Not to mention her ‘hide the pain Harold’ eyes.

I don’t think that strategy for testing is purely a Chinese thing. When my kids were little and before they could read, they did eye tests with those same characters. And I’m in America.

The instance name is perfect for this community, haha.

So those four dragon eggs that Rhaenyra sends to Essos in this episode… Are three of them gifted to Danerys several decades later? Did we just see how Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal ended up so far away from Dragonstone?

Did… they make Aegon’s posse from the previous episodes the new KG ?

‘They’ being Aegon? Yes, yes he did. Because he (and his pals) are all dimwits.

-Wait… is the show implying that the curse of Harrenhall could be tied to the weirwoods ?

I was wondering that too. Also, I found it curious that the entire area around the weirwood tree was burned so badly that the stone melted (during the destruction of the castle years earlier), yet the tree itself was fine. My question: does that indicate that weirwood is impervious to dragon fire?

The “oopsie poopsie” reveal at the end of the episode made me laugh. I didn’t think they would revisit Alicent’s misinterpretation of what delirious Viserys said on his deathbed, but I’m glad they did.

This is why it’s important to pay attention to the deep lore, Queen Dowager!

Exactly. They will probably send all the citizens they want to get rid of knowing that they will likely die. It’s a win-win for Rocket Man: he gets to eradicate any ‘inferior’ or ‘disloyal’ peons while ingratiating himself to Putin.

Considering all the ways they’ve been ridiculously incompetent in their invasion of Ukraine, I could actually see this incident being due to ineptitude.

She’s got the crazy eyes for sure.

A branded dildo so one can get fucked yet again by Netflix?

Knowing Netflix and how their content quality has generally fallen in recent years, any new flavors will probably be like “Voluptuous Vomit” and “Dynamite Dog Shit”.

For those who don’t get the reference, I think this is referring to the Mark of Cain teaching in Mormonism. This resulted in black members of the church being seen as lesser or inferior by many white members. The church officially abandoned it as an official teaching in 1978. But the stigma for black members still persists to some degree unofficially, with some white church members still believing it today.

Russia reminds me of the black knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He has all his limbs cut off by Arthur, to the point where he’s just a useless torso perched on the ground. But he’s still defiantly insulting Arthur and looking for a fight.

The beatings will continue until morale improves!

He’s been listening to his pal Trump too much. But the pro-Russian contingent is less significant in the UK than it is in the US.

“I start kissing them. You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful ancient texts. I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the tablet. You can do anything.”

I’m surprised Alito went with the majority on this one. And a little surprised Kavanaugh did too. I’m also surprised it was an 8-1 ruling.

I’m not at all surprised Thomas was in the minority.

Dell announced a new return-to-office initiative earlier this year. In the new plan, workers had to classify themselves as remote or hybrid.

Those who classified themselves as hybrid are subject to a tracking system that ensures they are in a physical office 39 days a quarter, which works out to close to three days per work week.

Alternatively, by classifying themselves as remote, workers agree they can no longer be promoted or hired into new roles within the company.

Holy corporate oppression, Batman! That’s a shitty deal no matter which option you choose.

I’m glad they’ve got themselves into a sticky situation.

Also, this observation was funny (in a sad way):

One person said they’d spoken with colleagues who had chosen to go hybrid, and those colleagues reported doing work in mostly empty offices punctuated with video calls with people who were in other mostly empty offices.

Nope, he can’t manage that. Because he’s an attention-whoring malignant narcissist.

I can’t wait for the bubble of mystique to pop on this arsehole, if only so we don’t have to ever hear from or about him again. Sadly, there are still plenty of rubes in his cult of personality and greedy investors willing to ride his coattails. So I’m not holding my breath.

His whole Western obsession/trope is getting really old. I wish they’d quit with these shitty western movies starring dollar store Eastwood.