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Is it only footballers and other 'sports people' doing interviews, or can other people begin sentences with 'listen' (or 'look' for that matter) and it not be seen as confrontational?
By which I mean that until a few years ago people would only start with 'listen' if they wanted to show they were irritated. e.g 'Listen, get that car back to me by tomorrow or I'm taking my business elsewhere from now on', or 'Listen here, young man, how many times have I told you...' etc
What I'm asking is (and it's a genuine question), do normal people answer civil questions with 'Listen,...'. e.g. 'Did you have a good day out in London?' 'Listen, everyone had a great time.'
Or is it something footballers and football managers have learned from each other. (A bit like always referring to 'this football club' when 'this club' would do for the rest of us.)
By the way, isn’t “Look” the politician’s “Listen”? And always before they tell a whopper?
"I think I speak for the whole nation here when I say...."
Please note: prior to hitting the post button, I've double checked for anything that could be construed as "Anti Semitic" and to the best of my knowledge it isn't. Anything deemed to be of a Xenophobic nature is therefore purely accidental or down to your own misconstruing.
Andrew Strauss was the best exponent of ‘look’. Every sentence, the man was as consistent off the pitch as he was on it.
Most Aussie cricketers start every interview answer with 'yeah look' or 'yeah look mate'
Have a post match drinking game during the post-match interviews this winter every time they beat us. Taking a shot for every 'yeah look' and you won't remember the innings defeat we just suffered because you will be spannered in half an hour.
Most Aussie cricketers start every interview answer with 'yeah look' or 'yeah look mate'
Have a post match drinking game during the post-match interviews this winter every time they beat us. Taking a shot for every 'yeah look' and you won't remember the innings defeat we just suffered because you will be spannered in half an hour.
Beginning your answer with ‘yeah, no’ winds me up almost as much as preceding a response with ‘what it is’
‘’Why were you not able to meet your commitment of getting my car back to me this morning?’’
‘’What it is, is that we couldn’t get the part we needed’’.
Follow that up with ‘’I can only apologise’’ which generally translates as ‘F@&k you, I am not prepared to help’’ and I am guaranteed to be seething for the rest of the day.
Most Aussie cricketers start every interview answer with 'yeah look' or 'yeah look mate'
Have a post match drinking game during the post-match interviews this winter every time they beat us. Taking a shot for every 'yeah look' and you won't remember the innings defeat we just suffered because you will be spannered in half an hour.
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My mate played that game with Mick Mills ‘You Know’ on BBC Suffolk. Had to have his stomach pumped.
Harry Kane and Gareth Bale do this with irritating regularity. People who answer a question with ‘So..’ also deserve to be taken outside and shot. Don’t get me started on ‘vocal fry’
It is just a speech tic. For a while, according to pundits, anything that happened on a football pitch was "unbelievable".
Politicians have several of them. No politician can say to their interviewer, "You're right"; it is always "You're absolutely right". And for years the politicians' adverb of choice has been "incredibly".
It is just a speech tic. For a while, according to pundits, anything that happened on a football pitch was "unbelievable".
Politicians have several of them. No politician can say to their interviewer, "You're right"; it is always "You're absolutely right". And for years the politicians' adverb of choice has been "incredibly".
I get that ( it’s a speech tic). I don’t live in UK and my question is really whether it has spread from sports people (being interviewed) to the rest of the populace? I mean do normal people in normal conversations start their answers with ‘listen‘( or ‘look’)? A few years ago that might have been considered rude enough to get you thumped !
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