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…

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

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!

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]

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]

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. 😉

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

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

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]

@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]

@Shazzbot – I want to see those movies! Now!

Re Advertisers on the Graun site (and others) – they are charged per page view and additional for clicks. G ad sales team will present stats to show no of page-views when chasing ad sales.

Thanks for posting the link – response has been remarkably pro-DW  on the whole (only 1 “it’s a kids show” so far 😉 (and great responses form @WhoH…[Read more]

Honestly, I looked at that Winder article and just did a mental shrug. So pseuds corner it defies belief. I couldn’t even summon up the energy to take the piss.

The Pratchett article is interesting, and because the article doesn’t really explain its source, I will. When this site first launched in January I highlighted a b…[Read more]

One word actually: Wankery.

The G is turning into an advertisers whore.

(OK, so that’s more than one word)

@Shazzbot – A proper Flash Mob – they ‘melted away’ at the end…

We have three bonkers reasons left, folks! Reasons 48, 49 and 50 are still up for grabs.

I was unde the impression that the screenings would be a one-off to be “simulcast” (I hate that word) at the same time as the TV showing. I suppose it makes sense that the cinemas will re-screen it afterwards but I can’t imagine them doing it before!

Come to think of it, my brother works for a cineworld and normally gets…[Read more]

The slow reveal of the cybermen – agreed, and it’s nearly the end of episode 2 (good call by @Steve-Thorp on last week’s cliffhanger) before we see them moving for real. (@Phaseshift Not only climbing down the ladders,…[Read more]

you mean he’s Hurtnell…?!

*gets coat and runs*

Could he be a younger version of the Hartnell Doctor?

@steve-thorp – apart from being older than Hartnell was when he played the Doctor, yes. They’re roughly the same height, same eye colour and don’t look too dissimilar.

That said, given the well known ability of the Time Lords to regenerate, I suspect the rule is that unless the new actor is…[Read more]

@pedant I did consider that, and some of the links do have a:visited set to the same e.g. the names at the side and the latest boxes on the Home…[Read more]

Is that everyone?

I’m thinking Tomb myself. It’s Troughton and it’s Cybermen… The original Cybermen!

And Victoria… I have a soft spot for her. 😀

If you don’t want spoilers then don’t watch below, but I quite liked this fan-made trailer.

It reminds me how, even with…[Read more]

I enjoyed this tremendously. In fact, I didn’t have the discipline and restraint that @steve-thorp demonstrated. I couldn’t stand the […]

We can always loop back to Androzani end of Aug/Sep;  […]

I’m not sure “love interest”, but you can see Litefoot is absolutely gobsmacked by her. I loved the Doctor delivering a cunning backstory for her “Found in a hatbox floating down […]