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    Originally posted by eamonhonda View Post
    Any film recommendations?
    New mission impossible has dropped...
    People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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      Any thoughts on the merits of premium economy seats over regular economy? Am flying home from Australia shortly and Cathay Pacific allow you to 'bid' for seat upgrades. Half thinking that a nicer seat on the long Hong Kong to Dublin leg would make the experience better. But it looks like it would cost €350 for the privilege. Just wondering if anyone had a clue if sounds like it would be worth it!


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        100% definitely worth it for that length of journey. More room to stretch out and a better chance of a sleep. Food a bit better but nothing to get worked up about, service better due to smaller numbers in that area. Subjective for value ofc, anything less than 400 i would snap up. Anything more than that be straying into paying business class to start with.
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          Originally posted by Lazare View Post
          Cheers for that. My mind and that of EHonda's were thinking alike.

          Lined up.
          Well that was excellent.

          Beautiful soundtrack too. Cheers Newbie
          I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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            This for instance..

            My other Youtube account:http://www.youtube.com/BarbecueJrSHAce Frehley/Kiss - New York Groove (1978)as made famous by Hello 1975
            I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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              Some new Don't hug me I'm scared eps on the way apparently.

              Awesome.
              I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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                Kipchoge on target to smash the WR in Berlin.

                Thru 23 miles.
                I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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                  1 min ahead of WR pace with 2k to go. Machine.
                  I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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                    Wow.

                    2:01:40

                    1 min 17 secs off it. What a man.
                    I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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                      Interesting that the last WR was also set in Berlin

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                        Originally posted by TheJiggaman View Post
                        Interesting that the last WR was also set in Berlin
                        It's the fastest of the majors.
                        I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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                          Great fight last night. Could have gone either way. I had GGG down as edging it.
                          Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

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                            Originally posted by Lazare View Post
                            Wow.

                            2:01:40

                            1 min 41 secs off IT. What a man.
                            FYP IMO
                            Turning millions into thousands

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                              Originally posted by Lazare View Post
                              It's the fastest of the majors.
                              How would that be? Least bendy/least uphill?

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                                Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
                                FYP IMO
                                He's the man to do it.
                                I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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                                  Originally posted by TheJiggaman View Post
                                  How would that be? Least bendy/least uphill?
                                  Least uphill basically. It's the flattest profile of the majors.
                                  I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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                                    ...
                                    "We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil

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                                      Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
                                      Great fight last night. Could have gone either way. I had GGG down as edging it.
                                      I haven't seen or heard from anyone bar two judges who had canelo winning
                                      People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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                                        40 in the hockey today. World Cup dividend clearly paying off.
                                        "We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."

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                                          Originally posted by CourierCollie View Post
                                          Had to google it. Was mostly surprised that Nick Cage wasn't dead already. That, and he's only 54; really thought he was about 70.
                                          Saw him in an airport once, looking suitably louche. He's absolutely tiny.
                                          "We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."

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                                            Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
                                            If only I could get back the seconds I've wasted rolling out kebabs and pushing a skewer through them
                                            Turning millions into thousands

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                                              Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post
                                              I haven't seen or heard from anyone bar two judges who had canelo winning
                                              I didn't watch it but watched highlights, one commentator noted that he understands how fans with less boxing experience might have overvalued Canelos aggression and undervalued GGGs use of the jab.
                                              It appears ubiquitous across the sport that the wrong man won, if you were to buy into the conspiracy stuff, Canelo is a far more marketable champ than GGG.

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                                                Split the county. Those dub girls have an unfair advantage.

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                                                  ...
                                                  "We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil

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                                                    Lola the Shiloh shepherd belts it out to Queen's "We Are The Champions" on a road trip with her owner, Annie. Better singing voice than most people!!
                                                    This too shall pass.

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                                                      ...
                                                      "We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil

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                                                        Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
                                                        It is kinda mad that nearly everyone associated with Trump campaign is now a convicted criminal.
                                                        Except Denny

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                                                          Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
                                                          @laz an interesting article on the marathon guy's equipment today and a Christmas present idea to drop hints about with the wife.
                                                          Cheers Hitch. He wore them when he attempted to break 2 hours at Monza last year and there was a bit of debate around them.

                                                          I'd love a pair. According to that article their effectiveness wears off after about 100 miles. That can't be right. I wouldn't even get 3 weeks out of them.
                                                          I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that

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                                                            Originally posted by Lazare View Post
                                                            Cheers Hitch. He wore them when he attempted to break 2 hours at Monza last year and there was a bit of debate around them.

                                                            I'd love a pair. According to that article their effectiveness wears off after about 100 miles. That can't be right. I wouldn't even get 3 weeks out of them.
                                                            probably need 2 pairs , one for training and one for gaining an advantage in a park run.

                                                            This running lark has really started a civil war with my body. One step forward and two limps backward . Used to be so much easier. mudder time is a bitch

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                                                              Season 2 of Ozark was good telly.

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                                                                Don't think I posted here.... I'm a dad now to a not so little baby girl.
                                                                May you live in interesting times!

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                                                                  Congrats man.
                                                                  Dad dick come in yet?
                                                                  People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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                                                                    Should I know what that means?
                                                                    May you live in interesting times!

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                                                                      Congrats Brendan. Jesus though, whenever you post it reminds me that showboat/mullanes days were like 10 years ago
                                                                      Redbet at the Dublin Poker Invasion FTW

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                                                                        Saw Lenny Abrahamson's new movie The Little Stranger today. Really enjoyed it but it's incredibly slow so imagine people chasing jump scares won't be pleased

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                                                                          Has anyone heard about Dr Quirkeys opening up a live casino in their place on O' Connell street?
                                                                          Redbet at the Dublin Poker Invasion FTW

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                                                                            I must say that given that we are a community I’ve always felt uneasy at how the Staking threads operate. Statements can be made that are clearly bullshit and yet any time anyone dared querying them in a thread they’ve been shot down by regulars.

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                                                                              Originally posted by Lazare View Post
                                                                              I'd love a pair. According to that article their effectiveness wears off after about 100 miles. That can't be right. I wouldn't even get 3 weeks out of them.
                                                                              If the advantage comes from the flex of the midsole. It makes sense that stiffness of the material could fatigue at some point, but less than 100k steps seems ridiculously early.

                                                                              The source for that is "Some runners have said...". Which is anecdotal at best and hugely subject to bias. The data is based on 500,000 race times. I'd imagine most of the pairs, other than those just bought for the race, would have had more than 100miles on them.

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                                                                                Originally posted by The Aul Switcharoo View Post
                                                                                Congrats Brendan. Jesus though, whenever you post it reminds me that showboat/mullanes days were like 10 years ago
                                                                                7/8 years ago I think... Or that's roughly when I stepped away from all of that. It's been a very busy 7 years!
                                                                                May you live in interesting times!

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                                                                                  Originally posted by Arazi View Post
                                                                                  I must say that given that we are a community I’ve always felt uneasy at how the Staking threads operate. Statements can be made that are clearly bullshit and yet any time anyone dared querying them in a thread they’ve been shot down by regulars.
                                                                                  Statements like what?

                                                                                  They've always seemed to be on a willing buyer\willing seller basis with clear t&cs.

                                                                                  (I'm a disinterested observer as I very rarely stake.)
                                                                                  "We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."

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                                                                                    You could say the same about Cowboy builders who take advantage of pensioners etc.

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                                                                                      Originally posted by Arazi View Post
                                                                                      You could say the same about Cowboy builders who take advantage of pensioners etc.
                                                                                      What are the bullshit statements or are you just talking about mark-up values?

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                                                                                        Originally posted by Arazi View Post
                                                                                        You could say the same about Cowboy builders who take advantage of pensioners etc.
                                                                                        Could you be more specific. Of course people spoofing don't want to be called out on big mark up etc.

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                                                                                          Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
                                                                                          so you would prefer that all people who qualify for social and affordable housing people are grouped together in high density low developments out of sight of the others.

                                                                                          It's shocking how prelevant that kind of thinking is amongst supposed progressives.
                                                                                          "out of sight of others" is your spin on it and it's deliberately dishonest.
                                                                                          Is that how you crash a wedding? yes it is, Bionic Barry, yes it is.

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                                                                                            Originally posted by Sickpuppy View Post
                                                                                            Could you be more specific. Of course people spoofing don't want to be called out on big mark up etc.
                                                                                            Well it seems quite common that the Mark Up is something like 1.2 for the investor, but I’ve seen higher.
                                                                                            Then a statement is made to the effect of “this is a great value tournament, blah blah blah”.
                                                                                            Well exactly who is it value for?
                                                                                            The investor or the player or both? In the case of a 1.2 Mark Up the investors are paying a whopping 50% premium on what the player is paying. There’s no doubt in those cases that the players should be getting value if competent, I very much doubt on most occasions if the investors are.

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                                                                                              Originally posted by Arazi View Post
                                                                                              Well it seems quite common that the Mark Up is something like 1.2 for the investor, but I’ve seen higher.
                                                                                              Then a statement is made to the effect of “this is a great value tournament, blah blah blah”.
                                                                                              Well exactly who is it value for?
                                                                                              The investor or the player or both? In the case of a 1.2 Mark Up the investors are paying a whopping 50% premium on what the player is paying. There’s no doubt in those cases that the players should be getting value if competent, I very much doubt on most occasions if the investors are.
                                                                                              Stuff like 'this is a very soft tournament, and I'm brilliant' is fine surely?
                                                                                              It's all pretty subjective and can't be proven either way.

                                                                                              I've always been more suspicious of the selective sharkscope graphs. When someone filters their results to 6Max Hi-Lo tournaments on one site only, with a buy-in of exactly $128 in order to get a nice upward pointing graph then it screams dodgy to me.

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                                                                                                Markup discussion been done to death here many times already. Buy or dont imo, Isn't a salesman alive gonna undersell himself in any walk of life.

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                                                                                                  Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
                                                                                                  Markup discussion been done to death here many times already. Buy or dont imo, Isn't a salesman alive gonna undersell himself in any walk of life.
                                                                                                  Where have they been done? In the threads themselves, I don’t think so, I’ve seen one or two questions asked and then those posters have been blasted out of it. That in essence is the very point that I initially set out to make.

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                                                                                                    Originally posted by Arazi View Post
                                                                                                    Where have they been done? In the threads themselves, I don’t think so, I’ve seen one or two questions asked and then those posters have been blasted out of it. That in essence is the very point that I initially set out to make.
                                                                                                    Well what is your solution? Do you object to an asset manager charging a premium for the perceived ability to make greater than market returns, same idea.

                                                                                                    If a player is charging 1.2 you can look at past live results or use online performances as a proxy to determine if the investment is profitable.
                                                                                                    Player A has a 30% ROI at $100+ tournaments online and is charging a 1.2 MU, that seems value when translated to a 1k live event, then buy some. There's no issue here as it's completely transparent.

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                                                                                                      Well one solution would be to allow/not frown upon those who query the Mark Up or ask questions in the thread.
                                                                                                      I tried to make my example quite generic but I regularly see something in a staking thread that I’d like to question in the interest of the community but I know that to do so would bring on the rebuffs of the regulars.

                                                                                                      Perhaps it could be added to the charter, “Do you agree to answer queries on your sale in the thread?”.

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                                                                                                        Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
                                                                                                        Markup discussion been done to death here many times already. Buy or dont imo, Isn't a salesman alive gonna undersell himself in any walk of life.
                                                                                                        Unless they are going for the classic undersell tactic and telling prospects they don’t want the business to get a higher price and oversell.

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                                                                                                          Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
                                                                                                          so you would prefer that all people who qualify for social and affordable housing people are grouped together in high density low developments out of sight of the others.

                                                                                                          It's shocking how prelevant that kind of thinking is amongst supposed progressives.
                                                                                                          I read an interesting article that kind of touches on this admittedly not serious-seeming point a few weeks ago.



                                                                                                          SPOILER
                                                                                                          Mick Byrne, Michelle Norris, Anna Carnegie
                                                                                                          Dr Michael Byrne and Professor Michelle Norris lecture at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin. Anna Carnegie is a PhD researcher in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York.

                                                                                                          One of the core ideas of the government’s social-housing strategy, as set out in the government’s housing plan, Rebuilding Ireland, is that we must “avoid repeating the mistakes of the past”.

                                                                                                          We must not build large social-housing estates as in earlier decades, but should focus instead on “a mix of smaller scale and infill developments”, it says.

                                                                                                          At the heart of this approach is a gospel that any concentration of social housing should be avoided. Instead, these new developments should also feature owner-occupied housing.

                                                                                                          This approach is often called “tenure mixing”, and has become a go-to panacea for the alleged ills of social housing, not just in Ireland but across many advanced economies.

                                                                                                          Indeed, the idea that large social neighbourhoods are doomed to dystopia – characterised by unemployment, crime and drugs – is so widespread and so widely supported that it is rarely challenged in media, political, or policy debates.

                                                                                                          There are, however, two major problems with it. First of all, it’s wrong. And second of all, it is a dangerous narrative for a city like Dublin, which desperately needs ambitious, large-scale social-housing construction.


                                                                                                          Blame Deindustrialisation, Not Social Housing
                                                                                                          The idea that the social-housing neighbourhoods of the past were
                                                                                                          failures is in large part based on the fact that a number of such neighbourhoods in Dublin, and in other cities, experienced chronic social problems, in particular from the mid-to-late 1980s and into the early 1990s.

                                                                                                          They were saddled with high unemployment, poverty, and mental-health issues. But they were marked, above all, by the heroin epidemic that swept through many communities during the period. Nobody can argue with this.

                                                                                                          However, to suggest that social housing caused these issues is to confuse correlation with causation. In reality, poverty, deteriorating mental health, and vulnerability to heroin were much more closely related to deindustrialisation than they were to social housing.

                                                                                                          Nearly every city in the industrialised world experienced these issues during the great wave of deindustrialisation, and consequent unemployment, of the 1970s and 1980s.

                                                                                                          Here in this city, sociology lecturer Michael Punch at University College Dublin has documented the relationship between deindustrialisation in the 1970s and 1980s, and the social problems experienced in inner-city neighbourhoods.

                                                                                                          In short, communities affected by these massive economic changes would have experienced serious social problems irrespective of what form of housing they were living in.

                                                                                                          Social Housing Can Be Mixed-Income
                                                                                                          The idea of “mixed tenure” is also based on another problematic assumption: that only poor and socially excluded people live in social housing.

                                                                                                          This risks ignoring the many social-housing residents who are in full-time employment. But, more importantly, it fails to ask the crucial question: why is it that social housing tends to have higher concentrations of poor households?

                                                                                                          The answer here is our allocations policy. Countries like Ireland allocate social housing on the basis of “housing need”. Given the small proportion of social housing in the first place – under 10 percent of Irish households live in social housing – this means the most needy are concentrated in social housing.

                                                                                                          Moreover, Ireland has for many decades sold off social housing to better-off tenants, giving them a leg up into home ownership, while narrowing the spread of those in social housing further, leaving the poorest households.

                                                                                                          In other countries, for example Denmark, allocations policy is not based on need, but on a combination of time on waiting lists and the necessity to build sustainable communities. Likewise in Austria, where households of almost any income level can, and do, live in social housing.

                                                                                                          In other words, if you have a higher proportion of social housing and a more sustainable allocations policy, it is perfectly possible to create mixed-income neighbourhoods of social housing.

                                                                                                          The converse is also true: mixed-tenure neighbourhoods do not necessarily mean mixed-income neighbourhoods.

                                                                                                          In places like Ballymun, where tenure mixing was part of the regeneration strategy, most of the private housing was snapped up by landlords who rent out to tenants in receipt of rent supplement or the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP).

                                                                                                          The income profile has remained the same despite the reduction in the proportion of social housing in the neighbourhood. This is linked to another rather obvious fact that is rarely mentioned: it is the housing market, not social housing, that leads to clusters of poor and rich households in separate neighbourhoods.

                                                                                                          Those cities with more marketised housing systems, such as in the English-speaking world, tend to have much higher levels of class segregation than their counterparts in continental Europe, which tend to have high levels of social housing.

                                                                                                          Cementing Stigma
                                                                                                          Some of the contradictions and problems with tenure mixing are particularly evident when we consider that it is one of the main policy responses to the stigmatisation of social-housing residents and neighbourhoods.

                                                                                                          The irony is that tenure mixing appears to be predicated on the idea that when lots of social-housing households live together, their bad behaviour gets worse, and that conversely when they come into contact with middle-class home owners they will, by osmosis, take on the latter’s alleged virtues.

                                                                                                          This assumption is itself stigmatising. It fails to recognise that stigmatisation is not caused by social-housing residents, but by the attitudes of those who don’t live in social housing. There is also evidence that social-housing residents who live in mixed-tenure developments experience increased internal stigma from their new homeowning neighbours.

                                                                                                          More worryingly, there is research that suggests, in some cities at least, that tenure mixing is not so much about dealing with issues such as unemployment, drugs, or stigma, but more about dispersing those who are affected by these problems, and therefore making them less visible.

                                                                                                          Such a strategy goes hand in hand with gentrification: if the “solution” to the problems faced by social housing is to reduce the amount of it and expand the number of higher-income owner-occupiers in a neighbourhood, it is simply state-sponsored gentrification.

                                                                                                          This is particularly important in the context of the planned redevelopment of several large social housing estates in Dublin, including O’Devaney Gardens in Dublin 7, which under current plans would see greatly increased proportions of private housing.

                                                                                                          How Large Is Large?
                                                                                                          But perhaps one of the most frustrating features of this debate is the extremely loose references to large social-housing estates in the Rebuilding Ireland strategy and more generally.

                                                                                                          When international researchers look at the issues that can arise with high concentrations of poverty, it is often referring to neighbourhoods often of many thousands of residents.

                                                                                                          But in Dublin, politicians and policymakers often seem to consider developments as small as a couple of hundred units to be a large concentration.

                                                                                                          A housing policy that cannot fathom 200 social-housing units side by side without social catastrophe, in the context of an acute housing shortage, is in serious trouble.

                                                                                                          And this brings us to the final danger of enshrining tenure mixing as a vision for housing development, and social housing in particular. We have an acute housing shortage. The market alone will not be able to provide adequate supply of affordable housing.

                                                                                                          We need decisive and ambitious state intervention. We need to think big. We need to think long term. We need new large neighbourhoods to sustain Dublin’s rapid growth. Social housing, on a large scale, needs to be part of this.

                                                                                                          Our ability to imagine, envision, and create such neighbourhoods is currently being hampered by ill-informed assumptions about social housing.

                                                                                                          Instead of assuming social housing neighbourhoods can’t work, let’s tear up the script and start a discussion about how we would like such neighbourhoods to work and what needs to happen to make that vision possible.

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                                                                                                            Originally posted by Arazi View Post
                                                                                                            Where have they been done? In the threads themselves, I don’t think so, I’ve seen one or two questions asked and then those posters have been blasted out of it. That in essence is the very point that I initially set out to make.
                                                                                                            Not in threads themselves but a good few general ones....



                                                                                                            tha'ts the 1st one i find when i search, there are a few others too

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                                                                                                              So what’s the solution then, keep our mouths shut? That seems to be the general consensus from the regulars yeah?

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                                                                                                                Originally posted by Arazi View Post
                                                                                                                So what’s the solution then, keep our mouths shut? That seems to be the general consensus from the regulars yeah?
                                                                                                                I don't know.

                                                                                                                I guess if you see a thread with a sale you have 4 options...

                                                                                                                Buy
                                                                                                                Offer to buy at lower mark-up
                                                                                                                Complain at mark up
                                                                                                                Ignore it

                                                                                                                Don't really see the point of option 3 as people can make their own mind up surely?

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                                                                                                                  Originally posted by bp_me View Post
                                                                                                                  Should I know what that means?
                                                                                                                  sorry...was meant to post this as well.
                                                                                                                  it seems even stupider now
                                                                                                                  in this video Jeremy and Rob explore the world of fatherhood. Mainly how big their dad's dicks were! Seriously, have you ever thought about that? think to th...
                                                                                                                  People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
                                                                                                                  Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
                                                                                                                  https://revolut.com/referral/jamesb8!G10D21

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                                                                                                                    Originally posted by eamonhonda View Post
                                                                                                                    Any film recommendations?
                                                                                                                    I went to The Rider the other day and thought it was exceptional. Don't go when in the mood for excitement though.

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                                                                                                                      American Animals was good.


                                                                                                                      Looking up The Rider above and see


                                                                                                                      "The Rider's hard-hitting drama is only made more effective through writer-director Chloé Zhao's use of untrained actors to tell the movie's fact-based tale."
                                                                                                                      Bad acting makes a story more effective? Good reviews so was it eh...good acting?

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                                                                                                                        Originally posted by Arazi View Post
                                                                                                                        So what’s the solution then, keep our mouths shut? That seems to be the general consensus from the regulars yeah?
                                                                                                                        What exactly is your issue?

                                                                                                                        Players are taking advantage of investors by charging large mark ups? If players charge mark ups that investors aren't willing to invest at, then players won't sell or they'll lower their mark ups, it seems pretty easy to me.

                                                                                                                        Investors are often aware that no value exists but they invest anyway, it's pretty much how the whole gaming industry works.

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                                                                                                                          Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
                                                                                                                          Everybody, and I mean fucking everybody, needs to watch the new Nick Cage movie Mandy.
                                                                                                                          I vote for immediate ban

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