One theory I heard, and it's got a certain logic to it, is that after one abusive relationship, the abusee - usually the woman, that being the way these things go more often than not - ends up with quite obvious and prickly defenses that the more decent sort of man notes and backs off from out of respect, or…

It's probably the nearest I'm going to get to Selena Kyle. I'll settle.

This. It's why my facebook info is populated entirely with transparent, absurd lies. Tried to go it with the relationship status as well, but apparently "It's Complicated with Batman" isn't something they'll let you put in there. My freedom of bullshit was mightily infringed.

No, macho dicks do, indeed, turn into snivelling spineless wrecks when someone takes their sense of entitlement, folds it up so it's all sharp corners, and hammers it up their rectum. It's HILARIOUS to watch.

This. My partner and I are technically open, right from the start (both with a background of shitty experiences made it make sense at the time). We've since discovered that we're both FAR too busy/lazy.

What you put me in mind of is a little boy who's just got his first long trousers sneering at the other little boys who are still in shorts.

Work the word 'quantum' in there, and maybe pen a diatribe about 'what so-called doctors won't tell you' and you, my friend, have the beginnings of a lucrative career in alternative medicine.

13-year-old, pfui. I'm in my forties and I'd be like that and worse.

As his countrymen and mine say it: He's madder than a hat full of arseholes. Brilliant.

Modern medicine. Amazing what they can do nowadays.

1. You could cure *a* common cold, but there's thousands of the bastards, more evolve every year, and they're not that serious. With proper treatment, a common cold can be dealt with in seven days. Left to itself, it'll clear up in a week.

Yeah. You know that one poor bastard in Aliens who says "Kill... me...." when the space marines find him? That. Pretty sure that the mantis was already dead and spraying water on it provoked the worm to come out and lay its eggs. The video caption doesn't say as much, but the spray looks more like plain water than…

I like how only one of them runs back to tell boss THERE'S A BEAR! The other one stays on guard to make sure it STAYS OUT.

They're smarter and more social than wolves. Wolves are pretty smart, but dogs cooperate better and we've been selecting them for cleverness for millennia.

They will decide you need protecting from the TERRIBLE FATE of having no doggies to scratch the ears of. They will also protect you from any biscuits or small pieces of sausage or bacon that may approach your person. They will also contrive to tell you by expression and gesture, that they've never been fed, ever,…

They live only couple of years and then die. Basically they're bright children for all their lives. They hit dry land, all we have to do is throw interesting toys and tasty food at them and smile indulgently as they're distracted.

The ramps are still there, back of the unfinished temple pylons at Luxor to name only the example where I've been there, seen 'em. And, indeed, had a brief sit down and a cigarette next to them. And the amount of their documentation that survives, we have to go with 'they logged everything' to account for the huge…

I've worked various sorts of stone, by machine and by hand both. A good square, a set of gauge blocks, something harder than the stone you're working, something to hit it with to drive it, and a set of abrasives is the bare minimum, but after that it's just a question of time and sweat. More tooling saves you time…

Nope. From the current location of the Nile to the Giza plateau is less than an hour's walk. The Nile used to be closer, and most of the building was during flood season when it was closer still. A chain of tanks with shadoufs moving water from one tank to the next would give you a constant supply of water without…

Actually they pretty much did paint a log of everything they did. The surviving records are a bit sketchy back as far as the time of the pyramids (Moses' time was fifteen dynasties and two fall-and-rise cycles of the Egyptian state later) but they're still, by comparison with any other civilisation of the period,…