Somehow, the moment that marked my total embrace of "nothing about sex can shock or disgust me any more" was viewing a video of a dude jacking it both with and over a block of cheese.

That's about where I was, around 5-10 years ago, if you swap "wife" for "girlfriend" and "second lounge" for "spare bedroom". I was walking the commute too, strangely.

I have no idea on the correct academic language to describe this (and I'm not sure this is really what you're looking for), but I hold very very dear the notion that social community is absolute central to being human: that we're all necessarily and vitally connected, and that the connections we have with others are…

I'd love to have got more info out of people on why they picked the names they did, because as you say… fascinating. Oddly though, it's something they usually didn't seem very happy to talk about (despite being very open about e.g political things I'd previously imagined Chinese people in China would be terrified to…

I'm waiting for the sudden onset alleged health issues that make him 'unfit to stand trial'.

I spent some time in China while my then gf was working out there, all the local guys she worked with seemed to go with the most standard (James, John etc) names possible, and all the local girls went with what I'd call old fashioned names (Betty, Audrey etc).

I'm somewhat fortunate in that mine's more in the 'feckless hobo' oeuvre rather than styled and groomed, so I can maintain some (entirely false but comforting) mental separation.

Ha! I think that's more my own hypocrisy and exceptionalism than everyone else's… I mostly think that most of them think it's good that everyone has one. Sometimes people (I don't even know) with beards try to talk to me randomly in public about beards, like they think we have some kind of shared bond by being able to…

"Who am I kidding, this is Game of Thrones we're talking about, the nobility don't give a damn about the common folk."

It's kinda like beards.

In this explanation, why does Sam also have the ability?

I kinda like the symbolism, driftwood is a thing from the land that the sea took and then spat back out, mirroring the coronation drowning ceremony.

The power to "feed and nurture" is still a power of domination and destruction when you hold an effective monopoly position in it. It's a power that's exercised passively but it is by no means inherently just about compromise and embracing people: it's just as much about the implied threat of removal of supply, which…

Totally. I actually thought original show Daario was the right balance, he had a good exotic/unusual vibe without being over the top.

I guess the answer depends greatly on how you define people's primary motivations.

It was also kind of news to me that they even had trees. Their natural resources seem to consist entirely of: rock, salt (actual) and salt (emotional).

I think she's really good at the little things, she just doesn't have great screen presence, or isn't commanding (or whatever phrase I'm looking for). I think this means she misses all the "good actress" votes of the people who mistake charisma for talent.

Telltale don't deserve a name drop for that bag of shite.

Even ignoring the construction time, surely you don't just chop down trees (as ordered) and then make boats fit to cross oceans with them the next day. Shit has to dry out or cure or whatever. Right?

I'm interested in whether they had the magic hand grenades before or after they created the walkers.