OT: The OT Thread: To move or not to move, that is the question. (Warning in post 368)

[TheMistyStranger]

Nope, HSBC. You know, the people who got fined $2 billion by the Senate banking oversight committee because they wer laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists. Those guys.

Oh right. I thought bank, but then I remember you had a stint with the Seattle Evils and couldn't remember the timeline.

 

[KiwiGriff]

Nope, HSBC. You know, the people who got fined $2 billion by the Senate banking oversight committee because they wer laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists. Those guys.

That's mentioned in some of our mandatory AML stuff we have to do at my job.

 

[Chainshot]

That's mentioned in some of our mandatory AML stuff we have to do at my job.

We used to have a bunch of mandatory AML stuff. The IT department who had nothing to do with any part of on boarding customers or any of that had really strict AML training. So after this happened, we had to show that we had changed our culture. Right. Bullshit nonsensical, phrasing, and in one of those “culture changing meetings“ I ask the people who are running it if the folks who had been responsible for signing off on all of these f***ing crooks and taking blood money from kidnappers and murderers and terrorists had been fired, including being willing to sign any length of NDA and being told that they couldn’t tell me that information. So I said I into the microphone so you’re telling me they’re still here and that the rest of us have to do all of this because they were greedy and they broke the law. I thought they were gonna walk me out that day, but I hung around for another four or five years. It was fun to have groupies for those meetings because I was so offended that I didn’t f***ing care if they sacked me. They took money from druglords in Mexico. These are the people who are kidnapping folks, chopping them in a little bits and sending them to their families. Truly grotesque humans, and for a few bucks, people I supported were willing to look the other way and do their banking for them. Completely f***ing morally bankrupt. Started looking elsewhere and had some fundamental problems with the entity I worked for to say the least.

 

[Chainshot]

Oh right. I thought bank, but then I remember you had a stint with the Seattle Evils and couldn't remember the timeline.

Oh, THAT bunch… different evil.

 

[Dex]

Funny but I know the date of both my current relationship first date and the one for my ex as well. I was regularly the one who would bring it up and have date night around it in better times. It's even funnier that they are only a few days apart in May...

I got married to wife number one on August 19th. Got married to wife number two on August 21st. Got married to wife number three on August 17th.

Given that I've known her for 20 years this November I'm thinking that 17 must be my lucky number. For proof, a few days ago, on January 31st, she texted me and said - "We're going to the hockey game tonight".

 

[Gras]

Nope, HSBC. You know, the people who got fined $2 billion by the Senate banking oversight committee because they wer laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists. Those guys.

If they were just a NGO they would have been fine.

 

[Jim Bob]

Nate called me after practice tonight. He was named a captain.

He told me I didn’t sound surprised. I told him how I found out from his head coach near the end of the fall semester.

He was like, “You knew all winter break and didn’t tell me?”

I was like, “Yeah, it was supposed to be a surprise when you got back.”

 

[Mike McDermott]

I'm lucky, because we decided we were a couple on her half-birthday, so as long as I remember when her birthday is, I have the other covered as well.

My parents got married on my mum's birthday. I've never been able to work out how dad wrangled that

Smart man!

I’m a legit day older than my wife so if I ever forget her birthday I’ve forgotten everything and have bigger problems. I’ve always been pretty decent with dates so I’ve never had a problem remembering our anniversary thankfully.

Given that our first date was a week before Valentine's Day, it makes it easy to remember.

And we like to focus on tomorrow over Valentine's Day because it is more personal to us and our relationship as opposed to a generic holiday.

Neither me nor my wife give a flying fig about Valentine’s Day. Her response when people ask why she doesn’t care about it the way a lot of women do is “it means more to do something special because you want to or were thinking about them rather than Hallmark telling you to .” I sometimes use it as an excuse to make us steak or something but that’s the extent we go.

 

[Butt Ox]

For me- it's the fact they look like hairy humans who will rip your nuts off. They seem evil!

That would be terribly unpleasant. So here's something interesting: there are way more venemous mammals than most people realize.

 

[Duddy]

There's even a semiaquatic egg laying mammal of action. (That is also venomous)