In Terms of Bollocks 9

A BBC World News presenter interviewing someone about the death of Joe Frazier: 

"A lot of people talk about the difficulty in terms of beating him".

It really does defy belief.

In Terms of Bollocks 8

The judge to the jury in the Michael Jackson trial: You have been remarkable throughout this trial in terms of your patience and dedication  =  You have been remarkably patient and dedicated throughout this trial  or Your patience and dedication throughout this trial have been remarkable.  

Why are even the greatest among us so determined to make their sentences unnecessarily complex in order to find ways of using the words "In terms of"?

Merkozy Greek Euro Bollocks

Don't you just love all the total euro bollocks coming out of Greece and Merkozyland?  Papandreou announces a referendum to ask the Greek people if thay are willing to accept the deal struck with Merkozy.  Merkozy jump up and down and, we are told, 'summon' Papandreou to Cannes. (Who the hell do they think they are 'summoning' the head of government of a sovereign state?  Papandreou should have told them to get lost). Then Merkozy announce that the Greek referendum question will be 'in or out of the euro'?   (Who the hell do they think they are telling another sovereign state what its referendum question will be?). The Greek media then scream the message that the Greek people just love the euro and are determined to stay in it so there is no need for a referendum, and every Greek vox pop face the TV broadcasters can find confirms that this is the case.  They love the euro they say for all the wonderful economic benefits it has brought to Greece.  Then they go back to rioting in the streets in protest at all the austerity measures they have to accept as a result of the massive destruction the euro has inflicted on them - massive destruction that all resulted from the Greeks falsifying their national accounts on a mega scale in order to qualify for entry to the euro, then spending billions they didn't have when the banks were conned by those falsified accounts into lending them the money to do it.  So they want to be in the euro but don't want to have to stop spending billions they don't have or to repay even half of the money they've borrowed let alone all of it.  They don't want to leave the euro because they know it will be financial ruin for them, and they don't want to stay in the euro becasue they know it will be financial ruin for them.  So they want someone to wave a magic wand so they can stay in the euro and carry on spending bllions they don't have for evermore.  Simple, as the meerkats say.

Only the French could have dug europe into such a deep pit of shit as this.