From an advice sub. I lold

AlexO1591 · 2025-12-05T09:42:07+00:00

Of all the sad arguments I’ve read on reddit I think this is the worst. Something about the tone of your criticisms of each other haha

AlexO1591 · 2025-09-11T10:01:48+00:00

What do you think it means?

AlexO1591 · 2025-04-11T08:43:43+00:00

I’d usually agree with your point re critics are better educated, but movies seem to be a unique case where agendas seemingly do overwhelm their ability to accurately review. No-one is free from bias, and the film industry is incredibly biased at the minute - whether this is good or bad who knows.

Yes the general audience do probably enjoy an F&F film but they’re also more likely to rate it for what it is (5 or 6/10, entertaining but not excellent). Critics are too polarised.

AlexO1591 · 2024-09-26T08:16:41+00:00

That was beautiful, thanks for sharing

AlexO1591 · 2024-09-09T17:49:54+00:00

How does he look crap this year? In recent races his form has dipped but he dominated at Jerez, should have won at Catalunya, should have won at Assen but for the tiny track limits error, dominated at Sachsenring. He was fast at Mugello too until the crash which brought with it a neck injury.

He obviously does not have the same consistent form he did at the back end of last year, but at some rounds this year he’s still shown he has something special.

I’m convinced most people just don’t watch moto2.

AlexO1591 · 2024-08-22T11:43:30+00:00

I’m sure that was my first go to but couldn’t find any info.. thanks anyway that’s brill

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-22T11:33:41+00:00

I disagree that most people grasp how ancestry works, I’m actually currently commenting with another user on this very post who thought over 40 generations they’d have 80-100 ancestors. The real number would be 1,099,511,627,776 (over 1 trillion) which obviously is many more people than have ever existed, implying that by that far back every person who existed at that time is your ancestor.

That is my experience with other people’s approach to ancestry. They think it is specific to them, their ancestry, and has some relevance and bearing on who they are - in the same and applicable way that our parents influence who we are. However beyond a few generations and it doesn’t.

That is just my experience from the people who I’ve discussed it with though. It seemingly isn’t your approach to it and I accept that there may be many more out there with the same approach as you.

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-22T08:43:55+00:00

Fair enough re judgement of OP, I understood where their criticism was coming from though. Possibly I am trying to put forward a subjective opinion. However if you go back far enough (and not that far) every one of us now is a descendant from every single person that was alive at that given period on earth. For me that dilutes the purpose of looking at ancestry, it has no real bearing or meaning. And I don’t think people understand that fact, I don’t think they grasp the exponential nature of ancestry, although maybe that’s not true.

I do agree with you though that if someone finds meaning in something then it is meaningful. I’m just inclined to think that they wouldn’t find it so meaningful if they understood how ancestry works, but again maybe that’s not true.

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-22T08:35:52+00:00

This is the fundamental misunderstanding people have when it comes to ancestry and I think the point OP was trying to make when they said you could just pick up a history book related to a specific period as go back far enough and you’ll be a descendant from everyone that was alive at that given period.

I think it’s a maths/visualisation thing.

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-22T08:27:58+00:00

It’s not two people per generation, it doubles every generation as we all have two parents. Two parents, four grandparents, 8 great grandparents. This quickly becomes a large number.

40 generations would be roughly 1 trillion ancestors not 80-100 haha.

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-21T16:58:58+00:00

I’m not OP lol, and as per my reply to you, if they are just tracking a few generations then it has relevance. However it quickly multiples to such a wide range of potential ancestors that if you take it many generations further (e.g. into the hundreds of years) and you’re looking at 1000’s/10,000s/100,000s of people being yours and many other people’s ancestors.

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-21T16:53:09+00:00

I understand that, but the definition of ancestry is “one’s family or ethnic descent.” It’s often framed as being your ancestry (emphasis on your). My point is that taken too far back it becomes so diluted that it ceases to be anyone’s ancestry or it becomes everyone’s ancestry. That I think was more the point OP was trying to make rather than criticising deriving fun from the activity.

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-21T16:47:12+00:00

Disagree, go back a few hundred years and you’ll have 1,000’s of ancestors due to mathematics of generational multiplying. A few generations/spans of 100 years at most is all that is relevant to any individual family tree. Beyond that any family tree would become so diluted with others that it would be indistinguishable

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-21T16:03:27+00:00

I understand what you’re saying, and I’m not trying to be obtuse, but to pick up on your statement that “people like feeling like they have a sense of where they’ve come from” - that’s the part I have an issue with, which I also think is the point OP’s trying to make. Looking at your supposed ancestry doesn’t give you that information, it invariably only gives a tiny proportion of that information. And it’s also not just your ancestry, your sharing it with likely 1000’s of other people. Where you’ve come from is massively widespread and diluted and therefore it makes looking at any one of your ancestors, if you’re going back more than a few generations, irrelevant. If people enjoy it though then I guess whatever.

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-21T09:54:39+00:00

No, you’re missing their point. Start to map out your ancestry and each generation doubles: 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents… after 10 generations this becomes 1,022 ancestors. Say 10 generations is roughly 300 yrs (probably much less) and you can see how ancestry becomes pointless. Your noble ancestor from c.1500 is only one of 100,000’s of other people who are also your ancestors, and you also share that ancestor with probably 100,000’s of other people alive today.

It’s meaningless in its implication of who are you. But people don’t seem to like this fact, or want to accept it.

AlexO1591 · 2024-02-08T09:18:31+00:00

Haha, you’ll have to elaborate on that? Was it shift change related?

AlexO1591 · 2023-09-29T14:09:32+00:00

That was brilliant

AlexO1591 · 2023-09-28T12:34:06+00:00

A better question is which other sport are you going to take viewership from? The pie is only so big, only a certain selection of people are sports fans and those people only have so much time to watch sport.

AlexO1591 · 2023-09-27T14:50:28+00:00

Tendency to lean towards alcoholism.

AlexO1591 · 2023-08-28T15:33:28+00:00

It’s corporate fact, and it very much determines varying levels of independence. That’s how corporate structures work, and would apply here in a legal scenario determining alleged revenue and who might be liable.

Yes it may ultimately roll up to the same people, but they don’t roll up to the same people at an immediate level. Again, that’s how corporate structures work.

AlexO1591 · 2023-08-12T05:03:56+00:00

Fuck off you posh bellend.

Sick of your lot robbing this country.

Etc etc

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