I knew it was tongue-in-cheek. How long have I been commenting here? ;)

I suppose it’s a fair question; some people colloquially call all soda “coke” despite it being an actual type and brand of soda. (Editor’s Note: These people are terrible, and you should never trust them.)

It’s all of this stuff when it gets taken out of context.

Yeah, not everyone loves their weird names. See Zowie Bowie, aka Duncan Jones, aka David Bowie’s son. The names I’m talking about are that level of cracked out (if not actually more so - one of the girls is named for a piece of electronics equipment).

My IRL name is technically gender-neutral, but about 9 times out of 10, it belongs to a man. And I have that name because my older sister has a technically gender-neutral name that 999 times out of 1,000 belongs to a man. My parents thought it was important we both had gender-neutral names, especially so my sister…

That’s not their job. They don’t know if someone in the crowd is not of the crowd. So they’re not going to say “Okay, the park will be open again in X minutes.” They could have handled it better, but CureFestDC could also have picked one of several locations for their vigil as well.

Have you ever lived in the DC area? I grew up there, and if there’s one thing that can be relied upon, it’s that if POTUS is in-town and on-the-move, then roads will be closed. Multiples of roads, so you can’t know which route the motorcade is taking. And they will stay closed for as long as the Secret Service deems…

Worth a re-read...

That would be awesome, but I think he’s probably too busy doing his own thing.

Not buying it. I mean, sure - reuse prosthetics. My family is in theatrical costuming, so saving prosthetics or the casts for them at least just makes sense. Ditto for large props and other costumes (as you noted, they are reusing the Zygons from Day of the Doctor, so I’m not unsurprised to see them here this season -…

Basically, at this point I’ve resolved to just not think too hard about this show. Because Moffat has broken all the basic story-telling rules so he can try and be clever. I just try to enjoy Capaldi’s performance - he is far better than the material he’s been given - and to not think about what’s going on too hard.

Yeah, I think it’s kinda rude and creepy, too.

Oh, I feel you. My legal name is long. No one calls me that, no one ever has - I go by a much shorter nickname. So servers - who I don’t correct because I know they’re just trying to be polite and may have management telling them to do this - will glance at my credit card and say “Thanks so much for dining with us,…

That’s pretty much what I was taught as well. Some people come from a cultural upbringing where kids do call them Mr./Mrs./Dr. Lastname. There’s nothing wrong with that - it’s just one of those things. So if someone wants to be called that, that’s what you call them. Forcing informality is just as rude as forcing…

I have far more admiration for the skills and patience to take on a project like this - something that has actual, practical use: illustrating what it takes to replicate modern foodstuffs we can pick up at the grocery store and/or deli down the street - than the skills it takes to create a Chrome extension that lets…

My late mother was fond of saying, “And they all have a vote,” when discussing the American electorate.

*looks around* Have I been gone? ;)

Yeah. In the early days of Yelp fuckery - before it was widely exposed - this shit helped take down a friend’s bakery in NorCal. Her ~100 4-5 star reviews disappeared a month or so after she had successive good reviews in local newspapers and one on TV (those had fueled a lot of people to go and then write the good…

Ah, okay. That I can’t keep up with. I do go through phases where I don’t do more than skip quickly in and out.