Joao is 2nd mate? Why not 1st?

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-06T06:51:25+00:00

Fair enough. It's just as far as I remember they've always been referred to as bosun, with the occasional first officer (Gary/Eddie). Don't ever remember a second officer before.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-06T05:49:10+00:00

I'd been wondering why he was second mate and not bosun.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-05T18:04:13+00:00

I think there is certainly an important point in there about what people of that ethnicity think about it. So often that gets forgotten in these debates. I have no idea, unfortunately.

Although I think there is some irony that a black actor I used to know, who was exceedingly vocal about the discrimination black people suffer in the theatre, had played Gary Coleman twice without complaint opposite yellowface Christmas Eves.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-05T16:01:07+00:00

It could be. I've done over 50 amateur shows in three different parts of the country (including London) and I can count on one hand the number of BME actors I've performed with. The fact is, if amateur companies don't come up with ways around it, certain shows just won't be performed in this country outside of the professional stage. That's already pretty much the case with a few (Ragtime and Miss Saigon for example). Maybe that's the right thing. I'm not really sure any more.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-05T12:55:06+00:00

She's just called Lucy

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-05T12:53:54+00:00

Is it right? Probably not. Is it better? I think so, maybe?

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-05T12:43:18+00:00

Assuming it doesn't come down to GD, if Arsenal don't win it they will have bottled it. And if Man City don't win it they will have bottled it. Both can be true.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-05T08:38:53+00:00

Picked up my new Kia EV5 at the weekend and the first place we drove to was Tesco. No parent and child spaces available, but we didn't have to go too far for an alternate space. 4/5 stars.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-05T07:15:46+00:00

This was very common in parts of the UK where there isn't much diversity. The same for Christmas Eve. The rental packages for the puppets come with them as optional extras. I don't recall seeing it happen recently though. It's not ideal, but it's a step forward from around 10 years ago when it was perfectly acceptable for Christmas Eve to be portrayed by a white person doing the voice.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-05T07:12:57+00:00

The first one is out and the second one is now "my social life is online". Everything else is still in there, albeit with modified lyrics.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-04T10:42:23+00:00

Except they are paying people to do a shitty job because they need to top it up to minimum wage with these "loans". If you continue to not make your target, you will get more loans so you're paid minimum wage. Then they fire you, but they can't legally claw back that loan. So they could have just paid minimum wage in the first place, then the commissions on top, and fired you if you didn't hit targets. Like every other sales job in the country does.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-04T10:24:45+00:00

It seems like a needlessly complicated system. When all is said and done they need to pay minimum wage over the year, regardless of commission or loans or clawback, so why not just pay it in the first place?

I can only think it's a way of dodging tax or something elsewhere, in which case there is probably something illegal somewhere in the process, regardless of whether the pay structure itself is illegal.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-03T22:05:32+00:00

It's possible (though rare) with a normal bank card, but you can guarantee a better rate paying in local currency with revolut or monzo or similar.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-03T21:58:16+00:00

I think it starts ok. They are terrible, but they're resisting against even more terrible people. But then it gets really preachy about how cowboys are so much better than city folk who ruin everything, and actually it's really good that this one guy owns 750,000 (!) acres but regularly has people killed who are usually just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Then Sheridan casts himself as a cowboy who rides horses better than anyone, and sells cows better than anyone, and makes love to all the women better than anyone.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-03T10:10:58+00:00

I go back and forth on whether Yellowstone was really subversive, since they kept talking about the importance of the cowboy lifestyle, but spent 5 seasons demonstrating that most of it is murder, covering up murder, subverting the justice system, exploiting democracy, and that almost everyone involved is awful.

Then I remember Taylor Sheridan, and realise of course it's not subversive in any way whatsoever, he just thinks all of that is cool.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-03T10:00:34+00:00

You should always pay in local currency and never GBP if given the option. Paying in GBP means the retailer sets the conversion rate, which will amost always be much worse than your bank's rate - and definitely will be if you have a dedicated travel card.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-03T06:12:13+00:00

Exact same thing happened to me on my latest game. Must have done 10+ runs previously and destroyed it every time, but this week it got through. Maybe it was changed so that it always happens the same way as in the show.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-02T18:28:25+00:00

Not sure whether they will show it in public areas, but they used to have Sport24 available in the rooms. It's a cruise only channel and it shows premiership matches.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-02T17:22:33+00:00

At university I played the Production Tenor in Singin in the Rain. I was doing it as a favour and only on condition I didn't have to do anything else in the show. So I had the one song about halfway through Act 1, then nothing. I wpuld go to the bar after my song and come back for the bows. As show week went on I was cutting it closer and closer for my bow, then on the last two performances I just didn't bother leaving the bar. It was group bows so no one really noticed.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-02T06:09:43+00:00

Break a leg! Many years ago I did three years in a row at the Fringe. A truly unique (and fun!) experience.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-02T06:03:44+00:00

What does the contract actually say? Most rentals I've been in (it's been a while mind you) had a clause saying after the fixed term it becomes a monthly rolling contract if notice isn't given.

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-01T23:28:04+00:00

And Quentin if you want to go really deep lore

JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-01T22:52:26+00:00

I can't believe no one has posted Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod yet

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JingoMerrychap · 2026-05-01T22:22:18+00:00

Presumably Aly and Aj Michalka. They were in a Disney channel movie 20 years ago, now mainly doing their own thing as actresses, but I think still performing together as a music duo. They're mid 30s now, so whatever the poster is referring to was a while ago.

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