Cortese's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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Beefy said:
More I would say, you can laugh at Farage. Were as everything Jordan says comes over as creepy and up himself.
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I know someone who has met Simon. Said he was sound in real life but always comes across as a **** on TV. Who knows.
 
Beefy said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...o-play-Lex-Luthor-in-SupermanBatman-film.html

**** I won't watch this **** now.
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Jeremy Irons slated to play Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred

Time was when being slated was either getting a new roof, or then after many decades, being knock down a peg or two [o use another clichéd metaphor], but now it appears to be something written in chalk on a genuine slate bed blackboard.

I think the English language is finally evolving away from me and the truth is that I don't care anymore, and that's a sad time.

I live in a world where there are no longer the have and have-nots. They are the gots and don't-gots. I've forgotten how many times I've railed when I see someone write gotten, as if it exists as a word on its own [which unfortunately, it seems, it now does].
Even no less than Stephen Fry has no problem with swearing [or profanity, if you must], but I bet gotten would ****ing well stick in his throat.

Apologies, my little moment is now over. It was a bad day at black rock.
 
I've never heard of slated used in this way either TSS.

I thought the idea of a film with Batman and Superman in sounded stupid anyway, so this doesn't make any difference to me. I'm sure I'll still see it at some point, but I won't be paying £10 to do so at the cinema.
 
Relentless Saint Supertramp said:
I've never heard of slated used in this way either TSS.

I thought the idea of a film with Batman and Superman in sounded stupid anyway, so this doesn't make any difference to me. I'm sure I'll still see it at some point, but I won't be paying £10 to do so at the cinema.
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I can't watch it now einsenburg is in it. :(
 
Holy **** he's only 4? And it looks like a cataract in his left eye as well.
 
[video=youtube;qi5s1ZnhjtM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5s1ZnhjtM[/video]

Uzbek militants, probably in Syria, mocking a sniper who has them pinned down.
 
TheSecondStain said:
Jeremy Irons slated to play Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred

Time was when being slated was either getting a new roof, or then after many decades, being knock down a peg or two [o use another clichéd metaphor], but now it appears to be something written in chalk on a genuine slate bed blackboard.

I think the English language is finally evolving away from me and the truth is that I don't care anymore, and that's a sad time.

I live in a world where there are no longer the have and have-nots. They are the gots and don't-gots. I've forgotten how many times I've railed when I see someone write gotten, as if it exists as a word on its own [which unfortunately, it seems, it now does].
Even no less than Stephen Fry has no problem with swearing [or profanity, if you must], but I bet gotten would ****ing well stick in his throat.

Apologies, my little moment is now over. It was a bad day at black rock.
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It's a rather common and fairly old use of the word (in North America, at least), which I believe stems from politics: a party ticket is often referred to as their slate, and consequently someone nominated for a position is said to be slated. The use has duly spread to other, similar situations where an individual has been tipped for a position or role.
 
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