[kj] The IT Crowd

[Antoni Adamiak]

Nathan Barley is/was fantastic ... a great spoof on all those trendy gadgety 
knobs you see about ... superbly painful in parts ... when I chanced upon it 
on CH4 I'd not seen any write up or hype and just thought the humour was 
right up my street ... but working in a rather large IT shop myself, I'm 
struggling to find "The IT Crowd" funny at all ... though I wouldn't mind 
swapping workloads ... yes, rumour has it that 80% of all calls to a 
helpdesk are resolved via procedures/scripts ... and these days we generally 
get non-techie managers in charge of us seasoned technicians and fuck knows 
what they are doing apart from furthering their own careers and just 
spouting HR process speak that seems to infest the place these days ... and 
in what seemed to be another flavour of the month gesture, we even had 
laminates posted up on the noticeboards last year explaining the background 
to various religious "celebration" days (reference Equality and Diversity in 
a large corporate) and a previous dorm (which was set aside for those poor 
souls who might have been called in overnight to do some REAL WORK, solving 
a live problem or doing an implementation etc and might wanna have a kip for 
a few hours) is now a place for religious "comtemplation" ... I wonder 
whether I may stir up a hornet's nest if I go in there with my Chelsea scarf 
for a few minutes prior setting off for the FC Barcelona match ... anyway, 
(as usual) I digress somewhat ...

>From: "melinda grant" <hollytree1961 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
><gathering at misera.net>
>To: gathering at misera.net
>Subject: Re: [kj] The IT Crowd
>Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:11:34 +0000
>
>hey bluce,i used to love  black books,it was a champion of a show,wish it 
>was brought back ;-(
>
>total invasion
>
>
>>From: bluce ree <bluceree2003 at yahoo.co.uk>
>>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
>><gathering at misera.net>
>>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
>><gathering at misera.net>
>>Subject: Re: [kj] The IT Crowd
>>Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:28:34 +0000 (GMT)
>>
>>i thought it was okay but a bit too obvious.
>>
>>hating the woman in it a lot, but really enjoying
>>Chris Morris.
>>
>>not as good as Black Books but what is?
>>
>>
>>--- PRAEst76 <praest76 at escapism.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Phillipps Marc wrote:
>> >
>> > > Talking of UK comedy . . .
>> > >
>> > > What are people making of The IT Crowd?
>> > >
>> > > I wasn't too impressed with the first show but the
>> > second really seemed
>> > > to hook me . .
>> >
>> > It was a bit better but I still find Richard Ayoade
>> > irritating. He
>> > didn't irritate me in Dark Place though for some
>> > reason.
>> >
>> > Nice to see Chris Morris back infront of the
>> > cameras.
>> >
>> > Episode three is on the website at the moment for
>> > those non-uk types
>> > that are curious:
>> >
>> >
>>http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd/
>> >
>> > --
>> > PRAEst76
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