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Accidentally brutally cut off his own head while combing his hair

Only Connect went in with the memes tonight - a rickroll in the music question and then having the categories in the missing vowels round as “normal men” and “innocent men”

The second triumvirate had two Marcuses, Octavian was the only one who wasn’t.

Dineage isn’t a minister though, she’s chair of the relevant backbench select committee. So the letter is IMO mostly for publicity and political posturing.

You mean the Last Light of the Sun setting?

Capability was a nickname, his real name is Lancelot Brown

On the super cyclist side of things, Eddy Merckx would like a word. Armstrong was literally a Tour de France machine and never won any of the other big races. Capability Brown, for those who read Discworld, is the inspiration behind Bloody Stupid Johnson. And back on topic, Don Bradman.

Although existing owners will be able to keep them if they’re neutered and muzzled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66829892

As someone who does not and has no intention of ever owning a dog, I do too. They seem much more relaxed and far less likely to bother you when you pass them on a narrow footpath.

The casual sadism there does give more evidence for the idea that she’s been merged with Semirhage

The chief vet has answered that American bully XLs would not be culled, says chief vet https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66829892

Theatre superstition, it’s bad luck to say good luck

Agreed - it’s not Glyndebourne, the whole point of the Proms is to make classical music more accessible.

There have been EU flags at the Last Night every year since the referendum and the Mail gets upset every time

The problem with balefire, and the reason both sides stopped using it in the War of the Shadow, is that overuse leads to paradoxes and potential unraveling of the Pattern - because the retroactive nature means that anything a balefired person did in the seconds/minutes before their death is undone but people still remember it happening. After Rand BF’d Rahvin, Asmodean’s final chapter has him getting drunk because loads of people are saying to him that they were sure they’d seen his corpse, and he knows what that means.

I was going to say I didn’t think she was old enough to play Cadsuane, but it turns out she’s 71. But she will likely be very good whoever she’s playing.

I don’t think the FO got directly mentioned but one of those hologram dudes was General Hux’s father

You could easily get rid of Sammael - him and Rahvin fit the same niche storywise just in different places, and Rahvin’s the obvious one to keep given the connection to Elayne. I think the only notable thing Sammael does in the books is run away to Shadar Logoth which leads to Rand meeting Moridin and their crossing the streams with balefire.

Just following on from the mention of T’Lyn, was the Klingon captain at the end of ep 1 the Klingon lower deck guy from her introduction episode in S2?

I have no memory of the Neelix cheese episode, was that really a thing? I did enjoy Boimler stalling Chaotica.

Do you have much contact with prison staff? Any insight into how this terrorist guy could get out of Wandsworth?

The de-aging on Hayden Christensen was very uncanny valley.

Seems to be mainly due to the equal pay compensation claims

Sheriam isn’t confirmed as black until after Verin’s visit to Egwene (although it’s very strongly implied when Aran’gar arrives)

I like a lot of the changes they’ve made - One thing I don’t like. While the actor who plays Ishamael is doing very well at conveying a suitably menacing presence, I find it difficult to take him seriously when every time he speaks his accent reminds me of Nandor the Relentless.