“Hi, it’s Ross Kemp here. I’d just like to remind you that, in three weeks’ time, it’s mother’s day. Now chocolates are nice but they come at a price and flowers only last a week but a personalised video message lasts a lifetime.”
The former BBC soap star charges £60 for a personalised message via his website, rising to £85 if it needs to be delivered within 48 hours. He will also provide a “business shout-out” with prices starting from £1,000.
It just seems so insincere - the very opposite of what it's meant to represent.
Do you remember The Inbetweeners (c4/e4) The bloke who played Jay has made a fortune apparently doing these personalised messages. Buckley I forget his 1st name. Over a mil apparently
“Hi, it’s Ross Kemp here. I’d just like to remind you that, in three weeks’ time, it’s mother’s day. Now chocolates are nice but they come at a price and flowers only last a week but a personalised video message lasts a lifetime.”
The former BBC soap star charges £60 for a personalised message via his website, rising to £85 if it needs to be delivered within 48 hours. He will also provide a “business shout-out” with prices starting from £1,000.
It just seems so insincere - the very opposite of what it's meant to represent.
Do you remember The Inbetweeners (c4/e4) The bloke who played Jay has made a fortune apparently doing these personalised messages. Buckley I forget his 1st name. Over a mil apparently
Palace… when you see him, in hindsight it’s obvious - desperate fantasist.
In a line of 1,000 cars driving at an equal pace and with an equal distance between them, it only takes the driver at the front to slow down, for any reason, to have an impact on the 999 cars behind.
If the 999 cars have their blues & twos on, it shouldn’t be a problem.
The word "Batter" to nowadays describe a male batsman, it may be just me who think its woke nonsense, (or maybe cos its new) because "Bowler" is equally non gender specific of course.
Fieldsman, Wicket Keepman, Batsman, Bowlman and only Batsman became the word used when only men played. It jars on me to hear batter but batswoman sounds stupid for womens cricket and if you are going to use batter in womens cricket you may as well do so for men's as well.
so i understand the logic but it still creates itchy molars when i hear it
I guess the reason that batsman caught on originally is because batter has alternative meanings. I don't suppose there'd really be too much confusion though and that we should mostly know from context that it is the person wielding the bat that's being discussed and not the nominalization of a drubbing or the basis of Scottish culinary excellence. Batter has got a lot of development before it attain the 430 different meanings the word 'set' can convey, but this one still grates on me.
Buying the CD of "Help!" in a charity shop in London. Getting back to Portugal and opening it to find Sgt Pepper inside... (I already have Sgt Pepper).
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The bloke who played Jay has made a fortune apparently doing these personalised messages. Buckley I forget his 1st name.
Over a mil apparently
Fieldsman, Wicket Keepman, Batsman, Bowlman and only Batsman became the word used when only men played. It jars on me to hear batter but batswoman sounds stupid for womens cricket and if you are going to use batter in womens cricket you may as well do so for men's as well.
so i understand the logic but it still creates itchy molars when i hear it