And I’m pretty frickin’ sure the 22-year-old boy from Louisiana did NOT say:
“I think he was a bit gobsmacked, but he did it.”
or:
“Her brother rang and I spoke to him.”
I’ve lived in the (US) south since 1977, and I’ve never heard anyone say gobsmacked or ‘rang.’ I know what the words MEAN, but folks here don’t talk like that. Folks in London talk like that.
GB dopers: Is NewsOfTheWorld a tabloid (fake)- type rag? This thing smells like #2.
I don’t think we could find a better poster-child for the “I’m going to wait until marriage so we don’t need to teach birth control and condom use in the schools” movement.
If some lines are bullshit i.e. “Her mum kept on ringing and saying we were acting like 12-year-olds.” then most of it probably is. It sounded plausible until then.
Let’s see, the guy’s from the southern US, and nobody from the “newspaper” bothers to get his speech pattern right? No American that was born and raised here calls his mother his mum. Period. Nor do they say rang in that sense, utter fabrication.
The fact that they got married after unresolved sexual tensions were sated is not actually a surprise to anyone is it? Maybe it’s just the details people are interested in.
Eh, not always. My mother and her sister always call my grandma, “mum”, instead of “mom.” And when I was a child, I never said, “mommy”, I ALWAYS said “Mummy.”
That being said, I agree with you on the article-probably a fake. If it’s not, Jesus Christ, dude, ever hear of TMI?
What the…her new squeeze broke up with his girlfriend, who is carrying his child, so he could marry Britney?
" She was a natural, with the most fantastic a*** I’ve ever felt."
Ass is not generally spelled with 4 letter (i.e., the writer was thinking “arse” something else Jason would not say).
Who knows, the article may be based on some sort of real source, possibly from Alexander himself (wouldn’t he have to have authorized it in some way shape or form, given England’s libel laws? Just asking.) and then they wrote it up as an interview.
Pretty funny, you’d think even at News of the World, somebody would have realized “gobsmacked” is not an Americanism.
Having been a reporter, and also having been interviewed a couple of times by unscrupulous national papers, I can tell you that it usually goes like this:
Interviewee: “Bla bla bla bla.”
Journalist: “So would you say, ‘blardy blardy blar blar’ would be a way of saying that?”
Interviewee: “Uh, yeah, I guess so. Sort of.”
Journalist then writes down “blardy blardy blar blar” instead of “bla bla bla bla”. While typing it up that evening, he adds an extra few "blardy"s.
Then it gets to the subeditor, who alters it subtly to ‘Blardy blardy blardiddly blar blip blap’ to make it more racy and applicable to its readership, and it gets printed, making the interviewee look like a :wally.
A lot of journos are unscrupulous, but The News of the World is a particularly shite rag.
How many twenty-something guys are going to go into that sort of detail about what someone was wearing? “Britney looked stunning in jeans and a black halter top. Britney had stripped to a black lace thong and black see-through bra.” That’s romance novel description, not how someone talks.
Whatever the details… Geez Britney has got herself a winner in this guy doesn’t she. :rolleyes: Walks out on his pregnant girlfriend to go get himself some camera time…Yup this one’s a keeper.
And we keep hearing how gays are destroying the family and the institution of marriage.
jjimm is spot-on here. This kind of article is standard fare for the British rags, day in and day out - it just happens to have hit a particularly well-known target on this occassion. And the interviews always read the same. If the press were breaking libel laws in doing this, they’d have been sued by now. But they’re well-rehearsed at keeping to a Clintonesque form of truth.