I can personally guarantee the plant did not know.

Well now I just want to know what it was.

Good. I've always liked Gigeresque art. It presents an alternative to the idea of crisp clean aliens and spaceships and the embracing of grim biological designs makes you think about a truly alien culture rather than just an advanced one.

Something about this article is off to me. It seems... reactionary, evangelising, and fashionable. I have a hard time believing a lot of it, and a lot of its assertions lack evidence. I'm all sold on our diet being unhealthy, but not on it being some kind of terrible drift from an era when we knew nothing about…

Let's not get all mom and pop over this. 115 years is a good innings. I just suppose it's a slight downer it couldn't be amicable, but 115 years of putting up with anyone's shit is enough.

Under age 30 both those states you describe are standard operating procedure for most singletons. Male or female. Take a step back and look around the club next weekend. Keep your ears open in the office canteen. Have a quiet chat with your single friends. The only thing separating them and these benighted idiots is a…

I get that it's a joke, but I still feel compelled to tell you this is no different from my claiming all knowledge of American culture from Dukes of Hazzard and Buffy. Top Gear in particular is poor, poor ground for reaping culture of any kind from. Seriously.

If it helps for an internet stranger to talk, I think you're right, and in the end the fact that the exact time of cessation of existence is the only thing you can find to make your responsibility about it suggests you made your peace. As far as things to feel shit about someone dying go, it could be worse, more…

Anybody depressed over worrying what to grind their crotch upon can fuck themselves instead and grow up. You know what else leads to heavy drinking? Poverty. Loneliness. Ill health. Homelessness. Global, hard problems. I am in a position to tell spoilt pissed up little girls and boys there are bigger problems, that…

Poor them.

I think he means really saving our asses, all or lots of us. Could be interesting. Bizarro alien invasion. They could go the route of non communication, so we spend half the film thinking we're being abducted and fighting them, then we spot the incoming rogue planet or whatever unstoppable world ending disaster and…

The involvement of women doesn't prevent a thing being gay. The best customers of gay clubs are hen parties. This is overblown, totally immodest and not a little narcissistic. That's gay. Compare and contrast with a man, on his knee, privately, with a proposal.

What if in a fit of cosmic irony (we are dealing with the cosmos here after all) they made first contact already, long ago, perhaps while we were still fond of trees or perhaps when we were small furry things scooped up by pterodactyls. And they said "nothing of interest here". And in the thousands or millions of…

Was slightly interested until I realised Channing Tatum was a dude. Female alien bounty hunter, yeah, I was thinking. Someone tell him that's a girly name for a guy who fancies himself an action star.

The entire basis of this assertion is flawed and frankly hilarious. They didn't have money, they didn't have power, they didn't have government. What they had was their lives and livelihood. With a population density lower than any time in later history. They looked around and chose a spot to farm. That's it, they…

I became dimly aware of this book a decade ago. Before and since then I have seen the frankly absurd and depressing outcomes the advice it gives causes. I'm not sure if the book came first or if what it says is really just a codified version of an approach to men that mentalist women have had for a long time. I've…

It wasn't always so. It became basically an in joke after other cinema industries than Hollywood grew tired of the horrifyingly shallow sense of cinema America developed. The men are comically ugly, the women are equally comically stunning. That way round makes better sales.

Exactly. Apparently now along with the rest of the neuroses intelligent people develop, they've got to analyse their speech for answering questions and having conversations now, because that's a syndrome. You can't have a discussion about something you haven't done a degree on because you're not expert on it,…

Right, and here's the comment police to shitrush him

Did you know that the Nazis discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer? 40 years before it became widely acknowledged? That Hitler hated the idea of building his master race only for it to disease itself and ran a media campaign to stop Germans smoking while America ran ads about doctors recommending the…