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Quote: Tim Walker @ November 1 2009, 5:33 PM BST

I personally would love to see a sci-fi vet detective show.

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Me too. I bet it would stink though.

Congrats on 9,000 posts, by the way.

Quote: Tim Walker @ November 1 2009, 5:32 PM BST

In certain British soaps (Eastenders notably - at least, historically) the lives portrayed are often more miserable and humdrum than those of most of the viewers. I think the British soap often prefers a kind of "well, there's always someone worse off than yourself" mentality, whereas American soaps tend to have always been more aspirational.

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Yeah, we're stupid like that. Everyone lives in a beautiful house, knows beautiful people and has rampant sex. Not at all like real life.

Quote: AndreaLynne @ November 1 2009, 5:36 PM BST

Congrats on 9,000 posts, by the way.

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Oh, thanks. And congratulations on your 3000th, I see.

Jeez, didn't even notice. Thanks.

Quote: Griff @ November 1 2009, 5:58 PM BST

Not-A-Proper-Doctor Who

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(I like that title for at least two reasons...)

Quote: Tim Walker @ November 1 2009, 11:09 AM GMT

I would say that the somatic experience of emotion is intrinsically linked to the ability to "intellectualise" the emotion, but it's a very interesting area anyway. It leads on to whether the somatic experience of "pain" is independent of the ability to process the idea of "pain". Anyway, thanks for the recommendation, I need to go a book-shopping soon.

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Interesting Steve Jones two-parter on sociobiology on Radio 4, Aping Evolution:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nk0wz

Here is another question for the collective intelligencia -

Dinner Parties - why?

This has been a social convention I could never get my head around. If I want to party, then let's party! Sitting at a table full of couple monsters listening to them drone on about the most asinine and pedestrian subjects is only slighty less preferable to hitting yourself in the genitals with a hammer.

Inevitably, I would just get totally pissed and start arguments, thus alienating myself from my girlfriend's social set. (But they were, without a doubt, the most dull and unimaginative bunch of f**kwads imaginable, so no loss there).

Normally, you eat bad food, you can't get drunk and everyone has to leave early to do work / family stuff. Seems like a total waste of time.

So answer me this Bat-chums, why do people have dinner parties?

Same reason people still get married. It's just accepted as the norm.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 3 2009, 12:04 PM GMT

This has been a social convention I could never get my head around. If I want to party, then let's party! Sitting at a table full of couple monsters listening to them drone on about the most asinine and pedestrian subjects is only slighty less preferable to hitting yourself in the genitals with a hammer.

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I quite like hitting my genitals with a hammer

Quote: bigfella @ November 3 2009, 12:24 PM GMT

I quite like hitting my genitals with a hammer

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MC Hammer?

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 3 2009, 12:04 PM GMT

So answer me this Bat-chums, why do people have dinner parties?

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Haven't had one for ages (since we've all had kids our group of friends tend to have big lunches with children there too instead).

The idea is you get to eat and drink and talk without loud music or the need to dance. That's not to say they don't end up in breakdancing competitions or digging out the Megadrive to have Micro Machines tournaments.

Personally I enjoy cooking for people and love to feed a table of friends, but at my house there's no need for smart dress or grown-up conversation.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 3 2009, 12:32 PM GMT

Personally I enjoy cooking for people and love to feed a table of friends, but at my house there's no need for smart dress or grown-up conversation.

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I should have realised it was a woman thing. Urgh.

I wouldn't throw one myself (are they 'thrown'?) but I prefer any kind of get together to involve sitting down and doing something (ie eating) than standing around awkwardly and being expected to dear-god-no dance or something.

Quote: zooo @ November 3 2009, 12:44 PM GMT

I wouldn't throw one myself (are they 'thrown'?) but I prefer any kind of get together to involve sitting down and doing something (ie eating) than standing around awkwardly and being expected to dear-god-no dance or something.

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It really depends on the level of conversation - I've gone beyond the point of listening to people drone on about the most mundane subjects with their limited world views and lack of irony.

That's why I come here, to be amongst 'the funny people'.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 3 2009, 12:39 PM GMT

I should have realised it was a woman thing. Urgh.

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It would be mixed company though. I've never done a 'girls night' in or out.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ November 3 2009, 12:52 PM GMT

That's why I come here, to be amongst 'the funny people'.

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What time are they due in?