Jon: Hi northern houses, while I was gone I risked my life north of the wall, bent the knee to a Targayen, and made a truce with the Lannisters.

When it comes to economics, it was primarily the economics of slavery that the Southern states wanted to “defend.” There was vast wealth in the South, because slaveowners owned people. There was thriving business in everything from owning slaves, to selling and trading slaves, to insuring slaves, to taking out loans…

You view the two (Civil War and Reconstruction) as separate entities. This is a valid viewpoint, but I think there is merit to considering them one event on a continuum.

There’s no reason to be a dick. Your comment just shows a general lack of consideration for others. You know, like if you’re the only person that matters (which I gather, in your mind, you are).

Nah. On both Virgin Atlantic and Emirates flights the seats recline back far enough to impact the angle of the screen on the seat and the clarity of the image as well as how much tray space I have. People who recline the full amount can go fuck themselves.

If the person behind you is using the tray to say, work on their laptop, then yeah, it kind of sucks and I will ask you to return your seat to its upright position. When you recline it puts the tray back so far that my laptop is practically touching my stomach and I am an average sized person. You can probably sleep…

I’m 6'3" and that inch or two is the difference between mere discomfort and rage-inducing pain. They could solve a lot of issues by making them all fixed, if you ask me.

I am 5'10" and have a 35 inch inseam, so no Shaq over here, but trust me when I tell you that it VERY MUCH effects me when you jam your seat back into my knees. I literally never do it (even on overnight flights) because in my opinion it makes you into an automatic asshole.

Trump would recline. Think about it.

Reclining is the devil.

If the legroom on flights was like it used to be in the 1990's and early aughts, reclining wasn’t a big deal. Now, though? It’s a problem.

Yeah the only times I’ve reclined is on international flights. And only after (or before) meal service. Because those are special assholes who recline during meal service.

Yeah, I always look behind me. If the person is short I recline away. If it’sd some poor tall bastard I do not. Why is this a difficult concept?

It’s not just imposing on the knees, it compresses the available space on the tray table. I won’t get into name-calling with you and your boyfriend but I suspect I wouldn’t much care for you if we met.

Iknow you’re coming from a good place, but having a mentally ill parent causes a lot of pain that’s not as easy to get over as it might seem. Even when you rationally know how much pain they were in and how hard they tried, it can be tough to work through and sometimes the only way to do it effectively is to put space…