I've wondered this since I was tiny. It's such a big deal, sneezing, flailing your limbs and gusts of phlegm and pausing whatever you're doing, yet it never does a damn thing. It's useless. I think I'll get behind that idea that it's been force evolved into us by diseases.

I get that, but I don't agree with it at all. If my spouse and the mother of my child was cheating on me, and our child was not mine at all, I would want to know. Of course you're going to get sad afterwards, but are we really - really - meant to accept that it was a mistake to find it out, and that the moral is you…

I liked the third. Spoilers. Yes it detailed a future where nothing at all is forgotten ever and oh dear poor relationships with cheaters whatever will they do, but more interestingly for me, it detailed how if we had genuine perfect recall we could dive into our memories and mine it for buried facts that confirmed or…

"a woman who has never experienced anything but painful sex might not know why it's painful, but she'd definitely know that there's a difference between her experience and that of the majority of women who find sex pleasurable"

I have wondered in the past, since the structures of the vagina essentially gorge with blood and stiffen like a penis, do women suffer from erectile dysfunction? If so, considering the functional difference between a penetrating shaft and a receiving orifice (it's not like an unprepared pudenda lowers bay doors) would…

When I was a child I had a strawberry allergy so strong they thought I'd die the first time. After an entire childhood of no strawberries I ate some at a garden party I got dragged to before they stopped me around age ten, if I recall because they looked so tasty, and turned out I didn't have it anymore.

It's only relatively recently, one long lifetime, since we even had what we recognise as popular culture. Prior to that only a wealthy elite had books, or radio, or records, or could even read. The idea of popular culture is really very young. The question itself is so shaped by our time it may seem ludicrously weird…

No, I like the majority of articles not directly about games, in fact I'm fairly dismissive of most strictly game content because I'm aware of the circle jerk that is videogame coverage and its relationship with the industry, and I'm fully capable of reviewing an RSS list and avoiding articles I don't like the sound…

The elephant in the room is that this is your "solution" to the problem you create every time you post these horrendous gender bending or sexual equality in games articles, or endless cosplaying, or obsession with the next Ocean style invented story, because they pull down hits from outside your demographic, but annoy…

Well I wasn't even aware of this, but considering I have the highest end machine you can get without SLIing videocards and my temps reach the high 70's as it is, I'm pretty thankful they disabled it because either my rig would melt or I'd see major performance fluctuations. And honestly, why would you want to see high…

"Maybe "guys will fuck over girls less, because now it goes down in their user profile — or in the comments of others"

If it's anything like other blooms I've seen, think 1000+ miles. I think I saw pictures of one also off the coast of Africa as large as Madagascar.

Only in the book. They couldn't convincingly CGI it for the show. So in the show, not only is she fireproof, her hair is too. It's a mistake; there are several further instances in the books so far where losing her hair in a blast of dragon fire would have been an amazingly strong visual image that we won't see.

I don't buy most of what you just said. The move beyond superstition is a move toward enlightenment and away from unreason. It is unenlightened to desire to belong for the sake of belonging, to delineate there is an us and them, we bear the mark and they don't, it's tribal. It's divisive and precisely opposed to the…

It's only a couple years since I found out the reason these people put that fish on their cars is because it's like a mason's handshake and earns them a secret discount from the "right" mechanics. Freaked me out for a while. Then again, so did Mariella Frostrup's pampas grass incident. People really don't ever grow up…

"Although this plant uses more power than it generates"

I know right? Does the entire American right wing seriously not know what the guys name has been coopted for, or are conservatives just very good at overlooking inconveniences? How can he possibly be in the running at all.

Many aggressive poorly trained dogs, particularly Rottweilers (either because they are just like that or because only dillweeds with a certain attitude on what they want their dogs to be own them) will growl and attack you if you make eye contact. Good luck trying to "communicate" with them. Perhaps if you wave a…

I didn't understand it either. Twink - I do not think that word means what you think it means, no sir.

Well that's nice for that 44% but I tried it once at someones request and didn't like it, it's like fucking calamari with a high chance of getting shit everywhere. Why anyone would actually want to do it is beyond me. I'm going to go ahead and pin it on mindless reenactment of modern porn, because hey, they all do it…