@pedant

Ah yes Toby.

But I think this luverly scene fits round about now. Don’t YOU??

@pedant

Niice. Sounds a lot like Patrick Doyle’s thing even though this is 400 years old!

@whisht

I’m really sorry if it sounded like I thought all uncomfortable feelings are racist. Above, in my post, I was trying to simplify things but I probably wasn’t using the right words. And you’re right, it’s not a game.

when uncomfortable people come together they multiply into those who are angry & …don’t separate fact/fiction.

Yes I was w…[Read more]

So, for some meditation. Someone said, here’s looking at you Mr @blenkinsopthebrave… Leit motif?

I will now admit for everyone this sad fact: I always thought The Man who Came to Dinner was actually (oh gawd) the same as “guess who’s coming to dinner.”

So when people said “we’re watching The Man Who ….” ” I’d nod enthusiastically & be a little…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Orsom! (TM). Thank you.

Loved it!! “drafty sewer you cahl the laarbry!”   Merry Christmas, everybody. And again!!

Syzygy the Snr

@JanetteB

Ah, bangs head 😉

No, you’re right. Danny dies & yes, he’s in a children’s home but chatting with one who was also in a kid’s home -you have mates, brothers & others you don’t always tell things about. Some mad dudette arrives in your room with a great big grey stick insect & you’re not going to open up fully. So, I deduce the idea of…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @ Blenkinsopthebrave. You’d know Bernard Keane, Mr Blenk?

A good book A Short History of Stupid is worth it.

Also, as to good books, we know where this comes from & its relevance: “As goode almost kill a man as kill a goode booke; who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature [..] but he who destroys a good booke kills reason…[Read more]

Thane here

“Dis-ease” = uncomfortable. I then stated that when uncomfortable people come together they multiply into those who are angry & who, as Bonhoeffer stated (read the entire papers as its worth it) don’t separate fact/fiction. Arendt said it’s not the dedicated who are always the problem. The in-between groups are able to follow what…[Read more]

OK. Don’t roll your eyes people. I’m re-doing the Peter Capaldi years.

It’s like a Christmas gift.

I’m pretty sure LISTEN is SILENT (s) so the monster’s an actual monster. The Doctor says: “don’t look in the reflection.” But, during the escapade to the end of the universe, it’s just the ship settling, & its pipes, dry & unused, start knocking. I…[Read more]

@JanetteB ah, see, I edited out the Little Dick.

@pedant @whisht  @arbutus

Hey YOU! You’ve been gone a very. Long. Time 🙁

I hope all is well in the Arbutus manor?

And that reminds me of another manor!  The @idiotsavon castle!

I spent, ooh, about 3 hours last night watching Listen & reading all the comments. I’m a-watching all of the Peter Capaldi years again. How beautiful. I was reading a…[Read more]

@whisht

I think mum was muttering about “embarrassed xenophobia.” I had to look it up! It’s suggesting that if a group are uncomfortable, they’re feeling “dis-ease” or “ill at ease.” When one person thinks this way it might be fine. If a group is born from that feeling they might feel embarrassed about being xenophobic. Eventually if more people…[Read more]

@lisa Thank you, yes I’m doing well. Mum & I share our ‘handle’ as, if she’s a bit crap with Crohns (very literal!), I join in.

I’ve finished school this year with an OP 8 which is hard to say in American or even other Aussie terms! I did all Humanities subjects all rated at ‘9’ or less where top Maths, physics, chemistry were rated at 2-5 & web…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave You did, you thought right the 1st time & you’re right the 2nd time (or is that the 3rd?). I was aiming for pithy. Instead you got the pith. 🙂  That was my first ever CD -$29.99.

Thank you. We do need an uplift.

@whisht @pedant

Dixie Chicks

@pedant

Yes, exactly Hannah Arendt.   What more to say. 🙁

@bluesqueakpip

Yes, the point was that people may not have time to read pamphlets. The balanced views written on pamphlets may’ve been ditched due to a busy schedule with commuters listening to talk-radio hosts -this just from Remainer friends in the UK & the husband’s family who don’t have time for reading (they’re working 2 or 3 jobs due to…[Read more]

@lisa

I totally sympathise with you & your orange headed twerp. Thing is, though, there are some who are equally twerpy, like Boris, and, like Trump, wouldn’t know the cost of milk unless their assistants gave ’em a heads up.

All are welcome to comment, obviously, Lisa. My point was that you may’ve seen “ah, the CONS are back in, let’s go and…[Read more]

@lisa

The “Australian model” your sister writes about is worthless, I’m afraid. It’s a difficult thing to manage, you see.

There have been massive increases in pharmacological prescriptions and devices.

How do they ‘get around it’ to make a profit? They remove certain items from the PDB (the Pharma Day Book -see listing under Legislation July,…[Read more]

@pedant @lisa

Fair enough Lisa. You came back after 2 years away, knowing there’s a 1% “i’m a Leaver” on this Forum, by the regulars, to ‘rub it in.’

Also “hope the next season of Who is better than last year!” comment. If you read many of the regular’s posts in the past year or more, the new season was welcomed by & large. Sure, like anything,…[Read more]

@pedant

Nope, I didn’t know that.  That’s me told!   Skittering off to do homework, whilst listening to this song live on YT. Thankyup, totally new to me.