Having a British pride moment...

Soldiers and a sailor in fight to be Mr Gay UK

Mr Plymouth stood slightly apart from the other contestants playing Trivial Pursuit in the guest house reception. Steve Grant, a 22-year-old Royal Navy weapon engineer, only came out to half of his friends and family earlier in the week when he discovered that he was able to attend the final because his submarine had docked earlier than expected. Despite his nerves, he felt he was in with a reasonable chance.

Last year's winner, a young PC called Mark Carter, romped to victory when he took to the stage in full police garb, including stab-proof vest, for the "dress to impress" round. Grant was hoping his sailor suit could do the same for him.

There was momentary consternation when Mr Edinburgh, student A J Ward, 19, discovered that his nearest geographical rival, Mr Glasgow, was also planning to dress as a "sexy squaddie". But Ward decided that he had the upper hand. "I bet his trousers don't rip off like this," he said, miming pulling off his trousers in one.


... I'm getting a sudden terrible fic bunny involving Stargate.
... See, this is the kind of thing the US military is missing out on.

;-)


(The bit about the guy who only just came out made me LOL. Imagine that conversation!)

... followed almost immediately by that sinking feeling...

Homeless forced to camp on beach

Borough mayor Paul Garrod said: "Homeless people in tents on the beach are the last thing holidaymakers want to see so something must be done."

... yes, clearly that's the *important* part of the issue there.

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urrgh. I think the fair is on again. there's repetetive music and screaming. er, I guess I hope the fair is on, what with teh screaming. But there's "We will rock you" on a loop, which is very familiar.

Guess I can kiss early sleep goodbye for a few days then.


I tired today. much walking yesterday. want to curl in small ball and stay there.

luckily I has much food

unfortunately I hasn't much *drink*, due to being dumb. oops. Guess I find out if Tesco deliver on a Sunday then. I think they do, for more money. Not thrifty. But I has money at the minute, so that works out.

Reading upside down

When should one stop doing science?

Or, to put it another way, what precisely did Torchwood One do wrong?

Torchwood's job is to investigate unusual phenomena with an eye to understanding and using them. They poke at stars and magic until they get a patent out of it. There's also a side order of making sure nobody gets turned into a werewolf or blown up or something.

Most of the stuff I've read about the whole Cyberman invasion just assumes that Torchwood screwed up. And, okay, the result was *hugely* bad. But... when, precisely, was the screwup?

Torchwood had an unusual phenomenon, a rift. If it's anything like the Cardiff rift it was spitting out random junk off and on for as long as it had been there. They found it, located it precisely, because it was being weird. They didn't make it. They found this potentially dangerous definitely weird thing and they started to investigate.

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Well they erred in their risk assessment of the ghosts. The cybermen infiltrated the tower without anyone noticing. Should they have been noticed? Really they should. Don't know how they weren't. So somebody in security made a mistake, some data was not available, and cybermen sneaked in their blind spot.

So Torchwood's mistake was not, in fact, to play with the big levers and shiny wall and all that. It was to have the builders in and put all that plastic up. Not enough CCTV, was the thing.



... yeah, you can pretty much tell where my fic has been wandering around in lately.


It's just... if you line up the Christmas Invasion and this with the Cybermen, and start trying to find precisely where the mistake was, it can come out looking like it was really 'being insufficiently worshipful of the Doctor', which is rather uncool. Because otherwise people were acting in logical ways, given their job responsibilities. It just went kind of wrong.

Sometimes things go wrong without anyone actually making a mistake.

Which is rather scarier than Daleks, really, when you think about it.

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reportedly, James Marsters said a very interesting thing
it's either a Torchwood spoiler or RPS
:-D