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Post by hitmewithurbethshot on May 28, 2018 21:34:22 GMT
It touches a very particular nerve of mine when actors refer to themselves/parts of themselves as their characters. Like "I've been climbing the barricade" "I'll be in the bubble/mask/hat tonight!". It's so wanky
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 28, 2018 21:36:29 GMT
Peter Kay isn’t funny.
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Post by missbabs on May 28, 2018 21:45:35 GMT
I'm not a fan of David Attenborough. The true talent behind those programmes are the camera crew who get the amazing shots. Plus I saw him on the Graham Norton Show once and he literally sat with his back to Kathy Burke so he could gaze at Cameron Diaz.
I've liked most jukebox musicals that I've seen.
I don't understand why Joan Collins is presented as some sort of national treasure. She can't act and has a very high opinion of herself.
I hate Last Night of the Proms with a passion. All the flag waving and teddy bears and bopping up and down...
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Post by crowblack on May 28, 2018 21:57:07 GMT
I liked Phoenix Nights, but nothing much after that. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 28, 2018 22:02:41 GMT
I hate Last Night of the Proms with a passion. All the flag waving and teddy bears and bopping up and down... Fave 🐻 |
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Post by stagebyte on May 28, 2018 22:31:35 GMT
It touches a very particular nerve of mine when actors refer to themselves/parts of themselves as their characters. Like "I've been climbing the barricade" "I'll be in the bubble/mask/hat tonight!". It's so wanky The hashtag #actorslife 🙄 |
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Post by ali973 on May 29, 2018 3:16:45 GMT
I really didn’t realise that until I started working closely with the US, but it’s so true! Things that we take completely for granted - like everyone taking time off for Christmas - are very unusual in the US. Even the common language thing is misleading - we misunderstand each other frequently because we’re using the same words but mean slightly different things by them. We run into cultural differences with our US offices just as frequently as we do with our Indian offices. I have found the US to be way more difficult to deal with. It’s all touchy feely buzzwords with very little substance behind it. Go “reach out” to who you like, we all know this is an excuse to do eff-all for a week until the next meeting. India is the most hard working at all hours and technically adept, the Philippines the most in tune with customer needs and are a delight to work with. I do appreciate that I’ve just totally stereotyped the workforcees of three nations, it’s just my personal experience. Forgive me. ...have you worked with China? Normally I don't have issues with my colleagues in India because culturally, there are many similarities, being from the Persian Gulf. Americans are also not a huge issue because I lived there for so many years so I "get it". All in all, professionally speaking, India, US, etc tend to have adhere to the "universal" code of practice, whatever that is. But I found the biggest difference, culturally and professionally, was with China. Again, stereotyping and very broadly speaking and trying to really manage what I say, I sometimes work with gov't organizations and I found it to be a bit cowboy and irreverent. I have a colleague there who is a buffer and manages things for us and he totally "gets us", but still.. Japan has its own thing going on too. It's very ceremonial and lengthy but has a civility about it that I find very admirable. |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 4:53:57 GMT
I have found the US to be way more difficult to deal with. It’s all touchy feely buzzwords with very little substance behind it. Go “reach out” to who you like Americans seem to love what I refer to as ritual non-communication: standard phrases and responses that convey nothing but are considered an essential part of polite communication. It causes a bit of a problem where I work because all dialogue between the customers and the US-owned company starts with identical template messages as part of the ritual, which to the US is the polite thing to do but to the UK creates a feeling of "You care so little about my problem that you can't even be bothered to write your own words". |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 7:08:11 GMT
I'm not a fan of David Attenborough. The true talent behind those programmes are the camera crew who get the amazing shots. Plus I saw him on the Graham Norton Show once and he literally sat with his back to Kathy Burke so he could gaze at Cameron Diaz. I've liked most jukebox musicals that I've seen. I don't understand why Joan Collins is presented as some sort of national treasure. She can't act and has a very high opinion of herself. I hate Last Night of the Proms with a passion. All the flag waving and teddy bears and bopping up and down... I have an irrational dislike of Attenborough since a "friend" of mine called me "Common" and "stupid" for having never watched one of his programmes. Which makes me want to take a stand and never watch them to retain my common and stupid stance. Also unpopular opinion: fish are creepy and weird and I don't need an extreme close up of them either. |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 11:21:12 GMT
liked Phoenix Nights, but nothing much after that Loved his first autobiography, but his stand-up just peters out after really strong ideas. The "Emergency Chairs" thing was the most brilliant idea, and he couldn't take it to the payoff it deserves. Rest of his work, just not funny to me either. Unpopular compared to the rest of the thread, I never cared for Kay's work at all. Except for 'Car Share' which I've found to be the most charming and genuinely funny British sitcom in years. (and ended perfectly last night IMO). Watched a few clip shows relating to him and found snippets of the standup funny- the old stuff again- but could not bear Phoenix Nights from what I've seen. |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 11:41:17 GMT
I have no feelings towards Peter Kay of my own, but Daniel Kitson seems to hate him, and as a Kitson fan, I have to assume he has at least a reasonably good reason for that.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 12:09:10 GMT
I have no feelings towards Peter Kay of my own, but Daniel Kitson seems to hate him, and as a Kitson fan, I have to assume he has at least a reasonably good reason for that. ooh piling on an unpopular opinion with an unpopular opinion: I hate Daniel Kitson! I ushered a show of his once, having zero knowledge of the man and came out with an utter loathing of him (and his audience) (sorry) |
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Post by kathryn on May 29, 2018 13:29:03 GMT
I have found the US to be way more difficult to deal with. It’s all touchy feely buzzwords with very little substance behind it. Go “reach out” to who you like Americans seem to love what I refer to as ritual non-communication: standard phrases and responses that convey nothing but are considered an essential part of polite communication. It causes a bit of a problem where I work because all dialogue between the customers and the US-owned company starts with identical template messages as part of the ritual, which to the US is the polite thing to do but to the UK creates a feeling of "You care so little about my problem that you can't even be bothered to write your own words". Oh yes, wanting to template things (and generally have everyone do everything the same way) is a very American thing. It causes problems here because it suggests to our staff that they're not capable of composing a simple message or work out the best way to do things themselves, and because inevitably we have exceptions. It *is* one of the things they have in common with our India offices, so it seems to be just us that are awkward! |
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Post by ellie1981 on May 29, 2018 14:47:00 GMT
Americans seem to love what I refer to as ritual non-communication: standard phrases and responses that convey nothing but are considered an essential part of polite communication. It causes a bit of a problem where I work because all dialogue between the customers and the US-owned company starts with identical template messages as part of the ritual, which to the US is the polite thing to do but to the UK creates a feeling of "You care so little about my problem that you can't even be bothered to write your own words". Oh yes, wanting to template things (and generally have everyone do everything the same way) is a very American thing. It causes problems here because it suggests to our staff that they're not capable of composing a simple message or work out the best way to do things themselves, and because inevitably we have exceptions. It *is* one of the things they have in common with our India offices, so it seems to be just us that are awkward! Unfortunately where I work that’s exactly why we’re required to have to deal with templates. Some of our staff really can’t be trusted to compose a sentence and accurately convey the message. |
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Post by musicallady on May 29, 2018 14:50:43 GMT
Love Island.
Another group of fame hungry nobodys.
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 14:59:00 GMT
I guess my unpopular opinion is that I'm very grateful for the bank of email templates we have at work. I'm perfectly capable of going off-book when it's an uncommon email that I need to send, but I have to send variations on the same basic email dozens of times a day, I'm SO much happier copying+pasting and making the few necessary alterations than typing up a new email every time.  |
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Post by bellboard27 on May 29, 2018 16:14:26 GMT
I guess my unpopular opinion is that I'm very grateful for the bank of email templates we have at work. I'm perfectly capable of going off-book when it's an uncommon email that I need to send, but I have to send variations on the same basic email dozens of times a day, I'm SO much happier copying+pasting and making the few necessary alterations than typing up a new email every time. On this Board I wonder if templates for reporting bad behaviour at a show would work? |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2018 17:36:53 GMT
Lucy Worsley. She’s just popped up on my telly again, ths time dressed as a suffragette. She’s going to be telling us all about it soon apparently. It seems only five minutes ago she was dressed as a Tudor lady-in-waiting to one of Henry’s wives. I can’t remember who she was before. She’s always dressing up as someone to get my interest. I’m a grown-up, Lucy... Leave your dressing up clothes in the box in the ‘interactive corner’ of some provincial museum.
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Post by crowblack on May 29, 2018 17:46:13 GMT
Oh, god - the BBC have this thing where they find someone and then stick them in everything, regardless. She's ok in small doses but the BBC are clearly infatuated - there was a sequence in the BBC4 murder series where, rather than showing us the rare marionette, the camera stayed on her face while they demonstrated it - we hardly saw the rare puppet at all. Get a room! And she uses 'pony club rosette' as a unit of measurement. |
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Post by lynette on May 29, 2018 19:22:18 GMT
Janina Ramirez looks like she will be similar, on every prog with even a remote connection to 'history' when she is a medievalist. I’ve attended a lecture from her at the V&A and she is good in real life and a nice person. I’m actually concerned she could overdo it! On the other hand what with the fickleness of the media she has to make hay while the sun shines. Then the caravan moves on.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 14:30:41 GMT
Ooh while we're on the 'popular academics' one...I really don't like Mary Beard (and she also has no business talking about theatre)
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Post by lynette on May 30, 2018 16:23:08 GMT
I know! I think we are victims or maybe she is a victim of the must have an older woman on the telly syndrome. She has a following and from her twitter messages does seem an open minded and pleasant woman but there must be a few ‘theatricals’ banging their heads onto brick walls. It is all about creating a brand. Once you start a presence, once it takes, you go for everything.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 16:27:32 GMT
I know! I think we are victims or maybe she is a victim of the must have an older woman on the telly syndrome. She has a following and from her twitter messages does seem an open minded and pleasant woman but there must be a few ‘theatricals’ banging their heads onto brick walls. It is all about creating a brand. Once you start a presence, once it takes, you go for everything. Oh yes- and don't get me wrong I don't mean 'Don't like the woman as a person' I just hate the 'Mary Beard (tm, everywhere on my TV, twitter, books etc) And indeed, there are many things Mary B is an expert in, but as someone who knows many theatre academics (many of them indeed older women, or minorities) I feel there were/are better placed people to have an opinion. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 19:46:47 GMT
For me it's Brian Cox. I was OK with him until he appeared on QI and managed to be so boring that I can't watch that episode ever again. (I have issues with the factual accuracy of QI and Stephen Fry's knowledge of scientific matters was woeful, but even when Fry was wrong he was never unwatchably dull.)
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2018 20:39:00 GMT
I don't mind Mary Beard as a historian, but she did go full "white woman's tears" recently, I lost a lot of respect for her there.
Stephen Fry may not be unwatchably dull, but he is unwatchably smug, and I for one was DELIGHTED when Sandi Toksvig finally took the QI reins.
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