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The most I've ever done is 10k, which was in 40-45 minutes range. Not a pleasant experience and definitely not something I'd recommend. Rowing on water, on the other hand, I could do for hours. Going out on the river in a boat with your mates is such a great feeling and I miss it dearly. Obviously, I'm talking about recreational rowing on water, not training for a competition or anything serious.

There aren't any factories, they'll be picking fruit and running scam call centres.

You don't need to pretend. You just need to try and understand the conditions they were living in. Most of the things that are normal today would be absolutely insane in Middle Ages, because they would lead to quick extinction of any group that attempted to do these things. Thanks to our technology, we live in a time of unprecedented safety and wealth, and are thus able to do stupid shit with relatively little to no practical consequence. But life before the invention of steam engine and advanced agricultural tools was a life on edge. There was no room for playing around and conducting social experiments. Everything can be and is bigoted, depending on time and conditions, so "not being bigoted" is absolutely useless for determining how good a society is, and is thus not something I care about. Quality of life, personal freedom and safety. Those are the three basic characteristics one should judge a society by. And to return to the topic, Westeros is massively superior to most of Essos (excepting Braavos, perhaps) in at least two of these, and usually in all three.

Tim Cain on the show, with some thought on seeming lore changes. He's fairly cool with it all, but

How to put it... I thought crabs were endangered in the western world due to loss of their natural habitats. (that was so elegantly put, I kinda have to applaud myself here). And how did this discussion move away from ty and MTG - Minor Trunk Growth (it was either that or Make Trunks Great).

I used to go out with a guy who was a senior executive at a big mining company. He was visiting a mine in Indonesia, I think, or maybe Papua New Guinea, and the visitor quarters at the mine were grass huts on stilts. The walls were made of some kind of wood, bamboo maybe, that had bark on it and the wood had turned grey as wood will do. He was lying in bed reading a report late at night and caught something moving out of the corner of his eye, and grabbed the report and smashed it against the wall. There was a giant spider creepy crawling up the wall by the bed, and by giant, he said, he meant it was the size of dinner plate. If it had bit him it wouldn’t have killed him but he would have been very, very sick. The spider was the same grey as the wood and was more or less invisible against the wall. He also had a story about being in Australia (after a visit to Papua New Guinea) meeting with company executives in Sydney. One of them had a dinner party at his house for the visitors. The house was not too far from downtown Sydney, and was up on stilts with the parking under the house, and had a nice verandah overlooking the large backyard. The couple had small children, and my friend commented to the wife that he was surprised there was no play area in the backyard, swings or a slide, like you’d see in Canada. Ah, she said, the problem was the pythons, they had lost a couple of dogs to them and they didn’t allow the kids to play in the yard. I’m already nervous about spiders and snakes, thank you very much.

Is Bloodraven a deserter?

Excellent casting. Can't believe mainstream audiences will know who Bloodraven is.

I don't know how much this POV will know themselves, or if they will just be showing us events through an alternative perspective. Perhaps a slave or servant in Slaver's Bay who has some inside information about the Slaver faction, as they watch Victarion, Barristan, and the dragons attack. It could also give us a POV of the Battle of Oldtown, especially if Leyton and/or Euron go full wizard.

Years ago, maybe in the 1970s or 80s, there was a lawyer at a big law firm in downtown Toronto in one of the fancy bank towers. The banks in Canada do really well and they all built snazzy headquarters. The offices pretty well all have floor to ceiling windows. Someone visiting the lawyer asked if he wasn’t nervous about the window. I think the guy liked to lean his chair against it. “Oh no,” he said, “the windows are very safe, you can bounce yourself against them and it’s perfectly safe, I do it all the time!” Then he demonstrated to the visitor, and bounced his body against the window, and the window cracked and he fell 20 stories or whatever to his death. True story. I made sure never to lean against a window in an office tower after that.

When Ned went South he had pretty much broken up with Robert over the deaths of Elia and her children. After Lyanna's death they reconciled, but up until the books they have only come together one time, for the Greyjoy Rebellion. The most telling scene about Jon's impact on their relationship is when Robert talks to Ned about Jon's "mother," meaning Ned felt forced at some point to give Robert a lie.

Bran has and will continue to go down a dark path, especially with him skinchanging into Hodor. We are close to the lowest point of his story right now, but the same can be said for the other Stark children. But their arcs are incomplete, and just like Arya will grow beyond a Faceless Man Bran will grow beyond being Bloodraven's pawn (or Bloodraven will steal his body)

@H Wadsworth Longfellow Bran already knows this is a violation because Hodor tried to resists. Bran is quickly escalating because he is getting used to abusing Hodor. He's becoming callous and has stopped caring about right and wrong. Pretty much the same with Arya killing people. The morality dissolves and it gets easier to do the bad things. The affection for Meera is not a bad thing. It's sweet and a positive emotion. It's the impossibility of fulfilling it that will cause trouble for Bran. Unrequited love or something like that.

I put my trainer on without socks in gran canaria, and there were cockroaches inside. It was fucking gross. One thing that's helped me deal with some of the things I'm not great with, is trying not to pass the phobias on to my kids. I'm much better with spiders since I've been conscious of not making them scared.

The report on the BBC website has a photo of him holding a sign that says “Trump is with Biden and they’re about to fascist coup us”

I had to look these up. First I saw ‘cricket’, and thought “not scary”. Then I saw ‘giant’. Yep. Those monstrosities can stay in New Zealand.

There was a patient that has this fear back when I worked in an emergency department. His family brought him in and he was completely out of it, just screaming, incapable of saying what was wrong with him. It took a while before a doctor thought to check his ears and found a little cockroach in there.

Yellow is the cheapest here, followed by red followed by shallots. I don't know whether I see white onions ever at the store. I vary between shallots and yellow onions in cooking, depending on how fancy I want / need to be. Plus I always hear Uncle Roger over my shoulder saying "onions are shallots for poor people". Speaking of shallots, making lamb rendang tonight for the daughter-in-law's parents. They are Hindu so can't go with the usual beef. I've made the lamb version a couple of times before. On balance I would say I prefer beef, but the lamb is very good too. Have to scoop off a bit of fat during the cooking process though.

This fight should really not be going ahead.

A moment of digging in his Substack and you will see that, no, he was not for Trump. He thought Trump was as bad as every other politician, that he's as involved in the "global Ponzi scheme" alongside Peter Thiel, the Clintons, the Bushes, Elon Musk, etc. He was a fairly typical Illuminati-style conspiracy theorist, who with great conviction burned himself alive to try and open our eyes.

That sounds like a scene from "Annie Hall." I think Woody Allen went in after it with a tennis racket.

Juan Soto is going to make a trillion dollars in the fall and will be worth every penny. Volpe deserves credit as he looks like he’s becoming a star, but Soto almost single-handedly transformed the Yankees lineup from shit to championship-caliber.

Oh, yeah. My younger sister worked as a nurse's aide in a downtown Detroit hospital. She had MANY stories to tell. Dirty underwear was the least of her worries. "Crabs" in the nether regions was a common thing.

I'll be curious how it goes. I remember my older brother reading it like 23 years ago and regaling me with some really wild stuff, but I have never actually read it myself. So I would love any updates as to whether the wildness or quality hold up to my dim memories of my brother's retellings.

Bruno has bought a house in the North East, guess that means he probably is staying.