@missy

Warmley Tea Rooms on the Bath to Bristol Railway Path

I did a 240 mile charity walk a few years back and whilst stopping for a cup of tea and a slice of cake completed the timeywimey loop and found they had a Tardis hence the avatar

You may have an excellent brew and your own Tadis pic 😀

(Actually I had coffee but you know the line…[Read more]

Hi @missy. Oh lord, don’t get me started on real life URGH! exactly the same reason for my absence.

I have to say, for my part, with all my trepidations, I did enjoy the new episode, and see potential for deep thinking and a fantastic Doctor, but I know you weren’t keen (slight understatement?) on the change in sex. Personally, I don’t think I’ll…[Read more]

@kharis @missy @tempusFugit  I’m a Leo. And telling it like it is.  😀

I was a professional musician. So, speaking as an orchestral conductor the music was quite difficult to write; it’s new; it’s not Murray Gold but it IS a composer with a pretty legitimate background. I think that were he, or his family, reading comments that it’s “extremely b…[Read more]

@missy LOL, true, but like with most of my Leo friends I’m certainly glad you say what you think and don’t go with the sheep.

Lions are not sheep, thank goodness.  (:

@missy Leos are awesome!  Every Leo I know shines and tells like it is. (:

@missy @pedant @mudlark @whisht

Funny Story.

I was diagnosed with Crohns, right. I was told: “don’t take aspirin or disprin.”

About 10 years later, some awesome headache relief appeared in the name of “nurofen.”

I was working hard & studying but not into studying labels. I took 2, sometimes 3 & it was AMAZING. So much better than Panadol!…[Read more]

@missy

As @whisht and @pedant have already noted, you appear to derive most of your opinions on scientific matters and your distrust of scientists from the inconsistencies in newspaper headlines and articles compiled by sub editors and non-specialist reporters who have at best a limited grasp of the scientific matters on which they are…[Read more]

@missy

Now, one should eat butter and cheese and drink full cream milk – it’s GOOD for the heart – say the  “experts!

It would help a lot if you could stop making shit up to support your fatuous certainty. No expert has suggested any of those things are good for you and all recommend cutting down. All also agree that a sensibly balanced diet is…[Read more]

Hi @Missy – that’s interesting about the aspirin study.

I took a look at the NHS “Behind the Headlines” and found this:
“Healthy older people do not benefit from taking aspirin”

It seems that aspirin was being suggested either by some health professionals or non-professionals (eg family, dodgy healthcare people) as being good for you as a kind…[Read more]

@missy Yes, @wolfweed was referring to Romana stating on a talk show she was the summer sign of Cancer, which I happen to be too, and Romana is my favorite companion so made me smile.

Yes, I must agree, Leo’s are the kings and queens for sure.  My sister is a Leo and she never does anything small.  (:

@missy “What I’ll need is a great deal of willpower – and maybe a bucket!”  LOL!  This truly did make me laugh out loud, thanks, Missy.  (:

@thane16 How are you both?

@tempusfugit & @missy  Capaldi was amazing and by far one of the most talented actors the show has ever had.

It’s especially hard to lose a favorite Doctor to regener…[Read more]

@missy when it comes to diet, yes expert advice is shaky and common sense is the best approach. However.. that is not the case with most areas of Science. The consensus on global warming is long standing. Global warming was first noted over a hundred years ago, perhaps because there is concrete evidence whereas when it comes to the human body…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @missy @pedant

Interesting convo

Mark Gattis, writer of Empress of Mars, has said in interview how his first instinct was to object to the casting of Bayo Gbadamosi – on the pretty much the exact same grounds as @missy objecting to David Copperfield; there were no black soldiers at that time and in that place.

Fortunately, bef…

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Move t’pub

@bluesqueakpip @thane16 @missy

some small minded racism, try following Tracy Ann Oberman on Twitter. She was Yvonne Hartman in both Torchwood and Doctor Who.

I have followed this. There is nothing small-minded about it; it is ideological and hate-fuelled with a massive does of sexism.

A world of a difference from getting uppity when…[Read more]

@pedant If you want to see some small minded racism, try following Tracy Ann Oberman on Twitter. She was Yvonne Hartman in both Torchwood and Doctor Who.

I don’t mean TracyAnnO is racist. I’m talking about far too many of the people currently attacking her – for speaking her mind on a subject that personally concerns her. THAT is small minded…[Read more]

@missy

played by a white actor (why do people never get irate when they are called white?

I think that’s because some white people during the civil rights era believed that “negroes” -now African Americans were inferior. They were continually exploited by deep south sharecroppers into the late ’50s. White men continued to earn better money. At a…[Read more]

@missy

misunderstand what I mean

What is there to understand about small-minded racism?

@missy

Understood!  🙂

From  Thane

@Missy  @thane16 @Bluesqueakpip

It isn’t all that long ago, and well within my lifetime, that it was still more usual for white actors to be cast in the role of Othello. In Edinburgh in 1965 I saw the acclaimed National Theatre production of Othello with Olivier in the title role and Frank Finlay as Iago*.  Olivier was blacked up – face, arms a…[Read more]

@missy @tempusfugit @thane16 @bluesqueakpip

Also, given that Othello was Moor, there’s no particular reason to suppose that he would be black in the sense that we use that term today. To Shakespeare’s “black” would refer to anyone darker than and Englishmen, at a time when sun-tanning was definitely not A Thing.

So anyone from Turkey to the…[Read more]