"To bulk up a television news report with needless vox-pop soundbites from ill-informed members of the public." (Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker)
To pebbledash the broadcast with the opinions of plebs.
To pebbledash the broadcast with the opinions of plebs.
The breakfast news is heavily plebbledashed. They seem to care more about the opinions of people texting in than they do about standards of reporting.
by Blue Jack May 04, 2009
Get the plebbledash mug.Any eating utensils (cutlery) that aren't knives, sporks or chopsticks, and are therefore superfluous.
You can eat anything if you've got a knife, spork and chopsticks. You don't need four different spoons. Said spoons are untensils.
You can eat anything if you've got a knife, spork and chopsticks. You don't need four different spoons. Said spoons are untensils.
I'm never comfortable having dinner with Mark - he sets the table with loads of untensils I never end up using.
by Blue Jack October 18, 2009
Get the untensils mug.Standing or sitting in the sections between carriages on a busy train, 'cos all the seats are taken.
Usually on an unplanned long-distance trip, where the seats are all booked in advance.
About as far from first class as you can get without going outside the train.
Usually on an unplanned long-distance trip, where the seats are all booked in advance.
About as far from first class as you can get without going outside the train.
After missing the train we'd booked seats on, we had to travel corridor class until we got to Birmingham.
by Blue Jack December 09, 2008
Get the corridor class mug.In fanfic, putting characters into a romantic relationship, such as writing Ash + Misty from Pokemon as a couple. Often plays on perceived chemistry between characters in the original series. Abbreviated form of the word relationshipping.
by Blue Jack August 04, 2008
Get the shipping mug.TV show that attempts to tackle an issue, but is geared up more to entertain than to make a difference.
Originally coined by Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker.
Originally coined by Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker.
Did you see that issuetainment last night, where they made those fat kids do sports? They weren't trying to help them, just make them look silly on TV.
"The only solution is to find a new threat, which brings us to 'Ian Wright's Unfit Kids' (C4), a weekly 'issuetainment' programme in which the former footballer and renowned enemy of grammar forces a bunch of overweight youngsters to take part in some extracurricular PE." - Charlie Brooker, Screen Burn (9/16/2006)
"The only solution is to find a new threat, which brings us to 'Ian Wright's Unfit Kids' (C4), a weekly 'issuetainment' programme in which the former footballer and renowned enemy of grammar forces a bunch of overweight youngsters to take part in some extracurricular PE." - Charlie Brooker, Screen Burn (9/16/2006)
by Blue Jack January 22, 2009
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