| Feeling for his girlfriend, that daft ha'p'orth Steve has a plan to cheer her up. |
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| Gangsta culture may look glamorous to some but transport it to the Midlands and it looks daft. |
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| Like Marmite, you either savour this daft stage business or you wish its energy was never let out of the jar. |
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| The conversation deteriorated until we were calling each other daft names and I moved to storm out of his office with one final remark. |
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| Much of the population is daft about dogs and there are not many whippets here so people stop us in the street to look at them. |
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| So, all in all, with my daily pill, I'm happy without being daft, content without being bovine. |
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| I'm not a daft wee laddie, and I know that happens, but it doesn't normally happen quite so blatantly, so I was annoyed and angry. |
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| It is daft to even think of going winter fishing without some form of waterproof all-in-one or two piece suit. |
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| Too often, his plays have been turned into heritage drama, with daft, capering comics and saggy, tragically shawled women. |
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| It seemed a daft idea and the film did indifferent business at the box office. |
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| Much of the population is daft about dogs and there are not many whippets here so people stop us in the street. |
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| It's that time of year when gimmicky wines with daft labels burst upon us in the supermarkets. |
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| Year in year out, hairdresser after hairdresser couldn't resist giving her that daft coiffe, those silly smarmy marmy waves. |
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| They just get a bit wrapped up in the excitement and anticipation of the upcoming event and start putting about daft ideas. |
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| This latest daft row is yet another example of the slimy politics which disfigure racing, and there's a lot worse to come. |
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| It is daft only because the politicians, their acolytes and braindead supporters will label it daft. |
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| No point having the dirtiest car in Lincolnshire if you go doing daft things like cleaning it. |
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| The kazoo always sounds daft, and the Swanee whistle is almost impossible to play a recognisable tune on. |
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| But much as Murray is revelling in his new status as a tournament champion, he is not daft. |
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| Only over-refreshed football correspondents would come up with such a daft bet. |
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| As scatty or daft as I may come across here at times, work is hugely important to me, a very close second to Willow to be quite honest. |
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| Your ability to group people and label them as column a or column b astounds me, you must be an amazing racist or densely daft. |
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| It sounds same-old-same-old, but let me assure you that Mancini crams as much daft humour and sick jokes in as possible. |
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| The conversation deteriorated into calling each other daft names and I moved to storm out of his office with one final remark. |
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| He and his ilk are constantly pilloried for their behaviour and slammed for showing other daft wee laddies a poor example. |
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| How is it possible to have anything like a conversation when Ian's ripped and his eyes glow with daft, chemical enthusiasm. |
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| Whether you have found a cure for cancer or you're just a daft old bird who can't drive makes no difference, as long as people know your face. |
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| It was hot still, perhaps even hotter, and some daft woman crashed into my bad leg with her trolley, so my even temper was becoming strained. |
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| My head's still spinning and I don't want to make myself look daft so I'm keeping schtum. |
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| But the kids of the local came around and started baiting that daft little girl. |
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| It was a very daft thing to do and if it was me, I would think about taking an early bath. |
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| He will live on for as long as the world remains daft and cruel fate chooses to mock us all. |
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| Nevertheless, this daft, complex and slightly forlorn figure is set to become one of rap's martyrs. |
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| He had written that he was struggling to deal with his feelings and felt daft even expressing them. |
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| They were patient and polite, but they obviously wondered why I was asking such a daft question. |
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| Forgive me if I sound daft, but I can't see a link between the two subjects. |
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| I ask her if she smokes, a daft question given that this is a tobacconist, but you have to start somewhere. |
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| Don't get into obeying imaginary voices in your head or anything daft like that. |
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| This reduces the arguments to the silly opinions of a couple of daft people with money. |
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| Propose a daft scheme where I photoshop him into a camera-phone shot with her. |
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| Very little in business is easy, and anyone looking for an easy option would be daft to make exporting their first choice. |
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| Who thought it was a good idea to ask such a daft question in the first place? |
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| A stream of people I half-knew kept coming up to tell me how daft I looked. |
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| How could such a clever man be so daft that he did not anticipate the most obvious questions? |
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| I could spend hours just staring into the mirror, pulling daft faces. |
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| I have to admit, with a heavy heart, that when I originally read about the new villains, I thought they sounded asinine, with daft names and even dafter looks. |
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| His mother Karen said that she and her husband, Kevin, who are both doctors, were both daft about puzzles and had encouraged Jack and younger sister Mia in their hobby. |
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| I think that got out because he was daft enough to send a compliments slip or something, which the Brazilian doc then sold to the press for lots of cash. |
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| No wonder: it's an absolute doozy, its sheer daft pleasure in contrast to Llewyn's terminal dolefulness. |
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| Rise and dance at dawn, or charm a worm out of the ground – or do anything, really, as long as it's daft. |
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| The film is a daft romp in which a Frenchman from the south, to his horror, is sent by his office to live and work among the Ch'tis. |
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| Worse still, to be certain of achieving scarcity, we went as far as the daft premium for the slaughter of cattle. |
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| As many animals that share our world demonstrate, you don't have to be a tottering biped with a daft flat face and rubbish teeth to be smart. |
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| Republicans in Congress, fresh from a mid-term triumph, would immediately become apoplectic and probably say some daft things. |
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| That may be true, but all too many daft policies rely on the collective reluctance of the voters to leave marshmallows uneaten on the table. |
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| It seems daft to me that anyone who so much as flirts with the idea of a career in education would fail to remember what they know about how teenagers behave. |
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| Even the most supposedly stylish people looked pretty daft 20 years ago. |
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| I felt an urge in recent weeks to e-mail the journalist and tell him what a good job he was doing, but felt a bit daft e-mailing a total stranger. |
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| The bed is edged with a lavender hedge on two sides, which I like, but I planted a yellow rose in the bed and it was miles too tall and looked daft. |
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| There's no way of supping a full latte without getting a foamy moustache on your upper lip and it looks as daft on a power person as it does on an old grey man. |
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| Like insurance companies and tampons, unions have got into a daft habit of acquiring meaningless names. |
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| Asked if Bueno should go to the national team, he grinned and grin that said don't be daft but let's indulge that for today. |
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| The second problem is the daft policy of the strong euro, making us uncompetitive in terms of exchange rates. |
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| It was heroically daft and had the crowd laughing happily in the sunshine. |
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| The lyrics, which were daft enough in the first place, have been learned parrot-fashion, and thereby have been rendered even sillier than they were originally. |
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| My dear old mother went as daft as a brush in her final years. |
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| It's totally daft and has plot holes you can drive a bus through. |
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| When I think of what these young farmers are paid for working to produce a quality food and what these people who dream up the daft adverts are paid, words fail me. |
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| I must have been as daft as a brush to get in this position. |
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| The title track tries to deflate its portentous musical backing of crashing cymbals and thunderous pianos with daft lyrics about needing a new eiderdown and some binoculars. |
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| Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall. |
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| So leave these daft dobbers to their own complacent management of the relative decline of old Britain. |
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| Big daft green hats, funny costumes, joke shamrocks and shillelaghs, green wigs. |
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| She is just the mother of a dwarf and a daft girl. |
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| Halfon is one of the few Tory MPs with the credentials to make that sort of joke and Cameron's plans to boost apprenticeships or excise daft red tape is fine, too. |
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| So clearly with its daft plot, cartoonish script and expensive effects, this is a very glossy popcorn movie. |
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| To suggest, as Millard does, that Barry's Bismarcks sends out the wrong message is daft. |
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| Is there an endless supply of these daft fashion hybrids? |
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| No ballerina could prevail against such daft distractions. |
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| It just means that some daft wee hairy that gets knocked up the duff has tae get oan the bus tae Carlisle tae get cleaned oot. |
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| As for spending money to achieve that end, either I'm too mean or those would-be beardies are plain daft. |
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| That is daft and I hope if there is any threat of that there will be a swift telephone call from the Vatican to say that St Peter's Basilica will not stand for such nonsense. |
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| And the PR will say, we'll have a survey and ask daft questions to show that a good quality U-bend is a sign of virility. |
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| Instead, it offers us a fictional and daft sequence in Newgate, with Macleane having his end away with the gaoler's daughter while Plunkett attempts to excrete the ruby. |
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| He paddled back to shore immediately with a great daft, lollopy grin on his face, and I swear that he was looking proud of himself. |
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| Firstly, I'd refuse to do that daft wavey thing at the start, and secondly I'd forget anything and everything that had ever entered my head. |
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| I know Jack's heart is in the right place, but he should not be on a daft show shooting the breeze with a lightweight like Cowan. |
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| Friends say I am being daft but I know I am not happy about the wobbly bits or the stretchmarks. |
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| Careers advisers ought to be informed to tell any young shaver who comes in asking about becoming a bowler that they are being daft and should try something easier like ending world poverty. |
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| Cardboard's opener sees Sommer discussing the finer points of gaming with Modern Family star Ty Burrell, and the pair's easy badinage does a good job of masking the fact that a podcast about board games is a pretty daft idea. |
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| I've heard of some daft ways to make money but BORROWMYDOGGY takes the dog biscuit. |
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| June Whitfield is as dotty as ever as the daft gran, with bumbling secretary Bubbles even dottier. |
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| So I have dusted off my trusty air guitar and I am heading there with a crowd of equally daft friends for some plank spanking and bad dancing. |
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| His daft attempt to politicise the Games will increase support for an independent Scotland. |
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| It might still flop, making early yea-sayers like me look daft. |
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| Which is plainly daft because the first good day of summer sunshine won't send us all scurrying out for a 300 quid bathing costume and a new packet of knotted hankies. |
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| Without the daft stunts and wackily dressed goofballs, all you'd have left would be a bunch of dull dolts, demanding wealth without graft, fame without talent. |
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| I sometimes ask myself why did I do it because it was daft but in football you only geta split second to decide and unfortunately, on this occasion I took the wrong option. |
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| A plodge or dip in a pool full of the strangely glowing broth from Nippon would certainly beat the recent fad of having those daft fish nibble at your tootsies. |
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| Of course, tell them about how you only got to watch daytime TV for an hour after lunch with The Flumps or Bagpuss, but don't be daft and ban the box altogether. |
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| The bird-watchers among you will know that a dotterel is a member of the plover family, which has the daft habit of welcoming the advances of predators. |
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