do you also cut your wrists
pretend you read the tibetean book of the dead and rate dostoevsky as the greatest poet (you never read or you'd know better)?
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:19, archived)

No, I've not done any of that
But I fucking love Les Mis
(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:21, archived)

I like musicals
But thought I would hate Les Mis. I didn't. I thought it was ok. But god how fucking depressing.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:23, archived)

Oh yes, but there's nothing like a good weepy
I'd love to play Javert.
(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:26, archived)

Can you sing?
Yeah saying that West Side story made me weep, and Evita. It's the worthiness of it I think that made me cringe a bit.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:30, archived)

I'm seeing Chess tomorrow night
Looking forward to it.

The only time I cry at fiction is musicals. Les Mis, Blood Brothers and Into the Woods when I saw it on Monday. I know the story of Into the Woods back to front, but there was a little twist at the end that pulled my heartstrings a lot.

Also, the little girl from Outnumbered was sat behind me. Just saying.
(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:35, archived)

did you see the piaf one (rose something)?
i wouldn't mind being dragged to that
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:41, archived)

The fuck are you on about

(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:42, archived)

La vie en rose?
I think that was just a movie. Mind you wept buckets. So fucking sad.
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:43, archived)

no it was on the west end too
paige did it.. it probably wasn't the rose name.. being a musical it was probably something obvious like 'le sparrow'
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:47, archived)

Oh my
I have seen Blood Brothers quite a few times. OO even with Babs Dickson in the early years! It makes me weep everytime. And jump at the end!
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:43, archived)

TELL ME IT'S NOT TRUUUUUUUE

(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:45, archived)

from and old movie
years agooooooooooooooooooooooooo
( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:47, archived)

oh god I didn't read this first
CHESS?!

REALLY MAN

I SUPPOSE YOU LIKE ABBA, TOO

FUUUUCK
( Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:01, archived)

Abba are a lot more acceptable than Chess.

( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:02, archived)

Benny and Bjorn can fuck right off

( Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:44, archived)

wait, you cry at musicals?!
 
DO YOU EVEN HAVE ANY TESTICLES AT ALL
( Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:02, archived)

Guess who's done that.
It's me. I have.
( ArthurTheRat, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:42, archived)

AND SO IT HAS BEEN
SO IT IS WRITTEN
ON THE DOOOORWAAAAAAAY TO PARADISE
(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:43, archived)

it's a terrible book
bastardized by a twat with no ear
i thought you liked music?

what is the appeal?
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:25, archived)

were they just missing one ear?

( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:26, archived)

no i think both
it's like van gogh with a hovering chair
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:29, archived)

It's an awesome musical
Never read the book. Don't really wish to.

Why don't you like it?
(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:27, archived)

Probably because they like the book.
ZING!
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:30, archived)

the music is ATROCIOUS
way too melodramatic story (when it doesn't need to be)
it was a mess.. a horrible mess
and the audience stunk of adult nappy pants

PLUS most musicals are rank.. bugsy malone & little shop of horrors are OK
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:33, archived)

What about that episode of Buffy where they all sang?

( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:34, archived)

Or that Scrubs episode where they sing about poo

(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:36, archived)

I stoped watching scrubs after it went mainstream, yo.

( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:53, archived)

I preferred it when it was on vinyl as well.

( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:55, archived)

Fuck that, it sold out when it moved to wax cylinders.

( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:02, archived)

ALL my gay friends insist it is awesome
one day i might get into buffy
though i imagine i'll be wearing adult nappy pants when i do
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:36, archived)

I hate Buffy

( Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:47, archived)

i don't hate it
i just prefer when it's not around
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:50, archived)

and Angel, too?
how about Firefly?

Finally started on Dollhouse over here, not too bad (so long as you don't mind Eliza Dushku)
( Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:30, archived)

Ah! You like fun comedic musicals
I understand now.
(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:35, archived)

no i don't like musicals as a whole
i've seen a bunch (obligation due to relatives and me in london)
they usually sing in american voices *jazz hands* fucking awful
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:41, archived)

I think you'd love Into the Woods
Or Avenue Q.

I'm looking forward to the musical about Roald Dahl's Matilda, written by Tim Minchin.
(__, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:42, archived)

i'd much rather go see an opera
musicals are for fucking simpletons
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:51, archived)

What about Gilbert and Sullivan productions?
That's sort of halfway between the two.
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:54, archived)

Exactly.
The screeching pomposity of opera fused with the naff shitness of musicals.
( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:59, archived)

Not quite what I was going for
But you make a good point.
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:27, archived)

opera has proper passion
and decent tunes.. musicals are just the beatles done with an orchestra
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:46, archived)

also awful
i'd still consider that them as a musical.. or operetta light
i had to sing them at school.. music teachers can be sadists
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:26, archived)

Tim Minchin's writing a Mathilda musical?
This may be worth going to see.
( Spider Fucking Riviera got stiches for a knife wound for the first time, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:56, archived)

anyone that likes tim minchins
might as well cut off their genetalia now
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:48, archived)

Must admit I don't get Tim Minchin
Probably because I'm old and out of touch with current comedy.
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:51, archived)

i doubt it's to do with age
more that pathetic rhyming just because your signing puts you up there with
oh.. coldplay?
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:55, archived)

I agree!
Quite like Sweeny Todd too.
But generally musical theatre is worse than Giardiasis and Chris Moyles combined.
( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 3:58, archived)

Are you ever intending to get your food blog back up and running?
Used to like reading that.
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:02, archived)

I may start again soon.
I've got kimchi chocolate, Cambodian fried locusts and big mac soup in the works, but working 9am-6pm, 7 days a week right now, and looking after pregnant wife, so very little time available.
( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:29, archived)

oh that kind of food..
don't you realise there are fellas over here that need a stringy wife and year long sun
hw to cut the visa restrictions would be handy on your blog
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:44, archived)

*Cough*
Malaysia
*Cough*
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:47, archived)

malaysia has restrictions too
6months if i remember.. hopping over to somewhere else every 6-9mnths is boring
i need a place betwix my relatives.. not to close but cheap enough to travel to
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:51, archived)

There are worse things in the world
Than a bi-yearly weekend trip to Bangkok, Jakarta or Singapore.
Your visa is renewed upon re-entry to the country.
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:53, archived)

true
but if they change the rules again.. who knows what will happen
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:59, archived)

Bi Yearly
Jakarta! Live there.
Bangkok. (Well Pattaya really) Have a house there!
Singapore. Shove it up yer arse! hate the place!
( fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:08, archived)

Heh- wondered when you would show up.

( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:21, archived)

Having access issues here.
They have 1/2 heartedly put proxies in place and they deny access to b3ta approximately 5 minutes out of 15... cunts!
( fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:24, archived)

That's no good.
I've just booked a holiday- not sure that it's the best decision I've ever made but I'll play it through and see what happens.
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:26, archived)

Where are you going?

( fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:36, archived)

Kiev- in the middle of December.

( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:52, archived)

Hi. I just want to agree with you about Singapore here.
Most miserable population I have ever seen.
The Malays, Chinese & Indians seem to not even speak to each-other (unlike KL for example).
( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:45, archived)

On my first visit I was pleasantly surprised at what I thought to be a "neat and tidy" city.
But, after at least 20 visits I am now jaded with the whole place!
( fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 6:11, archived)

h right
whoops.. as you were
(rigby happened on (and with added toothache), Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:53, archived)

Visas for China are piss easy, nobody even cares.
If you want year round sun you'd probably be better off going elsewhere though.
( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:53, archived)

I think stuj was denied one
But that may be because of his job.
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:54, archived)

It's literally the only time I've ever heard of it happening.

( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:55, archived)

Perhaps they were trying to save Ding from being raped.

( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:57, archived)

Fair point.
Congratulations on marriage and not being sterile.

So much passes by when you're not watching.
Are you intending to stay in China for the foreseeable future or do you envisage a time that you might permanently return to the UK?
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:46, archived)

I'll come back to the UK at some point.
Absolutely not sending my kids to Chinese schools.
And I'm tired of living in the one place in the world where a TEFL trainer gets paid less than the teachers he's training.
( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:51, archived)

Would you return to the UK though?
You've obviously become acclimatised to foreign living- so why not, for example, France, Spain or Holland?
( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:56, archived)

I wouldn't!
I left the UK in 1986. I really don't think I would fit in any more...
( fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:10, archived)

It's shit here anyway.

( Lord Gnome, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:35, archived)

I know!
I'm back for about 8 days in October and not looking forward to it at all.
( fagilliD Fuck I'm good!, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:37, archived)

I might just travel around forever.
We'll see.
( Zuowan, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 5:43, archived)

the music really is terrible
still, could be worse, at least it's not Chess, or anything by Lloyd Webber post-Cats
 
( Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 4:00, archived)