Who is that fop on BBC America News?

The loud guy who stands in front of oversized monitors and screems at the camera and the people he interviews.

I like to get my day started with this news broadcast but this guys sets by teeth on edge whenever he comes on. He needs a good kick in the sack and be told to calm the fuck down.

Between him and Piers Morgan, why do we get all the UK rejects?

It’s to balance out the Olivers and Fergusons…

“Fop”?

I have no idea whom you’re talking about, but I thought “fop” meant an affectedly over-fastidious style-obsessed type. A dandy. A Beau Brummel. A male version of the “clotheshorse diva”.

Is the loud frenetic screamer you’re talking about an exaggeratedly well-dressed loud frenetic screamer?

Or its an insult you pedantic fuck. Calling a person a jackass does not mean you believe them to be an animals hindquarters.

It’s an insult to someone’s style, not a generic put down.

Unless it is.

Yeah, I gathered that much. In fact, I’ve always known that the word “fop” is an insult.

It just seemed to be a very peculiar insult to use for the specific characteristics you were complaining about. Like calling somebody “lazybones” for being foul-mouthed and aggressive.

I know it can’t just be that you’re congenitally bad at selecting appropriate insults, because “pedantic fuck” is spot-on for somebody who interrupts your vehement rant to question your vocabulary choices. :smiley:

I don’t want “Fop,” goddammit! I’m a Dapper Dan man!

You watch your language, young fella. This is a public market.

This must be the logic that has so many political commentators calling Hillary Clinton ugly.

Kimstu is right. Even if it’s used as an insult, “fop” means a man who is overly concerned with dressing fashionably. A dandy. A popinjay. A coxcomb. A peacock. A macaroni.

So who is the guy the OP is talking about? I can’t reliably get BBC News America (thanks, Comcast) but now I’m curious.

It must be Austin Powers

You mean this guy? Aaron Heslehurst?

Yeah. What a fop. Look at that foppy tie. All striped up like there’s no tomorrow. I’ve never seen such foppiness. It even matches his beige suit. Jesus, give me break.

Next thing you know he’ll be wearing checks.

The stripes on his tie match the wrinkles on his forehead and the lines on that weird geometry-diagram-looking thing on the screen behind him. Now that’s some serious fop game.

Exactly. Just like calling a person a trundler does not mean you believe them to be a reliable, steady medium-pace bowler who is not especially good, but is not especially bad either. It’s just an insult.

Now I’m visualising a football fan in a brocade waistcoat and spats, lisping in an estuary accent, and taking pinches of snuff from a delicate box whilst flailing his arms about like a loony.
A fop is a dandy: perhaps the OP meant to write ‘Who is that fuck’.

Yep. That’s the loud mouthed fop I’m talking about.

Some guys just wear a suit well. He parades around the stage in one.

See, Sitnam? The OP who used the word “fop” actually meant it in the sense of “fop”, not just as some randomly-chosen generic insult.

Let that be a lesson to you not to be such a trigger-happy irritable pennypincher. :stuck_out_tongue:

Is this guy a fop?