“Scouse-looking”? Fucking hell, that leaves me more or less speechless.

“The blokey one”? I don’t fancy her, really, but how exactly is she blokey?

You don’t like Girls Aloud? Girls Aloud are ace. Everybody likes Girls Aloud. The only issue with Girls Aloud is which one is your favourite. Which, I think from this piece, is probably Kimberly. Good call.

Descriptions are nailed on apart from the ‘not so attractive one’ – I think she’s mint.

The scouse looking one IS from Murkeydive isn’t she? Or is it REALLY the fact that she looks like she should be wearing a shellsuit and calling everybody ‘la’ just making me THINK she is?

Nadine (see – I know her name cos she’s from my neck of the woods) always come across as the bitchy Posh Spice one of the group.

The blokey one is boffing a new boy band singer everytime I look at some UK gossip site (which I do very infrequently, because of course I’m too grown up for that)

And as for Cheryl. Well we all know that she only married our Ash to get people to forget she’s a racist bitch, and he only married her to act as his beard.

(Allegedly. Hello lawyers.)

Why do I know so much about these women? Can’t we just discuss Marching Bands again?

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The ‘Scouse Looking’ One is actually from Bradford.

AND

Doesn’t the ‘Blokey One’ or ‘Geezer bird’ one as I like to call her go out with a guy that writes for the daily star?

bradford? bloody hell, she is scouse-ish to the extreme (think sonia)

the not so attractive one is from leeds.

unfortunately.

Shes not from Leeds, she IS a scouser.

No… Leeds… let me check this…

I’m bloody right…

The scouser IS a scouser…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Roberts

The Leeds one is from Bradford… close enough innit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberley_Walsh

Blokey one is a manc…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Harding

Racist one is a barcode…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Cole

and we all know that the one with the legs is from Stroke City…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Coyle

what do I win?

ah… bse called the wrong one a scouser! that’s where the confusion came in…

We both win then.

I had no idea Harding was from Manchester, shes well south London.

It’s not exactly noble of me to jump to the defence of a gang of good-looking girls, but it’s quite typical of me, nonetheless.

I found this a bit patronising, I must admit. Mean-spirited and, well, joyless. I won’t get into too much detail about what this article says to me about you, but boderline misogyny and flinging petty insults at a pretty girls paints you in a far worse light than them. Sorry, chief, that’s the way it plays to me at least. The suggestion that where they’re from dictates their merit is also a bit tricky.

That said, if you’d been bitching about the fat one from The Gossip, I’d have been all ‘Right on, son.’

(I think the Ginger one is lovely. I bet in person she’s the most charming and magnetic.But it seems all round that Kimberly is the track you overlook on an album the first couple of listens, that later on becomes why you love that record so much. )

“The suggestion that where they’re from dictates their merit is also a bit tricky.”

of course it does… I wouldn’t want to get too close to the scouser, and I might get my clothes covered in phlegm…

“awrite la?”

“I found this a bit patronising, I must admit. Mean-spirited and, well, joyless. I won’t get into too much detail about what this article says to me about you, but boderline misogyny and flinging petty insults at a pretty girls paints you in a far worse light than them. Sorry, chief, that’s the way it plays to me at least.”

No apology needed, everyone is entitled to take blog posts or pop concerts as seriously or unseriously as they please. Joyless it is not, I had a lot of fun writing the above and a nice night going to the concert. Lessons in misogyny I won’t take from the “protect the pretty ones, disregard the fat ones” school of female empowerment. I’ll treat Girls Aloud like I would Take That (who blew them away in the same venue last year by my reckoning) and assume that if I’m not listening in for great singing I must expect a performance worth watching, no?

Patronising is my response to three fifths of them phoning in the entire show. More than a petty insult at the more than petty cash prices. The tone is dismissive for the most part, not because they are “pretty girls” but rather that they didn’t acquit themselves at all well.

“The suggestion that where they’re from dictates their merit is also a bit tricky.”

I’m not saying that at all. I’m a big fan of regional accents and the speaking parts for Charyl and Nadine were the high points of their performances, the only time when they seemed humanm or anything other than contemptuously aloof. I have long referred to the scouse looking one as scouse looking because she looks like she is from Merseyside. No merit accorded.

“(I think the Ginger one is lovely. I bet in person she’s the most charming and magnetic.But it seems all round that Kimberly is the track you overlook on an album the first couple of listens, that later on becomes why you love that record so much. )”

The ginger one may well be lovely but she did not give that impression on stage. Again I’m grateful that Kimberly and Sarah had some enthusiasm for the performance/job.

Nicola Roberts isn’t a scouser, she’s from Runcorn. Which isn’t even in Merseyside, let alone Liverpool. It’s a good half-hour’s drive, and takes about 3 days by bus.

Some Runcornians – myself not included – speak in a “scouse” accent, but it’s more often than not fake. Sometimes, the purpetrator is a genuine scouse refugee, seeking asylum in hilly, sunny Runcorn. When scousers get evacuated and evicted from their homeland – which they so often do – they usually end up in these parts, marring our dialect, driving our house prices down, and our insurance prices up. I heard they’re eating our babies too, but that may just be a rumour. Our natural accent is more ‘2 Pints of Lager & A Packet of Crisps’.

I don’t believe that Ms. Roberts speaks in a “scouse” accent, although I may be mistaken.

Runcorn = scouse

FACT

why are the comments getting cut off as you go down the page?

I spoke to me Dad (Scouser) and he also said that people from Runcorn are not scousers.

He said their parents probably are though as when they built Runcorn they filled it with scousers that there wasn’t enough space for in Liverpool.

Scousers ALWAYS say that Runcorn isn’t Scouse… but that’s just like people from Manchester refusing to claim Stockport…

FACTOMUNDO

And Runcornians – except the strange wanabees – always rightly claim that Runcorn isn’t scouse!

Not-even-in-the-same-county