@thane15

As, Misfits is ridiculous fun. Tell your mum not to censor!

@pnwfan

All will be revealed.

(move t’pub)

@bluesqueakpip @thane15 @tradigrade

but that doesn’t stop your hypothesis testing also being an act of faith.

See the answer I gave some moments ago (and it is one that no amount of verbiage overturns).

If it’s important that you get somewhere else quickly, you will not have time for repeat testing.

And you will know that you had ina…[Read more]

@thane15

Equally though, your personal experience of the bus stop, and the arrival of said bus or Ford Prefect, rest to some extent on faith that the hypothesis is valid and the deduction sound…

Nope. That is subject only to constant testing under threat of falsification. That is why it doesn’t get to be called a theory until it has strong e…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @thane15 @tardigrade

When you wait at a bus stop on someone else’s say so, it is not an act of faith, it is an act of hypothesis testing. If the bus doesn’t turn up, then you revise the hypothesis. Eventually you may have enough evidence to propose a Theory of Bus Flows, but any new piece of evidence has the potential to completely…[Read more]

@ichabod

Do you mean that there is no such thing as “situational” depression,

No, nor anything like it.

Everybody, at some time or another, will get situational depression. The number of situations that can provoke it is too long to itemise. But then the situation changes and the problem goes away, at most a bad memory. Mostly it doesn’t need tre…[Read more]

@XAD4 @thane15 and any others who were following the Dyfi ospreys…

Monty and Glensi have grandchildren! In Scotland. (As far as is known the first offspring from a Welsh nest to have chicks since repopulation began). Also, interesting question as to if this is the first time a British osprey has been followed from conception to…[Read more]

@Nick

No, you don’t.

@nick

If you’re suggesting that he’s acting unDoctorish because of depression caused by this sequence of events,

No.

That’s not how depression works. The stressors inflame the illness, they don’t define it. Eleven understood this. Twelve is living it (and even Eleven withdrew from the world for an extended period after Angels Take Man…[Read more]

@nick

be intellectual and not physical as there are no accumulated memory.

I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark here and guess that you have never had to be treated for depression.

@mirime

I have a strong suspicion that there is something we have not yet seen of events on the Chasm Forge.

@ichabod

I’ve generally found the Master  (in the…

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@nick

Acting outside his core principles (which he didn’t do with River, Rose, Amy/Rory or Adric in BG Who) in the way he did is undoctorish ….. The way the Doctor acted to “save” Clara was selfish

Or he was thoroughly few up with losing people and had been tortured for 4.5 billion years.

You have basically just blamed a depressive for his depression.

That was fun.

But why did the Tardis throw a hissy that needed Missy?

Call me Captain Obvious…

@nick

Prepare to be amazed.  WTO isn’t a nice comfy fallback agreement, it’s a nightmare. Are you sure you want Trump (or, more likely, his successor) to have us by the short and curlies? Not that it matters. The single market was designed to eliminate non-tarrif barriers. Thatcher (quite rightly) grasped that UK business was getting…[Read more]

@jimthefish

And as pedant says, all it takes is a couple of shaky by-elections for the whole edifice to come tumbling around her ears.

Or for that matter, 4 or 5 Tory rebels. Woolaston and Soubry are still there…

@nick

It will take much more than a year to complete “the paperwork” (research how long it takes to tie up a single trade deal – take the EU-Canada deal as a marker). And we will lose 150+ of them when we leave. If you aren’t already then follow @DavidAllenGreen and @sirpauljenkins on Twitter (and in the FT).

We have no trained negotiators (most…[Read more]

@nick

no deal exit

If that happens, then bear in mind that the UK only has 4 or 5 days supply of food.

@mudlark

have the option of a postal vote

I was putting myself in the hubristic head of May.

@Nick

May has no chance of lasting until 2020. Her entire schtick is “if you ignore it, it will go away”.

It won’t, especially now she has tied herself to terrorists and neutered the only effective weapon they had against Corbyn. Her weakness is emphasised by the fact that her reshuffle left all of the big jobs in place including Hammond, who…[Read more]

That stereotype of German’s having no sense of humour?

Not so much…

German government spokeswoman says it will not comment on the outcome of the General Election out of respect and politeness

— Sky News Newsdesk (@SkyNewsBreak) June 9, 2017

@soundworld

The campaign in England was the same – The Theresa May Party. But is was all but impossible (as you say) for the SNP to do anything other than regress to the mean. Curiously the Tories got put to the…[Read more]

@whisht @thane15 @ScaryB and anyone else who cares…

Nothing to do with episodes but:

GO OUT AND BUY THEA GILMORE’S NEW ALBUM NOW! I posted The War, the teaser track, a while back but the standout tracks are Slow Fade To Black and Rise (which is just sublime) – but rather annoyingly neither have been youtubed yet. So have two of the best covers…[Read more]