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January 22, 2006
Wog. Spastic. Queer. Nigger. Dwarf. Cripple. Fatty. Gimp. Paki. Mick. Mong. Poof. Coon. Gyppo.
Yes, that’s the beginning of today’s Clarkson. The end: I’ll leave you with the best example I know
of this nonsense. It was a rack of papers in a hotel foyer over which
there was a sign: “Newspapers for your reading pleasure”. All they had left was The Guardian. So it wasn’t even technically correct.
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Comments
Clarkson the new Nacy Mitford? Who'd have guessed it?
Posted by: yellerKat | Jan 22, 2006 11:10:45 AM
yK: from U-turns to non-U.
Posted by: dearieme | Jan 23, 2006 2:32:48 AM
Clarkson is bang on. The abuse of reflexive pronouns is vomit-inducing. It was a sad day when they abolished horse-whipping for that sort of thing.
Posted by: David Gillies | Jan 23, 2006 3:14:17 AM
And I thought it was just me that found the use of the word "beverage" and the finishing of questions with the words "at all?" (as in "do you have a loyalty card at all?) hugely irritating.
Posted by: HJHJ | Jan 23, 2006 2:18:54 PM
What gets my goat is "perusal".
"I enclose my C.V for your perusal."
Hand me a bucket per-lease.
Posted by: jared | Feb 28, 2006 9:00:19 AM
