Permanently Peevish: #scd #itt What a weird weekend of betting following the Strictly semi final

Monday, 16 December 2013

#scd #itt What a weird weekend of betting following the Strictly semi final

I'm not normally one for conspiracy theories (as I've said before) but it is looking increasingly like this series has been set-up for Susanna Reid to win. Something is influencing her popularity in some way to induce the betting public (who are presumably also the voting public) to support her cause. She is a long way from being the best dancer, she spent both her dances (including a very sickly sweet Foxtrot) on Saturday night with her mouth hanging slackly open catch flies by the dozen, and yet there she is at even money to win.

Natalie Gumede with her flawless Salsa and smouldering Argentine Tango slipped into the dance off in spite of joint top scoring
with the judges.
The betting on her varied dramatically over the weekend. At one point she was out in the rags at 7/1, then suddenly she regained 2nd fav at about 3/1 and then was cut again to the 9/1 which is the best price currently available. If this kind of wildly fluctuating market pertained to a horse race, the bookies would have suspended betting by now.
Despite my suspicions, I nipped in and had a bit more on Natalie at the 7/1 as I just could not resist the price on such a brilliant dancer. I may even have a bit more as the 9/1 is even more tempting.
I really suspect that the price on Susanna is so short due to knowledgeable BBC employees and their friends and families trying for a Christmas present from the bookies to subsidise their low wages and shockingly poor bonuses and pensions (hem hem!). There is no other reasonable explanation. The comments section in the Mail Online is full of people saying that they have no particular liking for her dancing ability. So who exactly is voting for her? And who does the BBC think it is kidding?

And why are the judges going to be irrelevant at in next week's final?

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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, 16 December 2013

#scd #itt What a weird weekend of betting following the Strictly semi final

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