@whisht Cheers, and no worries, I’ll get better at it. And if I don’t I’ll just give @PhaseShift a shout. He’s well good at it!

@Wolfweed Don’t worry about it at all. You did absolutely nothing wrong. I’m beginning to think being offended is a new form of trolling. “If I don’t get a reaction from my posts I’m going to pretend to be offended then…[Read more]

@Whisht

(“we got what we think was their intent or mindset from the search query so show them ‘this’ and this is more relevant so charge the advertiser more).

I am constantly amazed at how poor Google, Facebook et are at identifying my preferences. The very best algorithm is totally shit. Yet they get very upset when you use plug ins to try to…[Read more]

@Whisht that was a wonderful bonkers theory.  I do wish London wasn’t so faaaar away.

Cheers

Janette

Summarising the bonkers theories for tomorrow’s rewatch.

• @Juniperfish came up with a theory that the GI may represent the ‘Dark Side’ of the Doctor’s character. That’s still a goer, I’d say, at least symbolically. The GI and Clara become the ‘bad and good angels’, so to speak, playing out the two sides of the Doctor within his…

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@Whisht – both a delightfully bonkers theory and a wonderful delivery of said.

I will be peering in on the 22nd, sadly Mrs Hatter has been trying and failing to get out of work so we can make a weekend of it, but instead we’re having to make a mad dash for the south on saturday night when she finishes – and trying to get to our hotel in time for…[Read more]

@Whisht – It’s a Zygon disguised as The Valeyard dressed as Pudsey!

@whisht

Definitely BONKERS!!!!!!!!!! (or should that be blinkers?)

@Whisht – You just need to lose the brackets around the s – mini-HTPBDETs [not mini-HTBDET(s)].

(I just did the same thing until I realised & edited it).

May I say that you are not spam!

Oh, Mr @Whisht – I apologise.

I should have said that Uncle specifically mentioned your discussion with him when he was talking with me about Dr Hurt being part of a time paradox in the Track of Tears. He really liked your idea and thought about it a lot.

I am sorry to have made that mistake.

And thank you Mr @Wolfweed – I wanted an avatar that…[Read more]

@Mini-HTPBDETs – I agree with @Whisht that your posts are very well written. That last one has really got me thinking.

I’ve got to tell you that I love your avatar too.

Thanks again for sharing.

@Whisht I don’t see anything of yours in spam so it may not have arrived. And no worries asking, that’s what I’m here for.

Please try posting again now.

I’ve just unspammed almost everything in spam (then deleted it, as I thought spamming something benign may be creating some of the current issues), so apologies if some people got some old…[Read more]

Thanks everyone for beautiful thoughts, expressed much more eloquently than I can. @Whisht I found your thoughts about this forum very moving, thank you. Not sure about being able to reconstruct him from the space @HTPBDET left behind, but if you can, why not go out and look at the stars, and look for a distant crazy blue box.

@HTPBDET @Shazzbot @Bluesqueakpip @TardisBlue

Further to the conversation (which I’ve just caught up with!) on the film thread re the casting for Into the Woods (Depp’ll act great and by the time they’ve finished autotuning and audio tweaking he and Corden’ll sound great too!) this came into my head – my only excuse is it’s very late and the last…[Read more]

I definitely second @Blenkinsopthebrave‘s suggestion for a poll for the 50 Bonkers reasons blog answers (maybe to vote on “favourite” one rather than “best”).   And you’d need to have a category for the most groanworthy pun (why would I be looking at you @Whisht ???! 😉 )  (Enter the no rather than the phrase)

And thanks again @Bluesqueakpip for blogging

@Shazzbot

Re the Graun & the Nesting Consciousness ( 😉 ) – as you say it drove some folk away, making the experience much less pleasant, but presumably it gets a lot more people interacting.  The Graun needs the click numbers for advertisers.

OTOH I don’t think we should worry about numbers, it’s quality we want (LOL). What I mean is we’re…[Read more]

@Whisht I thought, was hoping, you were gonna make the Friday meet up in November.

If not, next time you’re down London way, drinks are in order.

THanks @Whisht.

I am still popping in, but I can never check from home when I’ve got three kids and a missus to talk to (apparantly its rude) and can’t really do it from work as too busy!  Though trying to make time on lunch and when kids in bed / fiancee at work.

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@Whisht @Shazzbot @Bluesqueakpip

I’d imagine round the Excel is pretty touristy/bland/expensive anyway for pubs. I’m fine so long as I’m near a tube station – otherwise I inevitably end up walking for hours in the wrong direction in London 🙁

@Whisht – wholeheartedly agree with your posts – an education and much amusement, thanks @everyone. …[Read more]

@Whisht Great choice. I love that pub, and they did great burgers last time I was there.

But can we organise a pub On The Sofa from now on please?

Sorry to do a bit of moderating.