When I saw ‘graphic’ I was expecting bones-through-skin. Though the injuries are still catastrophic, I can happily say all bones remained inside the skin.... Hope her recovery goes well.

Oh GOD yes. Can we also PLEASE disable the ‘recline’ function in ‘cattle class’ - Rows have very little room as it is, and when you recline your seat those additional few inches, you make it very uncomfortable for the person behind you, who, to escape the smell of your greasy hair and the imminent threat of a headrest…

It wasn’t lost on me that Jon is the only one carrying a torch - the only one ‘bringing fire’.

Not gonna lie, I legit bet TV!Sansa wished that Tyrion HAD consummated their marriage after all - at least he wasn’t a complete raping dickbag. Sure, he’s a scarred-up noseless dwarf, but he had plenty of experience and I’m willing to bet all the gold in Braavos that he wouldn’t have been as shitty a ‘lover’ as Ramsey.

I think you can’t underestimate the ‘lich king’ trope. In World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King the undead armies from the frozen north (sensing a pattern here?) led by the undead lich King laid waste and generally fucked shit up but after killing the Lich King (and all party members automatically died at the end…

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Respectfully, I disagree re: Race in this series. If anything I enjoyed the fact that race WASN’T a factor, theme or plot device. Prudence wasn’t the only woman hanged in that scene - the other two ‘Weird Sisters’ were also affected. It was clear in the context of the scene that being hung was analogous to the way the…

I would agree - institutionalise and investigate the home environment - that kind of behaviour doesn’t generally appear out of nowhere. Although obviously it does happen on occasion.

I would assume that the Pizza Cutter was one of those ‘I wanted to grab a knife but Mom was in the kitchen’ type situations.

LOL you joke but I would legit buy this. Electrocuting any careless shit that dinged my car in the car park would be karmic justice. I mean taser-level of shock should be fine....

My thoughts exactly. Cats seem to be programmed to drop their prey into footwear... Ask me how I know this.... :-7

Do NOT get me started on the nipple hypocrisy. Nipples are literally the exact same location, colour and function on both males and females (regardless of whether they are ‘dormant’ on males or not, the point is that they exist), and yet a topless man is fine and a topless woman is ‘porn’? Even BREASTFEEDING? The…

This film was my first experience with thriller/horror and it scarred me for life. I had nightmares for months. In retrospect my parents were negligent for allowing a child of 8 to watch it, but holy fuck it terrified me. The suspense of the blood testing with the hot wire, the remorselessness of the flame throwers,…

I think you make a point, although the divide between cultural appropriation and ‘acceptable pastiche/inspired by’ is a bit of a grey area and one that IMO is a bit too wide. I think there is a difference between dressing up as, say, a mariachi and dressing up as (for example) a Native American Warrior - the Mariachi…

I love hearing other languages. It interests and fascinates me because I’m not great at languages. I know enough French and German not to starve but that’s about it. To hear someone switch from excellent English to another language entirely is fascinating to me. I used to work with a Polish man whose English was so…

It’s not just London. I hear 4 different languages being spoken just on a 10 minute walk from the car park to my office building. Who gives a shit what language someone is speaking unless they are speaking to you and you don’t understand them? Their conversations aren’t any of your business!

Wait, wait wait WAIT. Hold up there a second. ENGLISH. ENGLISH from ENGLAND. Remind me - didn’t ‘Americans’ go to war to break free of colonial England? So surely, they ought to be referring to that distinctive drawl as ‘American’? I don’t want to be tarred with the same brush as bigoted Americans thanks. Nor do our…

When I was a baby I used to wave at and play with something in our house too. The older I got the angrier it seemed to get with me. I think it’s upset that I can’t see it anymore. It seems to have chilled out a bit since my nephew was born though.

Ditto. The women of my maternal line have a ‘touch of the fae’ as my grandmother would call it. I’ve had a few experiences myself over the years and I have the occasional spark of ‘knowledge’ - like the time I knew exactly when my nephew would be born and that he was a nephew, or the time I knew a lorry was going to…

Put it this way, universities are very politically sensitive places to work, and usually certain faculties feel like they are ‘above’ having to conform to policy. So if a university happens to have a dedicated IT department that is responsible for the provision of IT services across the entire estate and the policy is…