Strictly Come Dancing

Hence my comment about the producers. I’m aware of how these things work, or rather are “worked”!

Ps liked new singer. Some of the singing has been off lately so they needed a boost.

It is always difficult to compare those with no experience like Jonny and Susan with those performers like Alexandra, Aston and Molly who have some dancing experience. You would never guess Jonny has any disability. He is amazing in that respect. I am warming to Susan too. Debbie seems to be being undermarked although who am I to say that as I do not have any dance experience.

Noted. There is always the ignore function I believe.

Lance often does concerts and the second girl can vary, Hayley and Tommy seem to be fairly constant though.

Those of us who have lost our mums (maybe fairly recently) will understand... we have recently redecorated our home, and I feel (almost) gulilty that my mum can’t see it, because I know she would have liked (loved?) it... so I understand how Alexandra feels.

Yes, I too found myself crying during Strictly this week. Unusually early in the season. Jonnie’s surgeon, Susan’s efforts reminding me of family Christmases past, and Debbie giving it all when Paul’s not here to be proud of her... (not that I ever really liked him, but she obviously did, very much...)

Wise of Brian to wear the Hallowe’en garb early. Charlotte had to go this week. 

Yes, the Stricter marking is good. Shirley, it’s never too early for us to like you...!

Ouch!

Not recognising the teenager in your latest avatar @caiaphas.

Oh he's in The Last Post! No, not seen Ferryman @caiaphas .

Well @caiaphas , what you do @caiaphas is this:

Hover your mouse over the person's name you want to tag (by their avatar.) This is to check that their username is the same as their avatar name as, for reasons I don't get, it isn't always. Their username spelling will come up in teeny letters. (Example of this is BurlyBeaR. You have to type @ followed by admin to tag him.) 

Then @caiaphas , what you do is simply type @ immediately followed by the name you want to tag and voila @caiaphas ! (In actual fact, when you hover over someone's blue username it actually shows exactly how you should type it, with the @ in front.)


Edit: *drums fingers* Oi @caiaphas ! I is waiting for a tag here........  @caiaphas !!

You're kidding, right @caiaphas ?

Type @ followed by tibidabo and that's me tagged. 

NB. It doesn't work if you're using an Imperial typewriter @caiaphas. 

Yes, that’s him! We’ll be seeing a lot of him now, I reckon, Tibidabo . 

The Ferryman is worth seeing. Keep meaning to write a review... Going for a second visit in a couple of weeks. (Most unlike me!)

(Bloody Hell! This tagging lark... By Jove, I think I’ve got it!  )

Look, miss, it took me long enough to learn tagging... Can't I just sit at the back for a bit and coast for the next couple of weeks?

This reminds me of when I was at school, must have been in the second or third year, and we used to have one lesson of French a week in the Language Lab. This involved taking it in turns with the girls to sit in booths at the back of the classroom, supposedly listening through headphones to real French people say things in proper accents and everything, and the idea was you had to repeat it back. All the time you were being taped so the teacher at the front could listen in at any moment and say "Tres bien" or "Merde" or whatever... I say 'supposedly listening to real French people' because of course it was really a chance to arse about, pressing all the buttons at once and seeing if you could talk to your mates three booths down. When the teacher (female) had really had enough, she would suddenly shout through all the headsets at once and say, "Will the boys at the back stop playing with their knobs!"

You wouldn't get away with that now, would you, miss?

Anyway, I'll get back to coasting, and we'll let the rest of the forum get back to Strictly.

Debbie seems to be undermarked a bit, I think.