Reply With QuoteIt's not on "TV" it's on HBO, a premium subscription channel that you must pay extra for. It isn't "broadcast" over the airwaves.Originally Posted by Zoetstofzoetje
in San Quentin, CA (state prison)
1. Peanut Butter packs
2. Top Ramen soups (dry)
3. Clean Stamps (unused)
4. NSF Envelopes (non suffiecent funds)
5. Coffee
I know cause I work there....thank god
anti steam and proud of it
CDO ....its OCD in alpha order like it should be
It's not on "TV" it's on HBO, a premium subscription channel that you must pay extra for. It isn't "broadcast" over the airwaves.
"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain
Yep. In the US, you must pay extra for freedom.
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "
Wait a minute. Paying extra for HBO = paying extra for freedom? I'm sorry, that's one leap of logic you're going to have to explain to me...
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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I think it's more like a small hop for most people.
Oh, he means censorship. Thought he meant that not being allowed to watch HBO without paying for it was some sort of infringement on freedom. Yeah, I can't really argue with that. FCC
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Another setup episode. :yawn:
ACK!
"Foof." - Sasquatch.
Yeah, but we've now gotten most of the backstory out of the way and met all the primaries from the first book so things should get going full throttle shortly.
"In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Quite liked that episode.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
Carcetti is Littlefinger? Awesome.
Do not take anything I say seriously. It's just the Internet. It's not real life.
I started this series 4 years ago on a suggestion from someone here when I asked for a book similar to the Assain's Apprentice series. Having had to take breaks for school, work, and babies, I am now on the last book (Feast for Crows) and am really loving it. I can't wait to watch the movie.
Watched episode 2.
It's sloooooooooow.
The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
Dwarf is awesome...oh, hey, question to reignite the theft argument.
I download the show but rent a room in a house that has sky and is paid for by someone else. I do not pay for Sky yet have access to it. Sky shows Game of Thrones (albeit after I download it).
Am I committing copyright infringement?
You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.
Yes.
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Shut up, I'm trying to bait Guy.
You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.
Reading is fundamental.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
Boo.
You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.
I've read the first 3 books and am partway through 4 now.
Holy **** does this guy do baaaaaaaad things to his characters. Like, all of them. It's so over the top it's starting to seriously annoy me. I daren't actually care about/root for anybody.
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
Just think of it as a literary game of survivor. You know which player is getting offed by the amount of coverage they get. BY the time you get around to liking a character in the book, lights out.
"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter
I hate survivor and everything it stands for. Hrm. But I'm 3 1/4 books in! I'm invested now. Bastards.
-Arrian
grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.
[Nelson Laugh]
Ha Ha!
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"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter
Wife just bought the books for me. Gonna dive into it sometime in the next week or two.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
And when you've done that, brush your teeth and start reading the books.
The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
Well played.
"My nation is the world, and my religion is to do good." --Thomas Paine
"The subject of onanism is inexhaustable." --Sigmund Freud
As someone enjoying this series mainly by reading about it here, I would appreciate it those of you with the means continued to update those of us without on how the latest episode was.....
/me
The past is history. Tomorrow's a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Introduced some fat kid, Stark did lots of investigating, and his wife arrested the dwarf. Looks like things will get messy in the next one.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
And we get to see Bronn. Yay Bronn!
Stop Quoting Ben
latest episode:As someone enjoying this series mainly by reading about it here, I would appreciate it those of you with the means continued to update those of us without on how the latest episode was.....
/me
Felicia stops by the Forrester mansion to see her mother, who tells her about Taylor and Nick's battle for custody of baby Jack. Stephanie feels that Taylor's drinking is not a reason by itself to take the baby away, but Felicia admits that she could see why Nick would be concerned. Stephanie agrees that Nick has a right to worry, but she also thinks that Nick and Brooke are going about this the wrong way, since taking Taylor's child from her won't help any of them. Changing the subject, Felicia asks about Eric. Stephanie explains that Eric is still living here, but she's not going to read too much into that. At the same time, she thinks that Eric, after years of waiting, has finally seen that she's capable of compassion, and she thinks that could bring about the miracle she's been hoping for that will keep Eric and the family together. Felicia seems surprised by her mother's reference to "compassion" and "miracles" and asks Stephanie what plan she has up her sleeve to keep Eric with the family.
really good episode last night.
And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?". t s eliot
There are a number of things annoying me about this show.
Firstly, they've got a "What the **** is going on?" Man, played by Iain Glen. A "What the **** is going on?" Man is a character existing only as a plot device to patiently explain to the viewer what the **** is going on, in contrived dialogue with another character. Put bluntly, he's the fiction equivalent of a link to Wikipedia.
That appears to be all he's there for. We can be sure he won't die, at least not until Blonde Bint has been fully assimilated in the Ludicrous Barbarian Horde, because if he did die, the viewer would be left baffled.
"What the **** is going on?" Men were perfectly acceptable in fairy tales, where they'd pop up briefly as a "wise old man", impart a piece of crucial plot-advancing info, then bugger off again- but that's because fairy tales were designed to be told in ten minutes to an unsophisticated audience. In a massive fantasy opus, it's just lazy writing.
Secondly there's the Ludicrous Barbarian Horde. Real-life nomadic tribes are fascinating cultures with rich beliefs and iconographies- but if this bunch were depicted any more sketchily they'd be stick men. Blonde Bint is trying to learn their language, and it really wouldn't surprise me if the entire lexicon consisted of "horse", "foal", "pony", "saddle", "bridle" and "kill everything that doesn't have hooves".
The Ludicrous Barbarian Horde are a ravening plague, sweeping all civilisation before them, but three hours in and they've done nothing more than potter around grasslands, very slowly. In fur bikinis. And it's "horse" this, and "horse" that, and "horse off, you horsing horse!". I think we've got the "horse" motif unshakeably established by now, guys. Finally, in episode three, we get a glimpse of their religion in a couple of places, and what does it turn out to be? The Great Stallion. **** you.
I'm trying to think of a more one-dimensional people depicted on celluloid, and the only thing that comes close are the Arabs in "Team America: World Police".
Then you've got the barbarian leader, who is a cross between Ming the Merciless and Freddie Mercury's very wettest dream. He's there to look muscled and gay. Not to talk or act, clearly. His character arc, and that of Blonde Bint, is to show how cultural assimilation is achieved by having the lady go on top when shagging. In episode one he was brutally deflowering her like a doggy-style jackhammer, but by episode three they're dreamily snuggly-wuggly cuddly and just about to talk about feelings and kittens and ****. By episode five the arc will be completed by her violently buggering him with a strap-on while bellowing "I'M THE ****ING DADDY NOW, *****!!".
That whole Barbarian horde arc is rubbish. It's nowhere near as interesting as the game I'm now playing with Blonde Fop Incest Man, which is trying to guess when he'll attempt a new facial expression. He's three episodes in with the same fixed mask of smug nonchalence, and the suspense is now reaching Hitchcock levels. I can't rule out the possibility that he attempted a grimace while approaching the vinegar stroke with his sister in episode one, but I was wholly engrossed by boobs at the time.
The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
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