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Post by Michael on Aug 7, 2017 6:04:56 GMT
(Off topic, but for some reason the search function doesn't seem to be working - I enter Hamlet or something big like that and this evening get 'no posts found' - is it me, or the site?) The search engine does have its bugs, but you can use Google instead: simply type site:theatreboard.co.uk hamlet in the search field and press enter. |
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 7, 2017 7:48:15 GMT
I don't care how good they are or which famous musicians started out as such, I detest buskers. And speaking of music, Led Zeppelin are massively overrated, and I don't get all the fuss about Nick Drake. There wouldn't be any if he hadn't died. Pandas are total rubbish. Even as a child I had no interest in the updates on whether various pandas were going to mate. And they just sit around eating one single thing with virtually no nutrition. And as for monkeys... they're not cute or funny.@theatremonkey |
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 7, 2017 7:52:51 GMT
Tattle-tale  |
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 7, 2017 7:58:25 GMT
Tattle-tale Maybe, but do you know what, as long as theatremonkey remains as informative as it is, who cares whether it's cute or funny. At least it means it's the most useful monkey. |
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Post by crowblack on Aug 7, 2017 8:25:46 GMT
The search engine does have its bugs Thanks, I think it was just a bug - it started working normally later. |
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Post by kathryn on Aug 7, 2017 9:25:03 GMT
(Seriously, how can you read the news one day, read a book about a dystopian government the next day, and *not* see a metaphor?) This long predates Trump. I'm writing from my experience nearly a decade ago with a large publishing house and the comments about allowable types of baddie made by their sales team: their publications at the time seemed to bear this out. Interestingly, Trump and co have grown out of popular culture: when they came out, the Hunger Games books and films were seized on by the American Tea Party Right Wing who thought they were great - they portrayed the 'metropolitan elite' and the state as effete and evil and the people of the flyover states as a heroic resistance. Terry Gilliam's Brazil was similarly loved by the American far right a few decades ago - the Oklahoma Bomber used de Niro's character's name as his pseudonym. Not to mention the producers of The Apprentice making Trump look decisive and intelligent, a successful businessman, instead of the guy who managed to lose money running casinos. |
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Post by kathryn on Aug 7, 2017 9:30:37 GMT
Ballots are an awful way to decide who gets tickets.
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 7, 2017 11:39:23 GMT
Ballots are an awful way to decide who gets tickets. So when the announcement of a ballot is prefaced with "To make allocation as fair as possible..." I assume it doesn't butter any parsnips with you. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2017 11:50:06 GMT
Pandas are total rubbish. Even as a child I had no interest in the updates on whether various pandas were going to mate. And they just sit around eating one single thing with virtually no nutrition. And as for monkeys... they're not cute or funny. Oh no you didn't.  Ballots are an awful way to decide who gets tickets. Agreed. I should be able to just walk along the line and pick the prettiest ones to get the tickets. No hanging around waiting. Simple. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2017 11:55:34 GMT
I love pandas, but I do feel like we should probably have left them to die already. It's nigh-on impossible to convince them to breed (and even if one gets pregnant, she can change her mind at any point during the process), they've evolved so that their diet has basically no nutritional value, how much clearer can they make it that they're just not interested in being around anymore?
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 7, 2017 12:02:24 GMT
Pandas are total rubbish. Even as a child I had no interest in the updates on whether various pandas were going to mate. And they just sit around eating one single thing with virtually no nutrition. And as for monkeys... they're not cute or funny. Oh no you didn't. If there's one thing more rubbish than pandas, it's GIFs. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 7, 2017 12:17:15 GMT
Pandas are total rubbish. Even as a child I had no interest in the updates on whether various pandas were going to mate. And they just sit around eating one single thing with virtually no nutrition. And as for monkeys... they're not cute or funny. *paging @theatremonkey * we appear to have an uprising on our hands. You get the watercannon, I'll get my plastic rainhood. |
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 7, 2017 12:22:45 GMT
Come on @theatremonkey, you're not going to stand for such a slur, are you?
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 7, 2017 12:32:32 GMT
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Post by kathryn on Aug 7, 2017 12:53:57 GMT
Ballots are an awful way to decide who gets tickets. So when the announcement of a ballot is prefaced with "To make allocation as fair as possible..." I assume it doesn't butter any parsnips with you. What I see is 'to make the process as frustrating, and make you feel as powerless, as possible...' |
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 7, 2017 13:02:21 GMT
Oh be patient TallPaul. The monkey will be hanging around waiting for his moment to pounce, when he will surely be gibbon it his all.... |
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 7, 2017 13:05:50 GMT
TAXI!!!
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 7, 2017 13:08:21 GMT
Oh trust me, I've already called my own!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2017 13:14:06 GMT
So when the announcement of a ballot is prefaced with "To make allocation as fair as possible..." I assume it doesn't butter any parsnips with you. What I see is 'to make the process as frustrating, and make you feel as powerless, as possible...' It's not far off existing booking systems though; everyone who wants to book throws their hat into the ring (by going to the website at the appointed time) then are randomly assigned positions in a queue, then are left through in order until all the seats are gone or all the demand has died down. The difference here is that they know just how much the demand is going to outstrip the supply, so are setting up the randomisation process in advance. Nobody is more entitled to a ticket to a show than anyone else, it really is the most equitable way of doing things for a limited run with fewer than 4,000 tickets available. And at least you know in advance of tickets going on sale whether you're in or out, rather than rocking up on the day to find you've been randomly assigned to position 12,754 in the queue and hanging on for hours just in case. |
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Post by kathryn on Aug 7, 2017 13:22:38 GMT
What I see is 'to make the process as frustrating, and make you feel as powerless, as possible...' It's not far off existing booking systems though; everyone who wants to book throws their hat into the ring (by going to the website at the appointed time) then are randomly assigned positions in a queue, then are left through in order until all the seats are gone or all the demand has died down. The difference here is that they know just how much the demand is going to outstrip the supply, so are setting up the randomisation process in advance. Nobody is more entitled to a ticket to a show than anyone else, it really is the most equitable way of doing things for a limited run with fewer than 4,000 tickets available. And at least you know in advance of tickets going on sale whether you're in or out, rather than rocking up on the day to find you've been randomly assigned to position 12,754 in the queue and hanging on for hours just in case. Look, is this the unpopular opinion thread, or isn't it?! Honestly, I've never felt so stressed about trying to get a ticket for a show before. I've been having actual stress dreams. CumberHamlet, Hamilton, Angels in America, Harry Potter and Coriolanus were an absolute doddle by comparison. And for all of those, if you didn't get a ticket to start with you knew there were going to be other options later on - day seats, returns, cinema broadcasts.... We don't even know when the emails telling people if they've been successful or not will go out! Edit to add: Gotta say, this isn't just a Hiddlet thing - I generally dislike lotteries/ballots and prefer day seats. I've used the TodayTix lottery a few times and it leaves me with just barely time to get into London by the time I find out if I've won. One time I entered a Dreamgirls lottery, lost it, went 'oh well I'll have a leisurely bath and a chilled out afternoon instead' only to get a phone call an hour later as I was getting out of said bath offering me a ticket, which I had to decline because there wasn't time for me to get dressed, get down to the train station and get into London before the show started. I used it in LA a few weeks ago, and because I was out and about siteseeing I had to keep ducking into Starbucks for a wifi signal to check if I'd won and buy the actual ticket. The Harry Potter Friday40 I tried week after week with no success, I never managed to win the Book of Mormon lottery - in both cases I gave up and booked normal tickets in the end. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 7, 2017 16:24:40 GMT
And as for monkeys... they're not cute or funny. And nobody asked you to turn up on Christmas Eve Backdrifter and then stay over all the way through New Year. If we are dragging all that up again 8 MONTHS (not hours / days / weeks, but MONTHS) later then we'd all like to know exactly which part of a flush-mechanism you don't understand? And that's just for starters... Not making that mistake again. I was enacting Arabic proverbs:
"Fish, and guests, stink after three days".
"A host is his guest's prisoner."
(By the way, explain what is this "flush-mechanism" of which you speak and maybe I'll answer).
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Post by Backdrifter on Aug 7, 2017 16:26:12 GMT
Spring and summer are overrated. Autumn and winter are much better. Short days, getting dark at 4pm.... yes indeed, excellent stuff.
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Post by theatremadness on Aug 7, 2017 16:32:08 GMT
TANGLED IS BETTER THAN FROZEN.
Phew. That's better.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 7, 2017 16:37:31 GMT
Spring and summer are overrated. Autumn and winter are much better. Short days, getting dark at 4pm.... yes indeed, excellent stuff. Hallelloo! |
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 7, 2017 19:34:41 GMT
we'd all like to know exactly which part of a flush-mechanism you don't understand? I was enacting Arabic proverbs:
"Fish, and guests, stink after three days".
"A host is his guest's prisoner." I think you know full well it's the silver handle you probably still have in your suitcase. Have I accidentally wandered into the Mornington Crescent thread? |
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