Bbc News Speak

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Gimlet, Dec 29, 2015.

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  1. Ps
    The above is very much tongue in cheek
     
    #21 749er, Dec 30, 2015
  2. To address the OP.... All words are made up.
    Dictionaries describe languages as opposed to prescribing them.

    But whilst we're on news speak: Storms don't need names.
     
    #22 "Its_just_a_ride", Dec 30, 2015
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  3. What rubbish. How on Earth can they be invited to dinner parties without names?

    The storms, I mean. Dinner parties don't need names.
     
    #23 Loz, Dec 30, 2015
  4. Do people still have dinner parties ?
     
    #24 Char, Dec 30, 2015
  5. You have seen come dine with me :Nailbiting:
     
    #25 Ducbird, Dec 30, 2015
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  6. You take that back or you'll be hearing from Rolf Harris's lawyers :mad::Wtf:
     
    #26 Loz, Dec 30, 2015
  7. There is four in a bed too they have dinner parties :Wideyed:
     
    #27 Ducbird, Dec 30, 2015
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  8. Just because I've seen it doesn't make it real

    Please tell me it's made up

    Please tell me people like that don't exist in Barnet

    :eek:
     
    #28 Char, Dec 30, 2015

  9. They wear hats too :pompus:
     
    #29 Ducbird, Dec 30, 2015
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  10. Apparently, giving storms a name makes them more real to some people and they are therefore more likely to take the storm warnings seriously. According to SWMBO, who read it somewhere.
     
    #30 johnv, Dec 30, 2015
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  11. I think they are naming to reinforce the number of storms so climate change gets taken more seriously.

    Next winter by the end of December, we will be on Storm Jock and we will all be saying, "we only got to Frank this time last year"
     
    #31 749er, Dec 30, 2015
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  12. I agree with this
    Watching sky news there was a guy on there saying that people don't take storms/flooding seriously enough and they have become complacent knowing that there are flood barriers in place to keep them safe
    Naming storms I believe is to make people more responsible in taking action to move their arses

    Plus no one can say they didn't know and gives more excuses for government and insurance companies to shift blame
     
    #32 Ducbird, Dec 30, 2015
  13. #33 finm, Dec 30, 2015
  14. #34 JR45, Dec 30, 2015
  15. The first one was called Abigail, gedit ;)

    Obviously someone in the Met Office has a sense of humour.
     
    #35 johnv, Dec 30, 2015
  16. #36 JR45, Dec 30, 2015
  17. I think they should be using names of defunct or useless politicians........

    .....the current one may be Dobson and the next one will begin with 'G', so it's either going to be Gordon, George or Gideon; followed by Harriet.
     
    #37 Ghost Rider, Dec 30, 2015
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  18. Storm Jock will blow itself out before it gets to Berwick on Tweed. Storm Nigel won't make it out of the home counties. Storm Wayne will only take the roof off a beach hut in Southend. Storm Chardonnay will knock over a litter bin in Croyden and Storm Wendy...WTF is that? A light gust in pigtails skipping through a hay meadow in Gloucestershire?
    We don't know what storms are in this country.
     
    #38 Gimlet, Dec 30, 2015
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  19. this was a biggy 165mph winds recorded.
     
    #39 finm, Dec 30, 2015
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