Well your still fantastic

Unfortunately, I can't take credit for it. That goes to J.K. Rowling.

The best line I ever heard anyone say for months
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An important message from mirage.post c-36
Well, the day that the world was supposed to end has now come and gone and I believe that its about time that we lay it all on the table and look ahead to the days ahead into the realities of post C-36.
Over the years many of you have met me at the various industry parties, spoken to me over the phone for one reason or another or you know me personally. For those who might be new and dont know me, the one common denominator that you would establish from all who do know me is that I am a straight up, no beep tell it how it is and how I see it, shoot from the hip kind guy. That cant be disputed. And as the operator of one of Canadas (not just Torontos ), but Canadas, largest and most reputable agencies, we are considered by many, as being industry leaders. I have more than a few years of experience in this industry as well as operating in the USA where it is much more illegal in all aspects than here in Canada. The states is booming busy even with their stricter laws.
We didnt start planning for this day just last week. No, on the contrary, Mirage along with some other popular and reputable agencies (friends of mine), have been on the go dealing with this for over a year now. Yup, from day one when this law was first introduced as a bill. And Im sure even the agencies that I am not familiar with, along with the most reputable SPAs have been working feverishly all year to prepare as well. We have had countless meetings, spoken to many industry experts, law enforcement officials, politicians and many many lawyers, including some that were the key lawyers in the Bedford decision. We have spent an enormous amount of time, effort and needless to say.money, educating ourselves so that we can continue to serve our amazing group of ladies, and our loyal client base in a safe, discreet post C-36 environment.
Changes. As some of you might have noticed, many agencies and SPAs have now cleaned up their websites. Photography has been toned down (no more patented Mirage snail pussy shots lol ), no reference to escorting, no references to sexual services or services available. Its the new reality going forward, but we will all cope. New clients to agencies will just have to do their own research as to service levels, you will not be given any response to sexually explicit questions in emails, texts or over the phone. If you are a regular and or loyalty member and my phone staff has dealt with you before, is comfortable with you, they will be a little more entertaining to you.
The industry has now changed. The ladies at Mirage do not work for us. They are all freelance independent contractors. They choose their own schedules and set their own fees. WE WORK FOR THEM. They advertise on our website, and we provide security and accommodation for a fee if needed. We are no longer an escort agency, amongst many different divisions of our company, we are a companion referral and security service. EACH AND EVERY SERVICE THAT WE PROVIDE THE COMPANIONS IS OFFERED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. We are a multi service entertainment company and have amalgamated all of our companies under one umbrella and ON A NEW WEBSITE. ( KUDOS TO FEMME FATALE, amazing job)
Safe guards for your privacy and discretion. ALL of the staff here at Mirage are either family, very close friends of mine or have been employed here since the very beginning, DAY ONE. It is a very close, tight knit group of the best and most experienced in the industry. We have one central booking landline. No individual cell phones that store texts, emails, etc. to clients. At the end of each shift, all info on the phones that we communicate with the girls with are erased.
, IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF OUR PHONE RECORDS BEING SUBPOENAED BY THE POLICE AND YOUR NUMBER WAS TO SHOW UP IN THE RECORDS DONT WORRY BECAUSE OF OUR NEW BUSINESS MODEL AND NEW WEBSITE YOU CALLED US TO BOOK A LIMO, BOOK A CORPORATE EVENT HOSTESS, ENQUIRE ABOUT A STAG FOR A FRIEND, HAVE SECURITY NEEDS, OR EVEN RENT AN APARTMENT FROM US. WE DO MUCH MORE THAN PROVIDE COMPANIONSHIP. WE PROVIDE ALL SERVICES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WE ARE MIRAGE ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION.
We still require a contact number to make bookings. At the end of the day, if your booking went smoothly, we will delete your number. If you were an beep and we consider you dangerous, we will keep your info for the security of the ladies. Should you want to join our loyalty program, we will give you a code, or note the last 4 digits of your number, the choice is yours.. Some of the guys that hobby use disposable burner phones for added piece of mind.
Agencies have had great value, we served a purpose. Especially to law enforcement. Over the years I have put a couple of pimps in jail ( had myself and my family threatened by them afterwards), co-operated with police with missing ,run away girls, sheltered girls from abusive relationships,

Stannis is a tragedy on his own, a very good one at that.
He had all the focus, he was probably the fairest ruler there could be - Onion Knight is a good example - he was prepared to sacrifice everything he hold dear including his child, he had the strength to pull it off, along the way he became blind with all the Lord of Light BS and Mel's boobage but in the end he wasn't the promised hero and his past actions caught up to him, leading to his demise.
he had a great story and was played by a great character.
Sean Bean has not died from Lightsaber related issues yetjust saying

I always saw him as MacBeth, ambition was his folly he's a polymath a pain in the ass a massive pain. Onion Knight is Banquo Brienne of Tarth's MacDuff and Birnam Wood is wildire on his way to Blackwater Ba-a-ay.
Please excuse my life of Hamilton.
But I also saw it as Davos's story. He has more screen time and it's his POV in the books.

Great acting, great story, Stannis is Richard III plus the being under religions influence bit.

"Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth"

http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php?/topic/99982-best-stannis-baratheon-quotes/

Because Dillane's deadpan acting was hilarious.
As of today, I have read
31
pages of Game of Thrones

I have no idea. Nothing about him seemed particuarly interesting to me, to be honest. Ser Davos, on the other hand

Season 5 episode 9 and 10 sure as hxll did make Stannis look like a fool !
"Today's avatar is brought to you by Stannis
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No, he wanted to be king
Stannis never wanted anything. He did not value free will.
Long may she reign
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"I think you're missing his appeal. You must admit his quotes and mannerisms were likable."
I admit nothing of the sort! To me, the only likeable moments were with Shireen, and look how that turned out.
No, to me, Stannis was always the embodiment of a personality type I instinctively distrust and dislike - someone who's all about authoritarianism without understanding. Beware of people who say that what's important is being obeyed, not the complex issues, because the issues ARE complex and someone who's only thinking about obedience is going to get everything wrong, as Stannis did. He's also going to hurt the people under his control, just to exercise the authority that's so important to him, and his followers are so much easier to hurt than his enemies.
So yeah, I consider him to be an excellent complex villain who was played by a very good actor, but really, Stannis was a horrible person and a damn fool. He only went to the Wall because his adviser misunderstood the visions in the flames, not because he genuinely understood the threat posed by the WW and was committed to saving Westeros. No, he wanted to be king, and Mel told him that the way to become king was to go north, so he went north.
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Ok !
I think you're missing his appeal. You must admit his quotes and mannerisms were likable. The 'grammar nazi' and the 'bend the knee' ! Everyone knew Stannis wasn't going to make it to the throne and that fascinated people in itself. People were happy he never achieved his goal, like yourself. How was he going to die ? What's this guy going to do next to try to regain his rightful throne ?! He was exciting to watch along the way whether you liked him or not. You may not of liked Stannis but you're still talking about him. Stannis was a dark gothic-medieval character with a black cape and that appealed to many, especially myself. Fascinating in every way.
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Get used to hearing my opinion, hon, I've got a lot of it!
But seriously, how can one discuss Stannis's good points, or bad points, without wondering what kind of king he would have been? It was his major goal in life, and I for one am glad he never achieved it.
Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!

Robert was the true steel. Stannis is pure iron, black and hard and strong, yes, but brittle, the way iron gets. He'll break before he bends. And Renly, that one, he's copper, bright and shiny, pretty to look at but not worth all that much at the end of the day.
George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire
Your opinion. The op wasn't asking about what kind of King he would have been. The op was asking why people liked him. I answered that question. The above quote shows that Martin never had the intention of Stannis ever getting to retain his throne.
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Of course Joffrey and Stannis are nothing alike, all they have in common is a lack of capacity to be good rulers! They'd both make bad rulers for very different reasons, but the end result in both cases would be tyranny and misery for the ruled.
Stannis wasn't strong, he was just inflexible, rigid, and obtuse. He couldn't see other people's points of view, understand his own limitations, or show mercy; and he dealt terribly harshly with anyone who displeased him. During his exile on Dragonstone island he had his own minions burned alive for disagreeing with him or trying to negotiate with his enemies, which isn't exactly the best way to attract new supporters, or fill the few you have left with enthusiasm! Stannis is a terrible manager, all he can do is insist he's right and punish anyone who disagrees with him, he can't convince or inspire anyone, even when he actually is right for once - like about being the rightful king.
And that's not even bringing the Red Goddism into it, that's another reason he would have been a truly terrible king. A man who can't see other people's perspectives isn't someone who can understand the benefits of freedom of religion, if Mel had succeeded in getting him on the throne he wouldn't see why he shouldn't burn all the Septs and Godswoods and anyone who stayed loyal to their old religion.
Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!

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Stannis was nothing like Joffrey. Joffrey was not likeable and killed for fun or for no reason. Stannis was trying all to regain the throne, with yes aggresion. Stannis would have been a strong King like most Kings.
war against anyone who pointed out that his decisions were, in fact,
bed
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Gee that would have been nice
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Stannis was a hard man, but he wasn't just. Yes, he was correct about being the rightful king, but that doesn't give him any understanding of justice. He treated his supporters with great injustice - remember him in exile on Dragonstone, burning his ministers alive for disagreeing with him and jailing Davos for saving a kid from being burned alive?
Some people can't tell the difference between a man who is right a couple of times, and a man who has a real sense of ethics, or can understand the real-world consequences of his actions. He's a man says "I am the rightful king", and would never even think "What is right for the kingdom?", and would never ask whether making war on Joffrey would serve any greater good, or benefit anyone but himself. Like I said below, on Dragonstone he treated his subordinates horribly, burning them alive for little or no reason, and totally failing to understand that this was 1) just plain wrong, and 2) a great way to keep any new followers from joining his cause. He had no more sense of what is expedient than what is actually right.
No, the man wasn't intelligent, and he definitely wasn't just.
Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!

I hope you can tell me more about the love for Stannis, because I still don't understand it.
It surprised people, just like the love for Arya or the hate for Sam did.
It shouldnt have, though. Stannis was a hard just man; this always attracts to some extent. He had the apparent support of the law (although not in spirit), and he was a fighter who led his own troops from the front line, which gained him further fans. Then he was the one who took the threat of the White Walkers seriously and decided to help do something against it as well as go against the Boltons, whom Stark fans hated.
At last, he was a man of determinism, essentially opposed to the idea of free choice and negotiation. It may not be a commonly exposed idea but I think there is
a hard divide
between the wish to see things follow some deterministic logic, which is the basis for the acceptance of religions or strong social structures, be they egalitarian or hierarchy-based, and the wish to have people find their own ways and make their own decisions based on individually perceived self-interest, which is essentially the idea of a free market.
Stannis was in the lower half of the Nolan chart (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart
), a place which appeals to many more people than one would think, especially those who call themselves liberal without understanding what the word means or implies, expecting others to be forced to grant them liberties or even come up for them.
Long may she reign
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I hope you can tell me more about the love for Stannis, because I still don't understand it. Even though he was the rightful king and was correct to claim the throne, and was willing to help out the NW when nobody else would, I still loathe him and think he would have been such a godawful king that he might actually have been a worse ruler than Joffrey!
Sure, he's in the right when it came to the question of kingship, but his fatal weakness is an inability to see other people's points of view, or any side of an argument other than his own. This is not a man who could understand complex questions well enough to rule, he was a man who will always insist that he's right, and will only get angry and punish you if you try to help him understand something - anything. Of course someone who can't see other people's POV and has a total lack of compassion is going to make a piss-poor king, and I'm serious when I say that he might be worse than Joffrey.
Joffrey was horrible but he was willing to leave the actual ruling in the hands of competent people, Stannis would spent his time in office making bad decision after bad decision and going to war against anyone who pointed out that his decisions were, in fact, bed.
Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!

Rewatching the entire series. God I miss Robb!! He was gorgeous, sexy voice, and a fantastic character.
He just made a couple big blunders. That damn stupid woman!

the eye candy gone
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