Permanently Peevish: The line-up and very early betting for Strictly Come Dancing

Sunday, 9 September 2012

The line-up and very early betting for Strictly Come Dancing

Almost the full line-up of celebrities has been revealed now in advance of the official Strictly Come Dancing launch show. Of course this excludes their professional partners so the betting can really only be very speculative at this stage. But here's my look at the betting field as it stands.

Denise van Outen:
A very Essex girl who's had quite a lot of experience in musicals. But she is 38 yrs old and therefore hardly deserving of her early favouritism
Best price 4/1 Corals.

Kimberley Walsh:
Girls Aloud singer aged 30.
See previous comments
Best price 6/1 Ladbrokes.

Louis Smith:
2 medals in the Olympics for gymnastics. Bound to be impressive in the energetic dances and popular with the female audience.
Best price 6/1 Coral and Paddy Power.

Nicky Byrne:
Popular with the older ladies I suppose. MEH! See previous comments
Best price 8/1 William Hill.

Dani Harmer:
Allegedly an actress. 23 yrs old. See previous comments
Best price 12/1 Paddy power and Ladbrokes.

Victoria Pendleton:
Olympic medal winner in cycling
I'm quite looking forward to her but she is 31and not really a glamourpuss. Bound to be popular with the current Olympic enthusiasm whether good or not.
Best price 14/1 Ladbrokes

Michael Vaughan:
Cricketers seem to do relatively well but he doesn't look to have much of a *latin* appeal.
Best price 16/1 Bodog (?) but 14/1 Ladbrokes

Richard Arnold:
MEH! See previous comments
Best price 16/1 Ladbrokes

The Rags
Lisa Riley:
No, I've no idea either!
Best price 25/1 Paddy Power

Fern Britton:
Can't abide the woman.
Best price 33/1 ladbrokes

Jerry Hall:
A real old fashioned glamour queen and will be interesting on that basis alone but I don't think she will be all that popular with the British audience.
Best price 33/1 Coral

Johnny Ball:
Vaguely remember him from something or other
Best price 33/1 Coral

Sid Owen:
An ex Eastenders actor. MEH!
Best price 33/1 ladbrokes

There is still one more to be revealed so I am not making any bets until I know who that might be. Most likely to be another male I would think. If I had to have a bet now I would say a small each way on Victoria Pendleton and another small wager on Denise van Outen to win because her acting ability is bound to put her in good stead.

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Causes of Peevishness

These are the things which get up my nose in day to day life. OK they're maybe not serious in the grand scheme of things but they make me shout at the television, change channels and raise my blood pressure to dangerous levels. The first of these is Estuary English. Of course I know that people who speak this uneducated and lazy form of English cannot help it and I'm fine with them using it in their own homes etc, but why do they have to bring it into my home? They really should be banned from getting jobs in television (apart from cleaning jobs obvs)
The use of particular words annoys me too and the people who overuse these are often (but not always, speakers of estuary English). These include:- Amazing: Vastly overused and mostly completely inappropriately too. To me an 'amazing' thing is something that is so jaw dropping that there are simply no other words to describe it. It should certainly never be used to describe your friends, relatives, babies or holidays etc. And certainly not the prices of furniture in a DFS sale. There are millions of other words so get a dictionary or thesaurus. And if you're too lazy or stupid to do that then STAY OFF MY TELEVISION FFS. And don't write anything I'm likely to read either (on Facebook, Twitter, Radio Times etc).

Then come a couple of words and phrases which are completely unnecessary in any sentence: At the end of the day,Basically, Go for it and Do you know what I mean The last of these is perhaps the most irritating of them.
It also annoys me when anyone uses the word Delicious to describe anything other than a taste or smell. How can a colour or design possibly be delicious FFS?

And then we have: To Die For: I've been with people who were dying and I know that not one of them would have said that it was a price worth paying for a pair of shoes, plate of food or whatever fashionable colour. It's a stupid unthinking thing to say.

I don't understand the use of the word: Like in this kind of context - "I was like, she was like" and so on. I don't know what purpose it serves. I know it probably means that the perpetrator has spent too much time watching American television but is that any reason to inflict it on the rest of us?

Utterly maddening is the use of Floor: instead of ground. It's just laziness. Isn't it easy to tell whether you are inside or outside? Think before you speak goddammit!

Can I get I hear this all the time in shops and pubs and I think it's the height of rudeness so I assume it's American in origin. Of course anyone with any manners would say, "May I please have."

Trust me: The last thing I will ever do is trust the person who says "trust me".

Yeah: Obviously not when it is used as an affirmative but when it is used to end a sentence as in: do what I tell you, yeah? Or: Have a good day, yeah? And especially - You need to cheer up, yeah?..... No I fucking don't, you twat!

Poo: I've never understood what exactly is wrong with shit or crap. We all know what is meant and the word poo is just childish. There is also manure or dung for the animal variety. And if you simply must be polite you can always fall back on ordure or even excrement

Then we come to what I call unnecessary abreviations such as: Ciggie: This makes me cringe every time I hear it and Goss: Seemingly favoured by continuity announcers on the second rate television channels. And I quite often find that when "goss" is used, there is little or no real gossip involved in the publication or television programme concerned.

I hate the insidious way Americanisms are creeping into English usage. Such as: Gotten and Snuck and Dove. And there are many more that have snuck in so sneakily that we are hardly aware of them being Americanisms any more e.g. Campus which is something to do with a university or college. and Intern It used to refer to a junior level of hospital doctor in the U.S but it has become to mean some kind of unpaid employee.

Sunday, 9 September 2012

The line-up and very early betting for Strictly Come Dancing

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