But they could remember what you said and use it against you later when they do understand. Best not to risk it.

I should think it was less like drowning and more like the dizziness that sometimes occurs if you stand up too quickly. A major unpleasantness with drowning is the feeling of suffocation. That's triggered by a build-up of carbon dioxide, which happens if you don't exhale for a long time. You shouldn't get the…

It's hyperbole. You aren't supposed to take it literally.

@Wookielifeday: My ereader is my phone, and I'd have a phone regardless. Putting books on it does not increase its fragility. It just makes it even more worthwhile to carry it about.

@nthdegree256: But I just wanted to show I knew the words!

@lilliputzian: Try watching the movie. It's full of Cronenberg goodness. It's not a film of the book (because the book is unfilmable), but a film about what was going in the author's life while he was writing the book. As such it is much more straightforward.

@99TelepodProblems: Here in the UK the pretext is as likely to be child porn. We currently have something called "the Internet Watch Foundation", that maintains a blacklist of banned IP addresses. If you stumble across some child porn online, you tell them, and they add it to their black list. Most of the British ISPs…

It's as if they're taking the bullets out of Russian Roulette.

Some good ones there, but you missed one of the greatest: Survivors (1970s). A story told in 51 seconds that still scares me.

"Technically, a there is a discontinuity in a true phase transition, which the glass transition is more continuous." The first "a" is redundant, and I can't parse the "which" - perhaps it should be "whereas", or "which in"?

I'd pick the Dodo. I hear they are delicious.

One of its early influences was Cosmic Encounter, which was very much an SF game. [en.wikipedia.org] I played it back in the '80s.

@bob_d: I don't think it was every inconsistent or paradoxical - do you have examples? At most there were apparent self-fulfilling prophesies - but one can never know if they would have happened even without the Flashforward, by some other circuitous route.

@Mr_Academic: He did discover the Coriolis effect. He discovered it mathematics and in the physics of rotating surfaces. He didn't discover the example which is due to the Earth's rotation, but "Coriolis effect" is not specific to the Earth's rotation. Engineers use the same term to describe the same effect on any…

@Wookielifeday: I think Twin Peaks suffered because the original creative talent lost interest and moved on.

@bob_d: Actually, they did eventually make it clear that the seen future could be changed. They just played around with the idea that it couldn't for a few episodes first. They also said that some futures are more likely than others, and that you really have to try to change what you saw - which is a necessary…

@Ryozenzuzex: They could use the shifting nuances of personality to predict the locations of hither-to unknown dwarf planets.

@Evdor: But those are the best 3 Saw movies! The franchise went off the rails with 5.

@PistachioWildebeest: The ones under the Salutation Inn are open, and free. You have to ask; they don't advertise (and it's a long time since I had a look so the details may have changed).

@Too.Tired.To.Sleep: I was just wondering how she got free afterwards. Unless he did a lax job of tying her up. Surely he picked a venue where they wouldn't be disturbed?