MaliA wrote:
Vikings is really good. Sort of. It is a bit rubbish, but I keep watching it.
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| Author: | Kern [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 21:55 ] |
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Two thirds of the way through 'Civilisations' and I'm now painfully aware that I was so wrong about it in my initial post. It's been some of the best and most thought-provoking telly I've seen this year. I've just finished David Olusoga's episode on what happens to art when cultures meet. He picks up on details which are, now they're explained, so obvious but I wouldn't have noticed had I just seen the pieces myself. I still have some gripes: there's an overuse of clever-clever soft-focus for all but the main feature of an establishing shot, and the camera isn't lingering on the works nearly half as long enough to enjoy them fully, but yeah, it's a worthy sequel. I'm watching it in parallel with a rewatch of the original and it's also quite fun to see where the programmes deliberately collide with Timelord Clark's original, such as over iconclasm in Ely Catherdal which Mary Beard has a very different take on. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 22:22 ] |
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I completely forgot we were about four episodes into this!! |
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| Author: | Kern [ Mon Apr 02, 2018 22:49 ] |
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I'm now taking the opening episode as an extended trailer. I've not rewatched it yet - I'll wait until I've finished and let things simmer, but I don't think it's as good a start as the scary Viking ship in the original which is still horrifying when you're not expecting it (and always reminds me of 'The Curse of Fenric' with the 7th Doctor). |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Apr 03, 2018 10:40 ] |
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Russell watched the opening of the original about seven times and fell asleep every single viewing. |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Tue Apr 03, 2018 10:42 ] |
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Mimi wrote: Russell watched the opening of the original about seven times and fell asleep every single viewing. His voice is so soothing. I do know all about the mother hanging out the window as the ship goes down the Seine though, as it's now emblazoned on my subconsciousness. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Apr 03, 2018 21:21 ] |
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This guy is my new hero. His eyebrows should have their own show. Today he sung a three minute song about diarrhoea and was so happy throughout that it made you want to have a tummy bug just so you could catch that vibe. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Tue Apr 03, 2018 22:25 ] |
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Be happy! Be healthy! And get well soon! |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Apr 04, 2018 9:28 ] |
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He’s awesome. I’ve only just seen it yesterday, but I am already in love with the happiest Doctor Eyebrows ever. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:12 ] |
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I miss Throughsilver. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:14 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: I miss Throughsilver. I almost said I thought Throughsilver had a new gig but wasn’t entirely sure I wasn’t misremembering what he looked like. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:18 ] |
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Stupid Sexy Thrusilver |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Wed Apr 04, 2018 22:55 ] |
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Watch ‘Kiss me first.’ It might be dead good. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Apr 06, 2018 14:29 ] |
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Vikings is really good. Sort of. It is a bit rubbish, but I keep watching it. There is a lady who the other ladies call Slagatha so she ignores them and their pettiness because she is right fit and likes to have a tear up with the lads braining monks and lootin' gold. A man builds boats and bops priests on the noggin because taking your only shipwright to war is fine. They shout "Shield wall!". A lot. Having a ruck? SHIELD WALL! bit outnumbered? SHIELD WALL! Don't fancy cooking and want a cheeky Nandos? SHIELD WALL! Nobody ages, but the kids, and fjords are warm enough to swum naked in. Brilliant. On amazon prome. SHIELD WALL |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Fri Apr 06, 2018 14:46 ] |
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MaliA wrote: Vikings is really good. Sort of. It is a bit rubbish, but I keep watching it.
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| Author: | MaliA [ Fri Apr 06, 2018 14:55 ] |
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TheVision wrote: MaliA wrote: Vikings is really good. Sort of. It is a bit rubbish, but I keep watching it. SHIELD WALL! EXCHANGE HOSTAGES! SHIELD WALL! |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri Apr 06, 2018 15:10 ] |
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Like Two Broke Girls? |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Fri Apr 06, 2018 15:14 ] |
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MaliA wrote: TheVision wrote: MaliA wrote: Vikings is really good. Sort of. It is a bit rubbish, but I keep watching it. SHIELD WALL! EXCHANGE HOSTAGES! SHIELD WALL! QUERY CAR INSURANCE RENEWAL QUOTE! (Q.V. GAS GUZZLING MONEY PITS) SHEILD WALL! |
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| Author: | Doctor Glyndwr [ Fri Apr 06, 2018 19:55 ] |
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Cunk on Britain has started. I am in awe of (a) the writing (b) Diane Morgan’s performance and (c) the guests who somehow make it through far enough without cracking up that they get usable footage. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Fri Apr 06, 2018 20:35 ] |
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote: Cunk on Britain has started. I am in awe of (a) the writing (b) Diane Morgan’s performance and (c) the guests who somehow make it through far enough without cracking up that they get usable footage. Indeed. It’s a bit like Morecambe and Wise getting all those respected actors to have the piss taken out of them, only this is co-written by Charlie Brooker, which can only be a good thing. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Fri Apr 06, 2018 21:52 ] |
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I found the interviews to be the weakest part of Cunk. The specialists just weren’t adequate straight men/women, leaving Cunk to carry the burden of the skits. The rest was pretty funny however. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Sun Apr 22, 2018 18:56 ] |
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Started watching 'This Country' (BBC 3/Iplayer). It's essentially 'Raised by Wolves' - but in the Cotswolds! Only seen a couple of episodes so far but it's a wonderfully observed and very funny take on chav life in rural England. Who knew scarecrow competitions were so hotly contested? Pretty sure I've rambled through some of the locations too. |
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| Author: | Dr Zoidberg [ Sun Apr 22, 2018 21:12 ] |
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Britain’s Most Historic Towns on channel 4 is very interesting stuff, and of course being presented by Alice Roberts is a big plus. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Sun Apr 22, 2018 22:16 ] |
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Oh, I love her. She is one of my top two crushes. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Mon Apr 23, 2018 23:59 ] |
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Just watched “Have I Got News” with Lee Mack as the guest host. Anyway, man alive, Sarah Pascoe looked BEAUUU-TIFOOL. I do like her an awful lot for a whole host of reasons. Today: she’s looking gorgeous and was glowing. Oh and that rant about the pie moaners. |
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| Author: | Findus Fop [ Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:02 ] |
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Satsuma wrote: Just watched “Have I Got News” with Lee Mack as the guest host. Anyway, man alive, Sarah Pascoe looked BEAUUU-TIFOOL. I do like her an awful lot for a whole host of reasons. Today: she’s looking gorgeous and was glowing. Oh and that rant about the pie moaners. Meanwhile, Lee Mack has grown on me. To me he was always a fairly one-dimensional comedian who erred on the side of blunt, obvious gags with a smattering of smut. But he seems to have aged into a whip-smart, generous comedian. And I also felt sorry for him when they made fun of him for not being able to read the auto-queue. He'd been blinking erratically for the whole show. Meanwhile, meanwhile, I'd like Merton to step his game up. He visibly can't be arsed more than usual. Meanwhile, meanwhile, meanwhile, Hislop was on fine form on Friday. He landed a number of excellent gags in quick succession. Meanwhile, meanwhile, meanwhile, meanwhile, did anyone see Paxman on HIGNFY the other week? He was like an old man drunk, lost, and screaming at the world because he's been asked to update his wifi password. Time to step down. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:36 ] |
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I completely agree with everything you’ve written, Findus. Paxman’s delivery has turned... odd. He was just shouting and I’m not entirely convinced he understood half of what he was saying. Hopefully it’s not a medical problem as he seems ‘same old Paxman’ on University Chalkenge. Merton’s can’t-be-arsedness has been bothering me for a few seasons. His jokes and observations have gone lame, then he tries to explain his jokes as they haven’t raised a laugh, and then he gurns, or makes a silly noise, or pretends to be a jellyfish, in an ever-increasing may desperate grab for audience reaction. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:37 ] |
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And Lee Mack has definitely grown on me too. I think the blink may be a slight tic of sorts as I’ve noticed him do that before. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Apr 24, 2018 10:38 ] |
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I’d be happy to see them bring Victoria Coren-Mitchell in as a perma-host, though. |
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| Author: | Findus Fop [ Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:57 ] |
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Mimi wrote: I’d be happy to see them bring Victoria Coren-Mitchell in as a perma-host, though. That would be excellent. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Sun Apr 29, 2018 21:02 ] |
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BBC 2: 'Civilisations on your doorstep with Mary Beard' Lovely postscript to the main series, looking at British museums and how collections have been curated to tell differing stories about civilisation['-s' - Ed.]. Some more places to add to my daytrip list, and another exhibit I've never noticed in the Pitt Rivers* before to go and check out. * the Best Museum in the History of All Things, even after considering the ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
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| Author: | Kern [ Mon Apr 30, 2018 19:15 ] |
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Kern wrote: Called it! |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Apr 30, 2018 22:14 ] |
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Secret Agent Selection. Just ran across this on the iPlayer and I'm instantly hooked. Ordinary folk going through the selection process for the SOE following WW2 standards. Fascinating stuff |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Tue May 01, 2018 6:22 ] |
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Kern wrote: Well, it is executively produced by a dead man. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Wed May 02, 2018 7:59 ] |
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'Taskmaster' starts again tonight at 21:00 on ['Dave' - Ed.]. I only started watching it last Autumn, so still have a lot of catching up to do. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Mon May 21, 2018 21:26 ] |
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Just watched the first episode of 'A Very English Scandal' (BBC1). Hugh Grant's very convincing as Jeremy Thorpe but Ben Winshaw's performance as Norman Scott is utterly stunning. It's very well shot too. What I found frustrating about the first episode, however, is any real sense of who Thorpe was or why he went for Scott. We get a couple of rousing speeches in the Commons and a little bit of backroom Liberal politics but if I didn't know the story already I'd be a bit lost as to the background to it all. I also found it zipping away at a pace that doesn't let us get too absorbed in what's going on in each scene. I'll keep watching, however, as it's one of the strangest episodes in post-war British political history/ Of course we're only really watching this for: ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu May 24, 2018 7:23 ] |
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BBC 4: 'Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA' This show draws a connection from the art of the Old West and US expansion to the abstract era, via Mexico, Native American petroglyphs, and the mysteries of theosophy. Initially, I find Waldemar Januszczak a bit shouty in his commentary but soon grew to enjoy his style and his enthusiasm for the subject. There were shades of the Jonathan Meades approach to documentaries too, for example giving a piece to camera whilst cowboys are shooting at each other. However, as with Civilisation['-s' - Ed.] I felt the camera didn't linger enough on the pictures to truly appreciate them, and for some reason the director felt we wanted to see the back of a someone looking at the picture, presumably to add realism but just causing an obstruction. I really enjoyed this, and as well as wanting to return to the western US, I now want to see the revolutionary murals in Mexico. |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu May 24, 2018 7:58 ] |
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There was another Rich Hall documentary on last week, about California. Definitely worth a look if you've enjoyed his previous ones. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu May 24, 2018 8:00 ] |
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markg wrote: There was another Rich Hall documentary on last week, about California. Definitely worth a look if you've enjoyed his previous ones. Ace. I'll have to look that up. Love Rich Hall's stuff. |
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| Author: | markg [ Thu May 24, 2018 8:36 ] |
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He was mostly quite scathing about The Golden State. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Thu May 24, 2018 8:46 ] |
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Kern wrote: markg wrote: There was another Rich Hall documentary on last week, about California. Definitely worth a look if you've enjoyed his previous ones. Ace. I'll have to look that up. Love Rich Hall's stuff. I do, too. However, it never gets enjoyed ss MrsA "doesn't like his face". This rule also applies, in truly coherent logic, to any of his radio performances. |
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| Author: | myp [ Thu May 24, 2018 8:52 ] |
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MaliA wrote: Kern wrote: markg wrote: There was another Rich Hall documentary on last week, about California. Definitely worth a look if you've enjoyed his previous ones. Ace. I'll have to look that up. Love Rich Hall's stuff. I do, too. However, it never gets enjoyed ss MrsA "doesn't like his face". This rule also applies, in truly coherent logic, to any of his radio performances. Well she likes your face so there's no accounting for taste, is there? |
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu May 24, 2018 21:54 ] |
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markg wrote: There was another Rich Hall documentary on last week, about California. Definitely worth a look if you've enjoyed his previous ones. Enjoyed that, thanks for the tip. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Wed May 30, 2018 8:25 ] |
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Watched part two of the Jeremy Thorpe show yesterday. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! |
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| Author: | Morte [ Wed May 30, 2018 11:00 ] |
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Has this been mentioned? https://www.twitch.tv/twitchpresents?ttid=3c675e4f27 Twitch are showing 500 episodes of classic Dr Who over the next couple of months...it started a few days ago...still on Hartnell episodes |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Wed May 30, 2018 23:20 ] |
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Complain all you might about Britain’s Got Talent, Mr Uekusa was the best thing on TV today. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Thu May 31, 2018 10:30 ] |
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Kern wrote: Watched part two of the Jeremy Thorpe show yesterday. ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view! If anyone wrote the Thorpe story as fiction, I’m sure a lot of people would think it was too far fetched. This TV version is bordering on comedy drama in places. And the ‘assassin’ is almost like an Eric Idle characterisation. If only someone had told Scott he could apply to the relevant government department for a replacement NI card, maybe the whole debacle could have been avoided. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu May 31, 2018 10:45 ] |
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Yes, it's such a strange story I think it can only be told as a dark comedy. I went back and read two accounts of it to remind me of who some of the characters are (in Matthew Parris's 'Great Parliamentary Scandals' and in Dominic Sandbrook's 'Seasons in the Sun'). The waters get muddied as most of the key players are pretty unreliable or generally dodgy characters. Matthew Parris, who met Thorpe for his book, is quite sympathetic to him. Norman Scott does come across as a fantastist, but then he was a very troubled young man. I never thought 'national insurance card' would be as funny as a line as it is in this show. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Thu May 31, 2018 10:46 ] |
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Regarding the card, I read somewhere that back in the day the employer would hold it and physically add stamps to it to show the contributions had been paid so not getting it back on leaving a job or losing it could cause problems when it came to claiming benefits and stuff. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Thu May 31, 2018 12:15 ] |
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Kern wrote: Regarding the card, I read somewhere that back in the day the employer would hold it and physically add stamps to it to show the contributions had been paid so not getting it back on leaving a job or losing it could cause problems when it came to claiming benefits and stuff. True. When I started work in ‘72 we still had a physical card with spaces for 52 stamps on it, one for each week of the year. Eployers would stick a stamp on it each week. I worked in the benefit service and when people signed on as unemployed, we took their card and rubber stamped it as an exemption to show they'd been receiving Unemployment benefit, and gave it back when they got a job. The card was the only proof that they'd NI contributions so it was a pain if it got lost, but they could still apply for a replacement. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu May 31, 2018 12:36 ] |
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Hence the nickname for NI being "stamp" |
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