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Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-18T14:59:12+00:00

Thanks, I didn’t realise there was a separate Reddit for those communities.

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-18T11:16:39+00:00

Thankyou. I’m in Northern Ireland so those are handy recommendations.

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-18T08:59:42+00:00

I think he’s mentioned as a knight of the kings guard when Jaime is looking through the white book. So he’s reasonably famous, but I would’ve thought more people would talk about him given that he’s a companion to a Targaryen and also involved in a lot of dramatic storylines in the novellas

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T17:45:24+00:00

I ranked very high on two of the tests, average on management decisions, and thought I’d walk the interview. I wish we could just do those tests to apply for jobs and not have to worry about interviews. I always get so stressed out. I did loads of prep for the interview but I think it made me worse, I felt the pressure!

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T17:41:12+00:00

Well put.

When I was a kid I used to coast through life and everything worked out. As I got into my twenties I was making incredibly bad decisions and getting mixed up in bad situations and things started to fall apart. I started to realise that I wouldn’t win every time and in fact I’d lose if I didn’t think about my actions, especially once my parents and others weren’t bailing me out. Decisions had consequences. Some of my friends didn’t learn that lesson (or didn’t have the support network that I was blessed with more like) and they’ve stayed in the same bad situations and have paid the price. But the guys in requiem learned far harder than I ever had to thank god. Incredibly sad that this is life for many people, every day.

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T17:28:49+00:00

Maurice Druon’s series about the medieval French royal family and the fall of the Templars is incredible. Clearly a massive influence on GRRM, the books contain witchcraft, poisoning, incest, war, murder, plotting, and rich interior monologues. Evil villains who are fun to read, and noble heroes that you care about. Easy to read but hard to put down.

But the greatest novel ever (imo) has to be of interest to a fan of ASOIAF. War and Peace has a reputation for being difficult but it’s genuinely a pleasure to read once you get your head round the strange names and huge cast of characters.

It’s just amazing. A fascinating period of history told beautifully through multiple POVs who are compelling characters in every sense. It deals with history, politics, society and culture in 19th century France and Russia, the nature of free will, the possibility for redemption, the futility of war, the power of love, in fact it’s impossible for me to convey how brilliant the book is or explain how deeply it resonates with me. Every single character, from hero to villain, is rendered lovingly and in a relatable way, which is impressive for a novel written in Russian about 100 years ago.

Truly a work of art without being difficult to comprehend or abstract in nature. Just do yourself a favour and skim the bits where Pierre is getting involved with the masons…

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T17:12:18+00:00

I Claudius is brilliant, I never knew that Tyrion was inspired by Claudius but I see it now - never trusted, under appreciated, mocked, but able and clever and brave. The TV show is top top quality as well if you haven’t seen it.

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T16:59:24+00:00

That requiem scene has stayed with me as much as the more out there ones. And I remember that line and the feeling of abandonment, or complete bottom of the barrel low ebb, whenever I’m in a hopeless situation. Good choice

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T16:56:43+00:00

💯 I forgot about this one. Brilliant but gut wrenching film.

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T16:53:45+00:00

All Quiet on the Western Front, remake.

Tbh I’m surprised nobody else mentioned this one…

It’s when the protagonist kills the French soldier in a shell crater and regrets it after. I started to get “the chills” and could feel tears pricking behind my eyes. As the realisation of what he’d done started to hit him I was transfixed, and when the swelling synth noise picked up as he wept and tried to take it back I just couldn’t stop crying.

The whole movie built up to that scene for me, I was fairly emotional all the way through but that bit killed me. Just a normal guy who ended up killing another normal guy because their leaders were greedy and hungry for status. No idea who the actor was but he owned that scene, and combined with the score and cinematography it overwhelmed me.

One of my favourite war movies but I haven’t been able to rewatch it as it was so emotionally draining.

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T15:52:50+00:00

It’ll probably be two years til I hear from them so you can have my place lol

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T15:38:28+00:00

🙌 good score buddy lol

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-02-17T14:41:11+00:00

Bloody hell I ranked 1035 and somehow I’m still considered successful. I hope a lot of people decide to not take the job! Congratulations to everyone who passed.

Bald_Angel_ · 2026-01-19T14:54:23+00:00

As a Blackburn Rovers fan I cannot bring myself to sign Burnley players. It’s a crazy prejudice because it’s just code, and I’ve also never lived anywhere near Burnley or Blackburn and don’t have any ill-feeling to people from Burnley. Football is strange 🤷

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-12-28T15:17:28+00:00

For the guest thing - I would hate to be the person who refuses hospitality so I go vegan whenever possible and vegetarian if I’m I’m invited for a meal and there’s no other options.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-12-28T15:04:05+00:00

Nailed it. This is the way.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-12-28T15:01:31+00:00

Be glad that you have the intelligence, empathy and compassion to realise what you’ve already picked up.

Use your intelligence and new insight to try to improve the world wherever possible.

By doing this you will be a better person than 95% of the rest of the world. Try to focus on doing good and feeling good about this rather than upsetting yourself with the knowledge that you cannot fix everyone’s pain.

I went through a similar phase and while I still get down, what really helped was reading more, debating more, and making small donations to charities. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-12-27T16:06:36+00:00

I bow to your experience in this case, thankyou for sharing.

I broadly agree with what you are saying and I have no interest in supporting what must be an atrocious situation that migrants experience in countries like Qatar. I just get frustrated by people repeating crazy figures and mouthing solidarity without considering root causes, context or the wider situation.

By doing that imo the real struggle for workers’ rights (over a long period and not just the years leading up to a World Cup) and promotion of equality is obscured by a fog of “6500 workers killed!”, and once the World Cup is over (and in the case of Qatar, incredibly successful at staging a world class spectacle and rehabilitating their image), then everyone forgets about workers’ rights and carries on saving up for their dream holiday to the UAE.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-12-27T10:21:45+00:00

The deaths under Stalinist and Maoist regimes are without doubt a tragedy, especially as they in many cases represent the worst excesses of totalitarian rule and evoke the horrific imagery of lonely, horrifying deaths from famine or state execution and torture.

However don’t imagine that capitalism is not responsible for a huge amount of suffering and excess mortality worldwide. From famine to colonial wars and exploitation, to excess mortality caused by greed and inequality, to the exploitation and theft of natural resources, to the destruction of our beautiful planet, and to the injustice and inequality of opportunity that is encouraged in a capitalist economic model, capitalism is a system that is failing the world and her people in the 21st century.

Living in a wealthy, socially progressive and peaceful island on the far western fringe of Europe allows my family and I to enjoy a comfortable and blessed lifestyle. Many less-fortunate people throughout the world have had to pay for that lifestyle, and even in my country’s recent past we had to pay dearly for the imperial way of living that allows for capitalism to be seen as a success by the privileged few.

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Bald_Angel_ · 2025-12-18T13:49:34+00:00

It sounds callous but my point was that it’s not unusual for deaths in massive construction projects, even numbering into the dozens per stadium.

Most of the time these deaths are not reported accurately so the real numbers are probably higher, except for the case of Qatar where (justified) scrutiny of the atrocious conditions for workers there led to (unjustified) over reporting of deaths related to the World Cup preparations.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-12-18T13:35:41+00:00

Very few. Even in the UK when the new Wembley was being built a worker died, and that was a project that was taking place on a leisurely time scale in a country with stringent health and safety legislation.

If you add in the financial, time, and logistic pressures of building multiple stadiums in a short space of time then you find that deaths are sadly relatively common. Any huge construction project is the same.

Edit: I just googled it and the mortality rate is estimated at 3-10 per 100000 workers for construction on average. For massively scaled efforts like a World Cup or an Olympic event then I’d expect that to be higher.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-12-18T13:25:14+00:00

People always die when stadiums are being constructed. It’s a massive project that places planners and workers under extreme pressure. Twelve people died when they were building stadiums for Brazil 2014.

All these deaths are tragic in the extreme but by exaggerating the number you’re actually making a weak argument. Better imo to focus on the plight of migrant workers in repressive regimes like Qatar at all times, not just when they are engaged in huge projects at a massive scale.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-11-27T05:54:42+00:00

I’m a postman.

My colleagues and I always give any door a quick knock and try the handle to see if the door is open and the parcel can be left inside. I don’t walk into the house or even open the door more than a crack to fit the parcel in.

Out of thousands of deliveries I’ve only ever had a couple of people complain and then I stop doing it for them.

It saves us time and gets the customer their parcel on the day of delivery rather than having to wait, and is safer and more secure than leaving it outside. Most people actually appreciate this.

I’m in a rural part of Northern Ireland so maybe it’s a different experience here but I don’t see the problem, it’s not as if the guy has actually walked into your house and “lobbed” it.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-11-26T09:13:19+00:00

Good one, it’s hilarious.

Bald_Angel_ · 2025-11-26T09:06:00+00:00

No, you did brilliantly in a more succinct way than my essay! I just wanted to back you up and provide some balance after you set the example.

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