I'M STILL BLIND edition

I'M STILL BLIND edition
Pretended to not be blind:

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>return of blind/who/

>Pretended to not be blind
I was fooled. /who/, why did you lie to me? Does this mean you can get a robot seeing eye dog? I always thought a spaceman should have a robot dog anyway.

So is capal really going to waste a whole regeneration to fix his blindness while keeping the same face? Surely moff isn't going to pull a RTD

>forgot to put "/who/ - Doctor Who General"
I'm gonna kill myself

Make another thread. People won't be able to find this one.

Sir, your oath.

>one day until the GOATEST episode of all
How you feelin lads?

I hope he dies a horrible death.

The next one is a three-parter isn't it? Why is part one going to be the GOATest?

Finally, a Sup Forums thread catering to blind people!

So, what do you guys do with imported shows that don't offer a narration track over the non-dialogue parts like local Canadian shows? Just not watch them? Because I hear a lot about shows like Doctor Who, but I can't follow them, since I have no idea what's going on during what I can only assume are big impressive CGI action sequences.

Not so good, Sir. You can't see anything. You really think our friend down there won't know that? Won't sense it? LOOK AT ME!

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Name one instance where part 1 WASN'T the GOATest of a multi-part story

>You can't see anything
>LOOK AT ME!
hmmmm

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Soon, the Twelfth Doctor will die.

Just NuWho? Almost People and Zygon Inversion.

No, my dear Doctor, you must die! Die, Doctor! Die, Doctor! HAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Haven't watched this show in a year, is the new season out? Is it any good?

It's terrible, but if you like Doctor Who you might pretend to like it anyway.

5 episodes in

>is it any good?
Most people like it
Bill's much more like an RTD companion than usuall moffat fare. The episodes have mostly gone back to being plot driven rather than character driven like S9, though apparently that's about to change with this week's episode

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I thought I sent you to Birmingham for a packet of crisps!

Oh shit, the crisps!

>I am so wet right now

I've returned. Your crisps, Sir. You didn't go anywhere, did you?

Oi, where you going with those crisps? Trying to bring them to your da over there? Well, I'll take them. What you gonna do about it? That's what I thought.

Is this next week?

>64% surveyed say bullying is widespread throughout society

How fucking meaningless is this?
All it says is "these people all have the same opinion". No regard for any factual analysis, just what people think.

Objective Ainleykino ranking (based on the Master, not the rest of the episode)

GOAT tier
Survival

Good tier
Planet of Fire, The Five Doctors, The Mark of the Rani

meh tier
The King's Demons, Castrovalva

Fuck off tier
Logopolis, Trial of a Time Lord, Time-Flight

It's almost like a morning chat show isn't the place to get actual news.

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The better question is how is moff going to explain away capaldi's face not changing?

Hello, HELLO, hello!

Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me? I don't think!

I don't understand those ratings at all.

I get that you like serious villain Ainley (Survival) wannabe-Delgado Ainley (Rani) and hate boring Ainley (Trial, Demons).

But you must like camp panto Ainley if you like him in Planet of Fire and Five Doctors, so how could you hate him in Logopolis, where he does camp panto Ainley better than anywhere else? Is it only fun for you if he's an obvious buffoon who never even starts to get anywhere?

Probably some throwaway line about how his new regenerative cycle came with extra control over his new form or some such nonsense.

But then he still decides to change his face a few episodes later anyway?

Probably another throwaway line about how he only has limited control over his regeneration when he's not distracted/in pain/ect and whatever causes him to regenerate at the end is more traumatic and causes his regeneration to be fully random

How he always explains things.

"looked good in the trailer" - the moff

>I'm an idiot in a box xD

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I like it when the Ainley is a little pathetic like in Five Doctors and Rani, but in Logopolis he's just a retard. He almost destroys the universe through pure idiocy and instead of telling him to sod off they actually ask him to help fix it. But then the story keeps trying to paint him as the evil mastermind. Planet of Fire Master was camp but he was also a serious threat. The way he manipulates the Sarns and fucks with Peri and Kamelion is good stuff.

Hello, HELLO, hello!

Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me? I don't think!

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>Planet of Fire Master was camp but he was also a serious threat.

>You will obey me.
>No.
>But I am the Master!
>So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown and I can shout just as loud as you can.

And not only can he not hypnotise her, he can't even control his robot slave. Peri tells Kamelion to stop being the Master, and he immediately turns into Howard while the Master fumes and threatens impotently.

And that's all before she discovers he's tiny and chases him around with a shoe like a housewife after a mouse.

And this is Peri we're talking about, not Ace or Zoe.

>So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown and I can shout just as loud as you can.
Now that you mention it, that might be the single best Peri moment in the show.

He still basically mindrapes Kamelion to death, doesn't he? And the tiny Master stuff is cool too in its own way.

>I don't think!
I get it's meant to be a shortening of "I don't think so" but does anyone actually say this? Because it just sounds like "I do not think"

idk, I think I've heard Brits say it before.

She's pretty great in some of the audios, but yeah, on TV she's never as good as she is here.

I think it's because she's being defiantly stubborn instead of just randomly and pointlessly stubborn. Basically, Grimwade treats her like a soap opera character, while all the other writers treat her as a challenge to see if they can make her annoying enough that the breeders stop noticing her tits.

Also, Grimwade's trolling surpasses even Moffat or Terrance Dicks:
>Please! Won't you show mercy to your own arrrrggghhhh!!!

Perfect way to end the Master for good. (Not that JNT was ever going to let Saward get away with writing the Master out for good, but Grimwade didn't know that.)

I actually wrote a paper on this when I was a linguistics student. Who would have thought it would ever come up?

It's not a shortening of "I don't think so", it's eliding from the other end. In fact, it's the same construction as in sentences like:

>Have you gone on Sup Forums?
>Not today, I haven't.
>I haven't.

>Do you think Doctor Who is for straight people?
>Not at all, I don't think.
>I don't think.

However, Americans almost never use this construction with reporting verbs. Plus, Americans usually drop the main verb after the auxiliary (so they can only use it when the verb is obvious from context, further limiting its use), but Brits don't (and in fact sometimes add a "do" if there's no main verb—a Brit could say "I haven't done" in the first example, and in some similar cases it would be required).

Beyond the grammar, there are also class issues that are hard to explain to Americans, but in many cases, "I don't think" will not be used in middle-class English, only posh or working-class.

Works fine in context and with the intonation Simm gives it.

genuinely insightful

ACE SMASH PUNY MASTER

As someone who dropped out of grad school only a semester in, I may be wrong, but I think it's simpler here.

As you say, Americans can drop the main verb. But the other difference is that Americans can't have an empty object if they do drop the verb. So:

>I don't think that will happen.
>*I don't think it.
>I don't think so.
>*I don't think.
>*I don't.

The first one makes sense, but it's totally the wrong register for this context. The second would work in other languages, but "it" can't be used that way in English. The fourth is out because of the American rule. The fifth is out because of you rule about not dropping a verb when it's not obvious from context. So, an American would have to say "I don't think so".

Sir, your oath.

No More

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Hello, HELLO, hello!

Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me? I don't think so!

Hello, HELLO, hello!

Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me? NOT!

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Tonight on BBC America:
FORGET ABOUT HIM, HIS STORY IS DONE.
DON'T WATCH ANY EPISODES INSTEAD WATCH CLAHSS

Bonus points for:
>You are talking to a BOY?!?

what did he mean by this

The Wayne's World NOT papers are actually the reason I stopped studying Chomskyan linguistics, dropped out of grad school, and got a real job. The assumption that it must be fully parsed by the grammar module before pragmatics can enter into anything is just obviously wrong here, but nobody would even consider that it might ever be wrong.

But at this point we've bored everyone else.

It's all part of the plan

Sir, your oath. Did you go off-world? LOOK AT ME!

>Anyway, why don't we stop and have a nice little chat while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me? I don't think!
The master never had the balls to just do vid related
youtube.com/watch?v=0OKHAzr-riQ

LOOK AT ME!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJTAqnmHt0

No, please elaborate.

>posting a nazi

He's. Had. A bit. Too much. If you'll. Excuse us. We'll be. On our way.

The argument was about how "not!" could be a complete sentence in standard English (which could then be pragmatically interpreted as emphatically negating the previous sentence and making it sarcastic after the fact). But "not!" just isn't a sentence in standard English, and the attempts to fit it into the normal rules don't extend to any other sentence. It's not the same as single-word answers like "No" or "OK".

So, the alternative is that it's a new idiomatic expression. But that doesn't work either, because idioms don't get formed that way—and, when they aren't grammatical when analyzed, they don't immediately make sense to anyone who doesn't know the idiom, but this clearly does.

The obvious answer, at least to me, is that the brain doesn't have these rigidly separate modules where information flows one way from phonetics to morphology and so on to pragmatics. It's obvious from the context that "not!" is just strongly negating something, and that feeds back to the lower levels, so you understand what it means before even trying to parse it into a standard English sentence. The fact that it doesn't actually parse is part of what makes it funny the first time you hear it, and part of what makes it annoying the thousandth time you hear it.

>...and... and cause she remembers me... the Time Lords will pick their asses up... and confiscate it...

My flatmate accidentally downloaded Agents of SHIELD in, I think, Russian, and the title sounds like "Agyentye Shit Marvel".

They really should use that title in English.

Anyway, since nobody here speaks Russian, I don't have to watch it.

>watching capeshit

Actually the Doctor's been blind this entire time, and only the ear stories are canon.

I don't know nothing about grammar, but why not interpret it as part of the same sentence, just taking a word from where it would normally be and putting it at the end?

What is your favorite wiki article/quote, /who/?

Masturbation, also known as wanking and spanking, was sexual stimulation without a partner, often—though not always—done to pornography. "Wanker" was also an insult.

Fern touched himself while watching pornography that depicted sex between a man and a woman, two women, and two men. (PROSE: A Rose by Any Other Name)

Banksy pleasured himself to a recording of Carys Fletcher and Matt Stevens having sex in his club Nightspot's bathroom: "Go on, son, with you all the way." He was surprised to witness the Sex Gas in Carys turning Matt into a pile of dust on orgasm. Owen Harper later recorded Gwen Cooper's kiss with Carys for later, calling it a "treat". (TV: Day One)

Mrs Linderhof caught her husband "fiddling with himself" on the stairs. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die)

Bernice Summerfield noted that, through his production of literary xenopornography, her husband Jason Kane had "turned himself into a doll for aliens to pleasure themselves with", and had essentially made himself into a product to be consumed by selling pornographic accounts of his encounters "for random strangers to wank over". (PROSE: Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants)

Miss Quill asked Ram Singh if there was a "great big window of porn" open as he typed out the assignment Quill marked. Ram joked he was "spanking" himself and did the whole paper using only his left hand. (TV: The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo)

Very meta. You can't see the thread when you search in the catalog because you're still blind.

I really like this one.
doctorwhogeneral.wikia.com/wiki/Door

And for the real wiki, my favorite would be the faeces article, which cats made as a joke and is still up.

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Well, for one thing:
>GARTH: I don't know, Wayne, I think that would be pretty excellent.
>WAYNE: Not!

But even when you're negating your own sentence rather than someone else's, many uses don't fit into any of the normal rules for extraposition.

Of course you can try to make new rules that can explain why people recognize this case as valid English, while not recognizing other superficially similar cases, and then it's a problem for the historical linguists to figure out why this rule that's always been part of English has never found a use until the 1980s. That's exactly the kind of madness people are led to when they desperately try to avoid questioning any of the assumptions of the field.

(The refusal to question assumptions is especially weird in a field where about once every 12 years they routinely throw out half of the assumptions all at once, so they can start over and spend 9-10 years remapping all the old results to the new system before having to do new work.)

>my favorite would be the faeces article, which cats made as a joke and is still up
It's not only still up, it has contributions from a TARDIS Data Core admin (along with cats, other obvious /who/res, and user IPs).

Fucking kek.

I'm disappointed that nobody's made redirects from "feces", "crap", "shit", etc. the way they did for urine. I'm still waiting for some TDC regular to do that before I add a couple of obviously-metaphorical uses of "crap" and pretend that they're literal, wait for someone to remove them, and then insist that it's original research to pretend that we can somehow know that Rhys was sick of dealing with Gwen's metaphorical nonsense rather than her literal faeces.

Tbqh given all the instances of people pissing in random places in Lawrence Miles novels, you could probably make a case that she MIGHT be shitting in inappropriate locations that Rhys then has to take care of. Like that guy who "was caught 'fiddling with himself' on the stairs" (TV: Some Episode of Class)

>Despite horrifically dying in a car crash 3 years prior, Roger Delgado insisted on reprising the role of the Master.

Just finished The Time Travellers. Holy shit, that was good. That was really good. The last 50 pages, the revelation that Ian had been left behind all those years, the Doctors motivations for leaving Susan behind revealed, the call back (forward?) to The War Games... It was all just incredible.

On to The Dalek Invasion of Earth now.

Read Time and Relative too, if you haven't.

Reminder Missy is on a planet that specializes in executions and the Doctor instead keeps her locked up so she isn't executed, but she gets executed in episode 11 and then he fucks up bringing back multiple Masters including Simm and Missy.

What a gobshite.

I have, that one was incredible too. It's on my list of best 1 stories.

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NuWho pure historical when? They almost managed it with Thin Ice, except that the river monster might as well be alien.

Yeah, those two are the best 1 books.

Shit lads look like the autists here were right River is gonna come back somehow. The return of Doctor Mysterio heavily implied the Doctor was too distraught over her death to let it go. I don't particularly like Kino but a short scene of 12 returning to the library to get river out somehow would be Kino.