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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 23, 2020 21:18:31 GMT
We must stop this now, it has gone beyond a joke and has lost its humour, or we be telling them until the cows come home.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 23, 2020 19:01:08 GMT
Is it possible for cows to catch Covid? Or do they have a natural in-built herd immunity Never change please Thank you for the compliment. I made that joke up, off the hoof.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 23, 2020 17:50:27 GMT
Is it possible for cows to catch Covid?
Or do they have a natural in-built herd immunity
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 23, 2020 15:40:16 GMT
Getting loads of messages trade deal is done. Nothing in the news.... yet. Anyone else? If recent history teaches as anything it is bound to end in tiers.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 21, 2020 16:38:55 GMT
On literal the brighter side of life. The sunset in London today at 15:53, compared to yesterday when it set at 15:52. Those one minutes do add up eventually. I think we get lighter from today! The days got lighter in London yesterday, might not be true for the whole country though. As the link below states where I got the info from 😇. However it doesn’t matter, who is right, the days are now officially getting longer 👍👍👍, yippee I hate the dark damp evening, it is miserable. Bring on the light evenings and the vaccine. www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/london
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 20, 2020 19:52:05 GMT
Voted before I read what others posted.
I went with ‘Bring Him Home’ Les Miserable and was surprised other posters have too.
I know many songs have been left off, but the list has to stop somewhere, however I am proper angry their is nothing from Stephen Ward.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 20, 2020 19:39:23 GMT
On literal the brighter side of life. The sunset in London today at 15:53, compared to yesterday when it set at 15:52. Those one minutes do add up eventually.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 20, 2020 2:40:34 GMT
So for the next few days, presumably the supermarkets are going to be swarming with hordes of people who thought they were going away for Christmas, now desperate to buy food they didn't think they were going to need. Every new thing the government does recently seems to lead to large crowds of non-socially-distanced people as an unintended consequence. Never mind tinsel, get your toilet paper immediately.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 20, 2020 0:11:46 GMT
It's all an appalling sh1tshow and, from a theatrical pov, it creates a terrible possibility. Usually with this virus we don't know who brought it to the home, and by extension to the dying - perhaps a stranger on a train or someone in the shop. But if the advice is ignored and if the very worst does happen, it will become a family whodunnit - an Agatha Christie: a gathering next Christmas with an empty seat, the family wondering who among us brought the virus to our family last Christmas ... Surely that is too awful to contemplate as even a remote possibility Great point and one I haven’t thought of.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 19, 2020 16:52:26 GMT
Not much difference between tier 3 & 4. Except who people can visit. Hairdressers, nail bars and gyms cannot open, which makes total sense.
Do not understand why places of worship are allowed to continue, this certainly seem to be a super spreader events, especially the evangelical happy clappy churches.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 18, 2020 21:37:16 GMT
Yes I think the Branagh Hamlet is great too. Also his Henry V. The Olivier Henry V is interesting for many reasons and stands up quite well. Good ones also not mentioned above: Ralph Fiennes "Coriolanus" Orson Welles "Chimes at Midnight" (version of Henry IV) Derek Jarman "The Tempest" (not for everyone, this one) Julie Taymor "Titus Andronicus" (first 5 minutes only) I think there was a DVD of Trevor Nunn's "Merchant of Venice" which was a sensational stage production. There are lots more of less than top quality. Going off-piste I will once again recommend "Vanya on 42nd Street" which is better than most stage productions of "Uncle Vanya" you'll see. That Henry V is in London Live, Christmas Eve 6:30.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 18, 2020 18:33:35 GMT
I had a quick look at what board members’ chose last year. I spat my cup of tea out, when posters said it wasn’t a good year! Be careful what you wish for.
All the show I saw seem yonks ago.
Betrayal (Theatre Royal, Bath) A Taste of Honey (Trafalgar Sudio) Leopoldstadt (Wyndham) Death of England (National) Kunene and the King (Ambassadors) Macbeth (Greenwich) Fairview (Young Vic) Girl From the North Country (Gielgud) The Prince of Egypt (Dominion) Back to the Future (Manchester Opera House)
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 18, 2020 16:03:59 GMT
That is one of the funniest things, I have seen all year!!! That is one good thing about being British. We do have the ability to take the Mickey on ourselves and a bit of humour goes a long way at the moment! Oddly enough it also got me to go on YouTube and look at the original ‘Do They Know It Is Christmas’ one of the greatest acts of altruism at the time and also a brilliant song. One of my favourite Christmas songs. It also got me thinking about George Michael a brilliant selfless man, who gave his millions away to charity, especially to Childline. I always remember a phone call to LBC when George sadly died, from a man who run a homeless hostel upset, because George would come along to the hostel and help out anonymously, stand there for 3 hours peeling potatoes, however George wanted absolutely no publicity over it. Hence why it never came out until he sadly died. But back to the song and it is absolutely hilarious.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 18, 2020 13:09:29 GMT
That is one of the funniest things, I have seen all year!!!
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 17, 2020 13:50:31 GMT
I am sure you can dodge the transaction fee or you definitely used to. ATG don’t make it obvious how to swerve this fee. Pretty dire to treat card holders this way, especially as we have stuck with them through the pandemic.Try doing another purchase, but don’t go and do the final part and see if you can dodge the tf. Wow. Sense of entitlement in this thread. Pretty dire to quibble over £3.65 with a Ccmpany, who have extended the TheatreCard free of charge, whilst absolutely decimated by the ongoing pandemic. No sense of entitlement here, members are entitled to get what is promised in their membership package. But then again if ATG wasn’t owner by a US hedge fund, then their would be no suggestion they aren’t be guided by profit and acting in a underhanded manner. Personally I would like to see ATG go to the wall.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 17, 2020 13:44:49 GMT
Okay I am well aware of the ATG membership package entails, I am a member. And again you needed to be logged in. When you have selected your day/date. Underneath choose seat it says ‘Theatre Card and Access Member Log in.’, which you needed to select and log in. This is what you didn’t do and why you have been charged a transaction fee. PoL without wishing to argue the toss with you, I am well aware of how to log into my ATG account. I’ve tried this several times now. After choosing the date and clicking the Theatrecard log in you go to the seat selection. Choose a seat and it brings up the pricing options which says “£xx no per ticket fee”, add it to the basket, then when you go to the summary page there’s a £3.65 transaction fee. If you choose more than one ticket on different dates there’s just one fee so I suppose it could be argued that there’s no per ticket fee but they are definitely adding a charge. Firstly not arguing the toss with you, but when you paste membership benefits, it does suggest like you don’t understand what you are doing. But then again I wouldn’t of bothered to book a ticket, I would have just got a ATG cardholder day ticket on the day for about 25% of the cost. As I said ATG deliberately make it hard to navigate their website, we have had posts on this before and if I recall a former poster brought this very issue up. How many people . As you say your email wasn’t linked to your account, exactly the same happened to me and I was being hit by the same transaction charge, several phone calls it took me to sort this out, including one that was very rude. So how interesting and shows how underhanded ATG are.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 17, 2020 0:47:03 GMT
Hi people. Just want to say that if anyone is feeling really sh*tty over Xmas, on their own or cheesed off whatever, then DM me. I’m happy to chat and I will be around, not entertaining or cavorting or anything. I won’t be on my own myself ( he is contractually obliged to stay with me 😂 ) but would be happy to listen, chat or email or FaceTime even! Don’t suffer in silence. I’m not on my own, I have my mum and her dog. Then back home got my 2 cats. But really to say how sweet is that, a lovely selfless altruistic act. Nicest post all year.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 17, 2020 0:05:26 GMT
Item on BBC news this morning saying that ethnic minorities are less inclined to have the vaccine than white people in England. They then asked people in the street whether they would have one or not and one man said that he had heard on WhatsApp that the vaccine contained a chip that was being injected into you so he didn't want one. Now I know chips are pretty small these days but it would have to be a bloody big needle to be able to inject a chip! In that t case it is better to inject them not in the upper arm, but further up. A good case of a chip on your shoulder.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 17, 2020 0:02:16 GMT
Loved Mock the Week a couple of weeks back, which is my go to programme if I need a laugh out loud.
They equated, generally the people who are as anti vaxxers look like the sort of people who would eat Iceland frozen sausages.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 16, 2020 23:03:27 GMT
Okay
I am well aware of the ATG membership package entails, I am a member.
And again you needed to be logged in.
When you have selected your day/date.
Underneath choose seat it says ‘Theatre Card and Access Member Log in.’, which you needed to select and log in.
This is what you didn’t do and why you have been charged a transaction fee.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 16, 2020 20:26:30 GMT
Just done a dummy run booking, as suggest above.
You don’t have to pay transaction fee, but you have to login to your ATG account before selecting your seat. As I said ATG does not make it obvious. And have made it difficult to swerve the fee in the past.
A phone call or an email to ATG I think is in order.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 16, 2020 20:17:30 GMT
I am sure you can dodge the transaction fee or you definitely used to. ATG don’t make it obvious how to swerve this fee.
Pretty dire to treat card holders this way, especially as we have stuck with them through the pandemic.
Try doing another purchase, but don’t go and do the final part and see if you can dodge the tf.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 15, 2020 23:03:50 GMT
Agree if Wicked did move on, Apollo Victoria will struggle to get a tenant.
I did hear changes that got made to Wicked in the West End ended up going into the Broadway show. Not sure what theses are as I don’t follow the show that closely. So any super fans please post?
The 2nd Wicked tour done better than the 1st tour, prove there is still an appetite for the Emerald City. Did the 2nd tour ever complete? Obviously the UK tour would be mainly natives in the audience, I would say the exact opposite for the West End. However it would be a struggle to fill that barn, if Wicked did move on.
Consensus on here is that a Panto is going back into the London Palladium.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 15, 2020 15:48:35 GMT
I would’ve thought Prince of Egypt would make the 2021 Christmas season, if it does open next year. If it did issue closing notices I would have though it would be for January 2022.
Wicked was doing fair business, nut was no where near selling out and relied on tourists, this show could be at risk.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 15, 2020 13:49:23 GMT
If not the Palladium and I am sure the royal visit gave the panto elevation.
If it couldn’t get a big London theatre, then maybe it could park up at Hammersmith.
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