@fatmaninabox– I’m so sorry to hear about that. We’ve just received a notice to apply for PIP cos DLA is running out. We only got it reinstated two years ago, and I’ve pretty much felt sick since opening the letter. My contact with the job centre has been minimal (basically: So, your boyfriend. Still disabled? Yup.) and he’s in the ESA support…[Read more]

@DoctorDani Yes. If only those sawdust for brains who run our respective nations could work out that simple little equation. People who have money spend money. The economy keeps on rolling. Take money away from people and they stop spending. Economy shrinks. Economics really is quite simple. It is only complicated for those trying to twist the…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox  Good Lord!  That’s *insane*!

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So, let me get this straight:

In order to stop you from doing volunteer work, they make you do volunteer work.

I’m so glad that I’m not jobless.

@jimthefish I watched that vid earlier today and was blown away by how quickly the time passed by. He is a wonderfully interesting man in his own right. I’m dying for him to do a Bowie documentary. I know how much he loved him as a musician, so he’d be absolutely perfect for it.

@fatmaninabox I’ve been through the whole job centre malarky in the…[Read more]

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Jobcentres have always been like that. At least, I had a very similar experience to @FatManInABox in another economic downturn, some twenty years back, when the solution to doing fringe theatre for no money (which might have led to paid work) was apparently to put me on six months work experience as a shop assistant for no money. The…[Read more]

Oh and welcome back @fatmaninabox. Sorry to hear of your JobCentre troubles. It never ceases to amaze me just how quickly we’ve allowed twattish and occasionally deadly officialdom in this country to have a free rein…

@fatmaninabox Angry after reading your post. That is corrupt. I have read about the dodgy practices of so called Job Centres. I guess it is to be expected when public services are privatised. Private means profit. “Service” is no longer a consideration. I really hope the situation improves soon and you are able to get back into the gardens where…[Read more]

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Two weeks later they force me, at risk of being sanctioned, to do 6 months unpaid work experience cleaning offices which I have to do it until the end of May.

So in order to prevent you doing voluntary work to gain experience in a field you want to be employed in, they’ve stopped someone else getting a paid cleaning job?

Yup, that…[Read more]

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Second post!

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Nice avatar. Where did you get the still?

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Time Lord

Have just watched the video and, in a way, he’s quite brave to make his point in the media.
However, if he can write as well as Steven Moffat, he should submit a script.
The boy has a right to his opinion, even though he’s wrong.
We know that Davros got the word ‘mercy’ when he was a boy and the doctor saved him, telling…[Read more]

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Sack Moffat?!  Sacrilege.

I may not be entirely happy with the current episodes but Moffat has certainly proven his worth.

According to tardis.wikia the only mention of prostitutes has been in books and audio, with the exception that “The Next Doctors” companion, Rosita Farisi, was apparently a prostitute before she met HER D…[Read more]

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Oh that is just glorious!

All the women are too cocky. OK. Yeah.

Methinks somebody has ishoos.

yep @fatmaninabox sad news indeed.

Here he is on The Young Ones which was a hell of a way to first hear this as a young’un meself.

Loved everyone’s Christmas songs, with an especially thank you as always to @FatManInABox for the Blyth Power. (It was a bit of an evil day the day you introduced me to that band! 🙂 )

@puroandson    I think the tritone was mentioned at one point. Isn’t that fun?

Ha! We were just talking about A Fish Called Wanda the other night. We looked up…[Read more]

@jimthefish  Thanks for that interestng interview. I would never find those things on my own.

@fatmaninabox   Very cute little clip that I got some giggles from. Thanks for the link. Hope we get a Peter Jackson episode in the future.

@mersey   Thanks for that interview. Lots of info behind the making of the 50th.

@jimthefish That is indeed a “splendid” interview. I however was rather disturbed by the blurb for part two which includes those dire words, “his plans to leave Doctor Who.” I hope those are long term plans.

@fatmaninabox I just watched the Jackson vid’. It does indeed looks as though discussions are under way for a Jackson directed episode. It…[Read more]

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A belated sorry and thanks for moving the posts from Spoilers. Apologies for taking the discussion “off piste”.

In the beginning of S9E2 Missy tells Clara about the time when the doctor was alone with a teleport bracelet in a castle-type and in the snippet he was wearing a white shirt with a red velvet long coat. At the end of ‘Face the Raven’ the doctor was teleported to a castle-type place with only a teleport bracelet and was wearing a white shirt with a…[Read more]