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  1. Think the word you're after is "moribund"...
  2. Can't believe it's been nearly 5years since I posted on here - life has dragged me in some funny directions. Best of luck QS, and thanks for your help over the years.
  3. Sometimes the guests really dont want photos. In that case its Showmasters who have to be the bad guy. Maybe she was too polite to say no when people were rude and ignored the sign. Alternatively, I don't think it would be the first time a guest's agent had asked for one thing and a guest themself had done something else...
  4. In a sealed room, the fan will make the room hotter because its motor emits heat energy too. It will however reduce temperature highs by mixing hot and cooler air. It will also lower a human's temperature because it elicits evaporative cooling from the skin. Even if the room isn't sealed, if it's hotter outside than inside, none of the heat will escape. So they might make some money out of it, but at the cost of actually warming the air up slightly.
  5. No, it says it's a world first signing, meaning they have never done signings anywhere else in the world, ever. The point of also saying "its this persons only planned signing this year" is that unlike some stars who don't sign for years, then change their mind, appear at one big show with a load of pizzazz... and then appear at another four or five shows in the next six or seven months, this person has never signed before, is signing this once only, and won't be signing anywhere else for at least several months afterwards, so don't think "well I won't bother getting them at LFCC because they'll probably turn up at "X" show in September, "Y" show in October, "Z" and "Q" shows in November, and in my local chippie every Tuesday in December". Ain't gonna happen, They're breaking a lifelong duck at LFCC and then are not planning any other signings before 2016, if even then.
  6. Exactly! The know it alls here ruin the fun for everyone who just wants to have a guess (and may have a life beyond reading every post on this board) Nobody is saying you have to read every post on this board, but it's only reasonable to have the decency to read the rest of the thread. It's remarkably tedious to have somebody saying "I think it will be Harrison Ford" when there are seventeen different posts that have already patiently explained why it CAN'T be Harrison Ford as he doesn't meet the criteria. And to be honest, it's just rude. You're saying that it's fine for people to post daft suggestions on here that have already been debunked earlier in the very same thread, because they don't have 15 or 20 minutes to skim through the thread first. But it's quite all right for them to post some old nonsense and waste 10-15 seconds of hundreds of readers' time instead. This thread has had nearly 24,000 views. Even if that's just 800 people looking at it 30 times each, 800 people wasting 10 seconds each reading a comment that didn't need to be made if somebody was polite enough to read the rest of the thread first means nearly two and a quarter hours wasted between those 800 people. So with all of that said, it's obviously Dave Prowse...
  7. I'm guessing it might also be a supply and demand thing. I bet he can always use more ladies speed dating, so they get in free. However, if it was free for blokes he'd be trampled underfoot in the rush; charge 'em 25 bucks and it reduces them down to a similar number as he has ladies. (although yes, I would agree that the charge also whittles out those less "committed" to the aim of the event...
  8. And it's too late to start a campaign to persuade him to change his name to something shorter like "Bob Lob" so he could sign more
  9. Sponsored can mean "endorsed" with no implication of subsidy or "paid for by".
  10. Oh please, a change announced over five months before the originally-scheduled date does not constitute "last minute", IMHO. It's unfortunate, inconvenient, regrettable, and a whole host of other adjectives, but not "last-minute".
  11. Kind of easy to say that when it's not your money at stake...
  12. Nope, the Royal Mint produces coins. Bank Of England banknotes are printed by De La Rue at their secure printing facility in Debden, Essex.
  13. I'm unaware of Lloyds of London being given taxpayers' money; are you confusing Lloyds of London (the insurance market) with Lloyds Banking Group, who were also bailed out by the taxpayer? As to your sweeping statement about "everyone in england starts moaning", as somebody living in England, I can assure you that not "everybody in England" is moaning. And pretty much the only reason that RBS gets moaned about more than Lloyds is because it needed bailing out to a greater extent. Those that are moaning about RBS are moaning almost as much about Lloyds and are also moaning about Northern Rock. The other reason that RBS attracts more opprobrium is because dear old "Fred the Shred" had made such a big show of lavish expenditure before the crisis, and then tried to walk out with an obscenely large pension. By contrast, the top men at NR and Lloyds were much less flamboyant and contentious and so didn't draw anything like the media attention that Goodwin did to RBS. The moaning about RBS is not because they're Scottish, it's because they were the worst. Not sure what you mean in your final point about RBS not being a "fully fledged bank" because it's a plc. Plenty of banks are plcs, and that doesn't make them any less "fully-fledged" than ones that aren't. I'll grant it's not a central ("national") bank like the Bank of England, but I would point out that the Bank of Scotland has been a plc since September 2007 (before the banking crisis). And since Bank of Scotland is part of Lloyds Banking Group, then effectively it too has had UK taxpayer bailout cash. (But people don't moan about BoS anything like as much as RBS, because it wasn't the "headline" name of the banking group being bailed out, and they had no Fred Goodwin character to attract public ire to the organisation). And yeah, we're a long way off topic. Sorry.
  14. Actually I did read the thread properly and I'm quite aware of what you wrote and in reply to whom. I've never said it was the English that bailed out the banks (you may note that in fact I agreed with you about it being UK taxpayers who did). And I've never claimed it was solely Scottish banks that were in trouble. I was merely replying to your request for a "specifically Scottish bank". RBS is a bank, it is pretty Scottish (or at least it was at that time) and "specifically" doesn't mean "exclusively". I don't see anything wrong with my answer of "RBS" to your question, and that answer doesn't mean I disagree with any of the other points you've raised.
  15. You are indeed correct. RBS? Just because it has Scotland in the title doesn't make it an exclusively Scottish bank though! * I never claimed it was an "exclusively Scottish" bank * You never asked for "exclusively Scottish" bank * I would note that RBS is a Scottish-registered company, with a Scottish registration number, a headquarters in Scotland, and at the time it was saved from going down the pan, both the Chief Executive and the Chairman were Scots. Doesn't make it "exclusively Scottish", but you'd have a hard job passing it off as Cornish or Welsh. But yes, RBS would never have required such a huge bailout (from all of us in the UK) if they hadn't previously been sufficiently successful enough to acquire a load of English, Welsh and Northern Irish money (and overseas money as well) to put with all the Scottish money, which they managed to so disasterously invest.
  16. as far as i'm aware it was British tax payers money that was used to bail out all of the banks that folded In your haste to point out the difference between British and English you have ignored the contributions of the Northern Irish taxpayers
  17. In cases like that you should refuse to yield your place in the queue and demand that a pit boss be summoned. (In all fairness, since this is a frequent bugbear, SM really should brief their cash-handling staff about the acceptability of Scottish and Northern Irish currency.)
  18. Offensive? Potentially. Unfunny? Almost certainly. But racist? That would kind of require the Scots and English to be biologically different from each other, or at least perceived as such. We may have our quirky individualities, but I don't perceive the Scots to be a different race to me, and so find it difficult to see how it can be "racist". I would politely express your distaste to the individual, who may not realise just how tedious and irritating they are being: "Oh look, it's Monopoly money!" "Oh look, it's a joke that wasn't even very funny in 1954. Are you this rude to all your customers?"
  19. Your deal is that if you want more than 5 things signed, you can get them all signed at once, reducuing your time spent doing this rather than having to queue up endlessly at 5 items per time. If 3 dealers between them get say 50 items signed, they've probably done that in the same time that say 10 ordinary folk will have got maybe 20 items signed. So those dealers have effectively bought an extra 30 autographs in their time, which is significant in paying for the guest. (1) in terms of "income per minute of guest time" the dealers contribute more. (2) I think you'll find a dealer's ticket costs a little bit more than early bird admission...
  20. I believe you've always had to queue for autos with a gold pass; it just means you can join the queue at any time, as if you had VQ #1 for that guest; it didn't give you priority queueing for autographs. See 1.2 about what is included in a gold pass.
  21. Good question - it's a tricky one for them to deal with since there would likely be both some folks who if their star turn cancelled wouldn't want to come to the show and some who would still want to come anyway. Requiring them to have a separate entry ticket would seem to be the way forward (because if the special ticket included entry and somebody bought special tickets for two separate guests, they would effectively be paying for entry twice). But having to have a separate entry ticket would require SM to have some sort of ticketing database that could cross-reference tickets with customers, and allow cancellation of entry tickets if and only if that customer also had a special guest ticket that was going to be cancelled due to special guest ticket being rendered void, and if and only if the customer requested the entry ticket be cancelled. I of course have no idea if the current SM ticketing arrangements have that level of sophistication. The alternative, to have entry included as part of the special guest ticket leads to the problems of (a) people effectively paying multiple lots of admission charges if they buy special guest tickets for more than one guest and ( the situation you raise if somebody has just the one special guest ticket and the guest cancels. (I suppose ( could be dealt with by people turning up with their special guest ticket and that giving them the right to purchase an earlybird ticket, but I'm not sure if that's a sufficiently good solution). But it is something that probably needs to be given some thought in advance rather than just waiting until such a scenario happens.
  22. Supply and demand, plus the cost of dealing with unused stock. If I go into M&S at lunchtime and buy a roast beef and onion baguette for £3, if I then go back at say 8.30 pm, shortly before they are due to close, and they still have some left but they've reduced the price to 80 pence (because they're at the end of their "use by" date), do I go and rant and rave at M&S? If after they close they give away any unsold ones to a local charity for the homeless, do I go and harangue the staff for giving away something that I paid £3 for but a few hours earlier? No, I don't. YMMV. No, I wouldn't. The stallholder offered a product at a certain price. I was happy to pay that. Deal done. That's one of the risks of "buy first, shop around later"; sometimes you buy something good before it sells out, sometimes you buy something and find later that you can buy it elsewhere cheaper. Your choice, your risk, your responsibility.And what would be your reason for getting the money back from the first stall? "Excuse me, I appear to have been unfortunate in my shopping and paid more for this than I could elsewhere - could I cut into your profit margin to sort out my mistake?" Sorry, it's your mistake, you should own it. But m and s weren't saying 'if you buy these £3 sandwich you could win 1 of 1000 prizes' then when you bought the sandwich and ask how you can find out if you won going 'oh. I dont know. Maybe look over there'. Oh I agree that the whole raffle issue was an almighty louse-up. I'm just addressing his point "Even if i had no intention of entering the raffle, why the hell would i then be ok for someone else to get what i paid a fiver for, for nothing!?" And I assume his Deadpool figure wasn't sold with a raffle ticket either :-) No, the whole raffle issue is a huge mess, I'm merely suggesting that those people who complain about the programme being given away free at the end are grousing unnecessarily. SM would almost certainly be charged by EC had they left them all there (as EC will incur a charge for disposing of them) so SM were faced with the option of either the expense of transporting all that weight back home and then disposing of them themselves at some cost, or giving them away. (The fact that you're giving away free raffle tickets at that point is somewhat of an issue, although somewhat accidentally mitigated by that fact that by then I think they had closed the raffle down early anyway :-) ) So yes, raffle issues aside, I have no problem with them selling them off cheap towards the end then giving them away.
  23. Supply and demand, plus the cost of dealing with unused stock. If I go into M&S at lunchtime and buy a roast beef and onion baguette for £3, if I then go back at say 8.30 pm, shortly before they are due to close, and they still have some left but they've reduced the price to 80 pence (because they're at the end of their "use by" date), do I go and rant and rave at M&S? If after they close they give away any unsold ones to a local charity for the homeless, do I go and harangue the staff for giving away something that I paid £3 for but a few hours earlier? No, I don't. YMMV. No, I wouldn't. The stallholder offered a product at a certain price. I was happy to pay that. Deal done. That's one of the risks of "buy first, shop around later"; sometimes you buy something good before it sells out, sometimes you buy something and find later that you can buy it elsewhere cheaper. Your choice, your risk, your responsibility. And what would be your reason for getting the money back from the first stall? "Excuse me, I appear to have been unfortunate in my shopping and paid more for this than I could elsewhere - could I cut into your profit margin to sort out my mistake?" Sorry, it's your mistake, you should own it.
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