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I would imagine Harry Hill’s Tax Dollars would more than cover any cost to the Taxpayer. If you want to go down that road.
Aaron, humour is like food. Someone makes you laugh or they don’t, I agree.
But what I’m getting at is that Harry Hill (who wouldn’t make a vox pop top fifty of great comics surely), threw away up to ten years worth of medical training (which has never been cheap), which would have had a major public utility (unlike his humour), and which we as taxpayers paid for.
I feel that I’m justified in feeling a tad aggrieved. At least Jack Dee only wasted the couple of hours it took to learn how to make a Pizza Margherita before he became a, er, stand up comic. At it’s extreme, Hill threw away the chance to save lives.
Max
Who knows the reason why he chose comedy over medicine. Maybe it was the money, maybe it was because comedy was what he loved doing, can you blame him for that ? I would much rather be doing something I enjoy and getting paid for it than the job I’m in now but a mortgage and a young child don’t allow me the chance to give it a try.
Anyway I think the real reason he changed tack was that someone told him laughter was the best medicine and the rest is history
Very fair comments chaps. Tax and the gift of laughter.
Mind you, I’m off sick and I’ve just tried to watch Catchphrase with that Roy Walker and I must say, paracetamol is a more effective remedy.
I’ll shut up now.
He may have very good reasons for shunning medicine for comedy.
However I do find it slightly irksome, especially when one considers how much competition there is to get into medical school – someone else who really wanted to practice medicine and who would have made a good doctor could have had his place.
Plus there is the wasted cost of his training – is he paying that back? I may be doing him a diservice but I somehow suspect he isn’t.
I believe there should be a clause whenever a student receives vocational training that, once qualified, they have to work in the profession for at least 5 years, otherwise they have to pay back all or part of the cost of training.
I believe there should be a clause whenever a student receives vocational training that, once qualified, they have to work in the profession for at least 5 years, otherwise they have to pay back all or part of the cost of training.
Thats a tricky one though Paul isn’t it. If I get a job with a company and they put me through training courses for say , Excel, Time Management, How to Manage people etc etc and then I leave would you expect me to pay the company for training me or because it’s a corporation then thats their hard luck ? Is it just because it is the tax payer that is funding the individual that you think they should cough up ? I would have thought that the possibility of being penalised if the job turned out to be not for you would put off some from considering the profession in the first place which is maybe what you are intimating ? Also if they are actually bad at the job I’m not sure I would want them working for 5 years before they could leave !
Harry Hill is no better than those Army chaps in Iraq and Afghanistan.
We spend millions training them, then they go and get shot, leaving them completely indisposed to provide the service which we – the UK taxpayer – have paid for. It’s an outrage.
Harry Hill is no better than those Army chaps in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I beg to differ Grass. I would suggest that the majority of "those Army chaps" are a darn sight funnier.
Lee
I believe there should be a clause whenever a student receives vocational training that, once qualified, they have to work in the profession for at least 5 years, otherwise they have to pay back all or part of the cost of training.
Thats a tricky one though Paul isn’t it. If I get a job with a company and they put me through training courses for say , Excel, Time Management, How to Manage people etc etc and then I leave would you expect me to pay the company for training me or because it’s a corporation then thats their hard luck ? Is it just because it is the tax payer that is funding the individual that you think they should cough up ? I would have thought that the possibility of being penalised if the job turned out to be not for you would put off some from considering the profession in the first place which is maybe what you are intimating ? Also if they are actually bad at the job I’m not sure I would want them working for 5 years before they could leave !
There is a difference – I would not call any of the courses you mention to be professional courses.
I was referring to training that takes a number of years and is full time.
As an example. My nephew and his fiance both trained to be merchant navy officers, part of the deal whereby their employer paid the cost of the training was they had to remain with the company for three years after completing their training. She left a year after she completed her training and had to pay back 50% her training costs.
If an employer / taxpayer invests a substantial amount of money sending people on expensive full time training courses, do they not have a right to ensure they obtain some benefit from their investment?
ars gratia artis?
Personally I try to be wary of criticising the career moves of others in relation to the academic/vocational qualifications they’ve attained without a bit of navel gazing first:
Have I fulfilled the potential I had, and others thought I had?
Have I contributed usefully to society?
Does what I’m doing now justify the education and/or training I had when young?Of course I’m certain all those who vilify Mr Hill can answer a resounding yes to those questions
Does anyone at the tender age of 20-something really know they’ll be content treading life’s path doing what their qualifications tell them they ought?
ars gratia artis?
Personally I try to be wary of criticising the career moves of others in relation to the academic/vocational qualifications they’ve attained without a bit of navel gazing first:
Have I fulfilled the potential I had, and others thought I had?
Have I contributed usefully to society?
Does what I’m doing now justify the education and/or training I had when young?Of course I’m certain all those who vilify Mr Hill can answer a resounding yes to those questions
Does anyone at the tender age of 20-something really know they’ll be content treading life’s path doing what their qualifications tell them they ought?
Nice.I’m not ashamed to say that Dr Hills ‘TV Burp’ has me in stitches
My discovery of his show strangely coincides with the complete disappearance of the mild Psoriasis on my elbow (very true)
Did someone say he was a dermatologist?
I’m not ashamed to say that Dr Hills ‘TV Burp’ has me in stitches
My discovery of his show strangely coincides with the complete disappearance of the mild Psoriasis on my elbow (very true)
Did someone say he was a dermatologist?
I normally get a mild Psoriasis after a particularly fiery chicken madras
A compilation hardback of the ‘best 12 ever’ Commando boy’s picture comic stories from the sixties/seventies or before…
Max said Max said
Oh Simon, I’d have loved that!! LOL.
I’ve just started to ‘read’ this, it makes a great toilet book.
The 12 stories are:
Battle Squadron
Son Of A Traitor
Death Of A Wimpey
The Silver Spitfire
Sailor With Wings
Lone Eagle
Sea Blitz
A Stirling Called Satan
Low Level Lanc
Black Zero
Mosquito Ace
Jet BlitzExtracts: "All right, come and perishing well get it, I’ve got a bone to pick with you Nazi scum"…"Mein gott, aargh".."Got you, you rat"…"Some hot lead for supper Fritzy"…"Teufel"…"Darn it, I’ve been hit" – as you would say when a .50 cal bullet nigh takes your arm off
Max – when I’ve finished it I’ll bring it with me the next time I visit Southwell and leave it on the end of the bar for you
I just realised that Commando magazines are still published when, the other week, my daughter starting buying them. The newsagent tells me that Commando mags are more popular with girls now than with boys.
Bathroom scales that only go up to 3st 8lb exactly and size 8 Arsenal slippers (I’m a 9). Has to be the scales.
I never give useless presents and anyone who knows me would never dare give me a useless present
A coin sorter!
Thought it was quite a good idea when opening it, like the big machines in the Supermarkets nowadays, just chuck all your loose change in and it sorts it all out for you..
Only problem is….I ended up with the American version!!
Best Christmas I’ve had I think for getting everything I wanted though. My Sister once again comes up trumps with an inflatable dual game…2 inflatable stations and 2 inflatable jousting sticks….will provide some cracking entertainment at garden parties in the summer months!
Nice.
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