Starwed, you're right - Topsy had been ruled a "danger", having killed one (or was it two?) of her handlers and had already had her death sentence passed - Edison petitioned for the right to do it by electrocution.

However, another fact of the matter was that right before she killed one of the handlers, the man had fed her a lit cigarette, so she was obviously being baited. It was a rotten situation all around.

I disagree with 95% of everything that comes out of Clarkson's mouth, but I don't feel the need to come to a blog and spew bile because of it. Oddly enough, I can actually disagree with someone without becoming overwhelmed by screaming hatred.

A lot of folks on the other side of the fence are just as loud and obnoxious as he can be - being a leftie does not automatically make you Not A Jerk.

Ditto - BJ Davis has just made sure I won't be spending a cent on that movie.

Might download it one day, though. If I have a few meg left at the end of the month and absolutely nothing to use it on. Maybe.

The same thing happened in New Zealand a few years ago, and they'd had children together. They were forced to divorce. I'm not sure what happened after that, but come on, I mean, the kids already existed, the deed was done. What harm could have come of them staying together, had they wanted to?

Ceruleanshipper, I don't know how you're going to go there. I've seen both Mr Fry's appearance on Top Gear and Mr Clarkson's numerous appearances on QI, and they seem quite chummy. I'm aware it's only TV, but Clarkson is characteristically vocal about public figures he dislikes. Piers Morgan, for example :-)

He's probably right, at least partly. Even if the kids ate McDonald's a lot, if they spent more time outside exercising and less in front of video games, they'd be a lot less heavy.

We don't download because we want to steal it. We download because we want to see it. I'm stuck down here in Australia, and it is nothing at all for us to be months (and sometimes, years) behind overseas TV and movie releases. We are supposed to sit there like good little consumers and wait our turn. Is it any wonder a great many of us took to downloading so quickly? I don't bother with terrestrial TV anymore, and it is terrestrial TV's own fault.

The TV networks, run as they are by monkeys, have only just realised where their audiences were disappearing to and recently, as in least year, started offering a few shows in a timely manner.

Movies - bit different, but same basic principle: STOP MAKING US WAIT and you might notice a reducton in piracy levels.

The pseudoscience, drug and psychology bullshit I'll chalk up to garden variety religious fanatacism, but scientologists are the only ones who can help at road accidents? That's just bizarre.

Australia is only just now getting an outbreak of equine flu that started last August under control - and part of the reason it was so unmanageable was that because records of animal movements were spotty and ill-kept. Cost the racing industry a fuckton of money, and that was just the start of it. So, less with the terrorism, more with the rather sensible disease management stuff?

Yawn. You're a U2 fan long enough, you learn to ignore both the occasional wank from McG, Bono AND teh Internetz.

Palindromic, a rainwater tank in Victoria, Australia is NOT going to ice up. Furthermore, Victoria, as in many parts of Australia, is currently in the grip of a years-long drought and rainwater tanks are a fact of life. It might not be the prettiest thing in the world but it's a good idea and one we Australians have already begun getting used to.

Further to what I said in my previous comment - so many buildings are lazily designed, just build a sweatbox and stick a big air conditioner on top of it. If more buildings incorporated design such as this, think amount of coal we wouldn't have to burn just to keep ourselves cool.

I love how they've put the words "Aussie" and "fries" together and expected them to make some sort of sense. They're called "chips", ffs.

I never did get the whole mallrat thing even when I WAS a teen. Thought they were gormless losers then and gormless losers now. My friends dragged me along once or twice, I got bored, went home and read a book.

#17: Bwahahahahaha! You win the internet! :-D

You think maybe he's been watching too much Summer Heights High? :-)

Christ, that's horrible.

#27 - Think about it for a minute. Crocodiles can't jump when they're on land, which is where Irwin was when he had the baby. They can and do use their powerful tails to propel themselves out of the water, which is what this one did here.