I mean, yes, but remember, it's also a secret exit too. Say, for your horny kings and/or nobles, or for their families in the case of overthrow by an enemy force, meaning the difference between life and death for them. Clearly this one was not always known/used, but the point still stands. I mean, this would have been…

No, I'm not saying anyone really has a good claim, it's all who has the biggest army really. I'm using the characters' own justifications at the time. Real life history bears that out too. Henry VII, the winner of the War of the Roses, on which GOT is loosely based, had a very very tenuous royal claim compared to some…

But where was he going to go? He couldn't get away fast enough before they would see him. He can't run that fast, being a dwarf (have you seen him even walk? It's awkwardly slow), there's not too many places to hide, and he makes the calculation that trying to run or hide and failing is going to be worse than trying…

He wasn't supposed to run into anyone. Supposedly he was going to go onto a beach with no guards (which they said if you were paying attention) directly into an underground tunnel, then back out. No one to see him. Unfortunately those guards who were supposedly coming by "rarely" did come by at the moment. But it's…

Um, Stannis wasn't arguing he had a better claim to the throne than Joffrey, who was claiming he has a better claim? And Robert's Rebellion was the exact opposite, which was not that Robert had a better claim to the throne than the Mad King, but essentially no one liked the Mad King and he should be killed because he…

Isn't that what the entire WAR of the five kings has been about?

Because he actually is ahead of Dany in the succession to the crown, if he is legitimate. He is the son of the older brother, the heir, and she is the younger sister.

Well just repeating the same words over and over typically wins over well reasoning people in arguments.

To the first point, no, because if they are young enough to be cute, typically under the age of 5 or so, they have little to no concept of the idea of how to use said idea of cuteness to manipulate anyone. It's too complicated an idea because they don't have the ability to understand how others think, and so literally…

I've worked with kids for over 20 years professionally as well as now had a few of my own and can say definitively, no. They're not some separate species of person. They're just adults without frontal lobes, i.e., the ability to make good decisions. Some are not very nice, and do not grow up into very nice adults.…

Exactly. I don't bring my kids to high end places because there is a greater than 0% chance they will go into asshole mode, and why on earth would I inflict that on anyone else who is paying good money? Hell, for that kind of money I don't want to hear it either and hire a babysitter, and am going to be pretty pissed…

The secret of most high end cuisine is that the vast majority of those chefs are too. If you ever go to a very high end restaurant you can feel confident no matter how weird looking or sounding the item it almost certainly at the least will not be excessively bitter or sweet.

Huh? I live in America, in the South no less, and there are literally 10 Indian restaurants just in my suburban town. Granted, we have a fairly large immigrant population, but still.

I at least know that I don't know anything at this point. I think by that point people have generally learned some humility and that maybe that their great "parenting successes" might just be dumb luck or their kids' own inherent nature. It's just smug writers like this hipster parent that make me want to Anderson…

If there is anything more is a more insufferable know it all about how to raise kids than someone with no kids, it is the person with one kid. Holy crap.

Good point. I was a super picky kid, I think I survived on about 3 foods for about a year at one point, and I turned out to be a far more adventurous eater than either of my parents. There are still a few things I can't handle, generally on the bitter end or extreme sweet end of the taste spectrum, as I seem to be a…

It is absolutely true. It's why babies typically love new foods right up until they start walking, then typically become very very picky for several years until the become school age. The evolutionary theory is that they were old enough to wander around feed themselves but not old enough to remember well what was…

There is anthropological data that there are picky eaters everywhere. The issue is that it may be a difference of life and death in some areas of the world, not so much here, where you can go on down to the store and get alternative food for junior to eat. But yes, it probably does contribute to some mortality. Some…

You know, I once thought the way you did. Then I had a kid who literally WILL NOT EAT if he does not like what is in front of him. No, he will not eat when he is hungry enough, he just won't eat. If you put food he does not like in front of him, he will go hungry. And lest you think this is some sort of parenting…

I also know a gay Trump voter. He is married (to another man) lives in North Carolina and also voted for McCrory again even after the whole bathroom bill thing. He's my parents' friend and I asked them how on earth he explained that whole thing to himself. I think the answer was some nonsense about lower taxes or some…