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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 22:51:39 GMT
Yelling, ' turn off yr ******* Phone' quite loud would have made you feel better. But you would prob have had to enjoy the rest of the show from the pavement outside. That's the problem. Like being at school, we need the teacher to be in control. Where was the usher? Oh I dunno, given her track record if PLP heard him she'd probably join in and the person ending up on the pavement outside would be the purp.
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Post by Backdrifter on Jan 22, 2019 22:57:30 GMT
I can't decide which would have been worse - saying nothing, and getting distracted by it lighting up repeatedly and getting annoyed and worked up by that, or getting myself worked up by the mini-confrontation. You definitely did right to raise it and had no reason to remain tensed up. I've had to do it a couple of times and had no problem, I was right and couldn't care less what the offenders thought. The lady next to me at Coming Clean tonight could not stop burping. Not those huge comedic type burps, but those little ones that kept me wondering if she was about to vomit on me. Eeeeeeeccchhh.... then you really would need to be 'coming clean'.
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Post by LaLuPone on Jan 23, 2019 19:53:57 GMT
Comment that I saw on the MTAS facebook group:
“I had a chap in front of me that was snoring loudly. Despite me kicking his seat he wouldn’t wake up - so I planted some Maltesers in his collar to melt slowly while he snoozed”
Love it!
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Post by lynette on Jan 23, 2019 22:22:10 GMT
What's he doing with maltesers? They rattle.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 23, 2019 22:26:59 GMT
I think that's quite an unpleasant thing to do. Yes, it's annoying when someone falls asleep & snores audibly during a show but you don't know their circumstances. They could have to take medication that causes drowsiness or be a medical professional who's just been up all night in an emergency. Taking petty revenge like that is, for me, worse behaviour.
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Post by peggs on Jan 24, 2019 13:09:44 GMT
I think the bag packet would rustle and you'd have to suck not crunch them but frankly I'd never waste a malteaser like that 😮
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Post by lynette on Jan 24, 2019 14:07:25 GMT
They sell the boxes in foyers. One day I’m gonna rattle a box or two......
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Post by paulbrownsey on Jan 24, 2019 14:50:14 GMT
"To top it all, they jumped to their feet at the end and I couldn’t see the curtain call." Yes, standing ovations are bad behaviour, though most people on this board seem to think you're horrible if you don't like being made to miss the finale/curtain calls because other people stand up in front of you.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Jan 24, 2019 15:01:19 GMT
It annoys me that some people seem to think you're going to the toilet at an inconvenient time just to spite them. "Didn't you think to go earlier?" "No. You're right. That never occurred to me. I've never been in this position before. I've been holding it all in since the day I was born and somehow imagined that I could keep doing so forever. I had no idea that I might ever need to urinate or defecate, but now it's happening I've decided to do it right now just to piss you off." What no-one says: "But, yes, I admit, I was in the bar guzzling liquid before the show. Maybe I shouldn't have done that."
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Post by firstwetakemanhattan on Jan 24, 2019 15:32:40 GMT
At The Convert a few weeks back, two girls next to me in started off fine as the play went on, the odd "Wow" and "Oh wow" became more and more frequent, along with the "mmmhmmm"s and "mmmms" as well, when they though they agreed with what the character said/did/implied. Then halfway through the final part one of their phones went off, for about 15 seconds, first muted in the bag, before she realised it was hers and took it out(louder now) and rejected the call. Put it back in bag along with a sorry to her friend. 5 minutes later and the same thing happened again, complete with another sorry. It really was like they were at home on the sofa watching it, just them two.
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Post by eatbigsea on Jan 24, 2019 18:45:39 GMT
"To top it all, they jumped to their feet at the end and I couldn’t see the curtain call." Yes, standing ovations are bad behaviour, though most people on this board seem to think you're horrible if you don't like being made to miss the finale/curtain calls because other people stand up in front of you. I don’t think standing ovations per se are bad behaviour, but it does annoy me when people stand up to leave before the curtain call is over and put on their coats, blocking my view. This happens a lot at Covent Garden and is both annoying and I feel embarrassed. If it’s 11:00, fine, but if it’s 9:15, there will be other trains.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 24, 2019 18:56:01 GMT
I know it’s dead annoying when people get up early to leave but I still get a Victoria Wood-esque frisson of enjoyment when it happens because it’s always two women of a certain age, in woolly overcoats, who you just know are heading off for the number 55.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 24, 2019 20:40:18 GMT
Just ignore him everyone 😐
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Post by kimbahorel on Jan 24, 2019 20:59:12 GMT
Just had this woman sitting next to me at Her Maj's whip out her phone just at the end of the title POTO song to take phones. Got blinded and prodded her to tell her don't take photos. She didn't but then I bet she didnt expect to sit next to me so....
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Post by 49thand8th on Jan 24, 2019 21:53:32 GMT
Click through for a thread...
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 25, 2019 6:42:06 GMT
I don’t think standing ovations per se are bad behaviour, but it does annoy me when people stand up to leave before the curtain call is over and put on their coats, blocking my view. This happens a lot at Covent Garden and is both annoying and I feel embarrassed. If it’s 11:00, fine, but if it’s 9:15, there will be other trains. Have to admit I do leave during the curtain calls at the Royal Opera sometimes. Largely because they can go on for about 20 minutes - last time I was there I nipped out after the first set of bows from the full cast, went to the loo, queued to collect my stuff from the cloakroom, and could still hear the applause going on as I left the building.
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Post by asfound on Jan 25, 2019 7:00:21 GMT
Inadvertently seemed to have booked a free schools performance of Sweat at the Donmar yesterday. Won't be doing that again in a hurry. Aside from the kind of expected casual chatting, flashing phones, cheering when there were any fights or when nazi tattoos called the parole officer the n word (?), it was just sad to see the kids that were genuinely absorbed being constantly distracted and irritated by the ones that clearly didn't want to be there. Never seen so much shushing. And then the rowdy kids at the back started pulling their hair and dropping coins on them for their trouble. Oh and the tittering during what should have been the devastating final scene really ruined the ending.
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Post by eatbigsea on Jan 25, 2019 9:32:55 GMT
I don’t think standing ovations per se are bad behaviour, but it does annoy me when people stand up to leave before the curtain call is over and put on their coats, blocking my view. This happens a lot at Covent Garden and is both annoying and I feel embarrassed. If it’s 11:00, fine, but if it’s 9:15, there will be other trains. Have to admit I do leave during the curtain calls at the Royal Opera sometimes. Largely because they can go on for about 20 minutes - last time I was there I nipped out after the first set of bows from the full cast, went to the loo, queued to collect my stuff from the cloakroom, and could still hear the applause going on as I left the building. That’s just Opera/ballet tradition. In Germany they’d just be getting going after 20 minutes. I can live with it if people nip out (as I’m sure you do), it’s the people who stand up and linger, leisurely putting on their coats, not applauding and blocking my view that really get on my nerves.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 25, 2019 16:45:43 GMT
Have to admit I do leave during the curtain calls at the Royal Opera sometimes. Largely because they can go on for about 20 minutes - last time I was there I nipped out after the first set of bows from the full cast, went to the loo, queued to collect my stuff from the cloakroom, and could still hear the applause going on as I left the building. That’s just Opera/ballet tradition. In Germany they’d just be getting going after 20 minutes. I can live with it if people nip out (as I’m sure you do), it’s the people who stand up and linger, leisurely putting on their coats, not applauding and blocking my view that really get on my nerves. That reminds me of the only time I've been to opera aroad, at the Bayerische Staatsoper. The first of two nights was Edita Gruberova in Roberto Devereaux. I had a cheap seat on I think the top but one level. After a much lengthier set of curtain calls than I'm used to over here I thought they had finished so left the auditorium & started to head downstairs. When I got down to the next level I heard another bout of clapping & cheering & looked inside the nearest door to see another curtain call. I basically worked my way down the auditorium seeing another curtain call at each level! I gather that Gruberova is extremely popular in Munich. (Before the performance someone came onstage to announce a cast change. The first thing he said was that it wasn't Gruberova!)
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Post by Xanderl on Jan 25, 2019 18:44:50 GMT
I do like the etiquette in German Opera Houses (and presumably other theatres?) that everybody stays standing up by their seat until everyone in the row has arrived.
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Post by Dawnstar on Jan 25, 2019 18:54:54 GMT
I do like the etiquette in German Opera Houses (and presumably other theatres?) that everybody stays standing up by their seat until everyone in the row has arrived. I didn't know that. I'm now wondering if I turned up on a German equivalent of this thread for not staying standing for long enough! Oh well, it was 2006 so probably a bit too late to worry about it now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2019 0:29:07 GMT
Young(er than me) woman sat next to me at Richard II on Tuesday night. Enormous bag which didn’t fit under the seat, so she was man-spreading her legs around the bag (on those bloody flip down circle seats at the Almeida where space is at a premium. Lots of rustling in the many pocketed bag before the play starts, to find her notebook and pen.
She then proceeds to remove the lid of her crappy biro before each scribble, put the lid back on, close the notebook, open it, take the lid off, scribble, put the lid back on. This repeats until the end of John of Gaunt’s “is now leased out” speech, which she finally realises you can leave the lid on and not piss off the human next to you.
At least I should be happy that she wasn’t typing on her phone or laptop a la Kerry Mitchell.
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Jan 26, 2019 15:06:08 GMT
Yelling, ' turn off yr ******* Phone' quite loud would have made you feel better. But you would prob have had to enjoy the rest of the show from the pavement outside. That's the problem. Like being at school, we need the teacher to be in control. Where was the usher? Too far away to get their attention, sadly, at least not without making even more of a disturbance.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2019 19:06:00 GMT
...Young Japanese couple beside me. During the shuffling, she drops her phone into the next row. Doesn't even attempt to thank the person handing it back.... Rant ends. Please don't misconstrue this as a racist post/view but something I've noticed living in a large city is the lack of manners and seeming entitlement from Asians. The amount of doors I've held open to be ignored, moved out the way as they swept past banging me with bags and other actions that could be responded to with a meagre 'thanks' is countless. I don't know if its a cultural difference or what, but something I've noticed of late.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jan 27, 2019 10:58:34 GMT
...Young Japanese couple beside me. During the shuffling, she drops her phone into the next row. Doesn't even attempt to thank the person handing it back.... Rant ends. Please don't misconstrue this as a racist post/view but something I've noticed living in a large city is the lack of manners and seeming entitlement from Asians. The amount of doors I've held open to be ignored, moved out the way as they swept past banging me with bags and other actions that could be responded to with a meagre 'thanks' is countless. I don't know if its a cultural difference or what, but something I've noticed of late. I know what that is, it's a class thing. In some cultures you are forbidden from speaking to a lower class
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 27, 2019 12:48:50 GMT
I mean, I do see stuff in other languages myself, but I make a point of reading a synopsis beforehand and know what I'm getting into. Eurovision Song Contest? Doesn’t count 😬
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Post by The Matthew on Jan 27, 2019 13:50:11 GMT
The Eurovision Song Contest is mostly in English now. For 90% of the audience almost all of it is in a foreign language.
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Post by Mark on Jan 27, 2019 15:56:15 GMT
Must say, when i've been the lost Englishman in Japan trying to figure out the metro system, I've often been stopped and offered help finding where I need to be.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2019 20:00:59 GMT
At the cinema today. The small arts centre one. To set the scene it's the small screen and it's sold out. There's only one way out and that's the left hand aisle. On the right there is less than I'd sat a foot of space, and a wall. Across the back (we discover) is probably about another foot of space.
3/4 of the way through the film, your man in the middle of our row decides he's going out. He clambers over everyone and gets to me on the end. Discovers his not insubstantial self (he's a larger gent in height and stature) will not fit in the small gap, between me and the wall. Squashes me against my seat, eventually goes up to the back and shuffles along with much noise behind us all, then walks down the actual aisle and out.
Pause
He comes back in. He pauses at the back. Shuffles along the back. Gets to my row/me. Stands there, half in half out. Changes his mind. Looks for another seat (it's sold out but there is in fact one spare seat the row in front, he dithers some more) he clambers over the woman in front of me. Gets to the centre seat eventually.
Then realises his bag is in the seat behind, where he left it. Spends an amount of time trying to get that. Eventually does.
All of this was over James McArdle's final scene proper in the film. Which is not insignificant to the plot for a start. But given I specifically was the person he blocked for half of it...well let's just say he's lucky he lived.
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Post by peggs on Jan 27, 2019 20:27:45 GMT
Goodness @emicardiff that man has no idea who close he came did he!
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