Well shit, you don't want to breathe some weird funky alien air, dude!

I feel you're missing the point (probably as much as you think I'm missing it). It's always been a deeply personal story

No Jack? I always get her loyalty mission done as quickly as possible so I can clothe her.

I'd support your thesis - I'm 27, my sisters 20 and 19. They don't get it at all. I explained to them how for me, when I looked after them when they were little, Mockingjay hits me so hard, they began to see it a little differently. But they're still young and idealistic, and as I've said elsewhere, Mockingjay is…

I disagree - the biggest event in Mockingjay is Prim's death, and we live that in excruciating detail. The war is impersonal, but the trilogy is about removing all the glory from war by showing us how personal it gets, even when you are fighting for Ideals with a capital 'I'.

... did you finish the book? That was the point. The bitterness and the difficulty of forgiving, when you hurt someone so badly - Katniss even suspects that Coin puts Prim in harm's way SPECIFICALLY to motivate Katniss into voting for the next Hunger Games.

YES! I don't always agree with you, Charlie-Jane, but this hits the nail on the head. Mockinjay puts me through the ringer, in every sense, and I find it to be a deeply personal book. I come from a very political family and have two younger sisters who I did care for growing up. I remember getting to THAT part of…

My mum was big on this 27 years ago. She has two exceptionally well behaved girls, one of whom (myself) still gets a Pavlovian-esque joy from praise and cannot abide disappointing people. I worked in childcare for a number of years and followed her advice - I had a great deal, if not the most, control over our group…

I love you. Let's make original Trek babies together.

Yes indeed - she's the fairy they don't have a golden plate for in the original story.

More the journalism than the papers. What makes it 'pop' is that it ISN'T produced by the scientists who understand it

These are probably not the actual roles - but roles which are similar to what they're looking for. For example, when you audition for James Bond you get given some old war movies to do.

And if they could work in a few Carry on up the Khyber jokes I'd be buying the collector's edition.

Ahhh the stuff about the memory is entirely accurate - its one interpretation of a series of experiments. Check John Bradshaw's Cat Sense for others.

RFID chips are mandatory in livestock in some countries (i.e. mine). They're tiny little chips, even when they include other sensors in them too. They're not life threatening in any way. My contraceptive implant is larger and harder to insert/remove.

Tis a much more interesting example than imprinting IMO!

Might as well tell mine (since I was telling them last night!)

Dude dude dude dude duuuudeeeeee. There is no need to tell us your creepy as psychotic encounters. I could have forever lived quite happily not knowing anything as messed up as that ever happens.

Reminds me of the rage I got yesterday when listening to the Chair of the Jane Austen society on Radio 4 say that Jane Austen wasn't a feminist. My own outraged sputterings were exactly echoed by the other speaker in the debate.

I need to recommend your post more vehemently than simply clicking that little blue star.