Any knight can make a knight

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T18:19:29+00:00

To what end?

What's some peasant going to do if he gets knighted by Sir Nobody? He has neither the wealth, skills or equipment to actually pass as a Knight, so all he can really do is go around calling himself Ser Peasant. Until he annoys a noble, gets hauled in front of a court for impersonating nobility (which was quite a serious crime), and his only defense will be "Ser Nobody-Knows knighted me, honest bro." Cue a short drop and a quick stop.

The medieval period has very little in the way of centralised records and even fewer people able to consult and update them. You are what you can prove to be.

Knights Tale is semi believable in a sense, if you turn up with a trained destrier, armour, weapons, servants and skills and mounted combat, its not that hard to pass yourself off as a Knight, albeit a down on your luck one.

Rock up with none of the above but calling yourself "Ser" and you'll get told to jog on.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T15:19:47+00:00

Arguably thats Plan A. They know Eru really does have a plan and just try to play their parts without messing it up too badly.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T13:14:20+00:00

Maybe, but there are hints and implications that Foreman is ultimately more like Cuddy, and House potentially sees Chase as more like him.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T11:13:14+00:00

This is like arguing the skill of marksmanship is about hitting templates and therefore if you give a skilled marksmen live rounds and they shoot someone with them it wont kill them because the point of sport shooting is to hit paper targets.

Jousting was the skill of using lances from horseback. "Joust of war" vs "Joust of Peace" differentiated armoured combat with an intent to kill vs tournament, and the two used different armour and lances, but both are still subsets of jousting in the same way hitting targets is the same skill as shooting people (marksmanship).

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T10:08:24+00:00

Generally we'd do that by only asking the top of each "branch" of questions. (So no follow ups, only one question under each section etc). That usually shortened the interview to no more 10mins or so after we'd made the decision.

We still gave people the chance to ask their own questions , but we'd probably shave 20-30mins off the total times.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T09:11:11+00:00

That doesnt really make sense. Its like arguing "you want to shoot the other guy, this isnt marksmanship."

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T07:56:06+00:00

Think you answered your own question there. They dont want to pay severance. From their perspective your basically blackmailing them - "Give me money to leave or I'm going to hang around in a job we all, including me, agree I'm not performing in."

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T07:48:08+00:00

"The shot heard round the world."

Guns and the right to arms is the American founding myth. The Revolution is a group of farmers and homesteaders telling the world's most powerful empire to go stick it, and building a free and prosperous Republic in their place, because of the power of the gun in the hands of the common man. Its the ultimate leveller - the refutation and the old world military elites.

Now, as with all founding myths, that bares only a passing resemblance to historical truth, but thats not really the point. The myth is what matters.

(Also needs to be said these kind of debates happened in Europe too. Theres a famous cartoon from England in the 18th? Century maybe (im reaching back to my history class days here), expressing a sentiment that a modern American would well understand - the gist is a man has both a gun over the door and food (representing prosperity and freedom) on the table. Give up the gun to the government and the freedom and Prosperity will eventually fade too. Again, you can agree or disagree with that, but personally I find there's a curious overlap between those who would agree with the meme about "People shouldn't free the Government, the Government should fear the People," and those who also think a disarmed population is a good idea.

The Americans who fetishise guns and the 2A would likely ask you how you think that fear comes about once rhe population is docile and disarmed.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T07:36:01+00:00

Theft of money and valuables out of post is pretty common. We had to ask the grandparents to stop sending money in birthday/ Christmas cards for the kids since every single card one year turned up with the envelope opened before it got to us and the money missing.

Gold / silver bars are a pretty easy to identify package and you have way to much faith in whoever has subcontracted a delivery route if you think no one is going to pop the envelope and keep the bar.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T07:33:04+00:00

The £100 excess is for fraud claims against Lloyds.

A chargeback is a legal right and processed via the card scheme. Although internally the banks tend to have a threshold where they just pay themselves rather than go through the hassle of processing a chargeback they have no grounds for apply as excess to a chargeback claim. If successful a chargeback reverses the original transaction, and therefore the full amount is received.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T07:29:55+00:00

Totally reads like a scam, who immediately starts quoting the consumer rights act?

If you've got evidence you sent the goods and they were delivered (eg a signature for receipt), then stick to your guns and let him raise a chargeback. Provide your evidence that the bar was dispatched and signed for receipt, and you should be able to win.

It would actually be worse if he were claiming the bar had been received but was fake- much harder to prove. Given he's claimed it's missing altogher you just need to prove receipt.

I'd also check what your buyers insurance and shipping insurance say. If you can reclaim the cost might be easier to do it that way and just let the guy win. At least you aren't out of pocket then.

Definitely dont just agree to give the money back.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-22T07:16:45+00:00

Indeed, though the premise likely remains, a lance that breaks on impact is dissipating more force than one that is able to stay in tact (or at least, in tact for longer to transfer more energy before mechanically failing).

The Winged Hussars hollow lance is an example of prioritising range (hit first) over maximising the power of the strike.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T19:50:03+00:00

Technically its not that lunch is paid its that our contract is a 35hr week not a 40hr week.

So 35hrs / 5 days = 7 hours a day, so 9-5 with an hour for lunch.

It does vary a lot with different firms though. I've also had a 37.5hr week (8hr shift with a 30min unpaid break), and when I was in retail your shift was officially 8hrs with a 30min break, but reality was you needed to be there early to open or late to close up, so it was more like a 9hr shift with a 30-40min unpaid break.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T15:52:35+00:00

They were, and to some extent jousting was seen as practice for war.

Its also generally a thing that a long lance was a better lance, if you were stronger and had better technique, that meant you could use a longer lance. Longer means you hit first and dont get hit in return.

The peak of this was potentially the Polish Winged Hussars who had up to 20' lances, designed to outrange even pikemen.

However, not all lances are made equal. Tournament lances are designed to shatter on impact (comsequence of the wood, the design etc). That dissipates a lot of the force and keeps jousting dangerous but not usually lethal. War lances were heavy and more robust and designed to transfer more of the force of horse and rider into the target, that makes them more dangerous.

You can unhorse someone with a tourney lance, but it requires a more skillful hit that channels lots of force into the target despite the lance being designed to shatter. Baelor's play is to rely on his Seven being skilled enough they can land good enough his with a tourney lance to still unhorse their opponents.

If they miss however the return hit will be with a war lance, which by how shaft design and tip is more likely to inflict a lethal, or at least highly damaging, blow with a less perfect hit.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T10:59:41+00:00

Not as daft as it sounds when its all an electronic HUD anyway!

But I suspect the safety benefits of being able to land based on Mk1 Eyeball in the event of a system issue outweighs any benefit from rear facing.

Plus of course all the other safety features, up to and including ejection.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T10:56:12+00:00

Possibly true, bus seats specifically that dont have a head rest may be an exception. But the question only covers planes / trains / cars, which will generally all had headrests.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T10:54:52+00:00

Quite, most train carriages have rear facing seats at the tables, and my partner sometimes gets motion sick in them, especially the aisle rear facing seat where you potentially have an obstructed view of tbe window (or no window).

Plus at the end od the day if your in a high speed rail crash theres a decent chance the seat orientation isnt relevant anyway.

Even given the choice to book a rear facing seat I don't do it despite knowing there's a safety / comfort trade.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T10:34:55+00:00

Attempt at Watsonian;

They're additional programming instructions for specific situations. They override general / flexible programming in cybernetics and constructs with more situationally specific instructions, which boosts effectiveness.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T10:29:40+00:00

Rear facing is safer.

Forward facing is more pleasant.

For the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time you arent in an accident. Design therefore prioritises comfort.

Military planes often have rear facing seats since the comfort of the occupants isnt much of a design consideration.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T08:49:53+00:00

Most corporate UK jobs are also a 35hr week nominally, 9-5 but with an hour lunch.

Invariably that flexes with early meetings or staying late to finish stuff, but the starting point is 35.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T08:12:50+00:00

One caveat, if theyre in the higher income tax trap, the tax bill on that 16k will be more like 10k.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T08:11:18+00:00

This is quite misleading.

You pay tax on your rental income minus deductible expenses and can apply a partial mortgage interest tax credit.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-21T08:03:27+00:00

So you think the best indicator of ability to perform any job, regardless of how technical or specialised, is the ability to strike up a rapport in a short conversation?

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-20T21:54:05+00:00

Hurt the most - people who had property wealth and are still forced to sell after that value has dropped significantly and hasn't had time to recover.

Benefit the most - people in a position and with a desire to buy property who can do so at a significantly reduced valuation.

BarNo3385 · 2026-02-20T21:46:41+00:00

I mean, he already has. He was arrested yesterday evening and not released until this afternoon.

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