Shitey new learning (internet passive-aggressive voice edition) / Annual Whoviana post

[hirez]

'Triggering', right? Terrible passive-voice internet buzzword. A thing done to someone by someone else invented by someone else again who'd written one too many lab reports or who liked phrases akin to 'lessons were learned'. I'm sure you can do your own reading-between-the-lines there

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[bogwitch64]

Bell-end???

[bogwitch64]

Glans?

[valkyriekaren]

Glans. *nods sagely*

Sorry, is that not what we're doing?

[valkyriekaren]

It can get a bit wearing, can't it? I mean, yes, I can see that there's certain subjects (chiefly things like rape, child abuse etc) that it's not really appropriate to talk about insensitively to an unknown audience, but it can get taken to extremes. I remember once someone insisting that all the balloons should be taken out of the bar area at an event because they were 'frightened of balloons'. That to me falls into 'put your big girl panties on and deal with it' territory.

[hirez]

Yes to your and Mr. Nation's comments. The phrase 'capitalising on yr alleged victim status' was lying about looking all under-used (until right now) for certain uses of the T-word.

[valkyriekaren]

Anyway, yes. Doctor Who. Interesting story, and of course having two Amys was never going to work; it would be terribly confusing for poor gormless Rory and anyway the flying gargoyle-bat monsters would come to eat the universe if they ever touched, a la Father's Day.

What I don't see is why the Doctor had any vested interest in saving the young Amy as opposed to the older one. He's 500 years old, he's always saying how everyone looks young to him. What difference would 30-odd years have made to him?

[valkyriekaren]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH SPOILARZ!!!!!

[hirez]

UNDER A CUT-TAG.

[mrph]

Thirty years of bitterness and utter solitude. I think it's the way the time was spent, rather than the fact that time had passed, that was the deciding factor. IMO, of course.

[valkyriekaren]

Incidentally I have just found out about this - the British Wireless and Television Museum.

http://www.bvwtm.org.uk/

which I thought you might enjoy. Look, valves!

[hirez]

Mmm... Valves.

[valkyriekaren]

*giggle*

And only a short bus ride from my house. I may have to organise an outing. I suspect it will turn out to be a shed full of crap in someone's back garden though.

[hirez]

The Museum of Victorian Science, which is quite handy for Whitby, could well be called 'a shed full of crap in someone's back garden' by the uncharitable.

Actually, it was an excellent way to spend a morning. I recommend it.

In short; :p

(See also The World of Mechanical Music in Northleach)