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Boston should be the favorite, but it should always make one nervous when your team's best player is known choker.

In other news, in other lands, namely the Netherlands. Vitesse is the first team relegated (after 35 years in the Eredivisie). They were already bottom of the table and were likely to go down, before they were hit with a deduction of 18 points. They are now sitting on -1 point. The club have accepted the ruling of the indepedent regulator and admitted to have messed around with their balance sheets. There's also another investigation into Vitesse going on. Focus of it potential ties to Abramovich (yes, he is sorta like herpes, you can't get rid off him), who is (as we all know) under EU sanctions.

It's the only way I can see the world. I can't pretend I live and was raised in the middle ages, that you seem to be able to. Simply put, the people of Dorne are more evolved, compared to the rest of Westeros, by not being bigots, to which I rather like.

East is so weak that it’s hard to see anyone challenging them there. Knicks and Buck are flawed and injured, Orlando is too young still and everyone else is just mediocre. Basically the six or seven best teams in the NBA this year are the Celtics and like six West teams. I wouldn’t even put Boston at the top of that list but they have such an easy path that having one con flip instead of 2-3 is a big advantage.

I was once a young little thing, on holiday in the sunny climes of Tunisia. As I loved to do, I departed from the mothership and went for an evening stroll around the hotel grounds. Beautiful. A light breeze stirred the trees. It was warm, lovely, peaceful. Oh, what's that? A leaf has blown into my top, I should brush it awa- FUCK WHAT IS THIS FLYING COCKROACH GETITOFFGETITOFFGETITOFF! The above is a true re-telljng, and cost me dearly to recall

Well, good people! Since I do not have a ring on my finger, I, while at lunch, attracted the attention of Forestry PE Guy. We chatted about his junior investment banker days at SunTrust. We are going to call him “Trey” because if his name does not have III after it, I would eat my Blahniks. He knew my former CEO at Big Tree, who was his boss at SunTrust back in the day. Trey is off to play padel, the latest in racquet sports, while I am off to have a glass of wine at the wine bar while my housekeeper finishes up. I do think that Law Professor is the much better bet, because he is freaking brilliant, has an amazing sense of humor, and Sunday is Date 4, at which I shall finally rip off his clothes…. But since I have not yet ripped off his clothes, nor have we had the exclusivity discussion, I must keep my options open.

Just to be clear, Ozempic is the version of semaglutide that is specifically geared towards diabetes, while Wegovy is the (only?) one approved for weight loss. I take the former, but cant say I've been overrun by a case of the toots. Thats pure cheeto energy.

Not inherently, no. Equal rights for both genders are kinda dumb in a premodern society (equal status not necessarily, but equal rights definitely are). As for "no discrimination for bastards", just the fact that some bastards turn out decent doesn't mean discrimination is illogical. Family is crucial in a premodern society, and a person who doesn't feel like he belongs will try to prove himself - by any means necessary. So yes, discrimination against bastards, while it often misses the mark and makes the problem worse than it would have been otherwise, is not entirely baseless. Stop looking at everything through lens of 21st century Western individual whose biggest problem is having your Internet connection cut off.

I saw a report that asserted this on ABC News, but none of the other major news networks that I looked at are reporting this. There should be satellite imagery of the destroyed radar base if this is true, so I remain skeptical. If we don't get satellite imagery in the next day or so, I would assume that the report is incorrect.

Great connection . Those eggs did remind me of something, especially the raven dribbling egg yolk but I couldn't place it. Sounds very 3-eyed-crow.

Yes they was conflict between the Royce and Corbray in the past and I did say so, But the first instance is from the Andal conquest, so a very very long time ago and then they dont have any conflict until 134, that is not really a pattern that would suggest rivalry more profound then 2 important house protecting their interest. Especially compare to the Bracken/Blackwood conflict of which we have at least 5 instance of conflict all after the andal invasion (Stormlord invasion, Ironborn invasion, Dance of the Dragons, First Blackfyre rebellion, Post Robb conflict, with a possible conflit when Otho inherited) . Also to note in 134 the Blackwood's were on the royalist side with the Corbray against the Royce backed claimant so a traditionnal Royce/Blackwood vs Corbray/Bracken seem further away. And Im sorry but there is absolutely no suggestion that the Corbray sided with Jonos, you in fact say it is unlikely. And as far as important Andal house that would oppose the Royce that could House Grafton or House Templeton could also fill that role, in fact we know that the Shett have a strong connection with the Royce and claim Gulltown from the Grafton's so the Grafton's being the biggest opponent of the Royce seems more likely then Corbray's. In actuality we dont even know if Jonos actually had supporter's, since no lord or family is named it is likely that only the garnison of the Eyries supported Jonos but no actual lord. I would also like to add that the name Jonos is also appear in the North, one of the Stark King is named Jonos.

yeah I think the price difference is about 5/10p a bag? I prefer red onions when I'm using them raw, caramelised, or for a specific flavour. If its for a base, garnish or to bulk out a dish when budgets are tight, I use brown

Well, I guess that soldier who set himself on fire to protest US support for Israel has in fact influenced someone else, just not other US soldiers.

So ... this guy ... martyred himself for his messiah who has told us what the US IS? Is that right? This is what a martyr is, actually, not a guy who is oppressed by woman teaching in a classroom? I am very confused. However may all the ilks of his ilk do the same and teach us all what we need to know! Eventually like God I'll sort it out. Thnx. O wait, didn't we have a long discussion not that long ago about what horrible selfish people are who commit suicide by fire, whatever, are?

It takes very vivid imagination to imagine such a falsity... I've not heard that one. Did you ever get "Make sure you wear clean underwear when you go out because you never know when you'll get hit by a bus." Erm, in hindsight what a thing to say to a 5 year old.

I always knew the monorail song was a clarion call for the eventual fascist takeover. Indeed. Quite the unusual form of protest for that ilk.

It’d be a disastrous disappointment if the Celtics don’t at least make the finals. Was listening to a Simmons/Russillo pod the other day and it was funny how Bill was already mentally/emotionally preparing himself for such a cataclysm.

Apparently the person identified actually posted on Substack with a manifesto that his action was a protest against the impending fascist takeover of the American government. If I'm reading this right, some of his evidence suggests that Conan O'Brien (writer of the cited Simpsons episode, "Marge vs. the Monorail") was deeply involved in the criminal enterprise that is Harvard which is emblematic of the larger conspiracy to defraud Americans and take over the continent I think we should all be glad he didn't take the more typical US approach of finding a gun and taking some people with him.

One is driving during winter or a rainstorm! I avoid it so much because it’s dangerous! Another is sort of mild but I fear going out at night even if just to take out the trash. These two things definitely do take hold over my life because I cannot do things because of them

I kinda want to read it again. Problem I think with any adaptation of the history is that I know the history well and how the book makes Tokugawa very different is always hard to get around. Plus I was always a Takeda and Hideyoshi fanboy (read Taiko it’s great) so I was never predisposed to like Tokugawa much. Like it’s hard to watch this and hear him swearing over and over to protect the Taikos son when in real history he’s the one responsible for killing him.

Im having a hard time seeing anything slowing the Celtics from reaching the Finals.

I'm afraid of dead animals (maybe zoothanatophobia, or maybe something else). I have a clear recollection as a child to refusing to go into a street with a dead cat in it until an adult got rid of it, because I just couldn't bear it. As an adult I can control it better, but I still might gasp and shudder if I see one, and try to look another way. Amusingly enough, dead people don't trigger it.

So Nagelsmann won't return to Bayern, instead he (somewhat surprisingly) extended his contract as Headcoach for the National Team. Which makes things interesting at Bayern. Nagelsmann was the the preferred pick of Eberl and Freund (who were not there during the Nagelsmann days and the controversies around him), but faced somewhat persistent resistence by other the other big wigs. Anyway, like I said, this point is now moot. Now the question is really where they go next. Seek a permanent appointment (Rangnick and Emery are now rumoredly the frontrunners, with Zidane also on the short list), or go for an interim solution, and try again with Alonso next year. If the interim is a success that could also become a permanent solution. Flick would apparently be that temp. Tuchel is as of now not in the mind to reverse course on his exit and stay for another year. But that might change.

Royce Corbray Conflicts: Qyle Corbray killed by Robar Royce, Lady Forlorn taken. Jaime (interesting) Corbray one of possible killers of Robar in turn, reclaiming of Lady Forlorn as evidence. In 37 AC Jonos Arryn killed his brother in an attempt to claim the Vale and reject the Targaryens. His supporters in this have not yet been named but the name Jonos appears subsequently in only the Bracken and Frey families, and Allard Royce led the fight against Jonos Arryn. Ronnel was married to a Stark, possibly had living female descendants but no male heir. Jonos was married to….don’t know, and descendants also unknown. At this point the Corbrays had recently benefited from a Tarth (Targ descent) match so were probably not allied with Jonos against the crown. But Jonos’s allies would have been from zealously Andal families as this was likely a major part of the reason why the rebelled against Ronnel and his Stark wife, as well as the reason for Allard’s defense of Ronnel. Gunthor Royce killed Cowyn Corbray in 134 https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Arryn_succession_conflict_(134_AC) to be continued tomorrow. Good night.

Another term of Tory rule, and children working in factories in terrible conditions *will* be contemporary. Anyway … my take on the Menzies fiasco is he got lured back to a flat by a supposed make prostitute where a gang waited, and was told to pay up. He has form.