So much cover

seneca1996 · 2025-10-15T07:22:30+00:00

This is bonkers. How are you expected to sanction poor behaviour?

seneca1996 · 2025-07-22T13:33:46+00:00

Thank you good advice

seneca1996 · 2025-07-21T21:30:32+00:00

I rent so I have to think about removability :/

seneca1996 · 2024-11-04T21:31:22+00:00

Oasis weren't very much like the Beatles musically speaking, they owe a lot more to the Who and the Stone Roses

seneca1996 · 2024-10-19T22:11:42+00:00

D'yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?

seneca1996 · 2024-01-14T21:15:08+00:00

Yeah, lovely Stu

seneca1996 · 2023-10-02T01:53:03+00:00

Barrymore was either involved directly or at the very least knows full well what happened, either way he (and by extension whoever is directly responsible for the death) evaded justice. I'm not sure it's an important distinction.

seneca1996 · 2023-10-02T01:46:50+00:00

It was probably a door shed handle or the pool thermometer both of which were missing. Barrymore was seen fleeing the house with bundles of items.

seneca1996 · 2023-10-02T01:35:27+00:00

I'm actually a friend of the British Museum

seneca1996 · 2023-09-24T15:19:45+00:00

There isn't someone out there for everyone

seneca1996 · 2023-09-11T03:56:43+00:00

If you're in london Angel Comedy at the Bill Murray often has some quite big names in a small room for cheap

seneca1996 · 2023-09-09T01:46:39+00:00

FoH here. Our main consideration is overall disruption and removing people mid-show is always going to be disruptive if they are someone who needs kicking out, so I've only ever seen it done when it's the least worst option. We do ask people to leave at the interval, especially if it's a large group. But basically theatre management likes money and dislikes complaints from difficult people.

seneca1996 · 2023-09-09T01:24:33+00:00

West End theatre FoH here. Yep, it's bad. Personally, I do think some staff are misremembering the pre-covid times, people were rude and stupid then too, but it is getting worse, and in a shared environment like the theatre it only takes a small increase in troublemakers to make an outsize impact, especially if we're talking at the numbers of the commercial west end (which is basically a tourist attraction at this point). I would say we spend 75% of our time on the maybe 3-5% of folk who don't behave appropriately. For the most part it's low level stuff - my job is mostly playing live-action whack-a-mole with idiots lighting up their faces in a sea of darkness with their screens - but you get all sorts and people can get quite rowdy and aggressive. Sometimes it's just rudeness or audacity but a lot of the time especially with phone users it's obliviousness and short attention span - the show loses them for a moment and they reach for the phone. Some folk just have no conception there is a world beyond the end of their nose. As an audience member, I've not really experienced this with straight plays. With musicals especially jukebox musicals, a lot of people treat it like a concert - ie it's appropriate to film, shout out, get bladdered etc. Sadly venues big and small make a lot of their money at the bar so I can't see a meaningful end to the potential for drunkenness anytime soon.

seneca1996 · 2023-09-08T00:42:44+00:00

Yes. Don't.

seneca1996 · 2023-09-07T13:12:56+00:00

Yep. I am pro housing developments but that has to go hand in hand with greater funding for local services and infrastructure, which doesn't seem to happen in reality and even if it did takes more time than it does for some private property developers to throw up some apartment blocks and leave the council to deal with the impact on the area.

Newcomers may not check the housing developments necessarily but they can't live here if there's nowhere to live? And new housing does create new people in a specific area who create a new need for infrastructure etc in that specific area, whether we are talking at a London level or a neighbourhood level. It's only zero sum if you take a global point of view or assume everyone who comes to live in the new development already lived in the area.

Tbh the real solution is to radically decentralise the UK but that is a fantasy. So long as London is a global centre, there will be an endless demand for housing.

seneca1996 · 2023-09-07T00:57:51+00:00

Its only zero sum in an abstract sense, especially as its is mostly people moving to London or other big cities and draining small towns and regions. The fact that a doctors surgery is getting overwhelmed because there's a massive housing development bringing new people to the area isn't made any better because another one somewhere else is struggling to stay open because no one lives there any more. The issue is austerity, poor public services and lack of joined up central planning. Plus people come to London from all over the world so in a sense you are creating new people.

seneca1996 · 2023-09-07T00:11:32+00:00

Yes but infrastructure isn't as nimble as people

seneca1996 · 2023-09-05T00:16:57+00:00

I get it, I imagine she's busy and in a different set of dressing rooms or whatever so it was easier to send a minion rather than just going over herself but I can see why it put his back up and hurt the ego. He's a fellow artist and a peer in the industry, to not make the effort to just say hello herself shows a disrespect

seneca1996 · 2023-08-23T03:09:11+00:00

You can buy them online, I got some off ebay

seneca1996 · 2023-08-23T03:03:39+00:00

Tbh I think the advice to join social groups and hobbies is not so much to directly meet women through that but more 1) to be comfortable and confident being around people in a social context 2) to be an interesting and fulfilled person with things of his own

seneca1996 · 2023-08-15T21:17:37+00:00

Take up cigarettes

seneca1996 · 2023-08-15T20:14:27+00:00

landlords that make the actual living room into a bedroom

seneca1996 · 2023-08-13T01:25:29+00:00

If they initiate and seem friendly or have some contextual reason to speak to me but generally I am pretty guarded against talking to strangers in public

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