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Yes GG, I completely agree with you. These coughers and other nuisances that happen in the concert hall or wherevever, should be dragged out of the venue, straight away!! I feel better for saying that to!!
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« Reply #5416 on: 10:55:32, 04-04-2008 » |
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I feel better for saying that to!!
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« Reply #5417 on: 11:06:23, 04-04-2008 » |
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I feel better for saying that to!!
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« Reply #5418 on: 11:14:12, 04-04-2008 » |
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I did give him my very sternest Paddington Bear stare when we went out for the interval, BB, so I don't suppose he'll be doing it again.  (Gosh! He actually gets mentioned as an 'idiot' in one of the reviews this morning. ) Actually it annoys me that I get so annoyed by these things. I've been trying to train myself not to, with some modest success. It's when it is so straightforwardly and selfishly rude to the performer as it was the other night that it still gets to me. The carefully chosen sequence of Kurtag and Bach that Uchida played could have been one of those near perfect experiences - but it wasn't thanks to this oaf. And there was the open throated Ak-Ak gun cougher in the Schubert as well ... [That's enough grumping about this one. Nobody died. Ed] |
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« Reply #5419 on: 12:04:06, 04-04-2008 » |
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I feel better for saying that to!!
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« Reply #5420 on: 16:26:27, 04-04-2008 » |
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We could round up the offenders and sentence them to do community service at a Karl Jenkins gig maybe?
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« Reply #5421 on: 16:36:03, 04-04-2008 » |
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Having just finished posting a blog entry about seventeenth century theatre (looking for John Dryden, who didn't write Abdelazer, but H.P. did a bang-up job on the rondeau) it all sounds horribly familiar. How long, I wonder, before we have attempted rapes and shootings during performances?
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« Reply #5422 on: 16:46:29, 04-04-2008 » |
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In Wednesday's Grauniad composer Osvold Golijov said '..I like music when the audience comes to blows' . He is another of those accused of dumbing down via crossover. His latest, er, semi-opera concerns the death of Lorca and the community around same, and Dawn Upshaw is evidently his muse. I believe there was a Kurtag performance in 2000/1 where a couple of critics laid into each other round the back of the QE hall. Of course, the 'smart' money now would be on getting a grant to do this and tipping off the media.
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« Reply #5423 on: 11:35:15, 05-04-2008 » |
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That's a sad but sadly far from atypical tale of the almost systematic crass incompetence for which First Great Western has become notorious. It's up to you, of course, but if I were you I'd get a complaint form, complete it and send it in; in the past you'd usually get a full fare refund for each journey on which they'd delyed you by more than one hour, but I gather that their compensatory régime has recently become rather more generous than this (although I don't have full details).
Good luck!
This is not a grump, but an update. I sent off a complaint by email and I have received a reply. A voucher for £20 is in the post. However the warming thing was that the person replying had clearly read my letter and was replying to what I actually said, not writing a Painting By Numbers reply. (I have written enough of them in my time in public housing.) I will get the voucher, and then consider if it is worth pursuing. |
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #5424 on: 20:49:38, 05-04-2008 » |
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I emailed Sainsbury's recently, about them not having ever, my favourite bread. Tehir taste the Difference Multi Seeded loaf. Lovely bread that. I received a voucher for £20 and theyve picked that up a bit more, in the bakery bit.
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« Reply #5425 on: 02:55:00, 06-04-2008 » |
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£20 is stingy in the extreme Don I'd have thought, but being a gentleman you appreciate the principle of being at least attended to. BBM, indeed both of you, have rendered a public service by compaining -for a long time Sainsbury's, whom my mother remembers from the 30s as the waitrose of its day and then some, were all over the place with their supply ordering on any kind of bread etc.
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« Reply #5426 on: 17:13:40, 06-04-2008 » |
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New grump.
I took some photos of snow this morning. I have been spending all afternoon trying to download them on the computer, with no success. No connection with camera, it says, but if there was no connection at all, it wouldn't even say that.
I had this trouble a year ago, then it cleared up.
I have plugged in the wire into the camera, and into the USB port and sod all happens.
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« Reply #5427 on: 18:39:39, 06-04-2008 » |
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Try re-installing the camera software?
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« Reply #5428 on: 21:38:45, 06-04-2008 » |
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I uploaded the programme on to my laptop, taking up valuable space there, and lo and behold, I connect the camera and get the same ruddy message about "cannot connect to camera." I just don't understand. It is illogical, hurtful and above all so UNFAIR.
I want to save these photos, honest I do, other people do, why I am I not allowed to do so?
Grump, grump, grump, grump, grump, (and not entirely sober at this time of night.)
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« Reply #5429 on: 21:43:11, 06-04-2008 » |
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Some cameras need to be turned to a specific programme to connect with a PC, DB - might that be the problem?
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