My eclectic school library led me to The Shining, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Puck of Pook's Hill/Rewards & Fairies/Stalky & Co in grade 8, stuff I picked just because I liked the titles. I know it's clichéd but I have a copy of If- on my wall at the office just behind my monitor…very helpful during stressful times.

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Except Varys is gonna kill Uncle Kevan (because he was the only sensible Lannister left who could have retrieved the situation for them).

1. Upvote for Rio in the car. (My first concert was Duran Duran on their 7 & the Ragged Tiger tour, the show where they filmed the Reflex video….). 2. It is a pity that you resigned from your board because to the uninformed that would appear to substantiate Douchebag Bartender's (it's time we rechristened him)…

Book-Littlefinger IMO is THE master at playing the game of thrones and has little or nothing to learn. He's risen from nothing to being one of the most powerful Lords in Westeros, has no outright enemies, and is Lord of the Vale, an almost unassailable position. TV-Littlefinger I'm not so sure about because the show…

“In the game of thrones, even the humblest pieces can have wills of their own. Sometimes they refuse to make the moves you’ve planned for them…It’s a lesson Cersei Lannister still has yet to learn”-Littlefinger, AFFC.

Ask the friend to set you up. I would be prepared to bet a sizeable sum of $ that she's already told this girl about your inquiry (you're a not-very-close chum of this mutual friend, but the girl is her roommate-of course she'll tell her). So there's no need to play it cute…she already knows. And id also wager that…

You should read Middlemarch for some tips about that from Mr. Casaubon aka "the Dead Hand"!

Remember the peace conference in The Godfather: "But I have selfish reasons. My youngest son was forced to leave this country because of all this Solozzo business. Alright…now I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely. But I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he…

I think Street Spirit is their strongest closer but that was the song that got me into the band so I'm biased.

On an analogous note, in 1988 I saw Akira at a movie festival. Right before it started in filed about a dozen Hell's Angels who sat at the front. The movie started as you all know with a global nuclear war. When that scene ended the theatre was dead quiet, until one of the bikers loudly growls "Strong beginning." …

My wife and I had a budget of $5,000 so we sat down and discussed the things we liked about weddings we'd been to and the things we didn't. Wedding cake didn't make the cut. Really good food (including dessert!) at a high end restaurant, as well as pretty nice wines did instead. She bought her dress off the rack so…

I felt the same at university. It wasn't until convocation, when I graduated magna cum laude, that I realized that people LIE, because most of the condescending types whom I'd thought were so much smarter than I for the previous four years…did not. It was a real eye-opener actually.

Mrs Rabbit frequently refers to me as her 'Starter Husband'. This is one way she mocks people who get married (& divorced) in her opinion far too easily.

Married with children here. I'm too busy to ever get lonely. Quite the opposite-I'm usually glad to get some alone-time. I do sometimes feel like I need more time with male friends so I recently started doing some semi-regular activities with some other guys. I think most people in good marriages would probably…

Exactly this. Which was very wise because as it turned out what I'd been thinking of buying was not at all what Mrs Rabbit wanted. She picked the ring style and the type of stone and I chose how much I wanted to pay for the stone. I went the opposite of Miss Anthropy's friend above and got relatively small, but…

When I was a kid I found out my grandmother, born in 1904, in poverty, in a large industrial town in England, had proposed to my grandfather. I asked her why and she said something along the lines of "Well, he didn't seem in any hurry to get round to asking and someone had to do it!" (I don't remember her exact…

Unless I'm missing something, "25% fewer messages" means that for every 20 responses "other" women got, black women got 15, not four.

After the Tyne/Wear derby, like? Cause as crap as the Mackems have been the past few years they've been making a habit of doing the double over the Toon recently.

With the greatest respect, you clearly haven't met any law students. Insufferable isn't the half of it.

This is pretty much what I've been thinking (& I also echo the point about feeling weirdly invested considering I'm a complete stranger) since you first mentioned him. Men get a thrill when a woman shows she's attracted to them, especially one they consider attractive too. When I first met the future Mrs. Rabbit…