Any game that ends in a 0-0 tie is not entertaining to watch

Not always, but it often is. It's not always about the score, or winners and losers but how the game is played.

No doubt though, you also only watch car racing for the crashes.

Obviously this sounds like an amazing and important discovery, perhaps the holy grail of cancer research.

Imagine a world where you just pop a pill and keep living as long as you want. Without additionally having drastic population control, that's going to doom us to a totally unsustainable world, if we don't have that already. But even with that unlikely flip-side, imagine a population that is just fixed at some point with the people it has right now, never dying, never having offspring. How creepy would that be?

Jut sayin' - food for thought (and maybe a sci-fi novel).

If you haven't seen this, turn in your geek card now: Mullard tube factory.

Even back in the 90's

Contrary to your understanding, time didn't begin only 20 years ago. It's been going a lot longer than that. For example, I've heard it said there was once a "1950s".

I can't believe this suggestion is so far down the page. What other invention changed the world as much as The Aeroplane has? And yes, I know the Wrights were building on a lot of work already done by others - what inventor wasn't? But they do deserve the credit for inventing what is recognisably the modern aeroplane.

Indeed, you could have minutes of fun also remote-controlling your cat. One click for "wake up" and two for "leave the room at high velocity".

I've never heard anyone else imply that the descriptive term "shemale" is offensive in any way, just as the equally descriptive term "ladyboy" is not offensive

In what way are those terms purely descriptive? Have you actually asked a transgendered person whether they are offended by the terms?I suspect not because most I've ever spoken to do indeed find it offensive.

Looking at the choice currently facing the Australian voter, a three legged sheep would stand a "real chance" of election.

This sounds very much like how large-screen projectors worked, back in the 1970s.

They're showing the "Prophets of Science Fiction" series here in Oz at the moment, which has some appearances by Ridley Scott and is under his name. I was disappointed to realise that, at least in this showing, he didn't come across as especially insightful, intellectual or even particularly smart. Perhaps he was having an off day when they filmed it, or perhaps he's just good at film directing and not philosophy. Maybe we expect too much of people when they get a name for something in one field.