I have never drawn up a business plan before but have tried my best to put on to paper what we all have discussed is the future for Ladma and us as indivuduals working within the business.
Pete
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
The Ladma Business Plan
HSBC rang me the other day to enquire if the Ladma business account required more credit. As the unofficial Ladma accountant I am proud to say that we have always been in the black so I refused the offer. Anyway the HSBC representative asked if expanding was in the Ladma business plan. I suddenly realised that we have never officially drawn up a buisiness plan. Making comedy was always a secondary objective when compared to making a lot of money so it's strange that we left this vital step out.
I have never drawn up a business plan before but have tried my best to put on to paper what we all have discussed is the future for Ladma and us as indivuduals working within the business.
Pete
I have never drawn up a business plan before but have tried my best to put on to paper what we all have discussed is the future for Ladma and us as indivuduals working within the business.
Pete
Sunday, 12 October 2008
The Toilet Inspector
My mother’s sister (hereby known as auntie or aunt) had a very important job throughout my youth. She did something that as a child I knew was very important. She was a toilet inspector.
Whenever we were on a family outing, periodically she would see a public toilet block and proclaim that this toilet in particular was a rare one that needed to be inspected immediately. I never actually questioned what exactly she was inspecting or how. As far as I was concerned the camera she took in with her completely validated her status as a toilet inspector. Why else would you take a camera into a toilet with you?
From the ages between 7 and 12 I fully believed that my aunt was a toilet inspector. It is only recently as an adult that I actually worked out the reason for the deception. My aunt had devised a very good solution to a common problem. On family trips it is perfectly acceptable for children to demand that they need to go to the toilet irrespective of when a toilet was last encountered. They need not justify themselves. An adult on the other hand has trouble even admitting in front of children that they need a piss.
My aunt had two choices. She could either stop the car that she was driving and state to all the children present that she needed a “dump” or she could state that she had just spotted a rare toilet that needed inspecting. She chose the most respectful option. An option that most people don’t know they have.
Pete
Whenever we were on a family outing, periodically she would see a public toilet block and proclaim that this toilet in particular was a rare one that needed to be inspected immediately. I never actually questioned what exactly she was inspecting or how. As far as I was concerned the camera she took in with her completely validated her status as a toilet inspector. Why else would you take a camera into a toilet with you?
From the ages between 7 and 12 I fully believed that my aunt was a toilet inspector. It is only recently as an adult that I actually worked out the reason for the deception. My aunt had devised a very good solution to a common problem. On family trips it is perfectly acceptable for children to demand that they need to go to the toilet irrespective of when a toilet was last encountered. They need not justify themselves. An adult on the other hand has trouble even admitting in front of children that they need a piss.
My aunt had two choices. She could either stop the car that she was driving and state to all the children present that she needed a “dump” or she could state that she had just spotted a rare toilet that needed inspecting. She chose the most respectful option. An option that most people don’t know they have.
Pete
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Popularity
We keep an eye on our YouTube account to make sure we don't accidentally miss the fact that we are online superstars. One thing we take note of in this endeavour is the popularity of our videos. We have noticed that our most popular videos have one thing in common. It's not the satirical style nor the production value, it's the fact that we have "rape" in the title and tags.
Our film Safe Blokes is a comedic educational guide based on premise that all men appear or are rapists. We have taken clips out of this and put them on YouTube to keep under the 10 minute limit. These are by far our most popular videos but are the least commented or favourited. This leads us to the conclusion that they are many people out there who believe that searching for "rape video" on YouTube will net them something other than a comedy short featuring three white men (and no actual rape). I don't know why someone looking to source a video of an act of rape would choose YouTube over other less regulated areas of the internet but there you go.
With this in mind we have decided to give out Safe Blokes out to schools, not as a comedy but as an actual guide in avoiding thinking about rape.
God bless you all out there.
Love
Peter
Our film Safe Blokes is a comedic educational guide based on premise that all men appear or are rapists. We have taken clips out of this and put them on YouTube to keep under the 10 minute limit. These are by far our most popular videos but are the least commented or favourited. This leads us to the conclusion that they are many people out there who believe that searching for "rape video" on YouTube will net them something other than a comedy short featuring three white men (and no actual rape). I don't know why someone looking to source a video of an act of rape would choose YouTube over other less regulated areas of the internet but there you go.
With this in mind we have decided to give out Safe Blokes out to schools, not as a comedy but as an actual guide in avoiding thinking about rape.
God bless you all out there.
Love
Peter
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