#7001
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#7002

No need

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#7003

Bloody bears, coming over 'ere, driving our cars

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#7004

I have never heard of thomas heatherwick before but I’m not seeing what’s noteworthy about this job ad other than it’s being relatively honest about what a PA actually does (eg buying your family’s birthday presents) instead of pretending it’s all booking train tickets and arranging meetings

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#7005

Get in, loser, we’re going to smash open jars of peanut butter

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#7006

For anyone concerned about the child, this is slightly edited, he was actually very excited to play against a legendary grandmaster. Karpov won their game.

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#7007

He’s a designer (I hesitate to use the word ‘architect’), who has a reputation for getting credit for the ideas and work of others, and for projects with teething problems.

It’s pretty much unheard of for someone in the field to have a PA taking on that level of responsibility, and given his firm’s reputation, I suspect that the salary will be well below the going rate for other senior PA roles. The perception amongst Architects is that even though there is a horrific long hours culture within the profession, if you’ve got yourself in a position where you need someone to be your surrogate in your family and your personal life, maybe you’ve got the balance all wrong.

(he’s also expecting them to take on the role of a project manager for a construction job - that’s a fully qualified position in itself)

#7008

Basically The Queen’s Gambit, tbf

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#7009

ah right, he fell in. funny.
hmm. still a minute and half of this video left.
something else must happen…
…
…nope

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#7010

There is part of me that thinks it is staged.

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#7011

My friend works as an education officer at an art gallery. She was really pleased that they were fitting out a new schools room for her, until they suddenly handed over project management to her, an art teacher.

#7012

The list of projects credited to him that have been closed, cancelled or derided outright is quite something.

#7013

Grand Designs would be a calm, informative TV programme if the couples realised that project managing a construction job takes more than just an ability to use excel, read a gantt chart and haggle with suppliers over the cost of bathroom suites, and instead hired someone else to do it.

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#7014

Thank god it’s not like that though. Grand Designs at its best: winter approaching, project already over budget, race against time to get the skeleton of a building watertight, marriage showing serious signs of strain thanks to a guy deciding to do it all himself even though he has no clue. That’s the gold right there.

Post-brexit can imagine it being even better, with the whole project getting delayed because the roof tiles are stuck in Calais or something for 8 weeks.

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#7015

The new season has been a belter, my GF and I cheering every time McCloud mentions Covid-19 restrictions stopping construction. Just magnificent stuff.

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#7016

Such great memories.

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#7017

I rarely watch it these days, because it makes me angry and the houses got too big and extravagant, but we saw the one with the buried house and radiant heating from the earth/concrete mass, and it was a good project, well managed. Good episode.

No pregnancy in it, though, so I couldn’t tick that off the bingo card.

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#7018

Did you see the one with that girl who was an interior designer who built a fairly modest, scandi-esque house, and absolutely nothing went wrong at all? Think Kevin was ready to marry her by the end.

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#7019

Think i remember that one. Kevin was all like “interior design is completely different, she can’t do this by herself”… and then she did.

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#7020

Kathryn Tyler’s Corkellis House, I’m assuming?