The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

Poor bees.

Rory Kinnear? Is that Roy Kinnear's son?

I know what you mean about "modern interpretation". The Richard III movie of years ago was embarrassing, & I've saw other ones on stage back in my uni days that reeked of trying to be "rad" for the sake of it. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" seems one of those that can be done pretty much any way without hassle, possibly because there's no real historical context to it. The version I last saw had Hermia as a hot chick and Helena as a nerd - it worked brilliantly, pure early Buffy & Willow mismatch, & the whole case apart from the fey hammed it up something wicked (esp. the dude playing Bottom, which is always a good excuse to go OTT!)

Twice I've been at the theatre when a mobile phone has gone off & someone on stage has shouted some barbed comment to give everyone a good laugh at their expense. They were lucky: at the Edinburgh Playhouse I saw someone thrown out by security (he didn't go quietly either). They tell people to switch off their mobiles before performances, & it's downright bloody selfish of them not to both doing so.

The garden is now like a paddy field from the amount of rain we've had last night & this morning. To think a fortnight ago I was fighting a losing battle trying to stop it all from drying out!

Someone locally got conned out of money by someone pretending to be a police officer saying they were investigating a fraud on their account they hadn't even known about & asking for their bank card & PIN number. They handed it over & were cleaned out via cash dispensers within a week, only discovering the truth when they went down to the police to ask how much longer they were going to be. How stupid can some people get?