I don't understand your ire or your point. Nobody has demanded she be "voluptuous". That means tits and ass. But she should be large. Physically large, with a jawline. She's an Amazon. Like Brienne of Tarth large. She should look strong. This actress doesn't. Now maybe I haven't moved with the sexist times, but it…

Can anyone explain why I hate slugs with a passion but for some reason snails are OK with me? I know intellectually they are the same thing except for the shell.

Same problem as any cheesecake for me - I'd feel embarrassed to have it around the house. Even on the PC wallpaper. Bare flesh is a no, and sexy poses is a no. Doesn't matter how artful. Badass girls in space armour fighting metroids, women clutching children in one arm and flamethrowers taped to pulse rifles in the…

"discover ancient human fossils"

not enough mechadendrites

FYI, Police don't have the numbers to "quell an uprising". That's not even empty rhetoric. It happened two years ago during the looting riots, and that was just a section of inner London's hooligan youth on the streets. They sucked in every copper from the South East and it still only wound down on its own. That's…

I've never seen a tree root to 30 meters, and I'm a forester. It's unbelievable to me. It would take decades, 50 years, a century to root so deeply - needing water elsewhere in the meantime, which is instead where it would concentrate root growth. I really think this gold must be present as particles at much shallower…

That may be evidence that the aircon is too high in all those LA porn sets

Well if we're in frank mode, I've always thought the difference is ease of stimulation between genders is obviously mechanical. Men have a shaft that all erects. It sticks out exposing itself for friction and touch. Women have a hole. It has parts that engorge, as this article demonstrates, mostly internal. Hidden.…

OK. At least you can orgasm and know what it takes. Is this a potential partner or a current one? Because I'd have thought it'd be important to communicate the delay penetration concept and if he just slaps it in there anyway that's hardly awesome.

The British are a great deal more reserved than Americans. The only place you'll see loud celebration from them, and even then only from the working class, is at football (soccer) matches.

No. No no no. Nope. Literary callbacks and references are what LoEG exists to do. You can't make a TV show of it. There is no way. It would become a flat story about a bunch of characters nobody knows with no detail.

Or you could not use a dishwasher. You know.

I've had earworms last for over a week. It's horrible, genuinely mind wracking. Nearly always pop songs. They're always mindless and irritating to begin with; after a week it's a waking nightmare. It happens more than it used to now, I honestly believe music producers have unlocked a key to causing tunes to get stuck…

I'd like to see her go through the movie without a love interest. Actually, that won't happen, but I thought of something better: I'd like to see her gain a love interest and have to bail his unsuperpowered ass out, with an exploration of those gender dynamics. I would LOVE to see this on the big screen. I want to see…

Where? I haven't seen that. It sounds like serious projection. Nobody sell this man a gun.

No, sorry. All scifi needs an end. You create the world, you close it. Doesn't have to be a cataclysm, just something thematically writing the last word. Some people think we already had that in one or other of the Culture books but I don't, and it takes more than an epilogue anyway. The idea the Culture, a close to…

Western countries don't face revolts. We don't face revolts because we're rich enough and well fed enough off the backs of non western nations to be fat and happy, for the most part. One day it won't be so easy, maybe in our lifetimes. Too many poor, too expensive food. Do you think 92,000 westerners won't get killed…

Damn, what do I do to keep informed about events like this? I could totally have attended and it looks utterly memorable

You can't do a League movie. Supes has yet to be seen, Green Lantern was a lame flop, WW would need so much retooling, Batman's finished with for some time, and nobody else even has a franchise. Marvel spent what, 6 years building a cohesive world around the Avengers almost from scratch? DC is a mess.