Did you notice the question she asked him about his pride was exactly what Jon said to Mance Rayder at the beginning of season 5....and that Jon’s response was basically the same as Mance’s. I always felt Mance was a way bigger influence on Jon than he’s ever acknowledged.

And yet, people completely ignore that what Dany is doing is logically sound.

I left this episode feeling meh (moreso than usual) about the Queen of Dragons. She’ll help defeat the White Walkers when Jon Snow bends the knee? Jesus christ enough already. All the badass dragons in the world can’t save her from being a myopic idiot.

lol. Thanks! I am one of those obnoxious American anglophiles, but mostly because a) I like old shit like houses and furniture etc etc, and b)I find all of the titles and inheritance and other stuff intellectually intriguing. Frankly, it’s really helped me accurately guess wtf is going to happen on Game of Thrones…

As terrible as this girl is and as much as she may very well be a straight up sociopath, I still don’t feel comfortable with the idea that the State should be able to find somebody criminally culpable for somebody else’s suicide. In this case, I go back to the question of whether this would have been a crime if she…

They rely on you for the hardware in many cases but US foreign policy has long relied on Israel’s continued pro-US existence as a “bastion” in the Middle-East, especially as Turkey has been very unreliable over the years.

I weirdly feel my disdain for Ed Sheeran slipping away. That castle on a hill song is a pleasant earworm and his feelings seem hurt over all the ginger hate. It’s not like he murdered a puppy or Taylor Swift. I think I like him.

There’s a difference between knowing good from bad and being able to act on that knowledge. Youth *is* an excuse, in that it’s much harder then to follow in action what you know to be right in principle. And growing old has a big effect on this self-control issue.

This might be weird, but I find this all sort of ... sad? Sad in the general feeling of “oh my god I was a dork and everything was awful and I was lame.” For one thing, I might just be legitimately lame because none of this was appallingly bad. For another ... be lame. Do your thing. I’m not that into self-mockery…

Societally, nobody respects marriage anymore. Not the people in a marriage, and not the people outside it, either.

And the writing got bad really quickly—I think in the middle of season 2 I realized I was hate-watching the show rather than merely watching it. Lafayette was the only consistently solid part on the show, and it was because Ellis’s talent could take the worst line and deliver it with such flair it was sold.

Great, you’ve added to my list of fears.

Not diminishing her at all but my ultimate fear is becoming a meme and then getting terrorized by the internet, everyday until I die or age out of being recognized

You know, aside from the horror of the headline, having a baseline age for prosecution is something I believe is right and needed. The whole purpose of childhood is to learn boundaries. Clearly this kid needs help, jail isn’t remotely help.

10 seats won’t have that much influence. They have some pretty appalling ideas, but even with their joining together, they will only just have enough seats to push through policy if every single one of their MPs shows up and votes. Which will never happen. I see no major worries from this coalition.

Love and butterflies are nice and all, but most people have a couple of relationships where they had those, not exactly a guarantee for a good marriage.

Can we stop making Sophie Trudeau a thing? I’ve met her at a couple events and there’s nothing going on up there. Light is on, no one home. I’m sure she’s very nice/a good mom/solid yoga teacher but I wish the Canadian press would just stop giving her a platform with which to be vacuous. We don’t have a position…

It has. She says there was weird sex stuff. But, more to the point, in her first hookup in season 1 pre-Dong she thinks the next step is some pretty disturbing stuff. And with Dong she can’t stop herself from attacking him when they are about to have sex even though she is consciously willing. They finally have sex in…

How does that make life easier than just having sexy times whenever you both feel like it?

Isn’t it funny that the God who created the whole, wide, largely empty universe is concerned with weird shit like this? It’s so odd how all his obsessions happen to sync with a bunch of dudes who lived in the Middle East a couple thousand years ago. Almost like a bunch of sexist dudes just made the whole thing up.