But they weren't the first, certainly not in the case of Hirst and Hitzlsperger, Ian Roberts in the NRL came out years previously, and I would have thought Justin Fashanu would have been the first in football.
In the "Mels" question last night did anybody else think, when just Carl Reiner and Griff Rhys Jones came up, of the old Holsten Pils movie spoof TV commercials (Carl Reiner having directed the film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid which they were based on, and GRJ obviously having featured in them)?
I assume this was simply a coincidence as opposed to a deliberate trip-up, since I guess they wouldn't use a brand name so overtly, plus it's more the wall rounds that have red herrings. It amused me, anyway
In the "Mels" question last night did anybody else think, when just Carl Reiner and Griff Rhys Jones came up, of the old Holsten Pils movie spoof TV commercials (Carl Reiner having directed the film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid which they were based on, and GRJ obviously having featured in them)?
I assume this was simply a coincidence as opposed to a deliberate trip-up, since I guess they wouldn't use a brand name so overtly, plus it's more the wall rounds that have red herrings. It amused me, anyway
Well that's you shot - it's "on which they were based":D.
So, I really, like, can't stand people who, like, use so, to start any, like sentence, you know!:)
My other gripe, in case you hadn't noticed, is the ridiculous over use of the word "like" where what they are talking about isn't like anything!! Why are English speakers so scared of a fraction of a second silence while they collect their thoughts, instead of filling it with pointless sounds, such as like or so, or you know.
There's a much more annoying habit that has crept into the media (mostly newspapers, but increasingly telly) and it is people referring to the people of Britain as "us Brits".
It's not just annoying, it's wrong. Try it with something other than 'Brits' and it reveals itself as ungrammatical nonsense: 'Us Scots', 'Us Germans', Us dog-lovers' etc.
It's "WE BRITS"...and even then who the hell says 'Brits' apart from bloody Americans?
Got the WW1 name changing thing after Alsatian came up.
I wonder if that's when Rubella became the preferred name rather than German Measles.
No. Rubella is the "new" name. If you go back to the 1960s, nobody had Rubella, it was very much German measles. Possibly because it's a "bad" thing, so the German context would have been apt?
No. Rubella is the "new" name. If you go back to the 1960s, nobody had Rubella, it was very much German measles. Possibly because it's a "bad" thing, so the German context would have been apt?
Makes me wonder why they renamed Sauerkraut then ;-)
No. Rubella is the "new" name. If you go back to the 1960s, nobody had Rubella, it was very much German measles. Possibly because it's a "bad" thing, so the German context would have been apt?
New?
OED
1866 H. Veale in Edinb. Med. Jrnl. (1867) 12 i. 414, I therefore venture to propose Rubella as a substitute for Rötheln, or, at any rate, as a name for the disease which it has been my object in this paper to describe.
No. Rubella is the "new" name. If you go back to the 1960s, nobody had Rubella, it was very much German measles. Possibly because it's a "bad" thing, so the German context would have been apt?
Corruption of "germane". Like measles in other words.
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Not while he was still playing.
I assume this was simply a coincidence as opposed to a deliberate trip-up, since I guess they wouldn't use a brand name so overtly, plus it's more the wall rounds that have red herrings. It amused me, anyway
Hitzlsperger had also retired before he came out as gay
I wasn't a contestant.
There's a much more annoying habit that has crept into the media (mostly newspapers, but increasingly telly) and it is people referring to the people of Britain as "us Brits".
It's not just annoying, it's wrong. Try it with something other than 'Brits' and it reveals itself as ungrammatical nonsense: 'Us Scots', 'Us Germans', Us dog-lovers' etc.
It's "WE BRITS"...and even then who the hell says 'Brits' apart from bloody Americans?
The Republicans in Northern Ireland during the " Troubles ", it's where I first heard the term.
I think Janet was referring to the clip in post #4247
No. Rubella is the "new" name. If you go back to the 1960s, nobody had Rubella, it was very much German measles. Possibly because it's a "bad" thing, so the German context would have been apt?
Makes me wonder why they renamed Sauerkraut then ;-)
I didn't know they had.
Did you even watch the program in question?
Yes, that's all well and good but can you describe the South Sea Bubble and it's effects on investment?
Sauerkraut?
New?
OED
I might have got that one if they'd included Empire Biscuits (= German Biscuits).
Corruption of "germane". Like measles in other words.
That was mine too!
Outstanding Not the Nine O'Clock News reference.
I just noticed that!
Odd name for a goldfish , wasn't it ?
For those who don't have memories, explain ?
Correct.