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I ain't got nothing to say

posted 15.11.11 at 1:53am 345 comments

The English language, It's a beautiful thing. But so ridiculously complicated. At one end we have the Queen, almost over pronouncing each and every word, and at the other we have an almost endless number of colloquialisms that make, in some cases, the language almost impossible to understand. I'm quite happily sat somewhere in the middle, and this, in my mind, is qualification enough to become part of the Grammer Police.

Some of these dialects date back hundreds of years, sme arnt tht old. It's all very well and good being able to condense a page of writing down by turning it to text type, but if you if you can't speak and read correct English then what hope do you have?

There is, of course, the whole your/ you're/ their/ they're/ there problem. How can it be so hard to use the correct word in a sentence? I know what you're thinking right now, that this is a common problem amongst the less educated. All I will say to that is, if I had £1 for every time I saw "your silly" or "their coming now" or similar over the last 2 and a half years, I'd be swimming in it.

Dementors, giraffes and more

posted 03.11.11 at 8:27pm 1390 comments

As the title suggests, today's show (the 3rd November, not the 2nd November as I thought...) was one of the most surreal ones I've ever experienced. It all kicked off with myself being convinced it was the 2nd, until being corrected almost instantly, so thanks to eagle eared listeners for spotting that!

Within ten minutes of playing 'Humdingers,' Gurps Rai guessed the answer = 'Kids' by MGMT, and won himself four free coffees from Mooch! Tune in next week for your opportunity to win another four vouchers!

It was just before nine o'clock that the show itself moved into the realms of the bizarre, as I got a text in about giraffes affecting the road conditions. But, as always, I give a shout out to anyone, so ended up playing the News jingle and read out the peculiar phrase live on air, so check out the podcast for that!

Matthew Gundry joined me, as per usual, at just after nine to tune if for what was undoubtedly radio history. Many of you will know that the weekly Quidditch game occurs on the Downs every Wednesday, and I was down there to make amends for the Quidditch-bashing that happened last week. That was when I experienced the most surreal moment of my life to date: