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Brooker in The Graun:-

Start by changing the wording. “Community payback” is rubbish. “Community” is pure British wonk-speak - the simpering language of milquetoasts - while the embarrassing yee-haw showboating of “payback” must have been included in a half-arsed attempt to impress the tabloids. Put the two words together to make “community payback” and the result just sounds lame, like the mistranslated overseas title of a below-par Schwarzenegger action movie in which he launches an all-out assault on a hardened gang of litter louts holed up in Chertsey.

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