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Re: text functions                I think considering he was talking about Slaine       it's fairly appropriate                                             considering                                                                        it's quite similar to the Slaine adventure game from the eightieswhere you had to 'catch' commands that drifted across the screen                                                                                like                          this                                         

Can you explain it to me??

Not really. It's basically a giant comic convention that never ends.

I did a lot of virtual campaigning on the Twitter. Does that count?

Anyway, I'm now fully freaking out. Holding onto that Kingmaker thing.

Starting to freak out a bit. When the blue number overtakes the red number I'm going to fully freak out.

His name is Sunglasses Fist or at least it should be.

Satire!

The theft won't happen until tonight. Expect some high drama tonight and tomorrow, though - Florida-style dirty tricks a-go-go.

I voted and on the way back I got some Pickled Onion Space Raiders.

This was just brought to my attention:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/poverty-and-injustice-in-david-cameronrsquos-model-borough-1962318.html

Grim reading.

Barring a miracle, tomorrow is not going to be fun.

Just booked a room at the Holiday Inn Express. I do every year - bit of a pain re: bar in the Ramada, but they do very reasonable rates, especially for a double room, and it's within spitting distance of the station and the con.

We're talking under £60 a night for twin beds - split that in half and it's very tasty. (For this late stage and for a proper hotel, I mean. I'm sure you could find cheaper.)

Actually, the more I think about that the less healthy it seems. He just left her again - [spoiler]left her blind in a forest full of monsters and a man-eating time hole[/spoiler] - and basically said 'yes sorry whoops well just try not to get killed'. And the whole experience makes her want to do him ASAP. Something not quite healthy there.

What with that and Doctor Whoops-I-Made-A-Mistake-And-Now-You're-Dead and River [spoiler]'One Day I'm Going To Kill You'[/spoiler] Song, we've got some of the most wonderfully, beautifully disfunctional TV in ages. I'm loving it.

She's obviously got massive [spoiler]doubts about the wedding[/spoiler] (ha ha spoiler text based humour) and while I wouldn't go so far as to say she's expressing them in a 100% healthy way, I wouldn't say it was entirely out of character either. She's been mooning over this guy since she was seven years old.

I liked it because it burst that particular bubble of tension - unlike the endless, endless mooning between Rose/Martha and Tennent, we've now got all of it out in the open, and it's not a load of emo 'oh I love him he is the star burning at the centre of tiiiiiime' wank - it's actually fun, especially as the Doctor's solution to this tomfoolery seems to be to [spoiler]invite her hubbie-to-be along for the ride whether he wants to come or not.[/spoiler] Looking forward to some nice interplay next week.

(I think the Doctor's innocence in the face of filth did help bring it down to a more juvenile/innocent level - he's the boy in the playground not wanting any GURL GERMS. Plus he clearly sees her as a kid. "Pond.")

WHAT a great episode! A really great mixture of scares, shocks, creepies, getting one over on the viewer (I'd completely forgotten about the [spoiler]artificial gravity[/spoiler]) - and even a bit of [spoiler]harmless hanky-panky[/spoiler] at the end. Very refreshing to see [spoiler]a companion who's not in luuuuuurve with the Doctor and just wants a quickie,[/spoiler] and even more refreshing to see [spoiler]the Doctor's blustery, terrified rejection![/spoiler] Tennant would have been [spoiler]right in there, and it would have been all[/spoiler] emo [spoiler]too, rather than the bit of semi-naughty prodding-the-watershed fun it was here.[/spoiler]

And the Doctor makes [spoiler]one of his trademark Big Mistakes again! "I've made a terrible mistake" is his new catchphrase, not "Geronimo". I love that. I got so, so sick of Doctor Messiah - Doctor Madman is vastly preferable. My cup of[/spoiler] tea. Lovely!

I've signed it. I don't know how much good it will do to 'shame' Murdoch - he has none - but it's worth it for the principle of the thing.

These are human vultures who feed off the fears they create, who breed ignorance to increase their own power, who've turned 'journalism' into a dirty word, and Murdoch is the prime offender. Dacre needs a slap too, mind. Until we get a Press Complaints Commission with any teeth to it, this will have to do.

That was me, in relation to something that was happening on screen right at that moment, which is why it looks so flaccid and lifeless now that some hack at Murdoch's shitrag's decided to nick it to fill some space. Anyone following me on the basis of that will have got a near-incoherent rant about yellow journalists eating babies this morning.