Currently rocking the Five-Centres boat:
Tycoon - What derivative tosh. It's so ITV to do such a shameless Apprenctice rip-off, and for it not to be any good too. Didn't they learn any lessons with The Million Pound Giveaway or whatever it was called. Old woman begged for money to visit the bulb fields of Holland, while good causes like music projects in New Cross were sent packing. And I find Peter Jones a very uncharismatic front man and all round nasty bit of work. Still, with his zillions, who cares what people think of you?
Prince Harry - Not because he's ginger or anything, but that voice! It's so shockingly old-fashioned public school. You hear the type in Chelsea, in their Hackett clothes and with their Harryesque hair, like a zombie nation of Hugh Grants circa Bridge Jones' Diary marching up and down the Kings' Road talking at the tops of their voices without so much as a by your leave. And I hear he thinks Chris Moyles is great. Boors of a feather flock together.
Diana covers on TV listings mags - Does she still sell mags? It would appear not. Why would anyone except Ingrid Seward or other crazed royalist loons want to collect four different TV Times covers featuring Diana the mother, charity worker, princess, coke slut, etc.? It's not like there are any new pictures or anything.
Paris Hilton coming out of jail - Even the BBC news covered it. It's not 'breaking news'. It's not news. She's apparently going to open a halfway house for women prisoners. How utterly selfless of her. She's clearly changed. They should have thrown away the key.
People who say ' can i get' - As in, 'Can I get a Diet Coke?'. It's surely 'I would like...', or 'Please my I have...'. If you want to get it then you know where the kitchen is. Oh, you would like a Diet Coke! Well why didn't you say? Where does this come from? It's a mannerless American affectation and must be stamped out. Now.
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At last someone speaks out about the idiomatic aberration that is "Can I get"! It's "Can I have" in British English, you morons! Or even just "A black coffee, please". And for some reason it's always being said by some posh-voiced Shoreditch twat who clearly thinks they are living like the common people.
I hope the worthless lot of them die screaming.
*skips off to think about something happy, like kittens*
If I ever hear a Brit utter the word 'gotten' un-ironically, I shall kill myself.
I fear I used the word 'gotten' in a blog entry some weeks ago. Apologies and please don't kill yourself Clair. I have corrected it and reprogrammed my head.
I'm not sure if I've ever said "Can I get..?" I, like the rest of the world, don't pay that much attention to what I say. I rather hope I don't die screaming because of it though. That'd be awful!
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