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So On Game of Thrones Female Characters Poisoned a Child, Butchered a Teenager, and Stabbed an Unarmed Man, and the Social Left Applauds: It Was "Empowering"
Ah, I'm over Game of Thrones. I barely watched it last night.
In what appears to be a big departure from the book, a character was killed. This character had been one of the only interesting parts of the dreadful, dreary, interminably long sequences away from the real characters, as it kept being hinted that his passivity and weakness were all a big ruse (as Archer would say), and that he was in fact planning something very strong, very tough (as Donald Trump would say). I have to imagine that George R. R. Martin didn't put us through 400 pages of boring crap with this guy as the only point of minor interest just to kill him. Anyway, the show was boring. It's been boring for a while. I don't know the show will bother with the R+L=J reveal, or if it's been agreed that the show will depart far from the books, so that Martin is left his own story to tell (when he eventually completes the series, which I doubt he ever will). The R+L=J thing is the only thing I was interested in for years, and now I'm not even all that interested in that. Anyway, on to today's stupid justice warrioring. Female characters poisoned a 12 or 14 year old girl, stuck a spear through a teenaged boy's head when he wasn't looking, and then brutally stabbed an unarmed man (as well as sneak-stabbed an armed man who was caught by surprise by the murder). "Empowering!" declares this stupid Women Can Do No Wrong As Long As They Do For Themselves site. I'm censoring a bit of this to not be more spoilery than I need to be.[Female Character] Takes Over [High Position] On 'Game Of Thrones' & It's An Empowering Move KELLY SCHREMPHIt was a female child, by the way. I wonder if that made it less empowering, or more empowering. I wonder if the female child was herself empowered by being thought of as important enough to murder.
Say what you will about how cruelly this series can treat their female characters, but during Sunday night's Season 6 premiere, [Female Child Murderer] took a powerful stand on Game of Thrones. Tired of watching in the shadows as the men all around her use their power in terrible ways, [Female Child Murderer] decided to take over [High Position] for herself... And, while the act itself was both shocking and impressive, her speech was what proved that her leadership could make for a nice change.
While under a man's rule, women have been abused and raped by men without retribution. But, all of that is about to change now that she's in charge. "Your [close relation] is weak just like you, and weak men will never rule [Place] again," she said as she killed him. [Multiple Child Murderess] proved to us last season that she was a force to be reckoned with when she made the bold move of killing [a child].
That was done when she had very little power, so imagine what she will be capable of now...By the way, all of the murdered characters were morally good. The child was praised as the best child someone had ever known, the teenaged boy was not shown doing anything untoward, and the adult man's sin was being too interested in peace and reconciliation. But, empowering to murder them all anyway! Years back, the Onion wrote a parody: Women Now Empowered By Everything a Woman Does. Apparently murder -- including multiple child murders -- now joins that list of empowering things an empowered woman may empower herself by. It occurs to me that this plot twist, which as I've said I doubt is part of Martin's actual storyline, may have added specifically to appease the Social Justice Warriors, Maenad Auxilliaries, who've complained that women were abused on the show. (Not seeming to notice that Reek has been tortured for years and had his penis cut off, or that every male Stark has been murdered.) This might have been done specifically to shut the Maenads up and make them feel "empowered" by "empowered" fictitious characters murdering people in an "empowering" fashion. If so, mission accomplished! The brain-dead, bubblegum-headed amoral savages of the social left approve! Update: It's not a new trope, of course: SJWs are uncreative people, endlessly derivative, who merely re-write what has gone before thousands of times. Via Twitter, @aposticmark informs me that Shakespearean murderess Lady Macbeth has been declared to be quite empowered herself. But Women Are Empowered by Everything, Don't You See?
On the whole, this is a very amazing twist for her character's storyline. Female leaders are kind of awesome. (Looking at you, Dany!) And I am certainly all about female empowerment on this show...
47 I'm so old I remember when women were supposedly superior because they weren't usually mass murderers, etc.When women don't murder, they are empowered; when they murder, they are super-empowered. Every day is a festivus of empowerment! Question: Ramsay Snow murders a lot of people, and tortures them, and rapes them. Is he also empowered? Or is it only women who are empowered by cruel behavior? Would he be empowered, if not for the rape? Would he be empowered if he raped, but raped men instead? Questions, questions! Why Is This Dark "Empowering" Murder Fantasy Okay for Women, But Not Okay for Dudes in Video Games? That's my own question, but Alec Leamas makes a similar point:
Posted by: Unfettered Power
I can't imagine too many men admitting to the surge of power for manliness felt by the caprice and cruelty of Joffrey or Ramsay Bolton. I suppose feminism really is a dark expression of Oedipal revenge fantasies and the weakling's desire to wield power for its own sake and for self-aggrandizement. I'm just wondering about the confused psyche that praises fantasized wanton cruelty and killing as essential to the cause of being a woman while needing safe spaces and protection from college boys after two glasses of Chardonnay in the other world that doesn't have dragons.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Eagles fan at April 25, 2016 02:27 PM (Dpy/y)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 02:29 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 25, 2016 02:30 PM (39g3+)
The both sucked so even if I still had cable I would not watch that show.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 25, 2016 02:30 PM (vvmPQ)
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2016 02:30 PM (c0H1Z)
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Uh...that's basically the entire feminist defense of abortion.
Posted by: Lauren at April 25, 2016 02:31 PM (NZnz7)
Posted by: nckate at April 25, 2016 02:31 PM (O46jc)
Posted by: KhanCzerntrahl at April 25, 2016 02:31 PM (/tR3J)
To save me the trouble of watching that , tell me, is Jon Snow dead or alive?
Posted by: @votermom at April 25, 2016 02:32 PM (nbrY/)
The ending I've imagined for the saga ties up all the lose ends much more neatly.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 25, 2016 02:32 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 25, 2016 02:30 PM (39g3+)
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Tried reading it.
Tried watching it.
You're not alone.
Posted by: SMFH while circling the drain...circling the drain... at April 25, 2016 02:32 PM (rlfds)
currently dead, but he might get better.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (dciA+)
You know whats more boring than playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Watching Dungeons & Dragons on TV.....
While eating Papa Johns Pizza'.......
and thinking about Tom Brady.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Jollyroger at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (t06LC)
Posted by: @votermom at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (nbrY/)
Yesterday I saw 5 minutes of Thrones, in a collosium everyone was killing everyone else. What a blood bath.
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (Dpy/y)
Posted by: Jean at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (cXiMR)
Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 25, 2016 02:34 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Katherine "Hippophile" the Great at April 25, 2016 02:34 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: @votermom at April 25, 2016 02:34 PM (nbrY/)
Just about everything on earth except sex with six clones of Kate Upton.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 25, 2016 02:34 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 25, 2016 02:34 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 02:34 PM (iQIUe)
currently dead, but he might get better.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (dciA+)
__________________________
I know how that is...
Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 25, 2016 02:34 PM (HSmrB)
so to speak.
Posted by: Kreplach at April 25, 2016 02:35 PM (OtqMl)
I'll keep watching it, but its because I have too much invested at this point and I need some payoff.
Posted by: Jollyroger at April 25, 2016 02:35 PM (t06LC)
Posted by: gm at April 25, 2016 02:35 PM (96QX4)
Because that's what it's all about- right? Empowering yourself to do things like obfuscate and corrupt democratic government for your own ends?
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2016 02:36 PM (O0lVq)
Posted by: Bubble - headed Bleach Blond at April 25, 2016 02:36 PM (8RrOt)
Posted by: Cantankerous at April 25, 2016 02:36 PM (326rv)
Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 25, 2016 02:36 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Jon In TX at April 25, 2016 02:36 PM (PYAXX)
Posted by: AMartel at April 25, 2016 02:37 PM (WWgnZ)
Posted by: Jon In TX at April 25, 2016 02:36 PM (PYAXX)
Hillary! Clinton most empowered.
Posted by: Jollyroger at April 25, 2016 02:37 PM (t06LC)
I got through maybe 3/4th of the way through the first episode of GoT. At the third instance of doggie-style sex, I decided enough was enough.
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (wdivZ)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (zc3Db)
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I dunno.
I never made it that far into the movie.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (mcm0N)
What happened to Littlefinger? Did he get killed off?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Monsieur Moo Moo at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (0LHZx)
Um, hasn't this been one of the planks in the SJW feminist manifesto for a while?
And what the heck is R+L=J?
Posted by: chique d'afrique at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (QX0Xt)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2016 02:39 PM (O0lVq)
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 02:39 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (iQIUe)
Nope, still out there fingering a little.
Posted by: Jollyroger at April 25, 2016 02:39 PM (t06LC)
Posted by: Charlie Manson at April 25, 2016 02:39 PM (12kBq)
Hillary supporters, no doubt.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 25, 2016 02:39 PM (oKE6c)
Posted by: Unfettered Power at April 25, 2016 02:40 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: tu3031 at April 25, 2016 02:40 PM (8WyYX)
I know I was quite dismayed that Cersei's walk of shame was CGI-ed.
For all of the show's faults Peter Dinkladge is one of the most charismatic personas I've ever seen.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 25, 2016 02:41 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2016 02:41 PM (O0lVq)
Posted by: SH at April 25, 2016 02:41 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 02:41 PM (iQIUe)
Because basically, after Firefly, I quit watching just about everything.
Including the National News.
I get all of that I need from right here.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 25, 2016 02:41 PM (ptqRm)
Yet if a black man butchers one waiter and an ex-wife, he becomes public enemy number one.
Posted by: Orenthal James at April 25, 2016 02:41 PM (12kBq)
People are awful shits and do awful things for power, so best not to concentrate power in the few. I'd like to see this end with Jon or Tyrion leading a peasant uprising and democratizing society.
Posted by: Jollyroger at April 25, 2016 02:42 PM (t06LC)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 25, 2016 02:42 PM (dpnZC)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 25, 2016 02:42 PM (C/oM9)
It seems to me that the story has trended toward "empowering" those without power -- all of the patriarchs of the major families are dead; most of the Starks are dead, etc.
In the power vacuum creeps the "disenfranchised":
1) Dany -- the entitled brat who will probably end up winning it all because girl power.
2) Cersei -- the girl who was overlooked by her father, sent into a bad marriage, but has managed to cling to her power.
3) Margery -- the girl who tries to use "traditional" feminine power (e.g., seduction and manipulation of her arranged marriage husbands) to grow her own power. See also the "Queen of Thorns", the matriarch of the Tyrell family.
4) Sansa - the poor abused Sansa, who will have to grow into power one day, if only to justify the horrid pattern of her abuse.
5) Arya -- the wily tomboy girl who is going to become death incarnate.
6) Bran -- the crippled boy, who will somehow end up wielding magic powers.
7) Yara -- the girl who will inherit instead of her brother.
Tyrion -- the disfigured dwarf who will be placed in a situation where he can earn renown based on merit.9) Brienne -- the knight-girl who will redeem her honor.
10) Jaime -- the villain who became disabled (coincidentally at a time where the author wanted the readership to like him more).
11) Jon -- disabled through bastardy.
The whole thing starts to read as a bad SJW rant after awhile. I'm not giving up on it entirely, but I'm fully expecting the end to be somewhat disappointing.
Posted by: Revenant at April 25, 2016 02:42 PM (y64uP)
Spot on. I've read more "fantasy" fiction than I can easily recall, but couldn't make it thru the first few bits of this...idiocy. Sorry, ace, but there's no lipstick on that pig.
LOTR with sex and violence, but without wit and insight pretty much summed it up.
HBO just added some SJW garbage to signal virtues...
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 02:43 PM (C9pBZ)
Have we reached Peak SJW Stupid yet?
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Not sure there are any upper boundaries on the one skipper.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:43 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Mark Mothersbaugh at April 25, 2016 02:43 PM (12kBq)
I'm so old I remember when women were supposedly superior because they weren't usually mass murderers, etc.
Ah, yes, the tired old "if women ruled the world, there would be no war" trope.
Ah, Ilse Koch and Irma Griese, that thou shouldst be alive at this time! Perhaps we can dump that uppity, gun-toting, Bible-clutching, Rethuglican Tubman and put one of those lovely girls on our $20 bill. Think how empowering it would be!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 25, 2016 02:43 PM (X6fMO)
Posted by: nckate at April 25, 2016 02:43 PM (O46jc)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 02:38 PM (iQIUe)
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I liked their hit "Oh Atlanta".
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:43 PM (8XRCm)
and thinking about Tom Brady.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (8XRCm)
**********
Not if you have hate sex with the pizza and Tom Brady.
Posted by: Chris Christie at April 25, 2016 02:43 PM (mcm0N)
Ace, you could write some crazy ass 20,000 page book with lots of nudity, sex, kink, murder, etc. and become a multimillionaire, too. Why arent you doing it?
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (3ZtZW)
I suppose feminism really is a dark expression of Oedipal revenge fantasies and the weakling's desire to wield power for its own sake and for self-aggrandizement.
I'm just wondering about the confused psyche that praises fantasized wanton cruelty and killing as essential to the cause of being a woman while needing safe spaces and protection from college boys after two glasses of Chardonnay in the other world that doesn't have dragons.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (RfZaB)
Posted by: tu3031 at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (8WyYX)
Everything else that SLWs claim is a lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (/tuJf)
Oh, and the moral of the story? People who live in grass houses should not stow thrones.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (lHb9q)
well technically it WAS in the deeply mediocre books. (bad books, I'd say.)
It has now overtaken the books. The new stuff is story which hasn't been published yet, but which will be covered in Martin's *next* book (should that miracle ever transpire).
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (3ZtZW)
Can't argue with that.
Posted by: chique d'afrique at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (QX0Xt)
So Ellaria is a strategic genius worthy of emulation because she wants Dorne to immediately engage in a frontal attack on the Lannisters, rather than waiting long enough to let the rest of Westeros to tear itself apart so they can pick up the pieces afterwards?
Funny, I always thought that smahrt lefty types thought that frontal attacks were stupid, like in WWI.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (MEFzG)
Posted by: Countess Bathory, bathing in the blood of her victims at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (BD1+m)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (dpnZC)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (/tuJf)
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**blink**
**blink**
Damn dude. How long you been savink THAT one.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:46 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 25, 2016 02:46 PM (dpnZC)
Posted by: Al Czervic at April 25, 2016 02:46 PM (12kBq)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (lHb9q)
Exquisite and groan-inducing, all at the same time.
You sir, are the master.
Posted by: chique d'afrique at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (QX0Xt)
Posted by: tu3031 at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (8WyYX)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (C/oM9)
Posted by: mike at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (YMpXZ)
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (Dpy/y)
See also: Wheel of Time; Jordan, Robert.
I swear the only reason I finished the third book in that series was out of sheer spite.
Read the first GoT book and was done with it. I'm a huge fantasy lit buff and gamer but GoT bored the shite out of me.
That, and the fact I like my fantasy lit about 6k% less rapey.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (dazWW)
The latest from the Everybody On Death Row Is Innocent genre, is about Emilia Carr. She's spooky scary to me.
http://goo.gl/MDynOn
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (iQIUe)
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**blink**
**blink**
Damn dude. How long you been savink THAT one.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:46 PM (8XRCm)
There is literally... I mean one or two possible conversations that could come up in... Bravo. It feels like the end of a Peabody and Sherman cartoon.
Posted by: Jollyroger at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (t06LC)
Posted by: Jeb! at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (PYAXX)
Posted by: chemjeff at April 25, 2016 02:42 PM (dpnZC)
What makes you think that?
Posted by: OregonMuse at April 25, 2016 02:48 PM (wdivZ)
Posted by: mike at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (YMpXZ)
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mike.... we're all above Twilight, if you think about it.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:48 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 02:48 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: chique d'afrique at April 25, 2016 02:48 PM (QX0Xt)
Posted by: ejo at April 25, 2016 02:48 PM (il4FI)
>>Is he also empowered? Or is it only women who are empowered by cruel behavior?
Given that all that killing and torturing and raping transformed him from Ramsay Snow to Ramsay Bolton, I'm going with yes.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2016 02:48 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (C/oM9)
Hey. No rule against perpetuities. No one gets that crap.
Posted by: Jollyroger at April 25, 2016 02:49 PM (t06LC)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 25, 2016 02:49 PM (C/oM9)
Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 25, 2016 02:49 PM (EWRow)
Posted by: Hillary at April 25, 2016 02:49 PM (12kBq)
Shows like this one (I've never seen it) are available free on the internet, usually one day after they air.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 25, 2016 02:49 PM (eHpnh)
It has now overtaken the books. The new stuff is story which hasn't
been published yet, but which will be covered in Martin's *next* book
(should that miracle ever transpire).
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2016 02:45 PM (dciA+)
Yes, you're right in some storylines. Some are beyond the published books now, but others still have some time to go. I've heard rumors that the Ironborn storyline will be brought up this season, which will take the showrunners back through Book 4 and 5 material that they skipped. Also, Brienne's storyline will be peppered with omitted material from Books 4 and 5.
Posted by: Revenant at April 25, 2016 02:50 PM (y64uP)
Posted by: Jeb! at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (PYAXX)
Fucking empowerment bro. I don't know, it just does.
Posted by: Jollyroger at April 25, 2016 02:50 PM (t06LC)
Posted by: tu3031 at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (8WyYX)
Isn't that one of those cheap appetizers with a tired shrimp on a toothpick that they serve at political functions?
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2016 02:50 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: AMartel at April 25, 2016 02:50 PM (WWgnZ)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 02:50 PM (C9pBZ)
Worst Sci Fi show ever????
The 100.
First season.... ok. After that.... all gay all the time. When they werent trying to knock off GoT.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:51 PM (8XRCm)
Is he also empowered? Or is it only women who are empowered by cruel behavior?"
I'm going to say... empowered.
Posted by: Adolph Fucking Hitler at April 25, 2016 02:51 PM (2oWD2)
Ruler Angela Merkel is not a man. Unless she self-identifies.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 25, 2016 02:51 PM (WIuvp)
Posted by: Ioseph Stalin at April 25, 2016 02:51 PM (12kBq)
I saw Littlefinger open for Badfinger at the Cavern Club in '72.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 25, 2016 02:51 PM (X6fMO)
Posted by: yankeefifth at April 25, 2016 02:51 PM (vb33c)
Great points.
Stories of fiction seem to send tingles up their legs, until it happens in real life to the ones they love.
I'm sick of all of it.
Start creating your own art.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 02:51 PM (qCMvj)
The best part of GoT was when Tyrion and Bronn realized that Pod was such a sex god that a bunch of whores refused to accept his money.
"Details, we need copious details."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2016 02:52 PM (MEFzG)
Nihilism is a conservative message?
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 25, 2016 02:52 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: Zombie Vince Foster at April 25, 2016 02:53 PM (8WyYX)
I suppose feminism really is a dark expression of Oedipal revenge fantasies and the weakling's desire to wield power for its own sake and for self-aggrandizement.
I'm just wondering about the confused psyche that praises fantasized wanton cruelty and killing as essential to the cause of being a woman while needing safe spaces and protection from college boys after two glasses of Chardonnay in the other world that doesn't have dragons.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (RfZaB)
Any relation to the pop singer Michael Bolton? I celebrate his entire catalogue, and to me, there is nothing better than listening to him singing "When A Man Loves a Woman".
Posted by: One of the Two Bobs at April 25, 2016 02:53 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2016 02:33 PM (dciA+)
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A ridiculous plot device
Posted by: Miracle Max at April 25, 2016 02:53 PM (h/uSM)
Any relation to the pop singer Michael Bolton? I celebrate his entire catalogue, and to me, there is nothing better than listening to him singing "When A Man Loves a Woman".
Posted by: One of the Two Bobs at April 25, 2016 02:53 PM (1JnAL)
He's a no-talent ass-clown.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2016 02:54 PM (MEFzG)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 02:54 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2016 02:54 PM (V/InG)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 25, 2016 02:54 PM (MEFzG)
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wait.... Trumps in GoT???
Who knew??
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:54 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Dixie Wetsworth at April 25, 2016 02:55 PM (o36WZ)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 02:55 PM (C9pBZ)
Yes, you're right in some storylines. Some are beyond the published books now, but others still have some time to go. I've heard rumors that the Ironborn storyline will be brought up this season, which will take the showrunners back through Book 4 and 5 material that they skipped. Also, Brienne's storyline will be peppered with omitted material from Books 4 and 5.
right, and Arya is still doing things she did in previous books too.
but the real characters, jon, dany, and tyrion, are all now in fresh territory.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2016 02:55 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2016 02:54 PM (V/InG)
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I like Sports and News.....but Aliens, Bigfoot and American Pickers gets old after awhile.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:56 PM (8XRCm)
The referendum is actually "Survivor," along with "Naked And Afraid."
Posted by: Octopus at April 25, 2016 02:56 PM (Z4WiE)
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2016 02:56 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Hillary! at April 25, 2016 02:57 PM (87y4e)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 02:57 PM (qCMvj)
They're ignoring that that happens on the show because they believe by controlling what is talked about and how they control what reality is. Insomuch as it sneaks out that a guy did do a thing, they can call it a condemnation of rape culture. Because the man-person is bad, see. When they say that someone did a Bad Thing and is Bad or ignore said Bad Thing entirely, it is so, because they say so. When the poor oppressed class do a Bad Thing it is a Good Thing, because they are oppressed, and saying so makes it so.
Posted by: Sporkatus at April 25, 2016 02:57 PM (HtLSE)
Posted by: Roger Goodell at April 25, 2016 02:57 PM (/m8T6)
We need another term than "peak" for things that are horrible. Nadir is the proper term (opposite of zenith) but its a bit obscure and doesn't have that zing.
I don't think there is a limit to the depths of stupid, evil, and depravity that the left will stoop to.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 25, 2016 02:58 PM (39g3+)
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Would've been hysterical had you changed your nic to Tarnsman of Gor
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 02:58 PM (3ZtZW)
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Never underestimate the small of hand.
In time they will rule the lands.
with a smoking hot wife half their age
Posted by: Donald J Trump at April 25, 2016 02:58 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Hillary! at April 25, 2016 02:57 PM (87y4e)
was that her head on that post? or was that Bush again?
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 02:59 PM (qCMvj)
Posted by: Lizzy Fucking Borden at April 25, 2016 03:00 PM (2oWD2)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:00 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:56 PM (8XRCm)
Agree but the other stuff pisses me off to much..to much liberal bullshit
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 25, 2016 03:00 PM (V/InG)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Lizzy Fucking Borden at April 25, 2016 03:00 PM (2oWD2)
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Fine..... just dont axe me any questions.
Posted by: Mr Borden at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Donald J Trump at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: x at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette
Crawling into bed after taking off my Red God necklace.
Posted by: Hillary! at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (87y4e)
Because, ya know, 'average' isn't good enough for her.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (SEXy3)
Posted by: Prinacat at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (Og26C)
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 25, 2016 03:02 PM (TJCSB)
How's that for empowering.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 25, 2016 03:02 PM (kfcYC)
Posted by: The Ward Formerly Known as Theon Greyjoy at April 25, 2016 03:02 PM (dciA+)
With regard to the books, I think there's still reason to hold out hope that there are cool things in store for Prince Doran, the character they killed off pointlessly on the show. Check out this fan theory for a well-supported analysis of what his master plan is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TBfdd_xNVo . It makes book 4 (the most tedious and boring book in the series) seem way more interesting in retrospect.
Posted by: reform highlander at April 25, 2016 03:02 PM (jCH/T)
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Could always read. I'm just starting Kepler's Witch, which I'd bought at the library for a buck. But I like history so bully for me I guess.
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 03:02 PM (3ZtZW)
Who do you think built that yuuuuge wall?
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So Jon Snow, the refugee /illegal immigrant lover, currently dead but possibly resurrectable, is either Rubio or Jeb.
Posted by: @votermom at April 25, 2016 03:02 PM (nbrY/)
Because, ya know, 'average' isn't good enough for her.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (SEXy3)
Number one, congratulations on scoring the awesomest hash ever. Number 2, I think "ridiculously porcine" is a perfectly adequate category designation.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2016 03:03 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Typhoid Fucking Mary at April 25, 2016 03:03 PM (2oWD2)
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Brandon Sanderson just e-mailed me to let me know that there is no way he'd ever consider finishing the Game of Thrones books if Martin dies.
Posted by: junior at April 25, 2016 03:03 PM (MSpR+)
http://goo.gl/TrFm04
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 03:03 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse
There is another one. Unfunny.
Posted by: Dang at April 25, 2016 03:04 PM (2oWD2)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:04 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse
There is another one... unfunny!
Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 25, 2016 03:04 PM (2oWD2)
Ow. That was pink lemonade that I snorted out my nose.
Ow.
Obligatory:
http://bit.ly/1SnXvnj
Posted by: alexthechick - Destroyer of Gaia and Seductress of Savagery at April 25, 2016 03:04 PM (mf5HN)
but, seriously, remember this?
Head of state: Game of Thrones sorry about decapitating George W Bush
HBO left scrambling after the former president's head was shown on the medieval fantasy series plunged onto a stake
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/us-news-blog/2012/jun/14/game-of-thrones-george-w-bush-head
screw them all
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 03:05 PM (qCMvj)
right, there is a lot of prophecy and background about what exactly happened in Robert's Rebellion that is very important to the end-game, and they've cut it out entirely.
Even the prophetic visions Dany had in the house of the dead were changed to NOT be prophetic -- she simply saw images of the way she might like the world to be.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2016 03:06 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Grump928(c) can't read the post or the comments at April 25, 2016 03:06 PM (evdj2)
I like Sports and News.....but Aliens, Bigfoot and American Pickers gets old after awhile.
Posted by: fixerupper at April 25, 2016 02:56 PM (8XRCm)
Mountain Monsters on Destination America is my now go to mindless show.
6 West Virginians travelling throughout the Appalachia's hunting monsters in the forests. All the monsters having some sweet ass names like the Grassman, Sheepsquatch, Wampus Beast, Grafton Monster, Snallygaster and Yahoo.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at April 25, 2016 03:07 PM (1JnAL)
Ow. That was pink lemonade that I snorted out my nose.
Ow.
...
hah! that was entirely unintentional. Though it does read funny.
Posted by: ace at April 25, 2016 03:07 PM (dciA+)
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Heh. I got a new modem about a month ago and this was the result. I'll take it!
I don't think she's fat. She's just... average. She bitches and moans about people talking about her body while simultaneously lying her ass off about her size.
Women should be proud of their bodies, no matter their size!!!! But... I'm only a size 4.
Like hell she is. She is a a size 8 or 10. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but stop freaking lying about it.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM (SEXy3)
Well, there was dragons, rape, murder, witches, and rape...
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM (C9pBZ)
gazillion years ago was married for 50 years. His wife died 20 years
ago. Five years later he meets a man and they are getting married.
Senator was 75 when they met and the other dude was 25. That's a big
freakin' age difference.
http://goo.gl/TrFm04
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 03:03 PM
Tell me more...
Posted by: Zombie Gerry Studds at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM (bzd8I)
Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (Dpy/y)
Hah!
Well last nights ep was actually exciting for once.
Posted by: @votermom at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM (nbrY/)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM
That's a lotta rape for a Monday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM (bzd8I)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:09 PM (C9pBZ)
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Why does she want to categorize women? Doesn't seem very feministy.
Posted by: SH at April 25, 2016 03:09 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:09 PM
Go ahead...you know you want to.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2016 03:10 PM (bzd8I)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM
That's a lotta rape for a Monday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM (bzd8I)
Tomorrow is going to have so much rape that they front-loaded some of it.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2016 03:10 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Hank at April 25, 2016 03:10 PM (uIvKc)
Posted by: @votermom at April 25, 2016 03:02 PM (nbrY/)
or shows up in one of the last episodes of the Big Bang Theory (disguised as Stuart).
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3064994816/tt5586050?ref_=tt_pv_md_1#
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 03:10 PM (qCMvj)
Well, wouldn't you just let winter come, finally?
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 03:10 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 25, 2016 03:11 PM (8ZskC)
gazillion years ago was married for 50 years. His wife died 20 years
ago. Five years later he meets a man and they are getting married.
Senator was 75 when they met and the other dude was 25. That's a big
freakin' age difference.
http://goo.gl/TrFm04
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 03:03 PM
Tell me more...
Posted by: Zombie Gerry Studds at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM (bzd8I)
:::squirt:::
Posted by: Barney Frank at April 25, 2016 03:11 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 03:11 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Random Thought Generator at April 25, 2016 03:11 PM (wLLbf)
Well, wouldn't you just let winter come, finally?
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 03:10 PM (3ZtZW)
Yes, and the White Walkers have to factor into it somehow.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2016 03:11 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 25, 2016 03:11 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: Hank at April 25, 2016 03:12 PM (uIvKc)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 25, 2016 02:43 PM (X6fMO)
I once worked in a company 'ruled' by the secretaries. Even upper management had to listen to 'the committee.' It was the most dysfunctional, unpleasant, petty-bitchy place I've worked in my life. The backstabbing and microcontrolling that went on constantly were sickening.
Posted by: kathysaysso at April 25, 2016 03:12 PM (43OZ6)
Posted by: Ernie Kovacs at April 25, 2016 03:13 PM (WhYLb)
Posted by: Dr Spank at April 25, 2016 03:13 PM (TJCSB)
Lefty special interest groups that view themselves as oppressed or victimized are not interested in "achieving equality", but merely in flipping the perceived power structure to their perceived benefit.
They'll excuse anything as long as they're the ones joyfully handing out the noogies and purple nurples.
Posted by: Brass Bancroft at April 25, 2016 03:13 PM (hAFla)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:13 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Sharkman at April 25, 2016 03:13 PM (C/oM9)
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R - J = L
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM (3ZtZW)
R + L = J
R + L - J = (J - J)
R + L - J = 0
R + (L - L) - J = 0 - L
R + 0 - J = -L
R - J = -L, or
(R - J) * -1 = (-L) * -1
J - R = L
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at April 25, 2016 03:14 PM (F6RKd)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 03:14 PM (iQIUe)
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When I was a little kid I thought Jack Frost wrote all the frostlines on the windows, which I could've picked up from an old Rankin-Bass show, but anyway I guess the whie walkers could do that and everybody would be like Whew, No Big Deal! Whodathunkit.
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 03:15 PM (3ZtZW)
You should have watched more. There were other positions.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 25, 2016 03:15 PM (/tuJf)
******
No one point out to this writer that the woman in question didn't stage her rebellion / coup of the Dornish throne because she wanted to empower women over their oppressive male patriarchy.
Her coup is being done, in large part, because she wants revenge against the Lannisters / Baratheon dynasty for the killing of her MALE lover.
Plus a bunch of other, older blood grievances that the Tyrells had against the Lannisters for their part in the slaughter of certain family members.
I guess this is all very EMPOWERING, but it's doesn't actually fit within their feminist narrative.
Posted by: Vyce at April 25, 2016 03:15 PM (h4ZaE)
after all, if i want to have my intelligence insulted, there's always the internets...
Posted by: redc1c4 at April 25, 2016 03:16 PM (WhYLb)
Posted by: disgusing oratory at April 25, 2016 03:16 PM (nv/wN)
Hmm. I suppose it would be a very short series unless the rest of it is them standing there shaking their heads at all the idiots around them.
Posted by: alexthechick - Destroyer of Gaia and Seductress of Savagery at April 25, 2016 03:17 PM (mf5HN)
Really? Good for him. I love Guy Pearce.
Except for Hurt Locker.
I was like, "oh there's Guy Pearce. I like Guy Pearce. This is going to be a Guy Pearce movie that I like". And then he went all splodey in like the first 30 seconds.
I did like the Jeremy Renner, though.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 25, 2016 03:17 PM (1xUj/)
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at April 25, 2016 03:17 PM (F6RKd)
Posted by: Lincolntf at April 25, 2016 03:18 PM (2cS/G)
Posted by: Hank at April 25, 2016 03:18 PM (uIvKc)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:18 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 25, 2016 03:19 PM (h/uSM)
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at April 25, 2016 03:17 PM (F6RKd)
Yet another show with squandered potential.
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2016 03:19 PM (RD7QR)
Did someone speculate on how the girl and guy jump off a 100 foot wall at the end of one episode and running through the woods unharmed in the next?
Posted by: jwest at April 25, 2016 03:20 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 25, 2016 03:20 PM (kTF2Z)
1) You'll never hear me arguing that any of Theon's arc was necessary to show, especially him being castrated (something that was only hinted at in the books)
2) Not every Stark male has been murdered
That said, the show does treat female characters horribly, even more horribly than they're treated in the books. D&D are obsessed with sexual violence. They made a consensual sexual encounter between Cersei and Jaime into rape for literally no reason. They had Meera Reed almost raped when nothing like that happens in the books. They transferred Jeyne Poole's abusive storyline onto Sansa when it made no sense, just because they thought it would work better with the audience. Etc, etc.
Posted by: stephanie brown at April 25, 2016 03:20 PM (b+ZQo)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 03:21 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at April 25, 2016 03:22 PM (Kucy5)
Posted by: Hank at April 25, 2016 03:22 PM (uIvKc)
Maybe the dumbest show on TV. But I do catch myself watching just to marvel at the childish buffoonery.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 25, 2016 03:22 PM (LA7Cm)
My most empowering moments were not spent on Active Duty, or telling some jerk off, etc. It was holding one of my sweet babies and listening to their heartbeat and breathing. Absolutely magic.
Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2016 03:23 PM (oiNtH)
What's with the squirrel music videos? Is this a thing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECxrNyOhld0
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at April 25, 2016 03:23 PM (iQIUe)
I stick with the Home & Garden channel and Cartoon Network.
(1) I like watching home renovation;*
(2) I like watching idiots and explosives come together.
*Watch, yes; do, not so much.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Pox Vobiscum - Get Your Literate Latinate Curses from the Outrage Outlet! at April 25, 2016 03:23 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: L, Elle at April 25, 2016 03:25 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: jwest at April 25, 2016 03:26 PM (Zs4uk)
Unhappy blob of congealing bacon grease.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Pox Vobiscum - Get Your Literate Latinate Curses from the Outrage Outlet! at April 25, 2016 03:26 PM (hLRSq)
And if you question that, you are a misogynist!
Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at April 25, 2016 03:26 PM (4kTo2)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at April 25, 2016 03:19 PM (RD7QR)
But more importantly, I don't watch any appointment tv anymore. I wait out the hype, then invest. Breaking Bad, Justified, The Americans. Really Great, Great, and How did this get green-lit for a third season?
Only reason I watched The Americans is because Sonny Bunch @WFB recd it. Poor recco. But it only took up a day of my time, and I can say "Phhbbblt" tot he rest.
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at April 25, 2016 03:26 PM (F6RKd)
Posted by: Hank at April 25, 2016 03:26 PM (uIvKc)
Who said that?
Posted by: Meryn Trant at April 25, 2016 03:27 PM (BrQrN)
My favorite show on TV. Unfortunately you have to ignore the liberal lean of the narration .
Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 25, 2016 03:27 PM (EWRow)
Posted by: L, Elle at April 25, 2016 03:25 PM (2x3L+)
the opening sequence and track are good!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 03:28 PM (qCMvj)
My 600 Lb. Life
Intervention
American Greed
The First 48
History Channel
And for comedy relief:
Mike & Molly
Everybody Loves Raymond
Golden Girls
Posted by: Cheri at April 25, 2016 03:28 PM (oiNtH)
I think that was Season 1, Episode 1.
Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at April 25, 2016 03:28 PM (eytER)
Posted by: mike at April 25, 2016 02:47 PM (YMpXZ)
I don't have much to add to this thread, but...
GoT is Angry Twilight.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at April 25, 2016 03:28 PM (wB8Tg)
I thought you just made that up. Nope. That is a real movie.
I need to see it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 25, 2016 03:28 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at April 25, 2016 03:29 PM (tborC)
Posted by: the Butcher at April 25, 2016 03:29 PM (AGJqR)
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Unhappy blob of congealing bacon grease.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Pox Vobiscum - Get Your Literate Latinate Curses from the Outrage Outlet! at April 25, 2016
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Potato. That's blog approved too.
Posted by: L, Elle at April 25, 2016 03:29 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 25, 2016 03:29 PM (1xUj/)
From the sound of things, I'd say someone raped the ring, then threw Sean B. into mount doom.
Or something.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:30 PM (C9pBZ)
I thought you just made that up. Nope. That is a real movie.
I need to see it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at April 25, 2016 03:28 PM (LA7Cm)
NOT ON AMAZON INSTANT VIDEO.
RAAAAAAAAGE!
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack at April 25, 2016 03:31 PM (F6RKd)
More horribly than the male characters?
Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 25, 2016 03:31 PM (EWRow)
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Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at April 25, 2016 03:32 PM (ml1PM)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at April 25, 2016 03:29 PM (1xUj/)
Rumor has it that Andrew Dice Clay now self identifies as a dumb broad.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at April 25, 2016 03:32 PM (tborC)
Well that and they've pretty much run out of ideas.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 25, 2016 03:32 PM (Wckf4)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:33 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 03:28 PM (qCMvj)
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* waves hi to artisanal, my favorite food snob outside CBD *
You have good taste so maybe I'll watch that part.
Posted by: L, Elle at April 25, 2016 03:33 PM (2x3L+)
Posted by: nckate at April 25, 2016 03:33 PM (O46jc)
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 25, 2016 03:34 PM (eHpnh)
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 03:34 PM (3ZtZW)
IIRC, Doran had a nice little plot going on w/r/t the Targaryans that involved his son, who isn't even in Dorne in the book. So yeah, pretty big divergence, maybe indication that the Dornish/Targaryan alliance isn't going to work out in the books if the plotline can be killed off this casually on TV. Sad to see Doran go, since the actor playing him is very good and I liked his scenes.
Posted by: cjw at April 25, 2016 03:35 PM (UJ59J)
Am I concerned that internal forces at HBO are twisting the writers to empower women more on GoT? Not really.
We've had 5 seasons of using them, so give the girls a few years of getting back.
Even Trixy on "Deadwood" got a few licks in.
Posted by: jwest at April 25, 2016 03:35 PM (Zs4uk)
Have you seen The Proposition. About brothers in an Australian bush ranger gang
Posted by: Cartman at April 25, 2016 03:36 PM (r1fLd)
Well, this ridiculous Dorne plot only happened because D&D decided to cut out Arianne Martell.
Posted by: stephanie brown at April 25, 2016 03:37 PM (b+ZQo)
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R - J = L J - R = L
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at April 25, 2016 03:32 PM (ml1PM)
So, should I rant on you not showing your work, or posting before reading the rest of the thread? I dunno, I mean you were reading the thread from the beginning...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4disuwEvw-w&t=124
Posted by: First-Rate Political Hack What Dispenses Internet Justice at April 25, 2016 03:37 PM (F6RKd)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:37 PM (C9pBZ)
Did you ever see the XKCD zombie movie treatment?
The zombies lasted all of about five minutes (about how long it took one of the two leads to run to the truck and get the shotgun), while the other one kept the door closed to the room with the zombies.
The remaining 115 minutes was a rom-com.
Posted by: junior at April 25, 2016 03:38 PM (MSpR+)
Couldn't suspend belief for or look pass the obvious for TWD.
Posted by: Joe Hallenback at April 25, 2016 03:38 PM (EWRow)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 25, 2016 03:39 PM (39g3+)
Am I concerned that internal forces at HBO are twisting the writers to empower women more on GoT? Not really.
We've had 5 seasons of using them, so give the girls a few years of getting back.
Even Trixy on "Deadwood" got a few licks in.
But it's boring now, and not done from a story perspective but from a propaganda "grrl power" perspective. It's shoehorning a SJW ideal into a setting where it really doesn't make a lot of sense, done for its own sake, and in such a way that the only thing that differentiates assholishness from empowerment is a set of breasts.
It's not even all that new anymore. Joss Whedon made a career out of doing this crap.
Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at April 25, 2016 03:40 PM (PFy0L)
Of course when they went to the ground for grappling, The Hound should have destroyed her, but Girl Power.
Posted by: Burn the Witch at April 25, 2016 03:40 PM (Wckf4)
The Witches, yes. Not Lady M.
Posted by: budfox at April 25, 2016 03:42 PM (eUJB/)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 03:28 PM (qCMvj)
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* waves hi to artisanal, my favorite food snob outside CBD *
You have good taste so maybe I'll watch that part.
Posted by: L, Elle at April 25, 2016 03:33 PM (2x3L+)
hehe, *waves*
I've missed too many of CBD's delicious food threads due to traveling and such.
Hopefully I'll catch it this upcoming weekend.
yeah, I'm a food snob, lol. I'm not afraid to admit it. I just want quality. Like in my entertainment. Tired of the in-your-face political attacks and pokes in almost every show I watch now. It's blatant, nonsensical and turns me off right away. Like overcooked food!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 03:42 PM (qCMvj)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 25, 2016 03:42 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at April 25, 2016 03:44 PM (LYCUN)
Posted by: L, Elle at April 25, 2016 03:44 PM (2x3L+)
There are two many dispersed story lines going on right now, some better than the others, so it's hard to make progress.
Also, is it just me or are there fewer gratuitous boob shots lately, no t counting last night's Red Lady ending.
Posted by: Cartman at April 25, 2016 03:46 PM (r1fLd)
Yeah I am too. I used to shrug at it, but now I just stop watching. Enough. Heck I used to like to hear Bob Costas, but he's gone full retard politically as well. I am a huge fan of Jackie Robinson both as a human being and as a baseball player but Jackie Robinson day is starting to make me hate the guy. Enough already. The poor guy can barely walk for all the rimming.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at April 25, 2016 03:46 PM (39g3+)
He was sick and suffering from a bad infection.
Posted by: Cartman at April 25, 2016 03:47 PM (r1fLd)
Posted by: ReactionaryMonster Bravely supporting kittens at April 25, 2016 03:48 PM (uURQL)
Posted by: Jeb! at April 25, 2016 03:49 PM (PYAXX)
Posted by: Lizzy Fucking Borden at April 25, 2016 03:00 PM (2oWD2)
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Fine..... just dont axe me any questions.Posted by: Mr Borden at April 25, 2016 03:01 PM (8XRCm) Excuse me stewardess, I speak jive.
Posted by: Old white lady who speaks jive at April 25, 2016 03:51 PM (PYAXX)
Did someone speculate on how the girl and guy jump off a 100 foot wall at the end of one episode and running through the woods unharmed in the next?
Thank you for asking; my question exactly!
Posted by: River Commander at April 25, 2016 03:51 PM (728Fx)
Well, there was dragons, rape, murder, witches, and rape...Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 25, 2016 03:08 PM (C9pBZ) Wait a minute, you said rape twice.
Posted by: Taggart at April 25, 2016 03:53 PM (PYAXX)
The basic theme seems to be that no one's hands are ever clean in politics. The ones who try to be (Ned, Robb, etc) end up dying at the hands of those who are willing to fight dirty. This doesn't mean that you can't strive to do good, but only that you have to understand that the world you live in isn't pretty. Hence Varys' comments in the previous seasons about Tyrion and Daenerys. Tyrion has suffered abuse all his life based on his dwarfism, so he has empathy for the poor and downtrodden, and has the kind of mind where he can survive in the cutthroat world of the Seven Kingdoms long enough to do some good. Daenerys wants to ends slavery, but she's learning the hard way that when you upset the old order you make enemies.
I didn't see the murders in the recent episode as empowering. They were stupid. A group of women who are too stupid and short-sighted to see the dangers that their country faces, and too arrogant about their own capabilities.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 25, 2016 03:54 PM (LUG6K)
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 25, 2016 03:56 PM (LUG6K)
Posted by: JHW at April 25, 2016 03:56 PM (kn0BL)
Did someone speculate on how the girl and guy
jump off a 100 foot wall at the end of one episode and running through
the woods unharmed in the next?
Thank you for asking; my question exactly!
Posted by: River Commander at April 25, 2016 03:51 PM (728Fx)
In the book the snows have created 80 foot drifts at the castle walls.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at April 25, 2016 03:56 PM (LUG6K)
Guess who he called to save his stupid rear. No, go on - guess.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Pox Vobiscum - Get Your Literate Latinate Curses from the Outrage Outlet! at April 25, 2016 03:57 PM (hLRSq)
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R - J = L J - R = L
Posted by: Bigby's Praying Hands at April 25, 2016 02:44 PM
FIFY.
Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at April 25, 2016 03:32 PM (ml1PM)
Yay forCommon Core math!
Posted by: John R Kasich at April 25, 2016 03:59 PM (PYAXX)
Once I heard the SCOAMF was getting a special previewing of GoT's I just didn't care anymore anyway.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 25, 2016 04:08 PM (qCMvj)
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Uh...that's basically the entire feminist defense of abortion.
Posted by: Lauren at April 25, 2016 02:31 PM (NZnz7)
I'm a lifelong supporter of a woman's right to choose a 37th trimester abortion for someone else's child. Why do you hate women?
Posted by: Hillary! at April 25, 2016 04:12 PM (wx6iv)
It might be a departure from the book, but who cares? The show didn't focus on his storyline very long so we aren't particularly invested in him. This sets up Dorn as about to go to war with the Lannisters, which seems like a hopeless cause considering how many allies they have now. Anyways I thought it was a good episode and don't care about what SJWs find empowering or irritating. It's one of the few shows on TV where I don't feel like every plot line is trying to manipulate me and instead they are just trying to tell a story.
Posted by: Scott at April 25, 2016 04:15 PM (mXBnU)
Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at April 25, 2016 04:24 PM (4kTo2)
Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at April 25, 2016 04:25 PM (4kTo2)
Posted by: La Frontera at April 25, 2016 04:27 PM (oqAA8)
Posted by: azjaeger at April 25, 2016 04:41 PM (ddNu3)
Whatever, here I am {minus HER }:
Hey, ace, just in case you missed it... .....
Hillary is accusing Trump of having too much wealth!
Now that's rich, dude!
Mind mentioning it?
-
Maybe just a little bit? - You know, an honorable mention of the well
earned and well achieved versus the corrupt evil fucking bastards.
-But only if you agree with that obvious differential.
Otherwise,
by all means lump Trump and all he has accomplished with the Monster
Clintons. - Such as they obviously are and he (Trump) obviously is not.
Incidentally, due to your influence from years ago I have been
listening to a flood of Ween. [I don't know exactly: but you pointed out
that these guys were pretty good; and you linked to there breakout
"Push the little daisy's". And a couple years after that I started to
listen earnestly. And yes, they are something seriously good.]
Damn. Those two. are. _seriously_. AWESOMELY: Good.
...and then some.
Glad that they seem to be (currently) reunited.
Sorry that either of them had/have an drug/alcohol problem.
Unfortunately, most rock/pop bands have had that very serious problem.
[Sadly and / sickly it's almost like a very bad sacrifice to us, the
talentless listeners who give over our tiny {seemingly insignificant}
amounts of money in near mindless tithes.
But that doesn't diminish their art. - And so it especially is with WEEN.
Posted by: Testy Stoic Trumpublican at April 25, 2016 04:46 PM (AhiRu)
Where have you been since 1974?
Posted by: joeclark77 at April 25, 2016 04:48 PM (77a35)
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 25, 2016 04:53 PM (nEOHE)
I can do the same job as John "Gringo" Snow, but at half the price!
Posted by: Juan Snow H2B at April 25, 2016 04:58 PM (3b9U4)
**********
Heh. I saw what you did there....
Posted by: Zombie Blackstone at April 25, 2016 05:40 PM (bIhmV)
Posted by: sinalco at April 25, 2016 05:52 PM (yODqO)
I merely re-filed the show as another of the Vagina Monotonies.
Meh. It was good when it was good.
Posted by: S at April 25, 2016 07:14 PM (bHDPP)
The lady who did the killing is a bisexual, with a couple lesbians, who had an sexual relationship with her brother. Making her into an evil murderer who starts wars just reinforces negative LGBTQ stereotypes.
Posted by: wodun at April 25, 2016 08:36 PM (DD0s8)
When men can bear children after nourishing them inside their bodies for nine months, then we'll talk "empowerment."
The power to kill is on the level of being "Aqua Man."
Posted by: Trump's Stubby Fingers at April 25, 2016 08:55 PM (SJ184)
This trivially profound. It's true, yet I can't make anything out of it, though I want to.
Posted by: Grump928(C) needs to muse at April 25, 2016 09:03 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: anonymous irishman at April 25, 2016 09:25 PM (DJgfL)
Check out Tyler O'Neil at PJMedia complaining that it isn't "properly" empowering because the female characters that did it haven't been "properly" developed, with "empowering" backstories, like rape-victim-turned-queen Daenarys, or war-starting, family-destroying Catelyn Stark, or even sympathetic nude-walking, incestuous, murderous Cersei Lannister. (Not to mention otherwise completely irrelevant, but finally in the right place at the right time Brienne of Tarth.)
People on both sides are overeager to portray this show as some transcendent accomplishment, rather than as Ian MacShane put it, just " and dragons".
Posted by: Sam at April 26, 2016 12:40 AM (x15d2)
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