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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