Permanently Peevish: Lisa Riley's fall from grace in Strictly semi finals

Sunday, 16 December 2012

Lisa Riley's fall from grace in Strictly semi finals

There has to be a point where entertainment value comes second to dancing ability and, although I think the time is actually well before the semi finals, Lisa Riley definitely reached it last night with a dance disaster.

She had a funny landing from some sort of a floor glide move in her Salsa routine and her partner, Robin Windsor, failed to lift her to her feet.

It was funny, but in a very cringey way. From what I've seen on twitter and in the press, I'm probably the only person in the entire world who hasn't enjoyed her performances one single iota.

I like a good storytelling dance - one that captures the emotion. And none of Lisa Riley's gambolling about the floor, with her mouth doing an impression of the Simplon Tunnel, have done that for me. I'm sorry she stayed so long as there have been a couple of other celebs who might have progressed if they had not lost the viewers votes in her favour.

Well she's gone now and there's no point in regretting the past when we've got the finals to regret next week.

Louis Smith
I really cannot understand why Limp Louis retains favouritism. I suppose it's the female vote - strange considering his somewhat querulous masculinity.
I though I saw some timing issues in his Jive and his long arms seemed to be flailing about in an uncontrolled way.
Best price now 4/5 if you're foolish enough.

Kimberley Walsh
Nimble Kimble has achieved second place in the betting and not before time. Both her American Smooth and her Charlston had temperatures rising. Her musicality was excellent - as it should be I suppose. She has had a bumpy ride in the betting market but after last night the 5/2 at Ladbrokes and Coral looks generous.

Denise van Outen
Unlike everbody else I thought she was considerably overmarked for the Tango and I'm now worried about the wager I took on her as a saver against Limp Louis losing. It seems the betting market agrees as 8/1 is now generally available about her.

Dani Harmer
I though her American Smooth was utterly charming but she lost me again with her Argentine Tango. You can still get 8/1 (oddly the same as for Denise) for Dani which I think is mean. She doesn't really have a shot.

I think my betting has been a disaaaaaster this year and if I can scramble a few quid together I might invest in a saver on my saver. It's really the height of foolishness but the 5/2 about Kimberley looks like a bookie's rick to me and it might be even more foolish not to take advantage.

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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, 16 December 2012

Lisa Riley's fall from grace in Strictly semi finals

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