mcb Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Another funny little fact: after fasting for a whole day and night, you won't be able to eat that much at once. You'd think you could eat a horse, but the felling of fullness comes surprisingly quickly. Been there, done that.Yeah... It all doesn't add up. Well, maybe if by some random fluke they got a stallion with abnormally tiny heart. A Littlefinger among stallions, let's say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady's Secret Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Yeah, nah, that's bull. She's described as a young, petite girl. Her stomach probably can't stretch far enough to accommodate 9 pounds of meat at the same time.Many competative food eaters are small asian women. Its preaty impressive how much some of them can eat.Also, we breed horses today to have larger hearts than they had in the past. We want race horses to have larger hearts so they can pump blood more effieciently. Thus increasing the time a horse can deliever oxygen to their muscle tissue while under excertion. This allows the horse to run faster longer. Even horses that are not bred for the track will still have ancesters that were origionally bred for racing. My beautiful buckskin quarter horse mare was bred for showing (now a family horse), three of her grandparents ran on the track and her sire did as well.Horse hearts have been increasing in size for as long as we have been selectively breeding them specifically to race.The normal size of a thoroughbred heart in 1789 was 6 pounds.Sorry for the horse history, but as someone who knows a lot about horses, I don't think Dany being able to eat a whole Dothrak horse heart is that unrealistic (because I don't think Dothrak horses have 9 pound hearts). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FittleLinger Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 She eats like a dragon should be.Quite the opposite. If we take it as foreshadowing or symbolism, she does it exactly the way a dragon won't do it. They would sure roast it first. She eats it raw.Which I think might foreshadow how going about her business unprepared is doing and will be doing for her. As opposed to Aegon the Conqueror, who had his invasion long planned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straits Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Many competative food eaters are small asian women. Its preaty impressive how much some of them can eat.Dany: Mother of Dragons at day, competitive small Asian woman at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theda Baratheon Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I don't thin i want to test this by eating a whole horse's heart myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady's Secret Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Dany: Mother of Dragons at day, competitive small Asian woman at night.I was just trying to make the point that just because your a small female doesn't mean you can't eat a lot if you have to. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straits Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I was just trying to make the point that just because your a small female doesn't mean you can't eat a lot if you have to. :)I know :P. But it's still over the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arya Stalka Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Maybe Targs have two stomachs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armidil0 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 How did she not get sick after eating 9 lbs of a raw horse heart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
novem ice Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Maybe Targs have two stomachs.Well she was eating for 2. And technically did have 2 stomachs while pregnant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Anyone know Pharlap? Australians will. Wyman Manderly would have passed before finishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Shiera Seastar~ Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Maybe Targs have two stomachs....and very sharp teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood of the Flagon Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Dany: Mother of Dragons at day, competitive small Asian woman at night.A lost Kobiashi as well as a targaryen! I like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady's Secret Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Anyone know Pharlap? Australians will. Wyman Manderly would have passed before finishing.Phar Lap (1926–1932) was one of the greatest race horses ever! His heart was remarkable for its size, weighing 13.6 lbs (6.2 kg), compared to the average horse's heart at the time of 7 lbs (3.2 kg).Secretariat's heart was estimated to be 22 pounds (10 kg). Many of the legends in racing had supersized hearts!And I agree, not even Wyman Manderly could have finished Phar Lap's massive heart much less Secretariat's. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arya Stalka Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Well she was eating for 2. And technically did have 2 stomachs while pregnantYep between her and Rhaego they tore up that heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Maybe Targs have two stomachs.A human one and a dragon one? Like Narnian centaurs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter George Stewart Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Just as a matter of interest, I just saw the "anatomy" of that show. Apparently, the "horse's heart" was made of gummibear with pasta for the arteries, and sugar blood. The shoot took many hours, Emilia Clarke had to actually eat quite a lot of the stuff, and apparently her "almost puke" was near the end of the shoot and was quite genuine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggs Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Definite BS. When you run across this sort of thing, you just look the other way and whistle like you never saw it.^what he saidIn the latest WoW sample chapter, similarly, there's a reference to Oberyn Martell's bastard teenaged daughter jousting.Well... I'm thinking a 16-year old girl would almost certainly have major difficulties trying to hoist a 12-foot-long tourney lance from one end, keep it parallel to the ground, and somehow strike a trained knight with it... while riding a horse and wearing armor... all before the knight hits her first. Most girls can't do a pullup.she's actually only 14. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruella Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 and Barristan was even younger when he jousted! Not very well, but still.yeah, I don't buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Definite BS. When you run across this sort of thing, you just look the other way and whistle like you never saw it.In the latest WoW sample chapter, similarly, there's a reference to Oberyn Martell's bastard teenaged daughter jousting.Well... I'm thinking a 16-year old girl would almost certainly have major difficulties trying to hoist a 12-foot-long tourney lance from one end, keep it parallel to the ground, and somehow strike a trained knight with it... while riding a horse and wearing armor... all before the knight hits her first. Most girls can't do a pullup.Well, she certainly wasn't average. And a girl of ten-and-four would have less trouble with the task than, for example, a certain ten-year-old boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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