AKICOLJ (well sort of)

[wellinghall]

Was there ever any merit whatsoever in On the Buses?

Does our car have a notice on it inviting overtaking drivers to cut in dangerously close, preferably without indicating?

Was there ever a book more riddled with inconsistencies than The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?

Why, when there are tens of thousands of waxwings in the country, have I still not seen one?

Are there any more questions I should be asking?

Comments

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Why do Oxford property sellers ask so much for so little?

I do not know about the waxwings, but it is annoying me, too. I managed to see a couple of buzzards, a red kite, a couple of herons, a deer, and various small birds merely by sitting in the car between Yorkshire and Scotland, but have I seen a waxwing? I have not.

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

I do not know about your car, but I sometimes wonder if mine has its cloaking device switched on by accident and that's why people keep cutting in when it's not their turn and getting in my stopping space etc etc.

[gurthaew.livejournal.com]

1) On the buses? Very little merit when viewed at this distance in time. I suppose it was funny at the time.

2a) I have long considered indicators to be an unnecessary gimmick fitted to vehicles to increase the cost. This is why so few people seem to use them. Said people seem to be irritated when someone else performs a manouever without signalling on them. A sign of our selfish times.

2b) Your car isn't invisible, you have the temerity to be in front of the impatient driver when he (I use he deliberately) has more right to the road than you. As soon as he is just in front, you no longer exist within his world and are forgotted.

3) Can't remember VOTDT although I read it years ago. How about anything produced by government or your local council.

4) Look for the guano on your car - that's them leaving a calling card whilst you weren't looking.

5) Your boss for a payrise or time off for good behaviour?

[gramarye1971]

Was there ever any merit whatsoever in On the Buses?

I can't speak for its merit, but I did once consider watching more than just clips of it when I was contemplating writing a paper on portrayals of trade unions in British sitcoms of the 1960s and 1970s. The paper never went anywhere, which I suppose is just as well.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

'Off the Buses' might have been worse?

They all do, that's what that funny yellow sign on the back is.

Undoubtedly.

Perhaps they see you first ;D

Why did you write this list of questions?

Ciao!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Not a lot.

It's invisible. You can only see it if you're an IQ of 60. Didn't you know that using your indicators wears the bulbs out.

Or one so badly structured?

I wish I knew. I haven't seen one either, and I've been looking.

Why? What? Who? When?

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Respectively...


Not much (not exactly Frank Muir's finest hour). Annoying to think that there were more episodes of OTB than Fawlty Towers, I'm Alan Partridge and The Office combined. If I'm being charitable (and this is based on the wikipedia entry since I'm no expert), the depiction of an interracial relationship in series 3 was well ahead of its time for the early 70s.


The best solution to this problem is to accelerate, pull alongside the dangerous driver and use your car to ram his or her off the road. After you have done this, but before the car bursts into a ball of flame, pull the driver out and beat his head repeatedly against the bonnet of his inevitably crap car while instructing him or her loudly that he or she is a fuckweazel and that you are doing the country a service by removing defective genes from the gene pool. Annoyingly our nonsensical justice system treats the other person as the victim if you do this, so I can't really recommend it as a course of action.


Never read it. Narnia schmarnia.


I've never seen one either.


Yes.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Ramming the fuckweasel's car is also not a good idea because you might scratch your own paintwork.

[elegaer.livejournal.com]

You can tell me what AKICOLJ means :D

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

All Knowledge Is Contained On Live Journal.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Grr. It's not. If it was I could gack my impending doom (sorry, not doom, assignments) off it!

[elegaer.livejournal.com]

ohhhhhh! TY!! I've always wondered!!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty icon. One of yours I presume?

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

I seen to remember On the Buses was very popular when I was about twelve though I never saw it [it was ITV as I recall and our TV was permanently fixed on BBC 1]

I drive slowly so everyone cuts me up but in a landrover I don't care!

I really must reread the Naria series. It's been about 40 years!

The waxwings are giving me a wide berth too.

Can't think of any!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

You are the severalth person to say just the same thing about BBC v ITV in my presence in the last month (including me myself to someone else). It's a persons-of-a-certain-vintage (and type of parents) thing isn't it?

I still slightly resent not always being allowed Dangermouse as an exception :(

And while I'm at it, Blue Peter isn't what it used to be. Hmph.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Lol, you're quite right! I seem to remember Brideshead Revisited was a sort of watershed. After that it was OK to watch ITV. My mum was very proud of the fact that we had never seen Coronation Street. She's since made up for it by watching every single episode of Eastenders, but that of course is BBC so quite permissible!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Ah. My Mum was consistent in not watching Corrie OR Eastenders (just a bit of Neighbours and Home & Away out of the corner of her eye while I had it on (noting that by the time H&A started the ITV rule wasn't as stringent)).

Someone I talked to last month did think there was a grain of reasonableness to it in that ITV's children's offering at one time was not to the standard of the BBC's overall (e.g. more noisy cartoons & other fayre of often dubious overall quality, and of course adverts for toys, junk food and so on) so I see the parents' original point somewhat - I didn't like my lot watching children's TV with adverts in it either, nor too many versions of pow this and screech that without much plot, however obtained. There are several channels now available for that but also several with halfway decent children's offerings (I think, we're almost grown out of children's telly now. Again. Til I get the flu and watch some!) Now we hardly watch any ads anyway due to the wonder that is the PVR.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember which channels some of my earliest viewing was on. I have a feeling Thunderbirds, Lost in Space and Torchy were all ITV in which case we weren't quite as tuned into BBC as I thought although I'm sure you're right about both the quality and the quantity on the Beeb. Jackanory was followed by two 25 minute programmes before the Magic Roundabout or something similar rounded things off! It all makes for a very interesting trip down memory lane. Oh and the adverts did used to be very irritating!

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlett were on BBC2 (but that Marina was on ITV). I could be wrong. But I don't remember ads in the middle of Thunderbirds & CS, for example, and they were quite long episodes.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Well, that confirms it then, I didn't start watching ITV until 1981!

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

On the Buses probably saved London Weekend Television, many of whose programmes were initially seen as excessively highbrow and metropolitan, which meant that they didn't network as many programmes as expected at first. Frank Muir and Denis Norden were wise to commission it. I've never watched a whole episode but the talent involved was staggering.