Ladies and Gentlemen its time to take your seats

Help! I'm still wondering where the heck I take my seat!

What a load of twaddle. It is all getting too politically correct.

Brilliant Elegran and shows how ludicrous all this pc is getting - I'm still laughing over 'enthusiastic amateurs'

Our minds cover all kinds of matters, important and unimportant. Don't assume that we spend ALL our time on one thing.

Anyway, what exactly isn't important about the discussion? Or was it the diversion into a bit of humour? I've always found that a joke can illustrate a point quite well, often better than some of the earnest pontifications.

Elegran, that's brilliant.

However, I'm a traditionalist so still like the rather old fashioned Ladies and Gentlemen.

I am surprised that there are not more important matters to occupy your mind!?

Ladies and gentlemen - and those who are yet to make up their minds

Love it BradfordLass

When I have an informal group I usually uses friendly. “Hello or good morning Folks...”
or if it’s a younger group “Hi Guys....” nobody has ever objected

EllanVannin More and more nowadays they are pictograms, not words.

In some places we still have 'Tane' & 'Wahine but there are many jokey ones too.

In one steak restaurant it says, 'Heifers' & 'Bulls'.

Does anyone remember the wonderful Kinky Boots?

'Ladies and gentlemen - and those who are yet to make up their minds."

I always thought the, 'Women and children first' instructions at sea unfairly discriminatory - as if it didn't matter if men drowned.

As a result, women and children lost their husbands and fathers. Disgusting!

While working in the toy section of the charity shop I found a pretty little girl doll shoulder length blonde hair, it was only small, a Palitoy doll, not antique old, but definitely not modern Her dress was a bit tatty so I decided to renew it, on undressing her I was shocked to find a tiny but perfectly formed willy I left her for my colleague to see with a note saying ‘out first transgender doll’ when I got in this morning she had left me a note saying ‘only 99 more to find’ ??

elegran what’s the betting there’d still be one standing

What are the signs outside toilets these days ?

Elegran

Truly dotty Nan
But frankly nowhere do I encounter the form of address “Ladies and gentlemen” certainly not at the Royal Exchange yesterday.
I like Elegran’s version if needs must.

Love it, Elegran

Just who decides this is how ‘we’ wished to be addressed and why give it head space?

Exactly elegran

“Tonight’s performance will begin in 3 minutes; would you all please take your seats”. Simples.

Elegran!!!!

I'm a woman, grapefruitpip, and OH a man, though I frequently preface the latter with a few choice words when he's behaving in a particularly un-gentlemanly way in other words most of the time!

It is a bit old fashioned. Maybe "could everyone sit down please?" Actually shouldn't have to tell people to sit down in a theatre. Should tell people to switch off mobiles though1

"My lords, ladies and gentlemen, officers and their ladies, NCOs and their wives, other ranks and their women, please take your seats.
Transwomen, transmen, bisexuals, gender neutrals, binary, non-binary, celibates, please be seated.
Swingers, doggers, sex workers, call-girls, call-boys, call-people, courtesans, prostitutes, part-time prozzies, cheap whores, enthusiastic amateurs, siddown.
Under-age juveniles, over-age geriatrics, post-menopausal old biddies, pre-pubertal Lolitas, frigid virg - . . . excuse me a moment, I see the stage manager beckoning me urgently . . . Ah! he says for Christ's sake SIT DOWN ALL OF YOU or we'll be here all night!"

What are you Mama?

Well I ain't no lady, and OH ain't no gentleman, so I don't care if they drop it!