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Mrs. Wife asked me to get a couple of Adele tickets for a show next fall. Tickets went on sale at 9am my time, so I went to the ticketmaster web site, found the event, clicked on 'show tickets' and for the last 27 minutes have been watching a screen which refreshes every 30 seconds or so telling me that I am 'in line to search for tickets...we'll keep the line moving as fast as we can...'.  Can't their servers handle more than one customer at a time???? ...and I was hoping this would make Christmas shopping a lot easier this year! 
And No, I'm not going to the show. I like Adele OK, just not really my cup of tea.
I suppose I can just keep that browser tab open all day if I need to in the hopes that I might finally get through. Fingers crossed.
Edit: I finally got through only to discover that both dates for the event are completely sold out! It looks like I failed miserably at that task. 
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modified 17-Dec-15 10:45am.
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kmoorevs wrote: for a show next fall.
That's a ways off. 
kmoorevs wrote: I like Adele OK
I could listen to 1 song on the radio but a whole show of song after song? No way.
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RyanDev wrote: I could listen to 1 song on the radio but a whole show of song after song? No way.
I can't even get through one song.
So, so boring.
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Her voice is rather dull, isn't it?
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OriginalGriff wrote: Her voice is rather dull, isn't it?
Really?! What singer(s) would you consider to have an interesting / good voice?
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Patti Smith, Sharon Del Adel, K.T. Tunstall, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Sinead O'Connor, Joan Baez, Joan Armatrading, Edith Piaf, Susan Boyle, Sandy Denny, Bjork (annoyingly), Joni Mitchell, ...
Adele I just find a bit flat, and dull.
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Wow! I find many of the voices on your list to be grating or just plain bad.
Different strokes I guess..
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Can't all like the same thing (though Simon Cowell tries his hardest to force it upon us)
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Anyone from this century? 
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Patti Smith is still releasing albums (she covered "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in 2007, and released "Banga" in 2012
Sharon Den Adel toured Europe with Within Temptation in 2014 with 5 UK cities included)
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I find her dull too, I prefer female voices like Tarja Turunen, Heidi Parviainen, Cristina Scabbia, and now I have a brain black-out so I can't remember the others.
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My missus got tickets for her last week. She had a bout three browser windows open and got them after about 3 hours of trying.
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I'm now stuck at a malfunctioning captchca where the text shown is 'Solve Media Puzzle Challenge' with a little picture icon beside it! Entering in the text displayed fails! 15 minutes later the captchca seems to be working correctly, but entering the text displayed fails...I could see once, but a dozen times in a row??? I even threw quite a few expletives at it, and a sql injection just for kicks. Finally after half an hour, I switched to IE and it works!...but now no more tickets! Oh well, I was able to get one at least, so now I only half-failed at the task! 
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If you wait till nearer the time - you should be able to get one for relatively cheap. People buy them to sell on at an extortionate rate and try to immediately sell them on for a huge profit. Of course most people won't pay it so they get stuck with tickets they don't want. As the concert draws nearer they reduce them so you should be able to pick them up for face-value.
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90% of the tickets will have been bought by "scalpers", so you'll still be able to go as long as you don't mind paying 50x the ticket price. These people are ruining the live music industry.
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Ruining it for whom? The artist sells out irrespective and everybody gets paid. Fools are parted from their money as they thoroughly deserve to be. Economic theorists get to say "I told you so". Capitalism chalks up another successful day. It all seems to be working pretty much the way it should do surely?
Of course, it may mean that you personally don't get to see as many concerts as you might like but who are you to stand in the way of the acquisition of wealth? Hmm?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Ruining it for whom?
The fans of the band who want to see them live.
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kmoorevs wrote: I finally got through only to discover that both dates for the event are completely sold out!
That's normal you've bought two of them each 30 seconds... I guess she will feel alone in such a big place...
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Seems this has already been posted below. Should have put brain in gear before putting fingers in motion.
He's making a list
And sorting it twice
Select * from contacts where behavior = 'nice'
SQL clause is coming to town
I'll grab my coat
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modified 17-Dec-15 10:07am.
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He's repeating a joke
That's now posted twice ...
Ode Dear indeed!
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:LOL:
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I want more! Loved it.
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..My boy was doing his homework last night, craftwork - creating a greetings card to celebrate one of the Winter festivals being held around the world (Lohri - not that it matters to the story). Anyway he was obviously rushing because he thought he would get more x-box time afterwards. So recalling a story with a moral we had read recently I said
"Remember. Slow and Steady wins the race" He looked at me like I had just licked a window and said "That's just the Egg and Spoon race Daddy".
Couldn't really argue with him on that one.
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