I left home for over a year after a parental shouting match at age 15 for very similar reasons and had a job, girlfriends, personal growth, just a blast. I only came back because my dad's health went down the shitter and my mum became so bitter she wouldn't leave the house, both of which were blamed on my leaving. I…

That smile is making my soul hurt

This is "10 times quieter" than the first model? It takes more than colouring it black to make it stealthy guys, no marines will want a walking stone grinder following them everywhere.

Did you have a sibling or a close friend round? If so, dollars to donuts they were absent mindedly transplanted.

An interesting article about death by starvation, and the comments fill up with dieters and bodybuilders. Someone flag down the next interstellar bus please, I'll pay for all our tickets

Well we were forced to watch it. We were told it was worth watching, here on this site of things relevant to our interests, but that suffering through that noise was necessary. We do get to complain that was the case afterwards. So here we are complaining about it. It could've been set to country, and non country fans…

"I think we've been fairly upfront with the fact that we course-corrected on Star Wars because we felt like we were fighting too many headwinds in the marketplace and it needed to be repositioned to fall with what customers were telling us, which is, ‘We love this experience. We want to drop in and drop out of it.'"

What, me? I won't be buying, reading or talking about it to anyone. I suppose if a comment on an io9 article, and a negative one at that, is publicity enough to sell more copies then I have indeed fallen into her trap. I think, though, you overstate our marketing case here.

What, "minutes to hours"? Are we to assume you're 16? Any older of a man and you'd know it intimately, any older of a woman and you'd know it second hand. Obviously the proper stimulation whatever that is case by case helps, but real life isn't porn, often it just doesn't click and everyone has long workdays now. I'd…

This is the sort of "feminism" that gives actual feminism a bad name. What makes me sad is that there will be scads of ill informed not terribly wise women who haven't read any real feminist literature or versed themselves in feminism who will gather at the watercooler and tell each other to read it, precisely because…

I'm not clear on your point about vision here now. I said that vision correction is fair because it gives everyone equal eyesight acuity (rather better than poor sight at 20 feet) and that superhuman acuity beyond 20/20 (if we even had the technology to correct to that standard, which we do not, or the optician…

In that case you've missed my point: your entire contribution is exactly the comic confusion over standards and what is and isn't "fair" that I'm laughing at and that I look forward to crumbling the entire idea of paralympics. And yes, if you like, the olympics too, and any modern athletic competition. Did you know…

That's absurdly reductionist. Will you now respond again to say I must object to the use of shoes, or of having ever cut their hair, or of not having received infant inoculations and being crippled in their youth. Being able to see does not affect athletic ability in the naturally sighted, no contact lenses come with…

Haha. Delicious. Keep on arguing what is and is not a certain level of disability, and basing an athletic competition on increasingly minute or nebulous committee decision. The whole edifice will collapse around them. I can't wait. The entire point of the Olympics is to measure and compete humans, not the devices we…

I don't know any. I know a host who scorned it. Including my own sister, who 20 years later, tried to claim to me last night she's always liked Doctor Who despite my remembering the rather unpleasant nature of her particular brand of scorn in our household back in the day, and as recently as a few years back scoffed…

I used to fret over these. Then I realised that without them eating dead skin and oil, you would be a little more haggard. They're like sheep of the face, cropping your skin back to a well grazed meadow.

Hilarious. The whole piece revolves around:

I've done a lot of volunteering. This describes nearly everyone there regardless what it is. Particularly socially awkward. If you meet anyone with a degree of smarts there they will always acknowledge it. We don't know why, but I personally think it's simply that the people who prefer spending their time working to…

Not you specifically, but people who use your argument, which if you weren't aware is prevalent amongst the drill baby drill crowd.

This argument is like a 60 a day smoker claiming their hacking cough, headaches and lumpy mouth is just age.