Just a general question more than a definitive look at Bond Villains through then ages - but why do so many of them find the need to build multi-million pound underwater HQs and suchlike. Surely you would be better working out of a garden shed and spending the extra on some decent henchmen.
Truth is it's a bit like a job-finding service for one of the more PC employment charities - a man with steel teeth, a person of restricted growth and a man with a bowler hat fetish. They wouldn't be my first choice if I was putting together a team to take over the world. I'm not saying a universty degree is the be all and end all but if four blokes with guns and coloured overalls can't resist an attack from a man armed with a fountain pen you need to think about hiring people with qualifications.
If anyone is looking to recruit I believe there is a fully trained SAS officer looking for a job...
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Sunday, 2 November 2008
As posted on the other blog, I have been bag packing at our local IKEA over the last two weekends,and am very tempted to write a diatribe on manners. However, as I came perilously close to inciting someone to murder her husband, it might be better if I calmed down a bit. If you would like to read it please feel free to check out the adverts too - we are trying to get rid of the kids on a tour to Canada and all donations help.
Instead I shall reflect on the new-found high profile carer of Miss Georgina Baillie. I added the link, in case like me, you struggle to remember who she is. A couple of days ago she was the innocent shrinking violet in the middle of the Brand, Ross, Sachs triangle. Now she seems to have her story in the Sun, a Channel Five programme devoted to her and even, I have seen, Max Clifford as her agent. OK, so good luck to her if she can do herself a bit of good from the whole mess, but I do hope she will stop trying to present herself as a victim. It might be a help if she remembers to keep mentioning her grandfather - Manuel plays better with the public than membership of the Satanic Sluts.
I notice Ade Edmondson was in a paper last week saying we should not stop dangerous comedy. Not sure what he said as I saw it on the front of the paper but bought one with better rugby coverage. He might think making nuisance phone calls is humour, he might not - maybe somebody could tell me.
Not sure I've got the hang of this blogging thing. I probably should do more research. Or maybe not.
Instead I shall reflect on the new-found high profile carer of Miss Georgina Baillie. I added the link, in case like me, you struggle to remember who she is. A couple of days ago she was the innocent shrinking violet in the middle of the Brand, Ross, Sachs triangle. Now she seems to have her story in the Sun, a Channel Five programme devoted to her and even, I have seen, Max Clifford as her agent. OK, so good luck to her if she can do herself a bit of good from the whole mess, but I do hope she will stop trying to present herself as a victim. It might be a help if she remembers to keep mentioning her grandfather - Manuel plays better with the public than membership of the Satanic Sluts.
I notice Ade Edmondson was in a paper last week saying we should not stop dangerous comedy. Not sure what he said as I saw it on the front of the paper but bought one with better rugby coverage. He might think making nuisance phone calls is humour, he might not - maybe somebody could tell me.
Not sure I've got the hang of this blogging thing. I probably should do more research. Or maybe not.
Friday, 31 October 2008
Ross and Brand - a gift to bloggers
What a subject for a blog on modern manners, Russell Brand the serial fornicator (I was tempted by the alliterative properties of another word there but resisted it) and Jonathan Ross the highly paid TV personality have got themselves in trouble.
And how we laughed. The so-called telephone "prank" may not have been funny but the sight of two well known people getting into trouble, particularly with consequences to their wallets, always amuses me. What about you?
Brand has just resigned from his £200,000 a year job on Radio 2. Yes, £200,000 a year. Way short of being paid like a footballer, but not a bad wage by most standards. Ross has been suspended for twelve weeks. If the press is to be believed this will cost him around the £1,500,000 mark. It will probably be a nice rest for him. He can write another book. Or plan on how to spend the rest of his wages - the £4,500,000 he will still be getting this year.
I don't know what you'd do with that sort of money. Presumably you have to hire someone just to look after it. Based on the way banks have been lending until recently you could probably take out a mortgage big enough to buy a county.
However, the question isn't really about the rights and wrongs of what happened but about what has happened to standards in this country. Not the standards that allow two overpaid yobs to ring someone and leave messages like that. We all knew what they were like, and carried on watching them. And because we watched them the BBC kept throwing money at them. The standards I'm worried about are the ones that allow us to watch the gradual decay of comedy into the realms of "prank calls" but then to suddenly become self-righteous when something like this happens.
I'm afraid it's my standards that should be under scrutiny. How about yours? Let's be honest, if Andrew Sachs hadn't played Manuel would there have been 20,000 complaints? I doubt it.
And how we laughed. The so-called telephone "prank" may not have been funny but the sight of two well known people getting into trouble, particularly with consequences to their wallets, always amuses me. What about you?
Brand has just resigned from his £200,000 a year job on Radio 2. Yes, £200,000 a year. Way short of being paid like a footballer, but not a bad wage by most standards. Ross has been suspended for twelve weeks. If the press is to be believed this will cost him around the £1,500,000 mark. It will probably be a nice rest for him. He can write another book. Or plan on how to spend the rest of his wages - the £4,500,000 he will still be getting this year.
I don't know what you'd do with that sort of money. Presumably you have to hire someone just to look after it. Based on the way banks have been lending until recently you could probably take out a mortgage big enough to buy a county.
However, the question isn't really about the rights and wrongs of what happened but about what has happened to standards in this country. Not the standards that allow two overpaid yobs to ring someone and leave messages like that. We all knew what they were like, and carried on watching them. And because we watched them the BBC kept throwing money at them. The standards I'm worried about are the ones that allow us to watch the gradual decay of comedy into the realms of "prank calls" but then to suddenly become self-righteous when something like this happens.
I'm afraid it's my standards that should be under scrutiny. How about yours? Let's be honest, if Andrew Sachs hadn't played Manuel would there have been 20,000 complaints? I doubt it.
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