The RTO played at the leaving do of the St George's headmistress tonight. We played to our usual standard (poor-to-middling) and at the end she was handed the microphone to say a few words.
She said "Practice makes perfect"
Which is entirely and utterly Not The Point of the RTO. The Point of the RTO is that perfect isn't necessarily the goal: to participate and take pleasure from the participation is the point.
Agree or disagree?
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Hopefully she was being ironic. The problem these days is that the academic schools don't seem to want anything to be fun,whereas the not so academic schools try to make everything fun. There should be a happy medium where you can just have a go at stuff without being expected to be professional standard. This goes for all those "extras" like music, PE, Art, Drama which give people an outlet in later life.
I think she wasn't really thinking. It wasn't a planned speech or anything!
It was more disconcerting having half the potential audience get up and go to talk (loudly) at one end of the hall (where the wine was...) during our "set" - we've never had that before!
Huh!
Quick, quick. Send them an email about how rude they were.
i thought that had to be a spoof, especially when she insulted the girl's parents, but apparently not?
all my brothers in law seemed very well behaved but unusually silent (?stunned) when they first came to stay
We are unrelated to the girls, pretty much. All grown up and should know better. This audience certainly wasn't stunned to silence (perhaps the opposite)
Perhaps they didn't realise that the sound going on was music. cf Onion Ed, for the Monica Edwards fans.
My husband's mother-in-law would have been most disappointed if he hadn't eaten seconds of her delicious puddings. Sad he can't eat them now.
Perhaps she was being complementary and implying that you HAD practiced in order to be so good?
But it is the sort of thing I have to tell Isaac who rather expects to be able to just do things
without any experience
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