SPOILERS FROM BOOK THREE.

Do you have any friends that smoke cigarettes or wear cotton? Because they should really look back on the laborers whose backs were broken and paid with their lives for those industries to thrive here in the US.

Does everyone who smokes cigarettes or wears cotton contemplate the history of those two industries in the southern portion of the United States?

Yes, I never understood the song to be a popular minstrel song. I took it to be the ice cream song. I agree that if something must be explained this much because the racist meaning of it has been eradicated in practical purpose (and was still a tune that originally started without racial tones) then maybe this is a…

I tried to type out my response so I didn't look like an ass. I guess I have issues with projected numbers and because a specific number of people report sexual assaults/rape means that 50% more experience it but don't report it. Not downgrading things (as a survivor of child rape). I think my issue is more with what…

No shit, right? Hot damn.

I suppose it's a really fantastic thing that looks and attraction are generally subjective and influenced by a number of factors. I enjoy my beefy alpha males but there's nothing wrong with others finding that type of men unattractive.

Well, I can join forces against the hatred/disbandment of MRAs. Tools suck which is why (even when it's hard) we can't let them bring us down.

Jesus... for an author who trademarks on her snark you sure can't take much of it back.

Perhaps slightly better than the author who was forced to write about a woman who used pop rocks on her genitals?

A family member of mine is most definitely on the hip trends and is heavily influenced by her circle of peers in regard to many things. She's past 40 and has never had a health issue with consuming meat, dairy or gluten yet when she told me she was going on a very restrictive diet of gluten free and vegan I asked why…

I understand that... I suppose I just wish GRRM had just concluded the darn series! However, at this point I think he's just trolling us. He's been involved with production of some of the episodes so he's either skillfully setting up story lines in order to alleviate himself of TV fan outrage when the show can't…

I can't edit but I left this out... The Lannister family dynamic is a cautionary tale about hating, marginalizing and believing you're superior to those who are different than yourself in spite of all the horrendous qualities you have. Tyrion takes the brunt of that family's internal disgust of themselves and their…

Sigh. You're the person who probably watches scary movies and berates the characters for doing dumb things that further isolate them or make a resolution more difficult.

I know I hated that line in the books and even more when it's spoken. And the waiting wasn't what made me feel weird, it was that I would almost be 40. Kinda like how I started watching Grey's Anatomy when it first aired and now it's in the 10th season. I look back on my life then and how much it has changed.

So it's either going to veer completely off track in order to conclude or we'll have spoilers from the unpublished books. Great. lol.

Without that conflict there would be no show... um, hello? :)

*SPOILERS* if you haven't finished book 3.

I think that scene where he knifes that Lannister wrist right after threatening he could do it a fraction of a second before was pretty telling. But I've read the books so I know what to expect :).

The name of the episode two weeks from now 'The Mountain and the Viper'. Doesn't take a genius!! So the question remains... how will the next episode play out? Will it be a Tyrion free episode??