WTF is a "rocket-surgeon"?
BBC iPlayer - Women's Ski Halfpipe Final - Marie Martinod's run, at about 2 hours 44 minutes in.
And the scores for Commentator Competence are in - Artistic Impression: 100.00 Technical Merit: 0.00.
Archive for the 'On the box' Category
Noun-to-verb tolerance
I'm learning to live with The Beeb's fervent uptake of sport-verbs derived from sport-nouns. During previous Olympic Games broadcasts I used to baulk at "medalling"*, but during the current PyeongChang (IOC) / Pyeong Chang (BBC iPlayer) / Pyeongchang (BBC websites) broadcasts I've begrudgingly accepted not only "medalling" but also "podiuming"* as tolerable, even though they are both ugly words which I'd never use except in angst. After all, do we hill-walkers not use the words "summiting"* and "backpacking"* without fear of reproach?
But I draw the line at absolute bollocks such as "Whoppertron!"*, another word foisted on the world by those whose skis seem to outnumber their I.Q.. As far as I can determine, the word was introduced to the Beeb's audience by a pundit at the Sochi games. Today it was Ilia Burov's third round Aerials display that invoked it.
And as for the Beeb's curling pundit who was of the opinion that the Mixed Doubles is "a young man's sport", or something similar, well, she should be ashamed of herself. I had to leave the room to rant alone.
The world's finest winter athletes deserve better.
Anyway, I'm off to the kitchen to do some "kettling"* and "chairing"* while "laptopping"*. Luckily, we don't have a dog.
* correct spelling/punctuation unverifiable
How do you like your… stake?
It's going from bad to worse at the Beeb:
Well done!
Auntie has a dicky ticker
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous grammar
Or to take arms against a sea of illiterates...
Here's evidence that The Beeb uses your licence fee to pay infant-school kids to input data - this sample of their output is from today's BBC News:
That was at 14:42. They must have been kept back after school to do it again - by 16:36 they'd posted a different yet still flawed version:
Random Acts
For those who missed it on the telly, here are four minutes of brilliance:
The Boys from Ipanema
Classic "lift music" scene:
OK, so they're not as good-looking as the real Girl from Ipanema,
but they're so much better than this.
