If you scroll back a few frames from this point you’ll see the design of the poster is actually the Flux Capacitor.

The police station scene was so good. More than once his delivery felt like a twisted, evil version of The Doctor and I loved every second of it.

If anyone could ever front a one-man show about pretty much anything, it would be Peter Fucking Capaldi, so I am psyched. It could be stupider than eye booger camera monsters. It could be stupider than the moon is a self-replicating space dragon egg. It will still be glorious.

Each troop determines its own activities focus, so no, it isn’t hard at all. All they need is one parent to start a new troop.

I’m surprised anyone suspects anything else.

I would have enjoyed this more if they hadn’t announced Clara’s death earlier this week. I don’t know why they always do that shit.

Thank you for adding some context. That’s all important information to know. I’m still not convinced the master’s (ugh) tone-deafness amounts to a fire-able offense. But it’s true that I’m not familar with this kind of university role, since I went to a huge public university.

The tradition of calling them “masters” has nothing to do with slavery. It stems from medieval universities where teachers had the title master (Latin: magister) from the degree required to hold that post. The title came to Yale through the traditions of Oxford and Cambridge (both medieval foundations), which the…

Pretty sure its true every time.

The most interesting part of the episode for me was the throw away bits about the Disaster (Cataclysm?) that mushed India and Japan together (meaning China got destroyed??) which somehow made them all really devoted Christians (there was a lot of “May God....” going on there)?

I know Bethany Black, the transgender actress who played 474 in this episode; my wife and she worked together many times on the Manchester stand-up comedy circuit, and she was really stoked to be appearing in Doctor Who.

Wow, I read this episode in the completely opposite way. It wasn’t a harbinger for Supergirl being constantly in Superman’s shadow — it was about explaining why she won’t be in Superman’s shadow from now on. Kara explained why she needs to be seen as effective on her own (so that supervillains don’t think National…

You know what may have happened? In the course of researching a more recent story, this probably came up in the process, and maybe ... things got mixed up a bit? It would seem logical to reference an earlier, similar case to show a pattern ...

Uh; this story is from early 2014 from the date on the linked article. I thought it sounded familiar, and thought “Hey are these guys STILL at it, assaulting female joggers?”, but no, it’s the story from Feb. 24/2014.

I don’t think there were 15 previous breakdowns of the ceasefire. I think there were just 15 previous iterations of the scene with the boxes (where someone on one side or the other pressed the button and nothing happened, only to have the memory of everyone in the room wiped and reset). We were just shown the final…

If Tommy can only take a power that’s in use, that would explain a good deal of things.

The idea that somehow she should still be allowed to teach, despite not meeting state standards, because it was their mistake is baffling. If a hospital hired a nurse that was not properly certified, would anyone expect them to keep that nurse on their staff? No, of course not!

Yea, the payment problem is another issue entirely so I have no idea what to make of that. The wording of it, “highly qualified,” seemed to me like something the licensing board came up with and not the school (like an official designation on the paperwork or whatever). When she taught 4th grade, it was in a different…

Yes. In my state it doesn’t matter if you are the greatest teacher who ever lived. You need to have the proper cert for the age/subject you are teaching. It’s unclear from this article whether the district shifted her to a class she wasn’t certified to teach or whether she applied for a completely new job. But either…

So this article is a little confusing. After reading the AL.com report, it sounds like they weren’t saying she wasn’t “qualified,” just that she wasn’t “certified” to teach 5th Grade. In this case, that’s apparently true, since her certification covered her through 3rd Grade. If Federal requirements for funding are…