Guardian article keeps calling pet shop boys “the pets”

[LordMorgan]

Never heard or seen them referred to this before
I don't like it

It distracted me from entire article
Annoying

[JesusAndYourBush]

The journo maybe used to work for Smash Hits, they did that sort of thing all the time.

[Theoretical Dentist]

Neil Pet and Chris Pet.

[Pink Gregory]

whay aye pets

[curiousoranges]

I call them The Shops.

Heard the new Shops album? Yeah it's crap.

[Icehaven]

What's wrong with good old PSB?

[Aleister Growley]

Petomanes.

[SteveDave]

The journo maybe used to work for Smash Hits, they did that sort of thing all the time.

Then he should've called them "Ver Pets"

When Dave Bowie died there were loads of articles calling him "The Starman" That can fuck right off.

[lazyhour]

What's wrong with good old PSB?

Public Service Broadcasting would like a word.

To tell you how unoriginal and crap they are.

[lazyhour]

We're still okay to call Wet Wet Wet 'the Wets' though, right?

[Huxleys Babkins]

We're still okay to call Wet Wet Wet 'the Wets' though, right?

Wet³

[curiousoranges]

Do you know that Stereophonics fans call them The 'Phonics?

[SteveDave]

And the Manic Street Preachers are called the Marnix

[Senior Baiano]

Do you know that Stereophonics fans call them The 'Phonics?

Ironically, 'Phonics' fans don't tend to have very high reading levels 😂

[DrGreggles]

Shoppies innit

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

I never see boys in pet shops. They're usually staffed by women, like in Rocky.

[PaulTMA]

Did anyone refer to Bowie himself as 'Starman' when he was alive? As in, "RIP wee Starman, 69 is no age" etc. It seemed to me it happened (from non-fans/dafties) overnight after he carked it.  I mean he was Ziggy, Thin White Duke, Screaming Lord Byron etc etc etc. but I've no recollection of him personally being known as 'Starman', with the song sung from the point of view of an observer of said Starman, as opposed to a character he embodied.  Fuck's sake

[Icehaven]

Sorry double post

[BlodwynPig]

Pets shops boy

[daf]

When Dave Bowie died there were loads of articles calling him "The Starman" That can fuck right off.

Wahey! :D

[JesusAndYourBush]

Smash Hits called him something like Dame David of Bowie.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Never heard or seen them referred to this before
I don't like it

It distracted me from entire article
Annoying

One of my pet hates.

[Glebe]

The Pets (2024).

[chip]

They'll make great pets

They'll make great pets!

[Senior Baiano]

They're not boys, they're men. The Pet Shop Men.

[Cleveland Steamer]

They're not boys, they're men. The Pet Shop Men.

They're just innocent men

[Toki]

The Pets make a good sound.

[Better Midlands]

They're not boys, they're men. The Pet Shop Men.

Pet Shop Boyz II Men

[curiousoranges]

They were named after that hamster-up-the-arse pastime.

[Glebe]

They'll make great pets

They'll make great pets!

I have that on 12" picture disc.