The official 'Peter Roebuck faux ignorance' thread.

[Zat]

Given that this English twat is being foisted upon Aussie radio audiences again this summer, it means that we'll be subjected to another succession of his 'oh, I didn't know that' comments, when he's plainly just talking crap. I thought it may be worth starting a catalogue.

1230 EDST Day 1, 1st Test v NZ: "What's the Champions League?"

[Basil]

He's now officially one of yours - you can fecking keep him!

[Fred Nerk]

Is this like that layer of false bullshit in the ad/PR caper, that you have to work through to get a proper look at the real bullshit underneath?

[JGK]

That sh1ts me no end as well Zat.


"Television, what's that then?"

[Zat]

"A big ball of fire in the sky that heats half the earth at a time? Well I never..."

[embee]

Did he make his usual comments about 'the country hour'?

[Zat]

I don't know. I watched the first hour of the carnage on TV. The quote that started the thread was about the first thing I heard when I turned on the radio.

[Zat]

Mind you, Roebuck is a country member.

[embee]

I remember

[Zat]

[skully]

I remember

Hehe, noice.

[ten years after]

I wish i knew what faux ignorance means.

[tac]

"Faux Ignorance"? Isn't that Bill O'Reilly?

[lardbucket]

It's a phrase coined some time back to describe annoyance at Roebuck pretending to be dull on a particular matter, mostly in order to provoke controversy.

[Fred Nerk]

....amd to avoid having to communicate on any number of matters which he doesn't have to pretend to be dull about at all.

[lardbucket]

He's almost Shakespearean at times ...'Is this a dagger I see before me?'

[tac]

He's almost Shakespearean at times ...'Is this a dagger I see before me?'

And almost Ted Bullpitesque. . . "Is this a dago I see before me?"

[Zat]

and almost gay at times. Is this a date i see before me?

[lardbucket]

So what's this 'dago view' that people go on about?

[OP Tipping]

Hard to tell from the real thing.

[OP Tipping]

Faux means false, fake, pretend.

[Zat]

Spanky does do a remarkable job of mixing faux ignorance with the real thing, OP.

[horace]

interesting that both he and arjuna have one thing in common - a need to beat young people

[OP Tipping]

SO where does the nickname Spanky come from?


EDIT: Don't worry, I get it now.

[horace]

he beat some black cricket pupils for erring...fatarjuna and his brothers used cricket bats to flog some kids sitting outside one of the family macmansions...the kids were after autographs...

roebuck was convicted...fatarjuna got off

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