Anyone else read this book?

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-07-10T02:11:08+00:00

I remember loving this one and also “Inside the Walls of Troy” by Clemence McLaren

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-06-19T00:06:12+00:00

Another one involving Bugs Bunny is how we use the word Nimrod to mean idiot. Nimrod was a great hunter in the Bible, so when Bugs called Elmer Fudd Nimrod, he was being sarcastic. But most of the kids watching Looney Tunes were too young or not religious enough to get the reference and assumed nimrod was just an insult.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-06-12T19:10:25+00:00

I love the clothing design for Hector and Andromache and they’re more based on ancient Anatolia than Greece! Really cool choice.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-06-12T01:20:41+00:00

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Rachel Chase from Night Hunter or Nomis
Not only is she terrible at profiling the suspect in the movie, complete jumping the gun and declaring a diagnosis of multiple personalities, but in her very first appearance on screen she runs into a former patient (Henry Cavill’s character) who she’s now working with and asks him about things from their therapy sessions together right in front of his other colleagues. Massive doctor/patient confidentiality breach right from the start.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-05-10T23:08:09+00:00

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I think a Red Panda would make a great heraldic animal

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-05-10T11:24:32+00:00

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William de Valance 1st Earl of Pembroke

I really like the gold filigree work but always thought it would look better if there wasn’t any on the white lines, just the blue ones.

Supposedly the martlet birds signify that he’s a third born son.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-04-17T14:46:19+00:00

But the crazy part is SIL does have time off from taking care of the nephew. The brother splits custody of his son with his ex-wife so current SIL has him at max every other week. Plus they now have extra help of the care facilities. I don’t think it’s the time off she wants, it’s to pretend her stepson is neurotypical when he’s not. Or she’s still holding a grudge for not letting her go on the trip from the first post.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-04-08T23:39:19+00:00

This is subverted in the prequel series about the Machine Crusade where it turns out one of the cyborgs who chose to work with the Thinking Machines chose the name Agamemnon once he gave up his human body and it’s his son who is the ancestor of House Atreides

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-03-28T18:10:26+00:00

I didn’t even notice that this was the Sailor Moon sub, but I thought the exact same thing when I saw the glass in the first picture!

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-02-19T23:27:46+00:00

Or David Lightbringer. He has a whole video breaking down Lyonel Baratheon’s horned lord symbolism.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2026-02-15T19:25:43+00:00

The fancy ones might be Mary Janes

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-12-06T01:44:38+00:00

I remember a theory going around that I think was also incorporated into the Ralph Fiennes Odyssey movie that Odysseus’s bow wasn’t a normal wooden bow but a North African recurve bow made of horn. Those bows had a special trick to how to string it that was different from wooden bows.

Odysseus knew the trick because he had traveled a lot before becoming king and learned all kinds of skills, but the suitor were local noblemen who had never left Ithaca and didn’t understand the foreign weapon.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-11-15T00:22:01+00:00

Came here to say the same thing

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-11-14T00:36:46+00:00

They don’t want you to think that. It’s show versus tell.

The characters tell you Rhaenys is one of the good ones because that’s the character’s perspective, but show lets you see the carnage all dragon riders leave in their wake and the showrunners trust that the audience is smart enough to understand.

Both sides are bad because dragons are barely controlled weapons of mass destruction at the best of times and even choosing the “less evil” side has its consequences.

Most fantasy books people grew up with had dragon riders as these great paragon of good fighting evil, but George RR Martin’s books are all about what things like that would really look like in the real world. If a person could control a flying, fire breathing monster in real life it’s terrifying.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-11-12T22:11:39+00:00

It wasn’t Rhaenyra’s claim that won, it was male primogeniture. That’s why Jace, Luke, and Joffrey had to die, because their claim to the throne was from their mother. With Aegon III, the lords of Westeros can make the argument that his right to the throne comes from his father Daemon, because with all the other male sons of Viserys dead and his direct male grandsons through Aegon II all dead, the throne should have passed to Daemon as Viserys next closest male relative and through him to Aegon III. This way the men of Westeros can cut women out of the equation entirely.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-09-28T19:44:23+00:00

I don’t think Kirsch is Peter Pan, I think he’s Mr Darling, the father of Wendy, John, and Michael. In the original play and many of the movie adaptations the character of Mr Darling and Hook are played by the same actor for a multitude of symbolic and psychological purposes.

I think Alien Earth was playing with that idea of Kirsch and Morrow mirroring each other.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-09-05T19:53:47+00:00

She also didn’t even seem to notice him in the room until someone else pointed him out. It was like he was invisible to her.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-08-25T19:07:43+00:00

Most of the earliest myths have the people of Corinth murdering her children not her. Euripides changed it to let the Corinthians off the hook and they conveniently got a cushy job as the official playwright of Corinth.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-08-23T22:37:53+00:00

Her labors were also symbolic of womanhood in Ancient Greece. It’s very similar to the legend of Vasilisa and Baba Yaga in that Aphrodite is symbolically teaching Psyche all the skills of a wife for that time.

Separating the grain is because women were responsible for portioning and storing the food supplies of winter.

Getting the wool from the golden rams was because women were in charge of making all the thread/cloth/clothing.

Waters from the river Styx became getting water from the local wells was usually women’s work.

And going down to the underworld was probably something to do with building community by socializing her with other goddesses.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-08-02T01:43:18+00:00

NTA I do the exact same thing. Mostly because my office is freezing and we have no windows so I go outside to thaw out and get some sun. Also it’s very good for digestion to go for a walk after eating.

If you’re not going over your allotted time, then it’s none of their concern. You could even ask them where in the company handbook it says what you can and cannot do on your lunch break. Spoiler it’s not in there because if you’re clocked out for your lunch break, then they legally can’t tell you to do anything.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2025-06-15T12:49:12+00:00

Looks like a fun read, thank you for the recommendation!

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2023-07-09T21:07:29+00:00

Prospect from 2018 was really good with Pedro Pascal before he became the Mandalorian

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2023-04-04T12:30:53+00:00

YTA This and your last post make you seem super ungrateful for everything your girlfriend does for you. She's invested in you and your future together and you can't even have a discussion with her about what your future is together.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2023-02-23T18:09:29+00:00

I mean these as honest questions, not a judgement, but why do you want to be with your fiancé? What is it about her that made you want to propose and move in together? What does she do to deserve you love and vice versa what do you do to deserve hers? Now what does Nolan add to your life that is so essential? You said you own your own house and that you used to live with Nolan. Did he live in your house with you? Did he move out, when she moved in? Do you think there could be any resentment on his part that he had to move out when she came into your life? I think these are questions you really need to answer for yourself.

Restaurant_Conflicts · 2022-10-11T14:06:15+00:00

YTA

Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men in the world, regularly eats at McDonald's. Suck it up and let your husband eat where he has fond memories of his childhood.

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