"***Subtitles by Fafi if you want to help me to correct them pls e-mail me: dino45zl@o2.pl***" "You're ready?" "No, no." "I can leap it in a bit more yet." "Now!" "What is it?" "77." "Oh, don't they sound the latin metric?" "Yes, but you put on 4 whatever they are." "Centipeeds, Miss Brahms." "Whatever they are, you put more of them on." "Of course it's all the government's fault." "How did you work it that out?" "Well, it's the sugar shortage." "I've stocked it so much, if i don't keep eating it, I'll never get rid of it." "If you keep on like that, you'll be too fat to go to your store cupboard." "I wish I could put on weight." "I can't understand it you know." "I have a big meal every night." "I don't know how you can afford it." "I can't." "I have to keep going out with these fellows I don't like just to keep body and soul together." "Oh, I couldn't do that." "Oh, it's easy." "I wear a low front." "They have a good look and I have a good lunch." "Yes, but nowadays they expect something afterwards, don't they?" "Yes but they don't get it." "Well, why do they keep asking you out then?" "Well, it's rather like a fruit machine." "Once they've made investment, they keep hoping they're gonna get the jackpot." "They'd have to pull the handle a lot of times, before they had my cherries up." "Thank you very much, sir." "In need of the socks on satisfactory, don't hesitate to bring them back." "Thank you so much." "It won't make a bit of difference." "Anyway the meal cost 7 quid and I borrowed this car to take her out so to be sure of?" "And what happened?" "About half a mile ?" "she gets her door key out and starts feedling with the passanger door handle." "You mean she was keying to make a night of it?" "No she was keying to make a run for it." "Anyway I borrowed the car again tonight, just to take her out again." "What makes you think you do any better tonight?" "How about the screwed door handle?" "Oh, for the return of the romantic age." "When one's heart leapt to the side of ankles sliping into a hand ?" "Now it's klank-click strip off quick." "Where is Mr Grainger?" "He hasn't returned from his teabreak yet, Cpt Peacock." "I see." "Tell him I wish to see him as soon as he returns." "Certainly, Cpt Peacock." "A..." "Mr Grainger." "Cpt Peacock was just asking for you." "But I told him you hadn't come back from your tea break yet." "He said he would like to have a word with you as soon as you return." "Oh, I see." "Will you take over from me, Mr Humphries." "I'm going to have a word with Cpt Peacock." "Certainly, Mr Grainger." "Shall I take over from you, Mr Humphreys?" "Yes, start, Mr Lucas." "You were... wanted to see me." "Yes, Mr Grainger." "It's 10 past 11." "You had 20 minutes for your coffee break." "Your entitlement is just 15." "How do you account for this?" "I spent a few minutes in the boys' room on my way back." "It's not part of your coffee break." "It's the result of it." "5 whole minutes?" "There was a que." "I don't think Mr Rumbold will regard that as an adequate excuse." "You don't mean that you're going to report me, Steven?" "Yes, I am, Mr Grainger." "Very well, old Cpt Peacock." "I'm sorry but it's my job." "You mean to be a sneak?" "It's not easy for me, you know." "On the one hand we have a friendship and on the other I have my job to do." "Now I have to wear to hats." "You may find no difficulty in that." "You're twofaced." "Did you hear that Mr Humphreys?" "I did, Mr Grainger." "Sit here." "Glass of water for Mr Grainger." "Don't let him drink it all at once." "He'll need another 5 minutes off." "Good morning." "Come on, Miss Brahms." "Before you go to lunch Mrs Slocombe," "I want to have a word with the floor personel by the central stand." "?" "it's important because I'm dying for my lunch." "Miss Brahms, everything I have to say is important." "Pompous snitch." "Miss Brahms, you mustn't use language like that about floor personel in my hearing!" "You'll get ladies' underwear a bad name." "I want a word with the floor personel before you'll all go to lunch." "Well, I hope it won't take long." "Otherwise Mr Herpent of hardware would have pinched my seat." "Some people have all the luck." "Do you need me?" "Yes, juniors as well." "Now, this won't take a moment." ""From the D. M./C. R. to F. W./L.'n'G." "D./S. P. re tea..."" "Cpt Peacock, what language are you speaking?" "It simply means, Mrs Slocombe, from the D. M./C. R. - the Department Manager/Cuthbert Rumbold to F. W./L.'n'G." "D./S. P. to floor walker/ ladies' and gentlemen department/Stephen Peacock regarding tea." "What does T stand for?" "Doesn't stand for anything." "You drink it." "T-E-A Tea." "They use these initials to save time." "Doesn't seem to be working very well, does it?" "It would if people didn't keep asking questions." "Well, people wouldn't need to, if they knew what you're rabbiting?" "on about." "May I be allowed to continue, Mrs Slocombe?" "Oh, yes P.C.O." "I beg your pardon?" "Please, carry on." "Where was I?" "You just got to the bit where you were stroking Cuthbert Rumbold." ""I see You are..."" "Oh, you're not starting on those initials again, are you?" "Please, Mrs Slocombe..." ""I see You are concerned about excessively long tea breaks being enjoyed by members of the department under Your supervision." "I must emphasize that the said breaks are limited to 15 minutes and to ensure that no one takes advantage of this arrangement personel will be requiered in future to enter their departure and arrival in a book to be known as the E., L. and T. B. book." "Eleventhies, lunch and tea break book." "Visits to the toilet will also be recorded." "I provided a separate book." "To be known as the W.C. book." "It's an outrage." "Absolutely." "Do we all have to clock on and clock off every time we want a cup of coffee?" "That is precisely the idea." "And every time I want to powder my nose, I've got to stick it to the book first?" "That is correct." "What if it's emergency and my biro's run out?" "Get someone else to do it for you." "It's not the same as doing it youself." "Get someone else to sign the book." "It's an intolerable invasion of privacy." ""1984"." "Big Brother is watching you." "They will be watching as well, won't they?" "I only have to add that this comes to effect immediately." "So I hope you'll all be ready to sign the book back here sharp at 2." "Hey, hang on!" "Just a minute." "We've spent 5 minutes listening to you." "Do we get another 5 minutes longer?" "The customers will be coming in and they're required to be attended to." "What about our 5 minutes?" "Miss Brahms, if you add up all the off minutes you have taken on top of your normal breakes, I think the 5 minutes are more than due to Grace brothers." "6 minutes!" "I suggest that the whole matter should be discussed over lunch." "Yes, let's have it discussed in lunch." "?" "Whose the coffee leaking?" "Dumplings." "Old to New Castle." "Whose the great fruit coctail?" "Mine." "Where's the cherry?" "I ate it." "You supposed to be on a diet." "I thank you to let me make my own sacrifices." "Wide-open sandwich." "I did not ask for an open sandwich." "I am sorry, Mr Grainger but somebody nudged me in the que and the top fell off." "I'll go back and get it if you want it." "I think it fell butter up." "Don't bother." "You're being brave having the sea-food salad." "Oh shellfish." "That's suppose to make virile." "I don't think a couple of muscles or ?" "prawns is going to do much for my performance tonight." "Why?" "What are you doing?" "He's got a date with a lady escapologist." "He's taken the handle off the car door so he could bend her to his will." "I was ?" "Didn't have taken a long time?" "No, I?" "with it." "Mr Grainger's still got the scars." "Could we tear out sort of way from sex for one moment to discuss this clocking-in business?" "I think it was quite humiliating, Mr Grainger, the way you were told off in front of us, don't you Mr Lucas?" "Oh, I do Mr Humphries." "I ?" "over Cpt Peacock should say really sharp and witty to cut him down to size." "Why didn't you?" "I couldn't think of anything." "Well, what are we going to do about it?" "I don't think you or Mr Grainger should put up with it." "It's not just us you know." "I hope you're unanimous with this." "Yes, if both you and Mr Grainger refused to sign, the management would have to do something about it." "Yes, sack'em." "I agree with Mrs Slocombe." "I think we should all refuse to sign." "I agree." "And I think you two should refuse to sign first." "No, we must all not sign." "Together." "United we stand, divided we fall." "Wish I had thought of that." "Mr Grainger?" "Yes Cpt Peacock?" "Will you come here for one moment, please?" "We're all behind you." "Off you go." "Mr Grainger returned from lunch 14:03." "Do sign, please." "I'm sorry Cpt Peacock but I must refuse to sign your book." "I will ask you once more, Mr Grainger." "Mr Grainger returned from lunch 14:04." "Will you sign, please?" "Again I shall refuse." "I see..." "Mr Grainger refused point-blank to sign book." "Twice." "Mr Grainger I shall now report your action to Mr Rumbold." "But Cpt Peacock, all the others refused to sign as well." "On the contrary Mr Grainger." "I only asked you." "You refused." "And you will be reported." "Glass of brandy for Mr Grainger." "Well done, Mr Grainger." "The way you stood up to it." "We shell always remember you for that, Mr Grainger when you've gone." "But, but I thought we were all gonna stand up him." "I only hope that I'll be as brave as that when my turn comes." "I think you all ought to sign something to say that you won't sing it." "Don't worry, Mr Grainger, we're all behind you." "Oh yes, we're all in this together." "Only you're a little bit deeper." "Menswear." "Yes, Mr Grainger is here." "I see." "Mr Grainger wanted in Mr Rumbold's office immediately." "Good luck, Mr Grainger." "And remember we're all behind you." "I think we should all go together." "He only said for the ring leader." "I'm not the ring leader." "I just happend to be the first one out of the lift." "Menswear." "Yes." "Yes, he's on his way." "Rumbold's furious you keeping him waiting." "You'd better hurry up, Mr Grainger." "You don't want to get a reputation for always being late." "You will all back me up, won't you?" "If you don't look sharp, you won't be here for us to back up." "You know, I think he went too far defying Cpt Peacock like he did." "But we did all agree not to sign together." "Well, of course we wouldn't have signed the first time he asked us." "As a protest." "But we would have done the second time." "I think he went too far." "Mind you I'm still behind him." "Oh yes." "We're all behind him only not so close." "Have your notepad ready, Miss Ainsworth." "I shall expect every bit of report of everything that is said on this meeting." "Come in." "I belive you wanted a word with me, Mr Rumbold." "I've been waiting 5 minutes to have a word with you, Mr Grainger." "I came as quickly as I could." "Do you recognize this book?" "Yes, I think so." "Take everything down, Miss Ainsworth." "I've taken everything down." ""Knock knock." " Come in." " I belive you wanted a word with me, Mr Rumbold." " I've been waiting 5 minutes to have a word with you, Mr Grainger." " I came as quickly as I could." " Do you recognize this book?" " Yes, I think so." "Take everything down, Miss Ainsworth." "I've taken everything down."" "Don't put down what you say." "Yes, sir." "Shall I put that down?" "No." "Let's start again." ""Knock knock." "Come in..."" "Please.." "Miss Ainsworth, be quiet." "Now, Mr Grainger, do you admit that you refused to sign this book?" "We all refused." "I'm afraid that's not true." "I only asked Mr Grainger." "But they were all behind me." "I see." "Led by you." "And I'm afraid, Peacock, it seems clear we must make an example in this case." "I'm afraid so." "One rotten apple can spoil the whole barrel." "I would like to say in Mr Grainger's defense that he has never been a rotten apple." "Thank you, Cpt Peacock." "Until today." "Come in." "I'm in." "I wish you wait until I say "come in" before you come in." "I'm having an important meeting here." "Shall I go out again then?" "No, no, no, put it down." "Shall I put that down?" "No, I don't want that put down." "What should I do with it?" "Put it down." "I thought you said "don't put it down"." "I don't want you to put down "put it down"." "Well I'm gonna put it down." "And as far as I am concerned you can stick it up!" "Don't put that down, Miss Ainsworth." "Where were we?" ""...never been a rotten apple in the barrel until today"." "Yes." "Mr Grainger, for the 4 minutes unauthorised absence" "I am deducting 25 pence from your pay packet plus a futher 25 pence for refusing to sign this book." "Could I sign now and save the 25 pence?" "No, I'm afraid not." "Cpt Peacock's remarks take up the place where you were supposed to sign." "And that is all, Mr Grainger." "The matter is closed." "What about the others?" "That is all, Mr Grainger." "The matter is closed." "Well, I think it's disgraceful you having to pay 50 p." "I shouldn't stand for it." "Now you should stand up for yourself and tell him way to get off." "Yeah, we're behind you." "I prefer to forget it." "It's all the most unpleasant." "I think we all ought to chip in and pay Mr Grainger's fine." "I mean after all it's only 10 p each." "He was fined 25 p for being late and 25 p for not signing." "Now we're only suporting him for not signing so it should really be a half." "Hold on, hold on, hold on." "Now it's a principle involved ?" "Brother Grainger is being victimised cause he stood up for his rightful rights." "Now it's only fair that we should stand up for him." "This has nothing to do with you, Mr Mash." "Get back to your basement." "It has everything to do with me, brother Slocombe." "I am shop steward." "And in that capacity I'm convening an emergency meeting in accordance with section 23 of the rule book." "Can we do that?" "Of course we can." "But what about the customers?" "They have to wait." "It all comes to a hop and the brother says up." "Well it's just like the mafia." "And... the cosy nostril." "Are you free Mr Grainger?" "Coming, Cpt Peacock." "Don't move, brother." "But Cpt Peacock wants me..." "He ?" "convened an emergency meeting." "We are sacra-saint." "Is that true?" "That is true, brother Humphries." "Brother Humphries." "Doesn't it bring you close when you have a union?" "I called you, Mr Grainger." "I've been convened." "Get off the floor, Mash." "Unless you want everybody out from here ?" "you not use that tone of voice, Peacock." "We're all gathered here today brothers to consider the case of brother E. Grainger." "So you're behind this, Grainger." "No, no, we're all behind it." "Now, as I see we got two things to decide:" "what we want and how we're all going to get it." "I'm not sure what we want." "You're all lucky you got me, aren't you?" "Firstly, we want to remove the stigmata a text to brother Grainger." "Ooo, he sounds like the exorcist." "And secondly..." "And secondly, on the time element, we want to be free and unrestricted in the cloakroom." "I second that." "And thirdly we want a reappraisal of the whole ?" "coffee break system bringing it to line with current industrial practice." "What does that mean?" "What does that mean?" "That means, brother, that unless the management meet our demands we take action." "And if that don't work we'll escalate." "You waisted enough time, Mash." "Everybody back to work." "You're out of order brother Peacock and I don't want to have to reprimand you again, all right?" "Right." "As I see it, the main point ?" "is traveling time to and from the tea breaks, right?" "Your tea should start not when you leave here." "Not when you get in the lift." "Not when you stand in the que at the counter." "Not even when you pay for it." "Your tea should start when you sit down and actually dip your biscuit in the cup." "Ooo, definitely speak well." "Thank you, brother." "I'm now about to put a motion on the table." "Some of the phrases are strange." "The ?" "at this meeting authorises me to put our demands before the management and form a strike committee with carte blanche to take industrial action." "Hands up all us for the motion?" "Jolly good." "Who is against?" "You can't vote." "You got no standing." "I'm a member of the union." "Where's your card?" "I left it at home." "Makes you out of order, don't it?" "Have they got their cards?" "That's be ?" "I vote we all show cards." "You can't vote we all show cards unless you show your card." "Carried unanimously!" "I can tell you now, Mash, that there is positively no chance of us at Grace brothers exceeding to your demands." "I see." "Is that your final words, sir?" "Absolutely." "The management stands firm behind its agreement of 1928." "Are you saying so ?" "there is no point in us having meaningful discussions and ?" "exchange of views then?" "None whatever." "Then get stuffed." "Don't put that down, Miss Ainsworth." "That's it, my brothers." "As from this moment in time it goes slow." "But it's only 3 minutes before we go home." "It's all right." "Go slow right up to the bell." "That's not gonna be easy without any customers." "In my oficial capacity of shop steward, Peacock, I'm ordering you to go slow." "Mrs Slocombe." "As from now on it goes slow." "But if I don't get these covers on quick, I'll miss my bus." "Or leave them." "But my undies will get all smutty." "So let them get smutty." "I'm not that kind of person." "And I can't sell smutty underwear." "So the management through their intractable attitude will lose money." "And I lose my comission." "We're all gonna make sacrifices, brother." "Not when I'm saving for my holidays." "We don't." "?" "brothers." "When you arrive in the morning it goes slow." "I don't like this union thing at all." "It seems to be going too far." "Well, you started it, brother." "I tell you brothers I'm really proud of you." "The go slow this morning was 100% effective." "I think we put a wind up the management, o'right?" "If you don't go slow on that apple crumble, you'll get the wind up somewhere else." "I think Mr Grainger went slow beautifully." "I couldn't tell the difference." "Well, I know we're all behind the union, Mr Humphries, but I must say that I do think 10 minutes is rather long time to spend on an inside leg." "Especially it's a customer only came here for a pair of gloves." "Well my undies've been disaster." "?" "always was." "Mr Lucas, if we weren't supposed to be united in the common cause, I would bat your earhole." "I've had this russian lady athelete in this morning." "I took so long for fitting her a bra she left me her address in Vladivostoc." "It hasn't been a success, has it?" "I don't think Peacock even noticed." "In that case we have to escalate." "One of the ways ?" "Wouldn't that be rather cutting off our noses to spare our faces?" "?" "What's that?" "You drop everything without warning." "Oh I don't like the sound of that." "We seem to be getting so militant and extremist." "I can almost smell reds under the beds." "There are no reds under my bed, Mr Grainger." "No, nor mine." "Mind you, I look every night." "Yeah, I've got it." "Well, I jack the lift and keep Rumbold inside with us until the management exceeds to our demands." "Miss Brahms and I refuse to be cooped up in the lift for days with half a dozen men exept it's a last resort." "It may be your last chance." "I mean our last chance." "Brothers, brothers, it's only one thing for it." "Bang up ?" "followed by ?" "singing." "What in the ?" "?" "Nah, on the floor." "And if that don't work it's a work-out pickets." "I have been here for over 30 years and I refuse to picket." "We are doing it for you." "What?" "If you hadn't been so insufferably rude to Cpt Peacock, we wouldn't have been in this mess." "Right." "I think we all ought to vote on it." "No vote needed." "You give me carte blanche by democratic majority." "O'right." "Let's ?" "and confront the management." "I haven't finished my coffee yet." "Well, come on then!" "It really is too bad." "It's 4 minutes past 2." "So the old values are disappearing, you know." "Is this what we fought for at Dunkirk?" "Were you at Dunkirk?" "No, but I just wonder if this is what the people who were at Dunkirk fought for." "We don't have anybody who fought at Dunkirk, do we?" "Never mind." "Aaa, here they are." "As democratically elected spokesman I have to tell you that unless the management meets our demands we are all out." "The management will not negotiate under intimidation." "I've been intimidating you, mate?" "If I was intimidating you, you'd get a bunch of ?" "up of your ?" "Don't let me lose my temper, Cpt Peacock." "Please carry on, sir." "I'm like a wild animal when I'm roused." "Did you hear that?" "He threatened me." "Good afternoon, everybody." "Good afternoon, Mr Grace." "I've got a copy of your memo, Rumbold, about the tea break." "Ah, yes." "Well further to that, sir the workers are claiming that their tea break shouldn't commence until they actually get the coffee in their hands." "Yeah, we'll get it and we're all behind Mr Grainger in this, sir." "It wasn't just me, sir." "We are not travelling up and down in your rotten old lift to your rotten old canteen in our own time, sir." "And that's quite right." "The lifts are not up to it." "My tea break begins when my tea is handed to me." "What's good enough for me, is good enough for you." "That's it, brothers." "We've won." "It's the power of union." "I'm really glad I held out." "Well done, Mr Grainger." "We were all behind you." "So in future your tea will be handed to you." "And now you won't have to leave the department at all." "Carry on everybody." "You've all done very well." "Uh, paper cups." "And you know, I was rather enjoying my walks to the canteen." "Listen, I enjoyed my ride up in the lift." "I shan't see my friend behind the counter." "Never mind, brothers." "We've won a great victory." "And lost our tea break." "Mr Mash?" "Cpt Peacock."