Yess a million times this.. I hate when people act like they ARE the company they work for. It's like chill the fuck out, you're just their servant slave.

still not enough. If you have to go to message boards to uncover small details about a character, it's not enough work on GRRM's part. My guess is I'm not the only one who was totally frustrated at his appearance towards the end of ADWD

This is what's keeping me from buying and reading the books. Every single time I even think about it, parts of my brain begin slapping me and shouting WE'VE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE, DUMBASS!!!

Any plot thread that requires you to go back 3 books, to a single scene, to remember the last development, is not a good plot thread.

I can't help but feel that after producing the first three novels in a whirlwind of activity, GRRM wrote himself into a ditch and started spinning his wheels, with the new books nothing but endless subplots and "developments" with no real narrative cohesion.

No, the Neanderthal did, silly. Humans didn't get red sharpies until much, much later.

So you're saying that Neanderthal life was pretty much a Frazetta painting?

Sam The Eagle feels differently about Neanderthal Eagle Jewelry.

That's it, enough speculating, let's go!

Jokes on you this is actually what The Simpsons will be like in another 20 years.

Another pro-lifer GOP type who values life right up till birth.

A few months ago, my husband walked outside and noticed a squirrel in a tree chewing on a the head of a dead bird. The squirrel then dropped the bird, ran down the tree, retrieved it and returned to its perch on the tree branch and nom, nom, nom.

33 year old guy here. I was 20 when my mother, on a long car drive to pick me up from the airport coming back from my second deployment, decided to have the "sex talk". It was surreal and utterly uncomfortable. So to put an end to it, I pointed out that I had training on sex education in boot camp...and high…

I'm 26, I live over 500 miles away from my parents, and I still lie to them. I think lying is par for the course in the parental-child relationship, it's really the significance of the lie that matters.

In other news, this happened in Dortmund, Germany. That's what you call a "Station Wagon."

It totally has +2 cold resistance.

Dude IRL who wears bone armor in fucking Siberia? RESPECK.

Well, the key to writing a good story is to write a few hundred bad ones first. So giving people discouraging feedback like this isn't really all that helpful.

Do not go punching Vernor Vinge in the face and then claim I told you to do that.