Random musings and general banter.

[Worldie04]

i was a floor manager at iw for 12 years. ask me anything

Who are you?

Don't answer that. Hello from this former ex-colleague!

 

[Duke of Cheese]

A great range of handbags this afternoon…

 

[Worldie04]

A great range of handbags this afternoon…

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Rare to see a shot where they've bothered to frame the TV in so you can read what it says. Just saying.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Rare to see a shot where they've bothered to frame the TV in so you can read what it says. Just saying.

The trouble is, it used to be a really professional outfit in terms of broadcast quality. The change is hard to believe or accept. It must be worse for people that used to work on the version where broadcasting standards and continuity seemed to be a priority.

 

[Herring]

The trouble is, it used to be a really professional outfit in terms of broadcast quality. The change is hard to believe or except it must be worse for people that used to work on the version where broadcasting standards and continuity seemed to be a priority.

I tend to imagine there's no-one in the studio* anyway, which is why the standards are so ropey.

It's just Pedro on his own, in front of the robot camera, his hysterical pleas and soothsaying sermons on why you must check out your baskets echoing around a vacant studio. His gallery queries and stock updates are imaginary. The viewer texts and people coming in just made up. He's there, on his own…

Gallery staff and floor manager leave him to it. Set things up, then sod off to enjoy a 30min vape and catch up on TikTok.

When they can hear him banging on the table inside they know to nip back in, queue up new on-screen graphics, swap the plastic frying pans over to the solar powered night vision goggles, get him to neck another collagen capsule, tell him he's so funny, and bam - they can sod off to enjoy another 45 minute break outside.

*which given the skeleton crew VGL employ is likely

 

[HughTwo]

I wonder what tonight's most used words will be from Dirty Peter?

For large parts of the year, my money would be on "not" and "only".

At the moment, despite it being mild, I'm going for "cold".
As in "the bedroom was so cold. The house was cold. The sheets were damp and cold. Bet was cold. It's going to be cold, cold, cold, can't sleep in the cold. Cold, cold, cold, alright, cold, eight pound....first of four flexis......to stop the cold, cold,cold......"

 

[Duke of Cheese]

‘Herself’ making a ‘gag’ out of Storm Bert being called ‘Storm Ernie’ - i.e. Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street… Call me an ambulance immediately- my sides are splitting. I’m sure anybody who has had their property damaged in this awful weather, or worse, a relative killed, will absolutely love that particular ‘comedic’ analogy, or lack of one. Just stick to selling rags, Luv…The wreck of the Lusitania lies off the coast of Cork. There must a few jokes from that one for you, too.