Random musings and general banter.

[galesgal57]

Collagen tomorrow. Considering it is less than a month to Christmas, they haven't put any effort at all into making the studio look festive. The goods on offer hardly scream Christmas to me, at least QVC have fabulous decorations, which is to be expected considering the prices they charge.

 

[galesgal57]

Poor, peeved Peter. He's pushing the collagen show tomorrow, and was told that he isn't presenting it. He doesn't look pleased at all.

 

[historymystery]

Glad that I’m not interested in watches! I would have bought thousands by now with all this dramatic low price nonsense.
Anyway,I digress:
What I wanna know is what does it mean when Mason says,when selling some items,”All we have is all we have”

Get away! What the heck does it mean? Does it mean that the all you have is all you have? Well,blow me down wiv a fevver Moyke. I would never have guessed that all you have is all you have.

How about some numbers? Or is it that you can’t/dont wish to say because maybe last night you had 1,000 and now got 999? Is that it Mikey boy?

Dreadful sales tactic and it didn’t wash with me because I of my financial position cos all I’ve got is all I’ve got!

I'm here to provide you with the official IW translation: 'All we have is all we have' means : we'll magic up a figure out of the air to try to get you all to rush to buy, telling you that this is the total number in stock. But then we'll magically contact the supplier/discover under the bed/find left outside the door in a Moses basket (delete as applicable) another 6 million of the same article.

 

[Muttley]

Poor, peeved Peter. He's pushing the collagen show tomorrow, and was told that he isn't presenting it. He doesn't look pleased at all.

Poor Peter... He won't be able to tell us how it brought him back to life after 6 months in a coffin!

 

[Battiola73]

I used to work for the police. A senior officer (who was nasty) was having an affair with the Human Resources manager, we all knew about it. He must have dumped her because she arranged for him to be posted to an outer London borough with immediate effect. One that was inconvenient for him to travel to. We were devastated. It was probably 20 years ago, you couldn't get away with that now.

We were shocked that senior management actually did anything. Mind you it might have been that all 20 of us girls in the office threatened to resign that had something to do with it. In those days there were more jobs than people so they knew we could all easily get jobs elsewhere. “Us girls” ranged in age from 18 to 56.

 

[Stockton]

I think he will be doing Come Dine With Me and Celebs Go Camping etc. etc. but that's about the limit. Perhaps one of those shows will reignite his proper career and oops nearly got clipped on the head by that flying pig....

I am a celeb be better. Don’t let him out of here even the rats and snakes would depart the jungle

 

[Battiola73]

Pity we can’t get Peter onto I’m a celebrity get me out of here, he would soon show his other side

Not that I watch it but could you imagine him n Love Island?

 

[Muttley]

We were shocked that senior management actually did anything. Mind you it might have been that all 20 of us girls in the office threatened to resign that had something to do with it. In those days there were more jobs than people so they knew we could all easily get jobs elsewhere. “Us girls” ranged in age from 18 to 56.

When I first started work I was a clerical temp, I left my first job unexpectedly. Somebody wanted me out so I left them in the lurch and gave them 1 month's notice before a big conference that I was doing the leg work organising.

So I did temporary work until a permanent job cropped up. This was mid 80s, basically you worked for a week or 2 (often covering sickness or leave). On the Thursday you got a phone call saying where you were working next week, they always have something suitable. On Friday after work you went to the agency to pick up your cheque and hand in your timesheet for your next week's wages. It was a good way to get a permanent job, sometimes you were covering if they were just generally short of staff. You found out what the job was really like. Got me my job with the police and I didn't have an interview, the inspector just put my name forward.

Battiola73 , you were in a good situation with more jobs than people! So good that you all banded together like that.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Not that I watch it but could you imagine him n Love Island?

The over 60s Flabby Gut Special season

 

[Herring]

I think he will be doing Come Dine With Me and Celebs Go Camping etc. etc. but that's about the limit. Perhaps one of those shows will reignite his proper career and oops nearly got clipped on the head by that flying pig....

Doubtful.

Considering he never once appeared on any of the super low-rent cable channel reality shows* (back when cable was a thing, makes me feel old), I can't imagine Channel 4 would ask Pedro anything other than "sorry, who are you?"

*Awful contrived sh*t where the most famous face would be the non-speaking barmaid from Eastenders, Howard from the Halifax adverts, the voice of the duck from Rosie & Jim, etc

• Celebrity Ghost Hunt
• 5 Celebs in a Caravan in Bangor
• Superstar to Bus Conductor
• Celebrity Table-Rapping: Live!
• Celebrity Bus Replacement Service
• The Great Celebrity Crochet Contest
• Famous 5 - Psychic Camp

I think I've made these titles up, but given the calibre of reality shows that channels like Living and Sky 1 churned out in the early 2000s, maybe not...

 

[Megabazus]

Dr Jacks BSc ( Home Ec ). PhD (woodwork). MBE.OBE. MRCS telling an elderly patient that the intravenous Emu Balm has not worked and that they will have to cut off his appendage.

 

[Jazzydrury]

5 Celebs in a Motorhome was a show

 

[Muttley]

Dr Jacks BSc ( Home Ec ). PhD (woodwork). MBE.OBE. MRCS telling an elderly patient that the intravenous Emu Balm has not worked and that they will have to cut off his appendage.
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You missed the words "without an anaesthetic due to cutbacks"

 

[Jazzydrury]

5 Celebs in a Motorhome was a show

Think it was a Channel 5 show good pun on the 5 bit

 

[Jazzydrury]

Lesley Joseph, Don Warrington, Melvyn Hayes, Nick Heyward and Cleo Rocos bundle into a motorhome and explore the open road.

I knew I didn’t make it up lol

 

[Muttley]

Doubtful.

Considering he never once appeared on any of the super low-rent cable channel reality shows* (back when cable was a thing, makes me feel old), I can't imagine Channel 4 would ask Pedro anything other than "sorry, who are you?"

*Awful contrived sh*t where the most famous face would be the non-speaking barmaid from Eastenders, Howard from the Halifax adverts, the voice of the duck from Rosie & Jim, etc

• Celebrity Ghost Hunt
• 5 Celebs in a Caravan in Bangor
• Superstar to Bus Conductor
• Celebrity Table-Rapping: Live!
• Celebrity Bus Replacement Service
• The Great Celebrity Crochet Contest
• Famous 5 - Psychic Camp

I think I've made these titles up, but given the calibre of reality shows that channels like Living and Sky 1 churned out in the early 2000s, maybe not...

You do know that C5 executives will be commissioning these ideas

Speaking of 'Superstar to Bus Conductor' I remember a Christmas Morecombe and Wise that had filmed clips in between the sketches of previous guests whose careers had tanked since their appearance on the show. It was highly respected actors saying despondently "I worked with Morecambe and Wise and look at me now", you would then realise they were now dustmen or rag and bone men. I think Andre Previn became a bus conductor (highly appropriate!).

 

[Jazzydrury]

Lesley Joseph, Don Warrington, Melvyn Hayes, Nick Heyward and Cleo Rocos bundle into a motorhome and explore the open road.

I knew I didn’t make it up lol

It probably means I watched it

 

[Hammy60]

Looks like Nike trainers.

Do they heck as like. Christ they couldn't be more confusing with the sizes. Looks like the shoes the competitors in "It's a Knockout" would wear.

 

[Hammy60]

Baffies - Slippers, nae in this part of Scotland.

 

[Samki]

Looks like Nike trainers.

Do they heck as like. Christ they couldn't be more confusing with the sizes. Looks like the shoes the competitors in "It's a Knockout" would wear.

Hideous things. I expect Pedro wore something like that in his bafta and Oscar winning role as Ronald McDonald