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That's not my understanding of what happened with Ehrman, I thought he liberalized his views for a while before becoming totally secular.

If you haven't already, might want to try a kong with a frozen treat inside. If the behavior only happens when you aren't home, its a tough problem. Maybe start by leaving the house for 5 minutes, and if he doesn't chew on the furniture, or chews with his toys, then give him a treat. Keep upping the time, and possibly you can condition him not to shred what he's not supposed to. But I'm no dog expert, just an owner, and haven't had to deal with problem my dog causes when I'm away, really only when I'm home so its been easier.

Let me start with the obvious - does he have ample chew toys ?

Tried getting my dog a bed, but he just ripped it to shreds.

Agree on both counts. Biggest problem with Sons of Anarchy was "too much, too soon" that I didn't find it at all credible. I think in the first two episodes, there's something like they kill a half dozen rival bikers in some type of raid, and destroy a cop car while the cop witnesses it, and there are zero reprecussions. The impression I got from The Walking Dead, was it was basically Lost, except with a zombie apocalypse instead of being trapped on a island.

Just finished Iron Fist Season 2. I agree it was better acting than 1, though I still think the dialogue was flat in many places WTF was up with the ending?

The only one I can drink straight is Southern Comforts

Selling your info is how they make money. There's been lots of alternatives to Facebook/Twitter going to back to 2010. Google+, Diaspora, Friendica, etc. For some reason they never caught on.

If going by "Hollywood standards", I can definitely see this.

Talk about a rage quit ...

Sounds gross, but not really. If you put mayo on a burger, why not on a meatball sub? Also mayo is based on eggs and most meatball recipes I've seen use egg. Here's my unpopular opinion: While I love classic rock (like 70s/80s classic rock), Foreigner sucked and didn't write one good song and I can't understand why anyone liked them.

Could be the balance between aerobic organisms that take in O2 expel CO2, and photosynthetic organisms that take in CO2 and produce O2.

Conspiracy theory: Modern art is a scam by rich people, possibly to launder money, or maybe to avoid taxes

I had no idea you can score one point in Canadian football, thats not a extra point after a TD.

Who's going to dismantle them? Best case is a ecumenical council (like Vatican III ) and the RCC liberalizes (to a certain extent)

Always wondered what those stormtroopers were saying who watched the fight: Stormtrooper 1: "20 bucks says Vader takes down the old man in under a minute" Stormtrooper 2: "Ok you're on"

I wonder if this is a breaking point for the RCC, where they will either have to accept women/married persons in the priesthood, or risk fading into obscurity.

I think there should be a law where if you own a gun you have to have insurance for any damages that gun may cause, similar to car insurance laws. It irks me that the rest of the society is left footing the bill for the fallout of what amounts to a hobby for one segment of society Another idea might be a special tax on guns, with the funds being used to payout damages. Actually I think there already is one, but it isn't nearly enough from what I've read.

I think the best plan now is probably a hard Brexit, but which is phased in over several years somehow. The UK being part of the EU one day, and then gone the next day would be a disaster. So maybe you start customs checks for certain goods, but not for others. Any tariffs would agree to be phased in over time, not hit all at once. Not sure how they would deal with immigration.

So, you can't have a land border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland The UK doesn't want a sea border between itself and Northern Ireland This whole thing is a ****show. Maybe they should just do a revote.

They can, but GRRM, to my recollection, never put us inside Littlefinger's mind. What we know of him, we know only from his dialogue and his actions. Probably because he knows too much.

I know books have way more time to develop characters and alot has to be cut out. If the show 1) invests time in a character, but then later 2) does not have time to have the character's action make sense in terms of the plot/established motives/personalities, there's no reason to have the character there at all. My Blackfish example. In season 3, we see the Blackfish seizing the bow from Edmure who repeatedly fails to hit Old Man Tully's funeral pyre. it establishes him as the "competent" one. So what makes you think he would go down in a pointless blaze of glory despite having the perfect opportunity to escape. The only reason being the writers deciding "We don't need this character anymore, so let's kill him" Littlefinger was way more than a "cartoon villain". Everything he did was well thought out, cold and calculating. So when he gives Sansa to the Bolton's like he did makes zero sense. Its what the writers wanted, because they needed Sansa involved in something, and nothing of real importance was happening in the Vale. Here's an option - instead of Littlefinger giving Sansa to the Bolton's totally out of the blue, a kidnapping is staged (to which Littlefinger is privy too, but Sansa isn't). Or possibly, Littlefinger gets Sansa in on the charade who's sole purpose is to act as a spy and eventually get revenge on Roose/Ramsey for the Red Wedding and stealing Winterfell. When I have more time, I'll give several counterexamples to character's who deaths/exits at least served some sensible narrative purpose. Even minor characters such as Syrio Forell (Arya's sword teacher in Season 1).

UK divides parliament into constituencies, just like the US has districts, so national polls don't translate well. If the Labor votes are packed into the urban areas where they get like 80%, while the Conservatives get 51% majorities in the more sparsely populated constituencies, the Conservatives can get more seats despite being less popular overall (sound familiar :-)

The irony is that Solo suffered the least from the problems, but because of this boycott, has suffered the most at the box office despite I think being the best of the new bunch of movies.

I was looking for something a bit more than just being merely defeated in battle, being trumped at the last minute by the Riders of Roh- er Knights of the Vale. Something like defection of one his "bannermen" finally getting fed up and turning on him. That has been foreshadowed in the books, but they go in to way more detail with the Northern bannermen like the Karstarks, Umbers (btw, what happened to the Greatjon?), Manderlys, etc. Something the show omits. On the forums is called the "Great Northern Conspiracy" The "lesson" being that fear and cruelty only takes a leader so far. I think they didn't do something like this in the show, because after Rob got shived, the bannermen were never really developed as a characters - speaking of which, the Blackfish was another one of those unceremonious, pointless deaths. Its a general complaint with the show. If they are going to merely kill of a character, with no narrative meaning, there's really no point in including them as even a minor character. Without the books, I suspect D&D (show creators) have simply been winging it and simply don't know what to do with alot of the characters.