@steve-thorp

At least there weren’t any dinosaurs!

Damn, now you’re making me wish there had been! I would have loved to have seen what cardboard dinosaurs would have looked like.

Really need to give Invasion of the Dinosaurs a watch sometime, because I’ve heard those dinosaurs are not very good. imagine how much worse they would have been in the 60s…

@steve-thorp

The Great Easter Kerfuffle was complicated by the speed with which the National Trust changed their website – but Sky managed a before and after shot.

So not quite fake news. Poor old Cadbury was fairly embarrassed; while they’d sponsored Cadbury Egg Hunts at the National Trust/National Trust for Scotland, they’d been very careful…[Read more]

@steve-thorp

Well  I’m surfing thru   UK  newspapers  and I’m seeing this ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-theresa-may-nafta-membership-donald-trump-trade-deals-eu-a7994016.html

If I was prone to crazy conspiracy theories I might say this might be some how connected to why the UK

is ready to leave the EU with…[Read more]

@steve-thorp

The gravitational side is quite well explained here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accretion_disk

With time dilation, its a relative effect. As a particle spirals towards the singularity, a clock closer to the black hole will slow down relative to one further away, even though the particles themselves accelerate (and heat up giving…[Read more]

@Miapatrick   Yes, for a teacher, and educated person generally, I would have thought she would assume that most people would know the genesis of “Morpheus”. But as @steve-thorp points out, she also didn’t recognize the Shakespeare quote. Hm. Have to say, the Clara as hybrid theory seems increasingly certain. And as others have pointed out, the D…[Read more]

@steve-thorp

The english teacher not recognising a quote from Shakespeare.

Hmm. I wonder if this is a clue as to who, or where, Clara is? I mentioned upstream my idea (the result of thinking about “The Sixth Sense”) that perhaps Clara’s fate is not to die, but to discover that she is already dead. I have been trying to figure out how this might…[Read more]

@Steve-thorp

I am having trouble working out the full significance of “Amazing Grace” being played, unless it is a reference to Clara saving him.

Ummm… Steven Moffat has been on an Alpha course? 😈

I’ve been making that joke since last year; but he does seem to be very interested in addressing the question of whether death is act…[Read more]

@steve-thorp: I interpret Amazing Grace as saying if one has faith in a higher moral calling, one will enter into a state of grace and obtain salvation.  The Doctor is struggling with whether he is a good man and how should he stay on a high moral path.

It is appropriate when Osgood calls him that Amazing Grace plays because there was a time, Day…[Read more]

@steve-thorp

I am not sure that Monsieur Farage looks human

Well, according to a headline in today’s Independent, Farage wants to stop the BBC from producing programmes such as Doctor Who (UKIP frowns on all that extreme leftist propaganda, you know).  So obviously he is the worst kind of alien.    EXTERMINATE!

@Steve-Thorp @ScaryB – re the Doc’s scribbled equations, wouldn’t you know it, someone has analysed them all:

http://www.tychosnose.com/the-science-at-the-end-of-the-whoniverse/

Doesn’t sound as though they will contribute very much to our bonkerising, but just in case anyone is interested!

On another point – the dinosaur.  Do we know for sure…[Read more]

@JanetteB @okies

He tells Clara he wasn’t talking to her (re the boyfriend) – he says he was talking about himself ie it’s he who was fantasising (creating a fantasy normality where he is liked and accepted) about being her boyfriend.

@Steve-Thorp (good to see you back) Thanks for bringing up all the chalking on the wall… and the floor… I…[Read more]

@ScaryB – ah, thank you for the link. i agree with that assessment. i also believe that the trenzalore affair is now a “closed timeloop” sort of situation, in the same way that most of the events in ‘journey to the centre of the tardis’ happened, then were un-happened (i feel so sorry for any non-native english speakers who might be trying to…[Read more]

@wolfweed

Anyone from Leeds offended?

I don’t think @steve-thorp is about but, living in Yorkshire I think the main source of offence would be the “Elsie Tanner” label from Donna. Wrong side of the Pennines and therefore a capital offence in Yorkshire. 😉

@ScaryB, @Bluesqueakpip, @Shazzbot, @Timeloop, @JimTheFish, @Juniperfish, @WhoHar, @PhaseShift, @Wolfweed, @janetteB @TardisBlue, @steve-thorp, @OsakaHatter @FatManInABox, @magnetite, @blenkinsopthebrave, @Whisht, @pedant
@DanMartinUK, @Craig, @mini-HTPBDETs and of course in memory of @HTPBDET
Cheers! Thanks for such a great community

@ScaryB, @Bluesqueakpip, @Shazzbot, @Timeloop, @JimTheFish, @Juniperfish, @WhoHar, @PhaseShift, @Wolfweed, @janetteB @TardisBlue, @steve-thorp, @OsakaHatter @FatManInABox, @magnetite, @blenkinsopthebrave, @Whisht, @pedant

And not least @DanMartinUK, @Craig and @mini-HTPBDETs (and apologies if I missed or misspelt anyone, you have no idea how…[Read more]

@TardisBlue *waves back* My pleasure – simply one quick search away. I hope a lot use the opportunity! Haha, I just remembered Marta’s journey around earth to tell everyone to think of the word ‘Doctor’ when the countdown ends. Will be something like that for me personally.

I am doing something similar @TardisBlue. I invited the only friend who…[Read more]

@Shazzbot @ScaryB @Bluesqueakpip @Juniperfish @Craig @JimTheFish @pedant @Whisht @DanMartinUK @Arkleseizure @Pufferfish @Airedales etc.

Hope you all have a great time meeting up and I am genuinely sorry to miss it. Looking forward to the post meeting stories and also how your impressions of each other in RL compared to the online perception. Also…[Read more]

@OsakaHatter, @thommck @Magnetite @Steve-Thorp – all avatars received safe and sound, thnx

@Whohar you are completely unpixilated now 🙂

@Miapatrick I’ve no idea what you did when you were uploading, but it’s great. (And agree with you re bonkersness award for @Shazzbot 😉 )

@Shazzbot – we could invent a new drinking game – and have a drink…[Read more]