I didn't know I wanted this, but I do!

On that note about River, I'm kinda confused about why the show is treating her like she's dead. She's been dead, from the Doctor's perspective, almost the entire time he's known of her existence. So surely there's some point later down the road where the Doctor might run into her again.

Daleks are fine if they're written well, there's just so many Dalek stories, and there's just so many that aren't written well. Let's go back to one Dalek story every three or four years. Ditto on Cybermen. They're just so much more menacing and interesting when the Doctor isn't defeating them every time he turns…

No, no, remember? There was a flashback to the Master staring into the Time Vortex as a kid at the end of season 3. So we've even had that version.

Yeah, because we can take the burnt mummy version of the Master in total seriousness, but a Scottish psychopath! That's a bridge too far.

Why does this not exist in real life? I want one as a pet!

Yeah, it's a bit creepy, but it's kind of beautiful, too. I love spaceships, and I especially love real ones.

In the Doctor Who promo, the girl with the inhaler is the UNIT girl from The Day of the Doctor, right? The one with the scarf Eleven liked? I liked her! Wonder if it's the original or the Zygon, though?

I've really been enjoying this season of Doctor Who—despite some dodgy episodes, Capaldi and Coleman have been fantastic. So it's a real shame just how completely uninterested I am in the finale. I do not care about Missy, I do not care about the Cybermen, and I thoroughly 100% do not care about yet another mysterious…

Does Halley's Comet work for you?

I love old maps of Michigan. You can practically see the point where the mapmakers gave up and just started drawing random rivers all over the place.

And add in that the actual Maya, you know, the millions of people still living in the world today who are Mayan, didn't think the world was going to end. And if anybody could correctly interpret the Mayan calendar, you'd think it'd be the people descended from those who made it in the first place.

Even if you are a "personhood begins at conception" type, it still isn't deafening a hearing child. It's selectively choosing an embryo that is already deaf.

Yes, like I said, people sometimes use "accent" to refer to phonological difference as opposed to lexical/grammatical differences. However, "accent" is kind of a nebulous term, and in general when looking at things like linguistics papers and books, just plain "dialect" seems to be used a lot more.

British Sign Language is actually quite different from American Sign Language. ASL is closer to French or Irish Sign Language (it's actually a descendant of French Sign), while BSL is closer to Auslan (the common Australian sign language) and New Zealand Sign Language.

Accents and dialects are the same thing, really. People tend to think of accents as being a more subtle dialectal difference, I guess? Or simply covering phonological differences, not lexical/grammatical differences? But I don't think there's any sort of technical distinction, from a linguistic perspective.

...you say that as if that's a bad thing.

Luminescent sapphire orbs, you mean. Framed by waves of either chestnut or raven locks.

Lead's cheap, is the thing. I think that's the real barrier to banning it. (fwiw, I'm with you, it just seems like a smart idea to avoid lead)

What on earth kind of gun ranges are you going to where ricochets are a common, serious problem?