Well, what have I done in the last week?<\/p>\n
Hmm, let’s see…<\/p>\n
Socially, I’ve been to a BBQ on Saturday evening. It was Katie’s birthday
\nbash. Lots of nice food and good conversation. Friday night’s happy hour
\nwas fun too, talking with John, Paul, Kat and her boyfriend.<\/p>\n
Work’s been mostly setting up the teacher and 6th form student openday stuff.
\nIt’s always an “interesting” experience as academics are hopeless at organising
\nthings or doing things which might actually get students to want to come
\nhere. Anyway, after much work by myself, one of the secretaries and a very
\nlittle help from the adademic in charge, something was thrown together. This
\nmorning I took it all apart again.<\/p>\n
I’ve bought 3 DVD’s in the past week. Two when getting Katie’s present on
\nThursday, 2 for £20 in WHSmiths, Scooby-doo and Spiderman. OK, so Scooby-doo’s
\nnot the world’s best film but it’s a lot better than I expected it to be.<\/p>\n
Saturday brought the buying of the Goodies DVD. Much fun watching 1970’s
\nbritish slapstick humour it was too. Though, the Ecky-thump episode was nowhere
\nnear as fun as i remember it and the DVD didn’t have the episode “Bun-fight
\nat the OK Tea-rooms” which I always thought of as a classic. Somehow I can
\nsee why they’re now not shown on telly as there are quite a few things which
\nwouldn’t be concidered P.C. these days. Then again, they take the micky out
\nof all minorities (and majorities) equally. There’s a suprisingly forthright
\nhomosexual subtext which I had never noticed before. It’s constantly made
\nout that Tim Brooke-Taylor’s character is gay but it doesn’t phase Grahame
\nGarden nor Bill Oddie. In fact they play on it. I thought that rather strikingly
\ndaring, even for today’s telly. Some may think their treatment of coloured
\npeople a little un-PC in some episodes, however, if you look at things as
\na whole, they’re treated no differently than French, Italians, Germans, Scots,
\nor indeed any other people you can label. ie. the programme uses characatures
\nor everyone equally disrespectfully, so in that sense it’s totally non-racist.<\/p>\n
I can’t think of anything else I’ve done of any note so I’ll shut up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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