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oh, shut up
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#201re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/15/08 at 12:44pm
Luckily, though, sight singing only counts for ten points out of the (I think) hundred of the total audition, so I still do have a chance of getting in... Thanks for the internet hug, though, they're the best kind!
I love the fact that a thread with such a nasty-sounding name is probably the thread with the most sympathy and support on the site!
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Updated On: 11/15/08 at 12:44 PM
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#202re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 12:52am
...and isn't it nice to have a place to just let it all out? 
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#203re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 1:05am
Ooh, I have something to rant about today...
The twittering idiot girls on my morning bus. I seriously cannot take listening to them. Their conversations are full of lines like, "You know what? I'm not texting him back." Don't text him back. That oughta show him. What a wonderfully mature way to deal with your problems. What are you, like twelve? And whatever happened to actual human interaction? Quite literally, just shut the hell up.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
nygrl232
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/08
#204re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 4:53amThe constant sales pitching everywhere you go. Shut up, all of you. Most of the people I know can shut up--they're shallow a-holes. I'm sick of fighting for respect every minute of the day. Therefore, whatever constellation I was born under can shut the hell up, too.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#205re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 5:07amReligious followers who want to dictate a course of life to those who don't participate in their religions - SHUT UP!!!
#206re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 7:54amGlindatheGood22-- My bus is just like that... but it's DORKY, STUNTED FRESHMAN BOYS. And their high-pitched giggles just grate in my ears.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#207re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 9:52am
I have a bus related story, but it's kind of funny.
My 5 year old son gets off the school bus the other day, and says "Dammit!". And then starts laughing. I said why are you saying that word, you know it's not a nice word?
He says "I was talking to some 'older' girls on the bus about bad words. I think they were in 1st grade"
I died laughing.
KFTC!!!!!
killertofu333
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/08
#208re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 11:29am
^^^^
Now that's just cute dammit!! LOL
"I have the prettiest mother..."--Rhoda Penmark~~~ The Bad Seed
#209re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 2:59pmSchmerg- The boys on my bus are the same! I even have some really immature middle school boys too because the bus stops at the middle school right before the high school. All they do is yell extremely loud and make unfunny sex jokes.
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#210re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 3:11pmI hate that the American public fails to see the similarities between the "communist" witch hunt of the 50's and the anti-terrorist sentiment of today. Terrorists exist, but they don't have the means to fly jets into buildings. The people who benefit from your fear of terrorism, however, do.
How can they see with sequins in their eyes?
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#212re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 5:05pm
I think I should take your advice to yourself, LePetiteFromage. That is totally me, and worse.
I hate parents in stores for allowing their children to either run wild or wearing those heely skate things. You know, the sneakers with the skate wheels that come out. I hate those because the kids just skate like there is no tomorrow and don't seem to have the manners if they run into you. It's like "I have wheels, so it's your fault."
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#213re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 5:13pm
Not to mention the 'little shoppers' in the grocery stores with their own shopping carts - crashing into the back of my legs!
On the subject of kids - (and I preface this by saying I am a 'kids' person - I generally enjoy them, but...) - I met a friend for breakfast yesterday at a diner. We were seated near a family which included three kids, probably ages 2 to 6.
Anyway, it was the classic case of the parents being so consumed in their own conversation that they were just letting the kids run wild, with absolutely no discipline or admonition to stay in their seats, etc.
I ordered coffee, to which the oldest boy marched over to me and announced that coffee "isn't good for a person!". I glared at him and told him it was good for ME and that he should go sit down. His father told him to 'stop bothering the nice lady', but that was the extent of it.
That was followed by the middle girl squirming out of her seat and coming over to me to play 'drums' with her knife and fork on my leg. I should mention the knife was smeared with jelly. I moved away and asked her to stop and looked over at the parents. The mother got up and yanked the girl away, which caused her to scream. Not a word to me. Or to the girl (which was, frankly, more important!). She just let the child SCREAM.
Restlessness, throwing food, noise and general chaos ruled the rest of their time in the diner, which was, thankfully, short (though not short enough).
As they were leaving the mother said a casual apology for the noise. That was it.
But, more importantly, no discipline of the children. And they left behind a disgusting mess.
To the self-absorbed parents of the world, who don't know how to teach manners and teach proper behavior, I say: PLEASE STAY HOME. (And shut up!)
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#214re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 5:29pm
"Nice lady"...humph.
We have a friend who does NOT like children. She has been known to make ill-behaved children cry, with nothing more than a withering glance or a quick comment.
Our favorite moment was when she looked down at a boorish child who was being very loud at a store and said:
"You THINK you're being cute...well, you're NOT."
The child froze and slunk away, possibly scarred for life.
It was WONDERFUL!
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#215re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 5:39pm
I was on a plane recently, and a child was being loud and fidgety. When it came time for the beverage service the flight attendant asked him what he would like, and he replied a soda.
When she brought him the soda she said to him: "What do you say?"
He looked blankly at her for a while and didn't have an answer. He then asked if she had cookies to go with the soda?
The attendant just put the soda down and told him that he should learn to say "Please" and "Thank You" and No, shd did not have any cookies.
The boys mother just remained plugged into her iPod.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
Updated On: 11/16/08 at 05:39 PM
#216re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 5:42pm
Ugh, I can't abide parents who don't effing PARENT. I mean, I'll go on for ages about how much I hate kids, but really, I don't hate kids. I quite like kids. But the ones who are ill-behaved because their parents think a weak "Jeremiah stop. Jeremiah stop" is going to turn Jeremiah into a model citizen get my goat NO end. Srsly, it's not enough to biologically create it! You have to raise it right too! Awesome kids and good parents make me very happy, and I only wish there were more.
My "shut up" is to a family member. I know you only want the best for me, which is why I won't say this to your face, but I NEED to get it out: STOP IT WITH YOUR DOUBLE-TALK AND HYPOCRISY! You keep saying "I just want you to be happy", then pressuring me to stay in a situation where I'm NOT happy when I have a pretty good opportunity to get out! I don't want to start busting out the "OMG I'm 25 I can live my own life and make my own mistakes y'know! D:", and your circular talking is infuriating me! If you want me to be happy, let me do things my way. If you want me to stay in the situation that is making me depressed, then at least stop lying and saying you want me to be happy!
Whew, that feels better! ^_^
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#217re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 6:02pm
To the people who post on BWW simply to annoy others: I shout a resounding STFU.
(Honestly - life is TOO short!)
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#218re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/16/08 at 11:38pm
This isn't really a "shut up" type of post, but I felt the need to post it. I really like the guy I'm dating, he's incredibly sweet, adorable, and just a great person. However, other than a couple people who already know in our cast (we're both in Beauty and the Beast), I can't tell anyone that we are dating. He is out to his parents, who are ok with it, but his sisters don't know, and they would not be alright with it.
He feels like a jerk for not letting me tell anyone, and I really do appreciate that he cares about me, but I want to just tell him that no one in the show will care. I just wish I could show affection towards him more often, but I can't do that since not many people know.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#219re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/17/08 at 2:33am
B3TA07 - not sure where you snuck in from, but your intrusiveness all of a sudden has been noticed. Not appreciated, but noticed.
So, as the subject heading dictates, I can only tell you to SHUT UP!
And don't bother sending any more PMs my way - I'm not interested.
Shannon Bo Dannon
Broadway Star Joined: 8/19/08
#220re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/17/08 at 11:33am
I concur with the bratty kids and the parents who just let it go. As a Target employee (boo), I witness this kind of crap all of the time. I remember about a week ago it was a school night and these parents brought their 4 year-old daughter to the store at about 9:30 (half an hour before we close), and she's on the floor having a temper-tantrum kicking and screaming and banging her arms and legs, and the parents are just completely ignoring it and picking out clothes.
I swear the entire store could hear it, I wanted to wring those parents' necks.
StockardFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/08
#221re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/17/08 at 12:00pm
Poor thing was probably exhausted......WTF were her parents doing taking her to Target that late?
I have a friend whose child is a terror. They'll come over and he throws things, hits his mom and my son, slams the doors......
And she just says "Now stop that!" I'm like swat him on the butt already or put him in time out for Pete's sake!
KFTC!!!!!
#222re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:08pmRight now, in the apartment above me, there are several small children running around screaming, and jumping off the bed, or whatever, and landing so hard my ceiling is vibrating. To them I say SHUT UP!!!
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." G. Marx
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#223re: oh, shut up
Posted: 11/17/08 at 7:25pm
I posted this in the Rude thread, but thought it goes better here:
I am at Trader Joes (Just about an hour ago)and have a small basket with about 5 items in it. I’m standing in the express lane when the woman in front of me decided to walk out to the front of the store to shop for flowers, leaving her cart there. The cashier finishes up with the woman in front of her, and then we all stare at the cart the woman left in line. The cashier motions me forward and I said, “I guess she needed some flowers”.
As I am finishing up, and the cashier is handing me my change, the woman comes back in and stands there for a second then says, “Wasn’t I in front of you?”
“Well, you were until you walked outside to continue shopping.”
“How RUDE of you!”
“Wha..?”
“You are so RUDE. This has NEVER happened to me before.”
“Well, now you can’t say that any more. Did you want the whole line of people to wait for you while you finished shopping?”
She pointed to the cashier and said, “She could have started ringing me up. You’re just RUDE!”
“Lady, the cashier called me forward. You are the rude one, expecting the whole line to wait for you while you grab a few more items. Get out of the line next time, or finish your shopping BEFORE you get in the line.”
She retorts, “I don’t want to talk to you any more because you’re RUDE!”
The guy behind her says, “No, Lady, YOU are.”
And I closed with, “And you’re a c**t.”
Has anyone else ever had someone in line in front of you just leave, when she was next to be cashed out, and the cashier was obviously almost done with the first customer?
Or am I just RUDE?! (she yelled it every time)
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LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
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