HanoiVillan Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 I can't bear anything about the guy. Half of my life is spent reading people dunking on a barrister who lives in a **** windmill. You couldn't make it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Waiting to clock out I decided to have a laugh and look at the Christmas top 40. It wasn't very funny. The only good thing about that shit sausage roll bloke being number one is it stopped that moron Stormzy getting it. The rest if the charts was filled with old Christmas crap, numerous Harry **** Styles bollox, even more shitty Stormzy and the rest I'd never heard of. Well done, music purchasing people of the UK, you proved yourself totally retarded. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 27, 2019 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 Stormzy is a **** boss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 27 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Stormzy is a **** boss Why, because of his lyrical genius? Or his "right-on" political stance? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 27, 2019 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 10 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Why, because of his lyrical genius? Or his "right-on" political stance? Both and more 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 Now I got Dizzee Rascal, arguably to these old ears they plough a similar furrow, but Stormzy for me at least, why hasn't a kid, metaphorically, pointed to his nakedness yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted December 27, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 27, 2019 I have next to zero knowledge of Stormzy and I certainly couldn’t name or identify a single track by the guy. But he does appear to upset all the right people. I thought the monochrome union flag stab vest was very clever as a piece of art and I thought his response to ITV’s racism headline was very eloquent. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 I've listened to about 15 seconds of Stormzy's work and decided it wasn't for me, but I was fairly sure that it wouldn't be just going by the name. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 27, 2019 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 1 hour ago, rjw63 said: Why, because of his lyrical genius? Or his "right-on" political stance? I’d be interested as to why you think he’s a moron (genuinely) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 2 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: I’d be interested as to why you think he’s a moron (genuinely) Just my opinion on what I've fleetingly seen(and very fleetingly heard). He's probably a lovely chap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 27, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 8 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: I’d be interested as to why you think he’s a moron (genuinely) The way he speaks, for me. I can't stand that thicko estuary/gangsta/"know woh I mean?" accent. He may be intelligent, but he does himself no favours with the delivery. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 1 hour ago, Seat68 said: Now I got Dizzee Rascal, arguably to these old ears they plough a similar furrow, but Stormzy for me at least, why hasn't a kid, metaphorically, pointed to his nakedness yet. Yep I'm the same, don't mind dizzee, really like kano but stormzy does nothing for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted December 27, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 27, 2019 23 minutes ago, mjmooney said: The way he speaks, for me. I can't stand that thicko estuary/gangsta/"know woh I mean?" accent. He may be intelligent, but he does himself no favours with the delivery. So, he’s a black guy, from Croydon, grew up in south London and worked for a short while in real jobs. How were you hoping he would sound? If anybody is entitled to sound like a south London kid, its a south London kid. Fair enough if he was actually from Leamington Spa, but he isn’t. We should embrace accents and difference, encourage Yorkshire to sound Yorkshire, encourage Dorset to sound Dorset. Embrace it, he’s from somewhere that isn’t mid Atlantic. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 27, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 20 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: So, he’s a black guy, from Croydon, grew up in south London and worked for a short while in real jobs. How were you hoping he would sound? If anybody is entitled to sound like a south London kid, its a south London kid. Fair enough if he was actually from Leamington Spa, but he isn’t. We should embrace accents and difference, encourage Yorkshire to sound Yorkshire, encourage Dorset to sound Dorset. Embrace it, he’s from somewhere that isn’t mid Atlantic. You can have a local accent without being inarticulate or sounding thick as pigshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 You’ve clearly heard different tape to me. I’ve heard him conversing with kids about one of his songs, he did a piece for the news and he did a spoken piece of the Christmas story for some programme on the tv a few days ago. At no point did I think he sounded thick as pigshit. I’d have said he sounded utterly ‘normal’. Perhaps his music sounds thick, I don’t think I’ve consciously listened to any. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 27, 2019 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 1 hour ago, rjw63 said: Just my opinion on what I've fleetingly seen(and very fleetingly heard). He's probably a lovely chap. Seems a bit weird but fair enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 27, 2019 Author VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: The way he speaks, for me. I can't stand that thicko estuary/gangsta/"know woh I mean?" accent. He may be intelligent, but he does himself no favours with the delivery. That’s his accent/dialect a lot of people would say the same thing about brummies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 27, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 55 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: That’s his accent/dialect a lot of people would say the same thing about brummies In many cases they would be correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: In many cases they would be correct. I think its best you never here me speak! I have a strange hybrid of half Nessa from Gavin and Stacey and half an impersonation of the person I’m talking to. Yet I’m actually spectacularly intelligent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 27, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2019 (edited) 12 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: I think its best you never here me speak! I have a strange hybrid of half Nessa from Gavin and Stacey and half an impersonation of the person I’m talking to. Yet I’m actually spectacularly intelligent. It's not just very broad accents, though, it's inarticulacy (which I very much doubt you display). All that "y'know", "knowarramean?", "innit", "I was like, he was like" stuff. I don't expect working class people to talk like Jacob Rees Mogg or the Queen, but if people in the public eye want to be taken seriously, it would help if they have a reasonable vocabulary and can string a sentence together. I'm afraid my predjudices are a product of my age and upbringing - working class kid who got a lot out of a 1960s grammar school education. Perhaps this belongs in the 'unpopular opinions' thread. EDIT: I'm also predjudiced against Stormzy (stupid name, too) because of the genre of pseudo-music he perpetrates. Another unpopular opinion: ALL rap/hip hop/grime/whatever this week's name for it is, is shit. All of it. No exceptions. Age again, I expect. Edited December 27, 2019 by mjmooney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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