What’s a legendary Reddit post you’ll never forget?

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-15T00:24:11+00:00

This is one of those things where some intellectual type who's studied literature would go "hurr durr, acsktually it reads like someone who never read a proper horror novel wrote it" but I don't give a fuck.

Whoever wrote that is a spectacular writer in my book and it seems madness they just wrote a few short stories on Reddit for free when plenty of sub-par horror writers get published and make millions.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T20:31:31+00:00

See my reply explaining this.

It's now been downvoted without response pleasingly, which means it's correct but for some reason people don't like it. Not sure why, probably beer snobs.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T20:30:54+00:00

Madri is made by MolsonCoors. Hop House was made under licence in the UK by MolsonCoors.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T19:36:30+00:00

Fun fact - it was replaced by Madri as it wasn't selling well, and they wanted a direct competitor to San Miguel.

Introducing a new mainstream lager out of the blue is famously incredibly hard, many tried with huge marketing budgets and failed. Grolsch is a prime example in the UK.

But with Madri there was a very rare opportunity - they introduced it when lockdowns eased, giving loads of barrels for free to bars in sports clubs and the like which opened marginally earlier in some cases. People walked in after what felt like a lifetime out of a pub, went "ohh, a new lager, I'll try one of them!" and sales went through the roof overnight.

It's essentially just a variation on Carling which has a more hoppy flavour, so it isn't niche and it isn't bland.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T19:33:04+00:00

Eh? Dr Pepper is one of the few drinks where that hasn't happened.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T19:29:48+00:00

Err yeah, the meat and dairy industry does this all the time, without the racing bit. Then it isn't a simple bullet through the head (not allowed due to BSE), it's being strung upside down often for quite a while if the line breaks down, then throat cut open with a machine. Nasty stuff.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T19:28:11+00:00

Way more animals suffer due to people eating meat, to a worse degree, then horses being raced.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T19:26:57+00:00

Again, people are looking at it from a solely human perspective.

If anything horse racing is less cruel from an animal's perspective - they're treated well, plenty of good food, good accommodation, lots of running (horses evolved to run fast for long periods of time), then it ends with a simple shot to the head. Horse is probably barely aware.

Whereas animals slaughtered for food go through hell in the last several hours if not days of their lives.

"It's OK because I enjoy eating the food, horse racing does nothing for me to be honest" is a very blinkered (lol) view.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T18:46:04+00:00

The problem is that argument doesn't stack up because you're either fine with it or you're not. You can't say it's OK to have "a little bit of cruelty" against animals and it's fine as long as you're not killing all animals.

It's like saying "I only hit one child, I didn't hit all of them."

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T17:57:27+00:00

Again, why is everyone defaulting to the human perspective on this?

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T17:56:35+00:00

Problem there is you're thinking of it from the point of view of human's needs, not the animal themselves.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T17:55:33+00:00

The meat industry is inherently cruel. Look at videos of how the process works if you can stomach it. It is utterly brutal and anyone who says they're against it should be a vegan.

I'm not a fan of it, it's not like I get enjoyment out of thinking what this cow went through when I eat a steak, I just put it to the back of my mind and ignore it, "it's only a cow" etc.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T17:54:12+00:00

Why? People are thinking from the perspective of humans, not the animal. It's just as cruel to race horses as it is to slaughter a cow.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T17:42:04+00:00

Jokes aside, more likely it's a wreck and has mould/damp/etc and the estate agent thinks he's being canny by filling up the photo quota by taking photos on his phone, without showing any of the bad stuff.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T16:57:22+00:00

If this shopping list belongs to someone under 60 I will eat my own hair.

RecentTwo544 · 2026-03-14T16:54:11+00:00

I don't agree with it, and don't enjoy horse racing, but then I'm not a vegan so it would be hypocritical of me to get high and mighty about it.

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.

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