What a crap example is set by supposedly educated people on TV. On Friday's Mastermind, John Humphreys seemed to lose his ability to speak English, and omitted the letter "s" on more than one occasion. "The club play at . . . ." and "the side play . . . ." were appalling examples of grammar, and he is unworthy to be testing other people in any fashion. Twatmind.
Yesterday on MOTD, Gary Lineker produced a useless statistic, mentioning Danny Murphy of Fulham, and referred to "the amount of passes". He's clearly half way to being as thick and moronic as Alan Shearer, and wouldn't understand the concept of a mass noun. Perhaps I'll ask him a question; "what was the number of smoke created when you burned your script?"
A pointless gadget-themed programme I caught a few minutes of on Saturday morning had a section rounded off with a thumbs up from one of the 'team', and the statement "Now that's science!"
First, it was not in any way science, and second, it was not the most appropriate statement when you consider that of the four team members, the one chosen had a lisp. Now, I'm all for non-discrimination - but - it seems there's a general mission to go overboard in being PC these days. I always thought that an actual ability to do the job as required was a key part of getting the job. If you're colour blind, then you're not best placed to remove the green smarties on a product recall, are you? So, I though there could have been a bit of a pith take going on, when the chap was given the line - "Now that'th thienth".
By the way, will there ever be a series of X-Factor when some cunt doesn't sing Purple Rain?
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