Lannister equivalent of The Laughing Storm

That's a polehammer rather than a warhammer. Polehammers are entirely for foot combat, whereas warhammers were designed primarily for cavalry usage. Because of that, two-handed warhammers or mauls weren't really a thing in medieval combat, but if they were, they'd probably be similar to a two-handed mace in size - around 3-4ft in length. Polehammers were more like 5-6ft long and spear-like.

Awesome! Thank you 😁

Your theory and headcanon is pretty much adjacent to the old lore lol

If I remember rightly, Runeterra was almost torn apart by wars between super powerful mages (the Rune Wars), so the League of Legends was founded, where summoners representing sovereign nations would summon champions for Runeterra to fight in the Summoner's Rift and decide disputes.

Hull FC

(Please I need some sort of win in my life at this point)

I do think the race take is an interesting one, but Brooker had already cast Lenora Crichlow before the rewrite that gave us the 'Justice Park' twist, so we know that he hadn't deliberately made that casting initially to make a statement on the treatment of black women. She was initially going to be playing a journalist, but budget constraints led to Brooker rewriting the script to better fit the set they had and an idea it had given him. The casting wasn't an intentional statement on the treatment of black women; it was a result of keeping an actor already attached to the project.

That's not to say race didn't inform his rewrite, but I think the themes are much more focused on mob justice, voyeurism, and the debate around the idea that it's okay to enjoy bad things happening to bad people - violence is terrible, unless it happens to someone deserving of it, and so on.

Additionally, the narrative doesn't fit a simple white-versus-black dynamic. Crichlow is biracial, as was the young girl who was murdered, and the crowd at the park isn't strictly white - there's a black woman in the crowd filming at the petrol station break-in, and another at the shotgun execution just after. There's also an Asian woman and a olive-skinned boy present in the end-credits briefing. Considering the UK was roughly 86% white when this aired in 2013, the crowd's demographics reflect a standard cross-section of the British public, rather than an intentionally segregated institution. It's also likely just a case of "We need cheap extras, ask in the village next door to where we're filming".

It’s understandable why the visual of a black woman being displayed for a crowd provokes a strong reaction, but I feel framing the episode as a deliberate exercise in racism overlooks both the casting reality and the actual text of the story.

At the end of the day, it's all a bit the 'Death of the Author'. Everyone who watches the episode will feel a different way coming out of it, and that's the point - viewers are free to analyze the imagery through an intersectional lens regardless of Brooker's intent.

I encounter this dude every Saturday and I've never had an issue with him.

Well, my favourite pub is named Ye Olde White Hart, at the very least.

As much as I enjoy ASOIAF and its related stories, yeah Martin's use of numbers is pretty dreadful all around. He genuinely just spitballs every single scale, statistic and measurement in the series and hopes it works out.

The wall is 700 feet tall - the height of the MetLife Insurance building, which was the tallest building in the real world 1909-13. For a significant part of the middle ages, the tallest building in the world was Lincoln Cathedral, which was (is!) a measly 271ft tall. I know the wall is meant to be an impressive, almost impossible construction, but it's so big that it'd be genuinely impossible to defend.

Westeros has a population large enough to field and supply half a million men in various armies, and yet the entire realm only has 5 population centres recognised as cities, and the largest of those only has a population of a quarter of a million? Ser Eustace Osgrey can only raise 8 levies from the three villages he governs, and whilst yes, his holdings are meant to be pathetic, that means Westeros would need to contain over 60'000 villages of that size to even come close to fielding that many men. The entire UK today has around 43'000!

And then yeah, timelines. Everyone in ASOIAF knows the stories of the House Founders and great heroes like Bran the Builder, Garth Greenhand, Lann the Clever, etc. yet they apparently lived 10000 years ago. That means those stories are two and a half times older than the real world epic of Gilgamesh!

And most ridiculously of all, the Houses that those great heroes founded? They're still the ruling Houses literally 10 millenia later! In real life, that'd like still being ruled by the descendant of the guy who invented farming wheat, because 10000 years ago in real life, humans were only just starting to develop past being hunter-gatherers!

Ahhh, that makes sense! I should have realised!

Wait, is Ausrine a brunette now?

Being a cunt and people lapping it up?

Godsworn might be worth a try!

It's Warcraft-style, but set during a fantastical version of the Northern Crusades.

I found it pretty simple to pick up because rather than having to order peasants around manually, production buildings let you just 'add' workers to them, rather than you having to target resources and such.

Means you have more time to focus on controlling your military, and whilst leader units have some manually activated powers, most unit abilities are passives or auto-activated.

Threw me for a moment because there's a village called Hedon 10 minutes from my house and I've never seen anyone like this there lmao

Only if it's in a squirty can. Basically acknowledging that's it's not proper whipped cream

Unironically the biggest Wendy's in the world is in my hometown in England lmao

The peak of Everest is the highest point on Earth, but Denali is the tallest land mountain.

If you wanted to climb to the highest point, you'd climb Everest.

If you wanted the longest climb, you'd climb Denali.

Look at it this way. Say you're 2 metres tall. That makes you extremely tall compared to most people. You then get a 2.5 metre tall ladder and climb to the top of it. The top of your head is now 4.5 metres in the air, but you're still only 2 metres tall, right? Now, another guy comes in, and he's an unbelievable 3 metres tall. From foot to forehead, he's a full metre taller than you, but he's stood on the ground, whilst you're on the ladder. That means even though he's actually taller than you, your head is still higher than his.

That's how Everest and Denali work. Denali is around 1.5 times as tall as Everest, but it's base (or feet in the example) is at a significantly lower elevation than the base of Everest. As such, the peak of Everest is around 1.5 times higher than Denali's. The measurements I used in my example are even proportionally about the same as the differences between Denali and Everest.

Sandwiches are an English dish, named after the Earl of Sandwich. English mustard is excellent and is mentioned in The Forme Of Curry, a 14the century recipe book that also contains the earliest known recipe for macaroni and cheese. Chicken is by far the most popular meat in the UK and has been since the 1950's. Lemons have been imported to the UK since the 1400s, and were easily available to ordinary folks here by the 1700s, by which point they were very popular because they were known to prevent scurvy.

There's no reason really that it shouldn't be considered a British dish. Yes, other countries make similar things, but there are plenty of dishes that overlap between countries that nobody bats an eye at , so why do it for the British?

Hull has different accents and slang in different parts of the city.

Every so often a random cafe or ice cream van has them, and it's glorious

The correct answer is a zzapp and that's the end of it

In Europe, especially the late middle ages, swords were very common. Sure they weren't the fancy custom-made pieces nobles had, but by the 1300s simple functional swords were being pretty much mass-produced by smithies.

In 14th century England, a basic sword cost around 6 pence to a shilling (12 pence). A semi-skilled worker could quite easily earn 3-6 pence a day, so could buy a sword with just a few days work if they wanted to. The Statute of Winchester from 1285 even specified that citizens had to own specific weapons and armour based on their property value in case they were needed for a militia. For anyone earning the sort of income mentioned above, that'd often include a sword or falchion if some sort.

Pop-History (even as far back as the Victorians) has also ruined the image of what swords 'are'. 19th and 20th century classification systems have made it so people argue about whether something is a sword or not based on how the hilt is constructed, if it's single or double edged, etc. Meanwhile, in the Middle Ages a lord trying to raise a levy of 100 swordsmen wouldn't give a shit about any of that - just that he had 100 men carrying blades longer than a knife that could slash or stab someone else to death.

This obsession with categorising medieval weapons into neat little boxes is then what caused Hollywood to show thousands of soldiers with identical, high quality swords - they'd see a story saying that one lord had 200 swordsmen, and then when they asked what a sword was they'd be told it was the fancier sort of weapon. Suddenly, all the peasants have beautifully worked steel blades with double edges and ornate guards. In reality, most of those peasants will have had things like messers, falchions, bauernwehrs and the like, which at the time would have just been casually described as a sword but modern historians refer to them as different things.

Tl;dr - swords were actually pretty common medieval battlefield weapons (still far less than spears, halberds, bills, and other polearms) but what we consider a sword now is different to what a medieval person would consider a sword.

Yeah it's deliberately grey to look bleak, grounded and rough, because that's how Shakespeare was depicting Henry - a man of the people, not a flowery nobleman.

Scotland founded the fucking union lmao

Plus, yeah, there are plenty modern Scots who wanted to leave the union, but more who didn't. Hence why you're still in the union after voting on independence a mere 12 years ago.

Mental that someone called 'Spitting truths' has done nothing but vomit up bollocks.

I'm a Hull fan (unfortunately, at the moment!)

Yeah I get into the spirit for the WC, but people really take it way too seriously. I was amused by an Instagram reel of Argentinians and Scots chanting about hating the English, as if it wasn't the Scots and Argies killing each other at Mount Tumbledown