Oh in the US we didn't have a post-show, we just had a pre-show with twee idiots of the Nerdist type variety (a show full of yelling that makes my eyes roll mightily).

They could have showed us the BBC clips with 8 regenerating into 9 and such but no, they put on that stinking load.

This pre-show is annoying and pointless. But I have cookies, and I won't share them with the twits on my screen.

Yes and no. It's a 3 hrish drive and I only see him every few weekends. But even that's enough to make me want to scream as he parks himself on the sofa screwing around with his laptop all weekend as I do everything around him. Unfortunately I'm a postdoc, so there are insurance reasons among others to not just go get…

On the alcoholic front: yes, there is a reason why I'm glad that the academic two body problem intervened making it such that I needed to move away and have my own house to have a job. Couple someone with an unacknowledged drinking problem with "informing me" that we were moving across country for his job to a little…

Well I think the insinuation from the study designer was that if women were doing something unladylike such as drinking, that they'd probably be doing other unladylike things as well driving men to leave them. So an alternate version of the patriarchy where men can't manage women that don't behave a very specific way.

I was referring to men who didn't like their women acting unladylike and getting drunk as being the pissy pants ones.

Dr Leonard snarked off that the slightly higher divorce rates when only women are the heavy drinkers are because men are pissy pants that their women aren't doing their job being happy suzy homemaker for them.

I love Hiddleston, but all this clip shows is that he can't sing, but he totally fucking commits to it. And for that I wouldn't mind finding him nekkid in my bed or needing to offer Loki my bosom when he's crying over Frigga.

Never go for the window seat- yeah the walls curve, but even Seat Guru doesn't have marked where the pillars are inconvenient and fucking hurty, and you lose all kinds of leg/foot space because of the curve of of the fuselage. Oh yeah, and window seats still have armrests on the window side and unlike the aisle, they…

"he forgot about the cloud, and the cloud is all full of butts."

Flying internationally through Heathrow, I'd say yes. There are a very limited number of gates that you can use to come to the US given the extreme security requirements, so it wouldn't be that hard for an airline to use the same gate for the same flight number every darn time to the US.

When you ask the female astronauts, especially those who go up to ISS, they'll tell you they have either had that plumbing pulled out or are using birth control continuously when in space for more practical reasons related to only being able to wash with baby wipes.

Britcoms only on Saturday? We've got a whole PBS British side channel with WETA UK. I personally tend to watch too much of the British version of Antiques Roadshow which drives the British husband batty.

It's Talbots and is on sale right now for about $70.

You can get the dress cheap, it's on sale.

That would be this dress from Talbots.

I started watching at a young age when it was shown on PBS, so I'm sure Doctor Who is occupying some precious space in my brain something else could be using ;-)

Yeah, if he had only been in the Who-niverse as Lucius in Fires of Pompeii, then I'd think he had a better chance to be the Doctor. They did have a similar case of picking a major character actor back in the day with Colin Baker playing a character that has since been edited out of the stuff they show on BBC America.

They're allowing betting on Capaldi again today. Problem with him is that he's already played a very significant character in the Who-niverse as he played Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth. In that series he ordered a hit on Captain Jack and Torchwood 3, had Captain Jack's daughter and grandson kidnapped and…