She’d certainly be completely freaked out, making it all the more fun!

Jaime will try to persuade Cersei, plead with her and then try to kill her. He’ll fail. She’ll sentence him to death, but unlike her typical execution she won’t take joy in participating and Jaime will be unceremoniously beheaded. And the executioner, or someone involved in the whole dirty affair, will be Arya in…

Dracarys.

I saw a manager take the tops of tomatoes (they hadn’t been cored - a new employee had cut the tops off instead) out of the trash and make him cut the cores out, rinse what was left and add them to the diced tomatoes.

Eh, I’ve worked for more than one (but one in particular) places that have violated health codes brazenly. At the one the bar staff and waitresses would generally intercept the inspector and warn the kitchen to give them time to fix things as well as possible. But yeah, there were gross violations of the health code…

The most amusing thing about his comment is that Vampire Weekend became a major indie band in 2008 - 2010 - they’ve been around a good long decade so most of us who have listened to them from the get-go are old enough to be fathers and mothers (regardless of whether we are)

Varys will end up on the Iron Throne and institute a democracy - only one who has ever really seemed to act in order to protect the people, at least in his mind...

Minimal? I’m pretty sure he planned everything - that he knew Arya would come, he knew when Theon would die. He is essentially the Old Gods in human form now, and his concerns are not those of Bran Stark. He was the puppet master here - he wanted the Night King there, he knew how long Theon would defend him, and he’d…

I consider Bran to be the physical embodiment of The Old Gods - he is the memory of the trees and forest, he said so explicitly - and his power is greatest when he’s connected to a Weirwood. I do think he is the closest thing to a living god on GoT, at least a human one. The Seven seem to clearly be human inventions,…

Apparently supporting the genocidal remnants of the Tatmadaw is making them enough money to become directly complicit in the continuation of the genocidal policies the Burmese army has always employed. There is a reason that almost every state in Myanmar outside of the valley-center, where the Bamar-ethnic majority…

These same groups have been locked in decades of war with the previous military junta, that only (partially) began allowing democratic governance over the past 5 years. That military junta, which remains a major force in Burmese politics, oversees essentially all policies regarding the proper... ‘treatment’ of these…

Good point! Fortunately, not enough to interest them! I could only afford a couple sessions!

I’ve heard/read this as well. However, the leaked videos, stories from ex-wives, court proceedings, stories from Scientology ‘defectors’, etc. all demonstrate that Cruise is essentially the de facto ‘head-of-state’ for the ‘religion’ which is - in fact - a dangerous cult that has been repeatedly and consistently…

The couch incident was simply a very odd public display that really illustrated the already-existing perception that Cruise was unstable and disconnected from reality due to Scientology. It has come to represent a number of Cruise-related incidents around that period because it was a particularly visible example.

I am not a fan of comics, I am definitely not a fan of comic and superhero-based movies and I really dislike the MCU. My husband is just the opposite, he eats this crap up.

Tom Cruise is one of the few actors whose real, public life has made it very difficult for me to separate the character from the person playing the character. Mel Gibson is another. Roseanne would be a recent example of this writ large, as a social reaction. Every time I see him I think ‘hey, that’s Tom Cruise. I…

Also, I do acknowledge the show seemed to want to emphasize this as an assault, perhaps as a poorly thought-out way in the metoo era to show that he had ‘turned’. With the repetition of the event as a primary reason to try and stop David/Legion. Moreover, surprisingly unmentioned - the (bad) cover of Tori Amos’s…

While I too was bothered by the scene, it was clearly a part of David’s descent (ascent?) into Legion - the god complex he had already clearly embraced; the proliferation of personalities controlling him; the warped view of his relationship to Syd.

I’ve been a fan since 2005 - Bourdain opened up the world, traveled to places no other TV personalities, especially those ostensibly tied to food, would ever consider going. From the deserts of Namibia to the Congo River, he was always game and always able to expand peoples’ horizons by showing them the stark…

Remember, this is a study that the Army chose to publish; I’d be shocked if this wasn’t part of a much wider array of testing of various chemicals on soldiers. There had been a number of incidents in the past two decades - particularly in Afghanistan - where the use of amphetamines and benzodiazepines came to the…