Nazi twats. I think that will do the job.

Zero Theorem is rather similar thematically to, although much less good than, Brazil. You’re not missing much TBH.

I wear a big lump of unpolished crystal and a meteorite round my neck every day. Why? Because I like the way they look. Sometimes I wear a visible pentagram. Why? Because I have to walk past Jehovah’s Witnesses when I go to town, and when they see it they back off and don’t try to talk to me.

So did I. It was better than I was expecting - beautiful - although I wish now that I hadn’t read the book first. I enjoyed Ex Machina too, and I wonder now what would have happened if he had directed Sunshine, which I have a real love-hate relationship with.

The woman in the picture at the top of this article is wearing the same necklace as the woman in the

1961 - 1981 for GenX according to Douglas Coupland

Didn’t seem to be much point being ambitious when we all thought we would have died in a nuclear holocaust by the time we were thirty.

We have? (Full disclosure: born 1964) I don’t think I got that memo. I suppose it would be an email now? Or a Vine? Or a Snapchat? What the hell are those anyway? *Wanders off, grumbling quietly about ‘kids’ and ‘lawns’*

Same. I was really interested until Vavra started spouting off. Now it has become the only game I have ever asked my SO to not buy.

I don’t do no-knead recipes, but for too-tough bottom crusts generally, try flipping the loaf upside down while cooling, to allow rising steam to soften the recalcitrant base. Hope it helps.

I love Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Solaris, they both feature in my top ten list of favourite films. When I first heard about this film being made I immediately thought of Stalker (the film), S.T.A.L.K.E.R (the game), then Roadside Picnic (the book that inspired the film). I read Annihilation and was brought up short; I…

I enjoy reading your comments. I don’t always agree with you, but you often make interesting points. Please don’t let a few ratbags upset you.

Neck too long. Feet too small, and don’t appear to have jointed ankles (this is a pet peeve of mine as a doll modder). Hair looks like a poor quality fibre. Not worth thirty dollars.

Cryptonomicon = Genius

From our finest prophet of the modern age:

REAMDE nearly broke me before I finally put it down. I was probably about 40% of the way in. Generally I like Stephenson and his three hundred pages of technical explanantion/exposition, but I hated the characters, I hated the premise (and I’m a huge MMORPG fan, maybe that contributed to it), it just didn’t click. So…

If you saw and heard myself and Yog walking down the street in Yorkshire, where we live, you might think that we are just an ordinary English couple, as we are both white, and native speakers of English. If you knew the truth...

I live approximately 75 miles from where I was born in England, and I still get that. Over the Pennines is another country, they say things differently there...

Dear lord how I hate those half-mast pants Gwynneth has on.

Maybe...but latest Firefox is also forcing extension-busting updates. I’m now fluttering between Pale Moon (Firefox-ish), Slimjet (Chrome-ish) and Opera (Chrome-ish, VPN) depending on what I’m doing.