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Post by tuigirl on Aug 16, 2024 20:36:22 GMT
Happy birthday! Coming from an old fart- it will get worse from there.  |
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Post by tuigirl on Aug 16, 2024 20:41:11 GMT
Today was a HUGE event! All my childhood and youth, I lived in the shadow of our nuclear power plant. Today, they detonated the huge towers. It was a massive untertaking. It was planned for 6.30 pm, but some protester in favor of nuclear power had chained himself to a power mast and fire and police had to get him down from there first. Took 90 min. But the weather was fantastic and there was a huge crowd (they estimated 50000 people were watching, and there was a live stream in state TV) and in the end, we saw what we came for. What a festival! What a crowd! Und 45 min after the detonation (I took a detour with my car) a HUGE dust cloud had covered the whole valley, it looked like a dense fog bank!
Before:
One down:
And the final dust clowd:
It did not even make a loud noise, just a low boom and growl. And I also felt no earthquake.
Amazing thing to watch!
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 16, 2024 22:10:42 GMT
It is my 30th birthday. I am now an elder millenial. Happy Birthday!
Mine is in 2 weeks and I have Just under 20 years on ya LOLZ. My full body arthritis is almost 10 years older than u LOLZ
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Post by melkur on Aug 17, 2024 2:18:34 GMT
I had one ready for that reason, buuuuuuut no, according to an email I got from them yesterday, it's app only... I'm just one of those people who thinks that we don't need to rely on our phones for *everything*... Me, a cynic? Pff i have had trouble with the ticketmaster app the last 2 times. Once they had to just re-scan my phone, last time I had to go to the actual box office and they printed a ticket. My phone's kind of old, so maybe that's why? anyway I hope it goes Ok for you! The app worked fine, thank you, and I got in straight away. |
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 19, 2024 3:06:20 GMT
It's "Book Week" this week , I was asked this morning by wife to book a day off on Wednesday to help out with the school (I will be in his class for easily 1/2 the day helping kids to read books etc- ( I have full systems sweep criminal background check that's A1 good from my work so I am clear). I put the leave day as CSR Leave instead of Annual Leave (we are required to do 1 day per year Community work- I normally donate blood every 3 months and participate in Mo'Vember for Mens cancer research). This will be a nice little bonus to solidify. My Manager approved the leave from the time I clicked send, in under 20 seconds. Now that I have a 2nd staff member I can do this and not worry about the Legal daily processess that have to occur. I wanted Junior to dress up as Doctor Who much like I have done the last 8 years- Nope.. Defiance.. Harry Potter this year!  |
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Post by timleschild on Aug 19, 2024 8:31:55 GMT
I put the leave day as CSR Leave instead of Annual Leave (we are required to do 1 day per year Community work Thats a great idea. |
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 19, 2024 8:38:56 GMT
I put the leave day as CSR Leave instead of Annual Leave (we are required to do 1 day per year Community work Thats a great idea. We tend to do more than 1 day. A whole bunch of people at work do "Adopt A Road"- picking up rubbish all day, or "Backpacks 4 Kids" which is organising back packs of clothes/comfort toys for displaced children who are put into "care" suddenly, they literally have the clothes on their back and that's it. |
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Post by tuigirl on Aug 20, 2024 6:42:34 GMT
Sushi night with some colleagues last night.
I had organized it since nobody else had the idea / wanted to organize.
It was great!
We were sitting together chatting until the place closed.
And the food was great, too.
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Post by timleschild on Aug 20, 2024 8:05:55 GMT
Sushi night with some colleagues last night. I had organized it since nobody else had the idea / wanted to organize. It was great! We were sitting together chatting until the place closed. And the food was great, too. Sounds great! Glad that it was a success. |
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Post by fitzoliverj on Aug 20, 2024 17:18:27 GMT
It's "Book Week" this week Well, the Doctor isn't a literary character. I suppose you could've got him to dress up as Fitz, but there's probably a karma issue there you'd want to avoid... |
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Post by timleschild on Aug 20, 2024 17:57:45 GMT
It's "Book Week" this week Well, the Doctor isn't a literary character. I suppose you could've got him to dress up as Fitz, but there's probably a karma issue there you'd want to avoid... Exactly. Too many parents let their kids dress up as non-literary characters on Book Week/Day. |
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 20, 2024 21:50:28 GMT
Well, the Doctor isn't a literary character. I suppose you could've got him to dress up as Fitz, but there's probably a karma issue there you'd want to avoid... Exactly. Too many parents let their kids dress up as non-literary characters on Book Week/Day. My boy has 13 Doctor Who Mr Men books in his bookcases.
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Post by bohnny on Aug 21, 2024 8:08:31 GMT
Exactly. Too many parents let their kids dress up as non-literary characters on Book Week/Day. My boy has 13 Doctor Who Mr Men books in his bookcases.
I think anyone who has ever wrestled w book week will take what they can get as far as costuming options go! DW is def a legit option. glad I’m done w it now (none of my 3 where enthusiastic abt it, and each year was a trial). |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2024 8:13:47 GMT
Quite a few schools do indeed ask parents not to just dress the kids as TV and film characters as it defeats the purpose of encouraging them to read original literature. If they read only things related to filmed franchises? They're not getting much of a broad perspective. A universe of books out there. Not a hard ask to find one that didn't come from pop culture first. Just turning it into cosplay...nah.
There was a school on the BBC news last year where every other kid was a Marvel character. That's not the point of this all. All books are not the same.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 21, 2024 8:41:02 GMT
My boy has 13 Doctor Who Mr Men books in his bookcases.
I think anyone who has ever wrestled w book week will take what they can get as far as costuming options go! DW is def a legit option. glad I’m done w it now (none of my 3 where enthusiastic abt it, and each year was a trial).
A book is a book is a book
Having said that, there was a pic shown on Aussie tv this week- some child was dressed as that guy from the "50 Shades..." adult book series..
wow..!
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Post by timleschild on Aug 21, 2024 9:11:09 GMT
Doctor Who is NOT a literary character. Defeats the point of Book Week/Day. I would BAN any character that does not have a literary origin.
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There’s a horror movie called Alien? That’s really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you.
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Post by shutupbanks on Aug 21, 2024 10:19:00 GMT
Doctor Who is NOT a literary character. Defeats the point of Book Week/Day. I would BAN any character that does not have a literary origin. Honestly, I don’t really care anymore. I always ask a student if they have a book the character was in and even if it’s a tie-in novel, I’m just damned glad that they’re making the connection between a book and a character and are joining in with a school community event. signed a 30-year career teacher, a published author, a one-time semi-pro book reviewer, a complete book snob |
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Aug 21, 2024 10:37:06 GMT
Doctor Who is NOT a literary character. Defeats the point of Book Week/Day. I would BAN any character that does not have a literary origin. Honestly, I don’t really care anymore. I always ask a student if they have a book the character was in and even if it’s a tie-in novel, I’m just damned glad that they’re making the connection between a book and a character and are joining in with a school community event. signed a 30-year career teacher, a published author, a one-time semi-pro book reviewer, a complete book snob I just showed my wife this response :
Just over 20 years as a professional teacher with 2 separate teaching University qualifications, we have 2 separate libraries in our house for hers and mine.
She is grateful that any child makes an emotional connection with the written word in this day and age of click bait youtube/tick tock/twitter garbage..
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Post by number13 on Aug 21, 2024 11:31:23 GMT
Doctor Who is NOT a literary character. Defeats the point of Book Week/Day. I would BAN any character that does not have a literary origin. Honestly, I don’t really care anymore. I always ask a student if they have a book the character was in and even if it’s a tie-in novel, I’m just damned glad that they’re making the connection between a book and a character and are joining in with a school community event. signed a 30-year career teacher, a published author, a one-time semi-pro book reviewer, a complete book snob I'm none of those things and agree 100% because for me the Doctor is in part a literary character. (I've told this story before on DU so if you've heard it, please regard this as a reprint...)
My 'Doctor Who' life started with 'Terror of the Autons' and was 100% live broadcasts only until 1983! We had no videos, home or bought, and the BBC (bless 'em) repeated all sorts of rubbish all the time but almost never repeated the greatest show ever made. An omnibus version of some story at Christmas or if the cricket was rained off during the summer holidays, if we were lucky, and that's your lot.
So if you wanted to relive an adventure, 'see' an episode you'd missed or explore an earlier era... The Target Books. I found they existed at a school book fair in 1974/5? very early in the pb run certainly, started with one I knew 'The Sea Devils' and one I didn't 'The Daleks' and collected from there. Wow. My Doctor and Jo in action again, great. This other Doctor, 'the one with the white hair' who I'd glimpsed on TV on a TV during 'The Three Doctors' - even better. An amazing story with three amazing Companions I'd barely heard of and (of course) never seen. And a Doctor who was (at least to start with) far from the reliable, avuncular hero with the mighty nose who I followed every winter Saturday. Wow, again. I loved those three early novels from the 60s and all that followed.
'The Cybermen' and 'The Abominable Snowmen' were my first proper 'look' at 'the little one with the 'flute'' and how I met Jamie, Ben and Polly, Victoria. They were literary characters to me for many years. And even with my own special Doctor, I needed the superb novelisation of 'The Curse of Peladon' to complete the story because (so 1970s) the power workers went on strike and we got blackouts halfway through episodes 3 & 4!! (And all my friends had been similarly blacked-out so I couldn't even ask at school 'what happened last week?'.)
So for me, yes the Doctor is in many ways a literary character. And one of the very best!  |
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Post by bohnny on Aug 21, 2024 11:35:31 GMT
Doctor Who is NOT a literary character. Defeats the point of Book Week/Day. I would BAN any character that does not have a literary origin. And exclude a lot of people as a result - good for you! |
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