@thane16 – knowing your thing for planes….

Bugger. Completely forgot it was Battle of Britain today, and I always post this somewhere. Ah well, only 30 mins late

@Roger429

    Missy didn’t use the term as a pejorative at

My. You really are new around here, aren’t you?

There is no non-pejorative use of the term. Putting the most positive possible spin on it still leaves it as a lazy, disrespectful dismissal of something that a lot of people have put a lot of careful thought into. But specifically, Mis…[Read more]

@roger429

The term is sometimes used in an attempt to correct for a perceived injustice, historical or current.

It is never used like that – it is a pejorative, exactly as Missy meant it – used as a way to justify being offensive and getting all uppity when people pop back. I would challenge you to find a single instance of use in a positive…[Read more]

@toinfinityandbepond

Lee at his finest – never once raising his voice.

@roger429

Did you or did you not ask what the phrase means?

No.

A thought experiment: every time you find yourself thinking the term “political correctness” might be appropriate in a sentence substitute in “being considerate” (because that is what the abusive term is…[Read more]

@roger429

I’m perfectly aware of the history, etymology, historical usage (as a self-correcting satire by the the left on those who got a bit too ideological pure) and how that was warped and corrupted by conservative writers into an assault on any who committed the sin of giving a damn about the hopes, dreams and feelings of others. And from…[Read more]

@missy

Nah,. Every time anyone wants to hide behind those pathetic weasel words as a justification for their prejudice and hatred they will get it with both barrels.

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

#WorldSuicidePreventionDay

@roger429

the political correctness playing a part with the selection of a women

What the fuck does this even mean?

Click:

When your daughter spontaneously begins shouting "Help! I'm falling out of the TARDIS!" #DoctorWho #RepresentationMatters pic.twitter.com/CwbRTYueTD

— Iain Clark (@iainjclark) January 3, 2018

Guardian obituary

@blenkinsopthebrave @winston

And a thoroughly decent chap to boot:

https://twitter.com/ShearmanRobert/status/1168710372980928514

@thane16 (the outlier)

The Julie Covington Evita, then?

@craig

Sheee’s baaaaack…

@blenkinsopthebrave

I am fairly sure I would be less inept at using chopsticks.

@thane16

Later, there came (ahem) different elements I liked.

Is that the deep, rich storytelling drenched in metaphor and turning the mundane into the terrifying…

….or the hot chicks with superpowers?

@roger429

When talking to people it is courteous to tag  them (the “@” tag is under the profile picture). Not only does it make following…[Read more]

@thane16

“Take it hip to hip, rock it though the wilderness”….

Pure filth.

Which for some reason reminds me of the title of the album on which this was the first single. I’ll leave you to look it up:

@roger429

Handy tip: if you are going to resort so early to the “lazy writers” trope you will get pretty short shrift around here.

Let’s take Rosa, for example: a tale that had to accurately capture the pervasive and institutional racism of 1955 Alabama, in order that those unfamiliar with the story could understand the import of what was…[Read more]

@roger429

(General TV is for non-Who telly)

4 episodes not at all on Earth and It Takes You Away largely in an alternate dimension….

That’s actually about par for the course, same as Capaldi’s last season. The one before only had two non-Earth stories, the one before three (counting the Moon as Earth orbit, rather than alien). Pertwee’s…[Read more]

@thane16 @whisht

Can’t have the B52s without Roam. Not only a bangin’ choon, but quite sensationally smutty:

Hmmm…

And this (click if it doesn’t embed)

https://twitter.com/EMPIREREPORTNY/status/1163048956844224512

@craig @jimthefish

I suspect I’m not the only one to get a very tempting offer from Kayla Noyes, who if she is in the USA as claimed I’m Chinese.

Also, we seem to have acquired a bevvy of Indian removal firms…