breakfast at murrayfield

I’m not paying much attention to all the blabbering by our ridiculous MPs — current or former ones, it doesn’t matter. It’s called self-preservation, I do that in order to survive here.

But then I read an entry on Achille’s blog only to discover that Roberto Castelli doesn’t like regional dialects being used in TV series — he particularly refers to Rome’s dialect, of course, as he’s a leghista, so in his book anything coming from Rome is poo, including the accent.

In civilised countries that’s called RP — that’s “Received Pronunciation”, in case you’re wondering.

Received Pronunciation (RP)—also called the Queen’s (or King’s) English and BBC English—is the accent of Standard English in England, with a relationship to regional dialects similar to that of other European languages.

Spookily enough, only yesterday a certain bit off The thick of it came to my mind again – a bit that wouldn’t sound half as funny if it wasn’t for Paul Higgins’ accent (which I absolutely adore, of course):

So now I’m wondering if anybody ever addressed Mr Castelli saying:

you take the piss out of Al Jolson again and I will remove your iPod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it up your c**k. And then I’ll put some speakers up your arse and put it on to shuffle with my f**king fist. Then, every time I hear something that I don’t like — which will be every time that something comes on — I will skip to the next track by crushing your balls.

with a thick Roman accent, though, eventually substituting Al Jolson with Alberto Sordi.