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EXCEPTION TAKEN
The Bulletin’s Paul Toohey takes exception to Paul Barry’s Shane Warne biography.
UPDATE. The Age’s Richards Hinds: “Is that all there is?”
Not a book, bridge or chess man! Oh dear!!
Well I lost interest in bridge and chess in favour of books. If I had ever been a cricket star on tour without an interest in books, and I had the capacity to charm women, I might have taken the Warne route.
I like to think that I would have done it rather differently but then I was an off spinner and we are the gentlemen of the game. In contrast with those leggie yobbos!
Bravo Paul Toohey.
Paul Barry is a classic dickhead lefty social snob, but don’t take my word for it. He’s a Pom and is (or was?) a journalist at the ABC - surely they’re a strong indicator of his attitudes.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 01 at 06:54 PM • permalinkThat bio reads like a Hollywood gossip column written by a dried-up, bitter old queen.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 08 01 at 08:11 PM • permalinkWhy does anyone give a shit? Despite appearing to be looking down his long, pointy proboscis at Sahne and simone, he’ll make a poultice out of this; Warne is the Bogans Bogan, and if there’s a book out claiming he’s played on middle stump with over a thousand slappers it will only increase his legend status further- a winner all ‘round, except for the females involved who are being described as celebrity-fixated morons who’d hoover any dickhead who’s ever appeared in Womens Day. Who knows if it’s correct? Who cares?
Barry is a pompous prig who like his fellow ABC-turned commercial broadcaster Dick Carleton never lost his smug, superiour public broadcaster sensibilities; hopefully there’s a fatty clot with his name on it wallowing around his arteries, ready to send him off to join Richard in being completely and deservedly forgotten.
A friend of Paul Barry’s tells me that he has all the good grace and moral fortitude of a pubic louse with a migraine sitting in the sweaty crotch of a pre-menstrual Kazakhi yak on the banks of the Irtysh River during the month of October before the winter snows.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 01 at 08:50 PM • permalinkThanks Paul Toohey for this review.
Anyone who watches TV or reads mags knows that Simone Warne is one classy lady who—despite being treated badly by her husband—has not retreated to revenge, criticism or trashy behaviour. She has more guts, style and intelligence than Paul Barry has in his earlobe.
I know little about Warne, but who could not have helped but observe the way his ex-wife so tactfully and intelligently handled a very difficult and public separation.
Another book to boycott!
I wouldn’t give Warne or Barry the steam off my pi$$, but please, when a journo says…
”...I have not read Paul Barry’s proudly “unauthorised” book on Shane Warne, Spun Out. I have read only an extract published in Good Weekend. That was enough…”
I’m sorry, but that’s just shite journalism.
Only the salcious crap was printed in that extract anyway to get the hero-worshipping, blond-tipped, hair-plugged bogans from Narre Warren to stuff their Christmas stockings with.
If you can’t even bother to read the entire book before making an informed and reasoned argument against <1% of its total content then STFU.
I’m with Habib…who cares anyway?
Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 08 01 at 11:51 PM • permalinkOI! You leave our Warney alone.
Sure he may not be the brightest spark, or the most classy guy ever to wear the white, but he is rich, a famous sports star, he’s fat and he gets bad press, yet he still pulls women faster than Bubba Clinton. I rekon this is a bit of tall poppy syndrome for the new millenium.
“Warne is the Bogans Bogan, and if there’s a book out claiming he’s played on middle stump with over a thousand slappers it will only increase his legend status further” - Habib
Spot on mate, Warney for PM!Anyway, dont gentlemen prefer blondes?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 02 at 12:00 AM • permalinkSo he gets the night tool out more often than a UN peace keeper bartering with the locals for food. Big deal. He’s a paragon of leg spin, not virtue.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 02 at 12:07 AM • permalinkA dumb book about a dumb cricketer getting more publicity than it deserves.
I saw the video of him recently with those two slappers, gotta say it got me laughing. They had their knickers on, boy they do threesomes differently these days (of course, I don’t know this from personal experience). And that is one unattractive body. If I was male, I’d need viagra to get it up to respond to it.
But really think they should leave him alone now. He’s just sad now. But rich, he’ll do fine.
I agree, they should just leave poor Warney alone. Let him get back to the most important thing of all.
Getting the Ashes back off those bloody POME bastards.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 02 at 02:01 AM • permalinkWarney’s desires everything this book can dump on him. As a celebrity he has a civic duty to speak out against Israel, Bush, Howard, whaling, greenhouse, lack of government subsidies for gay aboriginal artists, no matter if he doesn’t have a clue about the issue.
Instead all Warney does is stick to what he does best, bowling and picking up chicks and doesn’t pretend to be anything else.
“It’s quite OK, Shane will never read it.”
Can he read? Oh well, no doubt someone will read it to him!
No time, either for Paul Barry or for Shane Warne, both are sleazebags in their own particular way. Must say that I’m surprised at some of the pro-Warne arse-licking going on here. Australians have a reputation for cutting down tall poppys but it seems (now) that one endearing quality forgives an awful lot in Oz.
Must remember that. I believe that Osama Bin Laden is a very devout family man. I look forward to reading similar messages of support when next he surfaces. Hey, I believe that Heinrich Himmler was very fond of cats. Let’s hear from all of you tabby lovers out there!
‘Course I (like 99.9% of contributors here) haven’t read Barry’s book, and I’ll reserve judgement until I have. Until then I tend to believe that a book by one piece of shit about another piece is just? Well, just shit!Posted by Prester John on 2006 08 02 at 02:17 AM • permalink#26 Warnie’s never been a tall poppy. He’s lead his whole life by the bogan creed; as a bourbon drinking, pie eating, footy watching, slapper swordsman. The moment he forgets, we’ll tear him so many new arseholes, he’ll have to install a row of doultons to have a crap.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 02 at 02:36 AM • permalink#26, Get ya hand off it John. Like Infidel Tiger pointed out Warney is a bogan. Bogans are generally not the kind of people to whom tall poppy cutting usually applies.
Warney is beloved because of this, not in spite of it. He has never tried to be more than he is; He knows that he is probably the greatest bowler the game has seen, he knows there are grown men the world over who are shitscared of him. He knows he can pull the birds.
But he never claimed to be able to run the country, never ran for office, never joined the clergy.
The poor bloke was forced to give up smoking because of the media here. Now they want him to give up the birds too. Tell them where to go Warney.
The guy is rich enough to get any food he wants when he is on tour. Yet he is common enough to fly a case of baked beans to the sub-continent for his personal consumption.
And THAT is why Warney is a deadset legend.
#27, Murali is a chucker, end of story.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 08 02 at 06:18 AM • permalinkI heart bogans.
Seeing as I is one, too. :)
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 02 at 07:05 AM • permalinkJust a little Schardenfreud…
http://www.ecoenquirer.com/south-pole-tragedy.htm
“Global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday”
Prester John - “Course I (like 99.9% of contributors here) haven’t read Barry’s book, and I’ll reserve judgement until I have”. Quite right, but then, “I tend to believe that a book by one piece of shit about another piece is just? Well, just shit!”
Wow! - Talk about judgement well reserved. Why don’t you just toddle off and follow this in the Woman’s Day sunshine, I’ll be at the Gabba in a couple of months to watch the opening match of the Ashes. And I couldn’t give two squirts of guinea pig’s piss what Warnie has done off the field, or your views on it, I’ll be hoping he takes a bag of wickets.
But I’ll reserve my judgement on that.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 08 02 at 09:22 AM • permalinkPeople here talk as if shagging heaps of birds is a *bad* thing?
What’s wrong with you all?
Warney is even more of a legend because of all the pommie slappers he’s banged, not less.
He Australia’s greatest living treasure.
Anger is directed daily towards him by women who are too ugly to get rooted by celebrities and blokes who can’t get a chick under 80kg to shag them. But those sort of people hate and envy everyone, and are best ignored.
It’s funny how the old double-standard has been completely turned on it’s head nowadays.
40 years ago, blokes who rooted everyone possible were “studs” or “playboys”, but girls who did it were “sluts”.
Today, girls who root everyone in sight are “exploring their normal, healthy female sexuality”, but blokes who do it are “sleazebags”. Please give me a break.
Shagging anything that comes along is nothing more than following our ingrained biological imperatives. I know a lot of people who do it and they are some of the most honest and kind people you’d ever meet.
Yobbo — Don’t forget the glory days of the 70’s, when doctrinaire feminism was just breaking: tell a woman she was ‘taking charge of her own sexuality’ and she would do anything, man, and think it was her idea! Thank you Helen Gurley Brown!
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 03 at 01:16 AM • permalink
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Good on Toohey for exposing Barry as an elitist twat.