Permanently Peevish: The highs and lows of Strictly's Halloween Special

Monday, 29 October 2012

The highs and lows of Strictly's Halloween Special

I think I'm becoming bored with Strictly Come Dancing this year. Maybe it's old age but the only "high" I could see on Saturday was Louis' high score. Although I can see that he is a budding talented dancer, I still cannot find any chemistry between him and the utterly gorgeous Flavia. Chemistry is such an important part of the storytelling and possibly that is why I think he is being overmarked. Craig called his performance this week "ineffable" which I sort of get though I'm not sure if it's what Craig actually meant.

The low point for me was the elimination of Sid Owen, mainly because it means the loss of my each way bet on him for a place. He was in the dance off with Colin Salmon and, to be honest, I'd rather watch Colin dance than Sid - betting considerations aside.

My reason for supporting Sid was, of course, because the lovely Ola is such a good choreographer that she could make a dead cod look good on the dance floor. But she just doesn't seem to have her eye on the ball this year - maybe because of her mother's illness. Or maybe Sid just didn't inspire her at all.
Those rather sad beige jumpsuits didn't help much this week either.

And that's another low point - not so much Ola for the rest of the series!

I've really had enough of the theme nights - two in a row is too much. They don't show the celebs at their best - certainly not so early in the series. And I just don't see the connection between Halloween and Scooby Do (Dani Harmer) or the camp corrida (Richard Arnold) for instance.

THE BETTING AS IT STANDS

Louis Smith:
My win bet is still looking good so I may be able to eat at Christmas
Currently: shortening in to 11/8 in a place.

Denise van Outen:
Not really shortening as much as you'd expect. She may be losing out in the charisma stakes.
Currently: 10/3 with Coral

Kimberley Walsh:
She's popular but I find her performances bland and uninteresting in the main
Currently: 4/1 generally

Lisa Riley:
Very energetic but I don't think people of her weight can ever look graceful on the dance floor and she does nothing for me in any way.
Currently: best price 12/1 with Sky Bet.

Now that I no longer have an outsider each way bet I have no interest in the rags.

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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.

Monday, 29 October 2012

The highs and lows of Strictly's Halloween Special

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