Dusk Foster

[Sebastian Cobb]

Her birthday was in September, so presumably she was very nearly 34.

The date itself is 4 days prior to mine if her twitter bio was accurate, but I was born a year earlier in 1986, fairly sure she sometimes implied she was a year older though, so I'm not surprised reporting has been a bit wooly on it.

[idunnosomename]

I think she must've be born in 1986. I mean her family says she's 33, she's 33.

[Sebastian Cobb]

She'd be 34 if she was born in 1986.

[idunnosomename]

i mean 1987 sorry. wrong way.

anyway the Jacobin obit is fucking ace.

edit well in the circumstances. which are complete fucking shit and I hate them.

[Ferris]

Only just saw this (spent 2 days driving to a funeral with a toddler, cheerfully enough, very little time to catch up on anything).

Desperately sad. Life is not fair.

[Ham Bap]

Giles Coren been gloating about this, the human ballbag that he is.

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1417487712232292363?s=20

[idunnosomename]

I saw that and i didnt want to post it. It's not the first time he's been extremely inappropriate on Twitter, but that's repugnant. I hate like Tom Harwood and Darren Grimes but I wouldn't laugh at them dying so young.

Guy needs to lose all his work for that but he wont

[Bobloblawslawbomb]

Giles Coren been gloating about this, the human ballbag that he is.

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1417487712232292363?s=20

I truly hope Giles Corens car is stolen every single day of his life.

Edit - original tweet deleted now the pathetic worm cunt

[Sebastian Cobb]

Giles Coren been gloating about this, the human ballbag that he is.

https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1417487712232292363?s=20

https://twitter.com/TypingOfTheRed/status/1417488614863380480

[Blue Jam]

Heh:

https://twitter.com/JoanPassey/status/1417502152348639232

I really didn't need any further confirmation of what a loathesome individual Coren is, I should be less surprised by this.

[idunnosomename]

Someone pointed out Dawn would probably just be amused by causing this spineless, talentless little scumbag to have a big narcissistic breakdown. I don't think there's any way he'll suffer any consequences though. Sadly Dawn wasn't well known enough for it to matter. He'll still be a profitable name to slap on the Times brand for people who want Daily Mail-level discourse but more polite and sensible.

[stonkers]

Sounds like a typical CaB post tbf

[Egyptian Feast]

Fucking YUK. I bet he had that byline cunt smirk on his face the entire time.

I've never encountered the phrase 'spotch' before and I don't like the sound of it.

[imitationleather]

WTF. Hope Coren's stolen car drives straight into him and paralyses the cunt.

[idunnosomename]

charity fundraiser by her mother is up to 6k now (excess going to the Dogs Trust, and their fostering project for vulnerable people's pets)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-bench-in-memory-of-dawn-foster

I'm sure she knows another, more privileged journalist is trending on twitter for gloating at her death. truly saddening, but also it's a testament to her how she's still boiling the piss of cunts. hope she sees it that way. godspeed Dawn.

[king_tubby]

https://twitter.com/Mr_Considerate/status/1417958142365810692

[idunnosomename]

haha that really is his house too. love how non-aggressive it is. if I was in London I would definitely put a few bouquets there even if he would just angrily throw them all in the bin as soon as he saw them

[Sebastian Cobb]

In an ideal world it'd make a nice change from the shits on his doorstep. He's such a cunt the tribute will likely irk him more though.

[Echo Valley 2-6809]

People who leave the cellophane on floral tributes are worse than Giles Coren

Frank, forthright and funny, meet the new Times columnist, Echo Valley.

[Leo2112]

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1418184653475917824

Hope someone paints it back on again.

[idunnosomename]

i thought that was him with the builders bum crack for a minute. but he's filming in Iceland at the mo before he moves on to Corsica. I genuinely hope he dies. this is not hypocritical because I say it isn't.

(ironically him setting up a production company for these shitty travel films for the BBC is why it's so easy to find where he lives)

[idunnosomename]

proper guardian obit today. full of all the weaselly shit you'd expect from something that took nearly a month to drop

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/05/dawn-foster-obituary

Over nine years, she wrote more than 100 columns for the Guardian under the title Foster on Friday, as well as many other features and comment pieces, before her contract was ended in 2019.

oh why's that then

(again sorry if the shitty pun thread title sits badly with anyone. it's part of our shitty tradition. im still mega-bummed about this. absolute champion of everything)

[peanutbutter]

proper guardian obit today. full of all the weaselly shit you'd expect from something that took nearly a month to drop

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/05/dawn-foster-obituary

oh why's that then

(again sorry if the shitty pun thread title sits badly with anyone. it's part of our shitty tradition. im still mega-bummed about this. absolute champion of everything)

A month and they got her age wrong (https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/907385648503574528)

[AllisonSays]

For what it's worth I found the thread title touching and warm, and in the spirit of the seriously funny or funnily serious way she approached politics and writing on Twitter and everywhere else.

[idunnosomename]

there is a bit of confusion about her age. I do wonder if it's a Catholic born-out-of-wedlock thing and her parents lied about her birthdate. just speculation. but it seems pretty certain she was born 12 September 1986, despite that tweet

[idunnosomename]

the Coren graffito was on the back cover of her funeral service booklet



https://twitter.com/owenhatherley/status/1430117196982857746

(St Mary Clapham is a R.C. church, of course)

[Blue Jam]

^^^ Horrible to see the words "Dawn Hayley Foster 1986—2021" but that back cover made me smile. Beautiful.

[idunnosomename]

i mean if you look at it you can see they put thought into setting it out. of course Coren paid through the arse to get it scrubbed immediately. when he should've had a Henry II Peter O'Toole flogging in front of it.

[Kankurette]

If there's an afterlife, she's looking down and laughing.

[Echo Valley 2-6809]

I see he's still off Twitter, despite being back writing for the Times, filming his hotel series and doing his radio show this week.

There were surprisingly only 23 complaints to the IPSO about Coren's Twitter post(s). IPSO said it wasn't anything to do with them as he was making his wry, sideways point in a private capacity.