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Lol so Dawn Foster has left The Guardian, according to this tweet it's because Peter Walker, Graun political correspondent, didn't know who Simon Hedges was (a parody account) and Dawn Foster made a joke at his expense because of it: https://twitter.com/Lokinash06/status/1165028127460012033?s=20 E: This is the post: https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1162357480355241985?s=20 Peter Walker has been losing his poo poo for the past week or so about 'Fake News' etc. because somebody made an obvious parody post about Chuka Umunna and put his name on it. EE: Snipe. https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/1164158902705016833?s=20 WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Aug 23, 2019 |
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Pochoclo posted:Wow. I mean, it's a charity drive so I kinda feel bad saying this, but this guy is really bad at reading Shakespeare Sure it wasn't a guest? Olly's a professional actor and stuff, he's done Shakespeare on stage, not just amateurly but for real money.
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Ms Adequate posted:Sure it wasn't a guest? Olly's a professional actor and stuff, he's done Shakespeare on stage, not just amateurly but for real money. I have no idea, this guy  He might be a good actor on stage but he's not good at reading it out, but again, it's charity so good on him Pochoclo fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Aug 23, 2019 |
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Guess who quit a few days ago: https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1645613
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I just booked a hotel in a different city where I was going for an interview, and it turns out the offer is only available for students, which I only found out when they emailed me asking for a student ID. Like yeah it's hidden in small print in the T&C but gently caress me. So now I'm probably out of 140 quid just because. I did email them asking for a refund but I expect to be told to gently caress off to be honest.
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WhatEvil posted:Lol so Dawn Foster has left The Guardian, according to this tweet it's because Peter Walker, Graun political correspondent, didn't know who Simon Hedges was (a parody account) and Dawn Foster made a joke at his expense because of it: I mean that does suck but on the other hand she’s definitely better than that arse rag of a newspaper
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quote:the Home Office leads on immigration and passports, drugs and crime policy, counter-extremism and counter-terrorism and works to ensure visible, responsive and accountable policing in the UK. I always feel dodgy applying for jobs that openly lie in the description, how do I know it isn't a scam?
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Guavanaut posted:I always feel dodgy applying for jobs that openly lie in the description, how do I know it isn't a scam? It doesn't say they work very hard at it
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Aug 24, 2019 00:00
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It doesn't say who it's accountable to.
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Private Speech posted:I just booked a hotel in a different city where I was going for an interview, and it turns out the offer is only available for students, which I only found out when they emailed me asking for a student ID. Like yeah it's hidden in small print in the T&C but gently caress me. So now I'm probably out of 140 quid just because. Or something. I'd look it up for you but I've been up for 20 hours now & am not feeling too good about it. Here's (e) Borrovan fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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If you just made the reservation and ask nicely they might let you cancel it tbh, it won't make a functional difference to them if they're not fully booked and they don't usually want to annoy people cos they get bad reviews. Plus a lot of hotel goers are utter dickheads so just acting like a normal human being can get you a long way lol. Also try lying and say it's due to a family issue and you want to reschedule it once you know what's happening. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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Borrovan posted:I seem to remember that the distance selling regulations are repealed, and that hotels are specifically excluded from them anyway, but they probably don't know that: the distance selling regulations provide that a consumer is entitled to cancel any online contract for any reason within 14 days, and that it's a crime for them to not inform you of that right. Unfortunately accommodation booked for a specific day is excluded from that.
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Borrovan posted:I seem to remember that the distance selling regulations are repealed, and that hotels are specifically excluded from them anyway, but they probably don't know that: the distance selling regulations provide that a consumer is entitled to cancel any online contract for any reason within 14 days, and that it's a crime for them to not inform you of that right. It's still pretty drat annoying thing they do there, I bet they get this a lot though unfortunately. Ahh okay that was the wrong link. Anyway nevermind, but maybe they'll give me a refund if I complain enough. Not holding much hope though.
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Incy posted:Unfortunately accommodation booked for a specific day is excluded from that. Just have to hope they don't check
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I would say from knowing hotel clerks that I probably wouldn't open with the legal threats cos it does not engender cooperation.
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OwlFancier posted:I would say from knowing hotel clerks that I probably wouldn't open with the legal threats cos it does not engender cooperation. Oh I sent them a polite email already, I'll see what they'll reply with tomorrow. More of a last resort thing.
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Pochoclo posted:Also that's still £4.2k a year even if your family eats clearance chinese every meal forever, on top of rent, electricity/water/etc, clothing, transport, and I'm not even factoring in vacations and entertainment because as we all know the lazy poor don't deserve distractions from their miserable existence I know poo poo all about theatre, but I really hate it when people go all overblown and melodramatic with Shakespeare. As a complete novice you can go and see any performance of his stuff, and you can instantly feel how much better it all sounds when delivered casually and nonchalantly. Yeah, it can be complicated words, but it's not complicated to the characters, it should just drop off the tongue. Which actually improves the complication! Take the intro to R&J for example. It's two (probably) drunken lads duelling with wordplay. You can't deliver that poo poo with dramatic portent without sounding like a raving lunatic. You've got to do it with casual detachment. It's just bants after all. Just bants. I've only seen clips of the BBCs King Lear, and Anthony Hopkins seems far too much on the dramatic powerful side. The best delivery comes from his daughters and Emma Thompson, the intricacy of the language dissapears and you get raw and natural performances.
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Private Speech posted:I just booked a hotel in a different city where I was going for an interview, and it turns out the offer is only available for students, which I only found out when they emailed me asking for a student ID. Like yeah it's hidden in small print in the T&C but gently caress me. So now I'm probably out of 140 quid just because. I've been caught with that - not for students prices but for 'price available for country's nationals only' and it's not clear at all when booking. Sometimes I don't find out til I get to pay after the stay and now and then when they see how long I've been in the relevant country (one I lived in albeit on touristic visa only), they gave me the 'nationals' price anyway.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I know poo poo all about theatre, but I really hate it when people go all overblown and melodramatic with Shakespeare. As a complete novice you can go and see any performance of his stuff, and you can instantly feel how much better it all sounds when delivered casually and nonchalantly. Yeah, it can be complicated words, but it's not complicated to the characters, it should just drop off the tongue. Which actually improves the complication! I really enjoyed Andrew Scott's Hamlet on the Beeb from a couple years ago, he's real good at making it seem like the thoughts are just occurring to him (i.e. acting)
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Failed Imagineer posted:I really enjoyed Andrew Scott's Hamlet on the Beeb from a couple years ago, he's real good at making it seem like the thoughts are just occurring to him (i.e. acting) Ooh that's a great way to sum it up. Olly sounds a bit too gabbly, like he's trying to get the words out as fast as he can. Which,well, its a charity stream. I'm having a poo poo time right now goons. Was talking to my mates about the Deer Hunter, and my mum always made fun of my dad about it. They went to see it when they were first dating, she loved it be he was properly traumatised. Like, white as a sheet and needing a sit down after. I've never seen it, and now I've forever missed my chance to wind him up. I know that's a trivial thing, but that's how my family roll. We were always close, but in a very casual way. Never talked about our feelings cos we never needed to. And these small moments loving suck. When I think "this is fun, I must tell dad" and I loving can't. And my PhD wasn't in a good place even before he was taken ill, and has proceeded to crash and burn all this year. Thinking of jacking it in and joining the NHS scientist scheme instead, which seems right up my street. But Christ I'm tired of always running when things get tough, I'm tired of running from things. This PhD was the first time in almost a decade I've had something to run towardsand I feel I've buggered it all up. That's my putting rant for the day
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When my grandmother was alive I found her hard to talk to because she was obsessed with me, largely because she was obsessed with my father as well before he died, but I still occasionally wish I could tell her about things, or ask her thoughts on something. That's sort of how life works, people are hard to talk to, there's always something that gets in the way, then when they die nothing is in the way any more but they aren't there either. Your university should have some measures in place for extenuating circumstances re: your studies, though whether they are harsher at PhD level I don't know. Either way it might be worth speaking with your academic advisor or equivalent to consider at least a break, perhaps, if you think it would help you put your head straight.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I've only seen clips of the BBCs King Lear, and Anthony Hopkins seems far too much on the dramatic powerful side. The best delivery comes from his daughters and Emma Thompson, the intricacy of the language dissapears and you get raw and natural performances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On14CIYwpyE Now compare that to a slightly more... Thespian, grandstanding reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBpGgB1NTYg Hamlet suffers from being the play that is most often used to demonstrate how bad a character is at acting or how overblown and melodramatic Shakespeare is in stereotype, so people seem to be left with this mental image of a splay-legged old man wailing "OOOHHH, TO BEEE OR NOT TO BEEE..." Unfortunately it is also the play that bad actors often use to try and prove that they are good actors. And then there's this mess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEs8rK5Cqt8
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I don’t like hammy thespians either and frankly the thees and thous can go gently caress themselves, I meant more that the stream guy was rushing through things, not pacing, not really setting the tone, etc etc
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tbf he does have nearly 40 of the buggers to get through, can't blame him for wanting a bit of pep  Bobby Deluxe posted:David Tennant was good as Hamlet because of this, the Yorick speech in particular is great because it just comes across as a dude explaining to Horatio 'Holy poo poo I knew this skull!' drat this really is good 
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Oh you wouldn't like yorkshire then Thee/thou/thy is actually weird in that grammatically it's more precise than the you/your which replaced it. There are occasions where you might want to use it because modern english doesn't let you be that precise. Also why "y'alls" should be a part of standard english because there is presently no actual standard equivalent.
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is this not one of the all time great newspaper headlines? https://twitter.com/nytpolitics/status/1165036329106849794
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OwlFancier posted:Oh you wouldn't like yorkshire then And you can say "y'all'dn't've"
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Bobby Deluxe posted:David Tennant was good as Hamlet because of this, the Yorick speech in particular is great because it just comes across as a dude explaining to Horatio 'Holy poo poo I knew this skull!'
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^^^ Oh my god I unironically love thatMs Adequate posted:drat this really is good I'm not 100% on Tennant's version of the soliloqy (Cumberbatch did a great one) but overall B++ would Hamlet again. E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4fF3rqWqQ Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Aug 24, 2019 |
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Also while we're on the subject of Hamlet, please enjoy Teenage Dirtbag Hamlet and this:
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Also while we're on the subject of Hamlet, please enjoy Teenage Dirtbag Hamlet and this: Those are awesome.
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OwlFancier posted:Oh you wouldn't like yorkshire then It says something about us as a nation that given the choice between retaining the formal (you) and informal (thou) versions of the same word, we decided to drop the informal one and just talk to everyone like we’re meeting them for the first time and need to be carefully polite.
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Hamlet is loving terrible. It starts with Hamlet having suspicions his uncle murdered his dad and ends with him confronting his uncle about that. With four hours in between. There’s a few good bits in that yawning eon, but not many. I remember looking forward to Ophelia dying because it was something that would happen and I knew about it from that famous painting. Then she dies off stage. The entire play-within-a-play is just self-indulgent wank.
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Pilchenstein posted:I'm quite partial to Withnail's Hamlet I went to see Withnail and I at Uncle Monty's cottage a few months ago. Had a little cry at Withnail's Hamlet. I was on a particularly emotional combo of boozes at the time, but it usually gets me.
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Comrade Fakename posted:Hamlet is loving terrible. It starts with Hamlet having suspicions his uncle murdered his dad and ends with him confronting his uncle about that. With four hours in between. There’s a few good bits in that yawning eon, but not many. I remember looking forward to Ophelia dying because it was something that would happen and I knew about it from that famous painting. Then she dies off stage. The entire play-within-a-play is just self-indulgent wank. The typical ordering, and fame, of Shakey's works are pretty out of tune compared to my own opinions, Yeah Hamlet has some bangin' soliloquies but what's really the good poo poo is The Tempest and Titus Andronicus. Not that those are exactly unknown or anything (we're not talking about Timon of Athens here lol) but they don't get up there with the Dane and the Scot.
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I will always love Macbeth, mostly because of the Humphrey Carpenter version in Shakespeare Without The Boring Bits where he turns him into a hard-boiled private eye. It does go without saying that Shakespeare's pretty darn great, though. The dude's grasp of story structure was much better than the reductive three-act structure taught by many writing classes, and he pretty much invented the complex, human villain (even if the more Marlowian, moustache-twirling, monologuing scenery chewers have been more influential on popular culture).
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