Vice magazine spend transfer deadline day at the emirates

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-madness-of-the-transfer-w indow?utm_source=vicefb (http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-madness-of-the-transfer-window?utm_source=vicefb)

Cracking stuff

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/cebd1341219def4205c2424132a1c6a1.jpg

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

"As the smiles turned into screwfaces", "a relative povvos' wilderness", "the Emirates itself, which cost a **** ton of money to build."

[Curly]

[Classic Jorge]

I imagine he's dumbing them down to the point they can work for the sun, or write for seven year olds

[Jake]

The writer of that article itself is the sort of 'voice of the yoof' of the editorial department - which explains his style and vernacular.

[Luis Anaconda]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/8/17/1376699026745/Murdoch-News-Corp-008.jpg

http://nfs.stvfiles.com/imagebase/104/410x230/104587-spoof-stanley-baxter-famously-parodied-his-hometowns-patter-in-his-show-parliamo-glasgow.jpg

[redgunamo]

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

Other than his little flurries of bus-stop colloquialisms the article is generally well written. I thought Vice was supposed to be a more accurate barometer of what is actually cool, rather than throwing in words like 'screwfaced' in a ham-fisted attempt to sound 'street'.

[The Tony]

[Jake]

I think it comes down to how stylistically familiar you are with a publication/writer.

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

[LadyG -keeping the spirit of the unbeatables alive]

[Jake]

As I say, I think it comes down to how familiar the reader is with the said style.

Considering he's Vice UK's most popular author I think he's now very conscious of what a majority of his readers like/find amusing and does hone in on these 'urban' analogies quite often.

[Harry Balls]