Goddammit now I just want to post a bunch of spoilers.

Edit to add: Would give me a chance to put off this document drafting due tomorrow even more though, but you deserve the joy and shock we have all felt at different moments.

I need to watch GoT. It's all I hear about.

Le spoilers

Yes

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Saw someone with a FLUFF HED vanity plate on a minivan the other day. This wasn't you was it?

Don't search Google or watch Youtube for anything about the show or you'll get spoilered.

http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Winter_is_Coming

Use that if you have questions (you will). Only read the episode pages. Don't click any of the character pages.

You ate my fractal

Greatest man on earth. As someone raised Catholic, it makes me ill to know how much more influence the Church/Pope has than this man, and yet will never have a message so universal and positive for the world.

He's speaking at Tulane's graduation this year, I'm probably going to check it out

Finished Beyond Religion by the Dalai Lama last week.

Fantastic book that I would recommend to anybody of any faith.

Going to have to check out some of his stuff

I think I'll get it soon.

He published a book of limericks that was pretty good, if not a bit crass and dirty.

Soon? Cl.ark will buy it for you, he already offered. It tickles his inner grasshopper to be able to provide such a gift.

People who show up late to a group event are terrible. My wife's extended family is like this, and has been for 14 years now.

Every god damn year we meet at the same god damn Saltgrass at 11:30 for MIL and her twin's birthday (yes, not only do I have a mother-in-law, but there is another person who is identical to her in every way - YAY! Double the fun!)

The extended family is like 20 people. Wife and I are always the first to show up, usually at about 11:25. Every year it's me saying "God I hate your family - we're going to be the only ones there again." lol.

Sure enough we are. We also meet on Sunday so no alcohol until noon at the bar.

Most people show up by noon. 1 chick (wife's cousin) will literally show up at like 12:30. Her husband and their 3 kids will get there around 11:45 and she, inexplicably, will arrive at 12:30. WTF is she doing when the other 4 members of her family are all somewhere else!?

RAGE. Her extended family meets up about 20 times a year, so this isn't like a rare thing.

I hate people that are always late, it would probably ruin a friendship. I'm always 15 minutes early to everything, it's not anyone else's fault that I am so I don't care if they are on time.

But when someone shows up 20 minutes late, and I was 15 minutes early, that means I'm sitting there forever. Drives me insane.

Yep, 100% agreed. It becomes a trust/honesty thing as well as a convenience/logistics thing - can you take their word at face value? There's a ceiling for any relationship in which that isn't the case.

For habitually late people, it's basically their way of letting everyone know "I respect and value my time much more than I do you and yours".

If they respect everyone's time so little, they shouldn't agree to show up. Just don't even come so we can ****ing eat on time, please.

if someone is late then just dont wait for them and take the table for four. they can get their own table

Agree with SHARK DOCTOR that habitual and predictable lateness patterns really speak volumes about a person.

Just agreed to a $50 freeroll to eat a bag (about 4 oz) of ghost pepper flavored beef jerky at around 2:30 today.

Let's see how this goes

yougonnagetraped

srsly

I mean, half of this time is your fault. I definitely lean more towards being early than late, but I try to get places on time, not deliberately early.