@thane15

It’s like this great Moffat experiment suddenly turned into something people hated

It didn’t – it’s just that the gobshites can’t and won’t accept that they may be wrong and will not discuss with civility (and cry like toddlers if anyone pops back), so eventually reasonable people fuck off somewhere else and enjoy their day.

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@janetteB

I referred very specifically to the Labour leadership which is still fighting a war that was lost 30 years ago. They managed to effectively mask that they (the leadership, not the party at large) are firmly anti-EU (‘cos capitalist conspiracy, innit?) and this got them the overwhelming bulk of the Remain vote along with nearly all of t…[Read more]

@nerys

I just happened to watch it the other night. I knew the idea was there, but got lucky in my choice of which episode.

@nerys

But how does that explain what happened last week on Mars, when the TARDIS was largely absent? How were Iraxxa and Friday able to understand the Brits, and vice versa?

River – Angels Take Manhattan, when the vase was translating: “Gift of the Tardis – it hangs around”.

@bluesqueakpip

So what, precisely, is your objection to starting Extremis in the Vatican?

Huh? I have never, at any stage, offered any objection to that. I thought it was very cool. I thought its juxtaposition with CERN made a clear and inventive illustration of the two approaches to knowledge without getting bogged down in it.

in real life,…

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@craig

Not sure if it is just me, but can you have a look to see if there is any reasons notifications have stopped coming through?

Ta muchly.

@blenkinsopthebrave @janetteB @nick

It is very easy to get sucked into a distorted perspective. I have been around the tracks enough times to remember the IRA letting off bombs without warning, including trying to assassinate Thatcher and her entire cabinet, but also detonating bombs in many places with no regard for civilians. The centre of…[Read more]

Of course, had they really been trying they would have included a sight gag with a three-eyed crow.

But I did rather admire the Just So… version of how the crow got its call.

So Missy and the Doctor becoming friends means tragedy, then.

That was a hoot.

And also, quality lampshading about lip sync.

@missy

I think it was Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do Have ‘Em.

@cathannabel

Superb piece.

@thane15

Christ my typing has gone to shit (two deadlines i a week will do that). Try again.

I know. Genuinely playing her age, yet there are a couple of moments when Those Eyes shine through and I get all unnecessary.

@thane15

I know. Genuinely playing age, yet there are a complete of moments when Those Eyes shine through and I get all unnecessary.

@missy

Babylon 5 was not axed, but always conceived as a 5 series story. Doubt about whether it would get the last season, and JMS falling out with Claudia Christian, badly compromised season 5, but it was always intend to end then.

@thane15

*strokes chin* 😉

@whisht @thane15 @scaryb

At last someone thought to get their smartphone out at a gig.

The sublime “Rise”:

Bloody hell, give this girl a scholarship for anywhere she wants to go.

Polly Neate, the CEO of a charity which campaigns against domestic violence called Women’s Aid, said other girls from the tower block had also turned up to sit their exams.

“Girls from my 13 year old’s school who lived in #GrenfellTower lost everything and still turned up for…

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@thane15

“very unique”, eh? 😉

@thane15

Not new – from an album of previously unrecorded Sandy Denny (of Fairport Convention) that were never recorded before she died. Gilmore wrote the music and recorded them (this). The BBC used London to wrap up its 2012 Olympic coverage.

I’m sure I’ve put this up before, but fuck it.

@whisht

Yep. Still burning after 24 hours. Utterly, disgracefully appalling – but as you say, simply everybody stepped up (except the dude from KCTMO who would have been better advised not to do the interview).

London Fire Brigade. Just bloody magnificent.