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[8Ace]

jdw100 said:

Kind of interested, enough to ask the question anyway, why you would even mention the 'mixed race' marriage in this show?

Why do you consider this to be 'right-on'?

My wife is Indonesian. My girlfriend before that was of Indian heritage and my long term partner before her was from New Zealand.

If I think of couples that are close friends:

English/Polish
English/Polish
English/French
English/English (one half there from Yorkshire!)
Dutch/Malaysian
English/Jamaican
Italian/Indonesian
English/Pakistani-Swedish
English/Scottish
French/Indonesian

That's off the top of my head....

Close single friends would be English, Jamaican heritage, half Indian half Iranian, half dutch half Jamaican, Indian heritage etc.....all of them live in the UK are very English and might get married (possibly not all of them...if I'm being brutally honest..).

Where are you living or what sort of life do you live where people from different countries or different ethnic backgrounds being married is even worth commenting on? Seems very odd in this day and age for it to even get a mention.....

Thanks, was going to make a point like this but you explained this much better than I could have. Who cares?

And, saying that "the next villain will be a white middle class male"? Get a grip.

I really enjoyed the episode by the way, I think JW's going to be brilliant as the Doctor.

[TaylotS2K]

So said:

languagetimothy said:

BBC doing the right on thing so far. A trans doctor, a mixed race marriage (Bradley Walsh being the token white guy) ethic minority female cop, and the Doc saying "only idiots have knives" surprised she didn't look at the camera and add "right kids?"

They need to trundle out Davros again he was Ina sort of wheelchair

It's very inclusive isn't it.

My thoughts exactly. An exercise in inclusiveness. Likewise with the Last Jedi. When Star Wars was already diverse in the first place, they went OTT with the Last jedi and it didn't work. I liked the Force Awakens but that felt 'less forced'.

[eltawater]

Up for pre-order - the official 13th Doctor Barbie:

https://forbiddenplanet.com/261093-doctor-who-barb...

[MartG]

[berlintaxi]

jdw100 said:

languagetimothy said:

BBC doing the right on thing so far. A trans doctor, a mixed race marriage (Bradley Walsh being the token white guy) ethic minority female cop, and the Doc saying "only idiots have knives" surprised she didn't look at the camera and add "right kids?"

They need to trundle out Davros again he was Ina sort of wheelchair

Kind of interested, enough to ask the question anyway, why you would even mention the 'mixed race' marriage in this show?

Why do you consider this to be 'right-on'?

My wife is Indonesian. My girlfriend before that was of Indian heritage and my long term partner before her was from New Zealand.

If I think of couples that are close friends:

English/Polish
English/Polish
English/French
English/English (one half there from Yorkshire!)
Dutch/Malaysian
English/Jamaican
Italian/Indonesian
English/Pakistani-Swedish
English/Scottish
French/Indonesian

That's off the top of my head....

Close single friends would be English, Jamaican heritage, half Indian half Iranian, half dutch half Jamaican, Indian heritage etc.....all of them live in the UK are very English and might get married (possibly not all of them...if I'm being brutally honest..).

Where are you living or what sort of life do you live where people from different countries or different ethnic backgrounds being married is even worth commenting on? Seems very odd in this day and age for it to even get a mention.....

Think he must have meant to post it on the Daily Mail comments , but ended up here by mistake

[MartG]

berlintaxi said:

jdw100 said:

languagetimothy said:

BBC doing the right on thing so far. A trans doctor, a mixed race marriage (Bradley Walsh being the token white guy) ethic minority female cop, and the Doc saying "only idiots have knives" surprised she didn't look at the camera and add "right kids?"

They need to trundle out Davros again he was Ina sort of wheelchair

Kind of interested, enough to ask the question anyway, why you would even mention the 'mixed race' marriage in this show?

Why do you consider this to be 'right-on'?

My wife is Indonesian. My girlfriend before that was of Indian heritage and my long term partner before her was from New Zealand.

If I think of couples that are close friends:

English/Polish
English/Polish
English/French
English/English (one half there from Yorkshire!)
Dutch/Malaysian
English/Jamaican
Italian/Indonesian
English/Pakistani-Swedish
English/Scottish
French/Indonesian

That's off the top of my head....

Close single friends would be English, Jamaican heritage, half Indian half Iranian, half dutch half Jamaican, Indian heritage etc.....all of them live in the UK are very English and might get married (possibly not all of them...if I'm being brutally honest..).

Where are you living or what sort of life do you live where people from different countries or different ethnic backgrounds being married is even worth commenting on? Seems very odd in this day and age for it to even get a mention.....

Think he must have meant to post it on the Daily Mail comments , but ended up here by mistake

A lot of racists appear to have crawled out of the woodwork in the last two years - like the Trump effect in the US they seem to feel empowered by the Leave vote

[valiant]

It's gone too far now with trying to suspend reality.

Daleks, I get.
Time travel, I get.
The Tardis, I get.


A building site operating at night? fk right off with that!

[Rumblestripe]

valiant said:

It's gone too far now with trying to suspend reality.

Daleks, I get.
Time travel, I get.
The Tardis, I get.


A building site operating at night? fk right off with that!

[TTwiggy]

TeaNoSugar said:

languagetimothy said:

They will certainly only get as far as the foot of our stairs.

Deserves a . Southerners won't get it, but nothing new there!

I thought it was very funny and I'm a 'London-type'.

[languagetimothy]

MartG said:

berlintaxi said:

jdw100 said:

languagetimothy said:

BBC doing the right on thing so far. A trans doctor, a mixed race marriage (Bradley Walsh being the token white guy) ethic minority female cop, and the Doc saying "only idiots have knives" surprised she didn't look at the camera and add "right kids?"

They need to trundle out Davros again he was Ina sort of wheelchair

Kind of interested, enough to ask the question anyway, why you would even mention the 'mixed race' marriage in this show?

Why do you consider this to be 'right-on'?



My wife is Indonesian. My girlfriend before that was of Indian heritage and my long term partner before her was from New Zealand.

If I think of couples that are close friends:

English/Polish
English/Polish
English/French
English/English (one half there from Yorkshire!)
Dutch/Malaysian
English/Jamaican
Italian/Indonesian
English/Pakistani-Swedish
English/Scottish
French/Indonesian

That's off the top of my head....

Close single friends would be English, Jamaican heritage, half Indian half Iranian, half dutch half Jamaican, Indian heritage etc.....all of them live in the UK are very English and might get married (possibly not all of them...if I'm being brutally honest..).

Where are you living or what sort of life do you live where people from different countries or different ethnic backgrounds being married is even worth commenting on? Seems very odd in this day and age for it to even get a mention.....

Think he must have meant to post it on the Daily Mail comments , but ended up here by mistake

A lot of racists appear to have crawled out of the woodwork in the last two years - like the Trump effect in the US they seem to feel empowered by the Leave vote

Ha ha you took this the wrong, easily offended way, it wasn't meant to be the slightest bit racist. And before you continue with the suggestion that it was, my current GF is Thai, previous included black, Asian, Swedish, French, South African kiwi, etc., even a i brummie!

I was just saying the cast looked like the BeeB were trying a bit too hard like it was cast by some of the characters in "WC1A" ... you lot still at Uni?


Reel em in...

[citizensm1th]

languagetimothy said:

Ha ha you took this the wrong, easily offended way, it wasn't meant to be the slightest bit racist. And before you continue with the suggestion that it was, my current GF is Thai, previous included black, Asian, Swedish, French, South African kiwi, etc., even a i brummie!





I was just saying the cast looked like the BeeB were trying a bit too hard like it was cast by some of the characters in "WC1A" ... you lot still at Uni?


Reel em in...

Your going to need a bigger jcb to get yourself out of the hole you dug yourself

[FourWheelDrift]

Why was a police officer who said she was still in training (2nd year probation) going around Sheffield on her own in a police car?

[Hackney]

otolith said:

Hackney said:

otolith said:

Would’ve?

Would’ve.
Would have

Can you tell “would’ve” from “would of” in speech, with a Yorkshire accent?

Although uneccessary in this instance I believe I could.

The distinction here is that Ryan said, “You all would’ve done the same”
Grandad said “I wouldn’t” and the Dr said, “I would of”

Clearly, distinctly.

[john2443]

I can cope perfectly well with th eidea of the Doctor being female, but Dr Who on a Sunday eve ! The world's gone mad I tell you, mad.

Dr Who is a Saturday evening program. I may write to my MP

[ciege]

languagetimothy said:

MartG said:

berlintaxi said:

jdw100 said:

languagetimothy said:

BBC doing the right on thing so far. A trans doctor, a mixed race marriage (Bradley Walsh being the token white guy) ethic minority female cop, and the Doc saying "only idiots have knives" surprised she didn't look at the camera and add "right kids?"

They need to trundle out Davros again he was Ina sort of wheelchair

Kind of interested, enough to ask the question anyway, why you would even mention the 'mixed race' marriage in this show?

Why do you consider this to be 'right-on'?



My wife is Indonesian. My girlfriend before that was of Indian heritage and my long term partner before her was from New Zealand.

If I think of couples that are close friends:

English/Polish
English/Polish
English/French
English/English (one half there from Yorkshire!)
Dutch/Malaysian
English/Jamaican
Italian/Indonesian
English/Pakistani-Swedish
English/Scottish
French/Indonesian

That's off the top of my head....

Close single friends would be English, Jamaican heritage, half Indian half Iranian, half dutch half Jamaican, Indian heritage etc.....all of them live in the UK are very English and might get married (possibly not all of them...if I'm being brutally honest..).

Where are you living or what sort of life do you live where people from different countries or different ethnic backgrounds being married is even worth commenting on? Seems very odd in this day and age for it to even get a mention.....

Think he must have meant to post it on the Daily Mail comments , but ended up here by mistake

A lot of racists appear to have crawled out of the woodwork in the last two years - like the Trump effect in the US they seem to feel empowered by the Leave vote

Ha ha you took this the wrong, easily offended way, it wasn't meant to be the slightest bit racist. And before you continue with the suggestion that it was, my current GF is Thai, previous included black, Asian, Swedish, French, South African kiwi, etc., even a i brummie!

I was just saying the cast looked like the BeeB were trying a bit too hard like it was cast by some of the characters in "WC1A" ... you lot still at Uni?


Reel em in...

Nothing at all to do with race, it was an observation of the agenda of the BBC is all, to which they openly admit:

https://www.tvguide.com/news/doctor-who-steven-mof...

"History is always white washed," says Moffat. "How do we manage to have a diverse cast despite that? The way that we did it was ... [to just] say that you will see people of different colors there. In fact, there were. People all didn't arrive in the twinkle of an eye. It is bending history slightly, but in a progressive and useful way."

[MartG]

FourWheelDrift said:

Why was a police officer who said she was still in training (2nd year probation) going around Sheffield on her own in a police car?

Because the scriptwriter said so

[kowalski655]

MartG said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Why was a police officer who said she was still in training (2nd year probation) going around Sheffield on her own in a police car?

Because the scriptwriter said so

Austerity. Blame Mrs May

[languagetimothy]

ciege said:

languagetimothy said:

MartG said:

berlintaxi said:

jdw100 said:

languagetimothy said:

BBC doing the right on thing so far. A trans doctor, a mixed race marriage (Bradley Walsh being the token white guy) ethic minority female cop, and the Doc saying "only idiots have knives" surprised she didn't look at the camera and add "right kids?"

They need to trundle out Davros again he was Ina sort of wheelchair

Kind of interested, enough to ask the question anyway, why you would even mention the 'mixed race' marriage in this show?

Why do you consider this to be 'right-on'?



My wife is Indonesian. My girlfriend before that was of Indian heritage and my long term partner before her was from New Zealand.

If I think of couples that are close friends:

English/Polish
English/Polish
English/French
English/English (one half there from Yorkshire!)
Dutch/Malaysian
English/Jamaican
Italian/Indonesian
English/Pakistani-Swedish
English/Scottish
French/Indonesian

That's off the top of my head....

Close single friends would be English, Jamaican heritage, half Indian half Iranian, half dutch half Jamaican, Indian heritage etc.....all of them live in the UK are very English and might get married (possibly not all of them...if I'm being brutally honest..).

Where are you living or what sort of life do you live where people from different countries or different ethnic backgrounds being married is even worth commenting on? Seems very odd in this day and age for it to even get a mention.....

Think he must have meant to post it on the Daily Mail comments , but ended up here by mistake

A lot of racists appear to have crawled out of the woodwork in the last two years - like the Trump effect in the US they seem to feel empowered by the Leave vote

Ha ha you took this the wrong, easily offended way, it wasn't meant to be the slightest bit racist. And before you continue with the suggestion that it was, my current GF is Thai, previous included black, Asian, Swedish, French, South African kiwi, etc., even a i brummie!

I was just saying the cast looked like the BeeB were trying a bit too hard like it was cast by some of the characters in "WC1A" ... you lot still at Uni?


Reel em in...

Nothing at all to do with race, it was an observation of the agenda of the BBC is all, to which they openly admit:

https://www.tvguide.com/news/doctor-who-steven-mof...

"History is always white washed," says Moffat. "How do we manage to have a diverse cast despite that? The way that we did it was ... [to just] say that you will see people of different colors there. In fact, there were. People all didn't arrive in the twinkle of an eye. It is bending history slightly, but in a progressive and useful way."

Thanks Ciege, at least someone appeared to get my (lighthearted) point!

[bexVN]

john2443 said:

I can cope perfectly well with th eidea of the Doctor being female, but Dr Who on a Sunday eve ! The world's gone mad I tell you, mad.

Dr Who is a Saturday evening program. I may write to my MP

start a petition, I think. I did comment to hubby about why on earth is on a Sunday! But then I am sure it was a midweek show when I was younger (could be mistaken).

[Evangelion]

bexVN said:

... I am sure it was a midweek show when I was younger ...

No, I'm pretty sure i was always on a Saturday.