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If I recall correctly Victarion does burn alive a few slaves girls has a sacrifice to R'hollor, and my guess is that Moqorro is the one that gives the idea of burning them alive, I could be wrong but it does seem so. So we have 2 Red Priest who do it and if I recall Thoros was by is own admittance a bad priest so there is a good chance he was not exactly very devoted. So it could be a niche practice that only some factions of the follower of R'hollor actually practice, but that the majority don't.

I think the players are tired again. Going deep in four competitions, with all of the injury absences, just adds up. Unfortunately it’s a familiar pattern. The team runs out of steam each season. Guardiola seems to do a better job of having his team peak in March, April, May, even if they had a rough patch sometime earlier.

Results are really starting to show. I've switched to a two day routine where day 1 is weights and cardio and day 2 is yoga and/or stretching. I just need to stop being so lazy with the row machine. That shit is hard if you try to do it for a long time.

It is, but if you love someone you'll do their laundry and not think twice about seeing it. She liked that I could fill up the whole trunk. Sleep with that on your mind.

Perhaps there is some misunderstanding of what bias means? Bias is never an objectively good thing, at best it's neutral in situations where the issue is of a benign nature, like what's your favourite colour. When it comes to economic systems, social and environmental policy bias is an undeniably bad thing. Good things happened with capitalism, but that does not mean they would have only ever happened under capitalism. Bad things happened and are happening because of capitalism. To me capitalism is like thalidomide. Seemed to be amazing for a while, and then the deformed babies started to turn up and suddenly people realised it was not so great after all. And now it's time for my fortnightly MMT plug: Capitalism was on the brink of failing hard in the 1970s, but then Richard Nixon did the world a huge favour and killed the gold standard dead forever, transforming almost all the world's currencies into fiat currencies with the flick of a wrist. This, along with floating exchange rates, finally released governments from the shackles of having to balance budgets and allowed the near perpetual running of national deficits to be used for the general public good (but often were not, sadly). Remember folks deficits don't matter (within reason and depending how they are used) and taxes don't pay for [national] govt spending. Govt budgets are moral documents, not financial documents.

Look at the photo here of him leaving the courthouse today Former President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he leaves court on the second day of his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 16, 2024 in New York City. (Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty Images) -- he is losing weight. https://www.salon.com/2024/04/18/hes-dropping-little-clues-the-troubling-message-we-are-missing-from-maga-rallies/

How much money do you have to make to be considered above absolute poverty? Like 2 dollars a day?

I am with DMC on this one. There are better ways for you to come out as a Republican than with a Red Elephant thong. Yes, I am assuming this was a political statement better placed in the US politics thread. No, not going in the other direction with that.

Should have been 2-0 at half time if Salah cared to score. Sure Atalanta did well, but there simply was less of a fighting spirit from Liverpool compared to other European matches.

Well the North does have few knights mainly under the Manderly's, but interestingly the North also has "Masters", the Glovers and Tallhart notably, and will it is not clear if they are equivalent to landed knights but they could be, making them the hierarchical equivalent to a big landed knight like Templeton's. Well in this particular case the Clearances did not help, while it is true that the Highlands cant maintain a huge population they still had a greater share of the population they have today, in fact in 1851 the population of the Highlands was roughly equivalent to today population of the Highlands but the rest of Scotland double in population.

In this case I’d really rather not!

Um.....spotting is a bitch

Ex-fiancé would disagree. Just saying, white or light colored underwear, especially for most men, bad idea. But ladies, don't think that it isn't an issue for you too. Darker colors work better unless you need something for a specific outfit.

you clearly don't have a vivid enough imagination because that makes perfect sense to me

No it didn’t.

I was reading about Forley Prester. He is shown to be capable and no fool, experienced in warfare and a stubborn and sensible commander in battle. But this emphasis just makes me paradoxically think he is doomed because of the detail about him and about Jaime's consideration of the problem and his increasing the size of the column after Brynden escapes. Because I really think the idea that Jaime has improved militarily is overstated and that in fact he has improved, but not enough. I could see that letting Brynden escape was a fatal error that would come back to get him. I was of the mind that he would find his way to the BWB camp and Jaime would have a fatal encounter with him there. But considering that TWOW was initially titled A Time for Wolves, I can't help seeing that a bloody encounter between the column, and human and animal 'wolves' is on the cards. Even if not necessarily a prologue. Then I wondered about the name Forley Prester and whether there were any references there. I found that there is a Forley in a Joe Abercrombie novel. He is quite unlike Forley Prester, but he is noted for his fate. He volunteers for a mission as an envoy, and his head is sent back in bag.

I buy way too much Ralph Lauren shit, but I'm not married to the brand. The only thing I'm not compromising on is Calvin Klein boxers. Black regular boxers for every day and black boxer briefs for working out. Whoever thought white underwear was a good idea should be slapped in the face. My ridiculous old red elephant man thong made more sense than that shit.

But what's your favourite brand? Socks can be a great gift, but I cannot abide the cheap nasty ones that are super thin and threadbare. I don't need a designer brand though, I'm very happy with a nice pair of TU (Sainsburys clothing). But do not give me Primark or George (ASDA)

I'm glad I'm not the only one for whom this was their first thought

Netflix Added More Than 9 Million Subscribers in First Quarter The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant streaming service. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/business/media/netflix-earnings.html.

Pasting from my first reply: All that said, we do get a little clue in ASoS and AWoIaF. In the former we learn that a black brother spoke during the feast at the Harrenhal tourney urging men to join, and in the latter we are told that Benjen took the plea to heart. Bold + italics above = verbatim. As to heirs, yes, Jon is a bastard. But if push comes to shove Ned would have done something about it if by that point he hadn't had more sons with Cat.

I've also thought of Trios as a reference to "the dragon has three heads," perhaps to the riddle of the Sphinx - three body parts that are reassembled to a whole, though I'm not sure how the dwarf's missing head would fit into that idea unless the "Sphinx" receives a brand new head of it's own. This also follows the idea of transformation.

Yes it's possible the recruiter left a positive impression but this is not stated anywhere in Meera's KotLT story. Here's the passage mentioning the black brother who spoke: Regarding a possible succession crisis / lack of heirs, do you mean Jon, the officially illegitimate son here? We don't get Ned's feelings on the matter but though he prayed for Robb and Jon to grow up as brothers, there's no indication he regarded Jon as a spare. I think that so long as Robert lived, he was at a loss when it came to deciding Jon's future. Regardless, even if it was Benjen's own choice to join the Watch, he at that age would have required Ned's go ahead - we see this with Jon: The issue of two few heirs still stands for me, but I've already put forward my arguments above. I think there were more pressing reasons that led to Benjen having to join the Watch, whether he wanted to or not. That it wasn't his choice is also suggested by the way he calls Jon "son" and his lecture on what taking the oath would cost him. Most of this revolved around not having a family, not knowing a woman etc. It seems to me he has certain regrets there, wishing he could have lived a normal life with a family of his own. It's possible there are parallels between Benjen and Bloodraven in this regard. The NW never found out what became of their LC Rivers. We have no information on whether he joined the CotF willingly or was captured, forced or convinced to "wed the tree" and sworn to secrecy thereafter. The circumstances leading up to his disappearance (leaving a trail up to a certain point / brothers killed), do suggest an attack on the group took place. Aside from death, capture is thus a very likely option. On the other hand, if actual desertion is an alternative, this would have been the perfect opportunity to abscond without even arousing suspicion. Jon's thoughts on what Ned might have done had Benjen been the deserter instead of Gared and the utterings of the raven during Mormont's lecture on desertion could be clues in this direction. But for all we know, Bran's outburst, "The children will help him," he blurted, "the children of the forest!" as posted by @Mithras above is the end to all speculation

Very much from Egypt once the British occupation moved in as 'advisors' to the Khedive (1882 -- the last Brit forces left in 1956) and started building dams. Along with vastly increasing the cotton growing plantations (with slave labor, btw, in many cases), do much standing water in the irrigation canals also brought ophthalmia, trachoma, malaria and other diseases that turned a vast percentage of the labor force into very sickly people, which the Egyptian fellahin had not been prior. Of course earlier, for many decades, there was the vast wealth generated by the (slave, or as good as) opium plantations and factories in India to addict China, so the UK could have something to market there that the Chinese would want. O there were so many places the UK's raw (and finished!) good came from since the sun never set on the empire.

The new regs are causing issues. By eliminating downforce (to reduce dirty air), the cars don't stick to the track as easily and without a huge power increase from the engine (which will stay the same as now, only generating more from the battery) that means the cars will either 1) go slower or 2) take off. I think the idea is that the cars will be at least somewhat lighter (due to more power coming from a battery rather than actual engine parts), which actually exacerbates the problem of the car being blasted into the air. I've seen some ideas about they maybe going in a different direction with aero and slimming the cars down to the 2010-2016 level (which look almost comically narrow by today's standards), which should reduce aero backwash from a smaller crossframe and also improve the racing at narrower circuits. Not sure how seriously that is being considered for 2026, because the design needs to lock imminently (also the dirty air problem was definitely still present before 2017, if not as bad). The active aero seems to be part of the solution, but it's also hideously complicated to get it working on both wings simultaneously, so there's some angsting about that. Sainz, meanwhile, seems to be down to deciding between Mercedes, Red Bull and Audi, with Mercedes seen more as a long shot. Audi have apparently made a money offer that Red Bull cannot match, but Red Bull's form is powerfully persuasive.