He wasn't complaining about her accent or background, his issue is with her 'grammar'.
We have moved away from RP on the BBC and are now used to regional accents in terms of news reporters and presenters but you'll find their grammar is normally pretty much spot on.
I like her. Yes, I would prefer her pronunciation a touch better.
Some of accents we get are so bad I struggle to work out what they are saying, looking for context to get me over the words I can't make out
Worse are the way some people speak. Should never have been employed. She's not one of them and I repeat I like her
So far as fat boy is concerned his education and knowledge didn't lead him to know he is massively overweight
Some things in life you can choose
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Some people, like newsreaders, are recruited for their clarity and elocution. I find some recent BBC newsreaders fall short of the ideal. Not so Aljazeera, whose newsreaders are perfection in enunciation. Some of them are not hard to look at, either. There's a new Aussie who is gorgeous.
Often the case that the incredibly clear enunciators on AJ have names we all struggle with and would get wrong anyway
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Just to compound his ignorance, Digby Jones has popped up on LBC and says his comments on Alex Scott had "nothing to do with her being coloured". Yes, he called her "COLOURED".
Andrew Castle quickly corrected him.
Jones also claimed that he had carefully chosen the words in the tweet to avoid any reference to race or gender. Confusingly, he appears to be the only person in all of the comments I've read on the subject who has, in fact, referred to Alex Scott's "race".
Perhaps Digby would be wise to stop digging.
I didn't use to need the internet, my wife knew everything.
The mind-blowing optical illusion with a serious message
We've seen plenty of mind-blogging optical illusions over the years, and it's fair to say we'll always have room for one more. But almost every illusion we see is impressive (the human brain is quite a thing), it's not every day we see one that's also carrying an important message.
Titled They Can Disappear, this illusion by Russian artist Ilja Klemencov was created for the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), and features the organisation's iconic panda logo (arguably one of the best logos around) – you'll just have to squint to see it.
Stare at those zigzag lines for long enough, and you might eventually be able to make out the shape of the Panda. Klemencov's design is an example of an illusion known as the McCollough effect. Discovered in 1965 by Celeste McCollough, the illusion is a "phenomenon of human visual perception in which colourless gratings appear coloured contingent on the orientation of the gratings," (thanks, Wikipedia).
But while the illusion itself is as brain-frying as any other, perhaps the most impressive thing here is how the very concept of the elusive image lends itself to the organisation's urgent message. Indeed, the 'disappearing' animal is a grimly ingenious visualisation of an endangered species.
While this particular design isn't new (according to Sydney Morning Herald, it took first prize in the 2010 World Student Poster Biennale in Serbia), it reliably does the rounds online every few months. With the clever message, it has to be one of our favourite optical illusions out there.
Incidentally, if you think the presenter looks a little "dated" that's because the clip itself is from a recently rediscovered 1970s Aussie 1970s TV program called The Curiosity Show. The illusion itself is known as the Ames Window.
Ames window - Mr Ames also built entire rooms that played with perspectives. This video attempts to explain how the whole thing messes with your perception.
I think it's probably just my age that fools people into thinking I'm a grown-up.
He really throws himself into the subject, doesn't he? And he's apparently sponsored by the VPN company I use. I'm glad to see my subscription being put to good use.
I didn't use to need the internet, my wife knew everything.
What, it's not real?! I've just ordered a new system rack based on that design. It is supposed to give the infinite depth to the music. I might have been conned!
The 2 in the middle are a couple of tough little sons of guns. The only way I can see this is one square at a time looks straight which leads me to know they must all be straight.
This is insane.