Two successive tweets to sum up. First tweet:
Awwwwww look at that sweet little thang, wouldn’t so much as swat a mosquito.
Next tweet:
For people not familiar with the UK education system, “two O Level” is roughly equivalent to “flunked out of high school at 16″…only more so because of the UK’s baroque and sadistic obsession with class. It’s gasp-level insulting.
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Either he’s the laziest bloke around, or he had a friend take a lot of pictures of him at Christmas, which he has been releasing in dribs and drabs ever since.
“A Tale of Two Twitties,” by Givumthe Dickens.
And of course the fact that Davies had a co-writer says nothing about the quality of the book or the accuracy of the information presented in it.
I am enamoured of the way he no longer tries to hide Adam’s Apple.
He’s a bloke. We know it. He knows. But the minute he stops pretending, he’s just another mediocre bloke without a platform.
And what the hell are they talking about? Google doesn’t seem to have heard of Shazza except for an Australian soap character.
#5 John . . .
possibly the google in your area is “filtering” the search . . .
a pre-pub article:
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/sharron-davies-to-co-author-book-with-craig-lord-on-the-fight-for-womens-sports/
and a nominally sane Waterstones listing:
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/sharron-davies-to-co-author-book-with-craig-lord-on-the-fight-for-womens-sports/
The tweet from Willoughby is the first time I’ve heard Sharron Davies referred to as “Shazza”. A search for “Sharron Davies and Craig Lord”, or perhaps a search on Amazon or other bookseller for “Craig Lord” (as Willoughby didn’t mention Davies’ last name), should find the book in question.
In addition to the links ktron provided, here’s a link on US Amazon for the ebook:
https://www.amazon.com/Unfair-Play-Battle-Womens-Sport-ebook/dp/B0BD6FQSN2/
I haven’t read this book, nor (Canadian runner) Linda Blade’s book in the same vein, Unsporting. If any of you have any thoughts about either book or comparisons, I’m interested in hearing about it.
Giving prominent people nicknames that nobody in their own lives uses is a bit of a British tabloid thing. It’s how the Spice Girls became Sporty, Baby etc. See also “Madge” for Madonna. I can’t think of any male examples, so I assume it’s intentionally… I don’t know, dismissive, disrespectful, mocking. “We don’t care what your name is, we’re gonna call you X”. “Shaz” or “Shazza” is a nickname someone who is called Sharron might have, but probably only if they belonged to the class of people most likely to only get two O Levels. Lady Sharron Montgomery-Spencer is never a Shazza. He’s doubling up on his clever insult, to make sure everyone notices.
Ahhh thank you. I didn’t know that part. I did think calling her “Shazza” was a deliberate insult, just as it’s a deliberate insult when I call That Man “Donnie” or similar, but I didn’t know about the tabloid aspect. So interesting.