Radio pundits who say "look..."

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Drives me mad. Seems no one on Talk Sport (I know, serves me right) can get through a sentence without sighing and saying "Look..." as if they are the source of all knowledge explaining to a simpleton. So bloody patronising/aggressive. I now find I actually have to turn the radio off. I think it started with Assies (their cricketers say it over and over again) and now it's football pundits.

Is it just me?

 

[Foul Play Rocks]

Look. It's just you.

 

[whitelion]

Look...it's an Aussie thing right?

 

[junior]

All the new TV pundits do it too. Keown, Jenas etc.

 

[Hiney]

Look....

It's not nearly as irritating as people who say "The Rooneys of this World" - or any other player, obviously - as if there are dozens of them running around all over the world.

 

[DJ NOBO]

Totally agree. It's a relatively new thing which makes me think it's done consciously for effect. Which makes it even more annoying . And copying an Aussie phrase is embarrassing

 

[whitelion]

I find amusing the irritated response of pundits when asked a question by exhaling loudly before giving an answer.

Danny Mills tends to do this to every question asked.

 

[Justice]

Look at me

 

[Ernest]

Look , I hate putting a za on the end of everyone's NAME, Gazza , Wazza, Muzza, ENREZZA etc

 

[Algernon]

I remember smug Tony Blair using "Look" often.

http://david-crystal.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/on-tony-blairs-look.html

See also contemporary "so".

 

[Boycee]

I can't stand it when penalty gets shortened to pen, or even gets called a stonewall. Makes me grumpy.

... and another thing: commentators saying 'offensively', when they're talking about attacking, which I'm guessing comes from American football.

 

[Reagulls]

I can't stand it when penalty gets shortened to pen, or even gets called a stonewall. Makes me grumpy.

... and another thing: commentators saying 'offensively', when they're talking about attacking, which I'm guessing comes from American football.

Another vote for the "pen"'just bloody say the whole word!
"He had every right to go down there" is another phrase for basically what I see as cheating .

 

[KNC]

Listen......is another.

 

[Surf's Up]

People who say "Can I get ......" - does my head in.

 

[Boycee]

"Restored parity". I think they mean equalised

 

[NooBHA]

Davie Provan on Sky gets on my tits.

He describes things in matches like he is commentating to people watching their first ever football match. Does he not know that people tuned in are tuned in because they love watching football and sort of know whats happening

But LOOK I suppose I should OVERLOOK it

 

[GloryDays]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUIzPtWu_g

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUIzPtWu_g

Ah, the thinking mans pundit.

 

[Hillian1]

I can't stand it when penalty gets shortened to pen, or even gets called a stonewall. Makes me grumpy.

... and another thing: commentators saying 'offensively', when they're talking about attacking, which I'm guessing comes from American football.

This.

Add "beans on toast" to the list when referring to a shot hitting the post. Boils my piss that.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I remember smug Tony Blair using "Look" often.

http://david-crystal.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/on-tony-blairs-look.html

This. B.Liar starts every defensive sentence with 'Look'.