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Post by mkb on Dec 3, 2024 12:01:46 GMT
I used to love a choc ice as a kid. My grandma would buy cheap shop own-brands, and they were impossible to eat without dropping at least one bit of the "chocolate" coating.
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Post by mkb on Dec 4, 2024 11:50:20 GMT
I prefer to have printed tickets for shows, also for travel. I don't like to be completely reliant on my mobile phone for anything. I still pay cash for most purchases. I appreciate I'm in a minority these days but I'm sure I'm far from alone. Most theatre groups include the ticket as a PDF with the booking confirmation. Some issue it a few hours or a couple of days pre show. Nedelander Theatres does neither. My attempts to print their tickets always lead to the same message "Please use your mobile device for entry. Printed tickets will not be accepted". I strongly object to the second sentence there. There is a workround for this, my daughter printed the ticket last time I was at the Dominion but she's at work right now and I can't remember it so I'll be going to the box office at the Dominion to collect a ticket. I've done that before and it's no big deal for me BUT I think the wording Nedelander uses and the message it conveys is unacceptable. "Please use your mobile device for entry if possible. If you ae unable to do so please go to the Box Office to collect your ticket" would convey the request without the "threat" of no phone, no entry. The cash bit aside, I fully agree. I'm no Luddite -- IT is my profession -- but I would never go anywhere without hard copies of tickets. Just look at the numbers. There are tens of millions of mobile phones in the UK, all of which will die or seriously malfunction eventually, often unexpectedly. There must be thousands of people every day to whom it happens. My last one failed completely a couple of months ago. Luckily it was a day when I was home, but imagine it was during a weekend in London and all my train and theatre bookings had not been printed off. Theatre would have been rescuable via the box office provided you have the time, but woe betide anyone on a train unable to show a valid ticket. I also like to save my paper theatre tickets with the programme so I can see where I sat, when I went and how much I paid. (Actually, all of that is also in my Google Calendar, but it's nice to have it printed off for immediacy and the day when some terrorist virus, or more likely a software bug, takes out Google's server farms.) I also prefer CDs and Blu-Ray/UHD discs. I can't imagine paying for streamed content and not having your own hard copy, not least because of subsequent censorship that decides that original content has to be re-edited or withdrawn. |
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Post by FrontrowverPaul on Dec 4, 2024 13:28:45 GMT
Just to say I unintentionally deleted my original post while making an amendment. Sorry.
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Post by paulbrownsey on Dec 4, 2024 17:09:12 GMT
I prefer to have printed tickets for shows, also for travel. I don't like to be completely reliant on my mobile phone for anything. I still pay cash for most purchases. I appreciate I'm in a minority these days but I'm sure I'm far from alone. Most theatre groups include the ticket as a PDF with the booking confirmation. Some issue it a few hours or a couple of days pre show. Nedelander Theatres does neither. My attempts to print their tickets always lead to the same message "Please use your mobile device for entry. Printed tickets will not be accepted". I strongly object to the second sentence there. There is a workround for this, my daughter printed the ticket last time I was at the Dominion but she's at work right now and I can't remember it so I'll be going to the box office at the Dominion to collect a ticket. I've done that before and it's no big deal for me BUT I think the wording Nedelander uses and the message it conveys is unacceptable. "Please use your mobile device for entry if possible. If you ae unable to do so please go to the Box Office to collect your ticket" would convey the request without the "threat" of no phone, no entry. The cash bit aside, I fully agree. I'm no Luddite -- IT is my profession -- but I would never go anywhere without hard copies of tickets. Just look at the numbers. There are tens of millions of mobile phones in the UK, all of which will die or seriously malfunction eventually, often unexpectedly. There must be thousands of people every day to whom it happens. My last one failed completely a couple of months ago. Luckily it was a day when I was home, but imagine it was during a weekend in London and all my train and theatre bookings had not been printed off. Theatre would have been rescuable via the box office provided you have the time, but woe betide anyone on a train unable to show a valid ticket. I also like to save my paper theatre tickets with the programme so I can see where I sat, when I went and how much I paid. (Actually, all of that is also in my Google Calendar, but it's nice to have it printed off for immediacy and the day when some terrorist virus, or more likely a software bug, takes out Google's server farms.) I also prefer CDs and Blu-Ray/UHD discs. I can't imagine paying for streamed content and not having your own hard copy, not least because of subsequent censorship that decides that original content has to be re-edited or withdrawn. Going to the box-office to collect a ticket sounds like that dreadfully old-fashioned thing, now almost impossible, of...going to the box-office to buy a ticket. Since I don't have a smart phone, I won't be able to go to the theatre if Nedelander's practice becomes universal. Ah, well, there we are. |
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Post by ceebee on Dec 4, 2024 17:47:26 GMT
Just to say I unintentionally deleted my original post while making an amendment. Sorry. That's what happens when you're zipping all around the UK watching theatre FrontrowverPaul  |
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Post by aingidh on Dec 5, 2024 16:29:15 GMT
Many box offices don't even have printers now, like most of the time if you buy tickets in-person you just get emailed the QR code.
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Post by hannechalk on Dec 5, 2024 20:26:42 GMT
My bad behaviour by a theatre was at the Royal Court Liverpool for 'Boys From The Blackstuff'.
I had missed the original run, so when they announced a second, I was straight on the site booking a ticket as soon as the announcement was made.
It stated non-dining customers would be seated in stalls on the benches from the front based on time of booking. As I literally made my purchase within five minutes of the announcement being made, I was looking forward to a seat fairly close to the front.
Imagine my surprise when I found I was literally on the last seat at the back of the stalls. I couldn't help but feel it was because I booked a single ticket. The people on the balcony were closer to the stage than I was.
I did complain, and their reply was polite, but in future I shall book balcony.
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Post by lt on Dec 6, 2024 13:51:19 GMT
The Hammersmith Lyric seems hopeless about responding to emails, I wrote to them months ago, followed up twice. Heard absolutely nothing. I wrote to point out that the audience warning for a production contained key info about the plot and that the line should be removed. Even if they don't agree, it would have been a basic courtesy to respond.
Then perhaps optimistically I tried them again after seeing A Raisin in the Sun, where I experienced the worst audience behaviour I have ever seen at a show. Not helped by the ushers continually entering and leaving the Dress Circle and they seemed utterly unaware of the disruption they were causing. (Admittedly, not nearly as bad as the audience's behaviour). Again no response to my email.
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