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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2018 10:54:50 GMT
Philistine. Who *are* you?
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Post by fansylvanians on Dec 1, 2018 12:35:16 GMT
After being seduced by the need to buy over priced, stupidly named coffee why is it when I really fancy a coffee which is usually on my way to the Tube after a trip to the Theatre they are all closed. With allegedly less young people drinking alcohol am surprised that more don’t match pub hours, could quite easily be tempted to frequent a quiet cafe than a noisy pub when out of an evening. This is why I make my own coffee before I set out in a morning, and take two large thermal cups of it so I know it's just how I like it - and it works out so much cheaper too.
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Post by lynette on Dec 1, 2018 14:56:30 GMT
Isn’t this the case with all such cuppa places? They pack up before the end of a show so on the way home you can’t get a cuppa to help you on your way. I’ve long wondered why the NT doesn’t keep a cafe open for after the show. Would be great to have a cuppa with friends before separating to go home.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2018 16:46:46 GMT
I agree with that. I like white wine, but red wine is like vinegar (and no, not just the cheap stuff) and leaves me feeling like someone's dropped a sack of hammers on my head.
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Post by jojo on Dec 1, 2018 17:56:31 GMT
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was actually a good film. Not only is it actually a good film, but the extreme condemnation and rejection of it by some online (‘written and directed by 2 people who have never even seen a film before’ is one example from Twitter) is probably because it’s doing it’s job well! It’s clearly intending to muddy up the water about some beloved moral absolutes, and make its audience uncomfortable. People are reacting to that discomfort by rejecting it. I completely agree. I understand some people like their sequels to be a repeat of the previous film, but in a different location, but I love that this is unashamedly a series and one great big story told over a number of parts. I mean, that was one criticism that I thought was honest, but so many didn't make sense, even accounting for differences in personal taste. I've seen people complain about the ending, but IMO, they've completely missed the point of that ending. I've noticed this a lot lately, people like to point out what they consider to be plot holes, or errors that can easily be explained by those who don't need to have every plot point spoon fed to them. And sometimes something turns out to be irrelevant. That is known as a red herring, not a writer getting bored with a story line. Sometimes things aren't revealed until later, that's because some writers trust their fans to appreciate a reveal and delayed gratification. It's not always down to a writer retconning their work.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 1, 2018 20:17:36 GMT
. That is known as a red herring, not a writer getting bored with a story line. Sometimes things aren't revealed until later, that's because some writers trust their fans to appreciate a reveal and delayed gratification. It's not always down to a writer retconning their work. It’s worth remembering that JK Rowlings other series is detective fiction! Not that the original Harry Potter books weren’t basically a series of detective stories set in a magical boarding school...
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Post by lynette on Dec 1, 2018 23:16:27 GMT
Takes deep breath: I think 'Company' is dated, repetitive and dull. ( Just seen it tonight)
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Post by Jon on Dec 2, 2018 1:05:27 GMT
While I liked Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindlewald, I do think JK Rowling needs a co-writer to help her out for the next film, she's a great storyteller but she's not a screenwriter.
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Post by basi1faw1ty on Dec 2, 2018 19:30:39 GMT
Doctor Who series 11 has not been very enjoyable.
Nothing to do with the acting (except Yaz's actress isn't great), and nothing to do with the fact the doctor is now a woman (I like Jodie!), but it's just... meh. I feel the stories have been bland, uninspired, and Chris Chibnall needs to be sacked as head writer. I reach around 10 minutes before switching off some of the episodes cos it's just blah blah blah too much chatter, not enough action, and this seems to be a common theme throughout the series, to me anyway. Also not enough aliens.
Out of the eps I've seen, only 2 I've found watchable so far (The Woman Who Flew To Earth and Kerblam!)
I feel a bit safer admitting this on here rather than the cesspool that is Twitter, because dare say you don't like DW because of this and that and you'll be ripped to pieces.
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Post by kathryn on Dec 3, 2018 14:09:20 GMT
While I liked Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindlewald, I do think JK Rowling needs a co-writer to help her out for the next film, she's a great storyteller but she's not a screenwriter. Yeah, that's a fair enough comment. They're too novelistic.
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Post by anita on Dec 3, 2018 14:17:42 GMT
Why on earth do people have to walk around & get on public transport clutching coffee cups. If I want a drink I'll wait till I get home or sit down in a cafe. The other day the bus was swimming with coffee that someone had spilled. Someone is very likely to get burnt by hot coffee getting spilled on them.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2018 14:43:28 GMT
Why on earth do people have to walk around & get on public transport clutching coffee cups. If I want a drink I'll wait till I get home or sit down in a cafe. The other day the bus was swimming with coffee that someone had spilled. Someone is very likely to get burnt by hot coffee getting spilled on them. Because they want a cup of coffee and need to get somewhere at the same time? Seriously though, it's no different to anyone carrying any kind of drink around is it? The likelihood of it spilling is fairly high but the likelihood of someone getting burned by hot coffee is probably quite low really. That could just as easily happen at home or in a cafe.
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Post by Jon on Dec 3, 2018 14:46:02 GMT
I often bring a cup of tea with me when I go to work, I have a reusable cup so actually by the time you go on the bus or the train, it's cooled down enough to drink it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2018 15:25:58 GMT
Yes - a need to get somewhere (to work, between work and evening events) not having time to sit down for a cup of coffee...so take it with you. I've never spilled a coffee 'on the go' I have spilled many from a cup in my house...
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Post by mistressjojo on Dec 4, 2018 2:07:35 GMT
Why on earth do people have to walk around & get on public transport clutching coffee cups. If I want a drink I'll wait till I get home or sit down in a cafe. The other day the bus was swimming with coffee that someone had spilled. Someone is very likely to get burnt by hot coffee getting spilled on them. We have a no food or drink ruling on Sydney buses & ferries ( trains are a little harder to control I guess). Bottled water is allowed. Quite a lot of the time the drivers turn a blind eye - I think they can't be bothered arguing - but I have seen people refused boarding for having open food or takeaway coffee.
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Post by Backdrifter on Dec 4, 2018 10:10:13 GMT
Why on earth do people have to walk around & get on public transport clutching coffee cups. If I want a drink I'll wait till I get home or sit down in a cafe. The other day the bus was swimming with coffee that someone had spilled. Someone is very likely to get burnt by hot coffee getting spilled on them. We have a no food or drink ruling on Sydney buses & ferries ( trains are a little harder to control I guess). Bottled water is allowed. Quite a lot of the time the drivers turn a blind eye - I think they can't be bothered arguing - but I have seen people refused boarding for having open food or takeaway coffee. Good for Sydney. Ban all food and drink everywhere that isn't a restaurant or cafe! The stench of other people's coffee.... yeccchhh. And I like coffee. The drinking of takeaway coffee seems designed to ensure all possible enjoyment is leached from the experience. The cups are generally terrible and you have to sip through that nanometer-wide aperture in the plastic lid... and how can anyone enjoy anything while walking around or sitting on a bus or train? (But then, see my previous bellyaching about eating and drinking on trains etc). Which leads me to...
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Post by Backdrifter on Dec 4, 2018 11:09:24 GMT
....picnics and eating outside. Picnics are one of the worst food consumption ideas ever. As soon as a single photon of sunlight fights its way through the clouds, there's always someone who shrieks "I know, let's have a picnic!" Equally rubbish, a patch of blue sky the size of a 10p piece making it compulsory that at restaurants you have to eat at an outside table.
Picnics involve finding a patch of grass not near some excrement (which isn't as easy as it sounds), perching on the bit of ground which can be very uncomfortable for some of us, and then setting out to grimly enjoy warm damp or dry wrinkled food and unrefreshing tepid drinks.
Eating at an outside table is best summed up by a couple I saw doing this at a riverside restaurant. We were just inside in the shade, their table was in the outside area bordering the river path. They were profusely sweating in glaring direct sunlight, had cold drinks in which the ice vanished in a minute and turned warm, kept batting insects away from their faces and had a constant stream of people walking on the towpath a few inches away. But they were outside so they must have been enjoying it!
If you can eat outside in some shade, it's slightly better but still quite crap.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2018 11:23:39 GMT
Ah, picnics! Wasps. Hot food that has become unpleasantly cold. Wasps. Cold food that has become disturbingly warm. Bird crap in anything that's left open. Wasps. Stains and moist patches from sitting on grass. Squinting into the sunlight. Wasps. Sunburn. Eating ants. Wasps. Also wasps.
Picnics are one of those things that sound like a good idea until you actually experience them, like karaoke, DIY, or Boris Johnson.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2018 11:55:01 GMT
Unpopular opinion: I don't mind wasps. Yeah, they can be annoying when they want nothing more than to fly no more than six inches away from your face when you're trying to enjoy a cold drink, but they really aren't as stingy as their reputation would suggest.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Dec 4, 2018 12:21:34 GMT
Not only picnics, never been a fan of barbecues, even more preposterous now that modern barbecues cost more than the one in the kitchen only with poorer results, compounded by being cooked by someone who would never dream of usually cooking at any other time.
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Post by Backdrifter on Dec 4, 2018 12:56:56 GMT
Picnics are one of those things that sound like a good idea until you actually experience them I'll add being mugged at beak-point on a Russell Square bench by a pigeon, and relieved of my sandwich. The entire sandwich. Those beaks are larger and stronger than they look. A couple of years ago in Truro, I stood transfixed by a seagull that had somehow acquired a still-wrapped shop sandwich, in the usual triangular plastic box (where would it keep its change or bank card?) but clearly hadn't thought beyond that as it was holding it in its beak and thwacking it repeatedly against the ground to get at the contents. Presumably it had beaked it from either a cold cabinet only just inside a shop entrance, or the hands of an unsuspecting person about to open the packaging.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2018 13:33:11 GMT
I love seagulls. I once saw a large crowd of people outside St Paul's taking photos of a seagull that was trying (not very successfully but still) to eat a dead pigeon. Oh, London.....
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Post by emsworthian on Dec 4, 2018 15:53:34 GMT
My desire to see a one man Ian McKellen show is ZERO. In fact, it's ZERO MINUS ONE MILLION.
I was interested to see the show in Chichester until they announced a ballot for the £80 tickets. I thought he was all for making theatre more accessible.
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Post by showgirl on Dec 4, 2018 16:54:38 GMT
There were complaints in the press about this as some venues were charging half that or less. Response was that it's to raise funds for charity, which is fair enough if people have a choice of performances (eg a gala fundraising night vs a normal performance), but tough when there's just the one & you can't afford it.
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Post by 49thand8th on Dec 4, 2018 17:00:24 GMT
Unpopular opinion: I don't mind wasps. Yeah, they can be annoying when they want nothing more than to fly no more than six inches away from your face when you're trying to enjoy a cold drink, but they really aren't as stingy as their reputation would suggest. Wasps are the only insect I'm remotely afraid of (one flew up my shorts when I was on vacation once, and some of its friends bit my head), and there's a whole nest inside an outside column in front of my house, so that's fun. My solace is that they're going to hibernate soon. But yeah, you're probably right. I've never been stung — just bitten!
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