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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Alpha males we hate to love #37: Gordon Ramsay

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I know what you're thinking: This Blog Is Going Downhill. Rapidly.

C'mon, where's your festive spirit?

Mine's in the drinks cabinet...awaiting dusk (sunacceptable to slurp Baileys before 4pm, doncha know?).

posted by Urban Chick @ 1:03 pm  

21 Comments:

  • At December 20, 2005 1:53 pm, Anonymous motherhen said…

    Funnily enough, UC, the ol' rooster and I were at a party on Saturday night at which the subject of Alpha v. Beta males came up in the conversation (we don't just talk about house prices at OUR parties, you know). In a nutshell, what emerged from the females in this discussion was that Alphas might be desirable for the old business of, ahem, insemination but, for a jolly good night out and sympatisch company, you simply can't beat the Beta. Try reading Robert Crampton in Saturdays's TIMES and then work out who you'd rather go out with - him or Gordon Ramsay (I'm excluding the prospect of delish food from this, by the way). Merry Christmas everyone!!

     

  • At December 20, 2005 1:56 pm, Blogger Urban Chick said…

    motherhen!

    i don't want to hear you say words like 'insemination': not on my blog, not in real life, not never!

    **sticks fingers in ears and sings loudly**

     

  • At December 20, 2005 2:06 pm, Anonymous motherhen said…

    Oh, UC, you're just SO old fashioned ..... how do you think you got here? No, that's even too much for me to think about. Scrub that question and just think about gooseberry bushes.

     

  • At December 20, 2005 3:39 pm, Blogger Jenny G said…

    Mmmmm...Gordon Ramsay...

     

  • At December 20, 2005 3:43 pm, Blogger surly girl said…

    gordon ramsey - rubberfaced yet undeniably sexy.

    i'll take the alpha male of the beta any old day of the week, thank you. that's what gay best friends are for - the gossiping and the shopping.

     

  • At December 20, 2005 3:43 pm, Blogger surly girl said…

    um, that's "over" the beta, obviously.

     

  • At December 20, 2005 4:16 pm, Blogger GreatSheElephant said…

    ooh, quivers.

    But why is his chin like that? Does anyone know?

     

  • At December 20, 2005 4:20 pm, Blogger Urban Chick said…

    in a freak cheese fondue skewer incident perhaps??

     

  • At December 20, 2005 5:32 pm, Blogger Whinger said…

    I don't know this person.

    But Bailey's is acceptable at all times of the day during Christmas.

    It's especially good in coffee.

     

  • At December 20, 2005 8:43 pm, Blogger Kyahgirl said…

    this man doesn't appeal to me but motherhen has me thinking about the possibiliites of insemination under the gooseberry bushes. Your motherhen is quite naughty eh UC?

    better get started on your Baileys.
    Yikes, I just looked at the time-you must be just about ready to start your nighttime beauty routine and hit the sack!!

    ♥

     

  • At December 20, 2005 10:21 pm, Blogger mireille said…

    OOh, I love these intrafamily Freudian discourses. *which sounds like intercourse, doesn't it?* And there's alpha and there's alpha. DH is a very deceptive alpha ... we're swingin' along and he's being very beta sympatisch as motherhen points out, I step on a conversational landmine and WHAM! THIS FANGED ALPHA appears before me. I've seen it go the other way, too. Just sayin' xoxo

     

  • At December 20, 2005 11:08 pm, Blogger Kyahgirl said…

    ah, the notorious 'stealth alhpa'. You must watch yourself around those ones! :-)

     

  • At December 20, 2005 11:11 pm, Blogger mireille said…

    LOLOLOLOL!

     

  • At December 20, 2005 11:47 pm, Blogger Pashmina said…

    Trufact: Numberplate on Ramsay's (unnecessarily large) Bentley = F4TS0.

    Just in case anyone was planning to stalk him...

     

  • At December 21, 2005 2:13 am, Blogger mig bardsley said…

    Betas for me every time.
    But isn't he just beautiful!
    (and doesn't he know it!)
    F4TSO...LOL.

     

  • At December 21, 2005 2:49 am, Blogger Bela said…

    GR's mother was the cook at the Cobweb, my favourite tearoom when I lived in Stratford-upon-Avon, and I should remember him as a young boy running around the place, but I don't. I do remember the owner of the place had roving hands and used to pester all the young waitresses - and the young female customers.

    How GR went from Welsh rarebit and eggs & chips to refined haute cuisine is a mystery.

    I'm not terribly keen on bullies.

     

  • At December 21, 2005 5:11 am, Blogger tigerjoe said…

    Hohoh... so would Ainsley Harriot count as alpha or beta?

     

  • At December 21, 2005 8:56 am, Blogger the plate invigilator said…

    Ainsley Harriott would count as an omega...seriously, the man isn't even human; he's a pantomime dame.

    My vote goes to "stealth betas" - men who have that yummy alpha exterior, but who also have a soft'n'chewy beta filling. Kind of like a dark-chocolate caramel.

    It's 8.56 am, and I need chocolate...

     

  • At December 21, 2005 11:31 am, Blogger surly girl said…

    oh!! plate invigilator has nailed it exactly - the other half is a stealth beta!!

    genius.

     

  • At December 21, 2005 1:04 pm, Blogger GreatSheElephant said…

    perfect indeed. I want a stealth beta.

     

  • At December 27, 2005 10:42 pm, Blogger Liz said…

    I have been unable to take him seriously since a chef friend referred to him as 'Old Celeriac Head'.

     

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