“Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Exhibit A”

If you refute a comment, the onus is on you to explain why. Doesn’t matter whether it’s Cletus Purdylips IX from Shitkickersville, West Virginia. Otherwise, you just come across as a child.

They didn’t. You forgot the Dornish - some of whom are pale-skinned (like Beric Dondarrion or Arthur Dayne) but the majority of whom are dark-skinned because their ancestors intermarried with Nymeria and her Rhoynar exiles.

I’m guessing you haven’t read the books Michael. Euron if anything has had his villainous qualities dialled down several notches for the TV series.

Enough of this ‘Latinx’ bullshit. It’s newspeak coined by Anglophones who think social gender and grammatical gender are the same thing. Stop encouraging it.

Bullshit. This is not natural linguistic change, it’s Anglophones forcing their politics onto another langauge. Navel-gazing at its finest. Please, let me get this one simple little rule out there: grammatical gender and biological sex ARE NOT THE SAME.

Bullshit. This isn't natural linguistic change - this is the enforcement 

Thomas Paine was ENGLISH. He didn’t move to America until he was well into his 30s. 

FFS - it was INDUSTRIALISATION which made the USA a major economic power and this was predominantly in the northeastern states. Slavery was massively important to plantation owners in the southern states but to according to the logic in the article the US economy should have tanked after the Civil War when in fact the…

You forgot David Harewood.

Did you actually watch Tropic Thunder? Robert Downey Jr wasn’t playing in blackface, he was playing a white actor who plays in blackface. It was a film-within-a-film. Bit of a difference.

(yes, a Caucasian Jesus is more fantastical than a broom-riding white witch-boy or an evil Jedi with asthma)

It’s not that weird a pair of disciplines to combine when you look at where it came from. Biathlon originally started out as a Nordic military competition - shooting and cross-country skiing go hand in hand when you’re fighting in the snow. Look up the Soviet invasion of Finland - Finnish troops made very effective…

Only if you have poor understanding of how genetic lineage works. Family trees double in size with every generation - sooner or later, with hundreds or even thousands of ancestors, you’re bound to have a common ancester with a total stranger. This happens everywhere in the world.

Convenient - you can’t be arsed to read something and you dismiss it based on an ad hominem. Top stuff.

Oh the irony. Here in the UK (well, in London anyway) Dwayne is seen as a black guy’s name if anything.

“They pronounce Maryland ‘mary-land’ on newscasts for gawd’s sake”...which is a bit rich coming from the land whose inhabitants think Birmingham is pronounced ‘Birming-Ham’...