George R R Martin’s Middle Finger Has Something To Say To Everyone Who Thinks He’s Going To Die

George R R Martin is a big dude. He’s also 65, and it took him about six years to crank out A Dance With Dragons, the latest book in the Song of Ice and Fire series off which Game of Thrones is based. Fans of the books are used to being impatient, whiling away the years speculating and making angry Livejournals about it, but the question of Martin’s age and the possibility he might die and leave the series unfinished have dogged Martin for a while.

In an interview with Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger a few days ago, the question of Martin’s age came up for the umpteenth time. His response was to tell the interviewer, and anyone who’s ever thrown the prospect of his own death in his face, to kindly go fuck themselves:

“I find that question pretty offensive, frankly, when people start speculating about my death and my health so, fuck you to those people”, George said calmly before riding a dragon off into the sunset.

There’s video of it too, which you can watch on the Tages Anzeiger webpage (you should watch it. It’s incredible, especially at the end when he starts giggling).

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Feature image via Tages Anzeiger.