(heh, glad you got my terrible joke!)
You’re absolutely right on a number of points - and I forgot about the Tywin/Arya scenes! Unfortunately I can only seem to remember the negatives, and I do remember also finding the books tedious with respect to the language. It wasn’t compelling, but the plot - as complicated as…

After 5 1/2 seasons of these writers, I’ve come to a pretty stark realisation.

The writers are actually not that good. They’ve sailed by on the plot based on the books, and there are nuggets of gold in there (haaay, Arya), but every plot deviation has resulted in some kind of gratuitous rape. It’s like the only way…

I have no idea whether or not that’s the reason, but it totally makes sense. Thank you for giving me the most interesting factoid I’ve come across on the internet today!

Ceuta is Spanish territory on the Moroccan side of the Strait of Gibraltar. It’s in the original post.

I’ve had squirty shits less revolting than this guy.

Oh, it was three years ago and I probably couldn’t have told you which cab company it was anyway; I was too stunned that it had happened to be pragmatic about anything.

My brother, aunt, myself, and another friend got kicked out of a cab because the driver thought one of us was gay. I don’t even know which one of us, but he told us to get out. This was in downtown Chicago. Had my brother not gone on an angry, abusive rant at the cabbie (which needed intervention because my bro is not…

Shit, I forgot about my transatlantic flight of hell. I was flying London to Boston alone, and I had a fever, chills, and was borderline hallucinating. I had never felt so sick and scared in my life. All the people that were in seats around me moved to other areas of the plane and the air stewards brought me tons of…

No kidding. And that letter was like the transcript of a drunk dial from an ex. Almost a parody.

“It would have to take a lot of demand for dry cleaners manufacturers to make such machines.”

Hmm, say, like, half the population?

Yeah, it was changed after his initial trial due to public outcry - my family had no idea he was going to plead not guilty by means of intoxication (or whatever the actual law was, I can’t remember) until he entered his plea at the trial - his defence attorney changed tactics last minute. When they found out, they…

It was an unusual circumstance, because the first trial was a hung jury - my family started petitioning as soon as they found out he was pleading not guilty (a last-minute change by his defence attorney), and the law changed after the first trial was over, but before the second trial started. I’m not sure what his…

Thanks for the kind thoughts. I don’t think the family would have been able to deal with it as well if he managed to get away with it, so there’s some comfort in knowing he’s been held accountable for his crimes.

Cosigned by another chinless wonder here (I like to think I’m not a monster)

Up until the last year, in the state of Wisconsin that excuse was used - legally - by a dude who raped and strangled a relative of mine, to try to plead down to “involuntary manslaughter” - despite the fact that he fucking strangled her. Thankfully the law was changed there and he was found guilty of murder.

That…

Had a sudden onset of explosive diarrhea in the middle of a (crowded) college bar, third year of college. No warning, just liquid feces flying out of me with such recklessness and projectile force that I thought I was actually dying. I shit all over myself as I was running out of the bar, leaving the crowd of gawkers…