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Post by Sam on Nov 26, 2020 15:16:22 GMT
I got in touch as I'm happy to keep the vouchers but concerned I won't manage to use them before March. They've extended to the end of 2021 so here's hoping there will be a few shows on by then!
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Post by Sam on Nov 17, 2020 16:52:23 GMT
Boris has had a test now and it was negative. So why can’t he return to work? . Mind you with the obvious lack of COVID security in no 10 I don’t blame him sticking to the flat. But if he stays ‘in isolation’ that is the wrong message to send. He should be letting us know that the testing system works. Or am I reading the rules wrongly? If you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive you have to isolate for 14 days. The virus can emerge at any point within those 14 days, so getting a negative test in those circumstances really means nothing other than you aren't exhibiting the virus at that particular moment. You could test negative today but positive tomorrow. Testing is for people with symptoms to know whether they have Corona (and need to quarantine) or something else.
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Post by Sam on Sept 23, 2020 9:01:43 GMT
To be fair I think "Dancing with Scimitars" worked better than whatever the Strictly reference they tried to shoehorn in was.
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Post by Sam on Sept 22, 2020 14:48:53 GMT
I feel so jealous with all your exotic chippies! Ours just do the standard fish chips and sausages. I don't like fish but I do like batter so I usually get a battered sausage or just chips. I'd love scraps but they don't do them!
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Post by Sam on Sept 10, 2020 16:20:03 GMT
People will only listen to what they want to anyway. It's been 6 for a while now in pubs restaurants etc, but only from 2 households and you must maintain social distance. The majority stopped listening after 6 and acted accordingly.
The rules might be complicated but that's what happens when you legislate for such a variety of situations, hence why when changing to this blanket 6 Boris has said they have both strengthened and simplified. They've had to up some circumstances because of rises and because people want to be spoonfed what they can and can't do in one simple slogan rather than thinking I want to go to/do x let me check what the rules are for this circumstance so I know what I need to do.
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Post by Sam on Sept 10, 2020 13:32:11 GMT
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Post by Sam on Sept 8, 2020 14:32:50 GMT
There's a Real Greek a couple of doors down from the theatre, that's usually a good shout.
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Post by Sam on Sept 7, 2020 12:42:35 GMT
The leader is generally determined by height, or we would have one girl be leader for ballroom, then be follower for Latin or vice-versa so that both got the opportunity to take on a traditional "female" role. Maybe sexuality does play into things more on a social basis, or in the professional field, but it isn't necessarily the defining factor in having a same-sex partnership the way it seems to have been made out to be and I hope when they presumably do a little explainer on same-sex dancing they do mention this. A same-sex pairing doesn't mean that you are gay, the same way a mixed sex pairing doesn't mean you're straight, it's who's available and who you are comfortable dancing with. That's how I danced at university - my partner and I were similar heights so I led Latin and followed ballroom, each of us were then taking the follower role in the style we liked better so it worked out well. There were far more women than men so we had to pair up with other women to compete. Sexuality doesn't really come into it much on the social scene either - people will obviously want to dance with their romantic partners at times, but most people will dance with all the friends over the course of the evening regardless of sexuality or gender. I often find myself dancing with other female heterosexual women because there arent any good men available for a particular dance, or because we want to dance a dance reserved just for women. It really isnt a big deal. Exactly, so it annoys me a bit how much people conflate it with sexuality. I missed our partnering session at Uni so I manged to slot in when a girl dropped out of a few competitions, we did reasonably well but my partner was hard to work with and often deliberately made me feel uncomfortable. For the next year I decided I didn't want to dance with him anymore. There weren't any guys left so I got partnered with another girl with me as follower. My best friend who I met when she New Yorked me in the face in our 2nd dance lesson was going to be left without a partner so I decided that I would dance with her instead. She'd been in a same-sex partnership the year previous and was lead for Latin so we stuck with her as lead there and I learnt Ballroom lead. Proud to say that we beat my former partner at our first competition together so I made a better lead in about a fortnight than he did with 18 months experience. I had a lot more fun dancing with my friend, but the judges can be biased against same-sex pairings which can be disheartening. Which Uni did you dance with PosterJ? I was Southampton, unfortunately not done much since. Need to find a decent class when I'm back working at the office in London.
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Post by Sam on Sept 7, 2020 9:29:35 GMT
I think in all the hype about this for however many years its been going on they've been bringing sexuality into the matter and really focusing on this. In my experience, certainly in the university circuit sexuality doesn't come into whether you're in a mixed sex partnership or a same sex one. There may be some who chose or prefer to do so, but generally speaking there aren't enough boys to go around so you either partner up with another girl or you don't compete. It's the norm, no-one makes a big deal about it. Male same sex is generally (though there is now a general same sex category at the national competition which I do believe some male-male partnerships have entered) added as an extra fun event where the boys make it up on the spot for a laugh.
The way our teacher explained it to us when I moved to a same sex partnership is there's two ways to go with a girl-girl partnership, either the leader takes on a "masculine" role and sometimes dresses accordingly, or you try to match and mirror one another (more so in Latin) so the moves you might select in your routine might be different, minimising underarm turns etc. The leader is generally determined by height, or we would have one girl be leader for ballroom, then be follower for Latin or vice-versa so that both got the opportunity to take on a traditional "female" role.
Maybe sexuality does play into things more on a social basis, or in the professional field, but it isn't necessarily the defining factor in having a same-sex partnership the way it seems to have been made out to be and I hope when they presumably do a little explainer on same-sex dancing they do mention this. A same-sex pairing doesn't mean that you are gay, the same way a mixed sex pairing doesn't mean you're straight, it's who's available and who you are comfortable dancing with.
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Post by Sam on Sept 7, 2020 9:27:51 GMT
Looks like palladium are doing more this year 2nd May 2021, though they do have an evening with Graham Norton scheduled for 27th September which goes on sale on Wednesday and some other events in October.
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Post by Sam on Aug 18, 2020 16:49:09 GMT
I went to see the new Adams Family film on my own and was the only one there. It was weird being the only one, but I enjoyed the experience. Just didn't particularly enjoy the film.
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Post by Sam on Aug 17, 2020 15:33:35 GMT
It's a difficult situation and there isn't really any fair way of managing it. Indeed. I'm getting quite annoyed with all the people who are acting like there's an easy answer and the government just needs to do things that way, and it's funny how that way is always the one that gives them an advantage and completely disregards the disadvantage that it brings to others. But the real exams haven't happened and there just isn't any substitute that is going to produce exactly the same results. If there was such a substitute then we wouldn't need to have the exams at all. I would have expected the mock results to be used instead but it seems many schools have completely missed the point of mocks. At my school the mocks were exactly the same as the real exams except they used papers from an earlier year, but reading the news stories over the past few days it looks as though some schools have been telling pupils what questions will be in the mocks or doing other things that subvert the entire purpose of the exams. If you want to make things easier then you can hold exams at any time for that. The point of the mocks is to make the experience real so the actual exam is a familiar experience. Any school that makes the mocks an easier experience is just letting their pupils down. The problem with utilising a past paper is that they're all accessible online, so you run the risk that the student has already seen it. One of the key things I found in my A-Levels was knowing how to answer the questions so I did every past paper possible (some multiple times) as a part of my revision when I did my self study year. That's why I think the only way it can be made fair is if the exam boards provide papers for the mocks, and for them to be sat under exam conditions. You can give the schools the guidelines and the materials, but then you have to trust them to use them properly.
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Post by Sam on Aug 17, 2020 13:02:47 GMT
I don't think making them take the exams in June would have been much fairer since they hadn't been in schools for months at that point. Sure there has been distance learning, but I'm sure that the way in which schools have been managing this varies drastically, and would again create divides.
It's a difficult situation and there isn't really any fair way of managing it.
I did not go to a good school. It was in special measures when I was there and I know full well that my GCSE results dragged the average in my year-group up, when I had 18 passes and others didn't get 5. Equally some of our predicted grades were nonsense compared to our results. Our IT top set got lower grades than the lower set, because we had a different teacher and had been taught our coursework wrong. Most people in my class got Es and Us in the coursework and our exams dragged our grades back up a bit. I think I went from an E in my coursework to a C overall. Had that been this year it would be a completely different story.
My understanding is that the algorithm is based on the teacher's rankings and the past performance of the school, but the top student one year does not equal the top the next.
There should have been more elements to the algorithm like the mock grades and the teachers predictions. Hopefully the appeals process will incorporate these and come to more of an average.
Maybe there needs to be a more formal mock process in future (with the exam boards providing the papers) and teachers need to evidence any predicted grades to account for these and any other circumstances.
At the end of the day, there is the option to sit the exams whilst it might set their planned timelines back. I wasn't happy with my A-Level grades and took a year out to work and do retakes, teaching myself. I got much better grades, saved up some money and got where I wanted to go even though it took me a year longer than planned. Same in my career. It took me spending 4 years in a job and company I disliked to get to the job I have now.
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Post by Sam on Jul 24, 2020 8:41:26 GMT
I'd assumed that would be the case. Particularly given the success of Hamilton. Aladdin might not have been as popular a show in the theatre but it fits in with the D+ target market a bit more neatly and it makes sense to capitalise on Hamilton's success.
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Post by Sam on Jul 22, 2020 13:17:40 GMT
And yet they do challenge you on entering if you're coming in pairs, giving you a lanyard if you have a reason so that you aren't harassed by staff in the store as I was before they started doing that.
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Post by Sam on Jul 16, 2020 16:25:41 GMT
To be postponed to Spring 2021. First preview will be 2nd April and tickets will be automatically moved to a new date.
Further cast announcement: Obioma Ugoala - Kristoff Oliver Ormson - Hans Craig Gallivan - Olaf Richard Frame - The Duke of Weselton Mikayla Jade and Ashley Birchall - alternating for Sven
Cute video should be coming with the announcement tomorrow.
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Post by Sam on May 18, 2020 14:26:27 GMT
30th October is still over 5 months away so I'm holding out hope. More so for the fact that we're booked on the first preview and I doubt we would be able to get on the new first preview date if it were to be rescheduled. Well you'd hope that if they had to re-schedule, that you would relocate your seats to that new date! I would hope so, but considering they are currently booking to March 2021 I don't know our/any comparable seats would be available for that new date! Just have to wait and see how things will be handled if it comes to it.
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Post by Sam on May 18, 2020 10:18:16 GMT
30th October is still over 5 months away so I'm holding out hope. More so for the fact that we're booked on the first preview and I doubt we would be able to get on the new first preview date if it were to be rescheduled.
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Post by Sam on May 12, 2020 15:23:27 GMT
Amazing news! It makes sense to release it now because all of Disney’s plans for original content have presumably been paused or pushed back, meaning anything ready will be bumped up etc. Do we think Disney will censor anything? I know there’s the odd swear word in it that they might not like. We watched Three Men and A Baby on D+ over the weekend and that hasn't been censored at all. That was only a few S words though, which are now allowed more in lower rated films than originally. I'm not sure what swears are in Hamilton though.
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Post by Sam on May 12, 2020 13:34:19 GMT
Aladdin was recorded in the West End and is supposed to be available soon. I would assume this would be on D+ rather than a third party site like Broadway HD. I suspect Disney will sit on Aladdin until it's finished its run on Broadway and US tour. But we also weren't expecting Hamilton to be released for another year. I'd argue Aladdin is more typical family friendly material for D+, but we'll see. I'll likely hear about it here before at work.
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Post by Sam on May 12, 2020 13:21:30 GMT
Aladdin was recorded in the West End and is supposed to be available soon. I would assume this would be on D+ rather than a third party site like Broadway HD.
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Post by Sam on May 6, 2020 14:48:20 GMT
Despite going to Uni at Southampton, walking through the Nuffield to get to the Law Building, using the toilets several times, and even having lectures in the Nuffield Building, I've never seen a show there, or even really known what shows were on there. Whereas I went to the Mayflower a number of times during my degree using their student offers and felt much more aware of what was going on there.
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Post by Sam on Apr 27, 2020 12:45:54 GMT
I wonder if the box office will allow me to get a partial refund. I had 4 tickets booked for this year but only want to use 2 of them for next year. Time will tell I guess! Not with the Apollo, but with a Lady Gaga concert that was rescheduled, the place I got the tickets from wouldn't let me cancel part of my order, so I ended up cancelling the whole lot and re-buying the amount I now needed. Managed to get slightly better seats too. They often take an all or nothing approach to cancellations.
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Post by Sam on Apr 19, 2020 15:13:22 GMT
So restaurants reopening on my Birthday. Plans sorted!
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Post by Sam on Apr 11, 2020 13:24:30 GMT
In the spirit of the thread then, my experience with TodayTix.
I've had two shows which were cancelled. Only Fools and Horses on the 26th March, and The Cursed Child on the 25th March.
I received my voucher for OFAH on the 26th March, and the Cursed Child one late last week despite the show being an earlier date. I think they must be dealing with booking for shows which are confirmed as cancelled in the order they were booked, as I booked my OFAH tickets quite a while before the Cursed Child.
Both vouchers were received in line with the timelines they set out, though I was a bit confused by the order, and any emails I sent with queries were answered the same day.
As a note, because this is one of the questions I had. You can't pre-load your voucher onto your todaytix account, but it will work like a gift card, in that you don't need to spend it all at once. Any money you spend will be deducted from the total on the code and you can continue to use it until you've used all your credit.
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Post by Sam on Apr 9, 2020 14:24:51 GMT
Also excited for this. I managed to catch it in London with my afternoon of on NYE and had been nagging my parents to go and see it in Southampton this month.
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Post by Sam on Mar 30, 2020 13:43:03 GMT
Apparently he and Curtis want to be the next Ant and Dec...
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Post by Sam on Mar 26, 2020 14:27:39 GMT
The Phoenix in Mulan is more of an inspirational mirage than a character she interacts with. Pocahontas actually speaks to Flit and Meeko, whereas Mulan essentially sees the Phoenix when she needs guidance or in moments of hardship ie when she gets lost, or needs to raise her game in a fight and she then is able to get back on the right path. I was referring to the live action Mulan movie. As was I. There isn't a Phoenix in the animated version.
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Post by Sam on Mar 26, 2020 14:07:57 GMT
The Phoenix in Mulan is more of an inspirational mirage than a character she interacts with. Pocahontas actually speaks to Flit and Meeko, whereas Mulan essentially sees the Phoenix when she needs guidance or in moments of hardship ie when she gets lost, or needs to raise her game in a fight and she then is able to get back on the right path.
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