Permanently Peevish: Lewis Hamilton manages 5th in gripping #F1 season opener

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Lewis Hamilton manages 5th in gripping #F1 season opener

A really tense season opener in Melbourne for the Australian GP had tyre management as the central issue rather than straightforward car performance. I am truly delighted that Lewis achieved 5th place despite early doubts about Mercedes performance this year. Truthfully he might have done better had Mercedes not perhaps overreached themselves by trying a for an optimistic two stop strategy complicated by a flat spot caused by Lewis locking up while defending an Alonso overtaking move.

Lewis Hamilton seems a lot happier interviews than I've seen him in for a couple of years. Today's performance with the Merc must have bolstered his confidence considerably but I also wonder if shedding all that corporate crap that was part and parcel of driving for McLaren has also helped. I notice that Jenson Button is appearing in a really horrible Santander advertisement lately and I suppose that it would have necessarily involved Lewis had he stayed with the team.

It was also Suzi Perry's debut as lead presenter and she seemed to cope well although, not surprisingly, there was much less banter with DC during their pieces to camera together. Maybe this will warm up as the season progresses and EJ returns. We will see.

However I cannot shake off my gloomy pessimism concerning the BBC's pathetic F1 coverage. I really hate these 'highlight' shows. Ok you get the best of the racing but all the news from the garages is missing as well as key interviews with drivers and team members. It annoys me that the BBC is prepared to spend money on fatuous Red Nose Days and awful television programmes such as The Voice which does nothing at all to improve anyone's televisual experiences. And it is only an attempt to get up ITV's nose something which does not appear anywhere in the BBC charter. It's only going to get worse - we now see less than half of the races live. I miss Martin Brundle too and I'm sure that one day Sky will poach David Coulthard and Lee McKenzie because their reporting team is so weak currently.

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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, 17 March 2013

Lewis Hamilton manages 5th in gripping #F1 season opener

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