speaking of weapon arms, I have a question for those of you in the UK, which may sound like a joke, but I'm totally serious ... are toilet plungers common implements in the UK? I mean, every time I see the Dalek sucker arm thing, all I can think is "toilet plunger," and what a handy plumber he would make, and so on. And I can't figure out how the BBC designers got away with that, without it just being a huge joke ... and maybe it was, but one thing my wife suggested was that maybe you guys use a different style of toilet plunger, and don't have the immediate visual association?
Tens of millions of years of evolution, and this is what I use my brain for, to wonder about things like this.