Privacy and andrew Marr

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Surely the injunction was obtained by who he knobbed rather than the other way round?

Hes a bright bloke but my god hes ugly. Ive seen him round Richmond a bit an believe me hes far uglier than he appears on TV. Hes like something off a bad internet site

Would be a brave woman who admitted sitting on that face (although one way for it not to be seen)...
 
Oh dear; he used to be top of the my list of men who you ' fancy but don't want to admit to it'; it was only because he seemed intelligent, funny and really interesting. A sort of less scary version of Paxman.Top of my friends list was the bloke from Top Gear who isn't Clarkson or the hampster. I'm sure Mr Marr won't lose any sleep over it but, realising that he isn't the squeaky clean thoroughly decent family man has put me off him, as that was part of his appeal. Top of my list of blokes who I was quite happy to admit to fancying was Michael Wood.
 
I always fancied Paxman until I saw him in that programme where people trace (or, rather, have a bevy of staff trace for them) their family roots. He was bandy as a pair of parentheses, looked as if he might've had rickets as a kid. It's imagining them stripped to their kecks and then thinking, oh, no, I can't. I really can't. I'll be busting out with hysterical laughter halfway through, which, I've found, is rarely taken in the jocular spirit in which it's meant.
 
Linguistic point: Fecking as a verb, when used without any preposition, means to steal.
 
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If Imogen wore a football shirt with the players name on it would that be breaking the injunction?

Lady in Red ;)
 
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Might I remind Your Worship that it is not only a verb, but also a noun, as in, "I had a cracking good feck last night" or "Where in feck's name are you, you twazzock?"
 
"I had a cracking good feck last night"
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You did not, nobody ever did. Substitute a u for the e and maybe it happened for you, I hope so.

"Where in feck's name are you, you twazzock?"
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The correct translation is "Where the feck are you, you gobshite?". In this usage "the feck" is not a noun so much as an adverb of emphasis.
 
Too bad if you've never had a cracking feck, Bar, although you might have a fecking crack when you Ben Doone. I believe that's QED to me, old bean.
 
This is probably the best entry on 'feck' in the OED (where it is a noun, a verb and an interjection):

" Expressing frustration, regret, or annoyance: ‘damn’, ‘blast’; Cf. fuck v. 4.

1995 G. Linehan & A. Mathews Good Luck, Father Ted (television script, penultimate draft) in Father Ted (1999) 12/2 Mrs. Doyle: Who's for tea, then?‥ Jack: Tea! Feck!
 
How can he be 'the best' when he doesn't cover anything other than politics? There can be no such thing as the best, since different genres require different presenting styles: news presenter, sports presenter, game show presenter, etc. Marr would be crap at The Cube, wouldn't he, and I can hardly see him fronting quiz shows better than Stephen Fry or A Question of Sport better than Sue Barker. And let's not even get into Top Gear. If you mean is he the best presenter on political issues, he's okay, but I don't listen to radio so couldn't make any judgment there.
 
Feckin' brilliant, Grey. Well found. Interesting that it is so many other things as well - like Fecking Irish Whiskey. I also like ferking, freaking, frikking and frigging in lieu of the Big F as well.
 
There are so many languages that constitute modern English. No wonder people get confused with the use of similar-sounding words.

Like your alternatives Kri, yet only one of them actually means the same in original old/middle English, but are understood by all to be a substitute for the big F.

As for F-Andrew Marr, I'm with Moehat on Michael Wood. Wish I'd had history teachers like him!
 
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