You can read the article by going here.
I’m very happy with it. There’s a few wee things I’d like to correct, though.
Change “The podcast entered the iTunes top 20″ to “The podcast entered the iTunes top 10″.
Change “Limond, 32, owes it all to Labour’s New Deal, actually, which lifted him off the dole after he flunked school at 16″ to “which lifted him off the dole after he failed at school but then spent 4 years in college and university getting a degree, albeit one of those pieced together polytechnic style degrees, and then fucked up his postgrad and spent a year doing fuck all”.
Change “he ended up on the Edinburgh Fringe last month. He was clearly a novice performer, and some of his material (as on the website) was crude” to “He was clearly a diamond in the rough performer, and some of his material (as on the website) was raw and uncompromising”.
And finally, change this ugly as fuck, ugly as ugly as ugly as fuck picture of me:
… to this, or something:
Other than than, I’m delighted!
Good coverage, apart from the inaccuracies you’ve pointed out there.
Cunt of a picture though, makes you look like some kind of sinister headcase.
(am I allowed to say headcase)
The tone of the entire article’s along the lines of:
Imagine the North British savages amusing each other with stories! How quaint! Granted, dear, the boy doesn’t speak the Queen’s English like you or I, and the stories concern the daily violence one may expect to encounter daily up in that wild region of the Realm, but really, I’m glad the money we YoooKaaay subjects send up there is going to some use, giving the unemployable natives, who have not craft nor knowledge of the arts, some coppers to spend on oats, and perhaps enough of a rudimentary education in animal husbandry or the tilling of fields. And as a true measure of this half-man, half-beast’s success, people in England have heard these stories too! I say, do the men still wear skirts up there?
I hate the fucking Guardian.
I was going to stop at “region of the Realm”, but got carried away a wee bit.
Glad yae kept it gawn ther rossco, ah hate the gardian anaw, but also hate the sun, yer either sittin in yer conservatory havin earl grey readin yer gaurdian or yer on the bus gone tae court wae a bottle eh irn bru in yer pocket readin the sun, (ano its no as black as white as that, but it is tae me!) the sun man, fuckin right wing cunts, smeato likes it but, he’s another walloper! n a’ll tell yae somethin else even if kate n jerry mccann are innocent, ah dnt fuckin like them, and there NEW spokes person is far to smooth, anyhoo, back tae the article, ave nae opinion on that, apart fae if it wis me ad revel in it n ignore the split hairs, they writer types always milk it, artic monkeys are shite
[quote comment="68563"]I was going to stop at “region of the Realm”, but got carried away a wee bit.[/quote]
You should have stopped at “The”, or just before it.
Obviously they left out the great work you did for ‘The Culture Show’ and ’10 Things I Hate About The Edinburgh Festival’. And how great your boyfriend is.
You look like a worried zombie. Although what a zombie has to worry about, I dont know!
I found out about you JUST TODAY through that damn article so whatever they said doesn’t matter because the damn thing WORKED, and the picture isn’t ugly as fuck…maybe ugly as sin, but not ugly as fuck. Actually I think the picture is charmingly disarming and simply screams “I’m a 16 year old high school drop out!! LOVE ME!!!” Seriously though you are quite funny and I am greatly enjoying all the goodies you have scattered about the internet!
-Kudos from South Korea!!!
[quote comment="68572"]You should have stopped at “The”, or just before it.[/quote]
[quote comment="68563"]I was going to stop at “region of the[/quote]
That just doesn’t make sense.
[quote comment="68577"]You look like a worried zombie. Although what a zombie has to worry about, I dont know![/quote]
Lynn, two things that A zombie would worry about are: 1. Brain Shortage in Glasgow and 2. The collapse of Northern Rock bank.
I see what you mean Lynn, although perhaps he’s just been bitten by a zombie and just realised “aw fuck, that’ll be me gaun aw zombie in about 20 seconds”
Good stuff.
That picture does make it look like there’s a mutilate dbody or two in your wake.
I did laugh at “says Limond in a broad Glasgow accent”, just so the Southern readers know you’re rough and ready and possibly chibbed up.
Good piece though.
……….apologies, he’s not been bitten by a zombie, but by a person of undead status.
M’on the persons of undead status!!
Nice. What courses did you do at GCBP? Did you go on and do a “Degree” at Glasgow Caledonian afterwards?
Cos thats what I did.
You look like a zombie in that pic! Straight out of 28 days/weeks later
See after doin a HND long does it take to get a degree. Is it 2 year at uni??
[quote comment="68592"][quote comment="68572"]You should have stopped at “The”, or just before it.[/quote]
[quote comment="68563"]I was going to stop at “region of the[/quote]
That just doesn’t make sense.[/quote]
I think he was implying that you shouldn’t have left a comment at all. Maybe he just really likes the guardian…
[quote comment="68631"]
I think he was implying that you shouldn’t have left a comment at all.[/quote]
I thought that as well for a minute, but there’s no way anyone can dislike the phrase “half-man, half-beast”.
That article in The Guardian made me come to your site at about 9 this morning and I have done little else today but read your blogs, watch your videos and play your games all day. I work from home…
If there is a choice, as it says in the Article, between the two TV companies that are after signing you then go with Hat Trick in preference to Avalon. Just my personal preference if that is in any way libellous.
Thank you.
Round of applause for johnifer.
[quote comment="68641"]Round of applause for johnifer.[/quote]
Thanks
Wizard!
[quote comment="68633"][quote comment="68631"]
I think he was implying that you shouldn’t have left a comment at all.[/quote]
I thought that as well for a minute, but there’s no way anyone can dislike the phrase “half-man, half-beast”.[/quote]
Naw, he meant to say: “You had me at The.”
[quote comment="68587"]I found out about you JUST TODAY[/quote]
[quote comment="68636"]That article in The Guardian made me come to your site at about 9 this morning and I have done little else today but read your blogs, watch your videos and play your games all day[/quote]
Limmy, mere a minute. How many more hits did you get yesterday when the article was published over your normal day-to-day traffic?
Hello to the newcomers!
[quote comment="68741"]How many more hits did you get yesterday when the article was published over your normal day-to-day traffic?[/quote]
I don’t know yet.
Marry me.
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Glad yae kept it gawn ther rossco, ah hate the gardian anaw, but also hate the sun, yer either sittin in yer conservatory havin earl grey readin yer gaurdian or yer on the bus gone tae court wae a bottle eh irn bru in yer pocket readin the sun, (ano its no as black as white as that, but it is tae me!) the sun man, fuckin right wing cunts, smeato likes it but, he's another walloper! n a'll tell yae somethin else even if kate n jerry mccann are innocent, ah dnt fuckin like them, and there NEW spokes person is far to smooth, anyhoo, back tae the article, ave nae opinion on that, apart fae if it wis me ad revel in it n ignore the split hairs, they writer types always milk it, artic monkeys are shite