India Top Gear Special

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vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Disappointed with it.
They didn't drop a piano on the Allegro.

I was waiting to see what misfortune the Allegro would succumb to - another unfulfilled expectation.

Hats off to it though for getting through.

Just goes to show that some British things are reliable unlike the Royal Mail.
 

craigwend

Grimpeur des terrains plats
Three stupid middle aged blokes acting stupid.

and?

if only i could get paid for doing something similar...

though the 'p***S' answer on, it'll be all right on the night was even funnier

not bad - have seen better - a bit contrived but still laugh
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Sorry must have amended my last reply whilst you where writing yours, dread to think what the unemployment figure would be like amongst the British workforce though if your method of improving efficiency was carried out across all Uk services/ industry.

As a compromise I would be more than willing to see our posties go to India for retraining while their job is being performed by tiffin men. Once retraining is complete then the tiffin men can go back to India where the food and weather is superior to our own and the posties can come back the Britain and do the job properly.

Oh, and having scrapped the mechanised aspect of the postal system their will be a need for an aggressive recruitment drive to up the man power.

Remember I am chasing accuracy and not efficiency. See previous posting.

You do know the difference don't you?
 
Remember I am chasing accuracy and not efficiency. See previous posting.

You do know the difference don't you?
I know the sort of member of the British Public I would love to see the back of.

In terms of the post it is impossible to be efficient and not be accurate, given that a wrongly delivered item of mail is likely to make its way back into the system.
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
In terms of the post it is impossible to be efficient and not be accurate, given that a wrongly delivered item of mail is likely to make its way back into the system.

Remember I'm chasing accuracy.

The tiffin men get it right first time.

Unlike the Royal Mail who have to depend upon honest, patient and immortal citizens such as myself to assist it by making sure that their mistakenly delivered mail is put back into their system.

The problems don't only occur at the delivery end.

The week before last our inaccurate postman delivered a small package with my name and address on it immediately creating a feeling of, 'I've seen this package somewhere before'.

I had!

The day before I had taken it to my local Post Office and paid £2+ to have it delivered to an address, clearly written on the package, in Manchester. I might as well had brought it back with me.

To avoid confusion I had also written in large bold capital letters, To: next to the addressee's name and From next to my own address. The postmaster had only gone and put the self adhesive stamp/label thingy next to my address even though he knows me and my entire family by name as well as our address. The post office was not busy. I was the only customer wanting to use an inaccurate postal system.
 

Doseone

Guru
Location
Brecon
Overall I was disappointed. There were a few "laugh out loud" moments, but it was contrived and predictable. India is such an amazing country, they could have done so much better - and I usually really enjoy Top Gear. However, it somehow continues to be a program that myself, my wife and my kids can all enjoy.

Personally, I much preferred the Rhod Gilbert and Greg Davies program where they drove through Nepal that was on last September.
 
It was ok, but not their best. The ending with straight 6 cricket was the only part that didn't look obviously preplanned and staged.
 

007fair

Senior Member
Location
Glasgow Brr ..
I was very disappointed Far too scripted and obvious. If May misses a train by accident thats funny - when May is scripted to re-tie the banner on so he misses the train on purpose its just not funny. Its even worse when the others roll around laughing as if it was sponateous. Other episodes get over this by having incredible scenery, travel, cinematography etc but this failed on those counts too.
 

mustang1

Legendary Member
Location
London, UK
I rather like the top gear specials but the India one isn't particularly appealing. And I'm not saying that for political reasons, just the show itself was somewhat dry.

The Vietnam one was probably the best. I saw some bike show on YouTube that had a cycling stig, complete with helmet so looks like the cycling shows are either poking fun or really can't think of anything original.
 

Linford

Guest
[QUOTE 2839212, member: 1314"]My dad used to take his lunch to work in a tiffin.

Forbes awarded the humble dabba-wallahs a 6 Sigma performance rating, a term used in quality assurance if the percentage of correctness is 99.9999999 or more. In other words, for every six million tiffins delivered, only one fails to arrive. This error rate means in effect that a tiffin goes astray only once every two months.

It is a rare day indeed when a customer's deep-fried rotis fail to turn up. The sigma rating was the same as that given to the top bluechip company Motorola - not bad considering that most dabba-wallahs are illiterate.

"We are very proud," Raghunath Medge, president of the tiffin-wallahs' union, the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Charity Trust said. "Our ancestors carried swords in their hands. Now we carry tiffins instead."

The beauty of the system, Mr Medge explained, is the colour coding used on the top of each tiffin box. The home address, office address, railway stations of delivery and pick-up are all crunched into a small series of letters and numbers, painted by hand.

An Indian entrepreneur, Mahadeo Havaji Bacche, invented the tiffin distribution business back in 1890, to meet the culinary needs of Bombay's rapidly expanding working population, both British and Indian. His idea caught on. Over the years the codes became simpler. By the 1950s and 1960s the tiffin-wallahs were delivering some 200,000 dabbas or lunch-boxes a day.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/24/worlddispatch.india[/quote]


Or you could have show this.


It would never work in the UK, but I can see the point due to the culture in India
 

postman

Squire
Location
,Leeds
Dec2011 for crying out loud,it has been on cable tv twice this last week that i know of.Cable tv is she ite.Also the post my gawd don't get me started.37p is now 50p and the service just gets worse.Going to stop because my blood pressure is going up.Fecking agency staff,don't give a toss.And they let us go so we would not question the changes.Well we are glad to be out.Job is garbage.My word i could tell you we were proud to work there,and we did a great job.But were we appreciated were we bollocks,sorry for the language,but it makes us mad.
 
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