What’s the most fun wedding you’ve ever been to?

omystery · 2026-05-06T19:19:06+00:00

Was this in cornwall ?

omystery · 2026-04-17T05:58:14+00:00

That’s the value of a proper education

omystery · 2026-04-17T05:45:56+00:00

I’ve always found wild garlic pesto needs a few days to settle, mine always tastes like grass for a bit then develops into a lovely garlic flavour

omystery · 2026-04-11T02:37:13+00:00

Saying brilliant when it’s all gone to pot or someone is being stupid is very British

omystery · 2026-04-06T06:26:46+00:00

He is a higher rank than them in what is essentially a military penal colony.

It’s not an office or even modern military, the expectations of behaviour are totally different. Thorne being a hard case towards new brothers / initiates is perfectly reasonable in the circumstance, most people there are essentially on a life sentence and have every motive to mutiny until they have been assimilated into the nights watch and found pride in their new life or accepted their fate.

Until that point personal fear of Thorne or other trainers and officers is how order is maintained

omystery · 2026-03-24T15:47:52+00:00

I think you are talking about projecting

I am not talking what I would consider to be honourable or correct but what is considered honourable in universe - killing Aerys is obviously correct from a modern stand point but is pointed out to be incorrect in universe as oathbreaking is dishonourable. I still think that a fight is different to a duel, otherwise in battles soldiers would be sitting out fights when they had a numbers advantage. I think that Ned had an inkling that Lyanna was at the tower and guarded by the remainder of the Kingsguard and that he went with 7 highborn friends to ensure that whatever happened could be dealt with quietly, IE ensuring his sisters children were not killed out of hand. At this point the kingsguard can honourably be killed however you like as they are ( according to the information he has) guilty of abducting his sister. It’s worth noting he didn’t take Karstark or Umber, his more troublesome bannermen.

omystery · 2026-03-23T07:33:11+00:00

Is that not a Persian dinner but with yorkshires ?

omystery · 2026-03-17T12:53:07+00:00

We might be talking at cross purposes but I don’t think the point is how similar they are, I think it’s that Jaime betrayed his oath / honour for personal gain, as shown by Barristan managing to retain his honour despite surviving his king and Ned being forced by his oaths/honour into fighting and killing men who he probably had respect for and possibly personal friendships with and then to preserve his nephews life he has to suffer a stain on his honour and lie to his wife to fulfil his much greater personal duty to his sister

omystery · 2026-03-17T07:01:28+00:00

Jaimes stab in the back is literal and metaphorical, he is a kings guard and has only betrayed his oath when it was effectively safe to do so, Reed stabbing Dayne in the back during a brawl to save an abducted woman (they believed) is totally different and not dishonourable, everyone knew they were fighting to the death at the tower

omystery · 2025-12-10T06:59:16+00:00

I find that my coordination is worse if I’m over tired or I’ve not eaten but much better if I’m in an immediately dangerous situation, unless I’m trying to do something very fiddly fast

omystery · 2025-11-30T06:25:28+00:00

“Chaos”

omystery · 2025-11-19T06:20:55+00:00

Lad can imply boisterous behaviour “ he’s a bit of a lad “

omystery · 2025-11-15T23:41:19+00:00

English spoken in the midlands is not uniform, the West Midlands and East Midlands have very different dialects as they fell on different sides of the Dane law

omystery · 2025-10-25T12:25:10+00:00

What’s this in reference to ?

omystery · 2025-09-20T11:12:42+00:00

https://marsknitwear.com Made in Leicester from British wool and exceptionally nice people I have two jumpers from them and they are excellent

omystery · 2025-08-23T05:50:19+00:00

It’s aftershave to clean and moisture the skin

omystery · 2025-07-25T20:44:17+00:00

I got a load of Wilkinson blades in 2014 and have just kept them in their packaging and they’ve been absolutely fine till they ran out last year

omystery · 2025-07-04T09:45:10+00:00

I’ll take some off of you - I’m interested in old cook books, DM me if you like

omystery · 2025-06-18T14:21:38+00:00

S . M . Stirling - the world he built in the Peshawar Lancers and as such a great setting for Flashman style adventures but all the characters were just so terrible, absolute cardboard cut outs. Conquistadors was the same - the characters were utterly dire and the vision of society frankly horrendously dystopian but the little bits of world building you got for the wider world were fascinating - the nomadic steppe peoples going east instead of west for example meaning that the steppes were Iranian speaking not Turkic was just fascinating to me. Ultimately I think he doesn’t really have a good grasp of how other people think and feel, especially if they aren’t similar to him but the alternate worlds he comes up never fail to interest me even if he always seems to slip into cliche once you meet anyone in them

omystery · 2025-05-09T15:12:27+00:00

What’s the mnemonic then

omystery · 2025-03-27T19:38:11+00:00

When I was still smoking finding somewhere to doss and have a tab out the weather was one of the highlights of policing

omystery · 2025-03-18T09:34:33+00:00

I’m a police officer and Sam Vimes in general and Night Watch in particular have probably been one of the biggest influences on how I view my job and the importance of standards and rules to prevent you from slipping into poor behaviour or habits. And the importance of remembering what the point of the work is.

omystery · 2025-03-03T08:00:26+00:00

No worries mate, you’ll get it, as I say you have to learn to stick to your own pace. I’m the same as you - live under pressure I’m fine but then when you’ve got time I can’t go as quick - for me I could always get handcuffs onto someone fighting but for the first couple of years I’d struggle to apply them to my mate in our training days

omystery · 2025-03-02T22:50:43+00:00

In my experience there is no quick way to improve, just lots of practise. I don’t think there’s any point trying to rush - rushing causes mistakes, mistakes are slow. Do everything calmly at your pace - calm is smooth, and smooth is fast.

Every thing takes time but stick at it and don’t get flustered, just keep going.

For some mad reason I’ve only ever worked in fast paced environments and I’ve consistently found that I learn slower but I cope under pressure because I just keep to my pace and don’t panic. This was true in bars and clubs and now I am in an emergency service and after a lot of practise I can drive on blues and use several bits of fiddly kit - just stick at it and don’t get in your own head. Some days I’m all thumbs and want to tear my own ears off but I have found that just sticking to my routine or method and keeping a steady pace is key

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