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Weird vs Unique

Hmmm....

The way the Belgians are running the club is certainly unique but at the same time very weird.

Maybe Katrien/Roland/Mandy or Tonguey - whoever wrote that statement is correct.

Does weird also mean unique?





Comments

  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,444
    No. But the thing is, even if she SAID unique, it would still not make that statement much better.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,880
    Okay so

    Weird: A negative version of something thats suprisingly original.

    Unique: A positive version of original.
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,219
    My neighbour dresses up in his mothers clothes, he's a right uniqueo!
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,114
    Unique does not mean weird. She used the word "unique" later in that car crash of a Q&A (to describe "the unique fan experience" on offer or something) so she knows the difference.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948

    My neighbour dresses up in his mothers clothes, he's a right uniqueo!

    Your 'neighbour' does eh?

    ; )
  • Chunes said:

    No. But the thing is, even if she SAID unique, it would still not make that statement much better.

    Agreed, whether she said 'weird' and meant unique (unlikely), she is still belittling a fan for feeling a sense of ownership in a football club. Watch the whole interview, the context is there, the comment about the ticketing system being ONLY one third of revenues and the 'shareholders' owning the club. She can come back to this and bastardise her own quote as many times as she likes but it'll never look good and she'd be best off leaving it alone.
  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,653
    se9addick said:

    Unique does not mean weird. She used the word "unique" later in that car crash of a Q&A (to describe "the unique fan experience" on offer or something) so she knows the difference.

    was about to say the same, during that interview she uses the word unique elsewhere, she knew the difference.
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,422

    Weird is wanting to shag your sister, unique is having done so.

    I'll save my story for another day then.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,354
    Dave2l said:

    Okay so

    Weird: A negative version of something thats suprisingly original.

    Unique: A positive version of original.

    No

    Unique means the only one

    Weird means strange

    No similarity

    As said above she used the word unique a few seconds later in the correct context and correct meaning.

    She said weird and she meant weird in a negative and dismissive way as confirmed by her body language in the film.

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  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,423
    It's a rather feeble attempt to change what was said by pretending the word used was wrong. Not sure why they didn't also claim that she meant "much loved family members" when she said "customers" but guess it's hard to think straight when dictating a statement while clearly rat-arsed.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,393
    edited March 2016
    Unique adjective Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else. Distinctive, individual, special, idiosyncratic, quirky, eccentric, isolated.

    Weird adjective Katrien Meire.
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    Colin is certainly weird, but in his support for the regime sadly he isn't unique.....a couple more sad cases on here & elsewhere spring to mind!
  • Weird = Guy Luzon
    Unique = Chris Powell
  • {...} {...} {...} {...} {...} {...} {...} {...} {...}

    You get me?
  • BartleyPark
    BartleyPark Posts: 430
    Snowflakes are weird.
  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,301
    The tone and way she said it on the video I saw, makes it hard to believe she meant unique.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Weird and Unique are the same because Katrien used Google translate.

    Type in 'weird' and go:

    English to Flemish
    Flemish to Tagalog
    Tagalog to Khosian
    Khosian to Welsh
    Welsh to Hungarian
    Hungarian to Mandarin
    Mandarin to Chamicuro
    Chamicuro to Njerep
    Njerep to Spanish
    Spanish to Russian
    Russian to Dumi
    Dumi to English

    Hey presto it comes out as 'unique'.

    QED