Those two seem so hypocritical, right after giving the staff the "can do attitude speech" they quit.Reasonably enjoyable, although slightly painful to watch at times. Jeremy doesn't have great people management skills. Did I hear correctly his two pub managers quit after being open for 2 days?You could kind of see it coming I guess.
Clarkson's Farm
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Decent end to the season, didn't appreciate just how down to the wire they were for the opening after watching some food / car channels go on opening day / first week.
Hope with JC not having a huge project like the pub on now that s5 goes back to more of the farming side of things especially if they think it'll be the last season at least for a while.
Hope with JC not having a huge project like the pub on now that s5 goes back to more of the farming side of things especially if they think it'll be the last season at least for a while.
He literally says at least a couple of times in each series something along the lines of "this isn't my livelihood but it's a reality for famers" and then points out pretty much every time he gets hit with a big loss or cost that it's the reality for actual farmers and that's why they're struggling.
I think the series as a whole has done a good job of pointing out the huge costs faced by farmers, wether it's going to bankrupt him personally is irrelevant.
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The cameraman watched Clarkson reverse a trailer into his brand new store without stopping him then he goes off on one. Then he blamed Kaleb for what was his own mess up because he couldn't be bothered to reverse it properly.
It seems Clarkson isn't very good at owning up to his own inadequacies.
This.
Work at a rural high school, our 1GB fibre connection costs 13 grand a year. Companies tell us all the time they can do it cheaper but once they have talked to open reach about it the price suddenly goes up. When you are in the arse end of nowhere they have you over a barrel. The pub didnt even have running water connected to it so a dedicated fiber line was not going to be cheap, checking coverage there is only one ISP that you can get broadband with and thats Gigaclear who are doing a big rollout in Oxfordshire at the moment so may not have even been there at the time. Its likely Charlie rang up BT and thats the price they gave him which wouldn't be that unreasonable as would need a direct fiber connection to the exchange and that means digging up roads to lay the cable. Any other company would be in the same boat needing Open reach to do the work.
Gigaclear are standard pricing and do up to 900mbps so would be perfect for what they needed (proper fiber as well so 900 each way) but if you haven't heard of them then you are going to get crazy high quotes, you would think Charlie dealing with lots of farms in the area would have heard of them but then is there much demand for farms needing full fiber connections and maybe those that did had fiber already in the area
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I watched the last two episodes on Friday and yesterday. I found the whole pub thing quite rushed. How did no-one point out to Jeremy that the bank holiday was a week earlier than he thought? Absolute madness. The pub was only just ready, imagine an extra week to get ready. Not having the prices ready until minutes before opening?!
I think the two women were hired to get the place ready and oversee the first couple of days and then go. Jeremy definitely takes on too much without thinking how complicated things are and that he'll need expert advice. What did people think of the chef? I wasn't too impressed with how he said it shows a flaw in the farming co-op plan because if there's no produce where does it come from whereas with a wholesaler they find the produce they need from someone else to guarantee the supply. Surely he'd have known this before the opening and could have explained it to Jeremy? If he did and Jeremy ignored him then fair enough.
I did like the blink and you'll miss it moment of some kid walking past the 6th Form head and saying hello. Obviously from the same school. Imagine being a teenager doing your A-Levels, you get a job at Clarkson's pub and who's there? Your head of Sixth Form!!
I think the two women were hired to get the place ready and oversee the first couple of days and then go. Jeremy definitely takes on too much without thinking how complicated things are and that he'll need expert advice. What did people think of the chef? I wasn't too impressed with how he said it shows a flaw in the farming co-op plan because if there's no produce where does it come from whereas with a wholesaler they find the produce they need from someone else to guarantee the supply. Surely he'd have known this before the opening and could have explained it to Jeremy? If he did and Jeremy ignored him then fair enough.
I did like the blink and you'll miss it moment of some kid walking past the 6th Form head and saying hello. Obviously from the same school. Imagine being a teenager doing your A-Levels, you get a job at Clarkson's pub and who's there? Your head of Sixth Form!!
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Why does it costs 13 grand a year. I have a 1gig connection and it costs £39.99. I can get 8gb up and down for £100 a month.
What makes a business inherently more expensive?
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If your internet connection goes down, the SLA to fix it is [shrug] ‘it will be fixed when it’s fixed’.
The SLA where I work is an engineer will be on site within a time period measured in minuites, not hours.
Location location location. We've a new factory being built at the moment in a fairly rural area, for a leased line we were getting quoted substantially more due to public works required.
We ended up having to go for a consumer grade product and new lampposts are having to be installed up to the premises. Open reach/providers can charge what they like really.
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There is no fiber for residential properties in the exchange, as the cabinets don't have fiber you need a connection direct to the exchange then there is the cost of equipment at the exchange and the equipment our end. City Fiber have been installing in the village recently but they stopped about 200m down the road so just out of reach. But as no one else has equipment in the exchange there is no competition and open reach can just charge what they want.
…. But as I said a few posts above, chucking a star link satellite (or two) on the roof would have done the job.
Either no one thought of it or they discounted it, for likely ideological reasons. That said other satellite providers are available.
I’ve actually been there as a customer and not once did I think, this place could do with a bit of WiFi. IIRC I had mobile reception, not the best reception but I had it.
Either no one thought of it or they discounted it, for likely ideological reasons. That said other satellite providers are available.
I’ve actually been there as a customer and not once did I think, this place could do with a bit of WiFi. IIRC I had mobile reception, not the best reception but I had it.
Gigaclear is not a great choice in my experience - they were "coming here soon" for about 4 years and constantly promising us all that time it would be 2 or 3 months away at the max, when they eventually did run a connection through, at significant cost (to themselves), they eventually terminated about 30m from our house and claimed it would be too difficult to get the rest of the way to us, then said they were getting a specialist to look into it and we'd hear back in 90 days max then nothing for at least 4 months when they said they had no clue but didn't think it would be progressing any time soon.
Many people in the surrounding area are in the same boat - very hit and miss if they get connected and they often just give up at random and seem to have very fractured organisation.
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Its contention ratios.
Businesses are connected at something like a 1:10 ratio where domestic is 1:50 iirc.
You may have 1 gig but if everyone you are connected with all happened to try to use it at the same time you wouldn't get it.
What they rely on with domestic is that in reality no one uses these levels for long or frequently. Its why they all have fair use conditions in the T&Cs.
If a business installs a 1 gig line the chances are they are doing so as they may well need that for hours a day reliably.
I immediately thought of starlink too.
Silly little claim to fame. One of the pubs shown in Ep4 was my parents first pub. My dad rented the storage sheds out the back to Eddie Jordan.
At 18 months old, I fell out the first floor window at the back. It's as far down as it looks! Not a scratch. The closest buildings on the right were the old storage sheds.
At 18 months old, I fell out the first floor window at the back. It's as far down as it looks! Not a scratch. The closest buildings on the right were the old storage sheds.
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Really enjoyed this again, though its easy to see through the contrived setting up of a lot of the scenario's, it is still a bloomin good watch.
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