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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 8:23:38 GMT
Just back from the Rep's 101 Dalmations. Not too much worth starting a thread over - the sharpest line in the play was "I'm seeing spots". Good news, a thread does already exist so you don't need to go to the effort of actually starting one: www.theatreboard.co.uk/thread/3985/dalmatians-bham-rep
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Post by Marwood on Dec 5, 2017 11:49:30 GMT
Got a ticket to see Rod Stewart at the BFI next month doing a Q&A following a screening of Rod The Mod, OK so he (probably) won't be singing, but: ROD STEWART!
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Post by michalnowicki on Dec 5, 2017 15:19:03 GMT
^ You will, michal, you will... Grand. I'll just get a bit sloshed beforehand, dear. That should make things easier.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2017 9:42:01 GMT
I have a co-worker who seems to live by the maxim "why be on time when you can be ten minutes late" who swooped into the office a whole half hour late this morning (our manager is off today; I'll let you decide for yourself if this is related or coincidental). It's not unreasonable for me to be annoyed by this, is it? Surely the absolute bare minimum requirement for a job is "arrive in time to start working at the time you're contracted to start working"? I'm not a morning person and I have a semi-lengthy journey into the office, but I bust my hump to get here ready for 8am. What's the point in bothering if other people are just going to make up their own working hours? Arriving late to work Every Single Day just seems incredibly disrespectful to me.
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Post by poster J on Dec 6, 2017 10:14:02 GMT
I have a co-worker who seems to live by the maxim "why be on time when you can be ten minutes late" who swooped into the office a whole half hour late this morning (our manager is off today; I'll let you decide for yourself if this is related or coincidental). It's not unreasonable for me to be annoyed by this, is it? Surely the absolute bare minimum requirement for a job is "arrive in time to start working at the time you're contracted to start working"? I'm not a morning person and I have a semi-lengthy journey into the office, but I bust my hump to get here ready for 8am. What's the point in bothering if other people are just going to make up their own working hours? Arriving late to work Every Single Day just seems incredibly disrespectful to me. If you a fixed start time then absolutely I agree with you, but in my office people start at any time within a 2 hour window and no-one bats an eyelid - the difference is those of us who start later tend to be in the office later. As long as you do your core hours (and usually a lot more) then it doesn't really matter. But all depends on the individual company and situation though of course.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2017 10:36:52 GMT
Once upon a time we had flexitime, but people were abusing it and there wasn't enough in-office coverage at key points of the day, so the orders came down from on high that people were to strictly adhere to their contracted hours. Also there are aspects of the job that are time-sensitive and these tasks are largely morning-based, so it does have an impact on all of us when one of us when one of us is late.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2017 14:01:36 GMT
Once upon a time we had flexitime, but people were abusing it and there wasn't enough in-office coverage at key points of the day, so the orders came down from on high that people were to strictly adhere to their contracted hours. Also there are aspects of the job that are time-sensitive and these tasks are largely morning-based, so it does have an impact on all of us when one of us when one of us is late. Indeed even WITH flexi time I've worked with folks who waltz in late every day and I'm pretty sure then didn't stay late, while I busted my ass to get in early, so I could leave early and where did it get me? So yeah, I think a basic requirement is 'get your butt to work at or before the allotted time'.
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Post by michalnowicki on Dec 6, 2017 14:10:55 GMT
And here's something that cheered me up BIG time. I cried with laughter:
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Post by musicallady on Dec 6, 2017 15:23:49 GMT
Having a great day. I was offered and accepted a full time job starting in January. Exstatic.
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Post by anita on Dec 6, 2017 15:30:28 GMT
Having a great day. I was offered and accepted a full time job starting in January. Exstatic. Congratulations.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 6, 2017 20:17:49 GMT
You should send that link to Mischief Theatre. It could provide useful potential material if they do ever get round to having a second go at The Nativity Goes Wrong.
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Post by michalnowicki on Dec 7, 2017 12:00:56 GMT
According to Spotify, my top 5 tunes for 2017 are: - How Far I'll Go, from Moana - Prologue, from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Commet - Pink, from War Paint - Overture, from Funny Girl (UK) - Welcome to the Rock, from Come from Away.
Looks like there is a pattern to the songs I'm listening to...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 9:56:53 GMT
It's choir concert day, and my one day off in 6. So I'm sat trying to learn final harmonies, with dye on my hair, while trying to do other work. Go me multi-tasking.
*spills coffee* *dyes computer red*
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 9, 2017 13:19:09 GMT
The things you learn. The Maris in Maris Piper potatoes comes from Maris Lane in Cambridge. Not a lot of people know that.
(Cue @theatremonkey with an awful potato gag.)
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 9, 2017 14:07:33 GMT
The things you learn. The Maris in Maris Piper potatoes comes from Maris Lane in Cambridge. Not a lot of people know that. (Cue @theatremonkey with an awful potato gag.) Oh yes. He likes any excuse to waffle...
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 9, 2017 14:10:57 GMT
Cue @theatremonkey with an awful Tibidabo gag.
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Post by theatreian on Dec 9, 2017 14:20:56 GMT
That has made my Christmas as I have often spent many hours and weeks wondering where the Maris comes from. Thanks Tallpaul for sharing your obviously top knowledge of all things Potato to us all.!!!
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 9, 2017 14:25:57 GMT
It's useless facts that makes the world go round!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 15:43:29 GMT
Well I don’t want to take the wind out of anyone’s sails but strictly speaking Maris Lane is NOT in Cambridge, it’s in Trumpington which is a village outside of the city. I mean I wouldn’t want anyone to come bottom in a Christmas quiz or anything... You can know far too many useless facts, you know, TallPaul . But here’s one for you: Maris Pipers make the best chips, and in the cold, bleak north people eat whole bags of them every night covered in curry sauce for their tea.
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Post by The Matthew on Dec 9, 2017 16:57:14 GMT
I received an email from the National Lottery telling me "News about your ticket". I won £3 on Euromillions. I know there are reasons why they make the subject of the email uninformative but I still wish they'd say "Unexciting news about your ticket; no, seriously, it's not even worth checking" when it's a low win.
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Post by theatreian on Dec 9, 2017 17:03:30 GMT
Well The Mathew all your Christmas money worries are over after your big win!
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Post by theatreian on Dec 9, 2017 17:07:44 GMT
Not sure what the weather is like where you are but had quite bad snow here in the midlands and tomorrow is forecast heavy snow all day so not only will I have to walk to work but we are also likely to miss a nativity play with a live donkey that we were looking forward to going to as it will be impossible to get to in this weather.
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Post by Dawnstar on Dec 9, 2017 17:27:26 GMT
I didn't know there was a Maris Lane in Trumpington, let alone that the potatoes are named after it, and I only live about 3 miles away.
I'm on a train to London now rather than tomorrow morning because we're going on a short cruise from Tilbury tomorrow & with the snow forecast my mother's worried in case the trains don't run tomorrow. So I get to spend the night in the Kings Cross Travelodge. Oh joy. I have insisted on going to TCAABR tonight as compensation.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 18:09:31 GMT
Not sure what the weather is like where you are but had quite bad snow here in the midlands and tomorrow is forecast heavy snow all day so not only will I have to walk to work but we are also likely to miss a nativity play with a live donkey that we were looking forward to going to as it will be impossible to get to in this weather. Tsk! A little flurry of snow and some folk can't even get to a nativity play with a live donkey...! According to Google maps, the walk from Nazareth to Bethlehem would take 33 hours, which Mary and Joseph did a while back and she was ON the live donkey! (Not sure about the snow, though, although it probably did snow a bit because it was Christmas.) You never know, ian, it might not be as bad as we think...
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 9, 2017 18:18:41 GMT
Maris Lane is NOT in Cambridge, it’s in Trumpington which is a village outside of the city. According to Google maps, the walk from Nazareth to Bethlehem would take 33 hours, which Mary and Joseph did a while back and she was ON the live donkey! @caiaphas! You are Stephen Fry and I claim my £5! How on earth did you survive in the fifties without Google?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 18:29:58 GMT
^ Google?!?!? Bloody cheek! I used to work on the potato farm in Maris Lane as a lad, back in the forties. I had to pick them out of the frozen ground with my bare hands which then grew chapped and sore when I was scrubbed by my mum in the tin bath in front of the fire... And I have done the walk myself from Nazareth to Bethlehem when I did a tour of the Holy Land last year. No donkey though, I admit. I took a goat but I kept falling off the bugger. So there. Don't assume we all get our knowledge from t'internet!
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 9, 2017 21:31:38 GMT
I took a goat but I kept falling off the bugger. 🐐😱Is that still legal in Israel?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2017 22:27:45 GMT
Christmas choir concert done. Always nice to end the year with. And this year we raised funds for the theatre company I’m chair of the board for. So that was nice. So was the Christmas-y cake.
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 9, 2017 23:08:57 GMT
TAXI!!!! (Get your jacket on the way out...)
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Post by viserys on Dec 10, 2017 9:27:24 GMT
Perhaps some of you like to hear that we can now add Belgrade to the places where theatre forum members have met - without buttons or seeing a show together, but with football scarves and seeing a football match together.
Despite my guys (predictably) losing, I had a wonderful time and a moment of feeling like a celebrity when I was escorted to the right stadium entrance by a hunky Serbian bodyguard.
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