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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 13, 2021 13:01:15 GMT
They really could have done a double if not triple elimination this week. There were some really weak efforts on display. What a good idea. What show does double eliminations? Is a feature somewhere else
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 13, 2021 8:40:39 GMT
As Maggie said, you've got to laugh
I liked Maggie but her baking wasn't up to another week in the tent
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 12, 2021 7:45:47 GMT
Wouldn’t sparkly OTT trainers be better? I suppose they want to see the heel turn stuff but I’m surprised she accepted those dull sock things. No. Trainers are absolutely useless for dancing, they stick to the floor. I groan every time I see someone wearing trainers on Strictly. Dance shoes are specialist for a reason - the suede sole helps prevent injury and assists movement across the floor. You can get completely flat suede-soled shoes for people who can't wear heels, but really even a small heel is better than none as it impacts posture and a heel pushing weight forward is better. Why it was a strict no-no wearing trainees at night clubs for years. Some moves were impossible to pull off if you were stuck to the dance floor
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 11, 2021 18:44:02 GMT
If we are allowed dead people and non 'theatre' types Charles Darwin Joseph Goebbels Beethoven Malcolm X Goebbels, eh? Really? I want to find out if man can be that evil, bet he has a few stories and could communicate
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 11, 2021 9:53:51 GMT
If we are allowed dead people and non 'theatre' types
Charles Darwin Joseph Goebbels Beethoven Malcolm X
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 8, 2021 17:18:53 GMT
I'm quite enjoying the contestants this year but Fielding and Lucas, who were OK to begin with, are now just appalling - strained attempts at humour that raise nary a titter and no genuine warmth of rapport with the bakers. Makes you realise how good Mel and Sue were. I think interactions with bakers good. Those set pieces at the start of round bad, they're just not funny
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 8, 2021 12:53:22 GMT
The DWP are now telling people their first pensions are being delayed because the staff are still working from home and they can’t make them come back. How is that acceptable. Stop scaremongering.. Be a riot, no? Not paying the blue vote
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 8, 2021 12:06:04 GMT
Saw it last night. Enjoyed it but seriously, a good 45 mins could have been chopped from the middle with no detrimental effect. Also, I have to say what a dreadful theme song that Billy Eilish effort is. I’d forgotten about it given the delay in releasing the film but my god it’s bad. We’ve had a couple of duds in the canon of bond themes (Madonna I’m looking at you) but this has to be the all time worst. Who on earth thought some miserable, mumbling 17 year old was suitable to carry the iconic title sequence of what is quite an important Bond film was very misguided. Of all the Craig Bond themes, only Skyfall and You Know My Name were any good. Must be fishing?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 8, 2021 7:29:21 GMT
No but we have the 4th highest infections in the world now and we are an island, so we should be able to contain the virus more. What s Spain, Germany and Poland doing what we’re not doing? The fact we have absolutely no restrictions, this article sums it up quite well. Many countries across Europe still have mask mandates and social distancing guidelines. www.nytimes.com/2021/08/28/world/europe/coronavirus-britain-uk.htmlBehind a pay wall for me that link
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 7, 2021 8:14:57 GMT
I ADORE Guiseppe and Juergen! I don’t usually predict the winner until week 3 or 4 but I’m going for one of them. Don’t count Freya out either. I’ve guessed correct 4 out of the last 5 years 😂 Just caught up with this weeks episode. Good to see the Guiseppe/Juergen axis is still strong
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 5, 2021 12:04:43 GMT
Don't need people in the office and they can be based anywhere companies will soon realise they can move those jobs east to cheaper workforces. What I always say to that argument is that if it really was significantly cheaper, they would have done it long ago. If anything, working from home should require a pay rise - you are using your own resources, electricity etc. I work for a charity so for us offsetting travel against use of home resources. Works better for some people but that is the deal and most people ok with this
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 5, 2021 12:02:00 GMT
Don't need people in the office and they can be based anywhere companies will soon realise they can move those jobs east to cheaper workforces. That's how it was in the 1990s but it doesn't work that way any more because employees have a choice too. I work for a company that employs people from around the world and my colleagues from eastern Europe, India, the Philippines and so on expect to be paid as much as people in the United States, and they are. They know what they're worth and they're not going to work for a company that treats them as if they're too stupid to figure out the value of what they're doing. The low cost of living where they are means they benefit from a better quality of life. It doesn't mean they're willing to work for less money.
When there were only a few opportunities for remote work people in countries like India had to take what they could get and as long as they were paid more than local jobs offered they were happy. Now they're in a position to look around for better-paying jobs and they don't have to settle for the only western company in town.
The main area that will really suffer is manufacturing, because it can be done anywhere but can't be done remotely.
Better not tell that to my colleagues in Czechia, Romania and India. Gap has narrowed in twenty five years but still cheaper labour sources for us
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 5, 2021 10:35:39 GMT
Permanent working from home five days a week I don't see happening but a hybrid approach is likely to emerge. WFH has its perks but it can be isolating for many and also not everyone's home is suitable for WFH. We're home working permanently now. But I agree a hybrid will be more normal if a significant change happens
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 5, 2021 9:57:20 GMT
The rise of permanent working from home as a result of Covid will end up being something that is a symbol of the culture war. A lot of people love it while a lot of people want it either taxed for everyone and/or banned in the public sector. For a lot of people it’s symbol of class differences as more working class jobs cannot in any circumstances be done from home than middle class ones. Different jobs are ... different. They have different requirements and offer different benefits. Complaining because some people can work from home and others can't is like complaining that some people can work outdoors and some can't, or some jobs involve travel and some don't, or some jobs require variable shifts and some don't. Some jobs come with a car, some come with health insurance, some come with low-cost mortgages, some come with share options, some come with discounts on company products. Others don't.
It's not even as if working from home is anything new. My mother worked from home in the late 1970s. Since the rise of the first portable computers and home computers around thirty years ago home working has been available to an increasing number of office workers. The only thing that has been holding it back is management inertia.
At one time centralised offices weren't a thing. Then they became a thing. Now they're on their way to becoming not a thing again. The idea of people commuting to central locations happened because the needs of business moved ahead of the technology available. Now technology has caught up. We don't need the imposition of the old way of doing things any more.
Don't need people in the office and they can be based anywhere companies will soon realise they can move those jobs east to cheaper workforces.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 4, 2021 10:49:32 GMT
I’m not sure what to think about this one to be honest. It’s enjoyable and it didn’t feel like 163 minutes, but I just don’t know if it works as a James Bond film. What does it actually add to the storyline thread that has existed since Casino Royale? Nothing, despite trying to, and therein lies the problem for me. But I’m open to a female Jamie Bond era next. {Spoiler - click to view}They just killed off James Bond so they might as well go full hog and give it a go across a trilogy of movies, before rebooting it again with a male lead in time for the 70th in 2032. But I suspect whoever will become the next lead will be announced next year as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations.
No way, James Bond was a double agent working for the Russians all along?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 21, 2021 19:39:51 GMT
Jurgen and Guiseppe my faves at the moment
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 15, 2021 16:27:03 GMT
They always have spare dancers who only usually get to appear in the group numbers. So they have back ups for injuries and emergencies. Just a shame that it has happened just after the couples were put together at the launch show and one couple already has had to change Always have Anton in reserve?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 15, 2021 12:25:22 GMT
Only if their religion actually says that, and only if they follow that restriction. You can't just say "Oh, yeah, my religion totally says I can't do (long list of things you don't want to do)". Any idiot can say that, and the likelihood you'll be disbelieved matches the ease of the lie.
But who has the final say about what a religion does or doesn't believe in? All these councils or boards or whatever have obviously been plied with money under the table to say the vaccine is safe. It is all too happy clappy. God does
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 15, 2021 10:54:28 GMT
There are many people who can't get the vaccine because of their religion or for medical reasons. You are excluding a huge amount of the population. I am not calling you this, but vaccine passports are borderline racist! Do you really want to live in a country that segregates people like that? I know I don't. Religious? There are no religious reasons to refuse a vaccine. I was wondering this? What do you do with people with medical conditions though?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 15, 2021 8:52:46 GMT
In today's instalment of 'one rule for us'... It's a good job the virus knows not to spread to anyone else when those not-strangers return to their families all over the country, isn't it?
Let's face it, the real explanation is more along the lines of "Who's going to stop us? You zeroes?"
Made me laugh for far longer than it should have
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 14, 2021 19:26:09 GMT
Big cases falls across the entire country again. UK: 37,489 -> 26,628 (-29.0%) England: 27,545 -> 19,739 (-28.3%) Scotland: 5,692 -> 3,375 (-40.7%) NI: 1,748 -> 1,590 (-9.0%) Wales: 2,504 -> 1,924 (-23.1%) Just to counter the gloom on here. 6th Day of reductions And that’s with a big increase in numbers being tested over the past few weeks. Seems whenever the scientists and experts predict a bit rise in cases, the opposite happens! And there’s been more mixing and socialising along with schools returning these past two weeks. Yep really good news this. Schools going back should be filtering into the results now also
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 13, 2021 15:08:51 GMT
Oh it is definitely discrimination but good discrimination, no? "Good discrimination" that's like saying "nice rape" or "justified homophobic attack" Discrimination is discrimination. I'm not so sure. How about positive discrimination.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 13, 2021 14:33:43 GMT
I think the issue is that although yes businesses can set their own conditions of entry, there are people out there who will cry discrimination. I suppose theatres would have to be willing to refund anyone who arrived at the theatre and was refused entry due to being unvaccinated. And that is where some businesses fear problems. Oh it is definitely discrimination but good discrimination, no?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 13, 2021 8:10:49 GMT
I don't really understand how people could sue theatres. Private businesses can set conditions of entry and nobody has the automatic right to enter a theatre. Would it be not stating this at time of booking?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 13, 2021 8:07:50 GMT
A lady loudly rustling a packet of something behind me at Cinderella on Saturday night. Thankfully the man sat next to me turned around and told her to quit it, which she did immediately. Also a lot of getting up and down during the show as people kept leaving to go to the bar or to the toilet. Are the bars kept open during a performance?
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 12, 2021 9:40:32 GMT
Mother was good and the accordionist was just wow. Great to have it back on form after the silly business last year of ditching Rule Britania. We had members night at the local brewery last night and it was proms in the park playing very loudly when I got home. Apparently I shouted out the window when rule brittania was playing an encore, 'will you please be quiet assorted racists and gammonistas!!'
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 12, 2021 9:36:00 GMT
Going to be some good years ahead for Womens tennis with Raducanu and Fernandez. A really high quality game of tennis. I love how early they both take the ball
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 12, 2021 8:12:35 GMT
As much as 1/7 on if you fancy a bet for sports personality
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 11, 2021 12:37:03 GMT
Why are you asked people here their opinion ? Just reading the spiteful, argumentative opinions on many posts should eliminate this place for parental advice. Eh? Nicest forum on the internet TheatreBoard, isn't it? Some truly lovely people on 'ere
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 10, 2021 15:08:19 GMT
Can’t see an issue. Just a version of a boarding school but one where the children all want to be there. Great analogy
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