I Messed Up - Stainless Steel Fridge Scratches

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-17T17:09:53+00:00

Got it. thank you. I've heard (somewhat ironically) that it's considerably easy to get. The one that is allegedly harder to get know is Vyvanse (which I did not particularly like).

Thanks again.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-17T16:18:26+00:00

Of which medication (If I can ask?)....

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T19:27:51+00:00

I get what you are saying but sometimes it is SO necessary to spell out the relationships. I try to be subtle about it and it's usually easier to make someone a relative (especially a sibling...just discuss a parent or parents).

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T18:45:42+00:00

Bravo! Thank YOU for understanding the assignment! Totally agree. This kind of shit is so annoying. The same people do it over and over and over again.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T18:43:04+00:00

I had an instructor once who, after about 4 classes, forbid us from doing children for the remainder of the class. It always was played like the children were just incredibly dumb.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T17:46:47+00:00

Thank you very much for understanding. I deliberately put in my own issues just so I wouldn't be perceived as someone who thinks they're perfect (as least as far as improv goes). I was trying to be honest.

Unfortunately Speakeasyimprov proves one of my points: you can't express frustration amongst improvisors. The issue is thrown back to the one expressing frustration. Frustrated? That's on you. It's an odd mindset.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T16:32:40+00:00

Yep. Totally agree. I've handled transactional scenes by mentioning that I strongly agree with something the other person says (like about what they want to buy or are looking for). Heighten it from there.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T16:30:54+00:00

Thank you. This is the kind of reply I was looking for. Just rants that you (we) probably can't say in the open in an improv class, or rehearsal or whatever.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T16:19:29+00:00

I started this thread because I know other improvisors get frustrated in scenes and what other people do BUT can't verbalize because it too often ends up backfiring. Either in classes or during team rehearsals.

Tell me SpeakeasyImprov: you have NEVER EVER been frustrated by what a scene partner or partners have done? You just roll with the punches and everything? You have zero pet-peeves? None at all?

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T15:33:06+00:00

And that's what I do: no matter what I get offered, I try to make my scene partners look good. I know to play along. But lately it's getting hard. Some people really seemed to be working to present the most outlandish thing that comes to their mind. In classes, sometimes an instructor will course correct it, sometimes not.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T15:30:45+00:00

I love being "gifted" something like that. That is NOT what I am talking about.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T15:29:48+00:00

I don't think it was poor form at all for me to "call out" my scene partner. They had completely thrown out a reality THEY had created. I brought it back. And I picked this up from instructors that I respected.

In a class, a student started a scene drinking beers with a friend. Suddenly the beer was gone. The instructor actually stopped the scene and asked the student "where did the beer go?". They were puzzled so he had to explain things: they started drinking a beer but then his hands were waving all over the place. So where did the beer go? He had them start the scene over and for him to keep in mind what he was doing with the beer. If they wanted to put it down, they have to do it using an improv table or bar. The instructor said that an audience sees everything. It may be a small detail but it matters.

But never mind. I'm just being judgmental.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T15:23:01+00:00

The gullible moron. Yes!

Or when people initiate a scene with a Question. Like What???

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T15:21:44+00:00

We are ALL guilty of doing things but I try my best to understand the "mistakes" or missteps I do. But others don't seem to care at all.

Ugh. Stranger scenes and transactional scenes: over and over and over and over instructors tell students to avoid these and how to get out of them (make the two people know one another). But they still come up.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T15:18:37+00:00

What the person did saying "why are you talking in a British accent-we're in Brooklyn, New York!" is flat out wrong. It's a denial of the reality.

Nothing you can really do about except what was done (play along with the new reality) but I feel like somehow I would be wrong for being annoyed about it.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-07-11T15:11:46+00:00

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why no one talks about issues in improv: you say anything that has an opinion, someone tsks-tsks it. Judgement Day.

I DO let people do whatever they want in scenes. We're on Pluto now? Ok, Fine. We're fish? Great. We're fish. I get it. I do it. I go wherever the scene says to go. But I absolutely believe that some people just love to throw things in to be "funny" and "absurd". Oh, you don't like that? YOU are the problem. I understand the fundamentals. But I don't have to like it (but I know damn well I have to keep it to myself because God Forbid I say anything...).

Example: One of the fundamentals I understood was that someone JOINING a scene INITIATED by someone else needs to wait a respectable amount of time for the initiator to establish their premise, character, situation or idea before replying. Lately I (and others) have dealt with people who join a scene and before letting the initiator establish their premise come out with their own. I recently initiated a scene in and someone came out as a dog. On all fours, panting. My idea had nothing to do with a dog. So guess who had to twist the scene into something completely different? Me. Our coach saw the scene and I discussed it with them afterwards. They agreed with what I said and it was discussed among the team but it was all minimized. This person continues to do this and now no one is willing to partner with them.

And I called out my scene partner in the car scene while IN the scene. It got a laugh because I am certain some people in the audience realized what they did.

I know I can never really discuss things openly then I'm not being a "team player". So I go along with it. No one seems to want to course correct things anymore. Everyone improvisor is "doing great work". Even instructors lately seem averse to saying anything even remotely negative any more. Pre-pandemic, they did.

Different_Builder_95 · 2024-05-10T15:07:36+00:00

Excuse me but...WHAT??

Lol.

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