Max Mosley, head of Formula One's governing body, has been (about 2 months ago - I do try and be up-to-date) under pressure to resign for allegedly indulging in a Nazi-themed orgy with a number of prostitutes. Presumably an orgy with such a morally dodgy theme added excitement and increased the prick's priapic potential.
Personally, I was more outraged recently when on an edition of the Andrew Marred 'The Weak Start' on BBC Radio 4, Professor Susan Greenfield insisted on pronouncing the 'nano' of 'nanotechnology' as 'nay-no.' (I expect she pronounces 'grey goo' as 'graggy'). This flagrant disrespect for oral rectitude left me fuming in my bed, and I believe I was justified in my anger, for language matters; incorrect pronunciation leads to miscommunication and misunderstanding, and from there it is only a short step to war.
Yet I somehow doubt that the newspapers would have even bothered to print the Mosley story if the orgy had involved a team of naughty neuroscientists shouting 'nayno, nayno' while covering Max in a grey chutney blanket.
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