Simon Harris #6 Even the Duke of Marlborough only charges £4.99 for a tea towel

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lilykestrel said:
I don't know if I'm reading too much into it but I feel like it betrays the friendlier side of their relationship, because a work colleague is never going to ask you to pop in and feed the cat while you're on holiday

I also refuse to believe this naivete about distributing a 6k figure to other people.
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That's exactly it. He thinks it shows him in a good light other than his naivety, but he's telling us he has/had a much more friendly, less work-like relationship with her (happy birthday, chin chin!), and therefore, ECC. Does he even know what a business-like relationship looks like?
 
Remember the long mea-non-culpa essay that was posted in April? Just remembered this tidbit

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But then today

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lilykestrel said:
Remember the long mea-non-culpa essay that was posted in April? Just remembered this tidbit

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But then today

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I know. The guileless and oh so innocent 'I'm as surprised as everyone else I got offered this amount of money. They knew I was just an internet prankster. I assumed it was normal' compared to his previous 'akshully I'm extremely well qualified and professhionul and it's not my fault if you can't understand how these things work'.
Trying to pivot to being a hapless innocent victim.
 
Jelly Bean said:
I know. The guileless and oh so innocent 'I'm as surprised as everyone else I got offered this amount of money. They knew I was just an internet prankster. I assumed it was normal' compared to his previous 'akshully I'm extremely well qualified and professhionul and it's not my fault if you can't understand how these things work'.
Trying to pivot to being a hapless innocent victim.
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He’s certainly hapless.
 
Jelly Bean said:
I know. The guileless and oh so innocent 'I'm as surprised as everyone else I got offered this amount of money. They knew I was just an internet prankster. I assumed it was normal' compared to his previous 'akshully I'm extremely well qualified and professhionul and it's not my fault if you can't understand how these things work'.
Trying to pivot to being a hapless innocent victim.
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He totally over sold himself, and was way out of his depth/stupid (both!).
 
Seaford Haggington said:
I don't want to hear any version of events where he dares to cast himself as the victim.
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Especially as he was such a cocky sod on twitter. Now he's lying in bed cwying but only because people are on to him. He knew people here were putting the pieces together about him and Kirsty o'Callaghan but he still went with his 'did my yearly peek at Tattle and it's like trying to play chess with pigeons'.
 
Pkershaw said:
I think the most startling revelation from this utterly pointless ‘I’m just a meme cweator’ interview is that Simon gets people to look after his biscuits when he goes on holiday.

"I can think back to a phone conversation and it was more just like the conversation you’d have with a council official if they were asking you to look after a cat for a couple of weeks or a packet of biscuits."

What a truly odd thing to say.
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This article says nothing.

I do think, however, that a person wanting to be taken seriously in their self-professed expert role in content creation might want to wear a collared shirt, at least for photos. The teenage slacker t-shirt doesn't do anyone over 20 any favours.
 
MurielSnark said:
This article says nothing.
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It really doesn't. It's a bit if weird non journalism from the BBC. Especially as, didn't he make out it was a 2hour interview or something, which amounts to "I'm just a bloke who makes memes".

I think he probably thought this would be a much bigger article than it was.

I don't know what the journalist was doing, they probably hoped they'd get more too. Simon made it clear who they really wanted was Kirsty.
 
Blue bunny said:
It really doesn't. It's a bit if weird non journalism from the BBC. Especially as, didn't he make out it was a 2hour interview or something, which amounts to "I'm just a bloke who makes memes".

I think he probably thought this would be a much bigger article than it was.

I don't know what the journalist was doing, they probably hoped they'd get more too. Simon made it clear who they really wanted was Kirsty.
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Was there an actual broadcast interview?

If so, I'd like to listen, assess for journalistic quality and then, assuming they went as easy on him as this article makes it sound like they did, make a complaint to Ofcom. There's so many things they missed, or didn't ask....

Anyway, it doesn't really matter as there's still mileage in this - I mean four outings in Private Eye - is quite a big deal.
 
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