LOL. Sums up whole thread neatly.

You'd turn her down, would you?

Huh?

Come on guys it's been 1h10m since the last post.

I've got money on this thread surviving until Friday.

I don't know, I have to find a hole in my busy schedule, normally consisting of feeding crumbs & beer to Sid the Slug, and prancing around in front of the webcam in my home-made replica Ola Jordan outfits . Sid really likes the one with the tickler feathers at the back.

I don't hate Natalie. But she does terrify me.
(Runs and hides from both factions)

Does Sid know you're taking his name in vain?

I actually don't. I did. But I've warmed to her more since she's been paired with Scott. And I'm glad I've been proved wrong to a degree.

I can understand why people are turned off her though by the "way" she says things, even if that's not her intention.

Her choreography was terrific and clever on Friday.

Sentence structure is important. There is a big difference between 'going to' which implies a degree of certainty and 'aiming to' which implies hope or intent. I've been trying to like Natalie and I think she's a fantastic dancer. I've read lots of comments about how lovely she was on the pro tour and I've really no problem with her doing her absolute best to make the final and win but language is important.

I agree it's usually important, but not in this context. You cannot say that Natalie has any certainty about making the final, she could be voted off this Saturday for all she or anyone else knows, therefore it doesn't make a jot of difference whether she says 'I'm going to be in the final' or 'I really, really want to get to the final'. The end result is the same - she doesn't know whether she will be in the final or not, so all she is doing is expressing an aspiration in different language to what another pro used. And it'd be frankly boring if they all said the exact same sentence anyway....

No because she's a cocky old bint with a gob bigger than her talent...and eyes like ET...

Sorry to be so brash on a first post in this thread, but......

.....does anyone else get the impression that she's a transsexual with implants?


Just me? I'll get me coat!

Sure I saw her in the line up at the Vauxhall Tavern on "Chicks with Dicks" night

I heard she's in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert' after SCD finishes!

...it's the chin!

Hey, you were there too?

I was at the front. Got a birds eye view of the offending "jewels"

OMG! what have I started?

Anyway, what are you having for dinner tonight? Us, why meat and two veg, of course!

Ah, that was you, I was wondering who that was.

Have you met her?

This thread did seem to be veering towards the humourous, but remarks like that are entirely unnecessary!!

Had my sequined opera glasses on me...just to be sure!

Why, I loved ET.....although he did want to go home (or was that phone home)

Wasn't that part of your post I objected to....

Getting back to Natalie, has she been on with claudia yet?
Wonder if she will be rather less abrasive than last year?

Not for a sportsperson or competitor. Aren't they supposed to visualize winning in which case "I'm aiming to" isn't good enough?

I'm sure some of the other pros have said much the same thing. I don't see what all the fuss is about.

OK but when a competitor's success in a competition is partly dependent on securing the support of the voting public it may be unwise to use such language.

I'm far too manly to feel threatened by a cocky woman even if she does look like a tranny. I have a special device I bought from the Innovations catalogue to detect one, called the Upskirtamatic®.