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Post by Dawnstar on May 31, 2021 17:23:06 GMT
I'm gonna get a lot of raised eyebrows here, but 'Love Never Dies' isn't THAT bad. Don't get me wrong, it has a LOT of problems, especially in terms of story, characters and some lyrics. I agree. There's the obvious problem that an insane murderer is treated as the most eligible of bachelors by every young woman who meets him, but apart from that it's an OK show with some great musical numbers. It absolutely baffles me that we are supposed to find it plausible that a young woman engaged to a rich, handsome Viscount who she had known since childhood suddenly decides just before her wedding to go & have sex with a psychopathic, deformed, multiple murderer & stalker! I remember the one time I saw the show live sitting there simultaneously hating the plot & what had been done to the characters while getting goosebumps from some of the music. If only the lovely music had been used for a better plot.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 31, 2021 13:28:52 GMT
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Post by Dawnstar on May 31, 2021 12:09:37 GMT
One of my neighbours is practicing the piano within earshot. They are currently playing We Wish You A Merry Christmas!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 30, 2021 12:29:09 GMT
Hmm. Lots of agreement with my last one. So how about end credits on films and TV. At the very least there's too many people credited. Does anyone really need to see who the electrician or the catering were? It. whilst I agree to an extent, I do get annoyed when they start talking over credits and shrinking the screen to promote what's coming next. Sometimes I at least want to see who's in the cast but never get the chance. I agree with this. If you're going to have a long list of credits then have them at a size & scrolling speed that means they are legible, including large enough for those of us who don't have 50 inch TV screens to be able to read! Otherwise it's a complete waste.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 30, 2021 12:25:59 GMT
My opinion of the NHS has just plummeted. A couple of days ago they offered me the chance to rebook my second appointment to make it earlier because I'm in a high risk group. I chose not to because my second appointment is only a week and a half away and I thought I'd do the right thing by not muddling things up for an already stretched service. So they rewarded me for my patience and consideration by cancelling that appointment anyway and now I have to book all over again. Yesterday I met up with one of my cousins & her husband for the first time since the pandemic. Naturally we discussed vaccines & my cousin's husband said he had had his 2nd appointment cancelled & had to rebook at a different vaccination centre because the place he had his 2st vaccine & was booked for the 2nd were now only doing Pfizer & as he'd had AstraZeneca the first time he had to go somewhere else that was still doing AstraZeneca. So maybe something similar could be an explanation for your appointment being cancelled, if they don't have the right vaccine for you available at the time of your appointment.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 29, 2021 18:07:22 GMT
I might be in the minority here.... Pictures on T Shirts. I have no time for band logos, tour lists, butterflies etc etc on T shirts. Plain or patterned only please. There's no aesthetic reason. It's only done to show off and not because it looks good.
I don't care what other people choose to have on their T-shirts, unless it's obscene or offensive, but personally I only wear plain ones & have done since I got to adulthood. I'm not very keen on patterned fabrics either, apart from the occasional floral-patterned dress. The majority of my clothes are plain fabrics. I remember M&S going through an infuriating phase about a decade ago where something looked a nice colour from a distance then when you took it off the rack it had bits of patterned fabric added as ruffles or inserts.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 28, 2021 15:48:28 GMT
Theres a TONNE of scams going round at the minute, its vile. I keep getting calls from an automated message in Chinese! Hope your relative is ok. At least if they're in Chinese you (I'm guessing) don't understand what is being said. I don't know about other people but I find having to listen to conversations in languages I don't understand, for instance if someone is yelling away on their phone on a train, slightly less annoying than having to listen to conversaations in English.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 28, 2021 12:47:35 GMT
I don't know if the scammers who keep on making nuisance phone calls about Amazon Prime record the replies to their robotic calls but if they do then they've now got me on tape saying "Oh f*** off" before slamming the phone down! When you have a relative in hospital & are constantly on the alert for any phone calls with news then scam phone calls are even more annoying than usual.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 26, 2021 11:21:57 GMT
Does anyone else keep a list of performers you've seen in multiple shows or is it just me who is that geeky?
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Post by Dawnstar on May 25, 2021 11:48:25 GMT
I had my first jab through my GP and then booked my second appointment through the NHS website a couple of weeks later for 11 weeks after my initial jab. Then I got contacted by my GP again 8 weeks after my first jab to book my second jab through them, which I did for a few days later. I didn't cancel my appointment on the NHS website, just in case anything went wrong with my GP but the systems seem to be well linked, when I tried to cancel the day after my second jab, the website already knew that I had my second jab and I didn't need to cancel anymore. I've just tried the NHS website but the nearest vaccination centre it is showing for me in in the centre of Cambridge, rather than the health centre in the next village where I got my first vaccine. So I guess I'll have to wait until I'm contacted by my GP practice so I can have it done locally, as it would be harder & riskier for me to go into the centre of Cambridge at the moment.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 24, 2021 20:53:54 GMT
I share your panic/despair/frustration Dawnstar as someone who would have got pfizer if i'd been just a couple of months younger. I'm hoping it's better than in sounds. That said my sister has been trying to book a jab for a week and is just being offered appointments the other end of the country, flipping ridiculous. She thought she'd manage to book first but has no reference number or confirmation so don't think she did and the manage your appointment section can't decide if there is or isn't anything booked. Hold strong and we'll both try to not panic. Oh dear, I thought the issue with people being offered appointments at ridiculous distances had gone away, but it seems not. I don't even know how I'm supposed to make a 2nd appointment. After reading several news articles yesterday that people were being encouraged to make sure they had their 2nd jabs I looked up my local medical practice's website. The only thing I could find about appointments was a link to the government website for booking appointments. Which said that you have to book both appointments at once, but as I've already had my first jab I can't book 2 appointments! So I suppose all I can do is hope that my medical practice contact me next month but seems rather uncertain.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 24, 2021 18:04:54 GMT
They won't do it but I wish they'd stream performances with Gina Beck as well as Alex Young. The first streamed performance is 4th August & Alex Young starts sharing the role from 5th August so I thought that meant the streamed performance would be with Gina Beck.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 24, 2021 18:03:13 GMT
Does anyone know anything about this? Nowt on the OHP website It's on for 4 performances. Concert or staged?
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Post by Dawnstar on May 24, 2021 14:46:08 GMT
I think the same thing when I see people film curtain calls. When are you going to watch that? Are you ever going to watch that? Are you ever going to be sat at home of a Sunday evening and think "Oh! I know! I'll watch the curtain call of Les Mis!"? I started taking curtain call photos at the end of a number of Royal Ballet performances I saw in my last pre-covid theatregoing year after seeing other people's curtain call photos on Instagram. The ROH allows curtain call photos. A few days ago, after the Royal Ballet announced promotions for a number of those dancers, I went back through my curtain call photos, looking at photos of those that had just been promoted. It was a really nice reminder of some of the performances I saw in 2019-20. So I don't see why people wouldn't re-watch curtain call videos.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 23, 2021 18:56:18 GMT
To be fair, later in that same article they do give a potential reason for the discrepancy that suggests it’s not a major cause for concern. (I’m not 100% sure but I think they’re saying AZ will give you as good protection as Pfizer, it’s just that it takes a bit longer to build up...? They also seem to be saying a lot of the Pfizer cohort were youngish health workers, so I suppose they might naturally have higher immunity, which would boost the figure for Pfizer.) Basically I wouldn’t beat yourself up, lovely Dawnstar - I’m sure you did the responsible thing getting vaccinated early.
Yes, the article gets pretty vague at that point. A pity they're only at the trials stage of mixing jabs as if I could get Pfizer for my 2nd jab (due at the end of June) then I definitely would.
I hope so. My mother is back in hospital, for the third time in five weeks, & started on medication that has immunosuppressing effects during the first hospitalisation so I don't feel I was unjustified in begging for earlier vaccination from that point of view.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 23, 2021 18:40:15 GMT
Ah, so it is the same performance being streamed each time. I suppose that'll save me some money only seeing it once then.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 23, 2021 12:13:09 GMT
According to this article, Pfizer 88% effective against the Indian variant, AstraZeneca 60% effective. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57214596 As someone who has had AstraZeneca, I feel extremely depressed by this news. I got vaccinated earlier than my age group to protect my mother & had no choice of vaccine. If only I was getting vaccinated now, with my age group, then I would get the choice & would have gone for Pfizer. So I tried to do what seemed best at the time but now it's massively backfired. I can't see that I'll be able to go to the theatre for goodness knows how long now.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 23, 2021 12:05:43 GMT
Would they really do a cast recording for a show that's only having a limited run & already has multiple cast recordings available? I mean, some new shows nowadays don't even get a cast recording, or are only recorded live rather than a studio recording, because of the cost.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 22, 2021 16:34:50 GMT
Recording? I hope that doesn't mean they'll be singing to a pre-recorded backing track rather than having a live orchestra at the Barbican.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 22, 2021 16:31:56 GMT
I read it as ‘shock, horror!’, ‘angry!’, ‘blowing off angry steam’, ‘dejected’, ‘sad’, ‘quizzical’, ‘happy’, ‘blowing a kiss’’, ‘laugh’. But of course it depends how your device renders the images - they will look different in different operating systems. And the overall sentiment was that I was lightly teasing you!
I had a year or two where I could only see emojis displayed on Twitter when looking at it from my phone. On my laptop they just showed up as crosses. Not that that made much difference to my comprehension of most of them!
Having Asperger's, I'm not very good at "reading" teasing either!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 22, 2021 16:28:59 GMT
I’m in a queue for my first vaccination!! Nervous!!!!!! For the side effects not the actual jab I must add. That was how I felt. I don't mind getting needles stuck in me but there have been so many articles about side effects & I had my first jab just as there were a slew of articles about blood clots from AstraZeneca. I'd recommend not planning to do anything for the next 48 hours.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 22, 2021 11:39:55 GMT
Um... horrified screaming, ?angry, no idea, no idea, unhappy, no idea, happy, no idea, very happy.
I've just read another of my pet hates on the BBC's website "off of". Just "off" is sufficient.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 22, 2021 11:36:36 GMT
I am enjoying this cool & wet weather, albeit from indoors with some heating! I know in a couple of months when it's 30 degrees I'll be looking back on this weather & wishing it had continued.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 21, 2021 20:31:15 GMT
Multiple emojis whether it is in messages or forums, I don't mind someone using one emoji but multiple is too much. Especially when messages are nothing but a string of emojis. I only understand what a few emojis mean so have no idea what someone is saying when there's a message with dozens of them.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 20, 2021 21:14:08 GMT
The programme is always a good idea with Stoppard but most of the time his plays actually teach you what you need to know in order to get the jokes and understand his ideas. I can't say I found that when I saw both Arcadia and Travesties. I had to look up a bunch of references & background information after I saw each of them to understand much of what was going on.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 20, 2021 11:09:24 GMT
I'm not keen on "guys" anyway but it particularly annoys me that several times when eating out with my mother & aunt we have had young waiters saying things like "Hi guys, what can I get you?". My mother & aunt are over 70 & I don't think waiters less than half their age should be addressing them like that. What is wrong with just saying "Hi" or "Hello" without using any additional words, then there's no risk of offending anyone.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 18:43:39 GMT
I think those are very rare instances though. Statistically speaking we're in a pretty good place. There will always be "what ifs?" but that's life. If you are referring to long covid then media reports seem to estimate numbers are in the hundreds of thousands within the UK. I wouldn't consider that to be "rare".
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 18:42:02 GMT
Here you are, Dawnstar . I took this for BurlyBeaR , but I'm sure you don't mind sharing. Even allowing for inflation, there is no way Mater paid anything like £1.85 in Hillards! What makes the Ocado thing even more bizarre is that the home delivery arm of Morrisons is really Ocado, but with different coloured vans. They operate out of the exact same depots with the exact same staff. So they're a sort of noodle stir fry type thing? That really is rather ridiculous! Have you ever had the same delivery driver bring you first Ocado and then Morrisons a few days later? I love the M&S caramel one and glad they do it all year. I take one to work every day for breakfast, sliced with butter and a slice of cheddar cheese. As much as I like Marmite the marmite hot cross buns are horrible. A caramel flavoured bun eaten with cheese sounds bizarre to me. I don't get sweet and savoury combinations.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 18:36:26 GMT
Just had the email now. I was hoping to maybe get to see them in the studio, but it doesn't appear that single seats are an option. Anyway, glad that the Mischief crew are bringing this back. Always a great watch sat at home. Yes, the lack of single seats would also be an issue for me if I was able to go. Although given tickets are £25 then booking a pair would be cheaper than a single for many WE shows!
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Post by Dawnstar on May 19, 2021 15:03:45 GMT
Why is it that Vesta Chow Mein is only available at Mozzie’s? I mean, you CAN get it on Amazon but it’s crazy prices. Even though I’m a committed Ocado customer I have to get a Morrissons delivery every now and then to stock up on Vesta and no added sugar Dandelion & Burdock. I have no idea what Vesta Chow Mein is but I'm glad that I'm not the only person who has to do the occasional extra supermarket delivery for certain things. We mostly have Waitrose deliveries but every so often I have to get a Sainsbury's one for Davidstow cheddar, chocolate chip cookies and pasta sauce. The Waitrose versions just aren't the same.
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