Kamara was my favourite pundit just because of his personality. The chemistry between him and Jeff was so natural and hilarious.
“I don’t know, Jeff! I must’ve missed that.” Legendary!
I have a little cheer me up folder of YouTube links and that ones in it.
Your mind going a hundred times faster than you can express yourself with words, especially for a guy like him… hard to even imagine.
I don’t have slurred speech but I speak really really fast to the point when I end up swallowing words. When I speak to a stranger or random person I make a conscious effort to speak slowly. And people don’t really realize I’m actually speaking way slower than I normally do coz I’ve managed to sound normal.
I only speak at my ‘normal fast pace’ with my family, close friends and girlfriend who can all understand me
Completely agree with the mind being faster than my ability to articulate. That’s basically how it is in my case. Must be horrible being a commentator with slurred speech. Glad he’s in a better place now
How do you not lose your train of thought? When I try to, sometimes the brain has left the station.
Yeah — I have mild verbal paraphasia at baseline, but it becomes extremely severe if I’m tired or overly stressed. I used to compete in speaking and presentation stuff at an international level and now it’s like … in a previous job, we were doing 5+ interviews with teenagers for our summer program positions each day and it got chaotic. By the end of the week, I couldn’t string a sentence together even though I had a list of questions in a document and the teens were like, “…why can’t the person running the writing program communicate effectively?”
(It does cross into writing sometimes and looks like mistakes that a non-native speaker would make except I am a native speaker who still writes for a living. “Medal” instead of “metal,” “what” instead of “that,” etc. I just refuse to do things like taking notes for meetings because the first time I write something down may end up being chaotic. With time to revise and digital tools to check my work, I can still submit clean copy to my editors.)
I have a problem with my speech and I get him, it’s sucks and is very depressing when you have to repeat the same thing multiple times because it wasn’t clear.
People close to me have gotten used to it but when I’m with some stranger, it makes me anxious, this is probably one of the factors of my social anxiety.
It’s such a brutal, cruel irony to see somebody in his line of work end up with a speech disorder. Particularly somebody as wonderfully lovely as Kammy. Reminds me of Bobby Heenan getting throat cancer and spending a year of his retired life literally unable to speak.
Be kind to each other, the world is enough of a POS on its own.
Was also thinking of Jim Ross and the episodes of Bell’s Palsy
His appearance on Diary of a CEO was tops
It’s criminal how disposable we treat our sportspeople, the suffocating microscope they all live under. A large portion from the same type of blighter who’ll chime in with “For the money he’s making, I’d suck a barnacle’s knob! THEY SHOULD JUST ENDURE”
Unbelievable Jeff :(
Look out for each other people
anyway, lets make fun of harry kane now shall we?