The Queue: We talked and looked at glowing balls

Either you understand the reference, in which case I think it’s very nice of you to give that dead woman another chance, or you do not, in which case we take you live to Spencer’s Gifts.

It’s the Queue. They rocked us like a hurricane, sir.

The Danes did to the Saxons what the Saxons (and the Angles and Jutes and Frisians) did to the Britons, and it’s pretty fair to say that the Danes (and Norwegians, and Swedes) set up England for the eventual conquest of William the Conqueror in 1066.

I mean, not only was William the Duke of Normandy and a direct male line descendant of Rollo — yes, if you’re playing AC Valhalla and you’ve been to Essex, that Rollo — a Norwegian Viking who settled in France and carved out a Duchy for himself and even got the King of France to award it to him, but the Danelaw dominated half of England for over a hundred years, from York to London, and Alfred and his heirs never fully reconquered the island before Edward the Confessor, his last descendant, died and left the throne to Harold Godwinson.

And even that ignores Cnut, a Danish King who ruled England, Denmark and Norway during his life, from 1016 to 1035.  The North Sea Empire of Cnut nearly saw England welded forever to the Nordic nations, and it was only possible because the Danes and Anglo-Saxons spoke a similar enough language that they could make each other understood — partially this is because the Danes spent the years from 799 until Cnut’s reign doing to the Saxons exactly what the Saxons did to the Britons from the 4th and 5th centuries onward.

I could go on and on about this, but let’s sum it up this way — the Saxons hated the Danes for doing to them what they did to the British. You even see the legacy of it in Sciropscire, when you fight Rhodri, King of the Britons. His kingdom was the nucleus of modern Wales, and it was the last holdout from the Saxon conquest of England.

I really don’t think we’re going to see Battle for Azeroth scale Horde/Alliance faction conflict in Shadowlands. As they put it during the play when you join the Night Fae, Another war? That’s rough, friend.

Based on the fact that my wife and I cleared it last night, I don’t think so? I mean, maybe I’m just that good, but I seriously doubt it, I’m an Arms Warrior. Not exactly OP at the moment. Sometimes I switch to Fury just to really make things hard on myself.

I get why people ask, but with their weird legs and their arcane symbols cut on a plasma torch heads, I get a decidedly artificial/construct vibe from the Brokers. I mean, they’re clearly up to no good, but I don’t know if there’s any current lore that creates any link between the Etherals and the Brokers.

I loathe mayonnaise with the fury and intensity of a thousand exploding suns.

I find it abhorrent, repulsive, vile. It makes my skin crawl. The taste, the texture, just everything about it is completely and entirely disgusting to me. I even hate other sauces just for being based on mayonnaise. I will not eat it. I will not even scrape it off of something — once mayonnaise has been placed on food, that food is garbage to me.

Yes, I know it’s just oil, egg yolk, and an acid like vinegar or lemon juice, stirred to emulsify it. I do not care. You can send me videos of someone using mayo to make cakes moist or as part of the coating of fried foods as it crisps up nice when it’s fried, and I will nod and agree, but that doesn’t change the fact that I hate the stuff.

I have tried it.

I have not liked it.

I will not eat it.

Because I absolutely hate it. The Duke of Richileu did us no favors bringing it back from Mahon. It should never have existed.

And that’s the Queue for today.

I really do hate mayonnaise just that much.