Oooh big fat wrong assumption. Fee paying private school. Not that this makes any difference, it just reveals your prejudice.

That's because the only reason she 'has' the crown estates is because the monarchy used to be the freaking government.

They've just moved the boobs out of the brothel, e.g Melisandre.

Damnit, now I'm torn between replying with an entertaining lie or with the boring truth.

I always do the hole with my left and get pokey with my right.

Must admit I had less than zero interest in the Iron Islands until Balon dies. I enjoy the new characters that introduces.

That's how I feel about Dorne…. yet to meet anyone who likes both.

I kind of agree with a lot of those complaints (especially the Snowgret melodrama), but what I said about catapults remains true.

Not sure where you get "jaded book reader" out of "the show has surpassed the books" "I love the show" and "(I'm) excited every week", but if it makes you happy to believe anyone disappointed with one individual episode is jaded then you carry on.

Also, catapults are f'n useless against a small, quick force. They're a weapon to break down walls, or disrupt large tightly packed formations.

I love the show. Am still excited every week when new episode time rolls around. Excited enough to sit up until stupid times in the morning to watch it asap (I'm in the UK).

NOT GOING TO MAKE THE CUT:

Assuming he survives, Alliser ought to have a faction. He had something of one before, and was a beast in the battle.

In these parts, I never know when someone's going to pull out a "the ones people have heard of… they're crap" position.

Correct. Assuming you mean Jimmy Olsen's, Two Princes and Little Miss Can't Be Wrong.

Agreed. That's kind of what I'm getting at: having the Hate/Love angle and having to justify it might kind of push people into saying something interesting or worthwhile. It kind of forces you into thinking a bit more e.g "why do I like this earworm, but hate the other?" rather than "I hate this because it's an…

To some extent that push back is an inevitable consequence of the feature itself: it's a divisive feature by nature (unless someone picks a really, really easy target and then it's a pointless feature).

Suggestion to make this feature better: also make the guests pick the song they love that is the perfect antidote to their Hatesong (whether because it replaces the earworm, does the same idea so much better etc).

Not that Green Day lyrics deserve this level of analysis. They don't!

You could just as easily read it as being about how damaging Bush was to international perceptions of Americans: because he was an idiot a lot of people who didn't previously started calling Americans idiots.