Stop giving this country [UK] a horrible name for having the most evil and destructive press in the world. No one cares about Sven and Ulrika we don’t want to hear about it. We don’t want you to ruin their lives. We don’t want you to ruin anyone’s lives.
You come up with the feeble crappy slimy excuse “people want to know these things” well we FUCKING DON’T. Anyone who does want to know these things is extremely sad.
The UK (tabloid) press disgusts me. With the arrival of digital TV the TV news is getting just as bad. It is pure evil that gets a story about someone famous not being utterly perfect and chucks it into the newspaper without a second of thought.
It’s human nature to be imperfect. therefore it is completely forgivable that famous people happen to be as imperfect as the rest of us. Yet you evil bastards ruin their lives if they do anything slightly wrong.
I can’t express how wrong it feels when I think about it. This post has not begun to express it. I just can’t find the words.
Not Sven and Ulrika! i love Sven and Ulrika! My favorite episode was when Sven joined the Army, with hilarious results! And then Ulrika decided to sell Vitameatavegamin, and hijinks ensued! And who can forget their neighbor, Urkel-Lars! And the episode they were trapped on the island with ALF!
Sorry I thought there were lots of ‘UK Dopers’ in the SDMB. A UK doper would know who sven and ulrika are because they can’t escape those names.
Sven is the swedish manager of the England football (whoops. sorry, soccer) team.
Ulrika is a weathergirl turned shooting stars guest turned gameshow presenter. She is from Sweden (I am not sure if she was born there or just has swedish parents.
p.s. I am not quite sure if it is sweden that they are from. I know it’s one of those north european countries.
Again I thought the SDMB was full of people from the Uk so this post would be understood.
I understand and I’m fed up of the whole thing. It’s hardly as if hounding the England manager is going to make us do any BETTER in the World Cup, is it?
Grrr. The press seem to be addicted to any smidgen of gossip that they can turn into pages of lurid SCAAAANDAL.
Man, I was all excited thinking that I finally got my own pit thread. I was kind of wonder who this Ulrika person was, and why people need to shut the fuck up about us.
I think the whole point is it isn’t extra-marital. Both are single and their relationship, you’d think, is entirely their business. Especially as they don’t actually appear to have one. 90% of the story was in the fevered heads of tabloid journalists. I don’t think they’re getting any, so they have to get their jollies imagining others at it.
Anyway, I’m sure the English tabloids have the heartfelt thanks of all non-Englanders everywhere. It was beginning to look worryingly like England might be quite good and have something like a chance in the coming World Cup. But what with Beckam breaking his foot, and Sven being hounded night and day, the press might yet turn this unfortunate situation around.
Oh, and leave the UK out of this. This is a primarily an English preoccupation, thanks very much.
