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One & Other gives watchers of the plinth the chance to view a snapshot of Britain in the twenty first century . However, like most snapshots some are out of focus or the person is blinking. In my case (as a very last minute stand in) I provide a pixel perfect representation of a modern Briton undergoing a 45 minute ambling meltdown due to lack of preparation.

I stand by my hour on the plinth, I think that most people when repeatedly challenged to commit suicide by chubby (and very probably educationally subnormal) drunks from Yorkshire would behave in exactly the same way I did and therefore I am truthful representation of "us".



Comments

  • Mildroid - you will be missed and your hour on your plinth shows perfectly why! It turns out you can dish out the one-liners in real life just as well as on twitter!

    I hope you become one of the amateur plinth watchers now you are leaving us! There is a joke there about being able to enter into the Olympics, but my mind is a bit too addled to think of it! ;)

    PS i hope you don't get too big a head from all this adoration! ;)

  • Agree that it was riveting, allowing yourself to be unprepared, vulnerable, rolling with the punches, a lot of humour and playfulness under duress. reminded me of Hamlets soliloquy to be or not to be. Moving, real, well done, and thanks for being so brave and taking the risk of letting something real happen, for better and worse...!

  • I think we should all thank you (and your sister) for sharing the Northampton, Middle England song. It deserved a bigger audience.

  • Never ever admit to being a Northamptonian. I am not one, I do not know any, I did not go to school there, I deny ever having set foot in Northampton. I do not even know where Northampton is!

    (You do not look old enough to remember the 'sixty miles by road and rail' record - please don't tell me it has been re-issued!)

  • This performance was brilliant. The interaction with the audience was wonderfully funny. I will never forget you sitting at the edge of the platform and saying how it was not very much fun. Maybe for you at times, but this episode was one of the most riveting and one that I watched the most.

  • Such a feisty droid. I liked your handling of the drunk onlooker.

    I was planning revenge, as, when naming the regular twecklers, you overlooked me entirely, but you made me laugh when I watched your hour, so, though I'm still sulking a little, I'm feeling slightly more forgiving now and working on X Factor may prove punishment enough.

    Looking forward to the Farewell Mildroid Games Night next Sunday

  • You have coped very well, being unlucky enough to have one of the worst crowds. Late Friday evening, weekend evenings are the worst time for bad crowds being out. People have not been very nice to you at all. You have had a lot of crap from them and booing. You have done well not to let them get the better of you. Most people would very quickly become very upset and angry and distressed with only a small fraction of the abuse you have recieved. Some other person in your place may have retaliated with aggression and lots of bad language and turned very nasty and you haven't.

    You have shown good restraint to not fall for the bait of controversial political and religious questions, while not blatantly igoring them and at the same time not giving lots of provoking anwsers which they hoped for. Many in that crowd did their best in perissistanty provoking you thoughout the whole session and you made them fail. You had the "water" that just nicely let the religious/political fire quickly die out. Some people would have just egged them on to wind them up all the more, playing games with them like cat and mouse, and you did not do that, well done. You have stayed temperate and cool, well done. You made all the crap go one way (from them) only while absorbed it, not throuwing any back in return which would have only esculated the situation beyond control. You have showed strength of character which, under the circumstances, is commendable.

    As a last minute stand in, you have coped well. There is a big chance the the person who dropped out may have been very upset and distresed by that bad crowd you had and you stood up to them, Thanks to you, original participant has been relieved as you took this burden in their place.

    There maybe also some other internet viewers like me here who appreiciate the good charactor you have shown and maybe inspiered to follow your example.

    I hope this expeirience does not leave too lasting a bad taste in your mouth. But for what it is worth, here is the "silver lining" in this cloud. This shows the thing in life are not all only bad. Some good can come from it even in another and unexpected way.

    I wish all the best to you, in your life and in your friendships.

  • Brilliant unplanned droid appearance. You cannot leave and go to XFactor, you won't get this kind of adulation there, you know!

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