Message from @Vigil
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@Timcast Diversity madness https://t.co/h01aJWOHVP?amp=1
`But entry will now be based on a lottery — and half the seats will be reserved for low-income, homeless and English-language-learning applicants.`
Just how many homeless middle schoolers do you think are going to a performing arts school?
Oh great now you can be racist against dogs too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6197065/Author-childrens-book-receives-death-threats-calling-bull-terriers-scary.html
Lmao
A football team invested in esports and the fan stopped a match by throwing controllers on the pitch in protest.
https://twitter.com/i/moments/1044180680140312576
Thats..
an expensive protest
Throwing shit onto the field is stupid way to protest. If they are not happy about their team investing into esport they should just stop buying tickets to the games for a month or two.
But now club can make some money by selling second-hand controllers
On the performing arts school; the most qualified kids for performing arts come from trained backgrounds, usually they've done stuff privately at some point. My friends who got into the equivalent of a performing arts middle school were respectively an internationally-recognised traditional Irish dancer, an actress who had been in multiple main roles for theatre productions and TV background roles, and a guitarist who'd been having private lessons since he was about 5
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
"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?
yeah. I grow up with one.
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.
