Restoration Man
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Tollers
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- San Francisco, California
Greedo said:
For anyone that missed the original question.....we are discussing why do programmes insist after every ad break do a bloody recap.
I agree wholeheartedly and anyone doing a recap after 15 minutes....no wait...6 minutes shouldn't be allowed a telly and should be immediately sent to a library!
Tollers
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Welcome back to the thread. In post one we asked why do programmes insist after every ad break do a bloody recap. Now we'd like your opinion. Why do programmes insist after every ad break do a bloody recap?
p.s Greedo....stop distracting the viewers....it just means we'll have to do a recap!
p.s Greedo....stop distracting the viewers....it just means we'll have to do a recap!
Tollers
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Greedo said:
An image describes 1000 words....
Over The Hill
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It seemed to me that he wanted a completely different house to the one he bought. I hate modern "contrast" extensions on old buildings. It never works. That said his front door bit was not too bad but the rest of the extension was horrid. It ruined the look of the folly from every other side. If you take on an old building you have to respect it.
The modern bit is just a passing fashion and will look crap in 30 years (imagine what would have been done in 1975 and you get the idea).
The modern bit is just a passing fashion and will look crap in 30 years (imagine what would have been done in 1975 and you get the idea).
Globalti
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The project was tasteless and ostentatious to the extreme; though to give him his due the builder did concede that he needed to listen to the the Council blokey. They said that the Council had been trying to sell the place for 32 years and no wonder - it was a ghastly old pile of vulgarity with absolutely nothing to recommend it at all. The bit the builder added looked just like the 1940s offices you see tacked onto old factories, it was out of proportion and lacked any kind of sensitivity. You only had to look at the builder's own house to see that the bloke may have known a bit about building but he had no eye for style or design. As for that Geordie architect, he actually seemed to like it - which doesn't say much for his ability as an architect either; what did he actually contribute apart from crawling up the builder's backside?
gbb
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- Peterborough
Recaps...makes the program cheaper to produce. Does my head in, they're all doing it, Deals on Wheels is another example, they're all at it.
I sit there monking to myself..FFS, get on with the program.
I sit there monking to myself..FFS, get on with the program.
Globalti
Legendary Member
That Geordie muppet kept going on about the stunning scenery when the place was next to a railway and surrounded by flat fields, then he said there was no access and he'd had to walk through the wheat field, which was cobblers because anybody could see that there was a well-established track leading straight to the front door - it even featured on the old photos of the place FFS.
How do you heat a building that's built around a courtyard efficiently? The place had flat roofs and that awful plastic skylight, not to mention the glass bit joining the old and new bits. Give it ten years and it'll be leaking all over the place and all that timber will be rotting and grey, that lump of brick in the middle of the courtyard will look look awful, the owners will have grown tired of the heating bills, the leaks, the filthy drive and the isolation and it will be on the market for a song, the builder having made a packet selling it to the first idiot with an inflated ego who stumbled along.
It really was the biggest load of bollocks I've seen in a long time. Bring back Grand Designs.
How do you heat a building that's built around a courtyard efficiently? The place had flat roofs and that awful plastic skylight, not to mention the glass bit joining the old and new bits. Give it ten years and it'll be leaking all over the place and all that timber will be rotting and grey, that lump of brick in the middle of the courtyard will look look awful, the owners will have grown tired of the heating bills, the leaks, the filthy drive and the isolation and it will be on the market for a song, the builder having made a packet selling it to the first idiot with an inflated ego who stumbled along.
It really was the biggest load of bollocks I've seen in a long time. Bring back Grand Designs.
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'He laboured under the infirmities of age and gout' - sounds like a man after my own heart!theclaud said:I should have known this thread was not likely to be about what I first thought...
