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Re: A *bit* of apples and oranges, yes

posted by [personal profile] evilawyer at 09:36pm on 31/05/2011
Don't know that you worded anything badly. I pretty much assumed you have more patience than me, as I still haven't gotten over the fact that "lightening fast" in Comcast-speak still means I actually have to wait more than a 1/2 second in real time.

Fair enough as to the rest. At some point, it really does come down all to a matter of personal preference. For example, I love the movie "Pi" (actually, it was the symbol but I don't know how to get that off my keyboard); I think it's intellectually engaging and roller coaster ride emotional. On the other hand, one of my dearest friends with whom I agree on matters of taste more often than not found it utterly detestable because he found it more cerebral and thinking/paying attention-intensive than he'd thought it was going to be; this same friend loves all of Ten's tenure but won't watch anymore for, in part, similar reasons to yours. (He also won't watch Series 1 or any Classic Who with me beyond a very few of Five's episodes, so I'm sure there's a whole walloping dose of "Gimme teh pretty! Gimme smokin' hot, sexy-boy David Tennant right now! Gimme, gimme, gimme!" going on there, but there ya go. I love him all the same.) Taste and preference are as different as people, which is really a wonderful thing.

Old fogie here What is this tl; dr I keep seeing? (I could use Google, but I'm lazy, too.)
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Re: A *bit* of apples and oranges, yes

posted by [personal profile] charamei at 10:27pm on 31/05/2011
tl;dr stands for 'too long; didn't read'. And because this is the Internet, and it is a strange and wonderful place, 'teal deer' stands for tl;dr which stands for...

It's definitely a large part personal preference with me, yes, which is why I'm doing my best to keep quiet and biding my time until Twelve turns up or Amy dies in a fire, whichever happens first. I do think there are writing problems there too, especially with River and the Doctor, but as you said - to each their own.
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Re: A *bit* of apples and oranges, yes

posted by [personal profile] evilawyer at 11:19pm on 31/05/2011
tl;dr: Ha! Congrats on being the first person outside of real life that's ever said that to me. Thanks for the info. (But, I wonder -- do teal deer have antlers?)

Also thanks for the link to Twain. I hadn't read that essay in 30 years. Still love it.
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Re: A *bit* of apples and oranges, yes

posted by [personal profile] charamei at 06:11am on 01/06/2011
Well, I was saying it to me, really ;) It was used in the sense of 'I'm waffling; let me sum up'.

I guess whether they have antlers depends on the gender of the person who wrote the teal deer?
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