My friend worked as a manager in tech support for a company which then outsourced it to Mexico. Not quite difficult physical labour :-)

I've tried explaining to one of my conservative friends that the Mexican guy didn't take his job, the rich white guy running the company gave it to the Mexican guy. But rich white guys are apparently to be revered no matter what.

It's pronounced "yoan" and is the Welsh version of John. "Gruffudd" is, as Cheese says, the Welsh spelling of Griffith.

I couldn't agree more. I've got the "best of" HIGNFY DVD and what they used to do is fucking amazing.

It's also a good vision of how a country without guns would react to such a crisis; cricket bats and shovels for all!

So nothing about the dead actor and two dead kids?

Any chance of "Inferno"? I watched it the other day and it's excellent - starts off as a monster-of-the-week type story, then takes a complete left turn to a parallel Earth.

You're right - I should have said, "The only good bit of Time-Flight…"

That "Aaah!" bit was taken out in the Special Edition. There's also a scene later on where the Cyberleader orders the Master to show him across a booby-trapped floor, but says it in such a childish way it's impossible to take seriously.

No mention of the famous end sequence - Adric's shattered badge on the floor of the Tardis, with just the credits scrolling up the screen and no music?

Target novels
Years ago my older cousin gave me a box of Target novelizations of Dr Who. I haven't seen The Time Warrior, but in the book the Doctor's main reason for wanting to defeat the Sontaran is that the alien had offered weapons such as muskets and gunpowder in exchange for help. The Doctor was convinced this…

If many of my friends' kids are anything to go by, yes - every weekend is spent doing stuff the 5 and 6 year olds want to do, every meal out is McDonalds, every family vacation is to Disneyland or a Disney cruise, the TV is never tuned in to anything but the Disney Channel… jesus, having kids does not mean your life…

Seriously, what is that orange thing? It looks like a just-born Alien.

Bobblers, I think. I also liked Angus's part-Connery slurring and the Scottish shepherd's cry of "Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff!" when he found his dead sheep.

Northerners don't know what "minus" means.

I've seen this
On AMC or something. While it is a howler of a movie, there's a redhead who is just mmmmmmmmmm….

A former colleague of mine who worked on the NoW's sportsdesk is now out of a job thanks to the scumbags who decided hacking people's phones is a legit way of getting a story. So is everyone else who wasn't part of this - the photographers, copy editors, designers, librarians, and so on.

DPA wins.

Gareth's got a West Country accent, which in Britain is seen as being a sure sign that the person is probably very thick. Sort of like an Alabama accent in the US.

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