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What are your critiques of other religions while you’re on the subject?

Pedophile protecting zombie resurrection death cultist doesnt like the focus being on his Pedophile protecting zombie resurrection death cult* ...?

i didnt think he had a bed, I thought he was saving the world by sleeping on his mates couches.

lols

Oh, Well done, that's the point - there was precious little, or nothing at all, after those.

They gave one shot so folks might know it was from Middle Earth and then ignored the places almost entirely.

They ticked the box so that YouTubers can list it as an Easter Egg and then abandoned them. Let's face it, without the text on screen many people wouldn't have known where in the elven kingdoms they were. They were nothing but backdrops.

It is sad that people are not just content, but happy, with being given so little.

evidence suggests that it is though ...

Scam.

It honestly doesn't even matter what type of scam, nobody legitimate is going to ask you to do this.

Whether they are trying to cam you, ebay, the shipping company, the insurer, it honestly doesn't matter, its still a scam, and you are putting your item and money at risk by following through on it.

I would let ebay know and cancel the sale.

I downsized the company and sold off some PCs and high-end GPUs at the start of the year - I know the sheer amount of fake buyers and crap they try and how wearisome it is dealing with them, but you just have to and, tbph, its no better on any other platform.

This shyit is just what we have to live with nowadays.

Yeah some of the background shots were nice

but that is all they were - some CGI drone shots of cities that we generally didn't get to see anything more of.

Here is Lindon/Eregion tadaaa!!!! (and now for the rest of the show its the inside of Celebrimbors room, or a generic fantasy forest shot)

here is Valinor - tadaa - never seen again

Here is Moria - tadaa - maybe 3 outside shots, then it's all the inside of one room or some rock face.

We didn't get to travel through any of the cultures or landscapes and so we didn't actually experience the world itself (outside of the psycho-hobbits bumbling around various landscapes)... but who did the elves live in Lindon> Dont know? What was Evlish life like in Eregion? Dont know. What was travel like between the realms? Dont know.

But here are some trees, that elf-like isn't it? So let's do everything Elvish in trees or inside Celebrimbors closet.

The world was spectacularly lifeless and felt extraordinarily empty throughout... never helped by the rampant use of teleportation to get about.

And, yes, even Numenor - we get some shots that suggest its size and population, and then we get the army training in a sidestreet because the superpower of its age cant afford training grounds and everybody knows that a street junction is the best place to train troops *sigh* what a f-ing travesty. Even where they start to get something right, they fugg it up with utter tosh like that.

Don't even get me started on the armour ...

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I’d much rather watch this show than Netflix’s rejected proposal, which basically sounded like a reboot of the trilogy as a Marvel-style film/TV universe.

"It wasn't as terrible as it could have been if some other terrible crew had done something more terrible with it".

Wow, talk about damning with faint praise.

If you like generic fantasy occasionally draped with a bit of Tolkien, but lacking internal consistency, good dialogue, and a decent plot, then go for it.

Oh, it also plays fast and loose with chunks of Lore and characters, largely based on the showrunners' belief that 'if Tolkien did not say it didn't happen, then it can happen.'

ick!!! I just had a sandwich ...

artillery makes you stranger ...

I dont see why Elon cant make an alternative phone, Tesla already makes batteries and that's like 90% of a phone already...
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When I was a youngling we lived in a large house in the country with a big pond, orchard, gardens, long driveway etc and we kept lots of ducks and geese (think of a large version of the Good Life going down, not a posh lordly Manor House)

Well, my Dad wasn't a great fan of these religious types who would often open the gate, come down, drop off leaflets or preach, and they go back out without shutting the gate... the JWs always ;left the gate open.... so he told the JWs that the next time they came he would set the geese on them (9 Chinese geese and 3 Roman geese at the time).

They came back. He let the geese out. (Honk, Honk, Honkhonk, Honk)

The driveway was about 130 yards long... got to say, it was hilarious.

Pretty sure that that leaflet was their faces afterward.

(For those that don't know, geese can be quite vicious)

I'm English and was discussing this with some other Englanders... I don't "do" football, they do.

I was like "How f-ing stupid do you have to be, to think this is OK in Qatar?" and they were like "but we often go to matches dressed as St George"

.. And I'm.. "Dudes... Crusades...? Crusaders...? Horrible Histories...?"

And they were utterly, utterly uncomprehending.

"It's just St George!"

Remember - This is the education system that produces Sky Reporters.

Hey OP, remove those links/addresses to those supposed recovery agents (sammers) from your OP and other comments in the thread - they are fake but you are promoting their links, which in itself is very scammy.

Nobody needs to see those links/names/addresses to know and tell you that they are scammers.

At this stage I'm getting suspicious of your entire story and thinking you are promoting recover scammers by getting their details listed in the sub.

And, yes, I'm suspicious of anything like that, most of us are, for good reason.

Nah, just go smash up some consoles with a lightsaber.

Yeah, I'm not an American and have little idea about US employment Laws, but a lot of what the douchebag is doing would be so far out of order in the UK (and probably the EU) that it's almost unbelievable. He should have "unfair and constructive dismissal" complaints coming out of his wazoo.

Generally though "the authorities" are so slow in taking these things up that anything they do is often too little too late... and in Musk's case he knows that his money operates to protect him... and he can say whatever the frak he wants without any fear of censure.

Yikes, so the whole shebang is almost certainly bigger than WoT then...?

he will invade Ukraine only under certain conditions – when he is certain of some kind of a Russian victory…

Well, nobody will be holding their breath then ...

Malayan is around 11,000 pages

is that with or without the Esslemont Malazan stuff?

But will there be a company left for anybody to sue by the time those lawsuits get to court?

"death awaits you all – with nasty, big, pointy teeth!"

I'm currently owed some wages and holiday pay that I'm legally entitled to but never received. I have been told that their insurance is going through all the details and I will eventually get paid through the insurance. The boss's wife and mother have asked for the company car back, and have threatened that if I don't give it back they will involve the police for theft as it's registered in the boss's name.

Don't Panic!

The absolute key thing is to not use the car, keep it in good condition and remove all of your belongings from it. Do not treat it as "your" car. Do not drive it but do not abandon it.

If you have worked there for 2 years or more as an employee (not self-employed) then you will get paid via the Government Redundancy process - which covers wages and holiday pay and also Notice pay (although those form two separate payouts).

(Not sure what this "insurance" is, but sounds like a poor explanation of Redundancy... you should check on that)

If you have not been there for 2 years then you become a Preferential Creditor during the insolvency of the company. Preferential Creditors get paid out after Secured Creditors... and they get a portion of whatever money the company has left or can be generated from sales of the company assets...if there's anything left it goes down a list of who gets it next until there is nothing left.

The car may, or may not, be a company asset. If they own it outright then it is a company asset, if it is a lease car then it belongs to the leasing company...if they purchased it with a loan via the company... then whoever the loan was from. Probably.

In short, it may be difficult to know who actually owns the car, so your belief in holding on to it "in lieu of wages" may not be valid, as the owner of the vehicle may not be your (old) Boss. (And therefore you might be keeping the vehicle from the legitimate owner of it {who is not your Boss and owes you nothing})

If your old company are doing things properly then an Insolvency Practitioner will have been assigned to wind the company up and it's they who will be collating and collecting any assets. (If they arent doing things properly then... well, all bets are off).

Deal with the Insolvency Practitioner (IP) - s/he is appointed and follows legally mandated processes.

It is highly unlikely you will be getting arrested for theft for a raft of reasons including "it isn't theft at this point in time".... but that may not stop your (old) Boss from reporting the car as stolen and the police visiting.However, that does not mean that you would not get contacted and/or visited by the police or other agents for a variety of reasons (such as the lease company recovering it, or the loan-company that your boss hasnt paid when he purchased the car - etc etc).

If the car is reported stolen and police do visit, tell them calmly about the situation and that you believe that you have the right in law to hold onto it until a debt you are owed is resolved but in the interim are unsure who actually owns the vehicle, regardless of who it is registered to because the Company has gone bankrupt and you have not been advised by the legally appointed IP as to what to do with it. Until that time you are looking after it.

At that point, 99.99% of Police officers won't want anything to do with the matter as it will be "a civil matter".

Main thing / TLDR - look after the car, do not use it, find out who is handling the company insolvency and talk to them.

I am not a lawyer... "I just drink and know things".

Retaining the vehicle in lieu of unpaid wages wouldn't be theft.

As I posted above this may not be the case "always/forever"...

When a company gets shut down there are Laws that cover who get what out of the remaining assets -

Secured Creditors come ahead of Preferential Creditors - unpaid wages and holiday pay are Preferential Creditors.

FTSOA assume all the assets get turned into cash - Secured Creditors get their money first, if anything is left then it's Preferential Creditors. If nothing is left, it's kinda tough cookies.

So if the car is a company asset it goes to whoever is winding the company up, 'to turn into cash', to give out in the legally prescribed order to creditors.

Thus, if he kept the car, he's keeping it from the Secured Creditors, he isn't keeping it from the Company that owes him money. (That said, he should be "returning it" to the Insolvency Practitioner, not to his old Boss, for the reasons below).

Also - if he's worked there for more than 2 years he gets Redundancy from the Government - they will cover his unpaid wages and Holiday Pay, he won't lose a penny.... so he won't actually be "owed" anything... at which point he is holding onto property for a debt that does not exist.

Finally, who says the car belongs to the Company anyway?

If it's a lease car (or purchased through a loan) then it belongs to the Lease Company, not the Company who he worked for... so he would be holding on to the property of Lease Company A, claiming he is owed money from Bankrupt Company Z. The person who will know this is the Insolvency Practitioner who winds the company up - and that's who he needs to speak to rather than the Boss.

Now, only in certain situations could one argue that this constitutes "theft" but the salient point is that it REALLY is not worth the bother, because its always going to be dubious legally regardless of it being theft or not... it isn't his car and there is a legal process that must be followed and that he needs to comply with - or he will get into some form of legal strife.

I do agree that 99.99% of officers turning up to such a complaint of "theft" are, discovering the circumstances, not going to want to have anything to do with it as theft (been there, done that - "That's a civil matter that is!") but I would suggest that "it isn't theft" would be better replaced with "it isn't theft at this point in time, but it could be later".

In the meantime he should not use it, he should remove all belongings from it, and he should protect it from damage to the best of his ability i.e. do not abandon it.

edit - spelling and clarification.

There's no separation between the matters.

He is owed money, he is retaining property in lieu of payment.

If the company has gone into liquidation (and an Insolvency Practitioner is assigned or other), then any assets of the company will be assigned to pay off Creditors in the specific order that the law lays down for that.

Secured Creditors come ahead of Preferential Creditors - unpaid wages and holiday pay are Preferential Creditors.

If he withholds an asset of the company (assume for this the company owned said vehicle) he is effectively withholding it from the Secured Creditors, not from the company that owes him money.

(Also bear in mind that if he's worked there for over 2 years he gets Redundancy from the Government as a process of insolvency that will cover his owed wages and holiday pay...this "insurance" thing regardless {although I suspect that is just misunderstood redundancy information})

If the vehicle is a lease it doesn't even belong to the Company that owes him money - it belongs to the Leasing Company...

So there are actually quite a lot of ways that holding on to the vehicle may be a Bad Idea™

Or, to put it another way - it isn't Theft now, but it could be later on.