Perhaps the Targaeryens thought a little raping and pillaging on the side as a way to sustain themselves was a necessary evil. I do recall someone way back (season 3? season 4?) saying that the Iron Islands were frequent rebels, so…

Great episode. I suppose people could complain about the predictable outcome, but coming down to the endgame, the story has very few left turns to take. Ultimately we have to have an army of sympathetic characters against an army of ice zombies, and (surprise!) that wasn't going to be Ramsay, although that son of a…

The actor who plays Varys was in Salmon Fishing in Yemen with head full of hair. It took me about three scenes to figure out who it was.

I see. In other words it's used as cuckold. Black Doug, to whom I'm responding, made it sound like "red pill" people are using it in some other way.

So what else does it mean? (Sorry, I intentionally have kept my knowledge of this whole "red pill" stuff to a minimum.)

I recently lost a very important man in my life, sort of my second
father. He died in April. Being a straight kid growing up in a
conservative family in the 80's, having a gay man as an influential role model made my life better in every conceivable way. He was open-minded, well-traveled, led a full and interesting…

Broken back and neck, I think. She seemed to be contorted on the floor on top of the stool she was using.

Fuck all y'all. I really liked Arya's arc in Braavos. Why not? She learned how to lie, act, infiltrate, use a stolen face, use and mix poison, fight blind/in the dark, and so forth. Sounds pretty bad ass to me. In the end she confronted the question of her personal identity through the final test: becoming no one and…

Gaaaah! Holy fuck.

Punch the clown thread. What's the weirdest thing you've ever used as lube for masturbation? I think as a teenager I used some I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spread. Oily as shit as I recall.

Heh.

They can cry themselves to sleep on a silk pillow stuffed with money.

Everyone is kind of a little bitch next to Buffy.

Not to take anything away from Colbert, who is a gifted performer and has crack timing, but doing that routine and those jokes at that moment in time was just… something beautiful. He dropped the hammer on the media bullshit the press corps had spun around Bush and the war. It was comedy and sacrilege all at once.

Obama killed.

Totally feasible, and necessary if you've been, uh, "telecommuting" over Skype for a few months. But, give yourself a break on performance. You're gonna be tired for a few days.

Agreed. You don't get to pick my friends, unless they're encouraging me to do something stupid and self destructive.

Poor Gollum. He was so sweetly filled with joy as he fell into the lava with his Precious.

Straight up.

And stickball scores.