How is it a Muslim ban if it doesn’t include Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Nigeria, who all have more Muslims than Iran? Is it because Nigeria “only” had a 48% Muslim population and India 14%? Well then, where are Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, which all have 99% or more Muslims…

LOL - there’s privilege, really? Because I said I’d be OK with (1) nothing, (2) money, (3) food, (4) flowers? How privileged I must be to move in circles where people can afford to bring nothing to a wedding, or even food!

Thanks for the advice.

It’s Netflix’s fault, is it? How about people who rent and are not allowed to drill?

We do what our parents did - model appropriate behaviour and have zero patience with getting off the chair, shouting, obvious fidgeting and the like. Our kids (1 preschooler, 1 toddler and now a baby) learnt to sit down (well, not the baby yet :) ) and talk like with us. The flabbergasted looks they give kids they see…

LOL. I stopped reading at “And when I say “white people,” I mean all white people, because one of you could have done something to prevent this atrocity.” Because all white people live in the USA or at least one of the countries that benefited in *any* way from slavery. No white people live in the Balkans, the…

They didn’t know where he was born. Everybody knew Ned brought him from the south, but most of Westeros is south of Winterfell. South does not necessarily mean Dorne, it may mean the Crownlands, the Stormlands, the Riverlands, maybe the Vale or even the southern parts of the North. Everywhere Ned spent time during the…

Aegon IV’s bastards had different names because they were born and raised in different regions (where their mothers came from). Bastard surnames are not a law, more a convention. Sometimes bastards take the surname of their birthplace, other times of their noble parent’s home region. Usually these two are the same,…

It was for the benefit of show-only viewers, I think. I really doubt he says anything like that in the books once they come to that point. By saying Jon is really a Sand he gives Sam a chance to tell his own part.

It’s not a fast rule. Mostly they follow the place where bastards were born and raised, but that place usually coincides with the place of origin of their fathers, don’t they? King Robert’s bastard would all need to be called either Storm (he comes from the Stormlands) or Waters (he lived in King’s Landing in the…

No. Sand is for Dorne. Targaryens lived in the Crownlands, so their bastard name is Waters. Westeros constitues 9 regions, not just north and south :)

No, because only bastards with noble parents get surnames. Gendry’s mother was not a noble and Robert never claimed Gendry as his own son, so he could not get a surname. Had Robert declared Gendry his bastard, his name would be Gendry Waters (=the bastard name for the Crownlands).

Bloodraven’s mother was a lady from the Riverlands (Melissa Blackwood), hence Rivers. Same with Bittersteel (=Aegor Rivers), whose mother was Barba Bracken, also from the Riverlands. Daemon’s mother was a Targaryen from the Crownlands, hence Waters (the bastard name for the Crownlands).

But didn’t she change into sneakers once they landed?

Didn’t she change her shoes when they landed, though? I mean, it’s stupid to wear stilettos just for the flight and arrival, but she apparently did not plan to wear them while inspecting Houston...

Azor Ahai sacrificed his wife, though, not himself. I think it’s far more fitting (and sad) if Jon survives, but has to sacrifice Dany. What’s more, he has already died. Death doesn’t really scare him.

IDK, it seemed to me she actually meant it when she told Brienne “I know exactly what he wants” and I thought it was obvious she was pretending to ask LF’s advice about Arya. She hasn’t behaved like that for years, even when scared she was usually more stoic, even face to face with Ramsay. With LF she hasn’t been that…

I know. But because of incest in the previous generations (Aerys&Rhaella, Jaehaerys&Shaera at the latest) they share way more DNA than aunts and nephews usually do (24%). In fact, at 44% they share nearly as much DNA as full siblings (50%):

That is my impression also. That, or she miscarried and looses her shit. More than she already has :) 

The show deviated from the books and as a result made a mistake. Not the first time.