Hunkering on their haunches
Wednesday 29 October 2008 at 13:41 UTC
Are you sick and tired yet of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, and the massive public outrage stoked by bored BBC journalists looking to give their managers a good kicking? Me too. Or maybe you are a bemused foreign observer struggling to comprehend the scandal currently gripping the nations of Britain.
However, on the plus side, the affair has given our more linguistically-creative hacks a perfect excuse to return the verb “hunker” to popular usage. I can just imagine Mr Woss a hunkering on his haunches in his multi-million pound house, while tradesmen are filmed by the world’s premier TV news bulletins calling to deliver supplies of fine foods and wines. Even if the now-suspended miscreants are sacked following the BBC’s rigourous investigation, they will no doubt be snapped up by one of the commercial channels, and continue to make a fortune.
So let’s have more hunkering, I say. And combine this with the public flogging of Messrs Ross and Brand, who I, along with millions of my fellow citizens, detest with a vengeance. So much so that we watch and listen to the wapscallions’ output every week. After all, we have to keep up with all the filth in our popular culture in order to combat it. It’s only British.
Now what shall I complain about tomorrow?
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Wednesday 29 October 2008 at 13:57 UTC
But Georgina Baillie’s stock is soaring…
“Voluptua of the Satanic Sluts”
Wednesday 29 October 2008 at 20:28 UTC
He should have done the decent thing and marry the girl!
Only joking. Sickening really, I mean the whole Daily Mail band wagon. And Gordon Brown missing on a golden opportunity to shut up.
Thursday 30 October 2008 at 09:49 UTC
Francis,
I may be boring, but I’m never bored.
Thursday 30 October 2008 at 10:31 UTC
Never boring, dear Boyo.
Given the quality of some of the writing on the BBC News website, my comment about bored BBC journalists stands. It’s 24 hour rolling news with bloggy bits (spEak You’re bRanes).
Thursday 30 October 2008 at 12:17 UTC
The Daily Mail webpage is well worth a look.
Piers Morgan is an Ayatollah leading the class war, Mark Thompson is held as “a moral man in an amoral body”, great photos of Georgina and a recording of the offending radio program in full!
Thursday 30 October 2008 at 12:36 UTC
Bring me the head of Jonathan Ross! Nothing less will sate the bloodlust of the British people (ignoring, of course, the ignorant youth, whose views on this grave matter should be disregarded entirely).
Friday 31 October 2008 at 11:11 UTC
Now I know it’s standard practice for back-room executives to fall on their swords following scandals affecting their organisations, but the defenestration of Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas is a bit much. By many accounts a popular manager at the Beeb, Douglas has lost her job while Jonathan Ross gets a 12-week suspension. No doubt there’ll be a big party as his gaff tonight.
Bring us the head of light entertainment!
Saturday 1 November 2008 at 20:38 UTC
We had more than an hour’s worth of drivelling nonsense spread over every quarter-past-eight section of the Today programme every day last week. All the things that the world has been given to in the past week and all they could prattle on and on about what two overpaid nits making arses of themselves with a telephone prank.
Sigh…