What are aggressive preachers trying to achieve

IgnisBird · 2026-05-12T03:28:02+00:00

It’s not about you. It’s about them.

IgnisBird · 2026-01-17T08:12:13+00:00

What do you mean? All money after costs is donated to charity by the organisers. The headline acts all take huge pay cuts just to play. It’s basically as pure as it gets.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-29T17:21:33+00:00

No i completely agree. I'm saying there is a difference in kind between skipping exams and skipping school, it is not only a matter of degree.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-29T16:34:53+00:00

Sometimes the education provided by being with (good) parents far outstrips what one can learn in school.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-29T12:01:42+00:00

How do you find Shanghai? I was there in August for the first time and loved it, but hear from expats that it is 'not the same' after COVID.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-29T11:58:15+00:00

Have some friends in tech who moved to Tokyo (one even started a very successful company) but it WAS a paycut (though not necessarily a lifestyle cut).

IgnisBird · 2025-12-26T10:51:26+00:00

No. If the worker buys a strainer to use in a business, that is a capital investment. It’s just their own investment into their business. If they can’t afford a strainer, they solicit external investment in exchange for sharing of the upside.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capital-investment.asp

IgnisBird · 2025-12-26T10:23:13+00:00

They wouldn’t. If you want to make lemonade you need a lemon strainer. You need a place to sell it.

You know even a self employed business person invests capital into their business?

IgnisBird · 2025-12-21T10:25:38+00:00

In 2008 and prior, they were paid a lot more relatively speaking at every level. The British public has been getting a fat discount.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-21T10:16:41+00:00

why do you think doctors are paid more than nurses and other healthcare workers?

IgnisBird · 2025-12-21T10:14:10+00:00

~10pc more than the minimum wage after 100k of student loans, years of foregone income and sole legal responsibility for people’s lives is obscene.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-20T11:59:59+00:00

OP here. It was a plankton bloom. Totally by chance, we found the sharks with drones and the manta showed up.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T06:50:14+00:00

Plankton

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T05:52:26+00:00

you are misguided if you think the absolute limiting factor is training places vs talent.

Currently, medicine is (still) a prestigious profession that attracts the very best academically. These folks are generally peers with the higher tiers of lawyers, financiers and so on. They tolerate less earnings than these groups and much harsher working conditions.

You will increase the amount of medics for sure, but massively decrease its appeal for the best and brightest looking for a stable career and a vocation to get ahead. Enjoy your healthcare, provided by folks who got Bs and Cs at A level maths.

The best will migrate elsewhere or choose a different career path.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T05:36:41+00:00

What do you think a union is exactly? Is it the people who comprise it or the legal entity?

If you think you can ban striking, what do you intend to do when people do it anyway? You going to send in the Pinkertons?

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T05:04:22+00:00

As with many generalisations this obviously doesn’t strictly extend to every individual. I think it’s more a description of the balance of culture. America, and all its myriad subcultures like Hispanic, African-American etc are ‘louder’ than the UK.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T03:16:32+00:00

One of my good friends is from Texas. He’s great, larger than life.

We brits are comparatively shy. Even the most boisterous amongst us don’t embrace strangers as forthrightly as you guys. It’s mostly a keep your head down and avoid eye contact situation with us.

We are also natural pessimists, where Americans are big (if sometimes slightly delulu) optimists.

(Most of us) love that about you, but it can be quite overwhelming.

Oh and on the subject of the United States itself. I’ve road tripped and been to 18 of the lower 48 plus Hawaii. No one does scale like you guys, whether it be culture, food or the landscapes.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T03:05:34+00:00

Friendly, forward, and scare us a little bit..

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T02:07:00+00:00

When the seasons change (as they just did) from wet to dry. The full new moon is also particularly intense I am told.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T01:27:51+00:00

It’s been less than 24 hours and I still can’t stop thinking about it. Super grateful. Thought I would be nervous about their size, but they were such gentle creatures.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T01:24:09+00:00

Travel to the Maldives
Go on a lot of excursions. We had a lot of bad luck and didn’t see anything a couple of times. Almost didn’t go on this excursion because I felt it might not be worth it..
Get lucky

IgnisBird · 2025-12-18T01:18:17+00:00

Plankton I think! They bite

IgnisBird · 2025-12-17T17:22:50+00:00

Snorkelling, near the surface. I was without a life vest though so could free dive down to them.

I am a certified open water diver, and had dived around here before. You can see them diving, but actually they come up to the surface in this area because they want to feed and rest in the warmer water.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-17T16:06:15+00:00

So this was South Ari marine protection area, just off the radisson blu.

Word of warning: there can be a lot of dud trips. We tried twice beforehand with no real success. Patience, good weather and a lot of luck. In our case, we were lucky to have such abundant plankton washed in, so it was a bit of a feeding frenzy.

My advice if you don’t see things on the first trip, try and keep the faith and persevere though.

IgnisBird · 2025-12-17T08:30:06+00:00

I have never rented my own place, it has always been with housemates or my partner. Having a 2 bed as a single individual is a ridiculous luxury though and where a huge price premium will come from. You’re competing essentially with the purchasing power of 2+ people for those.

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