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The council workers who have come to fence off and resurface a small area of the school playground are now into their third week, with two fence posts erected.

Admittedly, they were probably hobbled last week by the SATs, but every time I look out the window, they're standing around doing nothing.  And, with the assistance of a small mechanical digger, they've shifted less cubic meterage than a single nineteenth century canal builder could have managed in a day with a pick.

I'm all for Keynesian employment, but I'm getting a bit irritated.  They could be mowing lawns for the elderly or something.  Hell, they could be mowing mine.

by Sassafras on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 01:38:14 PM EST
Yup, no two ways about it. Some people just don't wanna get stuff done.

I still think I'm all right Jack was practically a documentary about worker - managment relations that's still pretty relevant.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 01:51:48 PM EST
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That movie is also interesting for showing the metric obsessed dissolution of Operational Research.

Actually I haven't watched it for a long time. Thanks for reminding me - it was a pivotal movie. And by the Boulting Twins!

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 02:18:57 PM EST
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Have to agree, one of the classics, along with "Battle of the Sexes" directed by Charles Crichton which masquerades as a man/woman comedy but is really all about industralisation...
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 03:03:36 PM EST
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Oh no, don't tell me we have to Film blog these ;-)

However we could package it as 'The Origins of Anglo Disease' or 'Europe.was.doomed' and get a whole other audience. ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 04:43:46 PM EST
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Sharp and Dry British Humour at the End of Empire?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 05:49:35 PM EST
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I should really be employed writing subheadlines in one of the redtops. ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon May 19th, 2008 at 05:58:07 PM EST
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