BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Is it me, or is that really creepy rather than 'cute'?

 

[PurplePenguin]

Should I have included an emoji to show I was being facetious?

No.

 

[briantrumpet]

No.

Should I be less deadpan then? Can you advise?

 

[First Aspect]

Should I be less deadpan then? Can you advise?

Deadpan and humourless are different things.

 

[Psamathe]

I don't think Stayt has much between his ears. Private school, then Birmingham Polytechnic. Nothing against polytechnics other than good old snobbery, but if you have all of the advantages of private schooling and are trying to get into a course as highly competitive as journalism isn't, this is quite the achievement.

Whilst I've never seen that particular person I suspect he is similar to some others in the news media. I think for some in the field there is a lot of confusion (in their own minds) between presenter, journalist, reporter, correspondent, etc.. Some are just presenters until their egos get in the way and they consider themselves "reporters" and their program directors fail to force their feet back in reality ... and we get interviewees with major questions to answer getting away without answering because a presenter regards him/herself beyond their capability.

I frequently notice one on C4 News.

 

[briantrumpet]

Deadpan and humourless are different things.

Maybe, but the best deadpan (IMHO) should give the impression of no sense of humour, unless you are in on the joke & context. It works best with people who know you, I think. A public example would be Philomena Cunk, I guess. It's funniest (I think) when you know her character well.

At the risk of 'explaining' my 'joke', people who realise I'm a) not always serious; b) not in favour of racists such as Cofnas; c) ambivalent about pedantry (but are aware of my interest in language usage) might have picked up that my comment about 'whom' was deliberately not mentioning the racism, for 'comedic' effect. And part of the fun is not signalling it with an emoji.

But hey, maybe I just haven't got a sense of humour. Who knows?

 

[briantrumpet]

I guess that if that's someone's name... (and it is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keisha_Lance_Bottoms)

 

[briantrumpet]

I'd been wondering why Bristol's profile is so high

 

[Pblakeney]

I'd been wondering why Bristol's profile is so high

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Did they just skip Glasgow?
I keep hearing it is the drug capital of Europe.

 

[First Aspect]

Maybe, but the best deadpan (IMHO) should give the impression of no sense of humour, unless you are in on the joke & context. It works best with people who know you, I think. A public example would be Philomena Cunk, I guess. It's funniest (I think) when you know her character well.

At the risk of 'explaining' my 'joke', people who realise I'm a) not always serious; b) not in favour of racists such as Cofnas; c) ambivalent about pedantry (but are aware of my interest in language usage) might have picked up that my comment about 'whom' was deliberately not mentioning the racism, for 'comedic' effect. And part of the fun is not signalling it with an emoji.

But hey, maybe I just haven't got a sense of humour. Who knows?

You have just explained your own joke.

 

[First Aspect]

Did they just skip Glasgow?
I keep hearing it is the drug capital of Europe.

They'd need a logarithmic x axis.

 

[briantrumpet]

You have just explained your own joke.

Well, it was either that or an emoji, and I'd been told that the latter was unacceptable.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Well, it was either that or an emoji, and I'd been told that the latter was unacceptable.

There was a third option which you don't seem to have explored, but it's ok, I know maintaining the facade of ambivalence when it comes to pedantry is challenging.

 

[briantrumpet]

There was a third option which you don't seem to have explored, but it's ok, I know maintaining the facade of ambivalence when it comes to pedantry is challenging.

You'll have to explain the third option. If it's that the pedantry blinded me to the racism, then you don't need to explain that, as the pendantry was the 'joke'.

 

[briantrumpet]

There was a third option which you don't seem to have explored, but it's ok, I know maintaining the facade of ambivalence when it comes to pedantry is challenging.

I suppose a third option is that you think I'm an unrepentant pedant with no sense of humour.