• @craig, @jimthefish, @phaseshift, @bluesqueakpip, @whisht, @mudlark, @thane16, @janetteb, @winston, @rob, @fatmaninabox and..@everyone

    It feels a bit quiet on the site and circumstances seem to be moving fast, and more of us (of a certain age) seem to be self-isolating. Hopefully, things will pass, but it would be great if there was a place where…[Read more]

  • @bluffme

    I think <strike>more people than will admit feel the same</strike> the ratings are speaking for themselves <strike>but to many scared of this ridiculously stupified PC world</strike> and that confounds my angry entitled ravings

    Fixed that for you.

    ridiculously stupified PC world and scared of being called a bigit or woman hater for…

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  • Craig replied to the topic It Takes You Away

    Thanks for all the responses last night everyone. I’d had a few wines, as you maybe could tell, but as @cumquat says, we have a great sense of community.

    I don’t know if I’ve ever posted this link before so just in case – we were in a documentary about cancer patients. Just thought you might be interested. And, yes, we did get married by Elvis…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic On The Sofa (9)

    @everyone – but aren’t we all, in our way, a little bit @cumquat? Or isn’t there at least, a little @cumquat inside us all?

  • Craig replied to the topic On The Sofa (9)

    @pedant @thane16

    If you check out all of the posts by @cumquat from over the last few years, there aren’t many (but they’re all really funny) – she comes and then goes.

    Sometimes she’s just the ironic hero we need, at the right time.

  • thane16 replied to the topic On The Sofa (9)

    @mudlark

    Thank you for all this and the diagram -I shall respond! Also, “sand is acidic.”

    That’s interesting. I’ve always assumed sand is, well, sand! With a normal pH and not at all acidic. I suspect my brother the geologist would know all this.  But, sadly, he’s too grumpy for questions of that nature. It’s the rocks that done…[Read more]

  • @cumquat

    Would you like a jelly baby?

  • idiotsavon replied to the topic On The Sofa (9)

    @pedant I suspect your keyboard has a delete key and so I deduce that Finger The @Cumquat is precisely as obscene as you intended. 🙂

    Sounds like a good game, let’s play.

    *dons Poirot moustache* ‘Ello mah leetuhl Ehngleesh chuhms…

    No hang on, that’s Eurotrash.

    I have a couple of suspects in mind, but how do we know the culprit would come…[Read more]

  • @craig @ichabod @miapatrick @pedant @idiotsavon

    Let’s play Finger The @Cumquat

    No. Wait. That came out way more obscene than intended.

    Or did it?

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic On The Sofa (9)

    @cumquat I can only apologise (and thus compound the wrong) but, like @idiotsavon, I can only say, I try, but I fail. For example, while I flexed my fingers over my laptop with the purpose of pouring out a torrent of abuse in response to your posting, I have all but lost control of my fingers which insist on asking you:

    Really five Basset…[Read more]

  • idiotsavon replied to the topic On The Sofa (9)

    @cumquat

    “this propensity to civility and this use of reason in the development of an argument”

    Oh come on now that’s a bit strong. Did it never occur to you that some of us on here might not be the polite, reasonable people you take us for? Maybe we’re just really, really incompetent trolls.

    I come on here with every intention of trolling. It…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic On The Sofa (9)

    @blenkinsopthebrave  Mrs Blenkinsop and I just watched the last episode of series 10 . . . Looking back on that episode, I feel that Moffat could not simply do grand emotion, but grand emotion that was almost operatic.

    Nothing “almost” about it — I think it’s the operatic intensity that really caught me up in the Moffat era, because I am a…[Read more]

  • winston replied to the topic On The Sofa (7)

    @cumquat   You are trolling with some very funny bait.

  • @cumquat

    POTD.

  • Arbutus replied to the topic On The Sofa (7)

    @seeoswald    As to the three shows that you have referred to as having “Canadian influence”, well, okay, they were all filmed in Vancouver. I live there and know people in the film industry there, and I can say with certainty that the only Canadian thing about those shoes was that they used local crew and extras, they filmed in our streets, an…[Read more]

  • blenkinsopthebrave replied to the topic The Girl Who Died

    Lots of great reflections on the board (of course). And not everyone agrees with each other—sorry, @cumquat!

    Agree with @countscarlioni that this was a very deep episode lying beneath a seemingly-lighthearted romp. And it is for this reason that I liked this episode so much more than last week, when I felt that Whithouse was saying: “Look at how…[Read more]

  • ScaryB replied to the topic On The Sofa (7)

    @Mirime @Ichabod

    Thanks for these comments –

    I absolutely love Capaldi as the Doctor . . . I never felt that he was cold, callous, uncaring etc. or un-Doctorlike . . . I think he might really be the Doctor

    Somebody over at — doctorwhotv, maybe — posted (more or less) this about Capaldi a little while ago: “Somehow they got confused, looki…

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  • ichabod replied to the topic On The Sofa (7)

    @cumquat  I know this will be tough for you to take, but as a troll of course you *completely* deserve it — lovely to have you aboard, oh Mother of Bassets!

    @mirime  I absolutely love Capaldi as the Doctor . . . I never felt that he was cold, callous, uncaring etc. or un-Doctorlike . . . I think he might really be the Doctor

    Somebody over at -…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic On The Sofa (7)

    Also, welcome @cumquat. Absolutely brilliant first post!  🙂

    @purofilion   Some of those forum rules I have seen before but a few are really strange. Don’t use replies or tags? So they actually don’t want conversations at all, which I thought was the point? And don’t use Latin is just sad. I used to be better at Latin than I am today, but if s…[Read more]

  • Craig replied to the topic On The Sofa (7)

    @cumquat We don’t have a like button, but have a “like” anyway. I’m sure that will be something, as a troll or hater, that you will dislike. 🙂

    Many thanks for that great contribution. It is very much appreciated. I mean that.

    Please buy the Basset Hounds a treat.

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