#1355 Bon Jovi Tickets, Take Advantage Of, Barbie Video Girl, Blue-collar

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Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show. Today we’re studying a video called:
Want to see Bon Jovi live?

I think this is a pretty funny video and also a clever and entertaining way to make a point. The video’s made with Xtra Normal – that’s a pretty cool site where you can make your own animated videos. And it’s made by a Bon Jovi fan and it’s about how expensive and difficult it is to get tickets to Bon Jovi concerts.

For example: You will have to pay $50 for the Bon Jovi fan club membership, just for the privilege of buying the ticket.

And: If you want to be front row you will also have to queue outside the stadium for four nights before the concert.

The person who made the video wrote this in the description: All we ask is that the band, the management and Backstage With Jon Bon Jovi will not take advantage of our crazy undisputed loyalty.

Take advantage of is an idiom which means: to make use of sb/sth in a way that is unfair or dishonest.

For example: He took advantage of my generosity.

So I think the point that they’re trying to make is that the fans are very loyal and will do anything to get tickets, so Bon Jovi shouldn’t take advantage of this and charge them more than a fair price.





STICK NEWS

Kia ora this is Stick News. According to news reports some people are worried about the latest Barbie doll which has a camera inside her chest and a screen on her back.

Barbie is a doll which has been made by an American toy company since 1959.
The latest doll is called Barbie Video Girl and comes with a built in video camera.
Apparently some experts are worried that the camera could produce some inappropriate content.

And that was Stick News for Thursday 4 November.
Kia ora.


Look, Mum! I gave Barbie a haircut.
Lovely.


MUMMY! TOMMY HIT ME … AND I HAVE EVIDENCE!
Oh, crap.


And this is Mummy playing with the postman.
Gasp!



Word of the Day

Today’s word is blue-collar.

Blue-collar is an adjective which means: connected with people who do physical work in industry.

So if you work in a warehouse, moving boxes around, then you’re a blue-collar worker.
And if you work in an office, moving pieces of paper around, you’re a white-collar worker.

One of the characters in today’s video says they love Bon Jovi because they’re “a true blue-collar band.”

I guess this means that a lot of their songs are about blue-collar workers, so a lot of blue-collar workers enjoy their music. For example, Livin’ on a Prayer is about a couple called Tommy and Gina who are both blue-collar workers and who are struggling financially. Tommy used to work on the docks and Gina works in a diner.



Question Time

We filmed today’s question time when we visited a mountain in New Zealand called Ruapehu. We talked to some of the people working on the mountain, and we asked them:

Where are you from?

Um, I’m from England, in the Midlands, a little town called Tamworth.

Um, I’m from England originally.

Ah, I come from Argentina, yeah, from a city that’s in the middle of Argentina. The name is Córdoba.

From Palmerston North, just a bit south of Mount Ruapehu.

I live right here in Ohakune.

Ohakune is my home.

Turangi.

Ah, Manchester, England.



conversations with sarah
#872 I don’t care

Step 1: Repeat Sam’s lines.
Step 2: Read Sam’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Sam If you want to be front row you will also have to queue outside the stadium for four nights before the concert.

Sarah I don’t care.

Sam You will have to sleep on the sidewalk in a tent.

Sarah I don’t care.

Sam You won’t have any decent toilet to pee in for four days.

Sarah I don’t care.

Sam You will have to site in the rain covered in garbage bags.

Sarah I don’t care. I want to be front row at a Bon Jovi concert.

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Want to see Bon Jovi live? - Transcript

Hello, I would like to buy a front row ticket to a Bon Jovi concert.

What’s your budget?

$1000.

For a thousand dollars you can buy a last row ticket on the upper, upper tier.

But I want to be front row.

You will have to pay $50 for the Bon Jovi fan club membership, just for the privilege of buying the ticket.

I don’t care.

You will have to buy a ticket through a fan club presale.

I don’t care.

The presale started yesterday at 8 and sold out at 8:01.

But I want to be front row at a Bon Jovi concert.

So you will have to buy an overpriced package which includes nothing but the ticket, the plastic bag and a reserved (?) VIP toilets where available. And it will cost you three times the price of a regular ticket.

I don’t care.

After you buy the non-refundable, overpriced package, the pre-sale will start again.

I don’t care.

If you want to be front row you will also have to queue outside the stadium for four nights before the concert.

I don’t care.

You will have to sleep on the sidewalk in a tent.

I don’t care.

You won’t have any decent toilet to pee in for four days.

I don’t care.

You will have to sit in the rain covered in garbage bags.

I don’t care. I want to be front row at a Bon Jovi concert.

They will write a number on your arm and put you in a list.

I don’t care.

They will open the gates and you will have five seconds to find your space in the front row while fighting the 300 Jovi crazy fans.

I don’t care.

They will push you.

I don’t care.

They will pull out your eyes.

I don’t care.

If you get to the front row you will be so exhausted you will fall asleep in the middle of Sleep When I’m Dead.

I don’t care. I want to be front row at a Bon Jovi concert.

Fine, give me your $1000. You are now an exclusive member of Backstage With Bon Jovi and have a bounce package with a diamond circle ticket to the Bon Jovi show at the community centre in Antarctica.

Thank you. Thank you so much. You have made my dreams come true.

If I may ask, why do you want to be in the front row at a Bon Jovi concert so much?

I love them, because they are a true blue-collar band.

Idiot.







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#1348 Lightning Vs Lightening, Ugly Dance, Espresso Vs Expresso, Eggplant Vs Aubergine

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Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today we’re studying a video called Lightning Versus Lightening from The Grammar Girl channel on YouTube.

The Grammar Girl is Mignon Fogarty. She makes a very popular podcast about grammar called: Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.

And she’s also written a book. This is her site.

In this video she explains the difference between lightning and lightening.

Do you ever get those two words mixed up? I guess it’s more common to get them confused if you live in North America because they have the same pronunciation in American English.

Lightning, with no e, is the stuff that flashes in the sky, or that people draw on their faces. And lightening, with an e, is what happens when you bleach your hair.

If you do have trouble remembering which is which, Grammar Girl has a good tip. She says to think of a lightening bolt zapping out the letter e.

STICK NEWS

Kia ora in Stick News today a group of German high school students has won the Ugly Dance World Cup.

This year ten teams competed in the Ugly Dance World Cup in Germany.
The winning group was from a town in northwestern Germany.
Organizers said the group won because of their epic ugliness, horrible appearance and their signature move - the Shy Dance.

And that was Stick News for Thursday the 28th of October.
Kia ora.


Is your ugly face part of the costume?
Oooh! Did it take you all day to think of that one?


My team won the World Cup!
Football?
Mmm … similar …


I’d like to thank myself for being God’s Gift!
Aw, bless, even the speech is ugly.

Word of the Day

Today’s word is espresso.

Another one of The Grammar Girl’s videos is called: Is It Espresso or Expresso?
And she says it should be espresso. And the word comes from the Italian for pressed out.

But in the Concise Oxford Dictionary under espresso it has in brackets (also expresso). So I guess the x is also acceptable. But still, I would recommend using an s, especially if you’re writing it on a board in a café - I think it looks kind of amateur to use an x.

Question Time

We filmed today’s question time in a suburb in Auckland called Parnell.

In New Zealand this vegetable is usually called an eggplant or an aubergine – but I wasn’t sure which one was more common. So we decided to take one to the streets and ask people: What do you usually call this?

Zucchini? No? What is it? I don’t know.
Um, well, it’s either an eggplant or an aubergine.
And which one do you usually call it?
Eggplant.

Ah, either an eggplant or an aubergine.
And what do you usually call it?
Probably an eggplant.

Eggplant.

It’s an eggplant, right?

Um, an eggplant … or an aubergine.
Which one do you usually use?
Usually eggplant.

Ah, pomegranate. No, I’m just making that up – I have no clue.
I actually cooked two of these in the last week. He’s, ah, crazy. It’s eggplant. We call it eggplant in Los Angeles.

I call that an eggplant.



conversations with sarah
#867 Why not aubergine?

Step 1: Repeat Dylan’s lines.
Step 2: Read Dylan’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Dylan What do you usually call it?

Sarah These days I usually say eggplant.

Dylan Why not aubergine?

Sarah I think I used to say aubergine, but then when I want to Japan most people seemed to learn eggplant, so when I was speaking English I usually said eggplant, and now I just say it out of habit I guess.

Dylan What is it in Japanese?

Sarah Nasu.

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Lightning Versus Lightening - TRANSCRIPT


Hi, it’s Mignon Fogarty with your Grammar Girl bonus track number 35.
One thing I like about living in Reno is the cool lightning we get in the summer.
I find those bolts of light from the sky to be endlessly entertaining.

The word lightning is quite old. The Oxford English Dictionary dates its first use as a noun to describe light from the sky to 1377. Back then in Middle English spelling was dramatically different from our modern English spelling. Lightning was spelt with a y and a letter we don’t even use today, called the yogh, that kind of looks like the number 3, and eventually got replaced with our current letters gh. So way back in the 1300s, lightning was spelled l-i-(yogh)-t-n-y-n-g-e.

Today there are two forms of the word lightning and people often get them confused. Dictionaries say that long ago the two words were spelled the same. They both come from the word light which goes back even further, all the way to Old English before the year 900.

But today, the lightning we’ve been talking about, the bolt from the sky, doesn’t have an e. It’s spelled l-i-g-h-t-n-i-n-g. The other kind of lightening, what women do when they get their hair bleached for example, is spelled with an e: l-i-g-h-t-e-n-i-n-g.

Lightning without an e can also be a metaphor for something that’s fast. Games, games shows, and even TV shows often have a lightning round. One of the earliest game shows to have a lightning round was the show Password in 1961. And Lightning McQueen was the name of one of the racers in the movie Cars.
Two of my favourite quotations about lightning come from Mark Twain. The first quotation is about writing. He said, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is a really large matter. It’s the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
The second quotation is about humanity and I like it despite Twain’s rough word choice. He said, “The trouble ain’t that there’s too many fools but that lightning ain’t distributed right.”

So don’t be a fool, and remember to spell lightning properly. If you’re writing about someone lightening hair, it’s spelled with an e. But if you’re writing about Percy Jackson and the Olympians, the lightning thief, it’s spelled without the e.
My agent, Laurie Abkemeier, came up with a good memory trick. She said just think of a lightning bolt zapping out the letter e. Thanks Laurie, and thanks all of you for watching.



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artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
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WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: Évreux, France
album at Jamendo
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artist site

cws start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
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qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint-Raphaël, France
album at Jamendo
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qa bgm
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#1341 Bedtime Story, Steel Spikes In Park Benches, Hog, NZMA Highlights

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Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today we’re studying a video called Bedtime Story. It’s a short film - it’s just over a minute long - and I think it’s pretty clever.

A guy and a girl are going to bed and the girl is holding the guy’s gun. And she says: Is this for your wife?
And he says: Yeah.
And she says: Are you going to do it?
And he says: No, it’s too risky. I think I might hire somebody.

So obviously they’re having an affair and he’s planning to kill his wife.
And then his girlfriend offers to be the one who kills her. She says: You know, I could do it.
And he says: Cute. Who’d be dumb enough to hire a woman hit man?

A hit man is a person who’s paid to kill someone and he thinks a female hit man wouldn’t be good enough, so it would be stupid to hire a female.

And then comes the punchline, so you’ll have to go and watch the video to find out what it is.



STICK NEWS

Kia ora in Stick News today park officials in China have fitted steel spikes to park benches in an attempt to stop people from hogging the benches.

Park officials in a province in eastern China say they have a problem with bench-hogging.
So they’ve fitted park benches with steel spikes.
The spikes are on a coin-operated timer and pop out if people don’t feed the meter.
Apparently park bosses got the idea from an art exhibition in Germany.

And that was Stick News for Thursday 21st October.
Kia ora.


If the government wasn’t so incompetent, people wouldn’t have to sleep on park benches!
Give that man some spikes …
Right away, boss.


Mummy, I’m stuck!
gasp!


How was the exhibition?
Inspiring!
rub, rub

Word of the Day

Today’s word is hog.

In today’s news story they put steel spikes in park benches to try and stop people hogging the benches.

To hog means: to use or keep most of sth yourself and stop others from using or having it.

For example, if you’re watching TV with your brother Billy and he has the remote control and he won’t let you use it, you can go and complain to your mother and say: Mum, Billy’s hogging the remote!

Question Time

We filmed today’s question time after this year’s New Zealand Music Awards. We asked people: What was the highlight of the night for you?

The highlight would’ve definitely been Gin Wigmore. She was so amazing and she looked so good, and yeah, definitely that.

I quite liked the opening with Dane Rumble and J Williams and Stan Walker.

Yeah, I liked the live performances and yeah, just seeing them on stage.

Probably the Shihad performance.

Probably the opening performance which was pretty amazing, yeah.

Um, probably the visuals. The visual LED lights, I really liked them. Yeah.

Highlight was probably just seeing everyone there, aye. It’s hard to pick a highlight.

I didn’t really have highlights, everything was pretty good.

I’d say Dane Rumble and Gin.

I like Gin Wigmore.

The whole evening.

I liked the beginning with Stan Walker, J Williams and Dane Rumble. They’re pretty cool.

Probably Gin Wigmore.

Yeah, Gin Wigmore. She won so many awards, so it was really cool.

Oh, Shihad.

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#862 Is this for your wife?

Step 1: Repeat the girl’s lines.
Step 2: Read the girl’s lines and talk to the guy.

Girl Is this for your wife?

Guy Yeah.

Girl Are you going to do it?

Guy No, it’s too risky. I think I might hire somebody.

Girl You know, I could do it.

Guy Cute. Who’d be dumb enough to hire a woman hit man?

QuestionAnswer

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Bedtime Story - TRANSCRIPT


Fuck, Baby, that thing’s loaded.

Is this for your wife?

Yeah.

Are you going to do it?

No, it’s too risky. I think I might hire somebody.

You know, I could do it.

Cute. Who’d be dumb enough to hire a woman hit man?

Your wife.

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artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
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artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: Évreux, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site

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artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint-Raphaël, France
album at Jamendo
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qa bgm
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#1334 Paul Henry, Bird Of The Year, Flamboyant, NZ Music Awards, Breakfast

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Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.

The video we’re studying today is a clip from a New Zealand TV show called Breakfast, that was big news in New Zealand recently.

What happened was a TV presenter called Paul Henry was interviewing John Key - the prime minister of New Zealand - and they were talking about the Governor-General.

The Governor-General is a kind of head of state – they’re the Queen’s representative in New Zealand.
The current Governor-General, Anand Satyanand, has been the Governor-General since 2006, and Paul Henry was asking about who the next Governor-General is going to be.

He said: It’s almost time, is it, for you to choose a Governor-General?

And the prime minister agreed that it was.

And then Paul Henry said: Are you going to choose a New Zealander who looks and sounds like a New Zealander this time?
And then: Are we going to go for someone who is more like a New Zealander this time?

So, the current Governor-General is a New Zealander and he was born in New Zealand too. This is from Wikipedia: Satyanand was born and raised in Auckland to an Indo-Fijian and Anglo-Indian family. And this is what he looks like:

photo: www.gg.govt.nz

Paul Henry didn’t say what he thinks a New Zealander looks like, but he was clearly saying that the Governor-General doesn’t look like a New Zealander because he looks Indian.
Which is wrong, of course, because you don’t have to be a certain race or look a certain way to be a New Zealander.
But more importantly it’s very rude and disrespectful to the Governor-General, to suggest that he doesn’t look like a New Zealander. And it’s offensive to other Indian New Zealanders to suggest that they don’t look like New Zealanders because of their race.
So a lot of people complained about Paul Henry’s comments and he ended up resigning.

STICK NEWS

Kia ora in Stick News today the Kākāriki is New Zealand’s bird of the year.

The Kākāriki is a native New Zealand parakeet . It’s just been voted bird of the year in an annual contest run by Forest and Bird.
A Forest and Bird spokesperson said the Kākāriki was popular for its flamboyant dress sense.
She said the birds were gorgeous chatterboxes who sounded like they were always having fun.

And that was Stick News for Thursday 14th October.
Kia ora.




Let’s not forget this is an award just for me.
LOL! HA HA! LMAO!


I love Pukeko!
Me too. But that lime green … oh! Stunning!


Daaaarling! You have to join us! We’re having drinky-poos watching the most fabulous sunset.

Word of the Day

Today’s word is flamboyant.

This is a word from today’s news story. The Kākāriki has a flamboyant dress sense.
Flamboyant means: bright, colourful and noticeable … like the Kākāriki.

It also means: (of people or their behaviour) different, confident and exciting in a way that attracts attention.

Do you know anyone who you would describe as flamboyant?

I think Lady Gaga is someone you could describe as flamboyant.

Question Time

The New Zealand music awards were held on the 7th of October this year at Vector Arena in Auckland.

And for today’s question we asked people before the show: Who are you most exited about seeing tonight?

Shihad if they’re, if they’re here, I don’t know. I kind of came here last minute, so …

Ah, probably Kids of 88. (PJ - Running With Scissors)

Gin Wigmore actually, if she, if she performs, yeah.

The Shihad act at the end is terrific and they’re getting a legacy award, but Gin Wigmore, she did a terrific show. (David Slack)

This is really embarrassing, but Ronan Keating.

Midnight Youth … if they’re going to be here, yeah.

Ooh, it’s a tough one. Ooh, I don’t know. Everybody, everybody’s just so cool.

Pretty keen to see all the acts.

Ah, just come to see the whole lot really, just for a good night out.

J. Williams.

I’m not sure, because … just, I’m curious, this event.

Stan Walker.

Gin Wigmore.

I’m really excited about all the acts tonight. Um, really good to … I hope to see Stan Walker tonight, live, the brother representing. (Pikiteora Mura-Hita - Homai Te Pakipaki, Phatmatics)

Shapeshifter, definitely.

conversations with sarah
#857 Hence the name

Step 1: Repeat Simon’s lines.
Step 2: Read Simon’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Simon Is that show on at breakfast time?

Sarah Yeah, hence the name.

Simon Do a lot of people watch TV in the morning?

Sarah Yeah, I think they do, seems weird to me though - can’t imagine watching TV in the morning.

Simon So you’ve never watched that show?

Sarah No, but I’ve seen clips from it on the internet.



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Lady Gaga flamboyant - Google search

The quote from the Kākāriki's speech in Stick News is from Paul Henry's acceptance speech when he won a People's Choice award.

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artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
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WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

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artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Happy Alley
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site

cws start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
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qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
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