Apparently we do have accents, and more regional ones than just Quebec and the Maritimes. It was news to me, but I’ve just decided to go with it. I was born in Calgary, but I grew up in York Region—lived there for 21 years actually—and moved back to Calgary in ‘07. Shortly after the move, a man asked me, “Are you from…

This made me giggle.

Huh. Good to know. So what does it mean?

All right, Americans, I have a question for you: Is the, shall we say, “reverse peace-sign” not considered offensive? That gesture that Abraham and her daughter are both flashing at 0:20 in the first video? What does it mean to you guys?

I readily admit that this is not really the point of all the things, but:

I was extremely, extremely lucky—if only because my parents were so fucking worried. I had never, ever been that sick, even with recurrent bronchitis, even with the time that bronchitis turned into pneumonia.

Good god. All of this is just so sad. Your poor great-grandmother. :(

I know that anyone who has had chickpox can get shingles. I’m not ignorant—I didn’t understand what you were getting at. My mother isn’t the only person I know who has been sick with it. I admit I reacted emotionally based on my experiences, though. But: you wrote that “now that no kids are getting natural chickenpox,…

“Now that” kids aren’t getting natural chicken pox people are getting shingles? Now? This magic research thing that you have suggested to others tells me that people used to confuse shingles with smallpox. Shingles ain’t new, if it was around when smallpox was.

“our children will be better well-rounded, tough people with strong immune systems if they have to struggle through these diseases as a child like our great-grandparents did.”

I got chicken pox just before the vaccine (at age 14, no less, oh god, I was so sick). My mum and both of her sisters have both hand shingles—and my mum, twice. With the shingles vaccine apparently only for those 50+, whenever I see the posters or commercials for the vaccine, I’m like “Okay, how many years till I’m…

I suppose sooner or later they’ll just fall in the water.

What. The. Shit. No, what the shit. Someone was surprised that someone who is capable of editing is also capable of writing? What an ass!

omfg really?! shit. I had no idea.

The silver hair and violet eyes of Valyria was kept alive in many cases through good old fashioned incest—not always, but often. Ned and Benjen were both dark-haired. House Baratheon is actually related to House Targaryen. Rhaegar, Dany, and Viserys are actually Robert, Stannis, and Renly’s cousin. There are Targaryen …

Okay, yes, it is absolutely all theory! But Robert left all his bastards alive; Cersei didn’t have any of them killed—it was Joffrey who did, later. Convince me of your theory! I’ve always believed Jon was Rhaegar’s kid (consensually or not is up in the air) this is the first time I’ve heard the idea that he might be…

I guess? Though Robert had a bastard daughter born in the Vale the same year as the Tourney, and all those other bastards, and Cersei didn’t have them killed—even after. Joffrey was the one to have them slaughtered. I dunno that I could buy Robert killing the son of the woman he loved and was “rightfully” engaged to.…

Wait, I’m so confused. You’re saying that Jon is a Baratheon, therefore, he has to be Robert’s—Stannis was busy in Storm’s End being married to Selyse and trying to have a kid of his own, and Renly was a little kid. Their dad was long dead. So if Jon is a Baratheon, he must be Robert’s son. What does him killing or…

Okay but... Robert and Ned returned to the Eyrie after the Tourney at Harrenhal in 281 and Jon was born two years later. Because Harrenhal was in 281 AL and the war ended in 283. Ned could only fudge the kid’s age so much. Why do you imagine Robert would kill his own son? He was in love with Lyanna. Or do you think…