Its a Funny Old World

[Phil D. Rolls]

I have posted about this before. The way that broadcasters make trite remarks like "it's a chilly old day", or "it's a windy old night". God knows why, but they want to sound like the sort of people who have been wrapped up in cotton by their mummy's and sent out to play.

I realised I am a moaning old sod and it is just words, but I really think a line was crossed on Reporting Scotland tonight:

Merchant School Bint (for it is she): Well Jackie, the Norovirus is a tough old virus.

FFS it kills people and shuts hospitals. Where is it all going to end?

"Oh that Holocaust it was a tricky old time if you were a Jew, now here's some pictures of little boys in striped pyjamas".

[(((Fergus)))]

I have posted about this before. The way that broadcasters make trite remarks like "it's a chilly old day", or "it's a windy old night". God knows why, but they want to sound like the sort of people who have been wrapped up in cotton by their mummy's and sent out to play.

I realised I am a moaning old sod and it is just words, but I really think a line was crossed on Reporting Scotland tonight:

Merchant School Bint (for it is she): Well Jackie, the Norovirus is a tough old virus.

FFS it kills people and shuts hospitals. Where is it all going to end?

"Oh that Holocaust it was a tricky old time if you were a Jew, now here's some pictures of little boys in striped pyjamas".

Ahem :greengrin

[heretoday]

Don't get me started! Sometimes I think the Reporting Scotland presenters think they are talking to a bunch of 8 year olds.

The weather report is a case in point. What is it about the weather that prompts this roguish attitude on the part of TV hacks?

"Ho Ho what have you in store for us this weekend, Gail?" says Jackie, turning with a twisted leer to Gail who tries her best to be roguish in return and fails because she has managed to retain the sense she was born with.

What about the reporter whose arms and hands were designed by Gerry Anderson of Fireball XL5 fame? He gestures traffic cop style, his hands chopping the air constantly.

I'm a moaning old sod too!

[Hibbyradge]

All carefully planned and executed for our viewing pleasure.

Yes, I wish they were too.

[steakbake]

I like Judith Ralston off the weather. She's got the kind of gaze that would melt the ice off a witch's tit. Or something like that.

[GlesgaeHibby]

I like Judith Ralston off the weather. She's got the kind of gaze that would melt the ice off a witch's tit. Or something like that.

She is one scary woman.

[HibeeB]

She is one scary woman.


She scares me stiff!!!!!!!!!

I like her :agree:

[Phil D. Rolls]

I like Judith Ralston off the weather. She's got the kind of gaze that would melt the ice off a witch's tit. Or something like that.

She's a sexy old thing. :greengrin

[heretoday]

She is quite scary, like a strict geography teacher.....ahem. :wink:

Girl Next Door Gail's the one though. She's great.

Do you remember Sally McNair used to be Arthur Montford's sidekick on Scotsport many moons ago? Eat your heart out Hazel Irvine!