@zeyra
This forum is supposed to try and keep a polite and civil atmosphere. We don’t always succeed, but we’re supposed to try. 🙂

Both @Phaseshift and I felt that saying something offensive about someone else’s country doesn’t follow site etiquette and doesn’t help to maintain a polite and civil atmosphere – especially when it’s directed at a…[Read more]

@Zeyra

Don’t worry about it. It’s nothing you’ve done.

@pedant: A handy  one for you too, don’t hand out advice or tips, unless they are asked for. Especially when one is stating a fact.

@bluesqueakpip:  The same applies to you. My intention was not to ‘offend’ which I hope @zeyra accepted. Every nation has done something in the past for which they should be ashamed, and mostly are. I can’t see why…[Read more]

Mmm! What  bastion of civilisation celebrates Bastille Day , when innocent people were slaughtered along with the guilty.

Please don’t take offense @zeyra, every country was uncivilised at some time or other.

@thane15
Really liked your take on being at your ANZAC ceremony. I remember standing in the school hall during the ANZAC ceremony in 1969. I was 16, the Vietnam War was raging, and there were a lot of us at school that thought there was something very, very wrong about that war, and the Deputy Headmaster stood up and lectured us on how the battle…[Read more]

@zeyra I think my favorite Doctor is either 12 or 10. My favorite episode is probably Heaven Sent. Before that episode came out I think it was The End of Time.

@mudlark That’s funny that you mention archaeology because I’m currently an archaeology student at my university. I’ll be spending a month this summer on a site that was once a spanish…[Read more]

@zeyra

I am very sorry that the fear of terrorism appears to be having such an affect on your life, because that is precisely what the terrorists want: to create an atmosphere of uncertainty and fear in the population. The best way that ordinary people have of opposing them is to carry on living as normally as they can, rather than cowering in…[Read more]

@Zeyra

Le Pen. Like her father before her, and everybody she associates with.

The explains more clearly that I could. There is never a good reason to vote for a fascist.

It is a catastrophic mistake to grab onto the “they are all the same” meme. It is nonsense, and the French left’s refusal to endorse Macron is as stupid as the American left’s…[Read more]

@zeyra

I can tell  you are quite disturbed about your election.  I was really upset about Trump getting elected

here in the states.   I  volunteered for Clinton however since I live in California I don’t think I had

much effect on the election  (my state went for HRC pretty overwhelmingly).

Here’s the thing.   Le Pen is not getting any fin…[Read more]

@Zeyra

Yes, I have been following the election, as I follow politics in Europe generally, although I am probably not as well informed as I ought to be. The newspapers and TV news programmes in Britain don’t cover French elections quite as extensively or in as much depth as they do elections in the USA, which is regrettable.  We in England are a…[Read more]

@Zeyra

Oh yes.

DON’T LET ANYONE YOU KNOW VOTE FOR THE FASCIST! 😉

Am not sure whether to be reassured or worried that the French left is as clueless as the br… er English.

@zeyra: I can understand your preference for David Tennant, rather cute I think 🙂 I prefer  Mr. Capaldi because he is older, wiser and has a face that is lived in. *winks*

Missy

@Zeyra

In what I wrote above there was a sentence in which I omitted a word which made nonsense of what I wrote and so, bearing in mind that English is not your first language, and in case you were confused, the fourth sentence should have begun: ‘I too, had a tendency to day-dream in class and let my mind wander … ‘

@Zeyra

You are certainly not alone because I, also, was not very good at maths – even though I did in the end manage to narrowly pass the necessary examinations.  I loved physics and the biological sciences; chemistry not so much, but that may have been partly because my teacher in that subject was not very good at her job. The deficiency in…[Read more]

Hi, @zeyra — welcome to the Sofa (and the rest of the site too, of course)!  We’re always happy to have new voices.  I was never any good at math, and it’s only due to Miss Matske, of hallowed memory, who gave me an undeserved Pass in math (she knew I’d never get into college without a Scholarship and I wouldn’t get that with an average dragged d…[Read more]

@jimthefish It certainly felt “dialed in”. I zoned out and worked on writing through most of it. Sad to say one of the few things I really noticed is that one episode is black and white. I thought they had stopped scrapping Who by the Pertwee years. Clearly I was very wrong about that. Quite a few stories were recovered from ABC (Australian…[Read more]

@zeyra

Hello! 🙂

I’m 14. I like Matt Smith first, then David. I feel the same way with all the Doctors … I started to love Capaldi just recently.

@zeyra

what is the average age here ? Just being curious

I’m not sure what the average is, but there are people here of all ages, from those in their teens like yourself, to a few like me who whose status is verging on the antique.  What ever our age, experience and other interests, what we all have in common is the love of Doctor Who and a d…[Read more]

@zeyra

here are only quite old music, not that I mind, but, why is that ?

Because we are all very, very old!

Well, OK, some of us are. But we are mostly of an age that our musical awareness and, indeed, awareness of other things was shaped by a time when blues-rooted rock and pop was in its full glory. So, basically the 1960s though to around the…[Read more]

@zeyra: Hello there and welcome. *waves*

Your favourite Doctor was Matt smith then? Mine is Peter Capaldi.  Although all of them since 2005 were outstanding, PC, in my opinion, is the best.

I too am a Sherlockian, and as Puro said, we have got a thread about the show.

Your English is very good.

Missy