Permanently Peevish: #itt #scd Rachel Riley out and the fallacy of It Takes Two

Monday, 4 November 2013

#itt #scd Rachel Riley out and the fallacy of It Takes Two

Nothing will make up for my disappointment in seeing Rachel Riley go out even though she never really lived up to my hopes for her. I don't really know why other than the fact that she is not an actress nor even any musical background. It's just that she is without any doubt the prettiest girl ever to have graced the Strictly dancefloor.

Her American smooth this week earned her 30 pts and the comment from Len that it was her best dance so far. The score put her ahead of Fiona Fullerton (28), Sophie Ellis-Bextor (28), Mark Benton (25), and, of course, Dave Myers (19). Yet there she was in the dance off with Abbey Clancy (34). If I was inclined towards conspiracy theories I would smell a rat but I'm sure it's just the strange nature of the incomprehensible voting public.

I shall not be commenting on the betting any more as that ship has well and truly sailed now. I would say that Natalie Gumede is virtually uncatchable and her magical Viennese waltz on Saturday earned her a near maximum of 38 points. At 5/4 she is no longer a value betting opportunity in a current field of 10. However it is worth pointing out that; as Natalie might yet succumb once again to her back problem, and, since, Sophie Ellis-Bextor's limitations have been so fully exposed, a small flutter on Abbey Clancy at 7/1 could be justified.
However on to my real peevish gripe of the day. One of my dislikes in modern language is the use of the word goss which is a totally unnecessary abreviation for gossip. The viewing public is constantly being harangued to get the goss about this show or that. And it always seems to me that if the word goss is used then there never is any real gossip involved. Gossip is, of course, items of salacious tittle tattle.
Well the real gossip to emerge from last week was the spat between pro dancers Ola Jordan and Karen Hauer. I don't know what the cause of it was or even the truth of the words exchanged but one thing of which I am utterly certain is that there will not be a single mention of it on It Takes Two tonight. And that is the programme on which we are constantly being encouraged to get all the Strictly goss. What utter rubbish!!!!!!

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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, 4 November 2013

#itt #scd Rachel Riley out and the fallacy of It Takes Two

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