Watched the BBC 4 colourized version tonight. Thought it was pretty good on the whole. Only a few minor critical points; The new scenes added could have been 'aged' a little better. They were a bit too different in picture quality. The characters in the Resistance were too heavily edited. In the original version they were much better described. Some of that could have been left in, and would only have needed a few more minutes. The feuding characters of the War Chief and the Security Chief were also edited a bit too much. The editing was a little jumpy in places. Only to be expected I suppose, as around 60% (well over 2 hours) of the original broadcast was cut out. Still, by-and-large it wasn't too bad. The regeneration scene (Troughton to Pertwee) was a nice finishing touch, as was the inclusion of some future incarnations. OK, that's enough anorak for tonight...
Just finished watching Dad's Army on BBC2 The classic episode with the German U-boat commander. Absolute comedy perfection
The most annoying trend in TV advertising is to use a few seconds of a classic tune to try to sell people some old tat. Even worse than stupid adverts for SUV's that all claim to be some new innovation, but are in fact all the same. Ugly, expensive and utterly unnecessary.
On a positive note regarding adverts, just saw my favourite one on an SSN ad break; the Barclays ad with the kids... "I didn't eat any Calamari, so I'm not paying for the Calamari." "What are you, seven?"
Lord Sugar laments lazy youngsters who only want to stay at home... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4807xjze9o Never were truer words spoken. The Pandemic has put the last nail in the coffin of this Country, destroying the last vestiges of our collective work ethic. Only the very poor have to work hard now, for a pittance. You cannot grow an economy dragged back by millions of snowflake freeloaders. Doesn't matter how many runways you build.
Unfortunately it’s not just the lazy young freeloaders that are a drain on our economy- there’s 1000’s of migrants landing on our beaches every month, fleeing from wars apparently
I've had jobs where I've worked really hard, and I've also had cushy jobs where I've done very little. As a general rule you work harder for a small firm where everyone mucks in.
I've worked for small firms all my life. Wouldn't want to work for a big company. Lord Sugar started out as a barrow boy didn't he? I should think that is pretty hard work.
President Trump has just mandated that all Government workers must return to the workplace by 6th Feb (they have been working at home since lockdown). If they decline, they will be made compulsorily redundant. This is a very sensible policy which the UK should follow (but won’t).
The mere fact that a huge proportion of our working population has the possible option of working from home is a sad indictment of the state of this Country. People who actually do things - make products, look after people, work in shops, respond to emergencies, deliver goods or do cleaning / waste disposal... Those people do not have the option to work from home. Yet it is those people who keep the Country functioning. The Government talks about Wealth creation in terms of pie-in-the-sky projects and new technologies. But it's the people who do the physical work that get overlooked and taken for granted again and again. Getting your hands dirty is now somehow shameful in our modern culture. Better to be a chancer, a scrounger, a 'Dell Boy' or even a drug dealer or shoplifter, than go out and graft for a living and work your way up. The media bombards youngsters with glamorous images of a life of crime, or a life lived ducking and diving and being clever (crooked). The life of a parasite, feeding off honest people and the sweat they have to put in. Former water-cooler gossips working from home for most of the week is the ultimate expression of this new culture of laziness. Get off your arses, get back to work and support the local shops & businesses that depended on you. More poor folk who cannot work from home. PS: I don't actually watch The Apprentice. I find the desperately (and clearly falsely) self-confident contestants laughably clueless, but a bore to watch after only a very short time.
I've never worked from home, but still had cushy jobs where I've done very little. It's very boring, and time drags, not to be recommended. There used to be loads of these jobs around, and I could tell you a few stories. There also were various fiddles around which aren't there nahadays. It's up to the employer to decide if the productivity is better when staff are in the office.
When I got transferred to Shellmex House it was even worse. I was supposed to share duties with the furniture foreman, but he thought that I was after his job, and intercepted all the work and kept it to himself. It got worse. My employee. T&C, my firm, employed a young lad to help me do nothing. More money for them. Shell had so much money sloshing around they were oblivious. Shell management eventually got fed up with their foreman and didn't renew his contract but I was there for 3.5 years.
Lardi - the club has announced that Stevenage at home next Saturday is Kids for A Quid. You must have prompted them @ElfsborgAddick loves that game …he slaps creosote on what’s left of his thatch, and sails in for a nicker.
