@miapatrick

Very true. the only other actor who reduced me to tears of mirth, was Billy Connolly. Unfortunately he used the F word much too much in the end.

By the by, the scene about the magnet, should have read watch his head IMplode!

I do try to get things right. *grins*

Thank you @missy,@thane16, @whisht, @pedant, @blenkinsopthebrave, @miapatrick. And to Missy, yes, one compartmentalises as best one can and does what one must and you have my deepest sympathy. One clings on to good things, and this place is a Good Thing and I will come here whenever I can even if I can’t muster bonkers theories about Who, because…[Read more]

@thane16 that left me in tears. I have yet to watch “The Thick of It or In the Loop. Both just jumped quite a few spaces on my “to watch list.”

I recommend Galaxy Quest. It is one of those underrated gems of a film that every so often, the entire family will re watch.

@miapatrick. I laughed when you described bad handwriting masking spelling…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip  and @miapatrick

Whoa. Is  CBT Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and OCAS? The Online College of Advanced Stem?

Very confusing indeed!

As for vowels? Oh yes, agreed – as does (loosely, I admit) this esteemed man of the people. “Subsidised foreign f**king vowels”

High voltage swearing:

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@pedant @miapatrick

😀

It’s Twisted

@miapatrick  @thane16 @thane16

I wonder how far I might push the concept of reader response over authorial intent…

*Circles bait*

*Swims away*

@miapatrick

I had to read that twice.

“the birth of the reader must be required by the death of the author.” I had to Google this & read IT twice too. 🙂 I couldn’t cope with Derrida or Foucault so I stopped at ‘F’ 😉

If you think of the Doctor’s speech with Missy & the Master on kindness, that really sums up Barthes’s idea beautifully. Well…[Read more]

@miapatrick

…over appreciating old and new Who as works created by, and reflecting, and being reflected by, the contexts in which the episodes are made? …

Oh good Lord! The intertextualposttextual-analysis would age me. But I can imagine a dalek-y ‘voice’

you are not pro-gress-ing inter-textually speak-ing & so exter-min-a-tion is the final…[Read more]

@miapatrick, Fantastic! And agreed it’s displacement or just thought driven in every way & thus actual study contributing to real-life core learnings and core values. 😉

After all, the weasel words of the QLD public service aid you in their service -they’re good for that. But you do real study which truly benefits many others.

Actually on the…[Read more]

@miapatrick thank you. Excellent and good to see you ’round these parts. Strap on some armour….

@janetteb   @pedant  @miapatrick      Maybe because I was raised in the 70s and soaked up a lot of  hippie rebellion and dissatisfaction but I don’t like titles.  The ress in waitress and actress sounds small to me as if it actually makes me smaller than my male co-worker and I don’t like it. Women already get paid less than men must we sound les…[Read more]

@miapatrick yes now i understand, did not know that bit of linguistic history, sorry, and yes, it would have been better to either not drop the male prefix or drop both male and female prefixes.

Yes “male” is also the default in design for just about everything too, which is why I need extra cushions when driving the car and cannot reach top…[Read more]

@miapatrick It sounds interesting and I hope it will be available internationally. I would be tempted as I love old British TV, though I do have a good collection already. I wish there was a similiar site for old ABC shows as well. I did see that at least one Australian series was going to be on Britbox, possibly because most of them had some…[Read more]

@miapatrick good point. In the 19th C housekeepers were referred to as Mrs because it was considered to denote a higher status, which meant that unmarried women in general were considered lesser in status. The same is evident in the “order” in which people were presented. In Pride and Prejudice Lydia takes precedence over her older sisters when…[Read more]

@miapatrick perhaps it was growing up in a fairly sexist household but everytime I heard the word man, I wondered why I was being left out of the conversation. I find the term sexist because we associate the word with a gender and when many people use the word, men especially, they are forgetting women are part of the story. Using the word…[Read more]

@craig

I’ve had several emails from  a number of sweet young ladies with many important and urgent things to discuss.

As well as items for removal -should I wish it. Frankly, I’d be thrilled down to my bootstraps if they would remove  carpet from d’house and take it to waste disposal. Heck, they can have the old wet mattresses from d…[Read more]

@pedant @Miapatrick @Cathannabel @JimTheFish

I bought the DVD of Chernobyl on Monday afternoon, watched the five episodes over three evenings and am left stunned. Deftly and concisely constructed almost entirely from the point of view of those involved as it happened, with all the muddle, panic and ignorance, the struggle to cope in the face of…[Read more]