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Punk
Posted by tkdmart on 18 January 2012 - 1:31am.
I love a bit of prog, me. But maybe it wasn't fair that making music should be exclusively for people who practiced bloody hard to play an instrument well.
What other professions could benefit from a bit of a punk phase?
How about a punk airline, or a punk dental surgery?
I'll get my cape.
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I went to a punk dentist
not actually punk - but the surgery had changed hands and the new head dentist had very much the punk ethic - get in, do the job as quick as possible and out. Take No Prisoners ! Blood and Spit are not optional extras.
I changed dentists after one encounter.
It wasn't in Portsmouth was it?
With a mandolin propped in the corner?
Every High Street
I'm sick of the same old shops on every high st. Maybe a bit of DIY with some of the empty premisies being let at cheap rates for start up enterprises to flourish.
How about a punk bank?
They wouldn't give a hoot about customers, they'd pee all over investors, they'd treat their own colleagues like rubbish, they'd demand astronomically high remuneration ("We're the talent, maaaaaan") and finally they'd explode with a bang leaving an almighty mess behind.
Good job that could never happen, eh?
Prog Bank
Prog Bankers started with interesting, even witty ideas about moving beyond the short-duration, bread-and-butter stuff that people knew before. Their work moved into areas where money was no object. For a while it worked, so the Prog Bankers were the bright-eyed boys, and indeed they were mainly boys, perhaps some of the most unprepossessing boys this country has ever produced.
However in only a few years, started to attract the wrong sort of attention. While the Prog Bankers could undoubtedly produce, it seems increasingly to be for self-gratification and not to communicate with their customers. Meanwhile their personal demands grew more grandiose. They began to close down operations outside a few select venues of London, claiming that The Provinces could not handle the vision of their new and ever-grander productions. Some complained about the rates of incoming tax imposed by "socialists", and threatened to take their Talent abroad.
Soon it was out of control. They claimed to need ever more esoteric instruments but it turned out that no-one, not their management, nor the commentators and critics , nor, as admitted later, in wry, self-mocking interviews on BBC4, they themselves knew really how to use these, but by then such was the cult of personality surrounding them, which brooked no criticism, no-one dared challenge them. But that was much later, after the damage was done.
It couldn't last and it all came tumbling down. Those left behind had to start from scratch again. Occasionally the Proggers were seen, photographed open-shirted and flaunting their wealth on some Caribbean Love Beach while back home their old public shivered. People said they still didn't get it. Even now some of them still don't.
I keep waiting for...
...the Progressive and Northern Rock to merge. Think of the new name - fantastic!
Brookster Air
I had this idea of an airline, which would operate as airlines did in the 1970s. So you'd get less hassle at the airport — none of this body scanning and liquids over 100ml nonsense.
You'd just be statistically more likely to have a nutter onboard with a gun and suchlike, and there'd be loads of smoking, but that would be your choice.
Prog Dentist
Wouldn't fancy that much either - a simple filling would take up to 18 times longer, the prog dentist noodling away, adding not strictly necessary drills and fills...
...on top of which,
his assistant would nip out and get him a curry that he'd then eat while he was still noodling away!
Mind you…
You'd only see them once every five years or so, so it's not all bad.
punk dentistry?
sounds like a job for einstürzende neubauten
A lot of dentistry now done on the NHS is punk-esque.
Fast, angry, crude, performed with rudimentary skills.
The difference is that punk rock was done with heart and desire. And some of it was good.
I do Power Pop dentistry.
You mean
You're cruel to be kind?
Or a case of Another Girl, Another Filling?
Ahem..
...you`ve got the Knack then?
... and
... he does a good job, No Matter What.
... especially when doing root canal work for September Gurls
... he'll soon be an Overnite Sensation
(... I could go on all day! But won't.)
Did Sid die for this?
I think a bit of the punk ethos is curiously missing from today's youngsters. We got recession, unemployment, greedy banks (and bankers), wars and much trouble and strife and what do we get? Lady Gaga poncing about in a dress made from pork chops. Quite a lot of punks were cheesed off with the worldy situation: Remember Chelsea singing CID, the Cortina's Right To Work, The Specials Ghost Town etc. Where are the folk singers with their protest songs and reflections on all the aggro about nowadays? It's all a bit tame and a bit corporate. Man.
No, Sid died because he was a drug addicted loser
who couldn't/wouldn't get the help he needed.
Ian Curtis didn't die for us either :-)
The Specials
were not exactly punks.
Punk Pedantry
think it was UK Subs who did CID and Chelsea who did Right to Work
Pedantry MKII
And The Cortinas did Fascist Dictator.
HR and 'administration'
If ever there was an argument for calling something overbloated and pretentious, it's the whole MBA/ Human resources/ administration approach to the workplace. They would contribute far better if they stripped back to basics, as per punk.
Punk Change Management
is called JFDI.
HR
I'll give you MBA
And maybe I'm just speaking for my company, but my HR function actually, y'know, helps both people and the business.
Think we're bad? I can guarantee that without us, the dickhead faction would take over.
Religion
Christianity.
Punk
Real ale? Oh wait, hang on a minute