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Post by olliebean on Oct 1, 2021 20:30:45 GMT
The Rocky Horror mention in the last paragraph is a little odd. Does the reviewer think The Rocky Horror Picture Show is known for being disastrously bad?
Definitely going to give this a go, anyway - it sounds unmissable, although not necessarily for the right reasons.
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Post by olliebean on Oct 1, 2021 20:26:43 GMT
The last two episodes by far are the best they've done with the series. It was lovely to see each character get their own little show; even if Dennis' was 10 seconds long! It felt a bit like one of Michael Green's Coarse Acting shows that I believe Mischief were originally inspired by.
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Post by olliebean on Oct 1, 2021 15:21:27 GMT
Because if they did you wouldn’t even bother looking for tickets. I dislike the practice too - I don’t know why seating plans and prices aren’t published in advance as it would probably ease traffic when tickets go on sale and make it easier for everyone - but I guess they’re hoping by not telling you and making you log on to find out, they might get an impulse buy out of you. But if I get on the website and tickets are too expensive, I won't buy them anyway? It doesn't benefit anyone! I guess they want you deciding whether or not they're too expensive whilst simultaneously under time pressure to buy them or miss out.
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Post by olliebean on Sept 21, 2021 7:56:43 GMT
The way things are going, we'll probably have no heat or light at Christmas as well as no turkey.
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Post by olliebean on Sept 18, 2021 10:10:50 GMT
Lefties are very much "their way or no way" and the world just doesn't work that way, thankfully. Less of the generalisation, if you don't mind. This attitude is by no means either endemic or exclusive to the left wing.
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Post by olliebean on Sept 16, 2021 15:10:16 GMT
Yes, I've seen some trailers for other films in the past that clearly have been cut to hide that it's a musical (not to mention many that have been cut to hide that it's a foreign-language film), but that's clearly not the case here.
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Post by olliebean on Sept 15, 2021 10:43:24 GMT
Did anyone see the video of Sajid Javid in Parliament saying that it might be necessary to bring back mask mandates, and an off-screen MP (I gather it was Desmond Swayne) is heard letting out a long, anguished cry of "Noooo!" Funny, but also quite pathetic.
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Post by olliebean on Sept 15, 2021 8:21:26 GMT
I'd love to see the science that shows coronavirus has lower transmissibility between people who know each other.
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Post by olliebean on Sept 14, 2021 17:36:01 GMT
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Post by olliebean on Sept 13, 2021 21:50:33 GMT
Elephant! (from The Tall Guy)
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Post by olliebean on Sept 11, 2021 8:57:20 GMT
This was filmed by the same production company as Hamilton (RadicalMedia), so it's not surprising there are similarities in the way it was shot. I, too, hope they do more shows.
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Post by olliebean on Aug 29, 2021 16:11:46 GMT
It's only been a week and a half since schools reopened in Scotland - too soon for that to have caused as big a spike as is showing on the graphs. It's more likely to have been caused by their easing of the remaining restrictions on August 9th. (Although schools will certainly be starting to contribute to it now.)
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Post by olliebean on Aug 16, 2021 18:24:50 GMT
I wondered if they'd originally planned for more episodes, as narratively it seemed somewhat rushed at the end towards story resolutions that didn't feel entirely earned. Still enjoyed the songs, though.
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Post by olliebean on Jul 30, 2021 10:37:57 GMT
The standard 2-disc version is £10.99. With the best will in the world, I can't see a handful of demos and alternate versions, an interview, and whatever they've put in the book adding £40-worth of value. Here's the remastered version of the title song, if you want to compare against the original or the previous remaster:
To be honest, I prefer the original 1970 mix. (I haven't heard the 2012 version.)
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Post by olliebean on Jul 22, 2021 21:47:51 GMT
MPs aren't allowed to accuse each other of lying, presumably because it's redundant. Surely it's a statement of unequivocal fact, not an accusation? And that being the case, how can stating a fact be punishable? What a backwards system we have. I think the convention is to point out that what has been said is wrong, but stop short of calling it a lie. The idea being that MPs might be mistaken - in which case they're supposed to correct the record (which Johnson never does) - but are certainly too honourable to deliberately tell an untruth.
It's a convention that serves Boris Johnson particularly well.
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Post by olliebean on Jul 18, 2021 15:15:11 GMT
What is so sad is that some people will die due to others' lack of conscience. That’s the same with a lot of things though. Drink driving for example. Local to me, last year a 6 year old girl was killed walking along the road cos she was hit by an allegedly drunk driver. All actions have consequences and risk is a part of being alive! Yes, and that's why drunk driving is illegal - which probably deters a lot of people from doing it who wouldn't be especially bothered by their consciences unless/until they actually hit someone.
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Post by olliebean on Jul 18, 2021 10:28:54 GMT
So why are the Government having a ‘freedom day’ and saying we can ditch the masks, if they’re not after herd immunity. Presumably because Boris Johnson is more concerned with popularity than with doing the right thing. He hates making promises and then being seen to break them. He likes to make promises and then blame someone else when they're broken.
The "herd immunity" idea in the sense that the public thinks of it has been thoroughly discredited. I forget who it was but I heard some government advisor say they regretted ever mentioning it to the PM because he grabbed on to it like a drowning man grabbing a lifebelt as a way to save the country without having to do anything that might hurt his popularity with the public. But it was always based on two assumptions: that people who didn't have existing health conditions had nothing to worry about, and that once you were exposed to it and survived you were immune for life. Both of those were quickly shown to be untrue: it can kill a significant proportion of healthy people, and you can catch it multiple times. The natural herd immunity idea isn't viable and never was.
In a sense we are aiming for a type of herd immunity, but it's an artificial herd immunity created by vaccination rather than a natural one created by letting the disease spread. The underlying principle is the same but the artificial way is effective and works without killing half a million people and the natural one isn't and doesn't. But we're not there yet because we haven't vaccinated enough people. The indicator of herd immunity, whether natural or artificial, is that the reproduction rate of the virus stays below 1 and right now it's well above 1.
I think the reason the original herd immunity strategy was - well, not exactly dropped, but put on the back burner and they stopped talking about it - was because it became clear just how many deaths could be expected under that strategy. The current strategy seems to be, vaccinate until the probable number of deaths is down to a number they think the public will accept, then open up and just let the remaining unvaccinated catch it to get the rest of the way towards herd immunity. They're still not talking about "herd immunity," because the term has become toxified - now it's "hybrid immunity," which means partly from vaccines and partly from natural infection. I feel they may have underestimated how many vaccinated people are going to catch it, and overestimated how many more deaths the public are going to be OK with. I'm also not sure issues such as potential new variants and the legacy of "long covid" have entered much into their thinking at all. I expect Boris Johnson has filed them away mentally in a notional folder labelled "Deal with it if/when it happens."
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Post by olliebean on Jul 4, 2021 9:52:53 GMT
All ready for him to blame the public if things go downhill. Oh yes, the emphasis on "personal responsibility" makes me certain that this is absolutely the plan.
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Post by olliebean on Jun 27, 2021 9:02:46 GMT
He's not the type who's likely to go out of his way to protect the NHS from privatisation, if that's what you're thinking.
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Post by olliebean on Jun 25, 2021 18:27:35 GMT
Did it really require six separate posts to tell us that the government that most people in this thread have been criticising deserves criticism? No - but the forum software also had some problems this afternoon - at least from Germany with a mobile/tablet. Btw. if all of you criticize it - why most of you vote for it - e.g. the most stupid person realized from the start that all the Brexit supporters were idiots - all these Camerons, Mays,Johnson would not even get a job as cleaners in an intelligent country. Most of us didn't vote for this government, but our electoral system means we got it anyway.
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Post by olliebean on Jun 16, 2021 18:22:44 GMT
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’m all for the lockdown extension,As far as I’m concerned they can keep delaying as long as they need. Until they feel it’s safe to reopen everything. Who knows maybe another month is all we need to get things back under control & more of the population vaccinated. I know how you feel. I'd sooner they wait until they're sure it's safe, than rush to open and then see what happens before deciding if it was safe or not. And I realise I risk being accused of being Captain Hindsight (although I would have said the same last year), but if we'd done that consistently since the start, we'd have been in a much better position much earlier on and it probably wouldn't even be an issue by now.
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Post by olliebean on May 30, 2021 22:50:27 GMT
I guessed the first one just from their voice in the "package". But now that I've seen them all once, I'm not feeling any particular urge to use up a whole week of evenings watching more of them. I enjoy other dance shows, like Strictly and The Greatest Dancer, but I didn't find any of the dances in this particularly engaging to watch. I think I'll give the rest of it a miss.
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Post by olliebean on May 25, 2021 23:47:44 GMT
People saying "tenant" when they mean "tenet." I'm pretty sure the error is more common than the correct usage, even amongst ostensibly educated and intelligent speakers.
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Post by olliebean on May 19, 2021 8:25:17 GMT
Was that before or after accounting for the increased transmissibility of the India variant? Do different variants make any difference to the herd immunity calculation? (As long as vaccine is effective against new strain) Yes, all other things being equal, the higher the transmissibility, the higher the threshold for herd immunity. The former increases the chance that an infected person will transmit the virus to any given susceptible person they meet; the latter directly mitigates against this, by reducing the chance that any given person will be susceptible to infection.
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Post by olliebean on May 18, 2021 22:32:01 GMT
You do not need everyone to be vaccinated to reach herd immunity.
Even SAGE said we reached it two weeks ago.
Was that before or after accounting for the increased transmissibility of the India variant?
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Post by olliebean on May 5, 2021 22:24:37 GMT
Wouldn't surprise me if they are approached in the first instance by publishers who know that the books will be guaranteed to sell.
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Post by olliebean on Feb 23, 2021 15:29:35 GMT
I’d say reducing the risk of transmission is very important talkingheads so I don’t understand how you come to the conclusion that it makes masks ‘next to useless’ if you’re not socially distanced. If you’re only concerned with protecting yourself that is done when everyone in the group wear a mask to protect each other. Besides which, it isn't true that wearing a mask gives you no protection. Early on the reason given for wearing them was to protect others rather than yourself, but studies have since established that they also give a lesser but still significant degree of protection to the wearer.
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Post by olliebean on Jan 9, 2021 0:07:27 GMT
My neighbour, over 80 has had second dose today. I've seen quite a few second doses being given, what happened to not giving it and vaccinating as many people with one dose first I think a lot of doctors are honouring already-scheduled second doses in spite of the government wanting them cancelled and rescheduled for a couple of months later.
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Post by olliebean on Jan 8, 2021 10:04:14 GMT
Things must have improved: the last time I used that calculator it told me to expect to be vaccinated around the start of next year; now it's saying June-July this year.
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Post by olliebean on Dec 27, 2020 13:21:06 GMT
Sounds like the plan now is to vaccinate the 15 million most vulnerable by February, then lift the restrictions and it's back to the original strategy of letting it spread amongst the rest of us.
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