Yes but they're SO CUTE. Look at that ickle face I just want to smoosh you yes I do, yes I do, yes I do! Oo is the cootest liddle kitty cat? Yes it is you! Yes it is!

Unlike behavioral analyses, Burns’s work is providing actual neurological evidence

That's a very interesting post. I don't necessarily agree with everything you say, but it is clearly a complex issue

I became a lot more hopeful with regards to humanity after watching Sky's adaptation of the Hogfather (it turned me onto Terry Pratchett too). The speech at the end still gives me a very spiritual strength.

Yes, excellent example. Changed my opinion on drug controls.

Yes, it's possible.

Oh thank god.

Do you need a moment, Professor?

Preach!

Those poor things. I don't see how that can be prevented other than with a law protecting the area. Else peoples' "I'm a special snowflake" instinct will kick in and they will believe they have the right to see these animals.

I LOVE the idea of this study. Really interesting. The first thing that strikes me about the first wordle is that it's "love_him" but "loves_her". Curious switch up. I wouldn't like to speculate, but seeing as we're on the internet, is it because we talk more about other people loving women than other people loving…

You need to write a short story on that one!

Oh I loved that - I thought it was brilliantly brutal.

"Whatever, man. Tell it to the whales."

I think I might be a bit sensitive about suicide in stories, I very rarely find it used well. In saying that, I did see a film this weekend which did suicide BRILLIANTLY at the very end.

I still think that LoM would have been perfect if it ended at the fade to black after the roof jump. Making it a HAPPY ending just sticks in my craw.

Have you read Embassytown? I think you'd like it!

All of Dawn Richards 'Goldenheart' - particularly 'Northern Lights'

I thought it originated from Orwell? It's certainly a portmanteau, and hence a 'created' word, if not 'fictional'.

That is not going to sit well on anyone with a bum to speak of, methinks.