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All the screaming, whooping and over reaction on Strictly.
The more I know the less I understand.
Clare Balding is now advertising Revitive … for aching legs!
How dare her nick Ian Botham’s thunder.They should invent a new Revitive for pains in the neck..Clare’s would be a sellout.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...The latest KFC advert! It shows a man being dunked into a lake and then pulled back out as a large chicken nugget. Seems as though they’re proclaiming cannibalism.
Soylent Green anyone?
Every spurs fan so I don’t have to hear their deluded views on their club.
Sunny Edwards from boxing coms, jesus all the stupid noises he makes when any punch is landedThe Americanisation of British English.
It really gets on my tits when young people pronounce words in the American manner or spell the American way.
The American term guys seems to have infected our language this really makes my skin crawl. My partner’s 15yo niece at a party a few weeks ago waltzed in and said hi guys, I nearly put her head down the toilet. I blame teachers who have adopted this term.
The more I know the less I understand.
Streaming channels that post “tobacco depictions” as warnings at the start of programmes.
Swearing, rape, murder, etc… all fine. Someone having a fag? No chance.
People who use the word ‘literally’ when it’s anything but.
People who don’t know when to use the word ‘was’.
People who ‘turn around’ before they say anything.
Cliff Richard.
People who put clothes on cats and dogs.
Those ridiculous eyelashes the size of China that make you wonder how the eyes can possibly be opened.
Tattooed eyebrows. I mean, why????
Staff who respond with ‘Perfect’ when you order a coffee. What’s that about?
Better stop. I could go on forever. And might yet.People who present racing programmes who have no idea about foreign pronunciation.
Given the number of horses with French or Irish names, if you’re a “professional” you should at the very minimum do some research.
Agreed. Hailing from German stock, I’ve long been driven mad by the mangling of German names from Seebald and Auetaler to present-day examples. Mangelhaft, mangelhaft!
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Haribo adverts with Adults talking like children and banging on the desk shouting Apple at the tops of their voices
All the Pure Cremation adverts and especially the man sitting in the bath waxing lyrical about the fabulous Cremation they have just attended while his wife can’t wait to get on the phone to book themselves in. 🫣
Jürgen Klopp’s teeth in the Trivago Ads..😁
All please proceed to Room 101 immediately. 😱 Jac
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