@Eridani: So you are saying that he gets you to buy into the way that our society, presumably, comes to accept human cloning for organ harvesting (which is stupidly expensive since we could just, say, harvest the organs of the poor) without any wars, or Catastrophic Conscience Failure? Or are there wars (aside: there…

...attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...

@Eridani: I'm sorry, but if I don't get some meat on how a society works, or how things came to pass, or a good set of rules besides It's Just The Way It Is, then I just don't want it in my sci fi. This book is no doubt as good as everyone says it is, but the point you are making is exactly the reason I want…

@Murray Hewitt: From the O.E.D.'s quotations' page for Australasian:

The reason he flicked off the camera was because they ended up showing his girlfriend for the Sad Reaction Shot three times, and after the second time he knew they were doing it.

Spain: Oh, thank you people for giving tapas to the world. Now, my old lady can ask that we go to a Spanish restaurant, throw down $70, get served three shrimp, and call it a dinner. That is fucking CRAP. I hate tapas. Tapas should be the free thing you get before the actual meal arrives.

@Murray Hewitt: Yeah. And New Zealand was settled by Australians. So what I'm saying is that you're an Australian, right, Murray? A Wallaby? Want some Feesh and Cheeps?

There's nothing better than zombies in a gold mining camp in the nineteenth century.

I am concerned about this book being considered such a great work of science fiction. I haven't read it, so please, discount what I am about to say:

@Fall-Apart: So, less 300, more Starship Troopers

Did they just show the same girl twice for the Sad Reaction Shot in the U.S. or only in Spain?

@The_International_Poise_Conspi...: Apparently they seemed to think that the general strike started today.

Senderos apparently learned how to play with the Army of Northern Virginia.

I haven't seen somone execute a save like that with their knee since Willis MaGehee cemented Maurice Clarett's reputation as the surest thing to ever come out of Ohio State.

Hey wait, is All you need is Kill just the Japanese version of Armor, except instead of the Engine, it uses time loops instead? It even has a bad ass female soldier who is friends with the protagonist.

Come on, Matthews, post the Spain thread already. La Furia Roja!

I had a friend in High School who wanted to be a Sports Broadcaster and through some oblique channel asked Joe Buck for advice. JB responded by calling him on the phone and talking to him for a bit. Made the kid's year.

Or it puts them on notice that Silva can't be allowed into the box that unmarked.

It's still less horrific than the idea I pitched about an Aaron Ramsey series of ads this year.

@Hit Bull Win Steak: Oh I don't know.... fat suburbanite tourists?