@msrbahar @pedant

the “lame John Williams horn rip off” was  interesting wasn’t it?

It was W.G Snuffy Walden, not Williams. Snuff worked with band ELP under the Manticore label. Their album (and name) was Stray Dog with 3 songs by Greg Lake. Snuffy’s horn is sometimes a trumpet, with a Harmon mute and straight mute. Composers DO ferret out…[Read more]

@pedant I do however, charge for my editorial services.

Everything I do, I do because of you….there’s a song like that…..Not quite the right words.

Flippin heck, Mr P, where do you find your patience? In fact, you are patient.

Somehow the world’s flipped over-night. We’re in Upside- down World.  Exactly, Parks’ ‘plan’ wasn’t planned. The…[Read more]

@pedant

Rosa was entirely aware of the NAACP’s plan for a boycott and as you say

she said that “I was tired of giving in! ”   So  indeed knew what she was doing

in the moment.

I’m giving her  that credit.   She deserves it !

@pedant

I’m actually surprised that it hasn’t been worse than it actually was. Mind you, I haven’t delved too deeply into YouTube yet…..

@pedant jinx and well, quite.

@pedant

Yeah, good point. I do like that’s she’s pretty fearless. And on reflection, this more pragmatic approach to problems is pretty cool too.

@everyone

I know I’ve just prodded that particular cage, but probably the best thing is not to encourage the troll contingent and they’ll soon get bored and go away….

@pedant @mudlark

The time displacement device appears to have been capable of sending people forward to the 85th century, from memory. If its ability to send people backwards is similar, then Krasko could have ended up around 6000 BCE. At that time, the American continent was populated solely by native Americans. Krasko would have found himself…[Read more]

@pedant

Picky picky!  I wasn’t thinking *that* far back, and in any case I wasn’t expecting anyone to take me seriously 🙂

@pedant

I didn’t say he would survive 🙂  The DNA of his carcase landing in the ooze could kick start a chain of evolution or, alternatively, if he landed a billion or so years later he might land on a critical insect, or give a significant therapod terminal indigestion.   Or not.  I tend to the belief that if there are time travellers and th…[Read more]

@miapatrick @juniperfish @pedant et al

Just on the Doc’s historical approach to racism, watched the first two episodes of Tomb of the Cybermen recently and it’s a story where it’s getting increasingly difficult not to ignore its racism, or just how little the Doctor seems to be troubled by it….

@pedant Quite, Martha and Bill stood out a little, Bill possibly less than she really would have, Ryan is in genuine peril. It’s a stark difference. ( A black woman literally just had to change her seat on an airplane because a white man didn’t want to sit next to him. But at least the conversation is about how he ought to have been arrested,…[Read more]

@pedant important point, really, (and not to downplay the historical racism in this country) in this country the fight was against people and businesses being allowed to discriminate against people of different ethnicity. Historically, legal restrictions I think only applied to people who didn’t belong to the church of England, that referred to…[Read more]

@JimtheFish and @Pedant

I watched In the Heat of the Night (1967) recently, starring Sydney Poitier, and Malorie Blackman’s episode really reminded me of that movie – the same hard-hitting (more so in fact) claustrophobic and dangerous climate of police-sanctioned racism.

I’m betting Blackman had that film in mind as one of her…[Read more]

@pedant

Yeah, that’s a really good point. The episode in general did a really good job of conveying that sense of constant implacable oppression.

@pedant

The console’s crystal thingy goes up and down;

According to the article in the Radio Times, it’s supposed to be a Time Crystal and a main power source. Not sure where that leaves the Eye of Harmony, but the Tardis has renewed herself and maybe there was a bit more involved than refurbishment and redecoration.

@JimTheFish

Vinette R…

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@pedant well, yes I am admirable.  Mum said that so I typed it!

But I agree with you too. Also she looks at the tardis as well as seeing & its gorgeous.

People also say that we are disadvantaged when we cannot view a person we wish to. Awkward phrasing & “obvious” but that is a difficulty now. “This modern world” and all that…

T16

@pedant  Cross purposes; not a problem.

@pedant  Okay, I do not remember 12 being able to “leave at any time”.

In that case you did not pay sufficient attention, which is far enough. Moffat’s writing is unforgiving of those who don’t. But it was spelled out clearly, in text.

I just checked “Heaven Sent”, looking for the You Can Leave At Any Time clause, and of course got sucked i…[Read more]

@pedant – just wanted to say I’m sorry to hear about your diagnosis.

Its good you’re dealing with it properly ie taking care of diet and habits. And changing habits is a bugger.
Not much more of any use I can say really, except that errrrmmm….