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Post by foxa on Jul 19, 2018 15:42:32 GMT
Oh and you see, I'd be up for that. Even though I liked The Ferryman.
Like the Witch says: 'You're not good, Your not bad, You're just NICE' - I don't enjoy NICE much at all.
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Post by kathryn on Jul 19, 2018 17:47:54 GMT
I quite enjoy when someone passionately hates a piece of theatre - even if I liked it. Especially if they can describe in vivid detail what they hated, come up with amusing similes, make me feel the pain of the experience. Why is that? It probably says something bad about me - and my enjoyment of others' misfortunes. I also like detailed raves, of course. But I hate a bland positive review. Give me 'it was two hours of hell and I almost gnawed my left arm off in agony' anytime. Does to this extend to film? If so, I give you Mark Kermode’s review of the film Entourage:
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Post by foxa on Jul 19, 2018 18:01:18 GMT
Oh yes! Goodness - this really picks up speed and fury as it goes on: 'The Human Centipede is more sensitive.'
Haven't seen the film, but sounds like something I could loath with vigour.
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Post by kathryn on Jul 20, 2018 10:48:18 GMT
I am not sure if this is an unpopular opinion on theatreboard, but it appears to be in the wider world, judging by the think-pieces about the sequel: Mamma Mia! is a darn good film that never fails to cheer me up on a miserable winter's day - not 'a guilty pleasure', or 'so bad it's good' - and I am really looking forward to Mamma Mia Here We Go Again!
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Post by duncan on Jul 20, 2018 11:11:27 GMT
Mammia Mia is a film that is shockingly acted, directed by someone who has clearly never seen film before and has a plot that wants us to believe Meryl Streep is a slut.
Its utter horsesh*t, despite me loving Abba.
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Post by foxa on Jul 20, 2018 14:06:57 GMT
I enjoyed Mamma Mia but equally I enjoyed the French & Saunders pastiche of it. And sometimes found it hard to tell them apart.
But looking forward to seeing Mamma Mia 2!
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Post by Jon on Jul 20, 2018 14:11:33 GMT
I enjoyed Mamma Mia but equally I enjoyed the French & Saunders pastiche of it. And sometimes found it hard to tell them apart. But looking forward to seeing Mamma Mia 2! I liked Mamma Mia! the movie but the French and Saunders skit was so well done that I can't watch the original film without thinking about it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 9:27:08 GMT
We already have ubiquitous 'Little Johnny's first day of school' pictures every September. We don't need 'Little Johnny's last day of school' ones every July' as well.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2018 13:00:56 GMT
We already have ubiquitous 'Little Johnny's first day of school' pictures every September. We don't need 'Little Johnny's last day of school' ones every July' as well. Absolutely. FB is full of Then/Now pictures - not really showing any difference. It is only this year that it seems to have swamped my feeds, hoping everyone forgets next year or theres another trend for em to follow by then.
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Post by profquatermass on Jul 25, 2018 20:35:31 GMT
Mammia Mia is a film that is shockingly acted, directed by someone who has clearly never seen film before and has a plot that wants us to believe Meryl Streep is a slut. Its utter horsesh*t, despite me loving Abba. Slut? Because we live in the 1940s and anyone who has sex before marriage should be shamed before the church elders? Seriously?
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Post by duncan on Jul 26, 2018 9:30:52 GMT
Someone who has unprotected sex with 3 strangers over the course of a very short time period is the very definition of slut or slapper or slag.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 9:33:25 GMT
Thank you, sir, for casting such unflattering judgement over a young woman in control of her own sexuality and letting us all know where you, sir, stand on this issue.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 9:50:37 GMT
Someone who has unprotected sex with 3 strangers over the course of a very short time period is the very definition of slut or slapper or slag. I don't agree at all. As long as someone is being safe and they are not hurting themselves or anyone else, their body is their body, mind is their mind and they should be able to do whatever they please without judgement. She may of had sex with three men in a short space of time, but what if she had never had sex before or after? Is she still a slut then?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 9:52:24 GMT
1. Meryl Streep can have as much sex with as many people in a weekend as she likes. 2. So can anyone else.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 9:53:35 GMT
1. Meryl Streep can have as much sex with as many people in a weekend as she likes. 2. So can anyone else. Meryl Streep is one of the only women that could turn me straight. She is stunning!
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Post by kathryn on Jul 26, 2018 10:16:23 GMT
Someone who has unprotected sex with 3 strangers over the course of a very short time period is the very definition of slut or slapper or slag. You seem like fun. Notice you didn't describe any of her male partners in the same way - at least 2 of them were being just as sexually active and one of them was doing so while engaged. The other one subsequently realised that he is gay. You also ignore the fact that she appears to have been single ever since giving birth up until the end of Mamma Mia. So that's a grand total of three sexual partners in what, 20 years?
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Post by ellie1981 on Jul 26, 2018 10:30:26 GMT
Someone who has unprotected sex with 3 strangers over the course of a very short time period is the very definition of slut or slapper or slag. I don't agree at all. As long as someone is being safe and they are not hurting themselves or anyone else, their body is their body, mind is their mind and they should be able to do whatever they please without judgement. She may of had sex with three men in a short space of time, but what if she had never had sex before or after? Is she still a slut then? Not to forget these fictional incidents happened in 1979 - pre AIDS era, so I guess protection wasn’t as much at the forefront of people’s minds then.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 26, 2018 11:05:07 GMT
1. Meryl Streep can have as much sex with as many people in a weekend as she likes. 2. So can anyone else. Meryl Streep is one of the only women that could turn me straight. She is stunning! OI! Bloomin' cheek! You obviously ain't seen me, innit?
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Post by kathryn on Jul 26, 2018 11:05:41 GMT
1. Meryl Streep can have as much sex with as many people in a weekend as she likes. 2. So can anyone else.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 11:11:43 GMT
1. Meryl Streep can have as much sex with as many people in a weekend as she likes. 2. So can anyone else. Form an orderly queue!! Also as I pointed out on twitter, in excellent film/theatre crossover Meryl has also f***ed an Angel with 8 vaginas played by Emma Thompson. If that’s what being a slut gets you sign me up 😉
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 26, 2018 11:34:58 GMT
“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 12:16:20 GMT
I prefer 'sociable' to 'slut' personally but three lots of boudoir shenanigans in a short space of time? Ah, the good old University days when one was very sociable.
Still, it was the hardest I worked at University AND I got a degree out of it (those tutors were so easy, literally). Win win all round methinks.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2018 12:28:53 GMT
Meryl Streep is one of the only women that could turn me straight. She is stunning! OI! Bloomin' cheek! You obviously ain't seen me, innit? I am sure you are a beautiful creature... but Mezza Streep though! Her in Devil Wears Prada! I mean, damn!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 0:38:04 GMT
Tattoos are ghastly and in this hot weather, ever more are being revealed. When I was younger, it was only the occasional ex-naval person (and male) who might have one, and these were rarely seen anyway. In my long-term job, any staff who had a tattoo had to keep it concealed under clothing at work and anyone unable to meet this requirement would not have been employed in the first place. Now it seems like an epidemic and I can't say anything where I volunteer as about 50% of the staff seem to have tattoos - in some cases covering large areas such as arms, neck, etc. So, today at the beach a woman had a black line tattooed on the backs of her legs from her heels to the top of her thighs. Can someone please tell me what that’s all about?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 6:12:03 GMT
Tattoos are ghastly and in this hot weather, ever more are being revealed. When I was younger, it was only the occasional ex-naval person (and male) who might have one, and these were rarely seen anyway. In my long-term job, any staff who had a tattoo had to keep it concealed under clothing at work and anyone unable to meet this requirement would not have been employed in the first place. Now it seems like an epidemic and I can't say anything where I volunteer as about 50% of the staff seem to have tattoos - in some cases covering large areas such as arms, neck, etc. So, today at the beach a woman had a black line tattooed on the backs of her legs from her heels to the top of her thighs. Can someone please tell me what that’s all about? Isn't it to represent a stocking line? During the war women used to draw them on with a pencil to give the illusion that they were wearing stockings.
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Post by catlover74 on Jul 27, 2018 6:19:36 GMT
So, today at the beach a woman had a black line tattooed on the backs of her legs from her heels to the top of her thighs. Can someone please tell me what that’s all about? Isn't it to represent a stocking line? During the war women used to draw them on with a pencil to give the illusion that they were wearing stockings. That would have been my guess too - although I wouldn't have known about it had I not once seen it done on an episode of Are You Being Served?.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 27, 2018 6:31:07 GMT
They would also stain their legs with gravy browning (which is just caramel really) to simulate the actual stocking, as well as drawing the line with an eyebrow pencil.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 6:41:43 GMT
Isn't it to represent a stocking line? During the war women used to draw them on with a pencil to give the illusion that they were wearing stockings. That would have been my guess too - although I wouldn't have known about it had I not once seen it done on an episode of Are You Being Served?. Yes, I thought that too but why would a youngish woman tattoo them on? In this day and age? But now I come to think of it while they were on the beach her friend put the woman’s hair in a French pleat (?) so perhaps she was one of those retro women like the character in Laura Wade’s play. Weird that I should see that when I have been thinking that Wade’s concept is ludicrous. The tattoo looked very strange.
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Post by duncan on Jul 27, 2018 8:33:49 GMT
You also ignore the fact that she appears to have been single ever since giving birth up until the end of Mamma Mia. So that's a grand total of three sexual partners in what, 20 years? Most likely she picked up an STD and couldn't have further unprotected sex.
Sorry but I have no sympathy or empathy for someone who is such a slattern.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2018 8:37:14 GMT
They would also stain their legs with gravy browning (which is just caramel really) I thought gravy browning was beef stock, and caramel is melted sugar? Whatever you do don't confuse the two on Bake-Off!!
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