Message from @Poppy Rider
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In my university grade, out of the students I've met so far, I'm one of about 10% who don't have professional training, and that's because we learned through experience- I've performed live shows for six years and I've been in two musicals, for example
This is because the performing arts are fucking *hard* to make a career out of, you NEED quality
So logically a meritocratic approach makes sense
My university's entrance exam is ridiculously hard, I had to do three separate auditions to prove myself and I'm not *amazing* but I'm certainly not amateur
That's not because of elitism, it's because of the nature of the industry and the fact that performing arts are easy to do casually but highly technical to master- anyone can go to a karaoke bar, but then stick em in front of a few hundred people and tell them to give a performance worth twenty quid entry, and they probably can't
So seeing the audition process eliminated for the New Voices School is pretty fucking jarring; essentially you're going to be taking a bunch of vulnerable and young kids away from solid mainstream education, that will guarantee them core skills everyone requires for a backup job... and instead thrusting them into a very hit-and-miss, specialised, cutthroat industry
Without checking they're specialised, without checking they can keep up with the content
Do you know how many kids aren't serious about that stuff as a passion, but try it, and give up? Tons. I'm a vocalist, and I had about three guitar lessons before I realised I couldn't do it
Not even three, probably. Now, if I'd've joined a performing arts school for a guitar course? I'd've completely fucked myself. I don't know where I'd be now. Probably a very low-paid and sloggish job, hating life
So yeah, it's very absurd to me. It's horribly irresponsible
"Entry will be based on a lottery". Ridiculous. Imagine turning down the next Elvis because he was holding the wrong ticket, and choosing the next Blood On The Dance Floor instead
>author recieved death threats for describing bull terriers as "scary"
Yeah because its a pitbull. My mom would be one of those people that would give him death threats too. I mean how is this thing scary?
https://i.imgur.com/MWnQ7Gy.gifv
dogs are mostly only as cruel or dangerous as their owns have taught them to be
Nonsense. Dogs have been bred for certain character traits. They are dumb animals and can flip and do. If you have bred a dog to be a weapon you aren't going to bred the pussies.
You have clearly never met a pitbull not trained by a douche
You don't breed a weapon that you cannot control
I've not met a pitbull, they are illegal in the UK. MY brother had a Staffordshire bull terrier and it was a lovely dog but I would never leave it alone in a room with a small child.
wow
Yes, another thing we can't have in the UK
are you allowed German Shepherds?
She bit everyone but me apparently.
lmao
wow, you are allowed them but not pitbulls
Saw that story with the school getting rid of auditions. The *teacher* saying: “It’s not college. Nobody should have to audition. Honestly, I think it’s great,” should have her license revoked
Staffies are pitbulls
>My brother had a Staffordshire bull terrier and it was a lovely dog but I would never leave it alone in a room with a small child.
Little rascals had one. Theie nature is to be motherly to the littile ones and to be defensive against those who gets in the way of them. So more or less a guard dog.
No idea if true.
finally
jfc
fired or resign?
shouldnt let him resign
or let him so the left can look crazy
i would never go and say pitbulls are bad dogs, or that they can't be cute
but genuinely the play most of them involve in instinctively is scarier then most other dogs (nipping and tagging at limbs as if to take you down), not that they are the only large breed that do this but more commonly so in my experience. If said play isn't kept in check, or they have abusive owner (eitherway owners fault, one is negligence other is malice) then yeah
its like
if it was legal to drive a tank to work would it be wrong to do so? No ofc not, but you'd have to take more care
^maybe extreme example, but just contending its a greater responsibility with any breed thats been bred to fight