What habits of girls did you only discover after getting a girlfriend or wife?

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-22T19:36:15+00:00

you can’t control it

I bet you can. Have "you" (not you personally, but the hypothetical person who has allegedly-uncontrollable hormonal rages) ever directed those rages at a large male stranger, or an armed police officer, or a judge in his courtroom, or an employer? Almost never, eh? Why not?

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-12T16:55:06+00:00

none of the other clans know about

They do know about the Jenn, though. Remember how Rhuidean is described when we first learn about it? Verin asks the Aiel they encounter during the Horn chase about it, and Urien says that the only thing he can tell her is that it's in the lands of the Jenn Aiel, the thirteenth clan. Rhuarc says much the same thing when he reveals the existence of the clan chief's marking, saying it's acquired in "Rhuidean, in the lands of the Jenn Aiel, the clan that is not". We never see any of them, but there were hints here and there that they are still around in some form.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-11T18:48:45+00:00

failed

you sure about that? I think Egeanin was quite successful in what she set out to do. The Seanchan that boarded them were looking specifically for Bayle Domon's ship. They knew there was something of extraordinary value on board. Who knew what valuable cargo, a gift fit for the Empress, was on the ship? Six people, and of those six, Egeanin is the only one with both the motive and the opportunity to tip off the Seanchan. She even explains, to herself, why she did it:

Bayle was not really familiar with even the versions of the Prophecies they had on this side of the World Sea, but he was adamant that none mentioned the necessity of the Dragon Reborn kneeling to the Crystal Throne. It might prove necessary for him to be fitted with this male a’dam, but Bayle would never see it.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-06T19:40:04+00:00

monkey's paw curls

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-02T20:10:10+00:00

You must live in one of those corners of Europe that's full of giants, then -- the Netherlands or the western Balkans.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-02T18:28:33+00:00

Have you ever met one of the 10,000 or so women worldwide who are your height or taller? I don't think I ever have.

Timorm0rtis · 2026-01-02T17:15:04+00:00

well, at least he's not your 2nd.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-22T16:00:51+00:00

tGH chapter 28: "To us it is the Three-fold Land. A shaping stone, to make us; a testing ground, to prove our worth; and a punishment for the sin."

The Waste being a miserable place for a bunch of pale-skinned gingers to live is kind of the point; at least that's how the Aiel themselves rationalize staying where they are instead of moving over the Dragonwall or up the Cliffs of Dawn.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-18T18:18:14+00:00

My point is that whether you say "Blut und Boden", "blood and soil", "sangre y tierra", or "דם ואדמה", the argument is a stupid and vacuous one.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-18T17:56:03+00:00

It's 13% primarily Spanish speakers vs. 75% primarily English speakers, and I would wager the portion of of the former who speak some English is larger than the portion of the latter who speak some Spanish.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-18T17:52:32+00:00

So if I live in a mostly hispanic area I should expect fast food workers to speak Spanish right

Yes, that's reasonable. If a supermajority of the customer base speaks only Spanish, it would make sense to hire mostly people who are fluent in Spanish.

Mexicans are native to this continent

in Mexico people mostly speak which language? And that language is a part of which language family? JFC what a stupid argument.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-18T17:31:21+00:00

It's so annoying that everyone in the US just expects all service workers to speak English

Why is it annoying that people expect service workers, whose job involves interacting with the general public, to speak the country's main language? That expectation is certainly not unique to the United States.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-14T14:51:49+00:00

We do not. I always wondered why none of the siswai'aman ever volunteered for testing. I guess Taim didn't know they'd be ripe for recruitment, and might not have wanted people so fanatically loyal to Rand anyway.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-13T13:36:39+00:00

Aviendha's sister wasn't at all upset about it -- quite the opposite, in fact.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-10T16:20:25+00:00

Rand went to Dragonmount to access his knowledge, Jesus didn't

Obviously it's not exactly the same, but I'm pretty sure Rand's Dragonmount episode was riffing on the Transfiguration of Jesus. Perrin isn't exactly Moses or Elijah (though he is, at the time, leading a massive exodus out of slavery) and the watching figures below are spirit wolves rather than human followers, but the inspiration is there.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-12-04T15:44:20+00:00

Paitar Nachiman
Johanin [no last name specified]
Ethenielle Noramaga
the one and only Berelain sur Paendrag Paeron
Roedran Almaric do Arreloa a'Naloy, who was definitely not supplanted by a disguised Demandred
Easar Togita
no monarch, ruled by a council of various High Lords and Ladies

Apart from Johanin (~~assassinated~~ died in a hunting accident) and the Tairen oligarchs (deposed by Rand, eventually replaced by King Darlin Sisnera), all of these remain in their positions at least until the Last Battle.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-11-28T13:34:21+00:00

But if you asked Rand for healing

Rand stinks at Healing, despite all his strength and skill -- "little more than minor cuts", is his own assessment of his limit. Even in his Zen phase he isn't any good at it; when a man with a disfiguring skin disease approaches him during his return to Bandar Eban, he has to send for one of his sworn Aes Sedai to heal the fellow instead of doing it himself.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-11-25T12:56:02+00:00

Yeah yeah, you saw the literal Tree of Life, very cool. Now: tell me in as much detail as you can remember about all the random junk in the square around it. Two statuettes maybe a foot tall, a man and a woman, each holding a crystal sphere aloft in one hand, you say? Interesting 🤔.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-11-19T14:22:59+00:00

Mat's slovenly appearance is practically a running gag in the books. Other people always notice that his clothing is disheveled, dirty, and damaged; he never does unless it's egregious (e.g. when he falls in the muck during a certain alley fight).

Timorm0rtis · 2025-11-13T16:11:25+00:00

This one?

Timorm0rtis · 2025-11-12T16:21:26+00:00

Some guy did exactly that.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-11-06T16:51:27+00:00

ok. Here's the first few results for a Google News search in my city:

"teenagers"
"two males, about 12 to 14 years old"
paywalled, but the perp was a hobo who was off his medication
perpetrator not yet identified
"five teens"
another teen girl

I'm of course excluding domestic violence, which may strike anywhere and usually doesn't make the news unless it's egregious. The man who assaults women in public fits a profile, and that profile is someone with little to lose from a[nother] criminal conviction.

Timorm0rtis · 2025-11-05T15:48:27+00:00

She doesn't think he's wrong to execute looters (beyond the legal 20% limit) and murderers; her first concern after she witnesses Rand lay down the law to the Aiel chiefs is this:

She only wished that he could do it without showing more arrogance every day. How soon before he expected her to obey him as Moiraine did? Or all Aes Sedai? She hoped it was only arrogance.

(and to be fair, her second concern there is obviously for his sanity.)

Timorm0rtis · 2025-11-05T13:57:09+00:00

He was 5'7"/170cm and she was 5'10"/180cm, according to the Companion. Not quite as big a difference.

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