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So joking with Letterman is fine but joking with the author isn't. Thank you for the clarification.

How does both not wanting to be spoiled and also joking around with GRRM about not wanting to be killed make her a dumb bitch? There isn't even a contradiction there. Hell, Dinklage has joked on Letterman and shit about hoping that he doesn't get killed off. Does that make him a dumb bitch?

You are way too incensed that an actress isn't a fangirl of the show she is on. You need some perspective. For all you know, she went to some pains to keep from being spoiled so it wouldn't ruin her portrayal, just like other actors on the show have done.

Look, we get it, you don't like the actress playing Shae. However, your criticism applies equally to Peter Dinklage, who also doesn't know what books are out or Charles Dance. So save your vitriol for other reasons to dislike her. This one doesn't make much sense.

But but, True Blood, its fantasy too right?

It obviously wasn't a true story, which is why it came across as stupid to some of us. No one was waiting for CNN coverage.

The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Drews, Robert. Starts by describing what the Catastrophe was and then going over each of the common explanations for it. Then proposes the thesis that it was changes in military tactics that were the primary...

My mom taught computer science. Stopped teaching and went working for defense contractors when she got divorced. Worked for Mcdonald Douglas (now Boeing) for 35 years until she retired recently. My dad was a civil engineer, did bridge design until he retired. He had saved up a shitload of...

Dahmer vs dogs? Shit, there aren't many people I wouldn't be willing to kill to save my puppy. Especially babies.

Every time I use algebra, am I culturally appropriating islamic culture? Or did they appropriate Greek culture first, thereby making me by proxy appropriate greeks? Or does their appropriation mean that my appropriation is fine?

Yikes Lithose. I thought Wil Wheaton's apology was ridiculously over the top and yet it still wasn't enough. Anyway, all that points out the problem. It means, that in order to be "safe", I should just not use any part of anyone else's culture or I might be accused of appropriation. Ie...

My issue with it, and I'm not saying you are even arguing against this point, is that this often results in attacks on people that are well-meaning for little gain it seems. For example, the person in question dressed up as "crazy eyes" from Orange is hte new Black. This is a very multi-cultural...

His mouth is filled with blood, his head is half smashed in, ear bitten off, he has a compound fracture through his leg. Just flesh wounds I guess.

Looks like an incredible cast. Will definitely see.

You missed the temperance movement by about a 100 years. Also, again, stop acting like all campuses are the same as your shitty strawman one. Not a SINGLE PERSON believes you that freshman at your school are required to cheat to pass. That is total bullshit and sounds like it was made up by...

The point is Mist, your college is clearly an outlier. You apparently have the worst professors in the world, since even to pass their classes the students have to cheat. By your own words, your entire campus is a scam. Your campus police department is also apparently living by their own rules...

Peter Dinklage hasn't read the books either. I guess he is a dumb bitch also.

It was between that and Drive for me, but I went with Drive because Tom Perrotta's "Leftovers" was pretty mediocre to me.

You spent pages talking about how its no big deal if people get kicked out of college and its all a scam anyway. Yet you have the audacity to say we aren't able to put ourselves in someone else's perspective?

I would be worried that she might call the cops on you about the drugs. Might want to get rid of any stash you might have, just in case.

Yep, Mist wants people expelled for drinking. She really doesn't care about the rape issue at all.

No, you aren't. You are engaging in some weird anti-alcohol crusade.

Accountability for what exactly? Exactly. Accountability for legal activity, all because she works at a shitty school and hates alcohol. Which btw, I hate alcohol too. Just not on this silly fucking level.

Stop sidestepping. You want to lower the burden of proof for rape allegations at college in the service of a crusade against underage drinking. That is an absurd position and if you had even an ounce of decency in you, you would realize that.

College means a shitload to people. Just because you hate college, doesn't mean it can't be a horrible life-destroying experience to get kicked out of college. People get visa's particularly to go to college in the US for example, and if they get kicked off of campus they lose their visa. Other...

You are against drinking. Fine, SAY THAT, don't defend lowering the standard of proof in rape cases as a way to lower drinking on campus. Just fucking say you want to enforce current drinking laws on campuses. That is a rational position that I can disagree with but see where you are coming from.

Well, if you are telling the truth, then your campus is a huge outlier and you shouldn't be basing anything on it.

What was the deal with the whole "based on a true story" shit? Just made me roll my eyes everytime an episode started. Was that the point?

What total and complete bullshit. You are saying the professors know that to pass students have to cheat? Just to pass? Please, this is so absurd I don't even know what to say. I have never, in any schooling myself on the way to my doctorate or in teaching, ever even seen a class where even a...

Not all atheists feel that way. I certainly agree with everything you said. Life is pretty awesome these days and only looking to get better. Julian needs to read more christopher hitchens if he is getting depressed. Life has plenty of meaning without religion, as he points out many times in...

Mist, are you super anti-alcohol or something? This all seems a cover for you to make drinking quasi-illegal on campuses. Did your mother get fat drinking beer? I'm not meaning to be a jerk here, but I really don't get where you are coming from.

If Saul isn't an interesting enough character to carry the show, it will fail. Anyone watching it for anything other than that is setting themselves up for disappointment.

I don't give a fuck about that "side". It is flat out absurd that you think someone simply being drunk should get expelled, so I just assume you are trolling in that regard. I was hoping to see some reason in you in regards to what standard of proof should be required to get someone kicked out...

What fucking "side" are you talking about? The drunk sex angle to me is completely beside the point. I can't wrap my head around you thinking that someone getting drunk should result in them getting expelled, or that an accusation of someone being drunk should be enough to get them expelled...

Again, regardless of what you think should be actionable behavior (in your case, they got drunk, so kick em out of college!), they should at least be required to prove they did that behavior. Allowing such a low standard of proof that a simple accusation of being drunk could lead to someone...

Using the "more likely than not" as a standard, you won't even really know if someone was drinking in the first place. That is the problem. I'm not even talking about "drunk sex" and whether or not that should be legal. If you think drunk sex is punishable, fine. At least let that be shown with...

I just can't wrap my head around this. How can anyone be in support of a "more likely than not" policy for getting kicked out of college. Sure, its "not a right", its just college. Yet getting kicked out of college can ruin someone's life. At least require something more than "oh, maybe it...

The problem in all that isn't the "drunk rape" stuff. It is changing the level of evidence required. The "more likely than not" standard is a joke.

First season was great, really looking forward to this.

No way in hell HBO went with a contract that doesn't let them finish teh series if GRRM hasn't finished it. It is really a ridiculous topic to even discuss. OF COURSE they will continue with the series and conclude it if GRRM hasn't put out the next book. They already have an outline of the...