1989: PHILOSOPHY of the TUBE Workers | 40 Minutes | World of Work | BBC Archive
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
- Molly Dineen's observational documentary "Heart of the Angel" captures 48 hours in the life of London’s dilapidated Angel tube station.
In this clip, station workers consider their place on Earth... and its shape.
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Originally broadcast 23 November, 1989.
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That’s what public transport was like, back in the day in London.
I can remember a bus conductor on the 38, that used to sing all the time.
I think if you do a job where you are literally surrounded by people, and no one talks unless they are lost, it can have a effect after 30 years in a lift, taking miserable people up and down all day. But having said that… something British about feeling uncomfortable, when someone’s being loud in public!
This guy was talking about flat earth 30 years before it became internet meme
The earth is spread out flat like a carpet and the mountains act as pegs. The 🌞 sets in a muddy pool of water somewhere in the far west where a group of people are said to be living. Dhul Quarnain was said to have reached that place.
The 🌞 then travels Underground towards the east and waits for Allah's permission to rise again. Fact.
Yeah there was complete idiots back then too.
@@butthead8083people often only remember the good things about their past
Maybe he looked a bit miserable in the office as he knew that eventually someone would tell him to take that calendar down. Unless it was a family photo but I can't see the resemblance
That's obviously the man's daughter.
@@GhastlyCretin haha
@@GhastlyCretin Ewww!
really appreciated the honest misery of the guy at 1:08
That guy's exhausting
I've seen this whole documentary years ago. It's like something from another world. Pretty sure there's a member of staff telling a tourist to catch the Piccallydiccally Line
Yes I think it was the same guy at 1:15
1989 seems like 5 minutes ago to me. I was 10 at the time.
If the world was flat, cats would have batted everything off the side by now.
😁They so would!
Not if there's a wall that goes round the edge. Which there must be otherwise all the sea would run off...
I'd love to see this whole documentary.
If you're in the UK, you can - it's on iPlayer. It's terrific: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tkn/40-minutes-heart-of-the-angel
@@BBCArchive but what if i'm not in the uk?
@@sampoelala just apply for a visa and move here
@@gdnygma490 countries not part of the EU scare me
@@sampoelala 😂
I remember a train guard ooops conductor ooops train-manager on a train going to Colchester or someplace, announcing over the on-train Tannoy, " .... the temperature in Colchester is 20 degrees, we hope you enjoyed your journey..." etc in exactly the same BS way the aircrew do on planes,. All, incongruously, in a broad London accent, had me in stitches
Angel station at that time was the same design as Clapham North and Clapham Common stations today, with the very narrow central platform.
Oh wow
Ah yes, the ponderings of an elevator man lacking fundamental understanding of physics 😂
and please everybody now watch the LTM's Hidden London Hangouts (on RUclips) where they visit this now closed Angel station.
"Alright mate, have a nice day...meh-meh-meh". -Kevin Bridges.
It’s easy to understand why these tube workers say odd things when they’re surrounded by unsociable people who don’t want to say anything so perhaps the lift operator (old fashioned job even in 1989) realises he can get away with saying weird things in front of a crowd of people.
1: 06 didn’t know Robert Maxwell worked for British rail 😮
Page 3 girl in the guys office. Those were the days 🍐🍐
"they tell me we're all gonna die...Hello!"
Please can these be published in 4:3 instead of 16:9 with bars 🙏
Wow look at all those English people
Now we will be disciplined if we spoke like that.
Oh no flat earth conspiracies the year I was born! I didn’t know flat earth predated me.
Both guys were put on Meds
I wondered how the pre-Oyster system worked
The same paper tickets that you can still use today were being used. They were introduced in the 1960s. As a bit of a train spotter myself, I prefer to use paper tickets. There's a practical reason why they're better than Oyster or other types of electronic cards.
There were ticket machines around that you could buy them from.
or queue at the office.
"If I was god for a day I'd get rid of all the machines" Thanks TedK very cool
2:17 The guy with the "viking hairstyle" has to be a time traveller from the 2020's!
Think you may be right
A few of my mates had hair like that around 89/90. It was more of an indie music thing back then.
It was about the time I had serious doubts about reality and it might have had something to do with this guy.
They got rid of the lift attendants...
and the bus conductors...
so glad I no longer use public transport
2:45 now we know where ricky gervais stole his from!
Just press the button and shut it!
Damn it - even he thinks the earth is flat.
Round...
Flat 😊
Satsuma.
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 banana
@@garryleeks4848 Of course it's flat. If it was round we'd all fall off, wouldn't we?
@@Priority76 looks round from space
Where's Angel station? Is that a real stop?
its on the northern line but its been completely rebuilt since '89
Ah yes, I hadn't heard of it either!
Islington
Angel is an area of London, not just a tube station.
The guy counting up the cash reminds me of Arthur from EE. Flat-earther guy made me giggle, he was 30 years ahead of his time! 😆
Lots of pretty girls about then
1:35 Moans about the job then probably moaned when they were trying to get rid of his job.
What was he going off on at the end there! Some incoherent babble is what I heard!
Good lord, that lift operator would irritate me beyond belief. Imagine having to endure all that guff when you're trying to get from A to B on a grinding, painful commute.... No thank you. Almost as irritating as evangelicals boarding trains and shouting about Jesus or those buskers who go from carriage to carriage playing appalling accordion music.
I thought he was quite amusing and very refreshing from the usual miserable sods in London
@@jimmypenn I think he is one of the miserable sods lol. Cheer up mate , oh yeah sorry I'm not your mate.
He’s just being friendly, people don’t do that now
@@bcrox your right there 👍
@@garryleeks4848 it's inane bolux
80/90s Britain. Those were the days!! No travelling on dinghies across the Channel!!
Odd.
@@SpeccyHoraceeven
Lol, this guy and his flat earth
Back then the BBC used to point cameras at people suffering from mental breakdowns due to cabin fever and call it entertainment.
This is a documentary, not entertainment.
back before they had internet and smartphones to cure their boredom
This explains how miserable they are
@@cz2301 It's more fun to read a paper book or newspaper than it is to use a smartphone.
@@ajs41 i dont know, i have a phd and honestly i now wish books had more images and even videos, to provide more information than the mere text and images of a book’s limited number of pages. Now I rather watch a video than read a book, but i hope someday videos will have as deep a content as books have.
@@cz2301 My concentration levels have massively declined recently. I used to be able to get through a 500 page book in a few days. Thanks to the internet I can't stick at books very long, and I'm not happy about it.
there were Personal Stereos around.
newspapers / magazines / comics / electronic games
it wasn't such a primitive time.
Flat earther
I don't want to sound mean but this is what happens when documentary makers point a camera at the man in the street (or station).
Cor blimey gal he should of had he’s own show
@@bcrox what device are you watching this on?
@@bcrox Change the record mate
@@bcrox Seems like you can't write a comment that doesn't contains "plastic screens" and "zombies". You've got a problem there, fella. Maybe unglue yourself from the screen.