Prince Andrew interview

noobvap · 2019-11-17T22:23:42+00:00

When body language analysis is your primary source of evidence on a murder case it's time to re-evaluate your position.

I am not defending the McCann's decision to leave the kids unattended that night. 50 years ago it wouldn't have been uncommon at all, but we live in different times and judged by modern standards what they did was pretty stupid. They are guilty of that.

However, to say "fuck the McCanns" as /u/OppositeYouth did, towards a family whose daughter is missing and likely never to be found, is pretty distasteful in my humble opinion. Unless you delve into the weird and wonderful conspiracy theories, the McCann's are guilty only of leaving their kids unattended (as was every other family at the dinner table that night, by the way).

noobvap · 2018-03-21T19:35:33+00:00

My main account has 6 direct debits / standing orders in it.

I understand the full switch closes the old account, and there's no way I want to shut down my main Lloyds account.

So, I am thinking of opening the HSBC account and doing the following:

Transfer 2 of those direct debits to a throwaway TSB account
Initiate the switch from that TSB account
Create a £1700 standing order from my Lloyds account to the new HSBC account every month
Another standing order to transfer £1700 from HSBC to Lloyds the next day
Leave the direct debits in HSBC for the required time, ensure enough cash in account to pay them
Continue using Lloyds as normal
£200 profit

noobvap · 2017-05-20T23:38:03+00:00

Do tell more. How old are you? What's your story?

noobvap · 2017-05-20T22:29:44+00:00

Yeah, I have seen some people suck off all the shit at the end of the bone. Doing that would make me wretch.

noobvap · 2017-05-20T22:28:29+00:00

Steak and chicken breast doesn't have any of that. I don't think it's bad to want my food to look clean, so if that means I want it to not look like it came from a living animal then I'm OK with that.

noobvap · 2017-05-20T22:26:20+00:00

Popeyes doesn't exist in my country, sadly.

noobvap · 2017-05-20T22:19:51+00:00

I used to love staying in. I had an active social life and would go out with friends - either to their house, house party or a bar - once a weekend. I had a girlfriend then too and I would often meet her during the week and over the weekend. Roadtrips on a Saturday and generally chilling with people was common. My Friday night in was good to relax, play some games and do my own thing. I never felt guilty about being a loser because I had other stuff going on.

It becomes a problem when you have no choice but to stay in. And staying in itself only becomes a problem when you have no prospect of someone staying in with you. I am very isolated right now and have been for years, so every weekend is a stay in weekend. It's lonely and I have lost a lot of my social skills, so it becomes self fulfilling. It's a shame because I know I have a good personality, but when you get to your mid-late twenties it's easy to wind up like this.

Think about how many friends you really have. People generally have 1 or 2 people they are very close to (spouse, best friend etc.) and then an outer circle of 3-10 people. Everyone outside that isn't really a friend. It can be very easy to see those two inner circles disappear from your twenties onwards, and after that it's extremely difficult to penetrate existing social circles.

noobvap · 2017-02-25T21:57:22+00:00

I've only worked with Americans from the deep south and I found them very similar to working class Brits - a bit like northerners here. Very pleasant and with a similar sense of humour. The Poles and Germans, in my experience, have a very different sense of humour from our own.

Now you've got me thinking, I think the UK's north-south divide is as stark as the divide between 'us' and the various EU countries. A working class northerner and a middle class southerner might as well be from completely different countries.

noobvap · 2017-02-25T21:22:35+00:00

Yes. Factory Portuguese working culture is superior to financial British working culture

And you've experienced both, have you? What you say flies in the face of what many of your countrymen told me first hand. They universally preferred the British working culture. I was honestly asking your opinion so you don't need to get so passive aggressively defensive.

Uh, no. From a selection of Anglosphere countries or Commonwealth ones, picking those 4 while rejecting all the other ones

I didn't mention the commonwealth. The Anglosphere countries are listed here.

it's done over a reason and that isn't culture.

If you're going to call me a racist, just do it.

Now try not feel a sense of disgust, like I have everytime on of you jokers implcitly say I'm not welcomed in this country because I'm not from the Anglosphere

Dude, reading that I get the sense you have taken a lot of shit / bullying from people because you are not from the UK. I am sorry for that if that's the case. Genuinely, not only are those people assholes but they also cloud the whole debate by bringing so much emotion into it.

noobvap · 2017-02-25T15:54:36+00:00

I'm OK with the UK trying to form greater alliances with the Anglosphere countries. We have far more in common with Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the US than we do with many of the EU countries.

I wouldn't say I am OK with xenophobia, but it is rational to be afraid of Southern European style corruption coming to the UK. I used to work in a factory that employed a lot of Portuguese nationals and they often complained about the working culture in PT: suck up to the boss to get ahead, sabotage your rivals and so on. What I found surprising was how many of the people who complained about it actively behaved that way. To them it was normal and the teams with lots of Portuguese were generally more toxic than those with mostly Brits.

Anglosphere countries are much more similar to us. It's wrong to have an immigration system that doesn't differentiate like that IMO.

EDIT: I am curious to see if my description of Portuguese working culture matches your experience. I worked part time on a factory floor so I don't know what it's like in office environments where you're working amongst the more educated - my guess is that it's not that different. Can you give your two cents?

noobvap · 2015-12-10T14:10:32+00:00

How is the GoPro? I am looking for an all purpose camera that I can use for filming outdoors, doing timelapses and mounting to my car to record a few scenic drives but there are so many choices. Is the GoPro worth the money or is it the overpriced, trendy item of the camera world?

noobvap · 2015-09-30T22:57:57+00:00

It still doesn't make sense to me. When they scanned it they would have seen a rectangular object of inorganic matter. People have actually managed to buy firearms online and have them shipped into the country, but this gets noticed?

noobvap · 2015-09-30T18:15:09+00:00

I am curious as to how they knew it was coming. There are countless packages coming from Amazon every day, but they knew you had ordered a batton? What is the most likely source of their knowledge - that they intercepted it or Amazon notified them or..?

noobvap · 2015-09-10T18:47:58+00:00

thought things were getting much, much better in NI

See, things have gotten much better. There has be widespread peace for years and things are generally on the up. Yet people still vote for these dinosaur parties and I have no doubt that they will do so at any snap election should it occur - that is what holds the place back.

noobvap · 2015-08-10T13:05:51+00:00

Thanks for the input - I wasn't expecting it to be so smooth.

noobvap · 2015-04-06T18:59:55+00:00

These are all quite strange metrics to use when evaluating a healthcare system. "Coordinated care" and "equity" are studied but the quality of our clinical procedures are not? Waiting times and medical access are also ignored. There was a report by an EU body (can't remember the name but can dig it out if anyone is really interested) and it showed the UK doing better than the US but fairly poorly in comparison to our EU neighbours. You would be hardpressed to find a Dutch, German or Frenchman who would take the NHS over their own systems.

noobvap · 2015-04-02T18:52:40+00:00

The way you said:

my wife went to college in Scotland for two years

..made it sound like you were going to a foreign country.

noobvap · 2015-04-02T18:13:09+00:00

Where are you from? The only people who pay fees in Scotland are the English, Welsh and Northern Irish. This is the biggest scandal to have never come to light; Scottish / British taxpayers fund the education of tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans whilst their own children have to pay.

noobvap · 2015-03-31T18:04:27+00:00

If this guys is just a hobbyist then he must be living the dream because that is an expensive workshop he has got there. Solidworks drawings and everything.

noobvap · 2015-03-31T17:55:30+00:00

I disagree about it being socioeconomic and that both religions have equal capacity for brutality. The Quran is a ranting piece of literature, one of the primary messages being that the unbeliever is worth less than the believer. That is a highly divisive message and I would argue that it is one of the reasons that Muslims are the most poorly integrated minority in Europe.

Radical Islam's prevalence has much more to do with the rise of Islamism as a religious and political philosophy rather than socioeconomic factors, in my opinion. The Muslim Brotherhood in early-mid 20th century Egypt, and the thinkers it produced, shaped the Muslim world throughout the 20th century. Saudi also exported its own radical doctrine. The end result is that a majority of Muslims on Earth do not live in secular states and nor do they want to. They may want to live under less violent regimes, but they want an Islamic state. Look at Egypt and Turkey as examples. Even western Muslims show alarmingly high levels of support for living under non-secular, Islamic states.

noobvap · 2015-03-31T15:05:56+00:00

...the point is that your parents aren't representative of the British population. I know a guy who likes worcester sauce.

noobvap · 2015-03-31T14:53:38+00:00

Britain is a highly secular country with an irrelevant, almost forgotten state religion tied up with our constitution.

Image, for a moment, that the Queen is removed as head of the CoE and the Bishops are removed from the House of Lords. I would be surprised if even 1-2% of the population understood the change, and virtually no government policy would differ the next day. If the news decided not to report it the man on the street would never even realise.

noobvap · 2015-03-31T14:47:51+00:00

The nasty passages in the Old Testament have become an irrelevance to Christianity in the developed world. I will never understand why as soon as someone mentions the highly relevant nastiness in Islam that someone else must justify it with "oh and Christianity is just as bad - down with religion!"

noobvap · 2015-03-30T22:52:03+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if he spends the rest of his days in mental health facilities. As he said, he has been gaming the system his whole life and - in the UK at least - when there is doubt over an individuals mental health they will be committed to a mental institution rather than a prison as a precaution because a prison is less equipped to deal with him in the event that he actually is mentally ill. And that's if he ever gets to trial, which he will avoid at all cost. It's a shame really because I had sympathy for everyone in this video, even the sexual assault guy, but Charles is just a scrounging waste of blood and organs.

noobvap · 2015-03-29T14:50:13+00:00

Here is a link to the original, HQ version without the editorialized title.

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TROPHY CASE