That’s not how probability works though — the chances of successive outcomes are described by the probabilities multiplied by each other, not added. So, for example, the odds of a coin coming up tails five times in a row is 1/2 ^ 5, or 1/32 —- NOT 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2, which adds up to over 100% and that makes…

Well that’s impossible, given the genetic reality of everyone having two parents, unless everyone only ever procreated with someone of their same hair color! The Baratheon hair issue, I think, was just to emphasize that Robert’s genetics appeared to be unusually dominant, to the point that every one of his 16(!)…

Right. OP asked about how R+L fits with Jon’s dark hair. My response was twofold: 1) Lyanna had dark hair, and 2) not every Targaryen has light hair. That’s how Jon can be a Targaryen and still be dark-haired; his appearance takes after his mother rather than his father. This is further bolstered by the fact that Jon…

I know that 1) it’s supposed to be a little uncomfortable and 2) they aged him up so the enormous squick factor is somewhat lessened, but it reeeeeally doesn’t help for this last episode to hammer home how much of a helpless child he is.

That was some masterful comedic timing on the blank stare after Sansa said, “...and then he kidnapped and raped her.”

What’s the issue? Lyanna had dark hair. Not all Targaryens are fair/silver-haired.

His little quivery lip while Margaery was chastising him was soooooo sad. What a baby biscuit. (Needless to say, baby biscuits should not be having sex. :/ That whole thing is still very uncomfortable to me.)

She did, but it wasn’t nearly as scenery-chewing. All the Dornishwomen’s accents were frankly awful in this episode... And you’re right, the snake theme needs to stop. Oberyn was called the Red Viper because he was known for using poison, not for any snake-y thematic consistency. The Sand Snakes got their label from…

No problem — I will have to give those all a try! Thanks for the recs. And you’re right — a chocolate Sriracha porter sounds amaaaaazing!

Aw, she is cute! My experience with hamsters is limited to when I and my brothers were kids, and I guarantee we were terrible hamster owners who fully deserved everything we got. RIP Minnie! I’m sorry for your loss — losing pets is always a huge blow. :(

I felt so bad, because I do think it was much more of a plea for attention than a sincere suicide desire, but this was like the third time in two weeks he had pulled this sort of thing, we were supposed to be broken up but he was calling me sobbing multiple times a day, and I was 18 and a freshman away from home for…

Mine was incredibly melodramatic about it, calling at 2 am to inform me that he had driven out into the middle of the desert because he didn’t want anyone he knew to find his body. In retrospect there is no way that was true, because it was physically impossible for him to get back to meet me as fast as I did after I…

Noooooooooooooooooo

I don’t know why it is, but when it comes to beers and cocktails I want the newest and weirdest. Yes, thyme-infused bitters! Yes, lychee wild ales! Insufferably hip bartenders are my best friend. I am not this way about a single other thing in my life, but I’ll never settle for boring booze.

DASCHA!!!!

Very very cute

Right? My husband also loves good beer but his tastes run pretty mainstream, varietal-wise; he likes IPAs and solid stouts/porters. I, on the other hand, am on a perpetual quest for new, weird, unique stuff. Sours, wild ales, lambics, uncategorizable hybrids — the more the merrier! If I’ve tasted something before it’s…

I’m going to Bellingham this summer, and am hoping to hit up several local breweries!! What should I be sure to try? (I’m not an IPA person, but literally anything else is fair game. The weirder, the better.)

Quality is definitely part of it, but I know that I (and many craft beer drinkers) do so at least in part to support local small businesses rather than multinational conglomerates. So creating tiny subsidiaries to distribute beers that are deliberately labeled to resemble those of local businesses is frustrating on…

I was so, so, SO pissed about Elysian! Especially since the Budweiser commercial specifically called out “pumpkin peach ale” as the paradigmatically laughable craft brew, and guess what, Elysian (which InBev had JUST purchased at the time) has released just that. What a slap in the face.