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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 12, 2020 10:37:21 GMT
While ignoring all of mine...
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 12, 2020 1:09:59 GMT
I wonder what Henry Shields’ tattoo is. Not that I rewound and watched that scene four times or anything.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 12, 2020 0:49:40 GMT
The banana thing and Harry’s flying habits both made tv and radio news. Are you saying those stories didn’t merit the coverage? Harry’s mentioned climate change like twice and flew to France. Meghan I don’t recall ever talking about climate change. William and Kate have made climate change one of their pet causes and won awards for it, but they travel by private jet far more and to way more far flung locations, William even gave a lecture on the dangers of overpopulation while expecting his third child! The Queen gifted them their own helicopter, and they have a regular arrangement with the Duke of Westminster’s private jet. Not to mention having two empty planes flown across the country for a PR stunt. By any objective standards they are x10 times bigger hypocrites when it comes to climate change, yet the press don’t say a word about it. Ditto the huge fuss the press made about Frogmore (and the tabloids admitting to making up loads of lies about that) while William and Kate have spent insane amounts of money on things like moving their tennis court 36ft so it would have a nicer view, ripping out an unused kitchen, or redecorating her parents’ house using royal funds on the grounds William spent time there so it was a valid security issue, again not a word of criticism. Many of the minor royals live rent-free in royal residences (including Zara and even Sarah Ferguson!), no one says a word even though they are not working royals. Harry and Meghan do large numbers of engagements and charity work yet get slammed for not paying rent? The press made a big deal out of a handful of Sussex staffers quitting (even though one of them “quit” to take up a promotion as Meghan’s secretary, and one had simply delayed a retirement announced pre-Meghan to help her settle in) and used it to falsely claim there was a huge staff exodus and proof Meghan is a nightmare. But far more staff have left the Cambridge household over the past two years, including two who left under dodgy circumstances, almost no media coverage. Heck go back to the wedding, Meghan got trashed for burning scented candles because the church smelled musty, but Kate did literally exactly the same thing at her wedding. There’s a consistent history of Meghan being roundly attacked by a tabloid press desperate to spark outrage for things all the other royals do without anyone raising an eyebrow, often with almost no media coverage at all. The stuff the press aren’t printing about William makes Harry and Meghan’s drama look like toddlers fighting in a sandpit. They don’t get an easy ride because they’re boring and well-behaved, but because of other agendas.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 10, 2020 22:51:20 GMT
I laughed more last week but agree this week had stronger writing.
Apart from the Christmas episode I’m loving the series.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 10, 2020 0:55:02 GMT
The rest of the royal family did know it was going to happen at some point, they’d been in discussions about it for months and Charles had requested a full detailed breakdown which they provided but which wasn’t acted on. The senior royals were sent the actual statement shortly before it was made public. Harry and Meghan certainly jumped the gun (possibly due to the news leaking to the press a few days ago) but it’s not like the royals found out they were planning to step down from Twitter.
According to the Evening Standard Harry had been requesting a meeting with the Queen for weeks (the Queen certainly was fully informed that he wanted to leave and knew about all the discussions) but she refused to meet with him until he and Charles had worked out all the details and finalised all the negotiations. The ES also claim the courtiers had blocked Harry from being allowed access to the Queen.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 9, 2020 13:13:43 GMT
Members of a Neo Nazi group went to prison for making death threats against them and for inciting racial hatred. Meghan’s own half-sister has been put on Scotland Yard’s Fixated Persons list. Both the Daily Mail and the Sun have admitted to inventing stories about them. And that’s just what we’re aware of, it’s probably the tip of the iceberg.
Let’s not pretend this is just a few nasty comments online they can and should ignore. No one should have to ignore the obsessive hatred and abuse and outright racism Meghan has faced.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 9, 2020 11:39:59 GMT
And then there is MM herself. The bride with no one to walk her up the aisle, with no friends at her wedding save the cast from her most recent tv show. Several of her maternal relatives and her entire college “gang” (her sorority sisters) were at the wedding, as were tons of friends she’d known since she first started out as a struggling actress. One of her fanblogs has a list with photos of them there. One of her oldest friends from childhood sat next to her mum, and her daughters who are Meghan’s goddaughters were bridesmaids. Her makeup for the wedding was done by one of her oldest friends. It’s honestly disturbing how people spread such blatant lies about her. She spent Christmas in Canada because that was her home for many years and presumably where many of her friends are. Her mum was with them so not sure what your point is?
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 9, 2020 11:15:48 GMT
Any opinion held by Piers Morgan I feel duty bound to think the complete opposite. What he has described there is... the act of getting married. She hasn't abandoned anybody, it's called growing up, something he could do with doing at some point in his very sad little life. It's widely known she had cut all ties with her family and is only in contact with her mother though. Harry doesn't own her, Meghan isn't a possession that was passed from her father to her husband. She can have a relationship with her family if she choses to do so. Ghosting them isn't the act of getting married at all and frankly isn't what I'd call growing up. Lets not forget that there's now a baby involved in all this that has yet to meet his own grandfather. No, that’s a lie invented by those deranged “Megziteer” blogs and by the tabloid press. She’s close to her maternal family (several of her maternal relatives were at the wedding) and to a couple of her paternal nieces. The letter her dad sold to the press as well as some of his own interviews confirm that he was the one who ghosted her when she stopped giving him money, and that she spent weeks or months repeatedly phoning him and leaving voicemails begging him to talk to her, and that she arranged plane tickets which he refused to use. He only stopped ghosting her when she stopped trying. He’s clearly an abuser and a deeply toxic individual. How many decades should a woman keep trying to manage an abusive family member? Don’t forget Meghan’s dad was/is estranged from all his children from both his families and has never met any of his grandchildren including his adult grandchildren. Clearly Meghan is not the problem here.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 9, 2020 10:37:55 GMT
Dropping friends and family as you work your way up, now Harry is being cut off from his family . That was actually proven not to be true. She’s still by all accounts really close to all her maternal family and her old school/college friends (they all attended the wedding and baby shower). The only people she’s become estranged from are her insane father (who she’s been estranged from off and on since she was a teenager) and one woman she briefly worked with who’s been selling her out to the press since she first met Harry.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Jan 7, 2020 11:32:08 GMT
Well I thought the Christmas episode was dire honestly (only funny bits were Henry Lewis’ grumpy failed actor, and the stickup a chimney bit) even though I loved their past Christmas TV specials. But the “pilot” (not pilot) episode was great. There were parts that could perhaps have been developed more but a strong story and consistent gags. Hugely enjoyed it.
On a personal note if they want to actually handcuff Henry Shields and not just promise to do so that would be OK with me.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 23, 2019 0:21:47 GMT
I’ve been going to the National for donkey’s years and only recently discovered the ‘secret’ exit at the back of the Lyttleton Circle that leads outside onto the roof near the staircase that goes directly down to the side passageway across from the BFI.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 16, 2019 16:05:06 GMT
I saw someone on Insta bragging that they’d purchased Artistic Director membership (which costs £12k a year) just to be assured press night tix to send End Game. 😮
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 16, 2019 16:02:44 GMT
Gangster, but it’s just slang for original, the real McCoy, that kind of thing.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 16, 2019 2:14:25 GMT
Enormously fun and stylish and it reminded me of Get Out in how it used a traditional genre to explore the politics of racism. But I found most of the twists obvious from early on. And there was one plot hole that bugged me. I did generally love it. It was incredibly obvious during the flashback to the scene that resulted in the old man’s death that he had not been accidentally given an overdose. He was completely compos mentis and showed no physical signs even several minutes after a dose that should have been almost immediately fatal.
I guessed straight away that it would turn out she had given him the correct doses after all. But the bottles obviously had been changed, so it was obvious a third party had tried to kill him by switching the bottles but Marta had mixed them up. CE’s character was dodgy all along which could have been a red herring, but the exchange in the car over the email made it clear he was the one blackmailing her, to the point it made Marta look a bit dim.
I actually thought there was going to be another twist, either that she had murdered him via manipulating him into thinking he’d been fatally poisoned, or that he’d planned his death and arranged to hire the investigator himself for some dark agenda. But no. The whole film revolves around a highly intelligent man believing that a massive morphine overdose makes you feel completely fine and unaffected for exactly 9 minutes 59 seconds whereupon you instantly keel over. That was a plot hole for me.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 16, 2019 1:52:02 GMT
Pub theatres where the theatre is generally a completely separate space (often a room in an attic or basement rented out to the theatre company by the company who own the building) is a totally different kettle of fish than a major theatre (especially one owned by a huge conglomerate) where they own the building and everything inside it and employ all the staff.
Many pub theatres just rent one or two rooms and have nothing to do with the pub itself.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 9, 2019 13:59:07 GMT
Loads!
Chastain’s A Doll’s House. Magic Goes Wrong (opens this month but won’t be seeing it till Jan) The James Graham/Elton John musical at the Almeida. Far Away at the Donmar. A Number at the Bridge. The Pullman adaptation at the Bridge. That seven hour Seven Streams play at the NT. Jack Absolute sounds fun at least.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Dec 4, 2019 20:50:06 GMT
Best: Downstate Death of a Salesman Noises Off Present Laughter Faith Hope and Charity
Worst: Bitter Wheat Rutherford and Son Total Immediate Collective whatever Amsterdam Richard II (Almeida)
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 21, 2019 13:52:18 GMT
I’m at the Kitchen/Burgerworks right now having lunch. A very nice vegan tofu salad, in a proper china bowl, with knife and fork from the same cutlery stand that’s always been there.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 20, 2019 20:51:23 GMT
The new Burgerworks still does many of the same dishes they did before, just with a wider range of burgers, and they still have plates and real cutlery! I had their mushroom avocado toast only yesterday, and that’s been on the Kitchen’s menu for donkeys years.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 16, 2019 18:30:44 GMT
To be fair, the majority of wheelchair users are not paralysed/amputees. Many people who legitimately need and use a wheelchair are capable of standing at least briefly or taking a few steps, and there’s a lot of body policing over it. There was a thread earlier this year where posters assumed an actor was able-bodied just because he stood for the curtain call but the actor actually had cerebral palsy.
But you do make a fair point, if an actor stands from a wheelchair it’s more likely it is an able-bodied actor using a prop, and my heart sinks at that too.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 15, 2019 13:01:29 GMT
ARGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. NOT ANOTHETR BLOOMING ROMEO AND JULIET!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Two versions!! The Jack Absolute sounds fun too.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 15, 2019 10:52:08 GMT
Manor sounds fun but nothing else is really jumping out at me.
Wonder how Simon will make R&J four hours long.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 15, 2019 10:41:03 GMT
I’m blind.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Nov 4, 2019 14:34:17 GMT
This is going to be touring next autumn, fyi.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on Oct 28, 2019 10:30:54 GMT
Why assume they were offered it?
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