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Ah. Based on you talking about the differences in flight travel I misunderstood.

The Faith ultimately couldn't do that much about it either way with the Targaryen dragons. My thought it is he may have already been considering the need to eventually convert, if so a third marriage to someone likely already in the Faith could be problem for the Faith / conversion. His total gain by joining with the Faith and playing nice with them is likely more than his gain with a marriage to Argella. There would also be possibility of setting of a new precedent: If the king had married one former king's / lord paramount's daughter, then what about the others? Eventually they would all likely insist on a queen from their region / family. Does sibling marriage and hundreds of years of tradition get tossed out? There is also a theory that he was sterile and not able to have children, and that Aenys and Maegor are not actually his. If his sterility was suspected by him or some of the close advisors at court (including his sisters), this would have been another reason to discourage another marriage to an outsider as it would increase the likelihood of the secret getting out.

I bet Doors of Stone is a total fuckfest. Like, after living with the sex ninjas and and the Felurian side quest, he's loses all interest in things school and revenge related. He just dives fully into his sexuality and fucks his way across (whatever the name of the land in this story is). My theory is that the book has been completed for years, Rothfuss wasn't lying, he's just been at a stand-off with the publisher, who refuses to print it as it is. Way too many fae fannies and sorcerous schlongs flying around.

'by coach' a coach is a bus.

So is the basic understanding the difference between flying charter to coach is not going to make up a five times difference in flight time.

So if a country has attacked a diplomatic target in the past it's just open season on their own consulates and embassies for ever after? This is a very weird position to take-- what's the logic here? The Buenos Aires bombing you mentioned was over 30 years ago. Even if it was conducted by the Iranian government instead of a Lebanese group with ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, I don't see any logic in saying that some how we can't expect a country to retaliate to a consulate bombing because they bombed an embassy 30 years ago.

Many football teams travel by coach, Newcastle to London is the same time as flying across the US. its really not that big a deal imo. reading is so important.

I'll be the lone dissenter then. Didn't like BSC when I read it and The Heroes is still my favourite Abercrombie!

Lol. It’s literally ten times the distance and at least five times the flight time.

Oh I can certainly think of a more obvious one.

Because you seem not to know the difference would be the most obvious answer. i've found articles moaning about being away from home, and back to backs, not a single one about sitting on a plane for a few hours chilling with their mates, music, tablets or just sleeping in comfort.

Really don’t get why you think you need to educate me on the differences. The travel time still grates on any human being - at least based on players themselves mentioning this for decades.

I would personally prefer to not have book spoilers here. I will read the books. But as the show came first for me, I will stay with that version for discovering this version of the themes then diver deeper with the books later.

Iran hasn’t attacked Israeli diplomatic missions. Groups with varying degrees of association with Iran which may have been acting at Iran’s direction have attacked Israeli diplomats and/or embassies. Just like Israel has more than likely assassinated a fair number of Iranian government officials and scientists but there remained a degree of deniability. A direct attack by the Israeli military on, effectively, Iran is a different matter.

flights feel shit because you are crammed in like sardines, not because of how long your are on them, if they are on a flight its more like chilling in the living room. Many football teams travel by coach, Newcastle to London is the same time as flying across the US. its really not that big a deal imo.

Really?!? My point is flight times aren’t gonna be much different.

TBH, I see it more as a positive for Tywin. He can get Joffrey to dismiss / honourably discharge Jaime from the KG and lo and behold he has the heir to Casterly Rock that Aerys robbed him of so many years ago. Plus he can marry Jaime to Sansa which aggrandises his House and keeps the Tyrells from becoming too powerful. I don't think he would do Tyrion any harm but I don't think he would mourn him much. Unless Sansa herself was the poisoner (as per @Frey family reunion's thread). But how could the planners have anticipated her active involvement indeed, it's quite a gamble on their part if they did.

Paris 2024 team, apparently the last name is likely to by Kawhi., Brunson can feel particularly aggrieved. That's a lot of old and slightly broken down players, hope it doesn't bite them on the arse. Its not bad, but its no dream team. LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, Jrue Holiday, Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards, Bam Adebayo, Tyrese Haliburton.

You are hardly travelling in the same manner as an NBA team.

Paris 2024 team, apparently the last name is likely to by Kawhi. That's a lot of old and slightly broken down players, hope it doesn't bite them on the arse. Its not bad, but its no dream team. LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, Jayson Tatum, Devin Booker, Jrue Holiday, Anthony Davis, Anthony Edwards, Bam Adebayo, Tyrese Haliburton.

Not sure why studios like to hamper their own profits by going to digital this quickly…covid is over now and this movie is clearly successful

I think there's some towers along those cliffs as it is. Balon is said to have climbed them as a boy and went into a lords tower possibly the keep at house flint!!!

I do think the fall of the Western Empire was bad news, for the next 4-500 years. Trade slowed to a trickle, warfare was endemic, populations declined, livestock became smaller, literacy became less widespread (even if serious historians now dismiss the notion of the Dark Ages). But, by 1200, the standard of living in England, France, Italy, the Low Countries was well above where it had been 1,000 years previously, and societies were somewhat freer (being a villein beats being a chattel slave). The sheer inventive cruelty that the Roman elite devised for the lower classes who stepped out of line makes their medieval counterparts seem liberal by comparison. Gibbon’s claim that the best time to be alive was the 2nd century could be only be made by a man who envisaged himself as a senator, rather than a peasant, a slave, a woman, or a religious dissident. To paraphrase Brett Devereaux, your chance of being a senator would be 1 in 19,200. Your chance of being the latter would be 9 in 10.

So the cabbage is back spouting her mouth off, Trump makes the world safer, Farage should be a tory MP and her new book is full of swivel eyed lunacy apparently. She really is the gift that keeps on giving. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68823526 Also some Tory MPs don't approve of a smoking ban for newly legal people for 'reasons' I suppose.

Cant see how it would occur lady olenna has the reach region nicely tied up with the way the family is married. The tyrells have the claim to the region, they are tied to the powerful fossways , hightowers and redwynnes. She (queen of thorns) was a redwynne married to a tyrell. Her son mace married a hightower, her daughter another redwynne and a further daughter married to a green apple fossaway! Maces uncle is lord commander of oldtowns city watch and grandson garlan (the one whos apparently better than loras with a sword) to another fossway.... unkown red or green! If none of these marriages existed somehow and everyone else still existed itd come down to the hightowers vs the redwynnes! Two financial powerhouses...id lean towards rewynnes due to the flexibility their huge fleet gives and the defensive advatage of being an island off the coast. Therrs no such thing as marines at this stage so the fighting men on the redwynne fleet will be familiar with weapons theyl just need to redrill on the arbor for large scale battle drills in case ome is need to decide the war. The tarlys have randyll tarlys leadership but dont strike as an above adverage strength(by reach terms) numbers wise Minus their lordship of the reach the tyrells arent that strong themselves BUT the cunning of lady olenna and willas cant be discounted nor the martial prowess of garlan and loras to turn even a lopsided battle. But overall itd probably be house redwynne