THE BRITISH THREAD II

It is disputed Mac.

Ah, good ... spendi was wrong yet again, I see.

"Chuck" is pronounced "chook," yes?

Have you noticed lately, on British TV, this new crap pronunciation of words like book and look

Beuhk...leuhk...teuhk

Yech

It's usually smart young women, like Mariella Frostrup. Maybe Fi Glover, too.

Cilla Black started it I think.

Liverpool is "bewk"

This is more like a BBC virus.

That woman whatserface who did the Proms- she's the kind of woman who does it.
They seem to be mostly female. Maybe the Sunday morning, Radio 4 guy. I wouldn't put it past him either.
Trendy gits. Undecided about which trend to follow.

They just want to be "different" Mac.

I wonder how smorgsie pronounces those words. I wonder if she's ever undercewked a fluke somebody hewked because she mistewk the instructions in her cewkery bewk.

In both my rhyming dictionaries "book", "took" and "look" are not given in the "you" list as "duke" and "puke" are. They are all in the OO (good) list.

Do they say "gewd" for "good"?

Glad to see you're becoming Americanized, spendi.

We all are.

It's the cheap programmes our TV companies buy from your networks. And the movies.

Perhaps the ladies Mac castigates are resisting. Ms Frostrup looks like she resists a lot as well she might with a name like that.

Beuwk, ceuwk and leuwk are common where I live. Well in the ascendent.

Something like that. My phonetics cannot to justice to the full horror of it, but it sounds something like "gehd".

Have a gehd leuhk.

It's probably caused by trying to say the "oo" sound without moving the lips forward.
Maybe that would run the risk of disturbing the lippy and dislodging the lip gloss.

All bluestockings are like that.

Katie Derham

Have you noticed the invasion of TV by women. I don't know if I'm getting paranoid on behalf of young lads, I'm past it, it's too much trouble these days, but they are all over the place. In war zones, on Wall Street, fronting rugby and football highlights. They are everywhere and they all look the same from a bang-for bucks point of view.

I bet if you were sat in a restaurant with one for half-an-hour, assuming for the sake of argument you could take it for that long, and they swapped her for another while you were taking a piss, you wouldn't notice any difference and picking up the conversation where you left off would be no problem.

They are a bit like those women in the movies where aliens have landed and programmed them all. After all TV is a bit alien from an evolutionary perspective. I often wondered if Jesus took against money-changing, credit and futures speculation because he could forsee the eventual outcome. Our modern financial instruments are based on simple principles just as a lot of our other instruments are based on the wheel.

Another thing I've often wondered about is whether an attitude to Jesus affects how we read the Gospels. Somebody wanting to **** on Him might read them in a totally different way to someone who thinks He's the greatest and most heroic man who ever lived. He was capable of finding loopholes in the then current theology and using them to aggravate the authorities to the extent that they put their own lives at risk in order to lynch him. Imagine the Emperor coming to hear of such a crime on his watch and his favourite concubine is Mary Magdalene's sister.

I don't know much about religious matters, but on TV its either an attractive woman or an older man, in the main.
I'm not complaining too much. That Lucy who does the weather for Sky News is the stuff of dreams. When she's finished, I can never remember what she's been talking about.
Or you could have Jonathan Dimbleby or Adrian Chiles.

More women on sports programmes, to be sure, but I actually think they do a good job. Not the ones on Sky, of course, but Gabby Logan, Hazel Irvine, and the ones you never get to learn the names of, at the side of the pitch.

Ryder Cup....do any women do golf commentary? I can't think of any. Except Hazel. Somebody has to make the tea and cut the crusts off the sandwiches, for when the men get in.

But you should know Mac that "the stuff of dreams" is the precise problem. Every one of them is the stuff of somebody's dreams. Angela Rippon used to get letters from viewers about how much they enjoyed a wank when she was reading the news. It went to her head and they had to censor her mail for Come Dancing.

I assume Lucy's forecasts are too short although I have felt a mild arousal when she strides back and forth against a backdrop of a map of the British Isles with arrows on it in her high heels, black stockings and tight skirt.

That economics guru with the black trousers doesn't do a thing for me. But Kate Burley floating towards the camera gusset first on the shoulders of her pedestal with her legs open did my head in. And Anna Bottie. What can one say?

Have you seen Katie Couric, who is the anchor and managing editor of CBS News. The ones they have on Fox, whose names I've not caught up with, prove that the right-wing bias it is supposed to have is a load of cobblers and just a trick to divert attention and assist in the general drift. A drift is a dynamic process. It isn't stationary while you're thinking about it. Bill O'Reilly is a traitor. An undercover agent. A bloody quisling.

Check out Lydon's buttered toast ad Mac.

But you should know Mac that "the stuff of dreams" is the precise problem. Every one of them is the stuff of somebody's dreams. Angela Rippon used to get letters from viewers about how much they enjoyed a wank when she was reading the news. It went to her head and they had to censor her mail for Come Dancing.

I assume Lucy's forecasts are too short although I have felt a mild arousal when she strides back and forth against a backdrop of a map of the British Isles purposefully with arrows on it in her high heels, black stockings and tight skirt.

That economics guru with the black trousers doesn't do a thing for me. But Kate Burley floating towards the camera gusset first on the shoulders of her pedestal with her legs open did my head in. And Anna Bottie. What can one say?

Have you seen Katie Couric, who is the anchor and managing editor of CBS News. The ones they have on Fox, whose names I've not caught up with, prove that the right-wing bias it is supposed to have is a load of cobblers and just a trick to divert attention and assist in the general drift. A drift is a dynamic process. It isn't stationary while you're thinking about it. Bill O'Reilly is a traitor. An undercover agent. A bloody quisling.

Check out Lydon's buttered toast ad Mac.

Debating correct pronounciation is a strange topic in a land where experts can help police by pin pointing what village an accent came from.....

Locusts in Australia. They were all over Sky this morning.

So the Aussies have had severe drought, fires, and floods in the last short number of years. And Kylie Minogue's had breast cancer. And now they've had a good growing season, the locusts are going to eat it all up.

So maybe Captain Cook was wrong, and Australia is not fit for human habitation after all.

Anybody can do it Io if they study the matter. It isn't the cops. The cops got it off those who study the subject. I have two books on it and neither are recent publications. I can do it amateurishly an the local level.

Shape of heads too.

There's nothing strange about what Mac brought up. The strange thing is bringing it up and then backing off as soon as I dig a little deeper. I don't think any of the females Mac mentioned come from the SE of England.

Mac's up for things like "BBC virus" , "lippy", "lipgloss", and other soon forgotten jibes but not for what to do about it. I think he's under the cosh himself.

The big joke is that I'm the misogynist and I'm in to bat for the vast majority of ordinary women who don't work in Media and who are being delivered, like lambs to the slaughter, into the hands of this small minority of female body fascists, casting couch fodder originally, who will wring their tender little necks.

In my view such female control of media is the direct and only cause of the financial crisis and this ridiculous coalition we are stuck with.

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. The party being the broad mass of ordinary women. Men can take care of themselves.

Oh--what heresy eh? Cameron and Clegg are under the cosh too.

The aboriginal population of Australia had lived in balance with their environment for 25,000 years Mac. At least. Do you mean by "human" western Europeans? The aborigine courtship and marriage customs are so complex that our best anthropologists are unable to explain them.

You caught me out in a loose statement there, Spendy. I was only trying to pull Ionus' chain.

I'm so ashamed.