It means you're talking about them. That's how these things work. You've fallen for it.

I did it! 29 seconds, baby. It said that was a record?

Actually, now that I bother to read Wikipedia—the most reliable source on the internet—for five minutes, I've discovered the issue: the IUCN doesn't count the tanuki as a separate subspecies of the raccoon dog. It could go extinct in Japan and the massive number of European pests would keep it "least concern".

I'm going to go ahead and believe the Japanese, who spend a lot of time worrying about the tanuki, on account of how the Japanese like to flatten their forests and build roads all over them. Wikipedia has a section on it. The Japanese Wikipedia. Invasive in Europe? Well, thank goodness. No need to preserve their…

I'm unreasonably amused that this slick public relations campaign designed to draw the ire of a generation only truly capable of rousing itself to defend the games of its childhood has succeeded brilliantly. In other news, nobody went outside again today.

And yet now you know that the tanuki is endangered. Who wins here?

I'm having an opposite reaction… this reminds me so much of Battle Royale that I'm having urges to read the books.

Nation is bloody brilliant, if you will excuse my Britishisms.

What's wrong with it? I remember it being really dark and gripping stuff, apart from a bunch discussions about lady parts that made me terribly uncomfortable.

INSUFFICIENT!!!1 Go away and re-read it immediately. I will wait here for your apology.

It could have been a really good book, but too infrequently boiled down to broad "don't foreigners do the wackiest things?" kind of comedy, which spoiled everything else. The Last Continent was nothing but that kind of comedy.

Were they BBC? I thought it was Sky. Anyway, they weren't bad bad, but how old was Rincewind? I always sort of pictured him starting out in the Color of Magic as maybe late-20s, early-30s at the latest. Am I mad?

The Tiffany Aching stories are basically the continuation, except without Magrat (dammit) or Agnes (no great loss). But Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg are still in them all the time, often enjoying nearly main character status.

All three of TNG Star Trek movies were pretty poor. Generations, First Contact, and Nemesis.

The Nome books are great, but they aren't really "funny, haha." If they were folded into the Discworld series in the latter half, I suspect that nobody would notice this, as they have that sort of downplayed, subtle sort of humor a lot of them have.

Hurrah for Pyramids! I'm glad the comments are putting this one to rest.

Ugh, okay… hold on… I'll have to read it again. It's been years. Give me a week or so, I have some other things on my plate.

Well, I don't know. I've never really thought about it before, and I don't know what to call it, but I don't like it when Pratchett's characters stop the story to stand there and explain to everyone present how the world operates and how they should behave. I'm sure you know what I mean. Snuff is a bore because Vimes…

This is a good point that I had not considered.

If I ever reproduce (perish the thought), I'll just pretend that the Aching books end with Hat Full of Sky. I'll wait until they are 18 to tell them about the others, by which time they will be unsusceptible. I want my kids to grow up to be interesting people that get along in a crowd. … and I'll mostly do this by…