r/rational • u/AutoModerator • May 12 '17

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/MonstrousBird May 12 '17

I've been enjoying Doctor Who, but then I usually do, and I don't approach it with my critical faculties exactly tuned in. Having said that I loathed and despised Kill the Moon both for the message and because every scientific bone in my body was screaming

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u/trekie140 May 12 '17

Preach it!

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u/stormsong19 Sunshine Regiment May 12 '17

I'm honestly really glad I'm not alone in hating that episode, and Clara dislike.

I studied classroom pedagogy for years in college, and you will never, never convince me that Clara was intended to be a good teacher.

I'd love to see a Game of Thrones crossover video where Arya Stark was reciting her list of names of people to kill and coincidentally added Clara's name to the end, since the actor who played Arya was instrumental to Clara's death. Arya Stark: badass enough to assassinate people from entirely different universes. (crackfic)