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‘Always?’ Is there any substance to that comment or is that just a childish thing people say just because? Believing that this forum is full of irrationality is not ‘playing the victim’, ultimately you are the victims of this. 

You wonder or you would like me to be dead?

I agree he wouldn’t be my first preference either I’m just thinking what a studio could green light. Maybe someone like Paul Mescal instead?

Now that she is becoming a bit of a name I would like to see her reprise her Sally Bowles on screen. In fact, I wonder if they'd ever green light a movie with both Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne. 

Highland Guy said: "
In other words.....
You are nothing more than an ever-so-needy troll who ****s with us for attention. After all, for trolls negative strokes are better than no strokes at all."

No, no, not at all. I think it’s clear from my posts I’m the opposite of a troll. I always post in good faith. Just because I have the meta cognition to be learning from this at the same time doesn’t make me a troll. 

Timothee C has now probably inadvertently given more publicity and goodwill towards Opera and Ballet in the popular culture than seen in decades. It’s actually like he should be thanked and not ridiculed at this point. Assuming that any of the outcry can actually translate into real ticket sales. If everyone who has been complaining about this bought tickets it would be a wonderful thing for both art forms. 

Kad said: "binau said: "Some of you really are insufferable, can you please just ignore or block me? I mean I'm happy to continue the fighting if this is how you want to do it though."

We've been going through this with you a few times a year for years now. You come on here with melodramatic handwringing about Bernadette Peters while on other threads going off on tangents the theme of which is always "everybody is irrational but me," coupled with a compulsive need to always have the last word, then you either disappear, settle down, or make a big show of leaving the board forever for real this time.

I don't think you're a troll but I do think you need to seriously re-assess why you're on this board in the first place because this pattern of behavior is not healthy."

Also, I kind of agree with you broadly that you've got the pattern mostly right especially the need to continue engaging, although I reject the characterisation of how it ends. It usually ends because the conversation or thread naturally dies, and I've only once ever announced I'd leave and then came back (I really wonder what happened in this thread because the mods deleted it). 

I also do of course insist that I am indeed the rational actor in most of these events. I am constantly faced with a high level of emotionality on this forum - I almost never call anyone names and I always give a rationale for the ideas I post.

For example, in the case of warning this forum that Trump had a real chance of winning in 2024, I clearly was on the rationale side. It was irrational of others to be awful to me because you didn't want to hear the truth of what might happen, which did. I never supported Trump, I simply warned you that it was likely to happen and why (polls, debates, lack of adequate democrat leadership to compete, rejection of 'wokeness' because I pay attention to what people are saying outside left wing bubbles etc.), and it did. It was irrational to treat me the way you did. You wanted to feel good that's all, and when these ideas didn't make you feel good you come on the attack. 

In the case of Kecia Lewis/Patti, it was obviously irrational to believe that Patti's comments about the sound levels of Hell's Kitchen were racist. 

In the case of the Patti/Kecia/Audra drama, it was irrational to try and 'cancel' Patti because she was calling out Kecia Lewis' terrible behaviour towards her, or didn't like Audra's performance in Gypsy.

In the case of the Nicole S drama, it was irrational to suggest that despite giving one of the greatest performances of all time (as evidenced by the fact that she won over Audra), Nicole shouldn't win her Tony or be on that stage and pile on her because she is apparently a Christian or potentially even voted for Trump, especially given the context of us going through another Trump win where it is clear this kind of behaviour doesn't work. 

In the case of the Great Comet fiasco, it was irrational for people to suggest that Mandy going into the show was in any how racist, eventually putting an entire show 1/2 POC out of work.

Yes, of COURSE there is a theme of "you guys are irrational and I am rational". That is the very point when it comes to these strange 'woke' issues that we've had to face over the last several years. You keep acting in irrational ways, causing a path of destruction around you, causing the very outcomes you're trying to avoid. It isn't rational. It's a very strange hyper emotional state that seems to prioritise looking good in the name of social justice rather than doing good or even caring how divorced from reality or not some of these claims are. This is irrational by definition and it is not the same progressive movement we had in the past.  

Oh look, 8 paragraphs Kad. Based on your previous comment that 5 paragraphs is too much, is this going to be too much for you now? Would you, in hindsight defend say the comments Kecia Lewis made towards Patti? That's the whole irony of this. I don't think you would. Will you say right now that you actually think Kecia Lewis' comments towards Patti about the sound design of Hell's Kitchen were right? Especially given this article? I suspect you won't because you probably aren't irrational yourself, but if you want to feel free to argue that actually Kecia was right. So give me a break that I am often the face of having to do the dirty work and be the one to challenge these terrible ideas in the face of extreme emotionality and resistance from many posters here, when you probably secretly agree with me half the time even if you have an issue with the relentless of it all. 

Will also be a terrible shame that many of our great men will also no longer be with us. It will truly be an end of an era, and I'm not looking forward to it. 

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thank you, queenalice. 

Do you think this thread is inappropriate, Kad?

Some of you really are insufferable, can you please just ignore or block me? I mean I'm happy to continue the fighting if this is how you want to do it though.