All foreign shows on Dutch TV are subtitled instead of dubbed (unlike in France or Germany, where, for instance, ‘the actress who always does the voice of Courteney Cox’ is a celebrity in her own right). Often, subtitlers get it wrong. Sometimes, they get it wrong in a funny way. Whenever I catch them at it, I’ll try to remember to post here.

Yesterday morning, on one of his many cooking shows, Jamie Oliver was traipsing through a field to pick some nettles for his quiche. Squatting near a cluster of the yummy but stingy plants, he announced:

Now I’ll just go ahead and pick it like a pansy…

And the subtitler, in a leap of creative interpretation, wrote:

Now I’ll pick it very carefully…