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"Harry Hill's TV Burp" Did that sum up "The Fun Police" or what?
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Posted By Safety110
Hello All,
Did any one see Harry Hill's TV Burp on Saturday evening (06.12.08)?
After all the great forum discussions this week and the forum coming alive with different views, Does anyone think that Harry Hill summed up the way this documentary was perceived to the British Public?
What can I say, Harry Hill is very funny but I don't think it gave us Guy's very good press!
Lets all laugh and move on I say.
Safety 110
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Posted By Dave Merchant
Everyone knew he'd take the bait - it's like waving tuna in front of a kitten.
I'm waiting for someone on YouTube to edit the forklift sequence. It really needs to end with a massive fireball...
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Posted By Safety110
Yeah,
Not on youtube yet but I'm sure that won't take long.
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Posted By BB
Harry did us a favour. He missed the best line from the Cutting Edge docucomedy.
'Garden' is an anagram of 'danger'. Priceless. Thanks Ed.
He's my hero.
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Posted By A Campbell
I think Harry summed it up for me... and in a funnier light too!!
Pouring cups of water onto the kitchen floor.... he deserved an oscar!!
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Posted By NSO
Never shown in a good light, always expect us to be shown up, so how come no one has commissioned a tv programme showing us how we'd like to be represented?
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Posted By Dave Merchant
"how come no one has commissioned a tv programme showing us how we'd like to be represented?"
Because IOSH doesn't own a TV channel. Programmes aren't broadcast just because someone makes them - the channel sets the rules as the channel holds the money.
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Posted By Jim Walker
And the truth is eyewaterinly boring!
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Posted By Pete Longworth
I must say it gets a little tedious all this moaning and whinging about how we are portrayed in the media. Who cares what the Richard Littlejohns and Jeremy Clarksons of this world say about us. Does it materially affect health and safety in your workplace. If the answer is yes then you are in the ideal position to do something to negate that effect. If the answer is no then what are you worried about?
Leave the media to sell column inches and air time in whatever way suits them while we just concentrate on doing our jobs.
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Posted By Ashley Williams
In my office right now we have a team of Health and Safety Consultants, myself included, who are enjoying watching the fun police again.
We have conducted a risk assessment on the spillage of bodily fluids as currently we are all wetting ourselves at every comment Ed makes.
I for one think channel 4 should be congratulated on managing to find a man like Ed who is even funnier than Gareth Keenan from the Office talking about Health and Safety.
They even pulled a second classic out of the hat with the woman from the council, as far as we can tell from the program an Environmental Health Officer who has no idea on her powers as an inspector is classic and her impression that the self employed are exempt from Health and Safety.
As for Harry Hill, again quality TV.
Ash
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Posted By Geoff W
I agree Pete well said
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Posted By Jim Walker
Spot on Pete!
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Posted By Roly Buss
There has been a lot of remarks about Ed, but I presume he was not the only one to be considered for filming, and then must have been selected by the film company as offering the best "television".
Is there anyone out there who was also considered and rejected? We would love to know
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Posted By Sniffer
The reason there has never been a programme showing us in a good light is because it would be boring as hell for the majority of the public.
Most members of the public have experienced first hand or have read stories in the media about health and safety gone mad. So confirming what the public already thinks of us is a much more popular option.
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Posted By Dave Merchant
"it would be boring as hell for the majority of the public"
and 15 hours of back-to-back repeated police videos isn't?
With every subject you can make it interesting if you want to, or make it laughable if you want to. An hour program on sucking **** from the bottom of a water tank can't possibly be exciting enough for Channel 5 to show it prime time.
Oh, wait... that was last week. This week it's an hour program about crane operations and ladder climbing.
If someone wanted to cover the HSE in an 'infotaining' way (sorry, hate that word) they could follow an investigation all CSI-style; as they've already done with every possible branch of the emergency services (they dragged an entire series out of one New Zealand environmental health office). The point is not that they can't, it's that they don't want to.
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