Sideboard Bob
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It’s………. Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘s hairdo!
UK Literary Luvvies #2 Vital reading
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Yeah it helps to read decent books not just LL shite, which is actually full of good literary techniques they’ve absorbed from being privileged and around books. Dolly’s writing is very Nora Ephron inspired, most of her audience don’t know that and think her voice is her cool insouciant ownI don’t stand a chance then!I’ve been trying to write more recently, I find it hard to put words to paper but also enjoying the process. I’m not hugely well read though, I struggle with books due to attention span issues and self taught but have trying to find ways to versify my vocabulary!
I think Pandora is an ok writer but I occasionally find it difficult to follow what she says, feels more like a stream of consciousness sometimes x
queenamber
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Most of the LL’s would literally sell their Nan to have a fraction of her success. Watching them fawn over one of their own making it to the dizzy heights of lala land is funny.
nigelwiththebrie
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Alice Vincent has had no end of #ad #gifted stuff lately. It boils my blood because these LLs are clearly already wealthy. A garden bower, a free holiday, lick paint, plants, gin... I know they're far from the worst offenders but it still irritates me. Also she somehow managed to make her son's hospital stay (which must've been genuinely awful) into some dreamy sepia-tinged literary affair. These people are such caricatures of themselves.
queenamber
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Has anyone read Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day yet? I need to know who Becca is Not sure why I picked it up because it's so self-indulgent and overdramatic. She also reveals loads of personal details about Becca's life and Becca doesn't seem to have a say in it or defend herself.
Not sure why I picked it up because it's so self-indulgent and overdramatic. She also reveals loads of personal details about Becca's life and Becca doesn't seem to have a say in it or defend herself.imtakingabath
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It’s 99p on Kindle today! Is it worth it haha? I’m tempted just out of nosiness!Has anyone read Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day yet? I need to know who Becca is
queenamber
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There's definitely some interesting bits especially about her IRL friends. I had no idea her and Sathnam Sanghera became best friends because their mutual friend Francesca Segal set them up on a date. I'm also interested in the chapter on how friendships change due to parenting/pregnancies.
I've been skipping the "Friendship Tape" bits - they're brief chapters from random people talking about their own friendships. Boring when it's from strangers. Also been skipping the statistics/historical facts - I think she just added these bits in to make it sound more intellectual
Most of all I'm fascinated by her therapy because it seems to have done NOTHING. She's still a co-dependent people pleaser!
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So she was telling Katherine Ormerod in 2016 that she ‘fits it all in’ with time for telly. When did she have a personality shift and change to fitting it all in with time for reading? Was it literally just the book episodes of the High Low? When did this wannabe literary personality appear?
She doesn’t mention books at all in this. She created the title of literary guru for herself because she has a massive superiority complex and wanted to be known as an intellectual not a fashion advice columnist.
Why is she boasting about her musical grades on Instagram?! Cringing. She’s the most insufferable show off, even if she does it in a humble braggy way.
queenamber
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Not Dolly and Caroline liking Lizzo's non-apology statement on IG 
maketheswitch
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And her family’s wealth! How many parents can afford so many music lessons?! She’s so clueless.
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I bet she takes that post down; she’ll get DMs and it won’t even have occurred to her
queenamber
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So I've reached the fertility chapter of Friendaholic. ED's sadness and jealousy over people with children seems to cast a shadow over everything. Until she makes her peace with it it's going to taint all of her relationships. Some people can be really thoughtless with how they share baby news, but your friends shouldn't feel this awkward about bringing up their children in conversation. It sounds like Emma has to walk on eggshells around her.
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Insufferable woman. Why would anyone want to be friends with such a martyr? Maybe fair enough if she lost a child or something but no way should anyone be made to feel guilty for their kids around anyone else just because they don’t happen to have any.
SamFoxStuckinaCloak
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She’s made her whole identity “childless woman.” And I think that’s my issue with her (along with the way all of these women rarely acknowledge their privilege)
I’m childless (not by choice), had loads of IVF, miscarriages etc etc. despite therapy, I think it is a sadness I will always carry around with me, and that’s okay. But it’s not all that I am as a person and it’s not healthy to make that your identity. I’d feel mortified if my friends felt they couldn’t talk to me about their children or have their kids around me- you can do that whilst also being sensitive. I suspect her friends find her insufferable.
I’m childless (not by choice), had loads of IVF, miscarriages etc etc. despite therapy, I think it is a sadness I will always carry around with me, and that’s okay. But it’s not all that I am as a person and it’s not healthy to make that your identity. I’d feel mortified if my friends felt they couldn’t talk to me about their children or have their kids around me- you can do that whilst also being sensitive. I suspect her friends find her insufferable.
I want to reiterate that the pain of baby loss and infertility is very, very real - but I strongly suspect that the reason it has become such an all-consuming trigger for ED is it’s the only major goal in life she has not been able to achieve (yet).
There’s a reason she created a podcast and brand based on reframing personal failure - it’s a concept she clearly struggles with.
There’s a reason she created a podcast and brand based on reframing personal failure - it’s a concept she clearly struggles with.
SharkAttack
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Agree. I think she has everything else, in spades, (money, career, celebrity friends, nice house, free clothes, good education, husband she loves) but is aggrieved this one thing eludes her. Admittedly it's a massive one thing, probably the biggest thing for many women, and I wouldn't trade my offspring for all her millions. But she seems unable to appreciate everything she DOES have, and to realise that for those who DON'T have what she has, her relentless showing off that she does have those things is grating in the same way she is upset by people with children posting about them.
queenamber
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She baffles me because she's clearly highly therapised (is that even a word?) and seems to be emotionally intelligent but this is obviously a huge blindspot for her. She has such a fulfilling life (for instance, I'm jealous of her close friendships) yet seems to focus on what is missing. I also think she wants a baby rather than to be a parent. She is a step-mother to 3 children and clearly this hasn't satisfied her enough.
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