# Fuck off Piers Morgan **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 16, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061 "2018-10-16T21:18:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/1 "2018-10-16T21:18:49Z")
Or, attention seeker criticises 007 (Daniel Craig) for [carrying his baby child in a papoose](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45873664). Well, Piers, you certainly win on getting attention. But by winning you also show yourself to be an idiot and thereby lose. So fuck right off. A man carrying a baby in a papoose is not uncommon hereabouts. As Chris Evans (the one who played Captain America) said: > [@Chris Evans](#): > > You really have to be so uncertain of your own masculinity to concern yourself with how another man carries his child. Any man who wastes time quantifying masculinity is terrified on the inside. The other ripostes in the article are well worth reading, so I’ll just let his TV co-host have the last word: > [@](#): > > His Good Morning Britain co-host Susanna Reid, never one to shy away from a debate with Morgan, can have the final word. > > She tweeted: "No woman has an issue with a man carrying a baby in a papoose. > > “This is YOUR issue.” ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/2 "2018-10-16T21:26:34Z")
NSFW (but text only) > **[Urban Dictionary: Piers Morgan](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Piers%20Morgan)** > > A turd that refuses to be flushed. ETA: I’m a little confused by the third one. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/3 "2018-10-16T21:34:37Z")
> Note that this is from Piers Morgan’s OWN twitter account. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/4 "2018-10-16T21:41:42Z")
God what an asshole. Why is any network paying such a stupid boor to be on TV? ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/5 "2018-10-16T21:46:22Z")
Fuck I’m glad nobody was lurking round corners with telephoto lenses for ME when I had a three week old daughter. Poor dude totally has that add-another-thirty-to-your-age not-sure-on-the-concept-of-sleep glazed-eye new parent look about him doesn’t he? So…this ‘Piers Morgan’ plonker. Never had any kids himself, or lazy arse who let his SO do the heavy lifting? Not invested enough to Google it… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/6 "2018-10-16T22:10:17Z")
Jeeze, I already knew Rachel Weisz was the most “hated”/envied woman in the UK. Now this? What can a mere mortal woman do to keep up? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/7 "2018-10-16T22:13:40Z")
I think this thread is going to be a bit one sided. What good things can we find to say about sad sack Piers? Still a finer human being than Donald Trump? If expelled from U.K., could go to Fox News and raise journalistic standards? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/8 "2018-10-16T22:31:43Z")
Piers Morgan’s existence has caused **Aspidistra** to call him a “plonker,” which has introduced a new word to my vocabulary. Surely that’s a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/9 "2018-10-16T22:36:12Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > Fuck I’m glad nobody was lurking round corners with telephoto lenses for ME when I had a three week old daughter. Poor dude totally has that add-another-thirty-to-your-age not-sure-on-the-concept-of-sleep glazed-eye new parent look about him doesn’t he? > > So…this ‘Piers Morgan’ plonker. Never had any kids himself, or lazy arse who let his SO do the heavy lifting? Not invested enough to Google it… I knew he had one child; he took over Larry King’s TV show for a while (and was fired) and I remember when he had Michael Moore on and they cut to a commercial when one of them (can’t remember who) mentioned Morgan’s new baby, and Moore said something like, “Well, at least we know you’ve had sex.” :dubious: :smack: That child was with his second wife; he has 3 with his first wife. > **[Piers Morgan | Personal life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan#Personal_life)** > > Morgan married Marion Shalloe, a hospital ward sister, in 1991. The couple had three sons, and separated in 2004 before divorcing in 2008. In June 2010, he married his second wife, journalist Celia Walden, daughter of the former Conservative MP George Walden in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire. He lives in Kensington, London and has two other properties in Newick, East Sussex and Hollywood, Los Angeles. > Morgan is a supporter of Premier League football club Arsenal. He was an outspoken critic of former Ars... BTW, MM has no biological children. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/10 "2018-10-16T22:41:21Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Piers Morgan’s existence has caused **Aspidistra** to call him a “plonker,” which has introduced a new word to my vocabulary. Surely that’s a good thing. Piers is a prat, a knobhead, a berk, a pillock, a tosser, a muppet, a gormless git. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/11 "2018-10-16T22:57:14Z")
I used to volunteer once a month at a local soup kitchen. There was a husband and wife who came regularly; both appeared to be slightly mentally challenged, but they clearly loved each other enormously, and in the meantime, she had a baby. A couple months after the baby was born, I heard the husband tell another client, “My wife says that she was pregnant for 9 months because she carried the baby everywhere, and now I’m pregnant because I carry the baby everywhere.” 🆒 Wish we had a heart smiley, and that more couples were like this, regardless of their financial or intellectual situation. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/12 "2018-10-17T00:01:26Z")
Jeez completely beyond me how people here can’t see the obviously gratifying Stuart Varney-ish appeal of the guy. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/13 "2018-10-17T00:12:35Z")
That picture of Daniel Craig carrying his baby just made my ovaries explode. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/14 "2018-10-17T00:15:44Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Piers is a prat, a knobhead, a berk, a pillock, a tosser, a muppet, a gormless git. I believe you missed “bellend”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/15 "2018-10-17T01:17:38Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > God what an asshole. Why is any network paying such a stupid boor to be on TV? They’ve learned there’s a real market for that, after the our 2016 election and its ongoing results. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/16 "2018-10-17T02:06:24Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > I believe you missed “bellend”. 🙂 I wish I could call him a Billy-no-mates, but there were enough like-minded plonkers to vote the UK out of Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/17 "2018-10-17T02:28:01Z")
So **Quartz** , is this kerfuffle over the alleged “unmanliness” of a man who plays an action hero carrying his own child in a baby sling helping you a bit to understand what [toxic masculinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21254827&postcount=101) is, and why it is a problem in society? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/18 "2018-10-17T02:51:15Z")
There was a short piece about this on CBC Radio today. The interesting part was that they apologized before and after for giving him the attention of mentioning his name. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/19 "2018-10-17T03:52:39Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Piers is a prat, a knobhead, a berk, a pillock, a tosser, a muppet, a gormless git. and a wanker, a gobshite an imbecile, a schmuck, a douchebag, a chav, a pikey, an arsemonger, a fuckstick, an arschgeige, a flachwichser, and a walking ass with ears. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061/20 "2018-10-17T07:17:46Z")
Stephen Fry memorably defined “countryside” as “the act of murdering Piers Morgan” He is a hateful piece of shit with no redeeming features and the worst crime is that he appears to have zero self-awareness regarding his own character. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-off-piers-morgan/823061.md?page=2)