Fangirling is distasteful, people...

With the aim of ensuring that each crew member is as multidisciplinary as possible:

That looks worryingly like one of my uncles...

I wonder how these compare to the RNs Astute class subs. The Astutes are quieter than American Virginia class, and have a longer operational range for reasons of being nuclear, but they also happen to be monstrously big and prone to malfunction...

Antipox, I think, if the word 'pox' is rooted in a romance language

Dammit I wish there was a PC port; I can't justify buying a console just for this, however awesome it may look.

It's mainpaged right now, just under some news from Iraq, and they have five or six articles currently going. I can't get BBC TV from here, so I don't know if the TV news is currently talking about it. Other Murdoch outlets (Sun, Mail, Express) seem to be more interested in Robin Williams right now (which is equally…

Because she makes the UK a merry f***tonne of money just by existing (seriously; the estimated income we gain from Royal-centric tourism alone covers the cost of having a royal family), never mind that all the income of her estates goes straight into government coffers.

I'd be the smug vegetarian here, but I've caught nasties before from salad bars in restaurant-chains-that-shall-remain-unnamed, this in Europe as well, where we like to scoff about our superior safety standards (or did until it transpired that half the UK had eaten horse-meat at some point without knowing.). It's…

But ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) are by and large predatory, and the primary herbivorous subfamily (the Epilachninae) mostly eat squashes and solanacids, not trees. I now feel a need to go and take samples so I can figure out why LaBonge is saying this and what's really eating the Beatle tree.

My mother had a simple response to picky eating; "I buy the food and I cook the meals; eat up or go hungry." Sending us to private school probably helped as well; there is very little that matches the horrors of English boarding school food (and she couldn't afford to give us allowances because of the school fees, so…

If they're looking at mine then no doubt they're giggling at the aspie attempts at characterization and the obvious daddy issues. Probably the biggest audience any of our writing will ever get.

In Guild Wars 2, in Lion's Arch there are a pair of children playing together; one Charr and one human. They sound so happy, and so hopeful (even with all the death and destruction going on in the rest of the Tyria), that I couldn't help but look in on them every time I was in the city, especially after the Claw…

English football fans tend to be bad; our teams were banned from the continent between 1985 and 1990 because of persistent hooliganism, and excessive drunkenness is still common at overseas fixtures (I don't believe you can buy alcohol at most stadia in the UK anymore). Football matches in England are not the sorts of…

I heretofore apologise preemptively for the street violence that will occur when England finally gets kicked out of the World Cup.

As it was at my all-girls private school: "you're all women, this is a safe, stereotype free, environment; we're going to perform the thermite reaction today girls!"

How did you get it to set with pineapple in it; I thought that was nigh 'pon impossible.

Nope, sorry; that was actively predator behavior, exactly the same as my family sees when our terrier goes after a rat.

Because other than being about gambling the lyrics are fairly harmless? Just because the minstrels sung it desn't make it evil, anymore than Golden Shred Marmalade is inherently evil because it used to have a golly on the label. I think it probably comes under logical fallacies: affirming the consequent to do so.

Be fair, new gamers do have to start somewhere.