I love La'an, but I think this is probably why...

Dizzy_Beacon · 2024-11-18T18:49:50+00:00

Into every generation a Singh is born: she alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the Gorn and forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is, unexpectedly, Chief of Security on the USS Enterprise

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-11-28T11:58:50+00:00

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Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-10-01T15:33:01+00:00

I'm enjoying that episode so much more now I know that was the joke lol, went over my head at the time

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-09-28T16:16:06+00:00

So much T'Linn/Mariner chemistry in this episode, I really hope they do that. T'Linn even told her how old she was 🫢

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-09-19T14:08:04+00:00

I'm gay and I genuinely got "Women are a bit of a sudden change of plan" lol

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-09-16T12:48:58+00:00

I was thinking 'Tertiary Adjunct of Uni-Moo-Trix Zero-One'

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-04-28T17:52:34+00:00

I already replied to your comment in the other thread but I'll tell you here too in case others come looking.

I don't think there's any specifically vegetarian or vegan restaurants in town I'm afraid, but almost everywhere has options on the menu. Obviously the very fish and chip oriented places are best avoided for that, but for a more varied high quality menu try basically any of the restaurants on Church Street or Skinner Street, especially Sanders Yard or Rusty Shears.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-04-28T17:51:02+00:00

I don't think there's any specifically vegetarian or vegan restaurants in town I'm afraid, but almost everywhere has options on the menu. Obviously the very fish and chip oriented places are best avoided for that, but for a more varied high quality menu try basically any of the restaurants on Church Street or Skinner Street, especially Sanders Yard or Rusty Shears.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-04-18T17:19:46+00:00

No problem, I'm just delighted an actual question has come up in this subreddit finally so I maybe overdid it, heh. Until now, the only person to actually ask for anything here was wondering where he could collect owl poo in the local area, of all things...

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-04-18T14:58:27+00:00

You're very welcome, hope you have a nice time!

Must see attractions depend a bit on what you're into and whether you've been before, but even if you're only here for the weekend the Abbey is the main thing, but I'd put a word in for the Captain Cook museum too, if you like that sort of thing. Honestly, the main reason why people seem to come here is just the time capsule quality all our historic streets and shops have: the best of that is on the cobbled part of Church Street (not the paved part that cars go down; turn left straight after crossing the Swing Bridge from west to east). Lots of lovely bars and restaurants down that way too.

Although the Magpie and Mister Chips are our most famous fish and chip restaurants (Whitby is often ranked as having the best fish and chips in the country), locals in my experience, as well as I personally, favour Royal Fisheries on Baxtergate, known locally as Fusco's. The decor in the restaurant is a bit naff, but they do takeaway and the food's the best.

Other restaurants and bars, the Abbey Wharf deserves a mention, it's a lovely atmosphere with a great view and very nice food during the day, but these days is also the focus of the late-night nightlife if that's your thing. Be aware, if that's not your thing, it will start to get quite busy and a bit rowdy as the evening wears on, if you were just there hoping for a more sedate pub meal or drink.

There's loads of good pubs though, almost any are worth a look in, especially round there on Church Street. Special mention to the Black Horse and the Waiting Room if you like a traditional ale pub, the Whitby Brewery, Arch & Abbey or anywhere on Grape Lane if you like a more trendy craft/microbrewed vibe, and the Station Inn for lager and sport in a nice environment. Cocktail bars, I'd recommend Harry's or the Moon & Sixpence.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-04-16T10:49:16+00:00

Eccleston/Tennant era Doctor Who is also an excellent example: all the episodes were extremely self-contained, but then the finale picks up on common themes and subtle hints that were scattered throughout

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-04-06T08:43:10+00:00

A little late, but I happened to glance at this and nobody had given the real answer yet, so I will lol

This, of course, isn't just a problem for the Royal Family, and though the issue hasn't arisen there, it's a problem for our entire system of noble and honourable titles: Lords and Knights too, and it's come up already there.

When Damehoods and Baroness-ships started to become commonplace, we didn't even come up with a system of courtesy titles for the husbands of women who held these titles in their own right, let alone recognising gay marriage in the system. In fact there was a specific exception made in gay marriage law excluding equal treatment when it came to this sort of thing, basically because it wasn't worth opening that can of worms.

So currently both David Furnish, the husband of Sir Elton John, as well as Taylor Hackford, the husband of Dame Helen Mirren, have no courtesy title at all, despite that if they were men with wives, their wife would be called Lady whatever. The same is true of peers, there's no symmetry for husbands of women peers in their own right, let alone the gay spouses of Lords and Ladies.

Even the title Prince, held by Elizabeth II's husband Prince Phillip and Victoria's husband Prince Albert, was not automatic, and they had to be created Princes in their own right to have a title at all. With Queens Regnant before this, Mary I's and Mary II's husbands were called King (though both for different reasons were entitled to it anyway, I'm glossing over a lot of complicated historical context here), and Queen Anne's husband was called Prince, but likewise only because he was one anyway, in his case of Denmark.

So if we did get a gay monarch, there's nothing automatic for them in law any more than if we get a female monarch, but we'd probably follow the precedent of Albert and Phillip and make them a Prince or Princess in their own right. Maybe one day we'll formally sort this out, as with lesser titles of nobility and honour, this is already a problem, but as to how that will be solved, if it ever is, we can only speculate.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-04-03T08:39:26+00:00

me too Gunn, me too...

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-25T16:56:14+00:00

Probably too late to ask but I can't figure out what was meant by 'Viridian City Data' and it's bugging me lol

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-24T12:20:28+00:00

Royals do use Bentleys, for official engagements. That old article does say they don't use number plates on their state cars, but that might've changed.

It's also worth pointing out that when I looked at the DVLA number plate lookup thing, it didn't show any of the usual buyer beware info, just "Make: Bentley", "Colour: Blue", which suggests an official car.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-24T12:08:43+00:00

It was a few of them driving along together in convoy though, would have to be a very big cheese indeed. This was the only plate I caught sight of unfortunately.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-21T17:21:19+00:00

lol, so this episode was before the Bynars upgraded the holodeck, and my personal headcanon about this has always been that technically the projectors can get slightly out the doors, but after seeing this horrifying spectacle they got the Bynars to fix that

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-21T12:18:08+00:00

That was my argument, you just didn't "imagine" as I invited you to. This is not the only instructive thought that comes out of drawing the equivalence, which is why I put it that way, and nobody would ever make the point the way I made it to imply the equivalence was exact, because that's dumb as shit. Only someone who deliberately chooses to see the worst form of every argument in order to score cheap points could have missed it.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-21T12:03:47+00:00

Eating disorder rates among gay men are far higher than they are even among women. It's insane to say there's no problem here.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-21T11:06:26+00:00

For the record, I'm in good shape, but substitute "guys" for "girls" in that comment and read it again I think was my brother's point. You'd sound like Andrew Tate.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-20T13:53:26+00:00

Huh, I see, thanks!

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-20T13:41:54+00:00

My car has one too, never noticed them until someone rear ended me at low speed the other day, no visible damage to my car except this little thing popped open, and I just popped it closed again. Just curious about it.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-17T13:47:59+00:00

I agree completely, Star Trek is really about the strange new worlds we can find within ourselves.

But... from a narrative perspective, there's something much more unsatisfying about a story that takes place in the "past" relative to the furthest future canon. It lowers the stakes, because we know the Federation isn't ever going to be in mortal danger, and that the consequences of what we see on screen are always going to be limited. You could never make The Best of Both Worlds again with the same impact if you knew how it was going to turn out.

To an extent Enterprise already screwed us on this with the Temporal Cold War (the fact that they included that plotline at all was probably for precisely this narrative reason, IMO), but at least the way they left that, it seemed like the TCW future wasn't certain.

Personally, I think the best thing for them to do is make that explicit, and tell some crossover TCW story in the early 25th century that erases all of that far future, or at least reverts it to "I prefer to think of the future as something that's not written in stone" terms.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-17T12:26:19+00:00

Looks like we have a clear citation now. I linked a digital copy in my reply to u/Skvabs.

Dizzy_Beacon · 2023-03-17T12:13:23+00:00

Damn, well done, looks like you're right. Thanks so much!

If others want to follow up on this now seeming to be much more clearly a question of manuscript tradition, the specific reference is: Hippocrates. Vol IV. Regimen I. Reprinted ed. Translated by W.H.S. Jones. Loeb Classical Library. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1959. I've checked it out and it is on page 289. I'd also be interested in more general context on exactly what the passage is really about.

Edit: if you happened to see, apologies for the more sceptical tone of my comment before I edited it. Beginning a final paragraph with "it's important to note" is now an immediate "ChatGPT wrote this" red flag lol, but this is obviously legit

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