QC Reb

Few recommendations:

Ever Andelo
300 East
Cajun Queen
Alexander Michaels
Noble Smoke
Peppervine
Dogwood Southern Table
Flour Shop
Fin & Fino
Roosters
Sea Level

Places I've heard good things but haven't been yet:

Yunta Nikkea
Supperland
Customshop
Stagioni
Albertine
Fig Tree

Uptown used to be the nightlife destination in Charlotte but these days it tends to empty out after happy hour unless there is a sporting event or major concert going on.

South End is adjacent to Uptown across a bridge and is walking distance from the Convention Center. It has become the most popular neighborhood for restaurants and night life. Charlotte Beer Garden, Monday Night Brewing, Vinyl, and Tyber Creek are some of my favorite spots. Tavern on the Tracks is a dive but used to be a good time.

Plaza Midwood and NoDa are both quick Uber rides away. They both have historically been known as the artsy hipster neighborhoods but have become pretty gentrified over the years. Worksman's Friend and Whiskey Warehouse are both good places in Plaza. Workman's is a solid Irish Pub and Whiskey Warehouse has a good rooftop bar. In NoDa, Jack Beagles is a neighborhood pub that does live music on weekends and has solid bar food. Growlers, McHales, and the Ugly are all chill. Haberdish has good food. Sanctuary is a good dive.

I'm realizing now that I've given more bar recs than restaurants but if you let me know what type of food you like I can send some more food oriented recs.

I agree with you. The fact that someone texted "Free Pussy upstairs" to 57 of his brothers or something along those lines kind of says it all. Anyone with half a brain can understand the context of "Free" means "this chick is so gone anyone can come in here and do whatever they want". If some dorks read that and thought "wow does that mean I can finally get some?" then went upstairs to go join in, then they are predators and you can't say they didn't take advantage of a woman in a vulnerable state. I don't know if they can be charged, but they deserve all the shame they are getting.

Stephen Dillane was great as Stannis Baratheon, and just as great as King Edward I in Outlaw King. I'm excited to see who they have him playing in this.

The guys that captured him are low level soldiers. He is an expert at manipulating people much smarter than them. I think he knows perfectly well that between now and the journey to a port he can turn them easily.

It is an unpopular opinion on this site, but I am Team Green. Kings aren't allowed to choose their favorite heirs. Both in the universe of the books, and in real life medieval history that it is heavily based on, it never worked that way.

Prior to the Norman invasion Kings would be elected by a witan held by the nobles. Following the conquest the law of the land was primogeniture.

Likewise in the story of House of the Dragon, Jaehaerys I held a council to help settle the succession issue rather than simply appointing his preferred choice. The nobles overlooked the claim of Rhaenys in favor of Viserys who was further down the line of succession but the closest living male. This established the precedent that already existed in Andal tradition, that primogeniture holds supreme, but also that nobles have a right to weigh in on matters of succession.

Viserys overstepped his power as king by forcing nobles to swear fealty to his daughter as heir and continuing to hold them to those oaths despite the fact that his oldest son Aegon had a stronger claim based on both law and precedent. If he wanted her to succeed him then getting remarried and having three sons was incredibly dangerous and stupid.

Systems are normal. You guys hearing the song ok up there?

There are a few problems with Kingdom of Heaven. One is that it very clearly tries to push the crusades as an act of Christian aggression against the peaceful Muslim native inhabitants of the land.

The protagonist and other characters who are meant to be the good guys are shown to be openly agnostic and cynical while the characters who are deeply Christian are shown to be blood thirsty villains. Think back to the scene of when the Knight of Hospitaller tells Balian "I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God". It is a good quote but is completely ahistorical. It is adding modern sensibilities into characters who existed in the 12th century.

Meanwhile Saladin is shown to be righteous and Godfearing. His faith isn't treated as dangerous or violent and they don't feel the need to downplay his faith by having him act like a skeptic. He is depicted as wise and tolerant despite the fact that the real Saladin was a jihadist through and through. His ultimate goal was to spread Islam to the entire world by the sword.

There are other examples that show this, but when it boils down to it, it really seems like Ridley Scott is trying to place the blame of all the atrocities of the crusades on the Christians and portray Christianity as the more dangerous of the two religions. This is despite the fact that by the time of the First Crusade, Islam had conquered and forcibly converted nearly 2/3rds of the Christian world.

One of the reason helmets with visors became common, is because most knights after the initial charge would want to lift up their visor. It allowed them more vision, and allowed them to breath easier which is underrated but when you are fighting for your life you use a lot of oxygen so if your breathing is restricted you will wear out faster. Dunk didn’t have a helmet with a visor but at the time he had no choice his vision was too obstructed.

I’m not saying it’s justified, but I think the whole point is that Cal stopped making any effort. You could see on their date in the beginning that he seemed barely interested in even being there. She shouldn’t have cheated, but it was clear that the two of them had lost all sense of love in their relationship and were just going through the motions. Only after she left did he realize how much of a rut he had fallen into. Him going back to her shows what a good guy he is, because once he found himself again he was someone women wanted and he could have lived the bachelor lifestyle. But that didn’t appeal to him at the end of the day he wanted to keep his family whole and recommit to his high school love which honestly makes him one of the most likable rom com characters.

Y’all are so obsessed with our football team. It’s really sad.