My GF emailed me at work to announce the BBC had given birth to a bouncing new verb: "…we think she'll podium".

My GF emailed me at work to announce the BBC had given birth to a bouncing new verb: "…we think she'll podium".

[Late to the party, I know] All the comments in this thread put their finger on it exactly. @avclub-7d26c14b4a096a0afc48154974c4b7d6:disqus condenses it really well.

[Late to the party, I know] All the comments in this thread put their finger on it exactly. @avclub-7d26c14b4a096a0afc48154974c4b7d6:disqus condenses it really well.

@unicyclistperiscopes:disqus   "obsessed with sex" - and not always in a happy way, either.  For a straight guy he sometimes has an A E Housman-like distrust of hetero sex and its motives.

@unicyclistperiscopes:disqus   "obsessed with sex" - and not always in a happy way, either.  For a straight guy he sometimes has an A E Housman-like distrust of hetero sex and its motives.

Ruta Meilutyte! We all became Lithuanian for a while, there.

Ruta Meilutyte! We all became Lithuanian for a while, there.

#12 - the Australians did it! 
http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

#12 - the Australians did it! 
http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

In an interview about The Raid, Mark Kermode compared fight movies with musicals, & Gareth Evans agreed:
http://www.youtube.com/watc… 
(after about 9:10, though the whole interview is good)

In an interview about The Raid, Mark Kermode compared fight movies with musicals, & Gareth Evans agreed:
http://www.youtube.com/watc… 
(after about 9:10, though the whole interview is good)

@TheMogul:disqus Ha, yes. That wouldn't surprise me at all.

@TheMogul:disqus Ha, yes. That wouldn't surprise me at all.

Nah, the NHS is genuinely seen as a relatively good part of the national identity; if you did some kind of survey asking Brits if there was anything they were proud of about the country, it would be high on the list (and I bet they did exactly that).

Nah, the NHS is genuinely seen as a relatively good part of the national identity; if you did some kind of survey asking Brits if there was anything they were proud of about the country, it would be high on the list (and I bet they did exactly that).

@avclub-b6e5391be8277308d0801a0be95ac706:disqus you boring little tit.

@avclub-b6e5391be8277308d0801a0be95ac706:disqus you boring little tit.

No, you're not being picky, just adding another facet to the discussion. Sava was very simplistically summing up a comic-book satire of history, and was just begging for someone to say "…Hey!"

No, you're not being picky, just adding another facet to the discussion. Sava was very simplistically summing up a comic-book satire of history, and was just begging for someone to say "…Hey!"