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Post by Cartman on May 3, 2017 12:12:00 GMT
Football Stadium naming rights. Something else there is no pit of hell deep enough for. They are just so awful they make me want to heave, every time I watch Sky Sports on Saturdays and they report on, say, Bournemouth and call it "The Vitality Stadium" I just shout "ITS BLOODY DEAN COURT" back at the telly.
These awful commercial names are a symptom of the game totally selling out, if a club was offered enough money to call their ground "The pile of dog muck superdome" or something I am sure they would.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 3, 2017 13:45:13 GMT
Ridiculous the way stadiums adopted the name of their sponsor, won't be long before teams do it- 'Virgin Manchester United' vs 'Fly Emirates Arsenal'. Cricket & rugby has been dumbed down to a sad degree, 'Wigan Warriors', 'Lancashire Lightning'. Go to a one day cricket match today & it's more like a fun fair. The commentary & presentation of sport is as bad. What's depressing is that there's no going back to how things were so it'll only get worse. I'm not a particularly nationalistic person but there's a more disturbing aspect to this corporatism, that is the erosion of our national character, the very things that give our towns & cities & the people in them meaning & identity. Once that is lost, what's left? Call me old fashioned but I think a town or city's football team ought to represent its town or city & the people in it, that also means local players ( 1 or 2 overseas players is more than enough ) & affordable ticket prices.
TV shows do it as well, 'Coronation Street sponsored by Compare The Meerkat'.
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Room 101
May 3, 2017 15:03:27 GMT
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Post by Dirty Epic on May 3, 2017 15:03:27 GMT
Where do we start...
Paddy McGuinness. Cant stand him, possibly the most annoying person on TV
Simon Cowell. Inflicted The X Factor, and the unbelievably shite Robson and Jerome on us, which brings us to..
Robson Green. Cant put my finger on it, but I just don't like him, comes across as false somehow
Katherine Jenkins. Ditto with Robson Green, again, comes across as false and a sort of establishment lackey, turned up at Thatcher's funeral.
Agree on Ken Dodd, never found him funny at all
Jim Davidson. Fat, unfunny, racist, cockney Tory t***t
Jimmy Tarbuck. Fat, unfunny, golfing, scouse Tory t**t
Kelvin McKenzie. Just no pit of hell deep enough for this one
Ditto Katie Hopkins
Cheryl what ever she's called now Cole. Just annoys me
Sorry if anyone on here likes it but Dr Who. I have always thought it is utter drivel.
On the topic of the use of language. The expression "train station" It drives me insane, I HATE it. ITS A RAILWAY STATION!!!!!!!
There will be more, leave it with...
Like these choices Cartman.
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Post by Cartman on May 3, 2017 15:24:13 GMT
And theres more...
The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express. Utter unadulterated rubbish, especially the Daily Mail. The only difference between it and Der Sturmer is that one of them was written in German.
In similar vein, The Guardian. Pretentious crap in danger of disappearing up its own a**e
On Sky sports when talking about a club's league records and they just talk about it in "Premier League history" as if football didn't exist before 1992
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 3, 2017 16:59:21 GMT
Funnily enough the show 'Room 101' has always irritated me, in George Orwell's novel '1984' Room 101 contains a person's greatest fear, in Winston Smith's case it is rats. It doesn't contain things like junk mail & stickers on fruit. 'Big Brother' is another, Big Brother is not someone who spies on reality show stars arguing & making fools of themselves, he is the figurehead of a totalitarian state.
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Post by Steve Austin on May 3, 2017 17:47:44 GMT
Where do we start...
Paddy McGuinness. Cant stand him, possibly the most annoying person on TV
Simon Cowell. Inflicted The X Factor, and the unbelievably shite Robson and Jerome on us, which brings us to..
Robson Green. Cant put my finger on it, but I just don't like him, comes across as false somehow
Katherine Jenkins. Ditto with Robson Green, again, comes across as false and a sort of establishment lackey, turned up at Thatcher's funeral.
Agree on Ken Dodd, never found him funny at all
Jim Davidson. Fat, unfunny, racist, cockney Tory t***t
Jimmy Tarbuck. Fat, unfunny, golfing, scouse Tory t**t
Kelvin McKenzie. Just no pit of hell deep enough for this one
Ditto Katie Hopkins
Cheryl what ever she's called now Cole. Just annoys me
Sorry if anyone on here likes it but Dr Who. I have always thought it is utter drivel.
On the topic of the use of language. The expression "train station" It drives me insane, I HATE it. ITS A RAILWAY STATION!!!!!!!
There will be more, leave it with...
Feel better now Cartman?
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Post by Steve Austin on May 3, 2017 17:51:24 GMT
On Sky sports when talking about a club's league records and they just talk about it in "Premier League history" as if football didn't exist before 1992
This one really annoys me, I'm really p***ed off just thinking about it.
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Post by Charles Bronson on May 3, 2017 19:10:01 GMT
And theres more...
The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express. Utter unadulterated rubbish, especially the Daily Mail. The only difference between it and Der Sturmer is that one of them was written in German.
In similar vein, The Guardian. Pretentious crap in danger of disappearing up its own a**e
On Sky sports when talking about a club's league records and they just talk about it in "Premier League history" as if football didn't exist before 1992
I read newspapers from about the age of fifteen, but I stopped buying them about seven years ago. What finally made me stop getting them was mainly the hypocracy they practice on certain subjects I won't mention. I subscribe to Private Eye now. They have a section called Street Of Shame which has loads of info on the press. One thing though, how can it be that the Murdoch corporation still has so much power in this country after everything they've done. Charles.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on May 3, 2017 21:47:35 GMT
I wonder what first attracted Jerry Hall to 86 year old Murdoch, '96th richest person in the World' according to wikipedia?
I don't think I've ever seen a newspaper person who isn't obnoxious, but as they have more power & control than the average politician they're fireproof. Look at Piers Morgan, on tv every morning pontificating & judging others after everything he's been involved in.
Another person whose rise to fame ought to be inexplicable is Gordon Ramsay. I remember the first time he ever appeared on tv, it was on an ITV undercover documentary on bullying in certain high end restaurant kitchens & Ramsay was shown verbally & physically abusing staff. There was nothing funny about it all yet he managed to turn this unacceptable behaviour into a tv career. The bullying aside, I still don't understand what is entertaining or worthwhile about swearing constantly & slagging people off. I remember when chefs on tv were nice people like Delia Smith & Ken Hom, now they're mostly nasty, sarcastic, superior gits who delight in making people suffer. Why did cooking become a blood sport?
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Post by Steve Austin on May 4, 2017 8:01:59 GMT
On the subject of cooking programmes, why so many? I cannot stand the ponciness of them, especially the "critics" who judge the food. Self righteous, self opinionated, self obsessed. Let's see what you can do before you start slagging someone off who has spent hours making food for you to pontificate on. Besides, it's all down to your taste, one man's meat is another man's poison. It all comes out brown anyway
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