The 2016 Proms Season: what are your thoughts?

[MickyD]

#188 and #189 above useful reminders.

Reminders to me as to why I do not enjoy the Proms.

In the words of Ernest Thesiger, describing his time in the trenches during the Great War - "Oh, my dear, the noise! and the people!"

...and then promptly got back to his needlework! Thanks, Vints, hadn't heard that gem before.

[Beef Oven!]

no idea

Thanks ts. I'd seen that, but didn't see much guidance about the standing tickets. Am I missing something?

[teamsaint]

Thanks ts. I'd seen that, but didn't see much guidance about the standing tickets. Am I missing something?

its all a bit " masonic ", isn't it? nudges, handshakes, knowing the right police officers, that sort of thing.

what is your precise query? surely it goes.... turn up sometime after off -peak starts on the tube, hang around the RAH without looking too dodgy for several hours,pass time with Vinteuil, have a fiver, sorry six quid ready,( no crap jokes about sick squid, they are going to get very boring), listen to concert, take snap of illustrious maestro, go home via pub.




Incidentally, anybody know why there are none of those useful street corner map things near the Houses of Parliament.

Bloody annoying.

[Beef Oven!]

its all a bit " masonic ", isn't it? nudges, handshakes, knowing the right police officers, that sort of thing.

what is your precise query? surely it goes.... turn up sometime after off -peak starts on the tube, hang around the RAH without looking too dodgy for several hours,pass time with Vinteuil, have a fiver, sorry six quid ready,( no crap jokes about sick squid, they are going to get very boring), listen to concert, take snap of illustrious maestro, go home via pub.

I have forgotten what my query was.

[teamsaint]

I have forgotten what my query was.

What I do is I write that sort of thing down on a post-it note.



if I can remember where I left them.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What I do is I write that sort of thing down on a post-it note.

if I can remember where I left them.

Oh - I thought you'd cut yourself shaving.

[teamsaint]

Oh - I thought you'd cut yourself shaving.

No chance, I like to keep my legs the way god intended.

( what you on about ?!)

[Beef Oven!]

Oh - I thought you'd cut yourself shaving.

Why do you need two?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

post-it notes.



if I can remember where I left them.

( what you on about ?!)

[vinteuil]

... wassissorlabaht?

[ahinton]

Mornington Crescendo!

[french frank]

.... turn up sometime after off -peak starts on the tube, hang around the RAH without looking too dodgy for several hours,pass time with Vinteuil, have a fiver, sorry six quid ready,( no crap jokes about sick squid, they are going to get very boring), listen to concert, take snap of illustrious maestro, go home via pub.

For people who feel apprehension about attending a Prom for the first time, an exemplary description.

[PhilipT]

For people who feel apprehension about attending a Prom for the first time, an exemplary description.

He left out "collect cloakroom ticket from Steward (vital)", "experience sticker shock at bar prices", "get unwittingly involved in argument about pushing in" and "get mulcted by over-zealous charity collector".

[Sir Velo]

He left out "collect cloakroom ticket from Steward (vital)", "experience sticker shock at bar prices", "get unwittingly involved in argument about pushing in" and "get mulcted by over-zealous charity collector".

All of which suggests that the best place to catch the BBC proms is from the safety and comfort of one's listening room!

[vinteuil]

All of which suggests that the best place to catch the BBC proms is from the safety and comfort of one's listening room!

.... my thoughts entirely (cf my #190 supra)