Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

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All you want to know.

 

I also had to quickly edit my original post. I thought he was in Die Hard With a Vengance.

 

Holy crap I can't believe Alan Rickman has died. RIP.

 

Alan Rickman, David Bowie and Terry Pratchett all gone in less than 6 months.

I need to watch a marathon consisting of Galaxy Quest, Die Hard, Love Actually and the entire Harry Potter series. I've not seen Robin Hood Prince of Thieves before but I shall watch that also.

 

Don't forget Lemmy! Am sure you can squeeze The Decline of Western Civilization Pt. II: The Metal Years - not to mention Tromeo and Juliet, Toxic Avenger IV, or John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut - in there somewhere.

 

I must admit, the only Motorhead song I know is Ace of Spades because it was in the soundtrack to Carmaggedon 2. Actually, there may have been another Motorhead song in that sound track too.

But yes his contribution was significant as well.

 

*no you're not*

 

Rickman was in both those films.

 

I too, know of him in that. His story line was pretty much the only realistic one.

I guess politicians getting off with low-level admin staff is fairly realistic too, but I'm not sure how much that would be based on love rather than, er, lust (but then, that would be a very different film)

 

I actually liked him the most as colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility. What can I say, I'm a sucker for period dramas. Great actor, such a shame.

 

You telling me that you can't walk into a Wisconsin bar and pull three beauties, just because you have a cute English accent? They voted it the sexiest accent in the world recently.

 

I was referring to his question about Dead Ringers (the one with twin gynaecologists).

 

Here's one of my favourite Alan Rickman memories: singing rather brilliantly with the wonderful Juliet Stevenson in Truly, Madly, Deeply:

 

Another good film....quite an oeuvre.

 

Far from it. The vast majority of public sector workers are dedicated, hard-working and very capable. Of course (like anywhere) there's a minority that persistently perform poorly because they're either incapable of doing a good job or unwilling to do one and ultimately it's the good staff who suffer when they have to try and pick up the slack left by the poor performer.

The real problem in the public sector is the excessively formal, long-winded and complex procedures for dealing with discipline and/or poor performance that make managers less willing to try and deal with these problems. There are even stats to back this up. A 2010 report showed private sector managers are three times more likely to initiate disciplinary proceedings than their public sector equivalents and around half as much management time is spent on each disciplinary case.

Here's an extract from a BBC report on the topic, again from 2010. The numbers just don't make sense. (Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11652824)

 

Sorry. Should not have posted such a stupid comment.

 

There were people getting away with things where I worked that would have been dealt with in the private sector. The main problem seemed to be that a lot of the managers weren't really managers just people who were promoted because they had been there a long time. They didn't know how to manage and didn't want to upset people! Not suggesting this is you by the way.

 

Oops.

*goes back under rock*

 

Walk back was worse and then I found my car in a puddle about 6 inches deep. Still drying out my trainers tonight!!

 

I awoke feeling rotten.