And he has taught English for 30 years and is adept at translating bollocks.
"It's bollocks," says Gatiss of the list.
"All you need to play football is one ball and two bollocks" – so does Rayo coach Paco Jémez.
1-0 down in a minute, there's no story … There were few fouls, few bollocks, and that hurts me.
American acceptance of it and of Billy Elliot are evidence that, despite all the fannies and bollocks, some British film-makers are managing to break the US market on their own terms.
Likewise a censored version of Blake Edwards's 10 on network TV 20 years ago, when every rude word was excised - except for the Englishman abroad's multi-applicable code word: bollocks.
After keeping them in the fridge for a while, he cooked them and served his friends a meal of steaming hot bollocks.
His car registration plate is M16 WMD ("It's a sort of up yours!"), and when I use the word "bollocks" a few minutes later, his face lights up and he is off again: "That was one of my great quotes!" At last week's Fifa congress he told a journalist that Blatter's speech was bollocks.
Iribar, Iribar, Iribar is the bollocks; there's no one like him.
You cannot win hearts and minds on facts when nobody can agree on them, particularly when the "facts" are often speculative at best; brazen bold-faced billy bollocks at worst.
