I think the whole of GOT is pretty much based around how rigidly sticking to tradition and honour is stupid and liable to get you killed. The people who survive and thrive are the people who're adaptable, open-minded and thirst for knowledge of the world and understand that old metaphor about bending like the reed…

But we do know that Aerys was actually roasting people alive and had pretty much gone crazy pants insane. I don't think it would have taken a huge leap of faith to accept that he was going to take the nuclear option.

Would the snake even recognise a guy encased entirely in carbon fibre as something edible though? It wouldn't feel, smell or taste like prey.

Would David Attenborough do this? Any "conservationists" should be forced to wear a WWDAD bracelet to remind themselves to comport themselves with dignity and respect in nature.

This is the coolest gif ever. Thanks!

To my knowledge, PETA isn't collecting and euthanaising what may be some of the last remaining specimens of an entire species heretofore unknown to man. I have no idea why you even brought it up since the OP didn't mention any affiliation or support for PETA. It is entirely possible for two separate and unrelated…

Poop Francis, Head of the Chimpolic Church

Guess what? Even dyed in the wool, KKK cross-burning racists consider themselves "good people". Do you actually think bigots all sit around evilly tenting their fingers and laughing about how horrible they are? I'm not saying you're a racist or anything, just that considering yourself a good person doesn't actually…

As a fellow atheist, please stop using the words "Xtianity" and "sky daddy". It is incredibly embarrassing. I get that you're probably (hopefully) young and are having some kind of revelation about religion and the lies you were spoonfed as a kid by well-meaning but ultimately wrong people, but seriously, you're not…

Just FYI, you're wrong. Christianity encompasses the set of beliefs that Jesus Christ is the human son of God who's death fulfilled the Old Testament prophesy of the coming of the messiah. That's it. Criteria filled. Catholicism is a denomination of the Christian religion. They are followers of Christ.

"defiantly literalist Protestant Evangelical Conservative Christianity"

I'm an atheist and even I knew this. We don't have a lot of creationists in Australia though so belief in evolution and a tepid profession of religious faith coupled with non-attendance of church is pretty much par for the course here.

I love having really close friends and siblings because we'll often just say "Welp, I've run out of things to talk about" or "I'm bored now so I'm going to go" or "My ear's all hot from the phone and it feels gross and sweaty, so yeah, talk later".

Stephen Fry said once that phones are the rudest thing. A ringing phone demands attention. It's like someone walking right up into your face and screaming "TALK TO ME, TALK TO ME, TALK TO ME!".

Are you serious? What is more likely: the person you're trying to contact is lying dead in a ditch because they didn't immediately answer their phone or that they're busy or otherwise unable to take your call and your repeated calling is demonstrating your inability to grasp that people have lives that don't revolve…

New Zealand is the "NZ" part of the ANZACS. But I'm probably expecting too much for anyone from the US to have heard of the ANZACS either.

It follows the book EXACTLY and that is definitely worth a read too.

I guess you can blame them, if you're also the kind of person that blames women for getting themselves raped.

Hey, according to this study, it's still the men committing the violence in the societies with more women, so I don't really see how you can blame women for people sucking (in this instance).

You misunderstood the study. The violence in both male and female biased societies was still being perpetrated by the men. It was the rate of violence that decreased or increased.