Me too! Except I was thinking along the lines of carpet rash and trying to figure out how you had sex against a Christmas tree because ours falls over if the cat so much as looks at it.

Where I come from we often say "pure dead [adjective]". Thought that would give you a chuckle.

And the heavy metal equivalents will all be troll worshippers and blamed for perverting the youth of today! The shame! The shame!

No I never have - I'll put it on the to-read list.

Oh no, I become God to all the greats - Buffy, Sam Tyler, the Gilmore Girls, John McLane . . . they beg me for mercy when they are finally trapped in the small, door-less room . . .

Awww man, I went through a phase of making my favourite ships and having them woohoo in every hot tub in the city. Come to think of it, that may have led to my breeding obsession. Although, I may show my age when I say that Buffy and Angel used to have a lot of babies by kissing lots and then getting a call from the…

I never did - but I rock at Sims. Except for I seem to like breeding sims like rabbits. I worry what that says about me

Just think of the theological arguments we could inspire!

No hating - we need to be more scientifically accurate in this place

My personal favourite (I had a novel draft of it at one point) was that we are going to be the oldest race out there, and every species we're going to find will be little more advanced than hunter-gatherers. Then because we, as a species, have much in the way of parental issues, we'll leave them all sorts of abusive…

Coming over here, stealing our jobs . . .

It will happen when we have a colony on Mars, then Earth can say "sure, our policies are weird, but do you want to unite with the Martians?"

Gotta say it still fools me - I can't for the life of my see what's supposed to be 'wrong' in that slow motion shot. I also love how they pre-empted the "who films that?" by having the camera drop when they run towards the kid. It's a great technical piece!

That's a nice way of looking at it, but unfortunately a 'theory of mind' incorporates much, much more than you're giving it credit for.

Do crows, jays and other corvids share with humans the ability to know themselves and know other creatures too? Or are they merely acting on instinct, which we mistake for more complex thought patterns? It's impossible to say for certain.

I was at a Crime Writing festival earlier this year and one of the new authors (who was friends with a coroner and so had worked closely with her) was asked when she drew the line and made something up rather than went with what was strictly, scientifically and legally accurately. In other words, when did she…

Awwww, they were only saying hello. Glasgow Smiles Better!

Tequila!

Aw man - and the GREAT eureka scene where they come to the conclusion of using Head and Shoulders. Haven't seen that film in so long!

When I was little, Outbreak terrified the shit out of me and contributed to my lasting fear of pandemics.