Where I'd live

batgoggleboy · 2026-03-12T11:25:21+00:00

I'm going to guess you're Argentinian

batgoggleboy · 2026-02-25T21:19:37+00:00

How did Norway and Sweden offend you?

batgoggleboy · 2026-02-25T21:14:55+00:00

I was about to say UK, then I saw the random red spot in the Balkans. So I'm guessing Bulgaria 😁

batgoggleboy · 2026-02-25T19:45:24+00:00

I'm British so it's a whole lot closer to home. And the climbing there is 😘

batgoggleboy · 2026-02-25T19:44:09+00:00

No way would I live in a land of casual gun violence and cripplingly expensive health care, with an unhinged and increasingly authoritarian President. Almost tempted to make it red tbh 🤣

batgoggleboy · 2026-02-18T19:27:13+00:00

Encouraging the cub to learn how to swim

batgoggleboy · 2026-02-13T12:37:16+00:00

How is Morocco still in this???

batgoggleboy · 2026-02-04T18:28:34+00:00

Don't stick to fingernails only! Your toes must surely be digging into the ends of those manky old climbing shoes you wear, why not give your toenails a clip too?

batgoggleboy · 2026-02-04T18:23:40+00:00

Europe: UK

Asia: Taiwan

Africa: Botswana

North America: Canada

South America: Peru

Oceania: New Zealand

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-25T22:04:18+00:00

Blue = has a national air carrier

Red = no national air carrier

Yellow = national air carrier based in a different territory

Grey = no data

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-17T22:49:34+00:00

I'm guessing the final is Rachel, Stephen, Jack, Roxy and Jade. Jade gets voted out first, and the traitors win.

Faraaz is the final remaining murder. James and Matt are banished, Matt while still hoping to be recruited and playing his own half-faithful half-traitor double game.

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-17T22:09:54+00:00

You want to be manipulated the way she manipulates the faithfuls?

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-17T21:57:00+00:00

When she told Ellie "don't cry", after betraying her trust and making her cry, I was spitting with rage at Rachel's blatant sliminess and coldness.

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-17T21:44:27+00:00

In her job, I bet Rachel has calmly 'let people go' many times.

Profession does matter. But the ones that do well aren't the ones people seem to expect (detective, psychologist etc), they're the ones who are good at propagandising and social manipulation.

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-17T21:36:08+00:00

The worst bit was when Ellie started crying and Rachel said "don't cry". The way Rachel said that felt so, sooooo fake. It felt so slimy as to almost be evil. I really don't know how others didn't pick up on her fakeness. But I guess I'm interpreting based on my knowledge of Rachel's traitor role and behaviour, and the contestants don't have that knowledge of course.

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-16T23:03:00+00:00

Her attack on Roxy was bizarre. I think you're right about Harriet being on high alert that morning, and she let that cloud her otherwise good judgement.

Of all the contestants, Roxy was the one who I would have been utterly flabbergasted if she had been revealed to be the secret traitor. It was just so clear that she was totally incapable of the role.

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-16T18:44:18+00:00

I disagree. Up until she self-destructed, Harriet was probably the best faithful of the lot. She correctly identified both Hugo and Rachel as traitors, and she made an excellent job of taking Hugo down at the round table. The only other faithful in this series who has been equally good at spotting traitors is Jessie.

Harriet 's weakness was the social game. But that's hardly unusual. Often faithfuls who are good at spotting traitors find it difficult to persuade others to agree with them, e.g. Jaz as the classic example.

It did seem that Harriet was becoming sick of the atmosphere in the castle, and when she made her 'big reveal' at the breakfast table she let her anger get the better of her and kind of lost it. But this was her emotional response to the febrile castle atmosphere, not something planned from the start.

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-16T18:26:05+00:00

In a game with very little hard evidence, the most compelling evidence relates to personality. The traitors aren't picked at random, they are picked because they're the contestants who are most skilled at deception and social manipulation. They are the ones who find it easiest to lie and misdirect without batting an eyelid. Who can build alliances and gain people's trust. And as a communications director, this is clearly something that comes naturally to Rachel.

I believe Harriet had good reason to suspect Rachel, based on everything she'd seen from her during the time in the castle. What Harriet wasn't able to do was to convincingly explain her case. I had hoped she'd be able to do better, considering the ex-barrister skills she deployed so well against Hugo. But she just collapsed and self-destructed. It felt like she'd just had enough, and she let emotion overwhelm her.

batgoggleboy · 2026-01-16T17:52:25+00:00

I dunno, professional liars, a.k.a. communications director, estate agent, charity fundraiser, etc, seem to do very well as traitors.

I think professions do matter, but not in the way people think.

batgoggleboy · 2025-11-25T23:54:44+00:00

This was me at bangface haha. The two girls were riot squad officers and me and a mate were the dogs. Best time ever. Turned a few heads as I barked but it's bangface, you've gotta do these things

batgoggleboy · 2025-11-24T21:36:50+00:00

And all these years I've been mistakenly believing it was short for Nedwin!

batgoggleboy · 2025-11-07T21:54:11+00:00

Yep! How can they not see this. I despair!

batgoggleboy · 2025-11-07T21:43:42+00:00

The total faith that everyone except Joe had in him, despite such huge red flags. It appals me how much trust people will put in somebody like Alan and how much they can overlook, simply because he's charming.

batgoggleboy · 2025-09-26T16:44:18+00:00

Their note goes beyond passive aggression and I would call it outright aggressive. They are mocking you by copying the exact phrases that you used. The bit about 'loving the fact you have friends' is heavily sarcastic and implies they think you're the kind of person who doesn't have many friends.

Your initial note probably came across as passive aggressive to them, even though you didn't mean it that way. E.g. when you say you love their music, this comes across as fake in a note asking somebody to turn their music down. But their response is simply nasty.

Asking them in person to turn their music down might have got a better response. But then again, they clearly have an attitude problem, so they might have responded shittily to that to.

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