milky_26 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Why do the media, mainly news media and I use media in the loosest sense all use the same buzzwords for certain types of story. Things like if it is a sex story it is always a romp, if a football club signs a new player it is a swoop etc. Is there no originality or pride taken in people's writing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi must stay Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Mental health another one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 It's especially bad when it comes to headlines. And since the advent of social media and 24 hour news, they have to be almost "clickbait" every single time just to get noticed in the soupy fog of the internet. "LOCALS SEETHE AT ROADWORKS" But when you read it, nobody is that bothered "LOCALS IN STICHES AT HILARIOUS SHOP SIGN" But when you read it, it's shan patter that only an imbecile would find amusing It doesn't help that all the experienced, proper journalists have quit or retired and most newspapers are now staffed by weans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 (edited) 52 minutes ago, milky_26 said: Why do the media, mainly news media and I use media in the loosest sense all use the same buzzwords for certain types of story. Things like if it is a sex story it is always a romp, if a football club signs a new player it is a swoop etc. Is there no originality or pride taken in people's writing? Was just thinking about this yesterday. Nathanial Atkinson “Jetted” into Edinburgh! Did he not just arrive in Edinburgh? Had to JET in. Everyone knows you fly in a jet from bloody Austraila FFS! Edited January 11, 2022 by Pans Jambo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky_26 Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 13 minutes ago, Pans Jambo said: Was just thinking about this yesterday. Nathanial Atkinson “Jetted” into Edinburgh! Did he not just arrive in Edinburgh? Had to JET in. Everyone knows you fly in a jet from bloody Austraila FFS! I came back to my mind due to someone on the transfer thread bringing it up that a player never just signs a new contract but always pens one. It is a proper seethe of mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Gin Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 The transfer window always SLAMS SHUT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianajones Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Mainly because the media are a bunch of see you next tuesdays. There are very little exceptions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byyy The Light Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I think journalists and politicians have the same problems. The majority go in to it with a genuine passion and belief they can and will make a difference but that enthusiasm is hammered out of them 5 mins in the door. Rather than piss again the wind and get shunned, they tow the line and by then it’s too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pap Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 "Thrashing out terms", when talking about contracts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armageddon Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 WARCHEST! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Signing coup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Cupset. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 If anyone were to offer me to go to an "eaterie", they'd get their feckin head panned in. There's plenty of acceptable words (restaurant, cafe, curry shop, chippy, pizza house, etc.) Absolutely nae need for that awful word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull's-eye Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 JKB is just as bad. Everything needed "addressing" not so long ago, now everything is a "narrative". Dumbos trying to look intelligent patter imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trotter Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 "A source close to said..." "The *insert rag title* understands..." Both used so that the rag in question can make up whatever bollocks it wants with absolutely no recourse. Wanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JudyJudyJudy Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 “ fleeing “ domestic abuse is often used, when in fact victims often leave in a planned and controlled fashion ( less risky for them) Yes the language used for Corona has been done to death really “ surge “ “ spike” “ alArming “ etc when in fact a lot of the time those words haven’t been appropriate . It’s click bait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ominous Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 My Mrs watches that crap love island and the lot of them always have a word they use like "100 percent" instead of Yes and "Literally" at the end of every sentence. I must be getting old (43) because the twenty something year olds really get on my tits Literally 😄. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 All about getting it stuck in your head. Loving with covid is the new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 "Sex act" when they mean blowjob. That's another one from the tabloids. There used to be tabloid stories saying that X and Y had been involve in a "sex act which is too disgusting to describe in a family newspaper" or words to that effect. To be fair, that might have not been blowjobs but bum sex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky_26 Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, ri Alban said: All about getting it stuck in your head. Loving with covid is the new one. Is that a new channel 5 show? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, ri Alban said: All about getting it stuck in your head. Loving with covid is the new one. I imagine that entails a lot of coughing and spluttering while you do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 I'm a phannie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Very few houses are just "houses". They must be stated with their value. They're "£400k houses/pads". Once you go above £1m, they become "mansions". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Салатные палочки Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 One you don't see much these days is "crack" to describe a football team. Almost always Eastern European. "Hearts were drawn against crack Yugoslavian side Velez Mostar" or "Austrian cracks Austria Vienna". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Салатные палочки Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 "Lags" to describe prisoners. "Lags at Scotland's toughest prison will tuck into a FULL Christmas dinner with ALL THE TRIMMINGS and there will even be VEGAN and HALAL options". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughesie27 Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Every single day there is at least 3 articles about someone being UNRECOGNISABLE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjambo Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Have a read of the newspapers from 50 years, perhaps even later, backwards in time. Largely dry as dust. They were there almost purely to inform. Today's newspapers are there not only to inform but also to entertain, shock, amuse and, sadly, to persuade you to adopt certain political and societal points of view. And they're up against a feckload of other media trying to do exactly the same thing. You can't do that with dry terminology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redjambo Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 2 hours ago, I P Knightley said: If anyone were to offer me to go to an "eaterie", they'd get their feckin head panned in. There's plenty of acceptable words (restaurant, cafe, curry shop, chippy, pizza house, etc.) Absolutely nae need for that awful word. How about eatooterie though. A lovely expression that should be used much more, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgan Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 A house for sale on the property market that is in good nick is now described as 'in turn-key' condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky_26 Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 just read about cosgrove snubbing dundee. he turned them down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skivingatwork Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Travel Chaos Can be used to describe; A few planes delayed at Heathrow A tailback on the M25 Any disruption to public transport on London Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 22 minutes ago, redjambo said: How about eatooterie though. A lovely expression that should be used much more, imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 3 hours ago, I P Knightley said: If anyone were to offer me to go to an "eaterie", they'd get their feckin head panned in. There's plenty of acceptable words (restaurant, cafe, curry shop, chippy, pizza house, etc.) Absolutely nae need for that awful word. I hate that word too - to the extent of avoiding any place that describes itself so. There was a thing on Off The Ball a couple of months ago about words the media use that are never used in normal conversation. The one that stuck in my mind was ‘revellers’. Has anyone ever said ‘I was out in town last night, it was full of revellers’? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 39 minutes ago, FWJ said: I hate that word too - to the extent of avoiding any place that describes itself so. There was a thing on Off The Ball a couple of months ago about words the media use that are never used in normal conversation. The one that stuck in my mind was ‘revellers’. Has anyone ever said ‘I was out in town last night, it was full of revellers’? I wonder whether they preferred the chocolate creams or the raisin ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamstomorrow Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Anything with a whiff of scandal ends something . . . . gate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWL Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Pretty sure our upcoming evening fixture against Celtic, with us just giving them 1000 tickets will be described as 'powderkeg'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FWJ Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 1 hour ago, I P Knightley said: I wonder whether they preferred the chocolate creams or the raisin ones? That’s what I first think of too. (Best are the wee solid chocolate ones) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milky_26 Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 13 minutes ago, JWL said: Pretty sure our upcoming evening fixture against Celtic, with us just giving them 1000 tickets will be described as 'powderkeg'. they have already put out us slashing their allocation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Camazzola Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Kid goals or kid gloves is often used to describe a youthful forward or goalkeeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Kaiser Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 6 hours ago, I P Knightley said: "Sex act" when they mean blowjob. That's another one from the tabloids. There used to be tabloid stories saying that X and Y had been involve in a "sex act which is too disgusting to describe in a family newspaper" or words to that effect. To be fair, that might have not been blowjobs but bum sex. Yup. Knife attack story and you get to know exact details....stabbed 11 times in the neck, chest and face. But sex act...nooooooo....no-one gets to know where the willy went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWL Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Catholics are always devout and Protestants are always staunch. Heaven forbid it could ever be the other way round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWL Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 6 hours ago, Salad Fingers said: One you don't see much these days is "crack" to describe a football team. Almost always Eastern European. "Hearts were drawn against crack Yugoslavian side Velez Mostar" or "Austrian cracks Austria Vienna". Flip side to that was when you were drawn against some shite team who would then be described as an 'Unknown Quantity'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trotter Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 8 hours ago, I P Knightley said: I wonder whether they preferred the chocolate creams or the raisin ones? Mate of mine has a peanut allergy, thankfully as is about to become apparent, not that serious. In high school he used to love playing what he called "Revelle Roulette". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 A wee bit windy with some rain, now has to have a name. Storm ??? Gies peace. I thought Scottish people showed their distain for this when they christened* one 'Hurricane Bawbag'. It's just weather, see The US and Japan for the real deal**. Other everyday buzzwords or expressions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Gridlock/ed. No it's a fecking traffic jam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri Alban Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 Boris Johnson is Boris and everyone else is referred to by their second name. The same thing used to happen with Walter Smith and everyone else was referred to by the second name. Then we had Steven Gerrard's Rangers. Pathetic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 There are far more "Gurus" in the media than in the real world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 13 hours ago, Der Kaiser said: Yup. Knife attack story and you get to know exact details....stabbed 11 times in the neck, chest and face. But sex act...nooooooo....no-one gets to know where the willy went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pans Jambo Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 6 hours ago, ri Alban said: A wee bit windy with some rain, now has to have a name. Storm ??? Gies peace. I thought Scottish people showed their distain for this when they christened* one 'Hurricane Bawbag'. It's just weather, see The US and Japan for the real deal**. Other everyday buzzwords or expressions. Aye, a wee bit snow and it's a "Polar Blast" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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