u/RagingMassif

Rory was listing, gleefully I might add, the list of America's failures in its recent Persian Gulf adventure. One of them, that he repeated and expanded on, is how America has destroyed only 25% of Iran's missiles and there were 75% of them untouched "in really deep bunkers" despite America conducting 500 raids a day.

Point 1. If you destroy the launch platforms, it doesn't matter how many missiles they've got.

Point 2. 25/75 doesn't seem to match reality on the ground where missiles being fired at Gulf States dropped to a trickle after a couple of days.

Point 3. 25/75 doesn't seem to take into account how many were fired. If Iran started with 5,000, or 50,000 and fires 50%, and loses 25% that leaves 25% in those "super secret deep bunkers", not 75%.

Point 4. This seems like the same source that claimed Hez Bollah were sitting on two football stadiums full ("100,000") of missiles. Which seems to mean Hez have decided not to fire them at Israel whilst at the same time being smashed into pieces from Israeli bombing.

Rory really needs to stop listening to one of his sources.

Hi there, I'll keep it quick, I'm an experienced flyer but not with QA.

I am flying economy return MAN-DOH-SIN with my 20 yo son who is flying one-way. We have separate bookings. We have a 20 hour stop over in DOH with a complimentary hotel.

1. We both separately got an email offering an upgrade for £489 to business for the first leg today. I presume the second leg will be offered in about 20 hours time (!), is there a point where my return journey will also be offered and is it worth waiting to upgrade until that comes through?

1b) the offer seems to be cash only, but I have 80K in Avios, should I just try to upgrade to use the points, rather than following the link?

2. Will business class leg 1, or legs 1+2 influence the type of hotel we will be offered on arriving at DOH?

2a) Is there a hotel you would ask for, or decline?

3. I presume upgrade will increase the luggage options (my son is going to SIN for 6 months so this would help. I also presume I would need to upgrade both legs for this to work?

4. My son and I (54m) have never been to Qatar, Claude tells me a Souq and Dune bashing would be a good use of our time, what do you think?

I'll put my hand up first. A nudge to HR from my BIL for my job application to an Investment Bank is largely to credit for my HE career and R status. I had 4 GCSEs (all Cs). No reason on god's green earth on paper that I should have got hired.

I will admit a short and not-terrible military career (never got found out) and a teenage life running a paintball site rather than. you know studying, may have helped, but fundamentally, it was the BIL pushing My CV to the top of the pile that sorted everything else.

So, how about you? Was there a helping hand you can acknowledge? Also, if you're older, do you see the nepotism as gone completely, with HR refusing to be tainted? Or is it alive and well in your industry?

Hi there, we are a small firm. We currently bank with Wise and have done for a couple of years. On a personal level over a decade.

We have noticed that Revolut has a business debit card("Metal") with a load of benefits, which we are considering giving all staff one of these and moving our banking over.

Has anyone else used one and then the other and have any lessons learned.

(Just to intercept any fraud concerns, we'll operate staff expenses (the cards) separately from corporate banking through the multi company structure).