@missy—

Didn’t really mind about the missing Dalek scene. And SM’s reasoning for omitting it (in the After Show video) is pretty sound I think…

@Missy

PC breathing on a record (LP.)

Unless my brand-new eyes were deceiving me that was a 78 RPM gramophone record, not an LP – just a small incidental joke thrown in for those who can remember 78s and old-style gramophones, I think.

Sorry for the delay…

@pedant – I’m not surprised. Hope the dog’s OK.

@missy – Oh(!) what a night!

@phaseshift  – Yes! ‘It’s about time!’

@blenkinsopthebrave – Thanks – It’s great to be back.

@thane15 (& Puro) – Thanks for the welcome back. Hope you are both well.

Howdy again to everyone else (too many too mention)…

Thank you @thane15 I enjoyed your review.  (:

@missy I’m not sure if I can answer if I liked it in general, what I can say is that I appreciated aspects and didn’t like it at the same time.

Yes, I appreciated the depth of the episode and the “psychotherapy” and the risks it took.  On the other hand, it really did tax my adrenal glands, and I’m a…[Read more]

@Missy  @ichabod

I, too, remember the rag-and-bone man who came round with his horse and cart collecting scrap metal, old clothes and other items for what we would now term recycling. I don’t remember if he collected meat bones as well, but he may well have done, presumably for glue making, or grinding for fertilizer.  We used to have a knife g…[Read more]

@missy  Sorry to hear you had to put up with bullies too.  And for such a petty reason!  I tried fighting back for a while, but I was the one who got in trouble more often than not.  But turning the other cheek and/or asking for help didn’t work either, and my parents didn’t want to try standing up to the system on my behalf.  All I could do was…[Read more]

@missy  Sounds like some cold hard days . . . My memory has pretty much edited my young childhood out, but I swear that I remember a guy driving horse and cart showing up once in a while to collect worn out things — “We Buy Old Clothes!” he would call out.  We lived in a tenement on the upper West Side, 102nd Street I think, where “tenements” w…[Read more]

@missy  They should be airing “The Pilot” (the Series 10 premiere) on TV where you live if I’m not mistaken.  Thing is, in the last few years it’s been common to also have special one or two-night movie theater screenings of “event” episodes of Who, usually a few days after the television broadcast premiere.

This goes back to the international th…[Read more]

@Mudlark

East Anglia is ….officially classed as ‘semi-arid’

Hmmm. Not really. I’ve seen the claim, but official the whole of the UK is still classed Temperate Oceanic. I do not for one second doubt that climate change will get it there (nor that some micro-climates are well on the way), but those calling this early are making the cardinal erro…[Read more]

@thane15 and @missy

I grew up in Ballarat which at one time had a high population of Chinese miners. Every time there was a celebration the Chinese would provide dragon dancers and fireworks. Despite the claims that there was no intermarriage I knew several people who were descended from the Chinese including at one time the Mayor. There are now…[Read more]

@Missy.

I do disagree with you re’ pronunciations though there are plenty of common mispronunciations which make me cringe too. If we all spoke in accordance with the recommendations of the Oxford Dictionary there would be no regional variation, no dialects. That is exactly the kind of cultural hegemony that concerns me.  It isn’t “correctness”…[Read more]

@Missy @thane15 @Miapatrick

The topic of language, the evolution of language and linguistic usage has arisen, so how could I resist 🙂

Miapatrick is correct, that the English language is a hugely flexible mongrel tongue which has, on a Germanic base with its own varying and regional dialects, evolved and, in the process of evolution, borrowed…[Read more]

(Moved out of the news thread)

@Missy @miapatrick

I repeat, the English language is going to pot.

This is stampy-footed nonsense. I admit get mildly irritated by English people who think ‘soccer’ is an Americanism for football (It’s not and when I grew up soccer/ footie/ football were used interchangeably on the playing field and in shops. It…[Read more]

@Missy one that annoys me most at the moment is Math. The word is short for Mathematics. there is supposed to be an s on the end. (At least P.C. got it right) It really annoys me when my boys use Americanisms but that is not about the degrading of language but cultural imperialism. Yard is an Australian term or at least a term used in Australia…[Read more]

@Missy– for the English language to evolve not into another countries language… isn’t that how English has always evolved? I see the English language as a kind of carnivorous blob, absorbing words and structures from everything it touches.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but to me a ‘garden’ is the space attached to the house with some kind of…[Read more]

@missy

Quite the opposite in my case. I value your opinions and ideas very highly so I wouldn’t say that they do not sway me a jot. I believe that everyone can say something inspiring, spot more things and understand them better than me. Of course there are things that I like and no one can convince me that I’m wrong in my conviction (I can’t be…[Read more]

@thane15 @missy

Let me rephrase: It beggars belief that the interview went out without Moffat’s approval, most likely because he wanted the debate to happen now rather than when the show is on the air. My sceptical tendencies lead me to avoid absolute language, except for ironic effect.

English is not going to pot, and it is beyond silly to…[Read more]

@missy  “In the Loop” made me laugh.  Now it kinda makes me want to cry . . . so innocent, compared to what’s going on now!  Well, so it seems to me, anyway.

@missy  Well, they both played the Intelligence, after a fashion.  McKellan provided the voice of its disembodied form in “The Snowmen” only, while Grant played its physical host/form in it and later appearances.  🙂

As for Beauty and the Beast, a lot of people seem to love it, so maybe you and your husband will too.  Takes all kinds, and I am of…[Read more]

@missy   Although I won’t pretend to understand all of it I really liked it. I just get to watch it a few more times and that is ok with me. I hope for more and I really enjoyed all of it right from the first episode to the last one. The whole series has been exceptional interpretation of the Sherlock Holmes stories in my humble opinion.