I don’t know how average looking they’d be, since they’re the most likely to be well fed and safer from injury and disease than peasants. Plus they have little else to do than take care of their looks, it’s actually expected of them.

I don’t have a problem with a young girl who is also a strong leader, but the way Lady Mormont is portrayed in the show is such a caricature it’s hard for me to watch. It’s not the fact that a character such as hers exists, it’s the fact they went cartoonishly over the top with “look, she’s such a badass.”

Argh, I can’t stand the character. I actually flinched through the scene where she was introduced. It was so painfully pandering and unrealistic and over the top. She’s the ultimate trope and I still flinch every time she comes on screen.

I’m good, then, because I disliked Arya from the first and had a soft spot for Sansa; she annoyed me often, but I never stopped liking her.

Brienne? Shireen? Selyse? Grown-up Lysa Arryn? Most Frey girls? Penny? Pretty Merris? Even Arya in the beginning? I think there are roughly as many ugly ones as beautiful ones, but most are somewhere in between. Of course if the setting is a prestigious brothel (Chataya, Alayaya etc.), most girls are going to be…

Except in the book Catelyn judges it good sense that Robb keeps his wife’s brother out of Lord Walder’s sight when they came to the wedding. Bringing his wife to the wedding would have been an incredibly poor political move, so in short, stupid.

How were they any better born than Shireen Baratheon and Margaery Tyrell? Assuming you talk unmarried ladies, otherwise there’s several more.

I live in a 690 sq foot two bedroom apartment with my husband and two kids O_o OK, there’s a hectare of living room outside our front door, but still :D

That doesn’t work for me because I eat healthily, just too much. So I just end up overeating (I can easily have 5 apples in a row, for example).

Completely off-topic, but that is such a happy story! I’m so glad this happened to you.

Excuse me? She is the Queen of the Summer Isles in-universe, then?

I’m addressing this phrase: “people have a fantasy of what marriage is going to be.” I get it that movies portray an unrealistic picture of marriage, but at least half of the people who get married probably saw a real marriage up close when growing up - both the ups and downs. It doesn’t matter if their parents were…

I don’t get this. How can you have a fantasy of what marriage is going to be? Don’t you *know* what it’s going to be? OK, if you’re from a single-parent or divorced home, but if your parents are/were married, and your aunts and uncles, and your grandparents - shouldn’t you know what it it? I’m happily married, as are…

To me, also. I come from a country where they teach everyone to swim in 3rd grade just in case - even though I think 95% of kids can already swim by then. Comes from living in an ex-socialist country :D

My chicken preparation begins the way it used to in very old cookbooks: go to the yard and choose a likely chicken :D

I’ve read through all the approved replies in this thread and not a single one mentioned the two kids that were set on fire; just pity for the perpetrator. I see your point, but I think we’re overdoing it a bit.

I’m going to sound really strange, but my favourite way to have potatoes is boiled in their skins, then peeled once they are cooked and eaten like that - no oil, no butter, nothing except a pinch of salt and maybe some chives, but often not even that.

Which is not what I said; I said they existed to prepare youth for adult life. Adult life often includes being able to dress appropriately to the occasion, including the ability to dress professionally. That is not to say pupils should dress professionally in school, but that they should be able to follow guidelines…

Yes, and as a Catholic, this baffles me.

Truly? You do not see why an institution that exists to prepare young people for their adult life, including work, might want to teach them to dress professionally? What, then, is the appropriate place for teaching this?