

farmer twat has best hair

Oh, Alexpaws.

he's right!

also lol @ hey man if I had to tip someone every five minutes and my parents had had my genitals mutilated when I was a baby I'd probably get pissy on the Internet too

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sorry I meant to post that on the Dalston vs Bethnal Green thread

^^^this guy