Permanently Peevish: Celebrity Big Brother and the new meaning of celebrity #cbb

Friday, 4 January 2013

Celebrity Big Brother and the new meaning of celebrity #cbb

It has been apparent for a number of years that when the press refers to a celebrity it means someone you have probably never heard of but who would like to be a celebrity. The Mail Online gave me a bit of a snigger in this regard today when it said that:

some viewers under 40 may not recognise some of the faces

Yeah well let me say that some viewers OVER 40 may not recognise them either.

I was only watching out of curiosity because I couldn't understand why Frankie Dettori is taking part. Champion jockeys have bounced back from public scandals before, think of Lester Piggott and Kieron Fallon.
Anyway I obviously know who Frankie Dettori is
Rylan Clark: Well I knew the name of course, and I don't really care if I never see him again. But it's significant that he's not relying on his X Factor win to bring him success.
Claire Richards: Never heard of her.
Razor Ruddock: Heard of him but I thought he was a boxer for some reason.
Paula Hamilton: Yep I remember her.
Lacey Banghard: Nope means nothing.
Ryan Maloney: Doesn't ring a single bell here.
Sam Robertson: Nope.
Tricia Penrose: Supposed to have been in Coronation Street but I don't recall her.
Spencer Pratt: Nope.
Heidi Montag: Thought at first she was the Holywood madam, but no.
Gillian Taylforth: I remember that she was caught in a compromising oral position in a Range Rover somewhere or other.

So that's 75% I either have no idea about or incorrectly recalled which seems to prove what I said about the real meaning of celebrity nowadays.
Anyway I see that Rylan Clark is at very short odds to win already which chimes with the substantially gay viewer proportion and makes him a very poor value bet. He's too short even to justify 'dutching' him with anybody else. No bet.

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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.

Friday, 4 January 2013

Celebrity Big Brother and the new meaning of celebrity #cbb

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