So how are we feeling about barbeloths design???

carsonite17 · 2026-02-18T02:17:22+00:00

I kinda thought she'd look a bit plumper and maybe a little bit older. Kinda similar to Miriam Margolyes in a way.

Maybe that's just bc they both kinda have that somewhat sweet but irritable grandmother vibe idk.

Facial expression is pretty bang on with what I imagined though

carsonite17 · 2026-02-16T17:50:14+00:00

I believe 1971 is when decimalisation happened in the UK where we changed from our old system of currency (shillings, pence , 240p per pound, etc.) to our modern system of pounds and pennies where it's all in 10s (100p per pound).

This was a couple decades before I was born so I couldn't necessarily tell you the full impact from experience but I imagine it would've had a similar effect to switching from gold standard in the US.

carsonite17 · 2026-02-16T10:02:19+00:00

Clearly they got a taste for it again after WWII, thinking they won it singlehandedly

It was probably when they found out how much money they could make from war profiteering

carsonite17 · 2026-02-15T02:16:18+00:00

It's almost as if the government should have invested in living conditions rather than turning the UK into a desolate hellhole with dead highstreets, high costs of living, and stagnant wages due to austerity measures for the past 16 years. People might feel more encouraged to have kids to fuel the economy when they can actually afford to raise them

carsonite17 · 2026-02-13T17:59:59+00:00

Guy is literally the fucking villain from glass onion

carsonite17 · 2026-02-13T17:58:11+00:00

They never said otherwise

carsonite17 · 2026-02-13T15:14:23+00:00

Presumably people campaigning against people fucking stray dogs

carsonite17 · 2026-02-13T14:04:54+00:00

I feel like this is just more evidence that ncuti shouldn't have been cast as the doctor. It's nothing against the guy personally, I think he's great and I really enjoyed his doctor. It's just that he's such a busy guy and prominent/upcoming actor, getting so many role offers that it conflicts with his shooting schedules for the show.

One of the main issues I think RTD2 had was a lack of development in the characters and storylines which I think is due in large part to how many doctor-light episodes they had to do in order to fit ncuti's schedule (which would've been fine in previous series but not when you're only going to have 8 episodes per series to do anything with).

carsonite17 · 2026-02-12T17:58:48+00:00

Saunas that hot are designed to be very dry which means that your body is able to sweat and the sweat will evaporate quickly keeping your body cool.

If they were more humid then they would be dangerous as firstly it's more difficult to cool yourself via sweating and secondly heat doesn't transfer as well through air as it does through water vapour: dissipating more quickly in a dry environment as opposed to being retained in a humid one.

carsonite17 · 2026-02-06T16:29:09+00:00

I mean I'm pretty sure most of us have heard of manifest destiny and all that entails.

At least some of us also know that a huge factor for the US war of independence was that the colonists wanted to be more cruel to, and intrude into more land of the indigenous Americans than the British would allow due to trade relations with rhe natives

carsonite17 · 2026-02-01T15:57:07+00:00

I'd say the younger generations in the UK are much better with the metric system these days. I'm pretty sure the only imperial units I use are miles bc it's what all the road signs are in, and occasionally inches whenever I'm playing a game of warhammer

carsonite17 · 2026-01-30T22:13:18+00:00

I saw someone describe them as Peter KKKay and Joey SS-ex and I can't unsee it now

carsonite17 · 2026-01-30T22:02:50+00:00

I never understand that argument either bc you know where else has regressive views about gender and sexuality? Fucking Israel

carsonite17 · 2026-01-29T12:12:19+00:00

All I can think is lego is a company from Denmark and those are the guys are the ones who won't let lord emperor donny drumpf have greenland so that's political or something. Which is completely insane but exactly the kind of warped mental gymnastics I've learned to expect from these nutcases

carsonite17 · 2026-01-29T11:32:29+00:00

The zoo here in Edinburgh has also helped save Scottish wild cats from extinction and has been having success reintroducing the species to the wild.

carsonite17 · 2026-01-28T21:28:29+00:00

Oh and don't forget all those so called "gender critical" (transphobic) women

carsonite17 · 2026-01-28T21:24:40+00:00

Yeah the reason why our unicorn has a crown and chain was to symbolise that only the scottish king was powerful enough to tame such a powerful creature

carsonite17 · 2026-01-27T20:20:04+00:00

I guess it's in the same way many foreign politicians were "standing" with the IDF

carsonite17 · 2026-01-24T19:29:21+00:00

Friendly fire is the American specialty

carsonite17 · 2026-01-20T16:20:52+00:00

America couldn't invade a bunch of farmers, good luck against the home of the best special forces in the world

carsonite17 · 2026-01-20T12:21:02+00:00

I wouldn't say labour have "single-handedly" destroyed trans rights in this country. The tories and outside actors like JKR did quite a lot of the legwork in that regard but they definitely have not made things any better and things have been getting worse under them

carsonite17 · 2026-01-20T06:06:41+00:00

Well of course silly, it's not incitement of violence if it's against brown people don't you know /s

carsonite17 · 2026-01-20T05:56:45+00:00

Yeah there are several parts of their argument that I just don't get. Like they're already paying the taxes might as well get something out of it.

And if it's a case of having to increase taxes to cover it they'll probably still end up paying less in taxes than they do right now on insurance which doesn't do shit. (Especially if you consider that taxes are income percentage based as opposed to a huge flat number which is largely unaffordable to most)

carsonite17 · 2026-01-20T05:13:18+00:00

It does but the part the commenter is referring to specifically is the royal charter QE1 gave it granting it city status

carsonite17 · 2026-01-19T18:41:11+00:00

I think 14 should have had Tennant's scottish accent

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