Permanently Peevish: #itt It's mostly bad news on week 7 of Strictly #scd

Monday, 11 November 2013

#itt It's mostly bad news on week 7 of Strictly #scd

The really bad news is that Hairy Biker Dave Myers and lovely Karen Hauer are out. Of all the comedy participants Dave has been by far the best value but the real pleasure for me has been watching Karen have so much genuine fun. I think Karen has been the only professional not to betray the slightest ill humour at being partnered with a no-hoper (in dance competition terms) and as such she deserves a Strictly contract for as long as she may wish one. The picture above says it all really.

The other bad news was that Natalie succumbed to a fainting fit in rehearsals caused by low blood pressure, no doubt brought on by the steroid injections for her back problem. What is Stictly without a really excellent celebrity performance?

Which brings me to the solitary item of relatively good news. Natalie's bad luck has revitalised my betting recommendation for Abbey Clancey. If Nat fails to return some of my readers may end up laughing all the way to the bank as I suggested a small plunge at 7/1. 9/2 is the best you can get now. I don't think Sophie Ellis-Bextor will get further than the semis as she has still not managed to inject a single drop of personality or characterisation into any dance at all. So with Natalie possibly out of contention then the next consideration must be for Abbey even with that truly vile accent.

Weirdly the other item of fairly bad news was Brucie's absence. Strictly is getting far too girly and gushing for my taste. I cannot abide Claudia at the best of times - those panda eyes staring out insanely from under the lunatic fringe - the breathless enthusiasm - the stupidly high heeled shoes. I have much the same objections to Zoe Ball on It Takes Two and in fact she irritates me so much with her endlessly repetitive use of the word 'amazing' to describe anything and everything that comes within her grasp that I think I shall have to stop watching the programme altogether - especially now that I no longer have the Dave and Karen show to entertain me.

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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, 11 November 2013

#itt It's mostly bad news on week 7 of Strictly #scd

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