Permanently Peevish: The 2012 Formula One season ends in Brazil

Sunday 25 November 2012

The 2012 Formula One season ends in Brazil

While the race at Interlagos was as full of drama as you could possibly want, I found the end itself somewhat of an anti-climax. Sebastian Vettel, otherwise known as 'the fingerer' (see above) clinched the championship from 6th place while his rival Alonso finished second.

But the real disappointment for me was Lewis Hamilton being taken out from P1 by an importunate move by Nico Hulkenberg who was on the wrong tyres for the wet conditions at the time. This was, of course, Lewis' last race for McLaren and it would have been pleasing for him to leave on a winning note.

I'm sure next season is not going to be a vintage one for Lewis. He will have his work cut out for him trying to gather the Mercedes team around him and assisting in the badly needed improvements. 2014, if I survive that long, could well be different when the new rules come into force with the resultant benefits to the AMG design.

Other unanswered questions this year include the matter of who will replace Jake Humphries on the BBC commentary team. I can only wish that he takes Ben Edwards with him into football oblivion. Edward's voice rises to an annoying contralto pitch during moments of excitement in the commentary box. I'm sure he is a gifted football commentator but his knowledge of Formula One leaves something to be desired. On the contrary Gary Anderson's contributions have been highly informative and utterly fascinating. So I hope he is staying. The BBC who have completely ballsed up their contract with Bernie are staying predictably silent on the matter.

And talking of Bernie - it worried me that he has been wittering on about an increase in the number of Asian circuits at the expense of some European tracks. Quite frankly Abu Dhabi is a boring circuit and Singapore takes place at a silly time of day. I nodded off during the Indian GP and I hate the thought of losing Spa or Monaco for the likes of those. Would I continue to watch Formula One if I could no longer watch cars racing over Eau Rouge or negotiating La Rascasse? Well probably, but it would certainly not be the same thing at all.

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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 25 November 2012

The 2012 Formula One season ends in Brazil

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