Monday 2 April 2018

2.4.18 Football Talk




No one in and around him.  [Alan Shearer]

I'm all for players pulling someone in and around each other.  [Alan Shearer]

He's getting improvements from his players week on and week in.  [Marin Keown]

You are asking different questions from defenders.  [Alan Shearer talking shit]

Every single one of them were superb.  [Alan, still avoiding 'was' for no fathomable reason]

It's only twenty years since the club were formed.  [Dan Walker]

One of the best headerers.  [Ian Wright]

There have been a number of interested telephone calls in him.  [Jonathan Pierce]

He's trying to get into those areas he likes getting into.  [Jermaine Jenas]

Making sure that Wilfred Zaha don't get through.  [Jermaine Jenas]

In and around the back four.  [Matthew Upson]

When you play teams in and around you.  [Bournemouth player]

The experience of the previous injuries have made him more cautious.  [Danny Murphy]

It also means a lot to those in and around Southampton.  [Commentator not referring to geography, but to the Burnley players]

He just readjusted his position.  [Commentator just overdoing it]

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2.4.18 Poor English



There are a surprising amount of taxi cabs in North Korea  [Eitan Goldstein]

There are tons of cities and towns all across North Korea  [Eitan Goldstein]

Prospective  [John Boyega on Radio 4, meaning perspective]

Very, very unique  [John Boyega on Radio 4, not just unnecessarily qualifying, but unnecessarily over qualifying uniqueness]

It's gradually percolated outwards  [Arsehole (expert on language and dialects!) on Radio 4]

Are industry doing the right thing?  [A doctor on Radio 4; are it indeed!]

You scatter the lovely rocket in and around the pizza  [Jamie Oliver]

Edinburgh zoo have revealed ...  [have indeed!]

Prices are up to 25% cheaper  [No, Laura Hamilton, the houses are up to 25% cheaper, or the prices are up to 25% lower]

On the north side of the town, prices are up to 20% more expensive  [No, Laura Hamilton, wrong again.  The houses are up to 20% more expensive, or the prices are up to 20% higher]

To make as much money as possible in the quickest amount of time  ['Shortest', please, Radio 4!]

The number of people going through the doors have declined  [More Radio 4 shite]

It depends what the community want  [Radio 4 again]

Anonamity  [Anna Soubry inventing words]

Self depreciating  [Gina Yashere, meaning self-depricating]

It's amazing how you show off your versitality  [Darcey Bussell making up words]

Sony Movie Channel are rolling out the red carpet  [are it, indeed]

The League of Gentleman are back  [Samira Ahmed]

He has just bagged the most illegible man in Britain  [Stephen on Gogglebox]

I kind of self taught myself  [Jimmy Mistri on Saturday Kitchen]

Lamb fat isn't the most flavoursome, it's a bit fattyish  [Brian Turner on Saturday Kitchen]

They can put on more weight than they originally had in the first place  [Idiot woman on ITV]

That key weather vane of the British economy, the annual new car sales figures  [Julie Etchingham talking complete and utter fucking shit]

The last round of sanctions are having an effect  [reporter on Radio 4]

Warmer temperatures are the cause of climate change  [Phil Mercer on Radio 4, stating the fucking obvious and avoiding the correct 'higher temperatures' comment]

Britain are the leading country in the Commonwealth  [Lord Somebody-Or-Other on Radio 4]

The number of job losses are . . . .  [Radio 4 crap]

Shtrong  [Ashley Banjo, meaning 'strong']

You sang phenomenal  [will.i.am, LY short of an adverb]

A jump from one specie to another  [idiot scientist on Radio 4 who is allegedly an expert but cannot use the language, turning 'species' into a made-up singular form]

He needed to get acclimated  [NFL pundit, meaning acclimatised]

WeBuyAnyCar.Com Sponsor DOI  [a missing 's' off 'Sponsor']

When you look back retrospectivly  [hmmmm, as if 'retro' needs clarification]

Grab a bowl and put it over a pan of hot boiling water  [Joe Wicks]

Everyone is in agreance  [Jamie Delgado pretentiously using a fuck-of-a-non-word]

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Sunday 1 April 2018

1.4.18 Muller



"Muller - official yoghurt of British Athletics"

So says Nicole Scherzinger.  I struggle with this on so many levels.  First, why on earth does British Athletics need a yoghurt?  It is perfectly possible to manage very well indeed without consuming yoghurt, and I have no reason to believe that yoghurt is in fact anything wonderful with properties that help athletes perform better.  Of all the things potentially 'needed' by British Athletics, I would venture to say that yoghurt is the least important.




I am equally perturbed that the dumb advocator of consuming this stuff is a woman who cannot even pronounce the word 'yoghurt'.  Yes, I know she is American, and that they like to mess about with stress and vowel sounds, but that underlines my ire - Nicole is an American talking like an American, endorsing a British team that apparently needs an official yoghurt, pronounced y-oh-gurt.  Could Muller and Team GB & Northern Ireland [thus, better referred to as Team UK] not find someone with appropriate speaking skills for this gig?  When in Rome, do as the Romans do; when in the UK, don't fuck with our language.

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