In fairness, I have been known to absentmindedly thank an ATM on occasion
Thank you!
Is the stadium update available online anywhere?
But yes, opera doesn't have mass appeal now because it's anachronistic (the style of singing comes from not having microphones etc).
Instead of pretending opera isn't anachronistic, it would be much better to lean into it as part of the charm imo (evening dress as cosplay etc)
You may not have thought it was possible to use a fire in Glasgow to stoke hatred and push a remigration-adjacent agenda while also, er, attempting to sell nicotine pouches to racists, but it turns out it apparently is!
Amusingly, this is not actually me but someone with a similar name!
Maybe this hints at where opera has been going wrong with outreach.
There's a lot of very laudable accessible pricing, but much less "here is why opera is actually good and why you should give it a go".
Perhaps there should be more of the latter as well?
I'm surprised opera people have been so offended and taken back by all this.
It would be like if I got arsy because someone suggested County Championship cricket isn't as popular as the Premier League.
Opera is good and I go sometimes and I'm pro subsidising it up the wazoo, but come on lads
It bizarrely reminds me of living in China, with the government devining some kind of mystical will of "the people" rather than, you know, asking them
But also, absolutely mental that it has a motorway running slap bang through the middle of it
Need one of these for English cricket.
"Rooty"
"Stokesy"
"Brooky"
Nope, just a botoxed Chinese lady telling you that everything in China is fine and the west is falling apart.
It's also home of my favourite ever gameshow, "Marx Is Right"
Also - funny because CCTV is the Chinese state broadcaster
Post this on LinkedIn and create an entire cycle of marketing industry discourse, go on
From various conversations I've had round my neck of the wood, I reckon this undercooks it tbh
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That's the excuse you're telling the neighbours is it?
One year of the championship is funny, but also I don't really want them to go bust.
Winning the Champions League, getting relegated, and then getting an invincible season in the Championship with a Europe-funded squad would be the apotheosis of Spurs
As someone who's very much "a plague on all your houses", I am resentful that Spurs are making something interesting happen in the Premier League
The AQI is 105 in Beijing and 156 in Delhi, if you want a couple of yardsticks
Air quality in London pretty rubbish right now
This video is doing the rounds online, and does a much better job of selling the government's infrastructure plans than they have (the comments are revelatory tbh).
Why isn't Keir Starmer constantly walking around wearing a hardhat with "Rebuilding Britain" on it?
youtu.be/z5L0UNqzGCI?...
Absolute scenes
What would make this a lot easier - newspaper websites having accurate lists of stockists.
Surely not *that* hard to disintermediate the info?
Tired: CND
Wired: #NoFrappe
I was talking to some of the kids and apparently it all kicked off when kids from rival schools saw each other in the queue and started lobbing fruit at each other, which they said was particularly because of "stuff on WhatsApp and TikTok", so I'm calling it the first flashpoint of The School Wars
The Met saying there have been no incidences linked to the "school wars' meme is a worrying oversight, considering they were called to a scuffle between schools on the Walworth Road last week.
It's not a huge deal, but come on lads, you were *there* (eventually)
Sombre Marseillaise is always darkly funny.
"That impure blood may water our furrows [but sadly]"
This is dumb
It's interesting to think about how the big party machines are going to respond to this (or not), and how they can completely rebuild a candidate selection machine created to find reliable drones parroting lines from HQ
