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You know I don't mind foreign-folk and immigents squishing our lovely, mighty language into naive and ugly shapes; it's when people like Lewis Hamilton and Ray Stubbs, among many other British-born ninnies, start sticking in that yeuchy phrase "for sure" into sentences that I start to despair. Why can't they say "certainly", or a subtly deployed "of course"? Or is using that adverb completely beyond them? Have they listened to too many sports interviews with people (I'm looking at you Sven GE ... grrr) who don't have English for their first language and decided let's join in this vocabolical wackness? Ugh. Don't. Speak proper, with the right words, like, that sound pretty to my lugholes. Like. And what's up with the "at the end of the day" proliferation? It's frickin' everywhere: like a storm of locusts devouring airtime like it was an African maize field. What a meaningless stupid, idiotic phrase. What's the matter with a graceful, poised "When all is done and said"? "At the end of the day" "At the end of the day" "At the end of the day" ... on and on at the Olympics, with every bloody sportsperson talking in bollocky platitudes about how much they've tried that drive me hot nuts. At the end of the day? What day? Today day? A metaphorical day? Saviour's Day? Darren Bloody Day? Oh no, don't you start too ... I will put a hex on you if you do, I swear on my sacred ancestors' (imaginary) tomb.
FE:XXXI
1 The last of the Chapman Baronets of Killua Castle in Ireland, the Anglo-Irish landowner and, 7th Baronet of Westmeath, Sir Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman was the father of which WW1 hero?
2 Which filmmaker wrote and directed the 1934 Chinese silent film The Goddess/Shénnǚ, the tale of a nameless Shanghai prostitute played by Ruan Lingyu in one of her final roles?
3 Which province in Pakistan is the largest in the country by geographical area and has Quetta for its capital and largest city?
4 Originating in Georgia as an element of traditional clothing of the most states of the Caucasus and parts of Ukraine and Russia, what is a 'Papakhi'?
5 Composed by Harris Weston and Bert Lee, which 1938 song has the opening lines: "There came a girl from France/Who didn't know how to dance"?
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1 TE Lawrence 2 Wu Yonggang 3 Balochistan 4 Wool hat (with a circular shape) 5 Knees Up Mother Brown
You know I don't mind foreign-folk and immigents squishing our lovely, mighty language into naive and ugly shapes; it's when people like Lewis Hamilton and Ray Stubbs, among many other British-born ninnies, start sticking in that yeuchy phrase "for sure" into sentences that I start to despair. Why can't they say "certainly", or a subtly deployed "of course"? Or is using that adverb completely beyond them? Have they listened to too many sports interviews with people (I'm looking at you Sven GE ... grrr) who don't have English for their first language and decided let's join in this vocabolical wackness? Ugh. Don't. Speak proper, with the right words, like, that sound pretty to my lugholes. Like. And what's up with the "at the end of the day" proliferation? It's frickin' everywhere: like a storm of locusts devouring airtime like it was an African maize field. What a meaningless stupid, idiotic phrase. What's the matter with a graceful, poised "When all is done and said"? "At the end of the day" "At the end of the day" "At the end of the day" ... on and on at the Olympics, with every bloody sportsperson talking in bollocky platitudes about how much they've tried that drive me hot nuts. At the end of the day? What day? Today day? A metaphorical day? Saviour's Day? Darren Bloody Day? Oh no, don't you start too ... I will put a hex on you if you do, I swear on my sacred ancestors' (imaginary) tomb.
FE:XXXI
1 The last of the Chapman Baronets of Killua Castle in Ireland, the Anglo-Irish landowner and, 7th Baronet of Westmeath, Sir Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman was the father of which WW1 hero?
2 Which filmmaker wrote and directed the 1934 Chinese silent film The Goddess/Shénnǚ, the tale of a nameless Shanghai prostitute played by Ruan Lingyu in one of her final roles?
3 Which province in Pakistan is the largest in the country by geographical area and has Quetta for its capital and largest city?
4 Originating in Georgia as an element of traditional clothing of the most states of the Caucasus and parts of Ukraine and Russia, what is a 'Papakhi'?
5 Composed by Harris Weston and Bert Lee, which 1938 song has the opening lines: "There came a girl from France/Who didn't know how to dance"?
A
B
S
U
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D
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T
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L
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N
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C
O
M
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D
Y
Answers to FE:XXXI
1 TE Lawrence 2 Wu Yonggang 3 Balochistan 4 Wool hat (with a circular shape) 5 Knees Up Mother Brown
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