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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 8:51:38 GMT
I've treated myself to a pack of Haribo Jelly Bunnies. It's a 160g pack, and the nutritional information has values per 100g and per 25g portion. 25g portion? That means there are six 25g portions and one 10g portion in a pack. "Sorry, child number seven. You're just not as loved as the others. And number eight, you can #%@& right off." Notes: 1) "Nutritional" is used quite inaccurately here. 2) The empty bag in front of me says that it actually contained one 160g portion.Yeah but everyone knows child number 7 is a little bastard and doesn't deserve sweets.
Reminds me of our IT department yesterday who sent an email saying "Livelink doesn't want to work. It's like a naughty teenager that won't do as it's told so we're going to send it to bed without tea. Or maybe reboot the server"
IT have to do something to amuse themselves...
Today I have a family funeral....always a delight having to interact with extended family right? will it be like the time my Mother lost the funeral on the way to the cemetery? or the time someone's wife started banging on the coffin? who needs Eastenders right?
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 10, 2017 8:55:26 GMT
I've treated myself to a pack of Haribo Jelly Bunnies. It's a 160g pack, and the nutritional information has values per 100g and per 25g portion. 25g portion? That means there are six 25g portions and one 10g portion in a pack. "Sorry, child number seven. You're just not as loved as the others. And number eight, you can #%@& right off." Notes: 1) "Nutritional" is used quite inaccurately here. 2) The empty bag in front of me says that it actually contained one 160g portion.Yeah but everyone knows child number 7 is a little bastard and doesn't deserve sweets.
Reminds me of our IT department yesterday who sent an email saying "Livelink doesn't want to work. It's like a naughty teenager that won't do as it's told so we're going to send it to bed without tea. Or maybe reboot the server"
IT have to do something to amuse themselves...
Today I have a family funeral....always a delight having to interact with extended family right? will it be like the time my Mother lost the funeral on the way to the cemetery? or the time someone's wife started banging on the coffin? who needs Eastenders right?
Were they on the inside or the outside?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 9:02:53 GMT
Yeah but everyone knows child number 7 is a little bastard and doesn't deserve sweets.
Reminds me of our IT department yesterday who sent an email saying "Livelink doesn't want to work. It's like a naughty teenager that won't do as it's told so we're going to send it to bed without tea. Or maybe reboot the server"
IT have to do something to amuse themselves...
Today I have a family funeral....always a delight having to interact with extended family right? will it be like the time my Mother lost the funeral on the way to the cemetery? or the time someone's wife started banging on the coffin? who needs Eastenders right?
Were they on the inside or the outside? I really should have qualified that....on the outside, presumably hoping the one inside would answer?!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 17:49:08 GMT
Update: nobody got lost, nobody tried to throw themselves in or out of the coffin. My Uncle did declare that he 'Wants to do it like Bowie' ...we eventually established he meant his funeral (or lack of)rather than a radical lifestyle change/dress sense.
All kidding aside it was the first properly 'Secular' or 'hummanist' or whatever the right term is funeral I've been to, and it was really lovely- especially as none of us heathans had to suddenly pretend to have found God.
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Post by infofreako on Feb 10, 2017 17:55:04 GMT
Off to be bored for 4 hours at an AGM and put myself forward for another year of committee meetings
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 10, 2017 18:54:08 GMT
Off to be bored for 4 hours at an AGM and put myself forward for another year of committee meetings AGM for what?
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Post by infofreako on Feb 10, 2017 19:40:37 GMT
Off to be bored for 4 hours at an AGM and put myself forward for another year of committee meetings AGM for what? Bonfire society
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Post by londonmzfitz on Feb 10, 2017 20:19:42 GMT
Er, not Seaford, by any chance ..
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Post by infofreako on Feb 10, 2017 21:02:14 GMT
Er, not Seaford, by any chance .. Lewes Borough
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Post by CG on the loose on Feb 10, 2017 23:07:30 GMT
Trip into Brum tonight... the play (What's In A Name) was properly funny, the moon was beautiful and tiny flakes of snow fell fruitlessly to earth all the way there and back.
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Post by boybooshka on Feb 11, 2017 0:38:05 GMT
Oh I love this thread, probably on account of being a nosy bugger . Just on the way home from work (house managing at a music venue) after a long but pleasant evening thanks to a nice show, audience, performers and crew. Now for tea, toast and booking train for trip to London to watch Honeymoon in Vegas concert
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Post by hulmeman on Feb 11, 2017 16:22:13 GMT
Boybooshka, you are not alone, I too am a nosey bugger!!! After a delightful night at a neighbours house last night, during which quite a lot of Australian Chardonnay was consumed, this evening, I'm going all butch to watch the rugby. Cymru am byth!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 16:37:44 GMT
Currently holed up in my house avoiding being anywhere near town due to Wales V England. Some call it 'atmosphere' I call it a lot of drunk folks in a fairly small area.
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Post by d'James on Feb 11, 2017 16:50:14 GMT
Some call it 'atmosphere' I call it a lot of drunk folks in a fairly small area. Sounds like a Theatre Board meet up!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2017 17:05:37 GMT
Some call it 'atmosphere' I call it a lot of drunk folks in a fairly small area. Sounds like a Theatre Board meet up!! hahaha good point! I'll take showtunes over rugby chants though!
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 11, 2017 18:01:37 GMT
Sympathies @emicardiff . Reminds me of being on a tube train, hurtling towards Wembley park, full of blokes in stripy coloured nylon, breathing out beery fumes whilst chanting and JUMPING UP AND DOWN, making an imminent derailment likely. (In such instances Mr Tibidabo is forbidden from speaking, lest any of them catch his north-eastern twang and decide to do that thing in his pocket they all (so I'm reliably informed) do up there at football matches ) ETA:- That's the blokes jumping up and down, not me. I don't do jumping. ETA(2) Please don't ban me for being northernist. I am not. I am footballist.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 11, 2017 18:50:30 GMT
I'm on train 2 of 3 back from Colchester to Cambridge. The vagaries of the East Anglian rail system meaning it takes 3 trains & 2 hours each way to get to a town in the next county. The things I do for theatregoing!
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Post by d'James on Feb 11, 2017 18:55:54 GMT
Sounds like you were on the same train as my Mum, Tibidabo (although, maybe, just maybe it happened on more than one occasion!). Do I dare ask about this pocket tradition?
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Post by viserys on Feb 11, 2017 19:06:28 GMT
I've spent the best part of the day binge-watching the last episodes of The Night Of. Cracking good stuff.
Presently I'm dealing with an upset Welshman for reasons @emicardiff can probably guess...
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 11, 2017 19:41:07 GMT
Sounds like you were on the same train as my Mum, Tibidabo (although, maybe, just maybe it happened on more than one occasion!). Do I dare ask about this pocket tradition?Um.....let's just say that they don't need to bother queuing like us girls do at the interval in the theatre..... and leave it there shall we?
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Post by d'James on Feb 11, 2017 19:47:46 GMT
So glad I don't like football.
Someone should do a sketch about of theatre audiences acting like football crowds.
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 11, 2017 20:02:56 GMT
Good idea :-
I MELLL DAA-a! I MELLL DAA-a!
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Post by kathryn on Feb 11, 2017 20:58:48 GMT
Braved the snow and the train engineering work for a cinema trip to London, since my local Odeon has been taken over by showing of 50 Shades II.
Saw Moonlight last night - which actually does live up to its hype. Today was Loving and Denial - a historic court-battle themed day. Very different approaches though, with Loving being very much about the human story, the couple who just want to live their life together, whereas Denial is about the court battle. Excellent performances all around.
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Post by showgirl on Feb 11, 2017 22:29:27 GMT
Oh great, if we're going to talk about films here, I can be brief about those I've seen, as with the mini-reviews I'm encouraging others to post on plays.
So, last Saturday I did a triple-bill of films: Toni Erdmann (genuinely not a comedy, excruciating to watch at times and FAR too long but interesting to see what all the fuss was about); Loving (actually quite boring though that seems unfeeling given that it's a true story and well-acted) and Denial.
Strangely enough, I was really keen to see the first two and only tacked on Denial at the last minute as an alternative to theatre, yet the performance I attended was packed out and of all 3 films, this was the one I most "enjoyed" - if you can say that of a film about Holocaust denial. I think part of the attraction was that it was full of really strong personalities, portrayed by such a variety of good actors
Today I saw Fences (too long, full of histrionics and worthy) and Moonlight (probably the most over-rated and baffingly disappointing film I've seen in months) with a matinee in between (thank goodness for something both live and lively!)
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Post by theatre-turtle on Feb 11, 2017 22:39:10 GMT
I think Fences is too theatre-ish. The most successful adaptations make use of the movie format, but here it's just a filmed version of the play with almost no modifications.
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Post by Marwood on Feb 12, 2017 1:36:02 GMT
Why go and so those films when you could have gone and seen The Lego Batman Movie? I haven't seen The Lego Movie, but honestly, this is/was one of the best films I've seen in recent months.
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Post by showgirl on Feb 12, 2017 6:32:43 GMT
Well, Marwood, I do always go to films in the hope and expectation of enjoying them; it's just that in some recent cases, I thought both that the films themselves were hugely over-rated and that perhaps they just weren't for me. In the case of Moonlight in particular, I hadn't fancied it at all but changed my mind after reading several articles which made it sound far more compelling than it actually was. However, swings and roundabouts: as above, Denial was lower down my list but proved to be just the engaging experience I hoped - and it's still resonating with me.
As for cartoons, films with CGI, etc, you may be joking, but I am tempted to echo BurlyBear there and say "over my dead body" - not that anyone would, but I literally (correct use of word for once!) wouldn't see those if you paid me. However, as with theatre, each to her/his own, eh?
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Post by viserys on Feb 12, 2017 8:04:22 GMT
So, last Saturday I did a triple-bill of films: Toni Erdmann (genuinely not a comedy, excruciating to watch at times and FAR too long but interesting to see what all the fuss was about) Word to the wise: The words "German" and "Comedy" do not belong in one sentence. Ever. I hope it will shown on my long distance flights soon so I can watch it when I have absolutely nothing better to do as I am a bit curious but generally German films and TV are godawful and nothing I've heard of/seen from Toni Erdmann has so far convinced me that it may be otherwise here.
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Post by showgirl on Feb 12, 2017 8:10:23 GMT
Viserys, apologies if my original post was unclear: I am absolutely not saying Toni Erdmann was a bad film and I had been looking forward to it for months. However - and some UK critics have noted this - it seems to have been marketed here as a comedy, which despite comic episodes it is not. Indeed, I believe the director herself has said as much. The passages I found painful to watch - and again, some critics have commented on this, too - were so because I could really feel how uncomfortable they were for the characters themselves. So the film certainly succeeds there. But some ruthless editing would have improved the film for me!
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Post by kathryn on Feb 12, 2017 8:39:45 GMT
Why go and so those films when you could have gone and seen The Lego Batman Movie? I haven't seen The Lego Movie, but honestly, this is/was one of the best films I've seen in recent months. Saw that last weekend!
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