Penguins & Pessimism

With Results Like These, I’ll Earn “Spondulicks”

September 3, 2009 on 4:06 am | In Rants, School, TV | 2 Comments

Along with a whole host of other nervous kids, I received my GCSE results last week. It turns out that the months of super hard work and hours of revision time did indeed pay off as I came out with the following grades.

English – A*
English Literature – A
Maths – A
Statistics – A*
Core Science – A*
Additional Science – A
French – A
ICT – A
Media Studies – A
Religious Studies – A
Applied Business (Double Award) – AA
PE – B

I am so so so happy with these results, it’s incredible. The feeling of not having these exams looming in the future is such a nice one and the seven weeks of Summer this year have been even sweeter because of it. My only niggle with the results is French. Despite scoring an A* in all three of the exams (including full marks on the Reading paper), I only managed an A. This would appear to be due to my coursework, which apparently only merited a B, even though it was given an A* by my class teacher. Another A* would have made me even happier, but no worries. I’ll take what I got anyhow.

Now onto the second and most annoying aspect of this post. Recently, my TV has been dominated by a certain advert. The title of this post gives it away somewhat. I am of course referring to the irrefutably terrible advert for Go Compare, the comparison site. I object to embedding something so blood useless into my blog, so I have instead linked to it below for your *cough* viewing pleasure. However, I would be shocked if you hadn’t seen it at least a million times already.

Go Compare Ad

Words cannot describe how irate I become when this disgrace comes on the TV (which seems to be at least once during every single fucking ad break) as it is absolutely soul-destroyingly bad. I’m not even exaggerating. Basically, they have hired a fake Italian whose moustache has an erection to pretend to sing, whilst a real Italian does an opera-style voiceover and rams the name “Go Compare” down our throat for about thirty seconds. Midway through the ad, the schizophrenic Pavarotti wannabe utters the word “spondulicks” which apparently is slang for money. Before this advert began appearing, no-one in the whole of the country had heard the word. It is now on the lips of every single person under the age of 15 and quite a few on and above that age as well. I suppose the very fact I’m writing about it tells me that it has served its purpose, but surely they could have found a better way to communicate their point than by pissing me off. I’ll take Compare The Meerkat any day!