To be irritated by people using the terms The Grauniad and The Daily Fail?

[notanumber]

I am, I know I am.

But it's like telling a knock knock joke and expecting to win a Perrier Comedy Award.

It's not witty or clever or knowing. It might have been twenty years ago when Private Eye or whoever thought it up, but now it's just really really lame.

You can just tell that the person using it is thinking, "ah, I'm so erudite and razer-sharp - I'm not taken in by the media, no not me! But I also am able to indicate this with a light touch of humour which only serves to demonstrate that my viewpoint is far superior to anyone elses"

Twats.

That is all.

[Heated]

Am sending NotaNumber bryan for Xmas

(bet 'Xmas' sends her over the edge )

[RustyBat]

Ponders - if the typesetters were carp, you have to expect mistakes - typesetting is much too difficult when you have fins...

[AvrilH]

YANBU - sniffs at meedja types' jargon

[notanumber]

Oh Avril...

You started off really really well (I like it when people agree that IANBU) and then you had to go and ruin it all didn't you?

You had to say 'meedja' even though you knew it would PISS ME RIGHT OFF.

Actually, it was quite clever and subtle, now I come to think of it. Lulling me into a false sense of security, then POW!

But still. , Avril. .

[ErikaMaye]

Would you feel better if I hugged you, hun?

[saintmaybe]

My friend always asks if I still read The Cardigan, which I quite like!

[notanumber]

Actually... Yes, Erika. Yes I would.

[MorrisZapp]

Sam Broon! as we used to say at school. Nicknames for papers (Currant Bun, Daily Ranger, Torygraph, Grauniad, Indie etc) are just that - nicknames.

I use all of them and the last thing I expect is a laugh or for anybody to think I'm uniquely informed or superior.

They're just a chatty way of referring to papers in casual conversation.

[nula]

can someone explain Grauniad to me?
I don't get the joke

[notanumber]

The Cardigan?

But that's just surreal!

No, wait.

Is it meant to be a "oooh you liberal Guardian readers with your rescue-home mongrel dogs and your Save Nelson Mandela posters and your hand-knitted by Guatamalan peasants cardigan" reference?

In which case, She can FUCK RIGHT OFF because it's NOT WITTY it's just LAME.

[ErikaMaye]

Oh. Right. Umm...

hem hem



I think I need a copy of that emotion too when it arrives.

[MorrisZapp]

It's a comment on their reputation for typos back in the day.

I'm a Guardian reader myself and often call it the Grauniad on here - wouldn't use it out loud though.

It's not meant to be hilarious, it's just a nickname.

[notanumber]

Ha! Go on Erika, off you run!

Now we see how fucking sincere all your HUGS and HUNS are, don't we!

[ErikaMaye]

Don't shake your fist at the pregnant woman in the wheelchair - you WILL get run over.

[TspookyChasm]

I used to work with someone who used to say Gatport Airwick.

It ingrained itself into my mind and now I always stumble on it if I try and say it the right way now thanks to him. Makes me sound a right idiot.

[notanumber]

It's not just a pigging nickname Morris.

It's the difference between having the nickname "Smithy" and having the the nickname "Dionysus".

The name is designed to indicate your cultured yet down-to-earth outlook.

[nula]

thanks MZ

[notanumber]

TspookyChasm, yes. I can see that it would make you sound like a right idiot.

Did his habit of saying "nice weather - if you're a duck!" rub off on you too?

[CristinaTheAstonishing]

I say Grauniad and Torygraph, sometimes I call them by their proper names. Doesn't even depend on mood or anything, just alternatives in use for so long that they've become interchangable.

So you turn blue with rage at meedja, ishoos, acherly etc? You must be having a tough time on here then Are smilies allowed? Or should I try and fill it with something that is funny?

You are over-analysing.

[BelaLugosiNoir]

I used the 'G' word on a thread yesterday and as a term of affection, not affectation. It was not an attempt to be witty or clever.
I do not quote python sketches as they are misogynists gits IMO.

YABU frankly compared to txt speak which is tremendously annoying

[notanumber]

It's ok Cristina, smiles are allowed.

Not EXCESSIVE smiles, though. That's just twatty.

[JesusChristOtterStar]

no one would seriously think it is clever.....

what's the problem??

( althoughi do find 'cunting' hideously UNfunny but thats a whole 'nother thread)

[PrincessFiorimonde]

Ponders - I love the idea of Guardian being a load of carp.

BetaDad (you may name change but you can't hide)- 'the irony is that the TORYGRAPH is increasingly becoming known as Labourgraph as it increasingly supported the Labour party in recent years.

It lost a lot of readers as a result.'

Are you seriously off your head?

Telegraph is still, and always will be, a Tory paper, and I have NEVER heard anyone refer to it as 'Labourgraph'; I challenge you to find a reference to that.

(Quite prepared to be found wrong here!)

I own up to vested interests here - I read both the Guardian and the Telegraph as I believe this gives me a balanced view. (I used to read the Mirror as well, just in order to link with popular culture, but 3 papers a day is just ridiculous.)

[saintmaybe]

notanumber I'm quite scared of you tonight

[ABatDead]

PrincessFiorimonde - its definitley not Tory enough now for me but then again if you cut me in half I have 'Thatcher' written in blue all the way through .