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Re: Strictly!
« Reply #50 on: November 25, 2019, 07:28:56 AM »
The words 'tap dance'  always attract my attention! did I miss something? Was there a good bit of tap dancing on Saturday?!
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« Reply #51 on: November 25, 2019, 08:30:26 AM »
No.  It was just me suggesting the introduction of a tap dance routine, just as there is a Charleston routine.  They could include it within the 'Musicals' week.

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« Reply #52 on: November 25, 2019, 08:43:29 AM »
Now everyone knows Saffron is out. I'm glad Karim is staying but Saffron did grow on me over the weeks.

Musicals week next time - I thought we'd already had that.

I watched 'Pose' and some of it reminded me of a place I went to in Ibiza town with my friend when we were 22. It was fun.

HI Robbie - I have a theory as to why Karim was in the bottom two. There are two parts to this.

1. The Couples Choice Dance - the public are presented with something which is much more free form than they are used to. Karim's dance was much more akin to Ballet Rambert than it was to a Viennese Waltz and for a lot of peoples tastes may be a little too far "out there". A similar thing applied to Michelle's vogue-ing misadventure, which although more "popular" is still very niche.

2. Over-emoting. I like both Karim & Michelle, but please enough with the emotional journey. I suspect that this is something that grates with a fair proportion of the public in this country (we aren't the USA yet - even though Boris may try to make us, another topic altogether), so the unusual dance combined with "look how far I've come"/"the people  I love"/"gush gush gush" leads to a lack of public vote.

On the other hand, of course, people might have thought Karim was so good that they didn't need to vote for him!

As to "Pose" - I love it, but I think it is to overuse a word, a "niche" programme.
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« Reply #53 on: November 25, 2019, 08:55:46 AM »

I find Karim a bit of a personality vacuum.

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« Reply #54 on: November 25, 2019, 08:57:19 AM »
I find Karim a bit of a personality vacuum.

No, that's Sir James Dyson you're thinking of.
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« Reply #55 on: November 25, 2019, 09:40:14 AM »
No, that's Sir James Dyson you're thinking of.
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« Reply #56 on: December 01, 2019, 11:18:07 PM »
Fair Alex has gone but didn't she do well?

I'm very glad Karim and Emma will be in the semi finals.

Hardly a glimpse of Johannes tonight  :(.
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« Reply #57 on: December 02, 2019, 06:57:59 PM »
Good bit of Johannes on It Takes Two

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« Reply #58 on: December 07, 2019, 05:39:45 PM »
Yes  :D.

Looking forward to tonight's show, not going out, uncle and aunt coming round to watch with us which probably sounds sad*. We will have takeaway.

*They, my in laws and my late parents used to regularly have a 'Strictly Saturday night' at one of their houses, in laws out tonight so I invited Unc&Co to join us. They live very near but one of us will drive them home later.
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« Reply #59 on: December 07, 2019, 09:10:21 PM »
Kelvin was magnificent tonight.  Oti is marvellous and didn't she look good, especially in her ballroom dress.

PS:  Natalie Lowe has given birth to a baby boy.
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« Reply #60 on: December 07, 2019, 09:18:10 PM »
Kelvin was magnificent tonight.  Oti is marvellous and didn't she look good, especially in her ballroom dress.

PS:  Natalie Lowe has given birth to a baby boy.
thanks for your excellent comentry Robbie , it means I don't have to watch it 👍🚐👽

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« Reply #61 on: December 07, 2019, 10:02:49 PM »
Hmph.

I see you have a minibus emoji. I have a packet of Christmas cards with a minibus on them, don't know why I bought or to whom I should send, think it was by accident. Here is a facsimile of one for you:

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« Reply #62 on: December 07, 2019, 10:48:44 PM »
Hmph.

I see you have a minibus emoji. I have a packet of Christmas cards with a minibus on them, don't know why I bought or to whom I should send, think it was by accident. Here is a facsimile of one for you:

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Don't say I never give you anything.
aww Robbie
You've brought a tear of joy to my eye  Thank you so much .

The pic is meant to be a motor home , that's the nearest I can find on my emoji choices xxxx

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Re: Strictly!
« Reply #63 on: December 07, 2019, 11:27:08 PM »
« Last Edit: December 07, 2019, 11:32:46 PM by Robbie »
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« Reply #64 on: December 07, 2019, 11:30:38 PM »
<img src="https://www.free-emoticons.com/files/transport-emoticons/14087.png" alt="" style="border:0px;vertical-align:middle">
thats a beauty Robbie ,  a bit like mine 👍😘


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« Reply #65 on: December 09, 2019, 07:01:55 PM »
Wow, Kelvin is through and I'm glad. Carlos Acosta dancing for us brought me near to tears.

Chris and Karen on ITT tonight very nice indeed, he did great. Good to see the lovely Darren and Lilia who seem to have been at the pies but never mind.

Three dances each next week, I'll be in suspenders all through the show.
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« Reply #66 on: December 09, 2019, 09:01:48 PM »
Oooh Robbie,
You sure know how to tease 💃

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« Reply #67 on: December 09, 2019, 09:41:40 PM »
Yeah, my stock ing trade.
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« Reply #68 on: December 09, 2019, 09:47:47 PM »
Good final. Nice to see Anton there.

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« Reply #69 on: December 10, 2019, 10:42:18 PM »
Yes it is. I'm not his greatest fan but love to watch him dance and the chemistry between him and Emma is good.

I didn't see ITT tonight.
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« Reply #70 on: December 15, 2019, 04:14:15 AM »
Very well deserved winner, same to two runners up; they were definitely the best of the bunch and that wasn't easy considering how good most competitors were. It was really nice last night to see the ones who had been eliminated earlier, a great bunch (tho' no comedy acts. Ed Balls a tough act to follow).

No I haven't wet the bed :-). Got up because woke up at the start of a most weird and unpleasant dream which seemed real until I woke. Actually wrote a letter which I've been meaning to do all week and going back to bed now.

Hope all of you are sleeping peacefully.

A couple of weeks or so ago I mentioned Harry Connick Junior who 'guested' on Strictly; general consensus was that he didn't perform all that well. A couple of nights past I put telly on and there he was performing with band & he was quite different, really good. Just goes to show that people have off days and sometimes acoustics aren't wonderful in some places.
I did enjoy Beverley Knight when she was on.

Good night all and sweet dreams. I've just eaten carrot cake and am bound to have a nice dream.
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Re: Strictly!
« Reply #71 on: December 15, 2019, 09:38:22 PM »
Very happy with result though I would not really have minded any of them winning.
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« Reply #72 on: December 16, 2019, 01:26:47 PM »
I thought the final was excellent.  A real mixture of dances, all performed very well.  I thought Kelvin was a-ma-zing.  He should have got 11s just for doing rumba and samba in the final!  Oti is an artist, her choreography is stunning and I'm pleased she won because she was ROBBED the year she danced with Danny Mac.

Can't believe it's over for another year  :'(

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« Reply #73 on: December 16, 2019, 06:45:49 PM »
It didn't seem to last very long this year. Maybe e it's because I've been out of the country and not had to listen to all the people yakking on about it.
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Re: Strictly!
« Reply #74 on: September 20, 2020, 04:36:46 PM »
I thought last night's programme was ruined by too much interrupting chatter and shortened routines.  It should have been called 'Strictly Come jabbering'.