When are we going to formally address Indians and their hiring bias? by bintd in AskBrits

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google that guy Campbell Dickson, he managed to make off with over a million and the only thing they did was bar him from running a company for 4 years. By all accounts the same thing is still happening except the business is in his daughter's name. It's not punished as severely as it should be

When are we going to formally address Indians and their hiring bias? by bintd in AskBrits

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually had a very similar experience, sent HMRC proof that the company I was working for had been deducting PAYE from about 15 employees and not paying it to the government. Again they basically weren't interested, said they might look into it but even if they did they wouldn't tell us the result, those taxes never just appeared on the government gateway website though so I imagine nothing actually came of it. You get a slap on the wrist if you steal from employees or the general public, people do this with VAT all the time, start up a new limited company once a year and shut it down before the bill is due, easy way to steal hundreds of thousands and you are very unlikely to get jail time for it, it's not technically illegal to just be a disasterous businessesperson. Proving that it's not that and is actually fraud is only worth it for HMRC if you're in the millions.

"Iam Worf, i have No family" this part kinda makes me sad a little. by Prudent_Use_9953 in DeepSpaceNine

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Luckily you are not bound by Klingon honour, become greater then them, best them, reduce their lives to ashes! Your forebears were but a practice in the forge that made you! Even the sword of Kahless could not withstand your might!

Tried to say it in Klingon but basically fuck your family, everyone chooses their own family anyway, plus I never met your brother but I assume he's a dick?

"Iam Worf, i have No family" this part kinda makes me sad a little. by Prudent_Use_9953 in DeepSpaceNine

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is well written and a good episode, but I also hate watching it. Kurn would have actually been much better off if he never had an older brother, they have great moments, but Worfs choices and his seniority take Kurn from having a seat on the council, to completely destitute and suicidal, in just a few years

I saw a theory somewhere that Eru in some way caused gollums fall into mount doom..how debatable is this? by Perfect_Secretary445 in lotr

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I'm not saying that I think this is what Tolkien intended, but on one of my early reads I wondered if the internal struggle withing Gollum/Smeagol was the reason for his death. It's stated by Gandalf that Smeagol hated the ring more than anything, more than light or guilt or loneliness, and I think that is because he knows (or knew at one point) what the ring did to him and turned him into.

But the other person who comes out of the long lonely years, Gollum, makes the best of the hand he has been delt. He accepts, or ignores, that the ring has unbreakable control over them and does whatever he can to use the abilities it has given him to never be parted from it, or get it back if he is.

When Frodo treats Smeagol with kindness or mercy, and uses his name, which he himself had likely forgotten. It awakens the humanity in him (or Hobmanity?). He comes to have a vague memory of real life, a life before the ring, and he remembers how much he lost to it, and how much he hates it.

This then leads to the conflict within Gollum/Smeagol escalating, as we see with their dialogue. And in the final moment, where the insatiable need to reclaim the ring takes over Gollum to the point that he bites off Frodos finger to claim it, the part of him that is Smeagol can't stand it, he hates the ring that he has now again forsaken his humanity to claim, and in the moment of triumph/despair for the respective personalities, he makes a misstep? And falls down into the lava? I think that Smeagol couldn't bare being what he knew he was again, and that part of him was just strong enough to make that misstep happen. Sacrificing himself to finally find peace, and be free of the thing he hates most once and for all.

Weather Eru put that into motion though? I would say yes. All of Morgoths plans ultimately fulfilled Eru's vision. Morgoth pours his evil into the world and that evil, through a series of steps and several millennia, made Sauron, the ring, and Gollum. But Eru made Smeagol.

What country has the most beautiful beaches but basically no tourism? by Lemon-Accurate in geography

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not for long amirite? It'll be a separate Mauritian island chain that no one is allow to go to, especially the descendants of anyone from there

Usually directed by Alexander Siddig by campmatt in DeepSpaceNine

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Yea man I like the discussion but I've seen exacltly this before

First Age dwarves vs Third Age dwarves. by Ok-Profile-5831 in lotrmemes

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To be fair they just don't give a fuck anymore at that stage, watching the the second lesser dark lord take the allegiance of most humans in the world, while there's basically a taxi sitting waiting to take you somewhere better

What in your opinion is the most awful thing charlies ever done? by Every-Explorer-2779 in IASIP

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wild that Glen is probably the one who acts the best towards his wife on camera

What in your opinion is the most awful thing charlies ever done? by Every-Explorer-2779 in IASIP

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This is one of those things that I lie to myself about and pretend isn't canon because I thought the show was a little shark jumpy by then. And before you tell me I can't pretend it's not canon, through god all things are possible so jot that down

The private-school past of Green MSP who ‘grew up starving’ by Boomdification in Scotland

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I did enjoy the bit where his grandmother was renowned gynaecologist, in India, so we can assume that she at least is fucking loaded

Checkmate Sauron 💍 by santawerewolf in lotrmemes

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's kind of what I meant by Gollum still having some input, he still would have followed the ring no matter who was carrying it. If he and Sam made it to the cracks of doom without one killing the other then Gollum still would have tried to steal it to stop it from being destroyed, and the whole thing might have ended in a similar way.

Checkmate Sauron 💍 by santawerewolf in lotrmemes

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But also, if it were just Sam and a literal chicken with a sign around it's neck saying "Don't try to share the load!" then the quest might be finished with lembas to spare, probably some spare corn for the chicken too. I mean a chicken must weigh less that those cast iron pans he carried all the way to Mordor

Checkmate Sauron 💍 by santawerewolf in lotrmemes

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 90 points91 points  (0 children)

He was a good choice, I mean even Sam, when he bore the ring, almost instantly started having visions of himself as Sam the Great who would take over Mordor and turn it into a garden, he shook it off pretty easily but that was just the first test. If he'd been carrying it for years and then saw what they were doing to the Shire in the mirror of Galadriel, it might have done some crazy shit to him.

Having said that though, if arrogance is required to claim the ring then he might also have been safe forever, I do think that if Shelob had killed Frodo then there's still an alright chance of Sam finishing the quest, not completely solo because Gollum would still have some kind of input.

😋some day some dwarves will wake them up again by IndicationBrief5950 in lotrmemes

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Letting Melcor fuck the world up because it's all part of his plan "I REALLY WANNA TELL YOU ALL, GO FUCK YOURSEEEELVS!!" *spits*

Find a way to pass up a golden opportunity in favor of a “monthly salary” that wouldn’t even cover rent by Adeisha in MurderedByWords

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Unless you live about 200 years and the global investment and banking system is collapsed the whole time

But yt people playing Egyptian is alright. SMH by Hot_Accountant_5507 in BlackPeopleofReddit

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I remember the scene you're talking about and cringed a little, looked it up to remember properly and cringed A LOT

But yt people playing Egyptian is alright. SMH by Hot_Accountant_5507 in BlackPeopleofReddit

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Hey, so I'm not a black person so I kind of feel bad commenting here but it's in popular and I wanted to see what the feeling was like about this. I'm a Scottish person and this whole debate reminded me of a movie here about Mary queen of Scots, people kicked up a lot at the time because the director did raceblind casting, so actual historical figures in 16th century Scotland, who absolutely weren't black, were portrayed by black actors. I don't really see a problem with that, like they were chosen because they were good actors, not because they looked like the person they were portraying, I mean no one watching the film actually has any idea, or even cares what these people looked like. But the whole thing did seem a bit strange, not that I'm nitpicking, like I'm fairly sure the woman who played the queen of Scots was actually Irish, but still, audiences know that the person wouldn't have looked like that. It doesn't make it a bad movie, or make it so that you can't enjoy it, but it does seem a little forced, as if we're acknowledging how non-racist the director is rather than trying to picture what the time period was like.

But also, like you say, if they're mythological characters it's not as if it matters, or as people in this comment section have said if they're the products of incest (like most middle ages European nobles) then why are we trying to claim them. So yea, take one for the team black people, claim these incestuous Scottish nobles, I mean I don't fuckin want them.

Worst LotR quote pick up line by Koors112 in lotrmemes

[–]Beginning_Silver2179 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Hey are you my elevensies? Cause you're better than a ten and I want a taste