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Paintball arenas seem to have quite lax security when it comes to taking the grenades you've acquired for the battles home with you.

Flashbang them. It really works.

Had to pick the one sunny day this week to say it. Particular personal pet hates:
The term 'Pro-vitamin'.
'Clinically proven' (which means the company making it ran their own tests and paid the...

So legal status, de jure usage and historical precedent doesn't make something right? What exactly does, then?

Britain officially adopted the 'nine zeroes' billion for its official statistics (to avoid confusion) in 1974. Before that period, it had been the preferred method for a long time (nine zeroes tends...

I imagine there's nothing more terrifying a prospect for scientist than coming up with answers which come up against public consensus or excessively vocal pressure groups. The entertaining one I'd...

Really, no. Not yummy.

In terms of iconic, and in terms of personal attachment, this is a personal favourite. Number one because it completely rejigged everything we knew about spaceship design for science fiction, number...

And it's a personal bete noire when people claim/assume that I claim/assume that :P. I know where you're coming from, but your deconstruction of my point was quite blunt and lacking in tact, which I...

First section, I'd advise something between the two. Playing as humans in a WoD analogue means that they will die quickly. There's no real way around that, you've got naff all health points and...

Ah. Showtime at least is the same thing, a pay-to-view thingy. Not sure about AMC.

I suppose one of the closest analogies to that then, at least in 'science fiction people have watched' would be the nebula battle in The Wrath of Khan, where thanks to the radiation, there's no...

Unless I'm very much mistaken, a lot of these 'huge success but tiny viewer figures' shows are HBO shows, which is an anomalous channel since it's pay-to-view and lacks adverts. Since its profits are...

Well, I suppose the difficulty with that is that a 'modern' method of capital ship warfare (I say modern, it's been the method used since the 1940s) would be achingly dull to show from a visuals...

Warning: Post that may irritate Star Wars fans approaching.

I really like Alex Jaeger's Venator-class Star Destroyer. That said, a lot of Jaeger's stuff is really nice.

I'm gonna second this, mostly because a lot of bands I've seen do this tend to have bits in their song where the lead singer's singing more traditionally too, and almost universally, they're actually...

That's near enough one tenth of the population of the world. Bravo, you crazy Korean popstar, you. Bravo.

Stolen, most likely.

Urgh, I'm in one of my rampage moods tonight. Just one of those nights where I just get prickly and irritable for no good reason and end up shouting at people because my...

...Wow, did I get castigated for not hating someone I'd never heard of there?

(He was next to Jimmy Carr, who is, let's be fair, a bit marmite.)

Tell that to people in their twenties now (I know) who've now started watching the films in chronological order. As in, grown up with 1, 2 and 3 instead of 4, 5 and 6.

Interestingly, I learned...

I'm a fan of 'heh', myself.

I don't remember his name, but he was 23 and he absolutely laid into Bono, so I like him.

Christ, that reminds me of a horrific discussion I had once on a Star Trek forum. Which basically boiled down to 'Well, if the prerequisite for canon, to which you are holding an exceptionally rigid...

On the subject of which...

Agent, any chance you or an admin could use the word filter to change 'lol' into 'I am expressing amusement in a manner which exposes my gaping lack of intellect and...

Yeah, but the Executor-class Star Dreadnought looks so much better!