Tea? (Part 2)

[phil_hg_uk]

Mine is all sparkly clean and is about to be blow dried

If its anything like round here it was hailing a few mins ago, it sounded like someone was sand blasting the house.

 

[Night Train]

(I may regret asking this.) How big is your part?

From the rehearsals so far not too big a part, in the chorus, but I am part of a symetrical placing of cast and I dance with someone too. Also I am the only one singing the bass harmony in an oft repeated phrase throughout the show.

The other aspect is that the women outnumber the men about 3 to 1 and we are very short of men for the show. I am probably one of the few men who can act well and consistantly but I am also not sure my current memory strength is up to the task either.

I want to be in the show, and it is the 50th anniversary show too, I just wish it was directed by someone else and I could just build the set.

This set isn't too difficult to make, someone else could make it. Their painting isn't too hot (steady) though. They coped without me putting on the show ten years ago so they could do so again.

If I left they would miss me mostly for my set building and painting skills but also partly for being an extra man on the stage, young enough to be fit and active, old enough not to get silly when dancing with the women and trustworthy enough not to drop someone being lifted.

 

[Arch]

I wonder if the thought of you leaving might suddenly concentrate the director's mind a bit?

My legs ache.

 

[Speicher]

It sounds like you would be missed for your dancing and singing and acting skills. As you say someone else could do the painting. It depends which you would most like to do.

Are there other people who are not impressed, to put it mildly, with the Director's terrible habit of using offensive words?

I am back at "work" tomorrow at the Pump House. Ready to on the database again. Note, however, that represents coffee from one of those big percolator/foamed milk thingies.

 

[Night Train]

Are there other people who are not impressed, to put it mildly, with the Director's terrible habit of using offensive words?

Well, a few shows ago she needed a group of junior chorus to dance manically and wild and she said to them 'Dance like a Mong!' so they all did as told and all seem to know what she meant.
I went to see her during the break and said that I had heard an offensive term used on the stage. She looked horrified and asked what it was so I told her. She looked, I don't know, a sort of knowing she ought to be annoyed but not quite, and wanted to know who had said it so I told she had.
She then flustered and said she was refering to a former member called John Mong who moved funny and that there was nothing offensive about that when it was his name she was refering to.

Giving her a little benefit of the doubt I checked. There has never been a John Mong in any of the cast references in any of the shows in the last ten years and I doubt I will find one in the previous forty years. The junior chorus would not have made any connection to a member in that period even if he existed.
So she is a lier too, but I let it pass

At this Christmas' party she said her husband wouldn't queue for the buffet as 'he's a Mong!'.

I don't know if anyone else there isn't impressed and I don't know if it is worth speaking with her again on the subject. She clearly doesn't see a problem with her using the term but wasn't happy when she thought someone else might have said something offensive. No one else, as far as I know, cares one way or the other and the junior chorus seem to accept it as a reasonable description of how to act. That is the sad thing I reckon.

 

[coffeejo]

That is the sad thing I reckon.

Yes, very much so.

 

[Speicher]

Yes, very sad. Politeness towards others is easy to achieve. Most youngsters seem to forget that though.

Have a and then some NT.

 

[Speicher]

May I introduce Merlin the wol, aka Strix aluco from Hootsowls.
The owlriginal wol is somewhere in the steam-driven computer, I will try and find him. For now Merlin is standing in, cos it is time for Christmas avatars to be put away til next year perhaps.

 

[potsy]

Hiya Merlin
Off to bed, bit wind swept and knackered
Can someone bring me up a cuppa about 1pm? Ta very much.

ps- If any none tea drinkers try to get in here show her I mean them the boot

 

[Speicher]

I have an unexpected day off. The person I should have been working with, has lost her voice.
Fortunately I have about two million things I can be doing at home.

* sets alarm clock for 1pm *

Oh yes, must make sure I know where Potsy's car is, so that any coffee drinkers can see his boot.

 

[Archie_tect]

2 million in an afternoon? ...or is that 1,999,997 after a sleep, cuppa and late breakfast?

 

[Speicher]

Yes

 

[phil_hg_uk]

YAY I just been out on my new bike in the wind and the rain and got very muddy AND I won the lottery for the third time since xmas ................ now what will I spend my £3.00 on

 

[coffeejo]

YAY I just been out on my new bike in the wind and the rain and got very muddy AND I won the lottery for the third time since xmas ................ now what will I spend my £3.00 on

You can spend it on me if you like

 

[phil_hg_uk]

You can spend it on me if you like

You see thats what I like about you Jo ................... you are always thinking of others