@pedant

Anecdote is not the singular of evidence.

Well, yes, see, because you can call it “anecdote” or a “story.” And either way the issue/anecdote/thing that happened DID actually happen. Did I write down everything that was said? Yes. Did I repeat it to another who wrote it also? Yes.

And….

Was it even on film? YES. The store caught it.…[Read more]

@mudlark @pedant

You’re right, it’s an anti-inflammatory.  I got that quite wrong.

Stories are important. Why else vlog a Diabetes story?

@pedant (soz, this is really the last post): if personal experience is the beginning of discourse and if discourse leads to group discussion and if THAT discussion leads to the decision to create surveys, or further study and if that study then leads to even more experiences listed in say, one place or many places then “stories” are the back-bone…[Read more]

@pedant

Thankyou. It looks like a top book and obviously very necessary (the “very” is the funny part. I hear at school things like “very unique, very very clever, really pregnant….LOL)

And I have a lot to learn. I keep forgetting “thank you” is not one word.

Mum would of said: “yee-hah”

Thank you.  🙂

PS; I believe some students in the…[Read more]

@pedant

Clarity didn’t happen did it?

What was meant, I reckon (but now I can’t ask her) was:

• read the packet
• know what’s in it
• most Doctors believe aspirin is pretty good
• some Doctors don’t like aspirin (probably those who haven’t kept up with the research)…..so
• keep up with the research
• read the literature and know from which a…

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@mudlark thank you Ms Mudlark. I appreciate it.

@pedant  Blimey:

We need, say:

multiple examples (really?)
that are representative of the population and chosen at random
in which the experimenter is blind to the selection (OMG, seriously?)
And in the case where the sample is people, the people are also blind (so don’t know if they are ge…

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@pedant Hi I have read this information (finally) on the Pub pgs . You said :

PSA: Anecdote is not the singular of evidence.

What did that mean?

There was discussion of something to do with aspirin which indicates excellent health benefits for people with heart conditions. So, one more day for Episode 2.

@pedant

I liked that. Mum showed me the first one you made a few weeks ago? Really liked the ‘ums’ sped up. Hope you’re not in agony at all. Or it’s bearable.

Thane.

@notime

Yep, it’s called the Opening Title or Title sequence or Intro as opposed to “outro.”

@madtimetravellingscot A narrative in this instance was a called plot. ‘A’  happened then ‘B’ then ‘C’ with lots of discussion about what was happening in between. Felt like a very real situation: whether travelling on late night “ghost train” or “siege…[Read more]

@tempusfugit

I’m not sure about the fact that Graham has cancer.

OK. Sorry, why?

I look a million dollars and I’m half dead. No kidding. I have a paramedic watching this as I type and he’s performing a truly hideous job/procedure (these doods get paid far too little).  Yesterday I was in the garden for 4 hours. Last night I had some peeps over fo…[Read more]

@tempusfugit

Agreed. I imagine it won’t just be one baddie after another. I do recall in Buffy (and I aint no expert) that there were quite a few monsters of the week but it was in between the monsters where the characters’ growth occurred.

Doctor  Who has always been different, as you say. A very special kind of different which has ballooned…[Read more]

@tempusfugit

No, not at all! We should have been clearer. I get what you mean, I also really loved Grace. She was everything you’d want in a character -in a real life person. Maybe they created her to be so very loving and positive so we’d feel that loss with a lot more ache? So, all in all I think it’s a hard thing to do: to let her die rather…[Read more]

@tardigrade  @pedant writes this above:

But functionally, she is a bit like the Eric Balfour character, Jesse, in the first episode of Buffy (Whedon wanted him in the main credits, but the network wouldn’t let him). It is a signal that nobody is safe. It is also floats the question (which is is nice to see acknowledged in this thread) of why we ca…

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@tempusfugit

Sorry, it’s Thane here. With the old Who and NuWho there was a large area around the TARDIS protected? I think @Mudlark and others already commented on that part of history so I wouldn’t be worried. If they were in that cold outer- atmosphere for a pico-second they’d be instantly frozen.

With the score, I think Mum meant that if you…[Read more]

@at all.

Speaking for me, Thane, I loved it. Immediately upon watching the first 12 mins, I said, “Oh, Lord, she’s DONE it!”

I can see why others might not.

From a 16 1/2 point of view, it was very funny AND there were the jump scares.

I really liked how Doctor said, in response to “what if it kills us?” “it could have already.”

I took that…[Read more]

@pedant

I bow….

Followed by falling over.

Indeed Gold has made it clear, “it was a pastiche, basically. It was bloody hard. It was mainly samples.”

For the whole 1st season!  Later, Foster did quite a bit of the incidental music. I’d say that Akinola is at the stage Gold was at in 2002-03. We ought to give him time to develop. As for arcs,…[Read more]

@tempusfugit

Of course not! Nothing like that.

And certainly you didn’t have a go at him….and had you, that’s OK too. As I say, it’s not a “yes ma’am” place AT all. In fact being able to criticise is part of the site’s appeal because there’s no screaming or hassling, I just wanted to defend the dude a bit, is all.   He has one heck of a job…[Read more]

@kharis @missy @tempusFugit  I’m a Leo. And telling it like it is.  😀

I was a professional musician. So, speaking as an orchestral conductor the music was quite difficult to write; it’s new; it’s not Murray Gold but it IS a composer with a pretty legitimate background. I think that were he, or his family, reading comments that it’s “extremely b…[Read more]

@kharis

I understand the teeth, though. Check my post on page 1.

As for the music, ooh, that’s harsh! I actually thought it had some lovely orchestral moments? It wasn’t Murray, that’s for sure, but I do think it was in the upper portion of successful for something so obviously new. Again, that’s just my personal opinion….

Puro

@nearlysane

Great handle!

Yes indeed this is a sane site as @JanetteB indicates. The only twerp, last year, who became erm, difficult was actually me (but I totally put that down to medication & general insanity   😉

Agreed. I imagine the flame wars and unhilarity -hilarity would be most unbecoming for a civilised person. I assumed (foolishly)…[Read more]