# Parental nightmare YouTuber Andrew Tate busted - and you won't believe by whom! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317 "2022-12-30T02:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/161 "2023-01-16T17:45:10Z")
Is this what philosophers mean by the hard problem of consciousness? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/162 "2023-01-16T17:51:41Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Nothing wrong with letting the thread drift a bit, pending new developments. Thread drift in general is probably fine. This drift specifically is unfortunate, because it’s easy to see it as additional attacks on Greta. FWIW, I don’t think that was the intent of the person who first brought it up either, and it’s fine in a different thread. But I really don’t think this is a good place for it. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/163 "2023-01-16T18:07:30Z")
Okay, yeah, I take your point. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/164 "2023-01-16T18:37:42Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Is this what philosophers mean by the hard problem of consciousness? I’m going to plunge right in here and applaud this new, new tangent the thread is rapidly growing. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/165 "2023-01-16T19:17:50Z")
> [@Banquet\_Bear](#): > > Because none of us here have actually seen Andrew Tate’s dick, right? We aren’t talking about the literal size here but the _perception_ of the level of “energy” that Tate is trying to project. This. He isn’t trying to compensate for the size of his penis. He’s trying to compensate (even if subconsciously) for his shitty personality by flaunting flashy expensive items like a Bugatti. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/166 "2023-01-16T20:01:22Z")
News update: > **[Andrew Tate's cars and watches, worth $4 million, are confiscated by Romanian...](https://www.npr.org/2023/01/16/1149393572/andrew-tate-cars-romania-sex-trafficking-case)** > > Romanian authorities hauled away a $3.9 million trove of luxury cars, watches and cash as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation looking into the self-styled male dominance influencer. > On Saturday, Romanian authorities descended upon the Tates’ compound in Bucharest to confiscate 29 assets, including 15 sports cars and 14 luxury watches, according to a statement from the Romanian Asset Recovery and Management Agency. Alongside several sums of money in multiple currencies, the total value of the goods is estimated to be 18 million lei ($3.9 million USD). \Ha-ha!\ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/167 "2023-01-17T00:56:53Z")
If $4M of loot constitutes being seriously rich, the world is in deep shit. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/168 "2023-01-17T01:11:00Z")
If he had 15 sports cars and one of them was, as he claimed, a Bugatti, that would mean overall, the rest of those cars would average less than $15K. Unless, of course, he had turned the Bugatti into a hooptie making it worth much less than one would expect. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/169 "2023-01-17T01:57:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If $4M of loot constitutes being seriously rich, the world is in deep shit. The median household income in the US is under 70 thousand a year. So four million is the gross income of a full family for 60 or so years of work. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/170 "2023-01-17T02:16:42Z")
Quite right. But this guy is loudly holding himself out as a member of the extreme elite. If indeed his toys are that much, his financial assets probably aren’t much more because he’s an emotional child and blew most of it on them. And although $4M is a lot compared to the US’s extremely skewed median, it’s far, far short of fatcat money. IOW, the guy is four-flusher from the word go. I meant nothing more than that. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/171 "2023-01-17T05:36:15Z")
When I was a teenager, ITBC and its accompanying phrase was available as an iron-on for t-shirts. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/172 "2023-01-17T09:30:28Z")
He has a “compound”. That’s probably worth a bit, even in Romania. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/173 "2023-01-17T12:09:56Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Unless, of course, he had turned the Bugatti into a hooptie making it worth much less than one would expect. Can you clarify what this means? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/174 "2023-01-17T12:20:30Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Can you clarify what this means? It means if he had taken this very valuable car and done classless modifications to it, the value of the car would drop. Like if he had bolted an aftermarket spoiler to the back and done a poor camo paint job. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/175 "2023-01-17T22:18:37Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > > [@Quint](#): > > > > **My concern is that they are going to learn that they are judged on the size of their penis.** And if they have one that is small they are deemed to be a lesser man. - > > You think that hasn’t been going on since forever? Heh. I’m getting a mental image of King David looking down from the Great Beyond as Michelangelo is working on his statue, and saying _“Thanks a lot, douchebag!”_ ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/176 "2023-01-18T00:33:00Z")
> **[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2013-09-02](https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3100)** > > Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2013-09-02 ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/177 "2023-01-18T00:42:51Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > > [@running\_coach](#): > > > > You think that hasn’t been going on since forever? > > Heh. I’m getting a mental image of King David looking down from the Great Beyond as Michelangelo is working on his statue, and saying _“Thanks a lot, douchebag!”_ While it is true that codpieces were worn during the Middle Ages to make it seem like dudes had big packages > **[Henry VIII had a 2 1/2 pound codpiece - Fact Fiend](http://www.factfiend.com/henry-viii-2-1-2-pound-codpiece/)** > > Henry the VIII was an English medievil king best remembered today for being a huge, honking fat-ass who spent a considerable percentage of his reign ploughing a series of increasingly hot wives in an attempt to sire a suitable heir. At the time he... a large member was actually considered gauche by the Ancient Greeks. > [@](#): > > The Greeks believed small penises were a sign of intelligence and cultural distinction. Big penises, conversely, were regarded with disdain, a signifier of a lusty, bestial, lowly sex-ogre with animalistic cravings. > **[Big penises were for ogres: Why so many classical sculptures are so modestly...](https://www.salon.com/2016/05/20/big_penises_were_for_ogres_why_so_many_classical_sculptures_are_so_modestly_endowed_partner/)** > > David's peter is tiny by design. The Greco-Romans considered a small phallus a sign of intelligence and distinction ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/178 "2023-01-18T00:56:48Z")
So the Greeks were already into Big [Dick Energy] , as opposed to [Big Dick] Energy. I guess when Andrew Tate buys a Bugatti, it is analogous to Homer writing _The Odyssey_? Or something. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/179 "2023-01-18T06:39:45Z")
Guess who was arrested today (and quickly got out)? > **[Greta Thunberg released after brief detention at German mine protest, police say](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-police-detain-greta-thunberg-german-coal-village-protests-2023-01-17/)** > > Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was detained alongside other activists on Tuesday during protests against the demolition of a village to make way for a coal mine expansion but was released after an identity check, according to police. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317/180 "2023-01-18T06:51:46Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > (and quickly got out)? Now that’s some big dick energy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parental-nightmare-youtuber-andrew-tate-busted-and-you-wont-believe-by-whom/977317.md?page=10)