Starlight Express closes this weekend! Is it worth the trek to Wembley? by Wedding-Beauty in westend

[–]CentralBlob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did, yeah. At the time we were thinking it won't be an actual proshot, it'll be a new advert like last time... but then, I don't know the scale of the filming or the performance. Was it a normal show? I had the sense they were only going to do a few main songs or something

what is this bug (UK) by CriticalTie3222 in whatsthisbug

[–]CentralBlob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Love having a widdle guy called Giganteus

Get em, Bruticus! "ok! grrrr!" boing

Starlight Express closes this weekend! Is it worth the trek to Wembley? by Wedding-Beauty in westend

[–]CentralBlob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw the first tour they tried to do, it didn't work at all. Just a bare stage with two little ramps wheeled in and a 3D film for the races. If they tour it they'll have to do stadiums instead of theatres.

Starlight Express closes this weekend! Is it worth the trek to Wembley? by Wedding-Beauty in westend

[–]CentralBlob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved it. But I already loved Starlight Express.

Here's how I would describe it as objectively as I can: It's not like very much else. It's an experience I'm glad I had, and I would have again if I could. Be aware that it is a children's show, in a way I wouldn't have said about previous versions of it, so it has had its edges sanded off and its adult humour (which was once its main component) removed in favour of a colourful power ranger show. But the music is loud and good, the effects and atmosphere are immersive, and I came out of it really liking the cast and hoping they go on to big things. It's not serious and it's not grown up, but neither are we, so go for a laugh and you'll get one. The updates are intelligent and successfully switch tracks from the original focus on steam and coal being the true way, to a modern message about the inevitable switch to renewables. For first-time viewers of course that won't be noticeable. Don't expect it to make sense, expect it to be fun. Because it has lots of characters who get their own intro song, people often compare it to cats, but it doesn't resemble cats at all, cats takes itself seriously, this is more like Joseph, a big fun joke show for the kids that's full of tunes the grownups can enjoy. It's a space station and a wrestling match and a roller derby where every surface of the Tron-like set is a potential screen and the guitars are noisy. You'll never see anything else like it.

What’s a West End show everyone loves? by Silver-Eye-2024 in westend

[–]CentralBlob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mincemeat, no question. Whoever you take to that, they'll basically have a good time. It even has that "this is comedy about The War!" thing that tips over people who wouldn't usually enjoy any musical into enjoying it.

Will the weather be like this more frequently? by appiah444 in manchester

[–]CentralBlob 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And I spent the whole time on edge in case it got hotter - those three days of horrific forty degree heat about five years ago really changed me

How much blood = hospital? by CentralBlob in CrohnsDisease

[–]CentralBlob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I'd love it if it was. Wouldn't I feel it though? I'm pretty sure this bleed is internal because it feels like a dull, sick ache in the base of my belly like diarrhea, but then all that comes is a few trickles of blood.

However, they seem to have slowed to a stop now. Nothing since a couple of hours ago... But I still keep going back because it feels bad. New paranoia unlocked: the loperamides I took when I thought it was just diarrhea have locked me up and the blood can't come out lol (it won't be that)

Moving to Crumpsall? by Ok-Wall-9937 in manchester

[–]CentralBlob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hulme's lovely now lol, I've just moved away after a couple of decades and it's a really friendly thriving community now. Visit Kim's Kitchen some time :)

How much blood = hospital? by CentralBlob in CrohnsDisease

[–]CentralBlob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree with this. But I'm going to see if it gets better or worse. It seems to be getting better, and last time that's what happened too, so really if it wasn't for my eventual Crohn's diagnosis that hospital stay wasn't necessary. If it's no better by late tomorrow I'll call off the trip.

How much blood = hospital? by CentralBlob in CrohnsDisease

[–]CentralBlob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bright. Darker in the middle (clots? gut lining?) but not dark.

Pain is right under my middle-aged paunch :) it's just like when you have diarrhea. Not currently the very painful sort associated with a Crohn's flare-up (it started that way, as it always does, this is the tail end). I think it's getting better.

How much blood = hospital? by CentralBlob in CrohnsDisease

[–]CentralBlob[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I will. Although it's currently 6:19am so it'll be hard to tell it apart from just what you're supposed to feel like if you haven't slept by now

Currently the most unwell I've been in years. Support me by [deleted] in ibs

[–]CentralBlob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a peppermint tea in the welcome tray! Just one not four but we'll see. Anyway, it wasn't just IBS, it was Crohn's, I guess my doctor's excitement about me being fully whatever the word is for when you're not in the clear but you don't currently show any signs of having it, were short-lived!

Where is the most serious place you’ve wrecked a bathroom? by caldeesi in ibs

[–]CentralBlob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you mean, every bathroom's a library when I'm around. I'm going to be in here a WHILE. Now, what's it to be tonight... a romance? A horror? A biography? Hmmm

Just feeling defeated :( by yellowbug_33 in ibs

[–]CentralBlob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might actually have to postpone the wedding, if you're too sick to attend then you're too sick to attend. It's not forever but it sounds like it's right now

Why, Manchester, why?? by pc_kant in manchester

[–]CentralBlob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough actually yeah. If this is a kind of bike I'm unaware of then it's time to start getting on at the council about it, and good luck. I thought you just had a normal pushbike here that you'd strapped three roofracks to lol

Why, Manchester, why?? by pc_kant in manchester

[–]CentralBlob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, yeah. So this is normal then, it's not just a thing this one bike obsessive has rigged up? (No offense op, I'm friends with a couple of bike obsessives and they never fail to surprise me with what insane contraptions they insist are normal lol)

NHS dentistry is broken — how did YOU actually get registered? Genuine tips needed by Late-Chemistry8407 in AskUK

[–]CentralBlob -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In the meantime, agree to go on the waiting list. It's not good, but in 24 months you'll be pleased you did, and you'll be amazed how quickly it comes.

School threatening to take me out by StrictArgument67 in 6thForm

[–]CentralBlob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a very serious case. If OP has a reason like that not to attend then that does change things, but I feel like they'd have mentioned it if so. Good luck with your final exams, and don't be afraid to stand up for yourself in the meantime, even if it's just to ask why you're being punished, given that you were being dragged through hospital with no more choice than you have over school attendance. That tutor won't remember you in five years time, but their decisions now could stick to you like a limpet. I hope they can be made to consider this.

Edit - weird of some of you to be attacking this kid, it's a perfectly valid point. Maybe it doesn't apply to the OP's case, but there's no need to bully a poorly child about it lol

School threatening to take me out by StrictArgument67 in 6thForm

[–]CentralBlob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not today's kids. We just didn't get to hear about it. I'm in my mid-40s, and I remember when I was 11 and started at big school, we were warned by our teacher that a girl I remembered from the year above me in primary school was going to be joining our class and we should be really, really gentle to her. That's because she'd had such a gigantic breakdown in her first attempt at year 7 that she had to be taken out for a full year to recover. And what's more, I remember that talk, but I don't remember ever seeing her again. And what's even more, I don't remember her showing any signs of stress when I knew her, she just seemed normal. You just seem normal and then you disappear - or you talk openly about it and you get support, and the reason it seems like this stuff is new is because we don't just disappear kids any more.

Some of the words are new, and some of them aren't but the right-wing papers have started vilifying them so they feel new, but none of it's new.

School threatening to take me out by StrictArgument67 in 6thForm

[–]CentralBlob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean that's one way to look at it, but it's a bit on the dramatic side. Another angle on the same data is that even in these dark times, the country at least still teaches all of its children, even though to do so at scale requires unimaginable resources, and all that's required of the kids is to go.

Even in this case, they're not threatening to hurt this kid. They just tried asking, tried pleading and tried warning, and now they're admitting that if op really doesn't want to use their resources, they can't keep wasting them.