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My pet conversational hate: When someone is about to be interviewed on the radio, the interviewer says "Good morning Mr Bloggs " and Bloggs answers "Good morning John, how are you?"
Who the hell cares how he is??
Who the hell cares how he is??
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I agree it sounds ridiculous, as everyone already knows that they have been sitting there for some time waiting for the broadcast to begin, and have already exchanged all the courtesies. Therefore it does come across as sloppy journalistic style (and timewasting), but I think interviewers do it to make sure the interviewee is at ease, rather than launching straight into the subject. My own radio personal hate is when I've enjoyed a song and the DJ doesn't give a credit, so I don't know how to look up the band...it drives me mad!
No it is a ploy to put one party off.
Listen carefully next time,
as your little geriatric face screws up
Interviewer: There's is Mr Prescott on the line, one of yesterday's men. Now Mr Prescott, two jags was always too much, even a man of your size only needed one. What do you thnk of the latest reshuffle when you lost your job ?
Mr Prescott, for it is he: Good Morning John, as I said during TonyBlair last great commons performance....
Of course this converstaion is made up and impossible - the Beeb would neva be rude to a Blair-babe nor even 2 jags Prescott.
Listen carefully next time,
as your little geriatric face screws up
Interviewer: There's is Mr Prescott on the line, one of yesterday's men. Now Mr Prescott, two jags was always too much, even a man of your size only needed one. What do you thnk of the latest reshuffle when you lost your job ?
Mr Prescott, for it is he: Good Morning John, as I said during TonyBlair last great commons performance....
Of course this converstaion is made up and impossible - the Beeb would neva be rude to a Blair-babe nor even 2 jags Prescott.
During the recent[and continuing] bad weather.Elloquent news and weather reporters have said on several occasions ''it will be much drier today than yesterday'' when yesterday was extremely wet!! Surely it has to be at least a little bit dry yesterday for it to be ''much drier ''today!!!!!!!!!!!!!BBC and ITV take note!!
I'd forgotten what your message was about.
This 'courtesy' thing happens on phone-in programmes. Nearly every caller asks how the presenter is. They should know by the answer that was given to the last 10 callers
Maybe, they're expecting him/her to suddenly become ill!
Perfomers often ask the audience, "Are you alright?" when the previous two acts have asked the same question.
It's clearly a nervous habit...nothing else!
This 'courtesy' thing happens on phone-in programmes. Nearly every caller asks how the presenter is. They should know by the answer that was given to the last 10 callers
Maybe, they're expecting him/her to suddenly become ill!
Perfomers often ask the audience, "Are you alright?" when the previous two acts have asked the same question.
It's clearly a nervous habit...nothing else!
Clive Bull was the master of this, in reverse. As a phone-in presenter (LBC) every caller without fail would go "Hi Clive, how are you ?" and instead of parroting back "I'm fine", Clive Bull would either pause pregnantly or remind the caller for the nth time that he didn't do how are you's. Eventually it became a feature of his show and callers would ask him just to wind him up. I don't know if he still does it, last I heard his show he had mellowed becoming more polite and thus less interesting.