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(September 2003)

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Square Eyes Founding member
RTS posted:
Aston, unlike J.aron retains most of his modesty.

erm, did you read his offering above ?

EDIT: It's now on the previous page, tsk.
JP
Joe Public
tvmercia posted:
Aston posted:
tvmercia posted:
well no-one else but aston feels the need to mention their place of work everytime they post Laughing

he must think we are easily impressed or something


To be fair, I've worked bloody hard to get where I am today, so I don't mind telling a few people about it occasionally. I'm also bloody proud of myself for getting here, and from what the majority of people tell me, quite rightly too...

Thanks.

*snigger* iirc that is exactly what jar.on br.ass said when questioned about his over self indulgent postings.

granted, i cannot stop you posting such nonsense, but i think you ought to accept that there posters on this forum who have got much further up the tv industry ladder than you - and neither them nor the rest of us are remotely interested or impressed in whatever job you have.


Im interested in who works for who. and if you have worked hard to get where you wanted then well done.

Would anyone like to throw some names of people who come here?
RT
rts Founding member
Square Eyes posted:
RTS posted:
Aston, unlike J.aron retains most of his modesty.

erm, did you read his offering above ?

EDIT: It's now on the previous page, tsk.

What are you on about.
AS
Aston
tvmercia posted:
granted, i cannot stop you posting such nonsense, but i think you ought to accept that there posters on this forum who have got much further up the tv industry ladder than you - and neither them nor the rest of us are remotely interested or impressed in whatever job you have.


I'm not trying to impress anyone and I know I'm at the bottom of the ladder, it's my first job out of uni, give me a bloody chance!!

I'm not sure why it is that in Britain, there's a culture to berate success and people who are doing well for themselves.
DA
Dan Founding member
Aston do you work with the son of former BBC continuity announcer Malcolm Garrett-Eynon?
AS
Aston
Dan posted:
Aston do you work with the son of former BBC continuity announcer Malcolm Garrett-Eynon?


Indeed, although I didn't realise his dad did that! There can't be many people with that sirname anyway...
DA
Dan Founding member
Aston posted:
Indeed, although I didn't realise his dad did that! There can't be many people with that sirname anyway...


Indeed. Say hello from me! Must pop up to see Malc soon - shame we don't hear him on tv any more.
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Aston posted:
I'm not sure why it is that in Britain, there's a culture to berate success and people who are doing well for themselves.

oh for goodness sake, being at the bottom of the ladder is hardly *success*

come back when you're director general.

im afraid it says something about you if you *need* to come onto a forum and seek approval and congratulations from a bunch of people you don't know and will never know. either you have bored your [real life] friends to death about your new found *success* or you never had any friends to start with Confused
RO
roo
Oooh - do I detect a little jealousy?
TV
tvmercia Founding member
Barney Boo posted:
Oooh - do I detect a little jealousy?

not likely, if i were to envy anyone on this forum (which i do not) - how likely is it that id be jealous of a mere runner?
AS
Aston
tvmercia posted:
oh for goodness sake, being at the bottom of the ladder is hardly *success*

come back when you're director general.

im afraid it says something about you if you *need* to come onto a forum and seek approval and congratulations from a bunch of people you don't know and will never know. either you have bored your [real life] friends to death about your new found *success* or you never had any friends to start with Confused


When did I EVER ask for approval and congratulations from anyone here? I couldn't agree more with your statement about not knowing people and therefore it doesn't matter. And FYI I hardly talk to my friends much about my job, a lot of them are people from my uni course who actually work in the industry anyway.

The reason I come and post here is because I'm interested in the industry in which I work.

I don't need people like you to tell me I'm not doing well for myself when I know I'm in the right place to better my future career.

Now, please lets stop this betterness, we're WAY WAY off topic just because you feel the need to have a go at someone you don't even know.
RD
rdobbie
Just to get loosely back to the topic - ie. BBC improvisation in emergencies - the most spectacular example of this was during the big storm (1987 I think) when Nick Witchell ran a one-man broadcast all morning from the Childrens BBC broom cupboard, with all the pictures and cuddly toys stripped from the walls. There was no graphics, no VT, in fact nothing except Witchell on a fixed camera for 2 hours or so.

I don't think any tapes of it exist, as people obviously had better things to worry about that day, but does anyone remember it as vividly as I do?

Later in the morning I think they cobbled together a broadcast from the Newsnight studio with a weird mix of graphics from various programmes. It was truly surreal.

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