I absolutely adore the books but I also have a lot of faith in Ron Moore because of Battlestar Galactica, so I'm totally on board with wherever he decides to go with this show, even if he does make changes. The actors in the show are brilliant and I love that he's maintained the slow pace of the books that's needed to…

Let's be honest, the people complaining the loudest are not the people who're being targeted by marketers as the potential new audience for this series. They're not the ones who will be casually browsing in a bookstore where the cover art will influence a sale. They already own every single book and movie in the…

Retta. Oh my god, I just peed a little from how perfect she'd be as a Ghostbuster...

The wool waulking was in the books, but not till book 2 and then it was at Lallybroch and they did it in a huge shed with their feet while hoisting up their skirts and getting all sweaty and covered in pee and singing hearty highland songs. I was really looking forward to that and thought the table-top version a bit…

No, they didn't.

No.

They had me at "Helvetica Scenario".

Maybe he can do a blackface Aboriginal and disrespect the native people of two continents!

They brew some kind of English Fosters in the UK and I have to say, it's not bad! The Aussie one is truly shit though.

I don't think they were referring to any particular morality, just which religions put greater importance on "protecting" morals (whatever they might be) as opposed to the religions who felt no real compulsion to use their power to compel people to behave in a certain way.

Hey, they do want small government. They just want it small enough to fit into your uterus.

Or maybe religious belief is influenced by the particular culture of the country it's in. Australian LDS (and religion) is similar. It's seen as very rude to discuss religion unless someone asks you about it. Even then, people who're too religious are viewed with suspicion.

If that were true then Marvel wouldn't have made a big song and dance about trying to attract more female readers. Plus you think all MEN are comfortable with this cover? Not all men want this kind of hack job porn splashed all over their comics either. There's plenty right here who are saying they enjoy Manara's…

Jesus, do you own property in Sochi or something? Skiing in Australia is rubbish and we'd never be in contention for a winter Olympics which is why I pointed it out. Fine, the AVERAGE temps in Perisher for deep winter temp are -3 while Rosa Kuta has an average in January of 6. So it's still crap compared to even our…

Agreed. I was initially pro-voiceover because it's pretty much word-for-word from the book. But it's getting ridiculous and the most jarring parts of the VO are the parts that aren't from the book, but have been shoved in because they clearly don't trust the audience to make connections or trust the actress they hired…

I think taking Doctor Who personally is a bit silly.

The Messenger thing was what made me finally delete the Facebook Android app. I occasionally check FB it on my phones browser, but functionality is limited so I've pretty much quit it for good. I don't maintain a huge social network of people I barely know so it hasn't been a big deal for me, just made me more…

In Australia pumpkin is most definitely NOT a sweet food (it's roasted with salt like potatoes) so I gag every time I hear people going on about how great pumpkin flavoured coffee is. Might as well be broccoli flavoured coffee.

Because the Olympics stopped being about brotherhood and warm feelings when the IOC realised there was money to be made by making countries fight each other for the "prestige" of hosting the games. Your idea is sensible, but unfortunately does away with the IOC's very reason for existing, which is to fly around the…

Did you even read that page? It's lowest temp in winter is 5 degrees C. It doesn't even get below freezing in December. Our winter resorts in Australia are colder than that.