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By Natasha Leake in the Telegraph:
1. Wearing a tie clip high up
2. Liquid soap
3. Eating on the street
4. Holding a knife like a pen
5. Mounted television sets
6. Applying makeup in public
7. Some kinds of gin and tonic
8. Prosecco instead of champagne
9. Eating on the Tube
10. Personalised number plates
11. Zoopla and Rightmove
12. Hot tubs
13. The Great British Bake Off
14. Trainers
15. Buying portraits of unknown people
16. Salted caramelComments
1-6 are obvious although 5 should be extended to all TV sets whether mounted or not. Having a TV set is as cormon as muck.
I don’t really understand 7, but it can be extended to all gin and tonic for all I care.
8-15 are also obvious, except
* 13: Leake’s distaste towards the use of “bake” as a noun probably stems from an ignorance of Caribbean culture;
* 14: Black or very dark trainers are fine. It’s white or flashy ones that are common.
As for 16 – She’s wrong about 16!!! Salted caramel is fine!!!
Correction: Leake got all this from William Hanson:
Brian Red, further to our discussion that began here; I think we agree that the political, commercial and mass media classes deceive on behalf of accumulations of capital. However, precisely how they deceive, i.e. what the various powers can get away with, is constrained by reality, and in this respect economics, foreign policy, and science are very different.
Our previous discussions have been inharmonious, so I suggest we proceed carefully, point by point, to establish a foundation upon which we agree.
For background regarding the interplay between science and mass media, I again recommend Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. If you have read it, please tell me what you thought of it. If not, would you do so?
Ah, I see “Brian Red” has announced their departure. But they did that before when posting as ‘N_’, with a little yellow flower avatar and the word ‘Marxist’.
Liquid soap is the best thing after sliced bread.
