Well, he is a knob
About a year ago I went on a training course for work. It was a series of 7 or 8 weekly sessions in the evening on a Wednesday. The timing was a bit annoying but it was pretty relaxed and always finished with an hour long workshop and plenty of free booze going around.

About the 4th session we'd started settling into groups and there was one guy I'd been getting on with called Rob (don't actually remember his first name but that'll do) who was less of a media wanker than everyone else. He was a quite posh but like me he resented giving up his Champion's League nights for training and we used to compete to see how many free beers we could smuggle out of the venue.

Then came the magazine task. We were given an hour to come up with a new magazine (concept, title, features etc). There was some debate but eventually we were torn between doing 'Chav Weekly' (my preference) and some upmarket, 'Review' for people in London.

I was very much against this latter idea as it wasn't very original and Chav Weekly was funnier (Knife of the Week feature etc.). Rob, being posh and urbane, was pushing for the Review.

Resolving to end the discussion with a witty yet comprehensive putdown I spent several minutes extolling both the virtues of my idea and the limitations of his. I ended by saying:

"And the only people you'd get reading it would be wanky stuck-up tossers like AA Gill"



"He's my uncle!"



"Oh"



Absolutely no way back from that. He was visibly quite upset.

(I looked on the roster afterwards. There he was - Robert Gill)

The irony is we ended up going with Chav Weekly and won. I got a years free subscription to Empire out of it.
(Milo Minderbinder, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:25, 2 replies)

You're right!
he IS!
Mind you I laughed when he got caught taking drugs..
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:51, closed)

So when does Chav Weekly hit the news-stands?
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sat 29 Nov 2008, 1:12, closed)