annabelle_bronstein
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Good god @witchofwestbyfleet you really do take one for the team!Oh, mercy, it's the Plodcast! Cut for length
Nic has recovered from COVID. Liz triumphantly says "seeeeee, being vaccinated didn't stop you getting it!" No, but it might have contributed to Nic being back with you today and not in a hospital or a mortuary. Liz talks about the death of the fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, referencing The Devil Wears Prada and SATC which are the only lenses through which she can view anything. She laments that he "wasn't that old", well he was 78 which is about average life expectancy for a man? She tells a story about working with Demarchelier on a photoshoot with Geri Halliwell, who she describes as a diva.
They talk about older models getting hired, Liz of course is sneering about young models. Nirps wrote about Liz in the Mail, it's a response to her saying she faked orgasms. They decide to read it out. Liz calls him a "monosyllabic lump" and her a "goddess." Nirpal basically said he enjoyed sex and he expected Liz, as the older one, to be more experienced and know what to do. Liz accuses him of making fun of her age, we're like 15 minutes in and all she has done is demonstrate that she is incredibly sensitive about her age. Nirpal also stated that she took advantage of him, and called her a "vacuous 40-something fashionista." Liz says that as editor of Marie Claire she covered stories like cancer, animal abuse, orphans, and foot binding. One of these things is not like the others.
Nic keeps saying "but it's HIS fault, why did HE marry you?" Liz calls Nirpal lazy and talks about how she has worked 40 hours a day every day etc etc all her life. Then she sneers at how Nirpal acknowledged that she took him to an Armani party where he met Ricky Martin, and how this must be the highlight of his life cuz he's never done anything else since. Like how you constantly bring up past designer events and meeting celebrities, Liz? There's another chorus of "CHIPPY!!" and "BLOCK HIM!" Liz alleges that people who claim to be discriminated against because of racism, etc. are actually "unattractive and unsuccessful" just like Nirpal.
To further turn the knife Liz reads a column she wrote about her 2002 honeymoon. It's pretty boring. She says she's a witch but at least she's funny ... well, that statement was funny, nothing else she says is. Nic talks as if she knows all about Nirpal, she says she has met him once when he came to stay with Liz and he seemed nice, but she can't believe he's so nasty in print! Shut up Nic you barely know the guy. This week's column: "In Which Liz Wishes She Could Meet Her Match." So, she's now looking for a vain, spiteful, shallow, racist old man? There's gotta be plenty of those among the Mail readership. Maybe she has hope after all.
The entire column is her sneering at men in her life, reciting a laundry list of wrongs committed by her exes and various "witty" one-liners she's used to insult them. I seriously think that she has hired someone to build a DIARY (suck it Liz!) generator bot to produce the column for her every week without her lifting a finger. In response to an anecdote about Nirpal, Nic says she hates it when people mimic or make fun of someone's voice - despite the fact that Liz herself did this not five minutes ago. Liz concludes she wants an equal who's on her side and it shouldn't be this hard, she's so nice and kind and funny and ... BRB, I need to throw up into a rusty bucket.
Nic pontificates at length about what a healthy relationship should look like and how couples should treat each other - coming from a woman who constantly complains about both her current boyfriend and her ex. Liz concludes she doesn't need a man because "they don't deserve me!" and she's got the untrained hounds. More stuff about animal fundraising, and a letter totes not from Nic gushing about how witty Liz's "which one are you?" from last week supposedly was. Yeah, whatever