The Good, The Bad, And The Ridiculous

Posted By on 10th January 2015

There’s no better time than the beginning of a new year for blowing off the cobwebs and getting a few things off your chest, so here goes.

Last Wednesday morning I set off early to do my weekly shop. The Xmas holidays have played havoc with my normal routine (bah humbug) and I haven’t done a ‘normal shop’ in about 3 weeks.

The sun was shining, the sky was blue, the scenery was beautiful. What could possibly spoil such a perfect morning?

I’ll tell you what, Morrisons selling Easter eggs. It’s January for God’s sake. And have you seen the price of a Cadbury’s cream egg this year? 60p!! That was 12 shillings when I was growing up, for a small chocolate egg!!

Speaking of things that are different from 50 years ago, what has happened to spoken language?

Why do people, usually those being interviewed on TV, start every sentence with ‘so’ or ‘look’. Politicians are the worst culprits, though by no means exclusively.

Also, why do TV interviewers use the phrase ‘in terms of’ and ‘give us a sense of’ over and over again when asking a question, and don’t even get me started on why ‘stupid’ suddenly has an ‘h’ in it.

Here’s another thing. Why do footballers have ridiculous hairstyles? Don’t they realise how stupid they look? Have they not learnt the lessons from history?

I’ll give them a clue. Two words.

1980’s mullet.

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