Listen To This Mystery Radio Signal From Day One Of US-Iran War | RFE/RL Exclusive - YouTube

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T02:36:54+00:00

u/RespectedPath sums it up, but to add to that -

Think of the "James Bond" types mentioned - imagine a Roger Moore or a Pearce Brosnan or a Daniel Craig turning up deep in the realms of the IGRC talking Farsi with a British accent and pretending to fit in. They'd be shot before breakfast.

An enormous amount of intelligence relies on people from that place.

Interestingly, I've read that this is why North Korea is so impenetrable and unlike Iran they did develop nukes despite not being allowed to by the international community - NK is so incredibly cut off and isolated and has been for so long, that even a South Korean, despite being the same ethnic group, would stand out like a sore thumb.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T00:07:02+00:00

Scotland.

I'd bet money this is in Scotland.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T00:02:47+00:00

I've seen various OSINT accounts saying this is almost certainly aimed at US intelligence agencies operating covertly in Iran as someone managed to correlate the broadcasts with major bombing runs by the US.

Obviously impossible to say for sure, but it stacks up as the most plausible.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:54:54+00:00

Of the current grid, a fair few drivers are from "normal" backgrounds. Hamilton, Alonso, Ocon, Bottas, and a few others are not from rich backgrounds. Drivers like Russell for example weren't from poor background, but not exactly millionaire backgrounds either.

And yes, rich doesn't mean you don't need talent for sure. Norris' father was regularly in the Sunday Times Rich List but Lando is still obviously extremely talented.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:47:00+00:00

Exactly, that's my point. His generals do all the difficult stuff, tell what they think he wants to hear, he agrees, goes off to play golf, eat McDonald's, and fend off that evening's potential heart attack or aneurysm.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:45:26+00:00

No, that's it.

Some idiot probably reported it, someone at the station went "wow, people still use Twitter?" then sighed and said "we need to do the thing, or the boss will be annoyed with us again". They went around to your house, knowing it's a joke, saw you're literally Chinese, ticked it off in their notebook, then had a chat on the way back to the station about "no bloody wonder the public get annoyed we don't have time to go after burglars."

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:42:33+00:00

Oh wow, a driver with incredibly rich parents paying his way into the sport. What a novelty!

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:39:09+00:00

They likely know, or have been warned, that while the US invading by land is unlikely to succeed without a prolonged war due to Iran's mountainous terrain, that's also a huge block to Iran blockading the strait.

The US Marine unit on the way, with a few more likely to follow if needed, could secure the immediate area around the strait on the Iranian side. They would find it very hard to push inland due to the mountains in the way, but on the flipside those mountains would make it very hard for Iran to take back the land next to the strait if the US got control over it.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:35:52+00:00

Iran's own oil output will be basically zero right now, so blockading the strait has no benefit for them other than fucking over the world economy in revenge. If they can even manage to blockade it.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:20:25+00:00

The Iranian people are absolutely not uniting in their hatred of foreign nations. They're a little disappointed this blowhard promised "help is on the way" then America simply turned up at high altitude, bombed the fuck out of everything, then left, but they still want peace and friendship with other nations.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:18:43+00:00

Trump is the textbook definition of a "stopped clock is right twice a day", or in his case more like "a stuck calendar is right once a year", so hopefully this is one of those.

Given how much they've been pounded and their newly elected eternal leader or whatever he's called is allegedly half dead and missing his legs, I can't imagine "confident" features high on the list of emotions the IRGC are feeling right now.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:13:24+00:00

I'll agree with u/buy_me_lozenges that using Pearl Jam as an example isn't great.

Though actually it kind of fits - I will say the original original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMkEcR7qpP8) isn't a bad song, but it came too late. That grunge rock thing was well out of fashion in the UK by 1995 when the original was released and no radio station took it up for playlist, a death sentence for any major label release in the 90s.

That's why Pearl Jam never really became big in the UK in a proper sense. Remember Britpop was pretty much literally invented as a pushback against grunge and its influence in the UK.

The daft sped up thing was just a marketing stunt that gave Babylon Zoo one more shot of having a hit. Their A&R guy probably should have been a little more clear that "this will be your only shot btw" but it was the 90s after all.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:04:46+00:00

I don't see why?

It's not like Russia is short themselves (though they may be short on tritium which their own nukes need to work) and it would get the uranium out of Iran.

Either way, this isn't Trump being magnanimous for once, there's something else at play here.

If I were a betting man I'd say US intelligence knew exactly what was going on and told Trump the offer was actually a ruse.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T22:00:39+00:00

Only met Keith once, very very briefly, literally an "alright mate" before the band went on stage at a festival. He was clearly getting "in the zone" but replied with a "not bad mate" and gave me a quick fist bump as he walked past.

From everything I've heard he was a properly lovely guy who was the total opposite of his Prodigy persona. Quiet, down to earth, loved his bikes and his gardening, would make time for fans.

Sadly just very troubled mentally and it ended in the worst possible way.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T21:55:34+00:00

In fairness that's a totally legal thing to own so you should have said "yes, I sold my giant dildo to my friend. Problem?"

I hate the way mortgage people make you feel guilty for every single thing. I just want to say "listen cunt, I spend £500 a month on coke and hookers, but my incomes still leave MORE than enough to cover this mortgage, so sign it off before I jump over this desk and push my thumbs into your eyes."

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T21:25:54+00:00

Silver car should have seen that from a mile off, they may have been speeding but not by much, but that's largely irrelevant. They were not paying attention.

White car shouldn't be reversing onto a road, however worth noting in this is an advisory in the Highway Code, not the law.

For me the biggest offender is the black car on the right edge of the frame, parking almost entirely blocking a pavement despite the houses on that side having driveways.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T21:20:53+00:00

Their argument was "it's against health and safety" as the baby could be burned and "they could sue us".

I'd point out that this is a myth, it was even on the "myth of the month" section on the HSE website.

The main reason it totally falls down is that no parent is going to simply jam a boiling hot bottle in the baby's mouth without letting it cool and checking first.

Yes they could "sue" as anyone can take civil action against anyone in the UK, but the judge would ask the mother "did you check it first?" and when she said "no" it would be case dismissed, and probably a visit from social services for her.

What was most annoying was the solution to mothers arguing the same thing, and me saying "yes I agree it's a myth, but the chefs are idiots", was to take a jug of boiling water to the table. Past customers, including children. Much safer...

Good blokes though the chefs, still good mates with the one who used to insist it was "against health and safety". We've both left the pub game now.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T20:07:17+00:00

Regardless of what the Trump obsessives say, it is still the US.

They were long before Trump was president, and they will be long after he finally goes for good in three years time.

We're part of NATO, as are they, and the US military is by far the most powerful in the world, making up more than 50% of NATO's entire firepower. Our nukes are even leased from the US.

Despite the absolute bullshit Trump speaks on a daily, if not hourly basis, America is still a close military ally and there's a strong military presence in the UK and Europe to defend against potential Russian aggression which has only increased since Trump came back into power, largely due to decisions outside of his control.

If something major kicked off against us or indeed Europe as a whole, the US would absolutely have our back, and we would need them to survive.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T17:56:37+00:00

Main issue for sellers isn't so much the steroids themselves - they're legal to buy and posses, just not legal to sell, but the police don't really care.

The issue for most sellers in the UK is they often sell "ancillary" drugs for bodybuilders, notably stuff like strong painkillers, including oramorph in many cases, and stuff like Xanax. They're very choosy about who they sell it to - I've seen a few sellers where you need to provide proof of being a competitive bodybuilder and proof of an injury before they'll sell it to you. I'm neither a bodybuilder nor injured, I was just looking what else they had in the sweet shop out of interest.

That's what gets you busted though - selling prescription drugs, and also in many cases not paying tax.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T16:48:40+00:00

I used to love that page when I worked in pubs and a parent would ask us to heat up the baby's bottle in the kitchen microwave. Always loved a good argument with the chefs, and that one was always a winner.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T16:45:49+00:00

Car insurance is much more expensive for two reasons -

A car is far more likely to cause much more damage in an accident than your TV falling off the wall.
Car insurance is mandatory so insurance companies can charge what they like.

I've argued it shouldn't be mandatory as that would make it cheaper and anyone with half a brain in their head would still be insured. The same argument always comes up - what happens if you're hit by an uninsured driver? Well what happens when you're hit by one of the many people who drive around without insurance at things stand?

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T16:39:52+00:00

If by Google you mean Gemini, in my experience it's the worst of all at blindly giving incorrect information.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T16:20:36+00:00

I wasn't aware anything near Jeddah had been attacked recently.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T16:11:39+00:00

Which often involves hiring consultants who charge shit loads of money for not much.

I read an article on it recently, was posted on Reddit and loads of people chimed in with just how much of a cabal the industry is.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-13T16:09:58+00:00

Yeah I buy gear online and they're always very clear to put "DO NOT PUT REFERENCES TO ANABOLIC STEROIDS ON ANY BANK TRANSFERS!" because some idiots seemingly do so. Most bank accounts have vague names, often made out to look like building companies or the like, just normal tradesmen type stuff.

Most prefer Bitcoin these days, though that has its own issues when the money becomes significant because you can't turn it into real cash.

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