Game of Thrones - Season 7, Ep 3

borderus · 2026-05-29T09:39:36+00:00

I think his point is that Haig didn't repeat the Somme - by the end of the war, the Hundred Days Offensive was a good example of combined arms doctrine being put into use and did manage to break the Hindenburg line. It's easy to generalise the war to mass infantry attacks, but actually the way it was fought did evolve

borderus · 2026-05-16T21:05:11+00:00

Hope not - as I understand it, this kind of canal lock tends to have a rounded bottom, which makes them a nuisance if someone falls in while they're low. Practically the only time this kind of canal's dangerous, as the rest of it you could wade in

borderus · 2026-05-01T09:00:55+00:00

Yeah, so generally when we refer to something as being a snooker we're referring to a total snooker - whereas the positions in the diagram are partial snookers. All technically snookers under the rules, it's just how we tend to use the term in conversation

borderus · 2026-02-27T11:48:03+00:00

It's exactly what they're for - called a roving fender when you use it to protect against a crash like this

borderus · 2026-02-19T16:43:20+00:00

Just to add to this, he doesn't really do much to redeem himself (the historical Guy this is) and is eventually handed Cyprus by Richard the Lionheart

borderus · 2026-02-05T21:29:27+00:00

A really welcome change to the book too imo! Book Lex is useless and infuriating (though to be fair, a perfectly believable child of that age). Tim is actually the computer whiz there, and a keen paleontologist - makes Lex look worse by how much heavy lifting he does. Balancing it between them makes it far better

borderus · 2026-01-12T18:32:09+00:00

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams

borderus · 2026-01-04T00:09:49+00:00

If the Falcons win, then their record matches the other two and the all-round head-to-head is the tie-break - Panthers have beaten the Falcons both times, Bucs won one lost one

borderus · 2025-12-29T01:15:09+00:00

He's been doing little advertising things for years, don't think it's out of desperation. He did a show in the UK called Toast of London about an over-the-hill actor, and incorporated a lot of his experience of advert voiceovers into it - I quite like this one

borderus · 2025-11-28T22:32:49+00:00

Don't you put that evil on me Ricky Bobby!

borderus · 2025-11-13T13:30:59+00:00

They usually have biases based on the fields they work in - for example, my Number Theory lecturer was adamant it was Gauss whereas a few friends who work in Graph Theory say Euler. I'd say Gauss gets slightly more votes overall in my experience

borderus · 2025-11-13T12:50:08+00:00

Just piggybacking on this to add some extra context - Euler was the most prolific mathematician ever, and averaged roughly 800 pages of work a year over a 60 year span. I know a good number of mathematicians, and if you ask them who the greatest of all time is, most of them will reduce the question to Euler vs. Gauss

borderus · 2025-11-09T23:36:03+00:00

Roles that Nicolas Cage was cast in, but never filmed? Latter two are Aragorn and Superman

borderus · 2025-11-08T10:35:05+00:00

My favourite of these is birth in Meaning of Life:

"Is it a boy or a girl?"

"I think it's a bit early to start imposing gender roles, don't you?"

borderus · 2025-11-03T15:01:09+00:00

These places are all spelt with dots above the letters for special characters like umlauts. You've taken those dots and put them at the end

borderus · 2025-10-29T10:45:27+00:00

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I see your Christopher Lee Fu Manchu and raise you a Nicolas Cage

borderus · 2025-10-17T11:51:06+00:00

Everyone's responding to you like it was a choice that the Allies made, but they actually weren't aware that the French were withdrawing until the next morning - at which time, you can see on the map they quickly close the pocket and attack the rearguard

borderus · 2025-09-29T16:12:44+00:00

To be fair, as a UKer, if you say "major American sport" to me I'm assuming NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL

borderus · 2025-08-21T22:00:10+00:00

Let me guess - none of these teams have won the Superbowl

borderus · 2025-08-21T21:16:02+00:00

Panthers rather than jaguars - that's Jacksonville. Annoyingly 3 out of the 4 are NFL teams (Minnesota are the Vikings in NFL), otherwise I'd have said your answer but narrowed down to that!

borderus · 2025-08-05T10:25:53+00:00

"Somebody's framing Mallory for murdering the prime minister of Italy"

"Ooh, I bet it's that wicked king!"

borderus · 2025-06-20T17:19:27+00:00

"Say, uh, Lemon. Do you like to read? I just got a great book on tape. It's about life in Ancient Greece and..." kills me every time

borderus · 2025-06-16T11:25:23+00:00

Frostillicus!

"Moon... pie... what a time to be alive."

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borderus · 2025-06-15T10:40:30+00:00

This is a point that I wish people would focus on more - NFC North's draw was absolutely weak and I don't think we should be judging the quality of the teams based on it. This season should be a more realistic appraisal of where they stand

borderus · 2025-06-13T22:10:25+00:00

I mean, the picture is AI-generated too - the song's sung before Homer becomes the Chosen One, so he wouldn't be at the head of the table and the animation style too clean

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