Have we considered that Arya's intestines are just very good at dodging?

I am well aware that correlation =/= causation, but it's hard to argue that there is causation between two things that are negatively correlated.

Yes the low reportage rates make looking at this difficult, but the numbers involved (around 100,000 a year) are high enough that the trend should be accurate. I think you're probably right that it probably influences which 'types' of sex are fashionable and expected and would add that it maybe gives an inaccurate…

Well violent crime rates in the USA, including rape, have consistently fallen over the past few decades at the same time as pornography availability has dramatically increased, so it looks like porn usage and rape are negatively correlated. Also, countries with low porn availability, such as Afghanistan, often still…

Actually, some archaeologists are now claiming that the word 'problematic' predates under-articulated internet criticism altogether.

To clarify: the 'your' whose decision it is to make is the person who heard the words, in this case Chuck. In the abstract, a person in this situation who performed Chuck's actions could be said to be being kind as the revelation would have been more hurtful than the omission. However, I do not believe that Chuck…

Of course its your decision to make, as no one else is capable of making it. It may be dishonorable but in the specific circumstances here it's kinder than the alternative. It would be different if she were fully conscious and actually meaningfully communicating.

Is it really a dishonor though? I have no doubt that Chuck's motives were petty here, but wouldn't it have been crueller to say "Yeah, Jim, your dying mother was asking for you with her last breath and you were off getting sandwiches"? It would be one thing if it was her last wishes or goodbyes, but she was seconds…

This is a good article for people who enjoy learning whether things are alone in this regard.

It's true that every democratic system requires compromises, but there are fairly wide variations in how these compromises are reached. Personally, I would prefer explicit, public agreements between narrower groups to backroom deals within broader, more nebulously-defined movements.

I don't think 'appropriation' is a good word as it implies that an ethnic group can 'own' an idea or aesthetic, which I think most people would acknowledge is an inherently racist concept.
However, a lot of the time when the word is applied, there are genuine problems to do with mockery or unintentional belittling of a…

They used apricots? Seriously?

I think blue eyes requires both of his parents to have some level of European ancestry, but yeah that's not impossible.

The showrunners seem to be increasingly keen on streamlining the source material, so to justify bringing him back, I think he'd have to have importance to the endgame rather than just the plot mechanics of series one. Melisandre did want him but I think she'd settle for anyone of royal blood.
I suppose I could see him…

It's possible, but he's a enough of a minor character that I could see them leaving him bobbing on the narrow sea for the duration.

Watched the first few episodes of Hannibal with my flatmate, who had never heard of Hannibal (either Barca or Lecter). "What! Why would he do that? HE'S CRAZY"
The show itself is pretty and disturbing and has a (hopefully deliberate) disdain for logic and realism. The best character was the CGI moose, who I felt was…

Gendry was last seen rowing a boat away from Dragonstone (in series 3?). It is widely believed that he is still rowing.

Because all real women would remain emotionless and impassive whilst detailing a childhood of abuse and brainwashing which culminated in forced sterilization and ritual murder of prisoners. Only a sexist pig would think otherwise! And can you imagine a woman in relationship with a man a decade older than her? What…

Isn't it "space-age technobabble"?

Thanks, you too.