Absolute classic.

I’m sort of fascinated thinking about this. Did he build it to have exacrly the same musculature as his other leg? If he lost a few pounds or did a bit of exercise, did he have to adjust his cyber leg to match? Does it grow or shrink to keep balanced? Could he make it super skinny or huge and thicc?

Yup. Absolutely. Even stories like Lucky Day and Robot Revolution with their incel stuff

You know what will happen obviously. They’ll get someone new in and it won’t feel like Who and everyone will be fucking furious … again.

I’m still really sad they didn’t land it, and convinced there was a huge amount of behind the scenes drama that will come out eventually. I want Ncuti back and I’m hoping for a bit more RTD.

It was. But it doesn’t spoil the stuff before it. As 11 once said: “The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant”

Do you think? I hope so. I’m currently hoping more that RTD gets Ncuti back at least for next year’s Christmas special and wraps things up more convincingly before whatever happens next.

I want to be clear here - I’m not judging Americans for using punctuation in a different way to the British. I’m just pointing out that the way Americans use punctuation isn’t universal and lots of people in other English-speaking countries do it differently. That’s all. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

As you can see LOADS of social signifiers in there as well as financial ones. Does that help at all?

* goes on holidays for culture, or for peace or experiences rather than for entertainment, mostly outside the UK
* reads the Guardian, Independent or (if older) the Times or Telegraph
* primarily watches BBC TV programs and listens to Radio 4
* watches documentaries and keeps up with news

* eats avocados, sushi, shops at Waitrose
* drives a nice electric hatchback car
* wears under-stated but nice clothes
* is polite, goes to dinner parties with friends etc. etc.
* today, probably leans politically towards Labour, Greens and other centrist / left-wing parties (if under 60)

And that corresponds with food too and accents. So the British stereotype of a middle class person might be:
* no regional accent
* owns own home, but it’s not huge
* has it decorated nicely but not with antiques
* works as a middle manager in a company or as a lawyer or doctor

… which you might see correspond by other choices in their life - ie. Maybe the equivalent of Walmart is a working class supermarket, Safeway is lower middle class, Wholefoods is proper middle/upper middle class. And then your true upper class would buy from dedicated high end stores.

Having said that, there’s probably still some class sensitivity beyond what I’ve said. People today might be able to differentiate between someone they think is working class, lower-middle, middle, upper-middle and upper class (I’m not kidding there may even be more gradations)…