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

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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]

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I’ve been a firm believer in the UK having some form of PR based electoral system for as long as I can vote.In some ways the French system is better (two rounds, with only 2 candidates in the final round, so the supporters of the other defeated candidates have to choose). This is rather PR like, but unlike PR big minority parties dont…[Read more]

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I found your story of the mouse from native-american mythology fascinating! I don’t know if you are familiar with the DUNE series by Frank Herbert. In book 2, Dune Messiah, Paul Muad’Dib is struck blind by a bomb explosion but sees nevertheless with his conciouness. In the first book, he adopted the name Muad’Dib from the language of…[Read more]

@soundworld  You’re entirely welcome, and here’s a thing, if I may, that I learned from a good friend and colleague (someone with some chronic conditions stemming from childhood illness).  You’ve been brave; you know you’ve been brave, although you probably don’t like to talk about it.  You know (I think) that’s it’s a choice.  Give Yourself A Med…[Read more]

@soundworld:  My best wishes for your health problems. I don’t know why it is, but The Doctor always makes me feel better, I leave him with a smile.

@ichabod: I hope you are bearing up. I have meant to ask you before. Also, I don’t care for any kind of JAZZ either, or Rap for that matter.

Missy

@soundworld  Sounds as if some heaviness is lightening up for you — for me, too, anent health issues; the new year looks better in that respect (if few others), so, cheers!  And yes, the darkness in the stories is crucial to the lightness.  Part of what’s shown there is that coming up from the depths for clean, bright air isn’t always just a ma…[Read more]

hi again.

A phrase @soundworld used in a post has stayed with me (cheers sounfworld!!) 🙂

The phrase was “collapsing into coherence” and when this popped up on my headphones whilst out and about, the phrase also popped back into my mind!
It also has (for me) some sort of Central European feel to it, though as i know nothing of that music I’ll…[Read more]

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It occurs to me that it is not at all clear that Clara can leave the Diner!Tardis with get the “dum” bit of her last “ba dum” (and one could reasonably infer, from The Doctor making her stay inside at the end of the universe, that she can’t).

That could cramp her style a little.

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I don’t get that there is a problem with the ‘immortal’ Clara.  She has to go back and face the Raven someday – and potentially has, what, 4.5 billion years to get to Gallifrey the long way round in order to be returned to face her death.  Not a bad innings!   Unless she gets tired of it before then.  I agree that she could in pri…

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Would the neural block have worked on Clara without a pulse?  In her time-looped state she might have just reset, or it may not have had time to work – it seemed to take several seconds for the Doctor to succumb to it.  It depends on how much of Clara’s system is reset in her timeloop (she is her own personal traveling Ourob…

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I should be working for my clients!

Bloody clients. Always getting in the way of the fun stuff!

@soundworld  Rassilon and the High Council have been exiled, near the end of time, where there’s ‘only one or two star systems left’. In these ‘end times’ where is there left to actually exile them to?

“They’re on the shuttle,” he says, of the High Council.  Shuttles usually go back and forth between commuter stops or some such, but if there’s…[Read more]

@soundworld: I suggest things such as Tardis’ mysteriously being left unguarded are not simply from incompetence.  Just as for Davies Dalek Caan was shown to be manipulating the timestream for his own purposes, I think for Moffat the Time Lords have their own rogue to worry about who is not the Doctor.

The Doctor: When Time Lords die, their minds…

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My beloved Lem’s books are Solaris and The Star Diaries. The last one is very, very funny but also deeply political.

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I presume (uh-oh!) they’ve been exiled without access t0 time-machines (since they’re safely stored on Gallifrey, right?

There is always the possibility that Rassilon has an ally or two still on Gallifrey – people who managed to keep their heads down and avoid notice, so that they escaped being evicted.  Such an ally might be able t…[Read more]

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It appears that the TARDIS repair bay is normally unguarded, presumably on the grounds that no one would be bonkers enough to steal a faulty TARDIS.

Oops.

@tardigrade  For me, it’s the emotional connection that was the more important thing that’s been weakened by the wipe, more than the actual memories of what happened, which do seem to be there, even if not in their original form, so even if he does fill in the gaps over time, it seems he’ll be able to live with those memories now.

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@soundworld: But then we found out in Heaven Sent that one second clock time to the Doctor can be the equivalent of minutes thinking inside his head.  🙂

Random thought: the whole stand-off on Gallifrey cloaked Rassillon with a distinct Soviet vibe, willing to execute war heroes when they become a threat. Exiling him felt a little like dispensing with that past.

Perhaps a little Glasnost on Gallifrey will make it a more interesting place, with fewer daft costumes. It can only be a matter of time b…[Read more]

That was magnificent; a tour de force on the part of everyone concerned in its production, and breathtaking even on second viewing – in fact *especially* on second viewing. Count me among those who rate this among the best episodes ever.

What we saw was, of course, entirely from the Doctor’s point of view – a subjective reality within the…[Read more]