Permanently Peevish: Gwyneth Paltrow

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Sunday, 7 April 2013

I am the first to admit that I know sweet FA about women's fashion

To be frank I think that the industry itself is vastly overhyped and utterly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Far too much money and time is devoted to it and too much space in the media. Those farcical shows (Paris, Milan and London etc) where wretched looking girls parade up and down with completely unwearable parodies of clothing items draped over their adolescent boney skeletons! Okay maybe that was a little unkind - not all the models are wretched looking!
The ghastly Posh Spice designs clothes now and seems to garner far more publicity than her so-called creations merit. Gwyneth Paltrow, pictured on the right, is wearing a Victoria Beckham number which I am sure cost an absolute fortune. Yet I can see nothing whatever in its favour. It doesn't look as though it fits properly and that zip down the back just looks cheap and nasty.

I would also like to know why Gwynnie is wearing those shoes with the ankle bands that look like high visibility features. The whole subject is a puzzle to me.

Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Sorry Gwyneth, but why are you doing it again?

I'm sorry to keep harping on about Gwyneth but I've always liked her and I'm sorry to see her doing this to herself.

Last night she appeared at the Met Gala (whatever that is) in New York wearing this little side boob revealing number. Now I'm not a fashion expert by any means but, to me, this kind of dress really does not suit a 40 yr old who was never overly endowed in the first place. It hangs rather like an apron worn the wrong way round!

Admittedly if it is worn by an overly endowed woman, it just looks slutty. So you just can't win.

It just strikes me that a married woman who wears this kind of revealing outfit is saying something about the state of her marriage. And if that something was that she is bored, well it wouldn't be a great surprise - she is married to the front man of bland pop band Cold Play after all and, to them, boring is axiomatic!

Monday, 7 May 2012

Oh dear Gwyneth! Getting forgetful in your old age?

You'd think that with all her money and the sense that earned her that money, Gwyneth would at least think to take a quick glimpse in the shiny thing by the door.

If she had done that she might well have noticed that certain assets which were once perfect and perky have migrated south to warmer climes and that in their absence she might have made a more modest choice of little black dress.

But don't get me wrong. For a woman of 40 Gwyneth looks really lovely and I'd hate it if she even considered anything in the way of plastic boobs. If she ever sees this pic and feels depressed she can always cheer herself up by looking at the raddled old hag on the right:

Things could be so much worse darling

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.