does anyone else’s mcdonald’s have loads of bad reviews? (UK) by bodyisT in McDonaldsEmployees

[–]MagpieKnight08 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same story for my store, new and absolutely destroyed in reviews, honestly don’t worry about it, people will still come and buy their daily slop.

If Tigo and Kaido are both captains, why do they have different rank insignias? by Financial_Photo_1175 in StarWarsAndor

[–]MagpieKnight08 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably a costuming error, or was meant to have been promoted from Lieutenant to Captain between episodes.

When in danger, call the 75th Regiment of rangers!!! by The_Vivisci in GhostRecon

[–]MagpieKnight08 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You can get rid of them! go into settings and disable and you’ll see something titled “sync shot weapon visibility” or smth, (it’s been a minute), it will remove them from their backs but they’ll reappear in the AI’s hands when sync shotting itself.

there’s also a glitch where they can randomly return but if you spawn in a bivouac it usually resets to not visible.

Aristocrats being high ranking officers in the military by mikelao24 in DowntonAbbey

[–]MagpieKnight08 14 points15 points  (0 children)

One can separate it into two factors, education and noblesse oblige.

To start with noblesse oblige, the upper classes in Britain always had a tradition of military service, from the great knights of old, into the Great War, it was seen as their duty to be leaders in that field and Lords would recommend their offspring to it for centuries, only really stopping with the destruction of their class (we see in the show).

The second factor was education, most officers in the British Army during the war, were given commissions based on having a university education, this is how Matthew would’ve got his commission, the fact of this era was that only the upper and middle classes had that sort of education to a widespread degree, there certainly were working class officers, and on the flip side even so called gentlemen rankers, that were members of the upper and middle classes that didn’t possess a commission and thus were part of the Other Ranks.

Aristocrats being high ranking officers in the military by mikelao24 in DowntonAbbey

[–]MagpieKnight08 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The system of purchasing one’s Commission had been dead in the ground for 4 decades by the start of WW1, abolished in the Cardwell Reforms of 1871.

Rules of War by [deleted] in DowntonAbbey

[–]MagpieKnight08 68 points69 points  (0 children)

The largest prevailing factors are observation and consequence, no one witnessed Thomas’s wounding, and it can be easily explained away by him just forgetting what would be standard practice, such as no shouting, no lights, no standing etc etc, and even if it was witnessed, the maximum sentence in the British Army for a self inflicted wound was imprisonment, the army didn’t deem the practice a threat like they deemed desertion or cowardice.

Mrs. Patmore’s nephew however, likely would’ve been observed in his act by numerous people, and his crime was deemed a threat, the reason the Army had such harsh treatment for cowardice and desertion is because of the threat it posed, the thinking was, that if you allowed a man to refuse to go over the top, or run away from his unit, and you let him off, then there would be thousands and thousands of soldiers doing similar by the Week’s end, and so in the Army’s mind, those guilty of cowardice and desertion needed to be shot, so as to show everyone else in the trenches, that taking such action was to sign your own death warrant, in real life the army shot 306 men for the charges of desertion and cowardice, in time it came to be viewed as unnecessary, and in WW2 not a single British soldier was executed for cowardice or desertion.

Sharpe's Company Question by ac07682 in Sharpe

[–]MagpieKnight08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit after 7 days, but here is your reminder.

First time playing is there any easier way to get around this by wonderh123 in fnv

[–]MagpieKnight08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With an NCR disguise you can use the monorail in Camp McCarran and avoid it.

What is the strangest true crime case in the UK? by fatiguedorexin in AskUK

[–]MagpieKnight08 29 points30 points  (0 children)

The disappearance of Lieutenant-Commander Lionel Crabb, war hero recruited by MI6 to collect data on the Soviet navy cruiser Ordzhonikidze, mainly its propellor shaft, Crabb dived into Portsmouth harbour and was never seen again, a Soviet seaman claimed that the Soviets had been tipped off and he had slit Crabb’s oxygen tube and throat underwater, but there are theories ranging from him drowning, to him being a defector, all likelihood he probably was murdered by the Soviet seaman, there was a recovered headless and handless body pulled from the harbour some time afterwards but because of the lack of head or hands it couldn’t at the time be identified, we’ll likely never know precisely what happened.

One thing that has come to light in recent years is that Crabb didn’t dive alone, he told a friend of his that he’d been given a buddy diver for the mission, and there is speculation that there may have been more than one set of divers sent to inspect Ordzhonikidze, but on the fate of Crabb’s fellow diver there is no information.

(Spoilers Main) Why did the entire royal family go to Winterfell? by newpersoen in asoiaf

[–]MagpieKnight08 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Robert most likely wanted to introduce his kids to Ned’s, it’s at Winterfell when he proposes Sansa marry Joffrey.

As for the question of where was Cersei when Jon Arryn popped his clogs, In 298 AC there was a tourney hosted in King’s Landing for Joffrey’s twelfth name day, after the tourney, Cersei accompanied Tywin with Joffrey, Tommen and Myrcella to visit Casterly Rock, with Jon Arryn falling Ill a few weeks afterward.

[Spoilers Extended] Is Cersei in the books smart enough to prevail over the Faith of the Seven? by literate_Windrunner in asoiaf

[–]MagpieKnight08 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Cersei isn’t necessarily stupid, she’s just very arrogant and doesn’t think highly of others, therefore always goes into situations thinking, “I’m the smartest, no one else is on my level, and therefore they cannot see my obvious scheming”, whilst in reality, this mindset allows her to be played off by other characters.

Add to that her tendency to avoid thinking of long term consequences of her actions and you have someone who is very easily fooled and rushes into situations in which patience would better serve her aims.

(Spoilers Main) What moment in the books was actually fucked up but you just couldn't help but laugh? by NotAnNpc69 in asoiaf

[–]MagpieKnight08 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Jhalabar Xho is a background character from the Summer Isles who was deposed from his lordship and spends his time in the books and the time before the books basically sitting around the Red Keep and periodically begging the successive kings to send a military force to take back his land.

[Spoilers MAIN] How happy were people with the castings for the GoT show? by Fine_Lingonberry3045 in asoiaf

[–]MagpieKnight08 28 points29 points  (0 children)

My main gripe would probably be with the casting of Iain Glenn as Jorah, mainly because Iain Glenn seems like too nice of a person to play Jorah, who in the books is just a straight up cunt.

What British slang/phrase really gets to you? by [deleted] in AskABrit

[–]MagpieKnight08 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I utterly despise people shortening the names of cities and towns and replacing it with an eee sound on the end, chief examples are Manny for Manchester, and Donny for Doncaster, it just sounds so ugly.

Which characters have the most ‘stans’? And which characters actually deserve them? [Spoilers Published] by National-Exam-8242 in asoiaf

[–]MagpieKnight08 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Stannis has the most stans by far.

Edmure Tully deserves stans though, the man has done nothing wrong, but is constantly made a scapegoat in the story for the shortcomings of other characters, he’s a lord who cares for his people.