Bill Nighy

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3,458 appearances 12 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 5d ago

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ill-advised by Bill Nighy · He Showers In The Dark · 21 May 2026 podcast

I don't object to it on the grounds that it's an Americanism.

But I think that's where it came from.

And I think it's hung around for a while.

And I think it's, you know, it's hung around long enough.

So that is now banned forever from the English language.

You can administer on-the-spot fines for all of these expressions.

Once they've been officially banned, as endorsed by the permissions committee and myself, you are at liberty to deliver reprimands and to demand on-the-spot fines.

This is worrying.

I've never heard of it in my life, but claggy.

apparently is a word, as in, I'm so sorry the sauce is a bit claggy, which this reader, this listener rather, says, my mum uses frequently, just as you are putting a mouthful of perfectly good food in your mouth.

I can't read the rest because it includes the word globus, and I'm not sure what that means.

I don't want to be a part of it.

And now it's time for this week's playlist.

And as promised to Robin and his question about songs that you compulsively hum or sing as you go about your day.

And indeed, the playlist is called Songs That Like Hound Me because I like putting the word like in between stuff.

And as well as the songs I've already mentioned, which was Pete Townshend's song The Kids Are All Right for The Who, which has been with me for, I don't know, half my life in my brain.

And You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go, and all the other songs from Blood on the Tracks, that Bob Dylan album.

and Guilty by Randy Newman.

In addition to those three, there's also a song by the band called When You Awake, which is almost the song that haunts me the most.

When I do neurotically launch into a song for one reason or the other, either because I'm

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