Tim Worstall

Guardian Watch

Err, is this quite what he means? Talking about the fact that the same actors and actresses seem to be in every show you watch (or, if you are lucky like me, don’t watch):

If you watch a lot of ITV drama – and I know that’s unlikely – Julie
Graham is like God: omniscient. But more so. God, of course, is played
by David Jason.

Omniscient? All knowing?

Omnipresent, surely, one of the other attributes of God?

Tsk, you just can’t get people who understand their religion these days now can you?

All together now:

DON’T THESE PEOPLE HAVE EDITORS?

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14 responses

  1. MrS Avatar
    MrS

    Yes they do have editors but I doubt if many of them are promoted on merit. I suppose it just goes to show what the Grauniad’s unstinting support of bog standard comprehensives has done the collective literacy of the nation.

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  2. StuartA Avatar
    StuartA

    How astute of you to express the point while simultaneously demonstrating the resulting illiteracy.
    I imagine that the “Grauniad’s unstinting support of bog standard comprehensives” was also responsible for today’s claim from Ben Macintyre that 1936 was “exactly eighty years ago”. How meritocratic is The Times’s promotion policy, do you think?
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2347928,00.html
    Tim adds: Good catch. Immediate reaction from The Times, and I quote verbatim and in full:
    aaaaaaaaaaargh. Sloppy.

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  3. MrS Avatar
    MrS

    Okay… You’ve lost me there.

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  4. Jonathan Avatar
    Jonathan

    MrS, judging from your initial comment, which apparently without irony moans about what “the Grauniad’s unstinting support of bog standard comprehensives HAS DONE THE collective literacy of the nation”, you were already pretty lost to start with.
    StuartA – good shot.

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  5. Emily Avatar
    Emily

    Oh I am sure they have two editors somewhere. Or maybe one. A new round of cuts is just about to hit newspaper world in an already cut to the bone industry. Expect papers to come with sellotape and string soon.

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  6. JuliaM Avatar
    JuliaM

    “God, of course, is played by David Jason.”
    And that’s just how it should be…..

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  7. MrS Avatar
    MrS

    Don’t be so ridiculous. You ever used a sticky keyboard on forum? Get a life!

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  8. Passionate Blog Avatar
    Passionate Blog

    I’m just waiting for Jean Alexander to come back as Kym Marsh’s gran

    Just read this, after lurking on a very famous and influential blog indeed. I enjoyed the piece but then I love telly and the more ‘pedestrian’ the better, me being your average woman in the street, like.* But there’s an

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  9. Pete Avatar
    Pete

    ‘TV is rubbish’ shocker. What next from the Guardian? Dog bites man?

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  10. Stuart Avatar
    Stuart

    A “sticky keyboard” elided punctuation from your first sentence, and omitted a word from the second? Perhaps Guardian writers have these sticky keyboards too.

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  11. MrS Avatar
    MrS

    Oh for goodness sake!

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  12. MrS Avatar
    MrS

    And before you say anything I know that goodness is possessive and probably requires an apostrophe. Save your pedantry for the Grauniad!

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  13. David Gillies Avatar
    David Gillies

    My, aren’t we all being pendantic today?

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  14. james higham Avatar
    james higham

    I’m astounded by the typos in the above. Perhaps you guys all need editors.

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