I keep wondering about #2. We’re all sitting here reading this, completely sure we would act in that situation, but I bet very few of us would say anything if there appeared to be consensual activity going on. So what did it actually look like? How close would you have needed to be to tell something was wrong?

I think that’s where you have to go through a banner year of Fuck These Assholes I’m Not Dating Anyone and see if you feel the same way afterwards.

Except you're not making $1k a night in the US as any sort of hostess. Strippers, sure. So hostess jobs in Japan would appeal to someone wanting to make what we consider stripper money without going to the level of actual stripping.

There was a Scientology building I passed all the time when I lived in Sacramento, but the Yelp reviews there are disappointingly positive. So I went a-internettin’ for whatever I could find in five minutes.

It’s probably worth mentioning that even when Sansa was busy getting pushed around King’s Landing, Bran (IMO) was less interesting still. I think if you find someone who doesn’t (or didn’t) like Sansa on the basis of her not doing anything but thinks Bran is interesting- not the cool magic shit surrounding Bran, but…

She was passive by basically any definition that exists for passive. All of her dreams were wrapped up in marrying the prince and having his babies, then she was stuck in the capital with no idea what to do to try and escape or improve her situation. None of this is illogical for a character in that time and place,…

We weren’t projecting any values. Mindsets, perhaps, and hey, maybe we had it wrong there. But while everything you say about how girls were treated is absolutely true, in no way does that mean those girls are going to be ready for the lives they’re being thrust into. They could be, of course, but I think that’s very…

I don't buy it, mostly for meta reasons. One thing Martin does very well is be unpredictable, and another is to never give his characters the happiest ending in any thread of their lives. Bringing Syrio back into Arya's life as the person who led her to Braavos is just a little too neat. Even if Syrio never made…

I didn't like Sansa much in the books, less because of the fooled-by-princes nonsense and more because she was just so passive. I like where she is in the show because it's clearly pushing into badass territory, but I don't recall- did she reach that point by the end of book five? I don't remember a vibe like the…

Did they really? Maybe I have to give them a little less credit then. My friends and I who read the books were all enormously happier with the TV version because it seemed so highly implausible to all of us that a thirteen-year-old girl in that sold-to-a-warlord situation would come around to a mindset of actual…

This makes me think about how much Netflix is on and I'm starting to feel like that's a bad amount.

Exactly. If worse comes to worse, you can't find a pirate stream of actual genitals.

I've binged-watched stuff no more than twice in my whole life, but I use Netflix all the time.

Maybe he'll have a hyper-successful nineteen-year run at TDS, then decide to do a little stand-up world tour afterwards. Your eyes will meet across that Glaswegian bar when he's fifty and still capable making your pants vanish like a magic trick.

I think spicy food is more likely to affect what your partner wants to do. Or, at least in the counterfactual, if you don't mention you ate spicy food and then oral sex occurs, said partner is probably going to be displeased at the lack of warning.

I thought everyone called them sneakers! And just when I stopped telling all the people in the non-NY places I've been that it's POP, not goddamned SODA...

"...good luck trying to figure out why [CNN] didn't just go with 'Too Many Crooks,'": question.

Some schools apply a 4.3 grading system where A+ marks actually count more than "mere" As. I'm pretty sure any school with requirements based on that system would adjust a student's transcripts accordingly.

"Especially one he picked up at a playground that just admitted she ran away."

OH GOD DON'T TELL ME THAT