12 May, 2008...7:29 am
True love spurned
By The Editor
I’ve got to admit that I almost feel sorry for Andrew Bolt. Watching Gordon Ramsay on television a few weeks ago he fell in love. There was something about Gordon Ramsay — a man’s man with conservative values and masculine pride — that made Bolta’s heart beat a little faster.
I like particularly the standards Ramsay upholds and which drive him to fury when transgressed.
Ramsay, you see, thinks hard work honours man. Slackers drive him spare: “You might as well just f… off.”
He thinks if a job is to be done, it’s best done well. Sloppiness is an insult to a worker’s dignity. A moral crime.
He thinks if you’re taking a man’s wage, you owe him a day’s labour. Those who bludge on their boss are called “cheats” and the worst, like the manager of Dillons, are out the door.
He thinks reason beats irrational sentiment. If orange paintings of what seems global warming turn off customers, then too bad if the owner loves them to sentimental tears; they must go to save the restaurant.
He thinks some authority is better than none when you want things run well. Three managers in one chaotic restaurant get pared to one, despite the tears, because collectives and group fuzzies just don’t work.
Yet he also believes in loyalty and teams - the little platoons of society that are the bedrock of a community.
But just like a lot of desperate crushes this love was not to be. Imagine Andy’s feeling of rejection when he discovered that Ramsay wasn’t quite the man he believed him to be (with a bit of groupthink thrown in for good measure.)
My faith in Gordon Ramsay’s good sense has been shaken. Tim Blair exposes another eco-hypocrite - a global warming prophet in a Ferrari, and with a disturbing taste for banning other people’s little pleasures.
Having your heart broken is no joke. My thoughts are with you, Andrew.
13 Comments
12 May, 2008 at 8:47 am
that made Bolta’s heart beat a little faster.
Sounds like more than his heart was beaten a little faster.
12 May, 2008 at 9:34 am
Remember all that “man” talk? This resembles the furious disappointment of Beethoven crossing Napoleon’s name off the “Eroica”. Except that Andy’s not a deaf genius, but a short-sighted buffoon.
12 May, 2008 at 9:36 am
And now that Tim has dropped Andrea The Giant, there is a finally chance for Andy.
12 May, 2008 at 9:45 am
Oh, for fuck’s sake. “Tim Blair exposes”? Blair has exposed fuck-all. It’s a BBC report from the 9th May, and a report from The Independant on the 10th, both of which are actual articles rather than the 4 or 5 word sentences that Bolt and his ilk think stand for journalism or investigative reporting.
This is standard for Bolt - find some work that’s been done by someone else, link to it through a quote, and then shout “Huzzah! Look what I’ve done! I told you!”
Dickheads.
12 May, 2008 at 9:47 am
So Timmy’s a fan of those 2 year old ‘fresh’ apples served up at his local supermarket, eh?
Maybe him and Andy can get that uppity twat Simon Morgan to desecrate Ramsay’s web-site…
12 May, 2008 at 10:35 am
I guess the only other possible outcome was that Bolt said, “Gee, he’s a bit of an alright this bloke, and I respect his views on many things, so maybe these green types aren’t all loons.” Not much chance of that, it seems.
Also, I love how the evil greenies try to take away all of Bolt’s little pleasures (presumably not his fleshlight, however). How dare they!? Imagine asking him to go without out-of-season foods just because the global environment is rooted and people are starving around the world because the food production system serves the rich countries at the expense of the poor ones!
Just let the man eat his small pleasures without bothering him about someone else’s problems.
12 May, 2008 at 10:37 am
Spot on, Ross. Good call.
12 May, 2008 at 11:31 am
I agree with Ross. Groupthink bonus points there.
If Bolt had of said “As Tim Blair found” or the like then no worries. He talks up B2 in such a way as if he was the one rifling through the garbage bins to uncover the truth.
12 May, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I bet Bolt’s quietly a bit peeved at Blair for not warning him in advance that he was going to contradict a portait painted by him earlier (”this is a man that all conservatives should aspire to be like !” etc)
It makes Bolt look stupid and highlights his lack of research.
Hence the use of the phrase “Tim has exposed Ramsay’s eco-hypocrisy ..etc etc”. That makes it look like there is no way Bolt could have known that Ramsay is a big fat raving loony greenie.
Which is of course, not the case at all.
12 May, 2008 at 1:54 pm
But what Ramsay is saying isn’t new for him:
Central to the Boxwood Café theme is seasonal, British produce. When they can, they intend to source local ingredients. “I think a lot of what Boxwood is about is having the confidence to serve food that isn’t trying to make a statement,” Gillies says. “We are paying a huge amount of attention to sourcing quality products and we’re trying to stay predominantly English as much as we can - local, seasonal produce served in a simple manner.
“To me, the whole thing about the café should be food that you would eat at home but with the finest produce. It has that relaxed nature about it. It’s less contrived, not trying to be anything it’s not - there’s enough good produce out there to do that.”
22 May 2003 article found
http://www.gordonramsay.com/corporate/latestnews/recentreviews/newsitem14.html
on his own website. I am sure if the B1 and B2’s of this world actually tried to get to the bottom of his philosophy rather than spewing out crap then they might have a real story… but hey that might mean actually working wouldn’t it?
12 May, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Oh this is made all the worse considering that Bolt wrote such a long and passionate speech professing his love for Ramsay. Of course one glaring irony regarding Bolt’s pathetically ridiculous initial article, is that he praised Ramsay, as a supposed representative for Bolt’s type of politics, for not tolerating sloppiness in one’s work. And yet all this could have been avoided if Bolt actually spent 5 minutes researching a topic that he pontificated on for so long, as part of his ‘work’. Ah well better to have loved and lost I guess. Although I had a feeling that it wouldn’t last. I wonder how Ramsay would feel if he found that he had been made the poster boy for such a moronic flock of mindless, juvenile imbeciles as Bolt’s crew.
13 May, 2008 at 10:58 am
Oh the love is well and truely gone now:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/ramsay_rammed/
expect to see daily attack pieces on Ramsay until Bolt suggests he should eat his own snot as that is the only locally produced thing he deserves…
14 May, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I have this image of Bolt crying as he rips up photos he made in photoshop where his splayed legged form was dropped in next to Ramsey in various exotic locales.
‘Remember Bali … ‘ (SNIFF) (RIIIIIIIP)
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