Game of Thrones begins....

[Eddie Teach]

Argument by assertion,

Saw this and zoned out. Grumblering....

  Yeah, you'd want to avoid seeing the mention of argument by assertion, yourself.  ReTyr'd.

He's simply ignoring you.  I thought you were down with that.

That's a rather passive-aggressive manner of ignoring someone.

[Razgovory]

Grumbler does that too.

[Eddie Teach]

Grumbler does that too.

It rings hollow when he does it as well.

[crazy canuck]

http://imgur.com/gallery/psVBH

That is great Larch.  Thanks for posting it.

Liked the Clinton one the best.

[jimmy olsen]

In show heights.

[Josquius]

Wow. Dani is a midget.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Wow. Dani is a midget.

isn't she like 14 or 15 when to books start?
So lots of opportunity for growth :p

[Viking]

Why is Ghost in Stark White?

[Josquius]

Wow. Dani is a midget.

isn't she like 14 or 15 when to books start?
So lots of opportunity for growth :p

The actress though is in her 20s iirc.
I had seen she was short but didn't think she was quite that tiny. Her hotness level is depleting.

[The Larch]

Since when is 5'3" a midget?

[Solmyr]

Seems like a perfectly normal height for a woman.

[Viking]

http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=3995

From the 10th century through to the 19th, the average height of adult men was 5ft 7in or 170cm - just 2in below today's average. Women were an average of 5ft 2in or 158cm - just over an inch shorter than today. All the bones in the study came from the medieval St Peter's Church in Barton upon Humber, North East Lincolnshire.

It's the kids of today that are freakishly big. So, Dany is about 1 inch taller than average Medieval Lincolnshire Englishwomen.



N.B.

while searching I found this..

http://medieval-castles.org/index.php/how_tall_were_people_during_the_middle_a

There are records of many dwarfs during the Middle Ages. This was surprisingly more common among nobles probably because of family members marrying each other. More notoriously is the case of a British king who was so short that his throne had to be shortened especially for him. Of course there is no evidence to support this and it may simply be a myth - but, the fact that many dwarfs existed is well documented.

That's so cute, Tyrion is a dwarf because Tywin married his cousin.

[Fate]

That's so cute, Tyrion is a dwarf because Tywin married his cousin.

Unlikely. Most cases of achondroplasia are due to de novo mutations in the father's spermatogonium. Neither parent has to be a dwarf. It's usually associated with advanced paternal age.

[Viking]

That's so cute, Tyrion is a dwarf because Tywin married his cousin.

Unlikely. Most cases of achondroplasia are due to de novo mutations in the father's spermatogonium. Neither parent has to be a dwarf. It's usually associated with advanced paternal age.

Neither Tywin Lannister nor Joanna Lannister were dwarves, they were, however, cousins.

[Fate]

That's so cute, Tyrion is a dwarf because Tywin married his cousin.

Unlikely. Most cases of achondroplasia are due to de novo mutations in the father's spermatogonium. Neither parent has to be a dwarf. It's usually associated with advanced paternal age.

Neither Tywin Lannister nor Joanna Lannister were dwarves, they were, however, cousins.

That is irrelevant. The kind of dwarfism that Tyrion has (which is also the most common type) is caused by a mutation is his father's sperm. The mutation happened in the father during adulthood. The father doesn't have the mutation in his somatic cells (thus he is not a dwarf), it's only in certain germ cells. The risk of obtaining mutations in your germ cells increases as you age. Everyone accumulates these mutations in their sperm, it's just a matter of that sperm wining the egg lottery. Even you have a chance of popping out a baby Tyrion if you waited long enough to have children.

The reason people worry about marrying cousins is because of auotsomal recessive conditions. Achondroplasia is an autosomal dominant condition in which most cases arise de novo from the male's germ line, meaning neither parent has the mutation and there would be no family history.