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Brian Mitchell & Joseph Nixon’s thoroughly scurrilous Brighton column
The Bare Cheek yoof column!
Joe: Er
Brian: Well here we are again.
Joe: Yes. So – young people eh?
Brian: Yes.
Joe: Hmm.
Brian: Ooh. I nearly forgot – I very nearly bought an iPod the other day.
Joe: Oh yes?
Brian: Yes. But in the end I didn’t. Instead I bought a two volume set of The Collected Novels of Tobias Smollett.
Joe: Jolly good.
MORE OF THE KRAZY WORLD OF YOOF NEXT WEEK
Special Films You Enjoyed But Whose Plots You Can’t For The Life Of You Remember Edition
In
• The Sand Pebbles
• Old Gringo
• Charley Varrick
• The Quiller Memorandum
• The Milagro
Beanfield War
Out
• The Onion Field
• McCabe And Mrs Miller
• Heat
• Six Days Of The Condor
• Klute
NEWS IN BRIEF
> Seagull wins Mastermind
> Messiah jailed
> “Secret of long life”: Onions, bunions, Runyons
> Ventriloquism costs rocket
> Wonka Tax “a disaster”
> Britain’s oldest man dismissive of Britain’s second oldest man
> Sex pest’s tears of joy
> Top Kurts commemorated: Vonnegut, Cobain, Russell, Waldheim
> Lost episode of Hi-di-Hi! burnt
> Blackmail voted best non-lethal crime
What we used to say
An occasional series in which we struggle to remember the original, simple, once common terms that have been abandoned in favour of ghastly, overblown, crass, managerial Americanisms.
WHAT WE SAY NOW: “Emotional Intelligence”
A phrase popularized in 1995 by Daniel Goleman in his book of the same name to denote the kind of intellect that fully comprehends and assesses human feelings, rather than, say, merely grappling with a logical paradox or a mathematical conundrum in a somewhat arid manner.
WHAT WE USED TO SAY: “Wisdom”
