The Oscars come up, Baftas, Oliviers and what-have-you, and he gets all partisan about who he thinks ought to win, so when someone else bags them he can't help thinking it's all bollocks and it was a pity vote or darkly political, and who says the judges are competent to judge anyway?
"It was the first time I'd noticed something so embedded in our culture was surely just bollocks, and it sent me into a tailspin," says Sam Hill, 27, from Lincoln.
it's bollocks and all it does is create a psychological condition of helplessness in that individual, and that's what you don't want.
He's the bollocks and I'd follow him anywhere.
We were 11 in the midweeks, and pushing on No 10; there was a lot of tension in the record company, with people going: 'Oh, if it's a 10 it's easier to promote as a success.' It's all bollocks, really, and it shouldn't make any difference.
Until they noticed the reaction at their record company: "We were 11 in the mid-weeks, and pushing on No 10," said their drummer, Al Sharland, and "there was a lot of tension in the record company, with people going, 'Oh, if it's a 10 it's easier to promote as a success.' It's all bollocks, really, and it shouldn't make any difference.
And it's hard to top the lyric on the organ-fuelled Pearl's Cafe: "It's all a load of bollocks, and bollocks to it all".
"Plots, secrets, fake scoops, bollocks, and backward thinking: it takes just one night of watching television to understand Italy's talk-show crisis" was one of his tweets at the end of January.
You could say bollocks to it and get married in something from Topshop, but it's not easy for any woman who has grown up with the beauty myth - even if she's actually read The Beauty Myth - to do that on the one day still marked most seriously by old-fashioned notions of femininity.
But it stuck on his bollocks, and as they opened the car door one of them held out his hand for it.
For fuck's sake, we've been listening to that interminable fucking bollocks all fucking evening and it's been doing my fucking head in.
