Permanently Peevish: I'm beginning to have doubts about the wisdom of Lewis Hamilton's move to Mercedes #F1

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

I'm beginning to have doubts about the wisdom of Lewis Hamilton's move to Mercedes #F1

These are not just based on the stunning looks of the new McLaren (above) but also on the rumours concerning the future of Ross Brawn. It was upon the leadership of the best tactical brain in Formula One that I based my recommendation to Lewis Hamilton, in many letters and texts (not answered!) last year, that he should join Mercedes.

Of course there were other considerations such as the amount of money that Mercedes can afford to invest. Just ask yourself how many people can afford to buy McLaren road cars as opposed to the number who can buy S class Mercs. It's simply a matter of the practical use and potential profitability of all the development transferable from the racing arm to the sales division. Not to mention the publicity value.

Suppose for instance that Mercedes wins the championship and consider the publicity that would be generated as a result. It might equate to millions of sales of road cars. Then think of McLaren winning a season. That would generate the same level of publicity but might only help with selling a handful more of their exotic and enormously expensive road cars. Then consider the potential of a percentage of the profits being used to develop the racing machines. No contest really. It's Mercedes by a mile.

Now I look at the new McLaren and I'm starting to have nagging doubts. It looks like a winner to me, especially with Lewis behind the wheel.

So Lewis, my old mate, if the new Merc turns out to be a dud and Ross Brawn departs the team I'm truly sorry. But it will teach you not to take advice from a cynical old misery guts like me, won't it?

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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.

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

I'm beginning to have doubts about the wisdom of Lewis Hamilton's move to Mercedes #F1

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