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What Makes You Cringe
Posted by David Wright on 15 February 2010 - 10:46am.
I'm quite a mild mannered person, but I can't stand the Halifax adverts on TV; they make me cringe and every time they come on, I have to reach for the remote or go for a lie down whilst I calm myself. Maybe it's partly down to some bad experiences banking with the Halifax, but their latest radio advert is particularly dire.
What things in life that you have seen or heard make you cringe?
People who write Woop, Woop on facebook is also very annoying.
It's Monday morning, let's have a rant and get things off our chest!
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fellow Scots
on foreign beaches, shouting at their kids ... "Jordan! JORDAN! Dinnae go in that watter ye wee erse, ah've jist dried yer hair, come back here, I SEZ COME BACK HERE" etc while French or German adults look askance
Snob? Me? Probably ...
I share your pain...
...and your - perfectly healthy - snobbery. How come we Scots (and wee Scots) have such a broad range of grating accents? Or is it just that we're louder?
Dunno about that
but I used to avoid the brits in Greece and Spain and hang out with the scandinavians and germans, usually in completely different towns and villages to the brits. I found them much more civilised than the Watneys fixations (the places and the visitors). And now I live in Sydney.....
Accents
I have this theory that any accent when screamed sounds terrible. I'm from London (real London not poncy west London) and we sound terrible when we shout. But most Brits abroad are arses anyway which is why I avoid anywhere touristy.
My sister was a holiday rep for years...
... and has many stories about how awful people can be when they go abroad. She would agree that Scottish people can be especially embarrassing (I am Scottish by the way).
She had particular problems with people on all inclusive deals. Familiar complaints included
"Wherr's the chips then? Whit ur oor weans meant tae eat if thur's nae chips?"
and the legendary (but happened nearly every week)
Angry man waving a piece of serrano ham, "Whit's aw this aboot? This bacon isnae even cooked!"
Poncy west London indeed
You sirrah are spoiling for an altercation (Axekeith not ganglesprocket - damn this sequential 'reply to' function!)
Mars
People in supermarket ques who pay for a mars bar etc with their credit card.
People who wear....
...their football shirts on holiday.
Cringity Cringe
I cringe when people say Wrongity Wrong on here.
Yes, in fact the expression is:
"Wrong Diddly Wrong..."
As Any Fule Know.
:-)
Sorrity sorry about that!
;-)
Stoppity stop
being so uppity uppity about it...
People
who wear sunglasses indoors and/or at night
Maybe they wear them at night...
... so they can watch you weave then breathe your story lines - or try to look like Bono? One of the two, anyway.
On to my particular gripe - it's those who stand in queues with other people. They aren't buying anything themselves or being of any use to the person they are with, just clogging the place up.
Que Admission
I admit I do sometimes stand in ques with others.
Kay Burley
on Sky News. I think it's the way she feels it's her job to make a facial expression in relation to an item of news or in an interview as if it's her prerogative to manage the audience's response to that news item like she's a conduit between "the public" and the story or the interviewee.
It's a trend in news these days I find and it bugs the hell out of me.
I'm in total agreement with you on the Halifax ads...
they are the work of the devil.
May I add...
All adverts for banks - stop grinning at me and trying to be friendly, you just want to steal my money you f**cker.
Nearly all stand up comedians. I have a real problem with them in that I find practically none of them funny.
People eating McDonalds hamburgers on buses. The stench...
Music industry hype. Oh, and movie industry hype. And art world hype.
The person who came in the shop I work in and asked me to change a one pence coin because it was showing signs of discoloration. Twat.
Middle class white kids who talk in patois.
The sheer ugliness of most town centres in Britain on a weekend. A hideous, drunken, violent atmosphere that makes me feel like emigrating.
Oh Yes!!
hose Halifax adverts are THE worst
All bank ads are annoying
Why are all adverts for banks irritating? It does seem like an odd way to go. I actually think the Lloyds ones are the worst at the moment and I'm actually considering shutting my 30-odd year old account with them because of it. I have to assume that bank advertising isn't aimed at me. Car insurance adverts are the same, I've always avoided the quotes from MoreThan because I don't want to fund the adverts and I'm not going to renew this year with Aviva (partly because of the adverts and partly because of the amount of (my) money they must have spent changing their name).
Horrible Halifax
I feel sorry for the poor souls who i presume volunteer to be chosen for the Halifax ads, do they realise how sad they look when the adverts are aired.
Horrible Halifax
I feel sorry for the poor souls who i presume volunteer to be chosen for the Halifax ads, do they realise how sad they look when the adverts are aired.
Town
Scarborough town centre on a Sat night is certainly a place to be avoided, it's a sad state of affairs.
Middle class white kids who talk in patois.
Is it 'cause I is wack?
Re. The discoloured penny
You should have suggested 'Cillit Bang'. I've seen it on the advert and Barry Scott swears (and shouts) by it. You can dip it in half way and give yourself a before and after look. Trust me... the long, cold winter nights fly by with this much excitement from small change.
A glass of coke will have the same effect
EDIT: I mean Coca-Cola, not bugle of course
EDITY-EDIT: I suspect any other brand of caffienated cola beverage will work just as well.
EDIT TO THE POWER OF 3: It almost certainly works with de-caffienated cola beverages as well.
Except
that it's questionable whether it does or not.
However, I did also hear that Cillit Bang is fantastic for getting those nasty plutonium stains out of stuff .
Confirmed here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/6078265/Nuclear-e...
Anything to do with Halifax is cringey for me
As they've just laid off 750 Irish employees in an economy with close to 13% of us on the buroo. The kicker? My GLW/FPO/Hitler's Sexy Granddaughter is one of the people who were binned and then 'enjoyed' the privilege of informing her team of 150 young people that the Halicaust had descended like a wolf on the fold . Meanwhile, rhe Irish ads with Colm 'The Douchenozzle's Douchenozzle' Meaney were every bit as annoying as the Howardcentric UK equivalent. Bastiches! I have more cringey stuff to post when I build up a head of steam sufficient to vent my spleen.
Banking and Telecom ads
Would agree on the bank adverts of late. Deeply skin-crawling.
Those and any mobile phone ad 'connecting people' to a twee, uke-strumming soundtrack. Look, just provide the network and take my money. Don't try and convince me you can create blue skies and make flowers grow.
And heavy beards on young men just out of their teens or in their early twenties. I like beards. I've had several. I buy a monthly magazine apparently devoted to them. But on these young (non) shavers they just don't sit right and seem a massive affectation.
Shave it off and tuck your shirt in.
Especially beards on
Italian rugby players. Don't they look a daft bunch? If they'd shaved them off before the game with England yesterday, the improved aerodynamics would have given them the extra 1% they needed to beat England.
twee uke-strumming soundtrack?
Would you, perchance, be referring to THIS steaming pile of pop cackerone?
The very same
Cackerone. I may be using that soon.
Skin tight rugby shirts
on 19 stone rugby players who are all upper body and spindly legs.
From the Tabloids
- Hard-working Brits
- Little mites
- Sex romp
Plus, the phrase 'baby boomers'.
Autotune & lyrics
I can't bear the sound of autotuned vocals, they actually hurt my ears.
Also... Confessional lyrics by amateur songwriters. There are so many good songs out there, why not sing those instead? Or make something up!
Misuse of the word "Disgusting"
As in "I fink it's disgustin'" when "it" plainly isn't.
The use of "a bit of" by radio presenters - eg "A bit of Coolio there", or worse still "A bit of Bohemian Rhapsody there" - amateurish and lazy.
Gristly bits in ham.
I could go on.
Polls
around 80-90 people living in a one-horse town are asked questions and suddenly "90% of the country" do not agree with something!
The Goal Celebration
Not so popular recently but still around.
Those wacky mimes and whatnot when a goal is scored. Robotics, collective knee-sliding etc.
Sets my gappy teeth on edge. Annoying, arrogant and unsporting. Nothing wrong with joyful high spirits which is completely exepected when you knock one in but to indulge in choreographed micky-taking isn't part of the game. To me, anyway.
The ¡¡Gooooooool!! anouncement
I'm hoping it hasn't carried into British commentary, but over here as soon as a goal is scored you get a minimum of 20 seconds of the word "gol" shouted at you, sometimes with an intake of breath to allow for a final flourish.
¡¿Why?!
wouldn't that time be better spent telling me what the defence did wrong, or the striker did right?
The complaints when...
the goalscorer is booked for taking off his shirt due to the elation experienced by this orgasmic moment.
They really don't have to take their shirts off you know, it is pointless and pathetic, Stanley Matthews and his cntemporaries didn't do it, just a brisk manly handshake for them (and a communal wank in the showers after).
How else...
would you get to see their latest shite tattoo?
'Your local...'
Boots Chemists with 'Your Local Pharmacy' signs. It is not *mine*, and it doesn't belong to anyone except the company.
File under corporate chumminess
Andrew Collins did an excellent column on this in the Word once.
Similarly,
I feel like casseroling my pelvis every time I hear a newsreader say "and that's after the news headlines in your area".
Cnuts.
Oh gawd... cycling shorts on men...
just ghastly.
I'd prefer it...
... if they kept them on, if you don't mind.
Guilty of this
In my defense I had a nasty minor accident involving a saddle a couple of years ago and padded shorts could have made a difference. So now I wear them. I know they look awful.
It's OK to waer them under something else
such as large shorts tracksuit etc. So that's your way forward.
Anyhoo, I think this is degenerating into a "stuff I don't like" thread.
Transparently unacceptable as they are cycle shorts hardly make anyone cringe do they?
Chris Evans...
welcoming me to another day on planet Earth.
Thanks Chris, I didn't realise it was your planet.
N-Dubz
The little orchestral noises the lass from N-Dubz makes on EVERY SINGLE TRACK, whilst moving her index fingers a la a conductor.
And I don’t know anyone who puts peaches on their cornflakes
either.
(I should add that I find obligatory HMHB references endearing and in no way cringeworthy)
Yes, but do you
collect all things Pierrot and tend to become slightly orgasmic at the thought of vampire lust?
Crrriinnge.
duplicate
...
another duplicate
the site has been playing silly buggers hasn't it?
hadn't occured to me before...
but HMHB had very effectively pegged the Buffy/True Blood (or "spinster telly" as Mrs SPT calls it) audience there hadn't they? 15/20 years ahead of their time.
*ducks*
dup
...
London buses
This dreaded announcement: "This bus is being held here to regulate the service" and make me late.
London tubes
“Please use all available doors and all available space inside the carriages.”
Yeah, thanks for the tip.
Oh, and drivers blowing into the mic before they speak to the 'customers'.
Tube station announcements
that embellish simple messages unnecessarily, i.e., "please mind the gap between the train and the platform" - to which I inwardly sneer "ooooh, THAT gap ! "
REGULAAAAAAATE!
Everytime I hear the word (not often admittedly) I have to whistle the little riff from the intro of this...
Baseball caps
Unless you're actually playing baseball at the time. If you are a baseball player, but you're not playing baseball at the time - you can bloody well remove it too. It's the official headgear of the confirmed wanker.
and if you do have to wear
and if you do have to wear one, brim to the front, please.
if wearing one when cycling in the summer...
... to avoid sunstroke (okay, rare in scotland but technically possible), and finding yourself going *downhill*, the terrible reverse baseball cap *must* be attempted otherwise the wind gets under the peak and wheechs it off your head, leaving you skidding to a halt 100+ metres further down, and your cap being churned up by following traffic ... note: submarine commanders during WWII always used to turn their caps round when looking through the periscope - it's a functional thing and quite cool, ahem
Yup
"There are fewer more distressing sights than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap."
For all Pete Doherty's faults (and there are many), he did give us this.
Bet he doesn't think that...
when he's waiting for his dealer.
Direct
"6Music Session Track, DIRECT FROM THE VAULTS OF THE BBC"
Bollocks! It's direct from the computer. And it's nearly always an off-key version of a well-loved track that they never play the original of.
So it's
fresh from the bottom of the BBC's 6music shaped barrel
the very same
none deeper
Banks
Surely the Nat West adverts are the worst! If I had an account with them I would close it on principle.
Musak
On an early morning shopping trip they were playing James bloody Blunt had to don the old ear buds lickerty-split.People who don't return shopping carts to the trolley parks so they slam into your car on windy days.Having to visit the local chemist first thing when all the local junkies are waiting for their methadone.Yeah I guess I can be snobbish too,but you have to draw the line somewhere.
"I was gutted"
Oh, no, I don't think you were.
Cliches heard at the busstop
see what I did there
too much information
back in the day
anyhoo
go, girl
yeah right
At the end of the day
At the end of the day
The three-quarter length trouser
on any male over the age of sixteen. It just looks terrible.
Crocs worn anywhere that isn't a beach.
And (I know I'm a pedant) when they say 'ten items or less' in a supermarket. It's got to be 'fewer'.
Kids Of Today
Kids listening to music on their mobile phones on public transport, without using headphones.
I suggested
to some'yoofs' who i used to work with (and had a nasty habit of walking in to a crowded works canteen and playing their music through their phones irrespective of the fact that no-one else wanted to hear it) that if they ever heard music how it was meant to be heard ie with bass, mid range etc their heads would 'literally' explode.('Literally' out of context is another one that grips my shitter!)
In my experience
I have found that the best way to stop such activity is to stand close to these youths and dance along.
I had to chuckle there
What a great idea! I can't see me doing it though...
Show them your elephant impression
Pull out the lining of your pockets for the ears. For the trunk...
N.B. Only works for male members of the massive.
The phrase 'every little helps'...
it doesn't make any bloody sense.
For Tesco shareholders...
... it makes perfect sense.
Footy fans again
Anybody over the age of twelve that has the name of their favourite player on the back of their replica shirt.(just owning a replica shirt is bad enough)
Braying sloaney voices.
Particularly drunk ones.
The Portsmouth accent. Most of you will have been spared this. It's a distorted estuarine slur of glottal stops and swearing, hooted from the back of the throat: "Oioi.. mush.. fucken' doosuserfaverwiwyer.." normally coming from some tracky-bottom-clad pimp-rolling scratter.
People who fail to conduct themselves with decorum on the golf-course. Iggy Pop agrees with me on that one.
The Portsmouth Accent is
Hampshire Cockney according to the Basingstoke born John Arlott, which I think is right, although I think you can hear it along the coast as far as Brighton.
anyfinkewsh
was the phrase that my poor American wife had to get a barman in Portsmouth to repeat 4 times, and she still failed to understand him.
Finally he separated the words and the sentence became:
Any thing else?
The voice of
a spotty-arsed 19 year old behind the counter at the Job Centre asking me "'Ave you dun yer' work diary? 'Cos if you ain't you won't get no benefit" Don't get me started. Stop me before I kill again
Many things.....
Personalised number plates
People who think who think that holidaying in Dubai is something to show off about.
People who say "Can I get...." when ordering a drink
People who say "I'm good"
Florence and the Machine
The name Megan sets my teeth on edge. No idea why. It just does.
The smell of Lynx in town centres on a Friday/Saturday night
All this cringeing is doing me no good at all.
Indentification plates
I think you're being a bit harsh with personalised number plates. Surely they're very handy as they generally announce the presence of a dickhead. I think it would be useful if people that have them are also made to wear them round their neck for identification at all times.
Personalised number plates
in the US are widely referred to as "Vanity Plates" and no one objects; not the owner nor the poor sod having to look at it (cultural gernalisations on a postcard please). However when I refer to them here as vanity plates (mostly around people who own a set) it is met with great umbrage and a tut-tutting "That's not what we call them HERE". Gee, sorry.
I don't object
as I think it [vanity plate] pretty much nails the concept in two words, the concept o course being
"I'm a bellend with more money than sense and I want you see see it"
Or worse still...
the bellends with no money and shit cars - but with a personal plate.
Overtaking
a rusty Talbot Solara with personalised plates about 25 years ago, my Dad chuckled and I noticed two of the "posh kids" from school in the back. Truly the sign of someone grasping the wrong end of life's stick
Although
I do like the plate seen on a Mercedes in Manchester, driven by large blonde lady. B1 MBO
No harm in them if they make you chuckle. Saw a record dealer with 45 RPM, a dog breeder friend had L4 PUP. I would love to have something like B3 ANY but hate people who display them illegally spaced to spell something i.e. the wanker solicitor with A 5UE U
Adverts
Those ones with Kris Marshall in. I can't be sure what they're advertising (I think it's BT), as I generally hit the mute button when they come on. The root cause is of course Kris "I can't spell my first name" Marshall's toxically ghastly role in Love, Actually. I've only ever been able to watch him in one thing, Murder City - and that was not unconnected to the fact that Amanda Donohoe was in it.
The overuse of the word
"ab-so-LUTE-ly!" and its evil twin "literally" are the fingernails on the blackboard of life.
Just one more...
In the mid '90s, NBC TV in the USA started calling their summer repeats "new to you" episodes instead of re-runs. Their stings ran with the tag line "If you haven't seen it before, then it's not a re-run".
This is just bad...
Absolutely
Quite agree. Can people not just say yes any more?
"The People's Post Office"
In fact, the people's anything at all, whether it be Princess Diana or a watering can.
It sounds really stupid and patronising.
Also, people clapping themselves on TV shows. It's very common nowadays.
People crying when they don't have anything genuine to cry about or people being forced to cry so we'll like them (see Gordon Brown, Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair, etc). I didn't come down in the last shower.
Well
Brown lost a child, Campbell's coming to terms with a lifetime of lying and Blair's got the blood of thousands on his hands. Reasonable grounds for tears, maybe?
I know that
But what I'm saying is, they're encouraged to cry for the cameras in order to win votes. It's manipulative and cynical. Gordon Brown would not choose to cry in public, I'm quite sure.
Equally cringe-inducing
Tony Blair walking out of No.10 holding, in a manly fashion, a mug of imaginary tea. Even more so when said mug has a picture of his family on it.WE CAN ALL SEE THROUGH IT, YOU POLTROON.
Tony at Sedgefield
I am sure I saw this on the telly. There was a piece to camera where the reporter was outside the Sedgefield HQ on the day he resigned as PM.
As the reporter talked, in the background you could clearly see some items being hastily thrust into the hands of the crowd of senior citizens outside.
These items were written placards saying things like "We'll Miss You Tony!" and "Good Luck Tony!" - all in handwritten scrawls, as if people had genuinely done this at home before they came.
What an arse.
Gordon/Piers
I simply couldn't watch the interview (having seen the pre-released clips) but have been surprised how many people have changed their "view of Gordon" as a result of the show. Don't they realise how manipulated they have been? It was refreshing I suppose that Gordon Brown actually answered a question put to him rather than merely repaeating his usual mantras whatever the question. The death of a child is tragic in any circumatance but to use this to get "people to like you" is vomit inducing.
"Give it up for...."
Give *what* up?
I'd rather
just give up.
Clapping
as a sign of respect.What's wrong with a minute's silence that has been the appropriate response for generations
Obvious
But even though she's supposed to be some kind of "sex symbol", for some reason Katie Price hs always made my flesh creep. And that was even before she became the überchav.
That's reminded me.
That dating show on ITV with Paddy McGuinness is awful isn't it? If I were the unfortunate man, I'd take one quick look around at my potential dates and just say 'no, thanks'.
Take me out )sigh)
The eldest lad tried to play the "it's so bad it's good" line on this.
He was informed he would be disinherited if he were to ever appear on it.
The Chris Evans/Wogan love-in
Anyone else noticed this ? Since before Wogan left he was telling us how good Evans was going to be in his place and there seemed to be no opportunity missed to publish photos of them together. Now Evans is in place its still going on. Photos in the Radio Times, Evans telling us how wonderful Wogan's new show is. Maybe each really does think the other is great but to me its all cynical PR to encourage Wogan's TOGS to accept the new boy. I'm just getting tired of it.
Richard Allinson
currently standing in for Ken Bruce. He emitted a false laugh during this morning's Pop Master that went on for an excruciating amount of time. His false laughs are legend but this one broke new ground. The man is genuinely unbearable.
That man defines the word 'cringe'.
I can't work out how he ever got a job as a DJ. Maybe thirty years ago yeah but now...he makes Alan Partridge seem like John Peel.
What is cringe?
This thread has turned into a list of things we find unbearable, or annoying. Reasonably well-broken ground for this site. But isn't the sensation of cringing something different? To do with a sense of shame felt on behalf of someone else?
There's
something about a false laugh - cringing at someone who has so little self awareness that they think that laugh will wash with the audience. I felt embarrassed for him even though he's a total twit.
it is, but isn't it also
that physical recoil when, for instance, one is made to wince involuntarily by the sound of fingernails down the blackboard - having one's teeth set on edge? I always thought that was cringing.
I was going to say that both having my fingernails cut and wearing woolly gloves makes me cringe.
Louise Redknapp and Myleene Klass and their kind
Someone keeps giving them presenting work. They are apparently good on TV. My arse. They are ignorant of just about everything I find. Their decorative qualities do not make up for their other inadequacies. Truly they make me cringe.
Here's something else cringeworthy:
The Brits and the idea that it is 'important'. It's a cringe-fest.
See here for more cringemaking sentiments:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8510971.stm
I tend to cringe
when I read back my comments after I've pressed submit.
Sigh
Me too.
I suspect the sensation must be greatly amplified if you say something in print.
There's an entire class/genre
of comedy rooted in cringe-making, and I just can't bear to watch it. The Office/Extras are prime offenders, George on Seinfeld etc, but it's all over the place these days. By way of extension to the Daveross comment, I think it stems from the thought that there but for the grace of god would I be sticking my foot and a fair portion of leg in my mouth. And if these shows actually use a line I've used at some point, ohh the recriminations and self flagellation. And not in a good way.
'Believe in better'
Every advertisement seems to need a cringeworthy strapline at the end, presumably (in someone's opinion) summing up the brand - Tesco 'every little helps', Sky 'believe in better' and Sunday Times 'for all that you are' etc etc. Why and what for, and I suppose, WTF.......?
Misguided attempts
at 'viral' marketing make me cringe especially ones that use non-actors (cf Halifax ad discussion at the top of this thread).
That Publicis vid
is a good case in point. Although I do feel disdain for some people in it, my overwhelming feeling is embarrassment on their behalf.
Not just that
but the curse Of AutoTune strikes again.
Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhh!
All the people in that video...
..should be rounded up, put into the back of an old van and then the van set alight and pushed off the edge of a cliff. Except the twat reading The S*n. He should be shot in the face straight away.
Forced accents...
... particularly on adverts. In particular - Louise Redknapp and those damn Thomas Cook adverts. The words are 'about it' my dear - not 'abah ih'
Ferne Cotton
and her ilk. I hate the fact that these people are used by cynical TV Oxbridge Tristrams to 'get down with ver kids (and then equally cynically spat out when they get any wrinkles or experience).
But what is cringemaking is their combination of arrogance and ignorance. Being told everything is 'absolutely brilliant' or 'amazing' by people who've only recently put away the spot cream sets my teeth on edge.
One of my bosses
Said 'chillax' to a client recently [she's pushing 40 and he must have been late 50's], i was mortified, or should that be OMG WTF
LOL
LMAO
.
Non-believers...
People who say they don't believe in overcooking vegetables, petrol additives or using sun cream. These things are not belief systems.
Specifically I am annoyed by people who claim not to believe in UFO's. They are things that fly that cannot be identified. What is there not to believe?
Don't get me started
Right, let's see:
Seeing racks of Hello-type magazines side by side and all trumpeting the same 'exclusive'.
The phrase 'It's all good'. No, it isn't.
Twilight and anybody or anything connected with it. Aaargh!
Hearing or seeing somebody apologise after expressing an opinion in the media. Stand by your convictions, dammit!
"Very unique". Something is either unique or it isn't.
Round our way (Ontario, Canada) we have wolves and coyotes in the neighbourhood. The wolves I can stand, but the sound of a yapping coyote is enough to send me to the funny farm.
Slightly Less Exciting
Round our way (North Wales) it's just the odd fox and piles and piles of dog crap.At least yours sounds more exciting.
Tiger
Am amazed that no one has mentioned Tiger's display on Friday as the definition of cringeworthy. I can't stand most forms of PR particulalry Max Clifford and his ilk but Fridays performance was horrendous.
A good example
of the many many things that I either don't care about or I know will make me cross/cringe so I simply avoid them (like all the links posted on the thread).
It mystifies me why people seek these things out/watch programmes entitled "The 20 Most Annoying People of the Year". What sort of wine and roses jobs do they have that when they get home at night or take a break on the computer they need to seek out things to make them cross? I get more than enough irritation at work, cheers.
God they make me baity!
Ah...
yes, well, as you were...
Tiger Woods is an American
His public statement about how sorry he was for shagging loads of women was the main item on the BBC 6pm news on Friday. WTF!!
If anything it should have been the silly smirking "...and finally" if there was any time left on the News At Ten. Bong.
Piers
Morgan.
Rod Liddle interview with PM in the Sunday Times today.
I didn't read it but I wonder what both of them thought of the other bloke.
If Piers went to a public school, he'd have been off to a non-starter, I suppose.
As mentioned elsewhere
Pop singers disowning decades of right-on posturing to trouser large sums of cash to perform for despots and crackpots
Yes, Sting. Cringeworthy indeed
"Sting Cringeworthy"
- has a ring to it, don't you think? :-)
Sounds like a character...
... from the Harry Potter novels.