@missy  Oh, I think there’s no problem theorizing.  Sometimes I think that’s all that politics is really for!  Well, that and exhibitionism and about a hundred other things, so . . . What we can’t do, at this point (or maybe ever, with real accuracy) is test a theory against hard data to “prove” it one way or the other, as is so often the case wi…[Read more]

@miapatrick  I should also probably just shut up and be happy with my distinction!

Oh, don’t shut up — but yes, be happy!  Congratulations.

(from a later post, re Brexit and somebody’s boyfriend):   he voted out because he wanted to scrap the human rights stuff. That was the only reason. Then she pointed out to him that the convention on hu…[Read more]

@missy    Michael Dibdin — that’s the guy I’m thinking of — has written a line of crime novels set in Italy?  I’m pretty sure I read this Holmes one, but I’ve read a half dozen Holmes things in the past year, so can you talk a little about the story?  Now that copyright is no longer controlling what people write about Holmes, some int…[Read more]

@Missy

In the UK, it can snow in June. Rare, admittedly, but it has happened. 🙂

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Green and red always remind me of Christmas, my favourite colour would be either yellow or blue.

@puroandson @thedentistofdavros @missy @1997whovian @Theconsultingdoctor

I took the quiz too! I got Cerulean, and then I took it again and got Arcal.

I also took the Sparta quiz, because it looked fun. I also got old age, which apparently has all the sane answers!

Slightly off topic, but there’s no thread for it. I checked. Also, SPOILERS.…[Read more]

@missy shame i love blue and my chapter wear silver

@missy cool i shall look at them next thanks 🙂

@missy I think we are fully responsible for every word we are putting here. In other case everyone could copy and past some stuff from ISIS accounts on Twitter, or some hateful comments from Facebook or extracts from Mein Kamp and says I don’t know if it’s appropriate or I’m not sure about its accuracy but I’m only a messanger.

And this stuff…[Read more]

@missy Yeah Heaven Sent was my fave of that season along with the Zygon inversion. What did you like of season 8?

@missy—

That thing you posted is, I’m afraid, the most terrible piece of Brexiteer bollocks — of the kind that was getting cut and pasted into newspaper forums on an hourly basis (not to mention clogging up the inboxes of news editors up and down the country in the run-up to the referendum). Almost all the capital and investment flight it…[Read more]

Shame on you @missy posting such things. Both Poland and Slovakia are not in the slighest less worthy countries than the Great Britain is. And Britons are not better than Poles or Slovaks. EU exists to serves all european countries and not only privileged Britons. Great Britain has more privileges than such countries as Poland and Slovakia but it…[Read more]

puricle:   PS: from Son, welcome back @Missy. I hope your router and wi-fi are working fine. We have trouble with hours. Its truly appalling, mum doesn’t get this really well. We have a huge Big Bundle of $86 a month and yet our bandwidth is sometimes as  low as 370 kilobytes per second. That’s impossible when everyone is on the internet watchi…[Read more]

I’m bringing this to the pub, since I have no idea where to post, and sense I’m a little toasted I thought ‘The Fox Inn’ would be best…

@ichabod and @puroandson very interesting evaluations and deductions as usual.

@missy I am also struggling more than I care to admit with a year off of Doctor Who and Sherlock.  It’s like withdrawal or worse.…[Read more]

@ichabod and @puroandson very interesting evaluations and deductions as usual.

@missy I am also struggling more than I care to admit with a year off of Doctor Who and Sherlock.  It’s like withdrawal or worse.  /:

@doctordani Heavens, I hope so, River and and 12 are amazing together, but I pray your theory about 12 is wrong.  I can’t even take th…[Read more]

@Missy River was aware of the Tardis and expected the Doctor/codename Damsel to be there. She had sent her cute husband out to look for him giving him the images of the twelve earlier incarnations. Doctor points to his face but she ignore the gesture assuming it is the warm up routine for his demented stick insect dance.

I watched again this…[Read more]

@Arbutus  @blenkinsopthebrave  @StitchInTime  @puroandson  @Missy  Thank you all for those kind words; it’s good to be back and I hope to contribute more to the conversation in the next few days.  Re-watching Doomwatch and Edge of Darkness after such a long interval has been an interesting and rewarding experience which perhaps merits some comme…[Read more]

@Missy @puroandson @ichabod @Mersey @pedant

Okay. I’ve stayed out of this because I don’t really understand why we keep coming back to it. I won’t go into my own reasons for being on the fence about the issue, but only wanted to throw this in for what it’s worth.

As a lover of music, my greatest respect goes to those artists and groups who…[Read more]

@Missy  It is an interesting theory, but I’m afraid @GrannyM  is right; the text doesn’t support it.  River is clever, but even the cleverest person may be blind sided by their assumptions and expectations.

River had contacted a surgeon specifically, and was puzzled and irritated that the person she assumed to be the surgeon in question had evi…[Read more]

@Missy

 If a show is working and has been working perfectly and is popular as it is  for decades, why change it?

This argument is simply facile. The show has gone through many periods when it manifestly wasn’t working and wasn’t popular for all sorts of reasons and, indeed, spent 16 years off air because of that.

But none of those reason were a…[Read more]