How does military prowress equal political leadership? I know that in fiction these two are often conflated, but even there, a good ruler doesn’t necessarily have to be a talented swordsman. Otherwise, if we applied this kind of logic (those who fight best should be the ones who rule) to the real world, the best form…

That’s true. Too bad no one in that assembly knew he was still alive.

It would’ve been nice if Lady Mormont hadn’t completely forgotten the female, trueborn Stark in the room during her rousing speech :/

I’d like to know whether Gwendoline Christie ran into the same or similar problem: She’s a tall woman, but also white.

“It doesn’t matter to me at all, but I’m going to complain about it nonetheless.”

In Germany, a lot of married women and/or mothers are working part-time only, so if that was the result of the study, I could totally believe it, too. Now, as for the reason why it’s the women doing the part-time jobs and not the men, that’s a different discussion.

Claire is supposed to be the fish out of the water, and she’s definitely not genre-savvy (otherwise she might’s referenced H.G. Wells a few times, for example).

Worse than Joffrey?

I thought he hit him as soon as he was dead, something he never would’ve done while Alex was alive. He made a life-changing promise to his brother and kept it, so maybe that was the only thing he wanted to allow his darker self to do instead of, say, hurting Mary and her child.

“Maybe” is the important word here. Claire knows that Jonathan and Mary were married, so that had to happen. Anything else was speculation at this point. It might just as well have been that Alex had died before impregnating Mary, and his only role was to introduce her to his brother. Claire doesn’t really play with…

So in the end it didn’t actually matter whether she had become a true believer or was just faking it, plotting her own scheme. Yes, Olanna went to Dorne for help, but that could’ve happened either way.

Really? Because they’ve been petitioning for years, and nothing in the past months or weeks has indicated that now all of a sudden it looks like a serious possibility. But I guess these people got this news from the same source that claims that the United Kingdom was now at its “breaking point” with incoming refugees.

To be fair, it’s not like other countries aren’t also busy downplaying their various crimes to humanity, including genocides, of the past.

Are Schützenvereine (shooting clubs) part of the exception then? I’m German myself, and I’m just curious now.

Who can you call when the police is the perpetrator? I think the situation is not quite the same when it comes to police violence.

In Germany you could be charged with “failure to assist a person in danger” (unterlassene Hilfeleistung). Of course, no one expects people to tackle an attacker who’s still wielding his knife. However, when you have a phone and you only use it to post a video of the incident on Facebook, instead of, say, calling the…

Britain must evoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which will formally start the process of leaving the EU, and which will take about two years. Right now it’s “just” an expression of the British public, in which a small majority voted for Leave. It is expected that the British government will follow suit, but this…

And his allies were okay with him killing their men as well? And I suppose the cavalry didn’t know anything this part of the strategy.

Someone with more military expertise can explain this to me, hopefully: When Ramsay used his archers after having already sent his cavalry, didn’t he basically decimate his own army then? Was this supposed to show the audience that Ramsay is an idiot in tactics? I would certainly think so, not only because he’s…

Like they would ever accept the opinion of a doctor.