Subj : Re: What you watching lately?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nodoka Hanamura
Date : Mon Sep 27 2021 13:26:13

On 24 Sep 2021 at 07:35a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
 
 pF> -=> Nodoka Hanamura wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
 pF> 
 pF>  NH> On 23 Sep 2021 at 08:12a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...
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 pF>  NH> I'd love for there to be more tech-oriented comedies
 pF>  NH> like Dilbert (although It's more business comedy than anything) - I
 pF>  NH> remember there being one from the UK that ran in the late 2000s and
 pF>  NH> early 2010s, but I can't recall the name.
 pF> 
 pF> You may be referring to The IT Crowd, a classic. They got a lot of
 pF> things  right, from Roy's Mantra ("Hello, IT, have you tried turning it
 pF> off and on  again?") to the set dressing of the IT office (looked almost
 pF> exactly like  the "batcave" at a previous employer) and the relationship
 pF> manager who  doesn't know computers - at all.
 pF> 
 pF> The guy who did Black Mirror did a show in the mid 2000s called "Nathan 
 pF> Barley" that's a nice parody of the current internet and influencer
 pF> culture  - done in the early 2000s. Reminds me of San Francisco during
 pF> the first dot-  com bubble.

I'll have to give a look at them both - Thanks for the help!

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