While mooching in the bookshop in Didsbury this morning, Nibs and me overheard the bookshop owner talking to his friend.

He's your typical 30-something Didsbury urbanite. Says 'mate' a lot. As his friend left he said, and I kid you not:

'Keep it real'.

FFS - what is wrong with people?!

I understand that globalisation leads to the fusion of cultures, creating new hybrid cultural identities. New ways of talking. New words.

But do we have to talk like we've fallen out of a second-rate boy band?

'Keep it real' has to be the worst I've heard for a long time. Anyone want to raise me?

If not, pip pip!