Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Mammy told me not to come.

[Opr]

Not sure if they're trying to outdo Gillette or what

I don't get the connection. Those commercials look like a clever, satirical take on drink responsibly stuff? What connection are you making with the Gillette stuff?

Opr

[Denny Crane]

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offb...Syw1Vj__k0lV_E

Didn't really sell this the first time, worth clicking

[ComradeCollie]

I don't get the connection. Those commercials look like a clever, satirical take on drink responsibly stuff? What connection are you making with the Gillette stuff?

Opr

Mostly that it has nothing to do with the products they sell.

[oleras]

Mostly that it has nothing to do with the products they sell.

Getting in ahead of the inevitable backlash wrt alcohol sponsorship id guess.

Its clever.

[dobby]

Got a dominos pizza leaflet in the door today with a 50% off code that might come in handy for a few at the weekend. Also pays tribute to an IPBer

Code is, LOVEUDOM and its 50% off when you spend €50

[oleras]

I got a tip this evening, use at your own discretion...

20.00 Newcastle Maureb.

I know NOTHING about horses.

[TheJiggaman]

Dead Heat rules apply for FRL bets in Golf?

Had Fowler FRL (straight) and he’s tied with Thomas both finished their rounds.

Could’ve done with him not lipping out on the last.

[Silver-Tiger]

Yeah that's a DH for now.

[Wombatman]

The denouement of TD 1 was the biggest let down in TV history.

Some porn for the jigsaw freaks....

[oleras]

To make amends for that tip, i present...Guy on a Buffalo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4T9CQA0UM

[hotspur]

Tbh, I think two gets a load of unnecessary flack. Both the stand alone elements and slight genre change was shock to viewers who were expecting more of the same spookiness.

I have the first episode of the 3rd season ready to go here and my body won't physically let me put it on as a mental image of Vince Vaughan won't go away.

His acting was so bad it can subvert free will.

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[ComradeCollie]

no, that can't be real!

The Luke Kelly statue on Sherrif street is not what I expected, very quirky, I like it.

Will make my way to South Anne Street tommorow.

Seems it is.

[AndyFatBastard]

The denouement of TD 1 was the biggest let down in TV history.

Trumpwrong.gif

[Opr]

Opr

[nicnicnic]

I have the first episode of the 3rd season ready to go here and my body won't physically let me put it on as a mental image of Vince Vaughan won't go away.

His acting was so bad it can subvert free will.

You're grand, no sign of him after 4 episodes. Throw it on, we'll probably need you by the end of it.

[6starpool]

no, that can't be real!

I can see it clearly from my office window. It is very real.

[Solksjaer!]

I can see it clearly from my office window. It is very real.

Not a fan . It looks like something ISIS would do to show western infidels they mean business .

[Guest]

It’s great seeing Facebook getting an absolute kicking on pretty much every news platform you can think of these days
Not so great seeing it’s having absolutely no effect on their bottom line

[Guest]

Not liking some of the True Detective 2 revisionism that’s about these days, it was brutal,end of
If you are going to try and rescue the reputation of a Colin Farrell vehicle please direct your efforts towards the criminally under appreciated Miami Vice, one of the best films of this century so far

[Strewelpeter]

I'll reserve judgment until I get down to see it, its certainly different from your usual boring bronze and on a properly monumental scale. First impression from photos are very strong though, it looks like they've caught a realistic looking moment of him in full flow singing in a nearly surreal cartoonish effect.

[Strewelpeter]

criminally under appreciated Miami Vice, one of the best films of this century so far

Really?
If I was locked up in a room for a week with nothing else to watch I wouldn't have considered turning it on.
Is it one of those its that bad its good kind of things or what?

[DeadParrot]

Not liking some of the True Detective 2 revisionism that’s about these days, it was brutal,end of
If you are going to try and rescue the reputation of a Colin Farrell vehicle please direct your efforts towards the criminally under appreciated Miami Vice, one of the best films of this century so far

If we are talking underappreciated Colin Farrell performances, he was fantastic as Bullseye in the otherwise shitty Affleck Daredevil (which actually had a much better directors cut)

[DeadParrot]

I have received correspondence from the Purchaser’s Solicitors stating that their surveyor has said that
the conservatory was not constructed in excess of 20 years ago and they are insisting on an Architect’s
Certificate on Compliance being furnished.

House selling woes. FIL and missus are convinced it's over 20 years ago but I've no way to prove it? or do I? Is it a case of just ponying up for the cert?

[The Situation]

Amazing England went off favs last two Six nations clashes with us and tomorrows match is priced 1/3 Ireland 10/3 England. Hard to believe our rise/their demise is as dramatic as that especially considering they had a much tougher Autumn international schedule and were a dodgy TMO decision late on against NZ from doing the sweep in those. While their vulnerabilities were shown early last season it could be argued that period was an outlier in results since last WC. Obv we couldn't have been much more impressive last year but still hard to avoid smashing up England at a historically high odds vs us.

[Tar.Aldarion]

Nuttiness + time = established religion. Trying to divine stupidity levels across religions is like trying to decide if its better to drive with 15 rather than 16 pints in you.

Although I do appreciate that original religions, such as Christianity, were needed to establish social norms and ways of living after people started living in the same place as opposed to being hunter gatherers. So they did play a helpful role at one point. While mormanism ... possibly not

No idea whats in that play - The Book of Morman - that everyone raves about, but they seem to be easygoing enough if they're fine with a musical about their divine text.

It's a musical, and it's brilliant! It's essentially South Park songs for a couple of hours making fun of Mormons. Mormons are good craic about it and give away tickets to see it as they know any exposure for them is good exposure. I get stopped quite often on the way to work by a pair of Mormon girls, one is gorgeous but yet that is not enough to sway me to talk to them. They seem to just wander about chatting to people. Christianity is a derivative religion, may want to go a bit further back! Religion is a funny one for me, it shows to me just how easy it is for people to hold true reallllly illogical things in their mind and I think it's something everybody has in one form or another. I'm even more suspicious of non-religious people as I don't know what they're most major logic gaps are yet and even more scary is wondering what my own is. I'm often sat there and hear somebody eventually mention some crazy belief like chem trails (give somebody enough time and it comes out) and think, ah there it is.

[shrapnel]

Amazing England went off favs last two Six nations clashes with us and tomorrows match is priced 1/3 Ireland 10/3 England. Hard to believe our rise/their demise is as dramatic as that especially considering they had a much tougher Autumn international schedule and were a dodgy TMO decision late on against NZ from doing the sweep in those. While their vulnerabilities were shown early last season it could be argued that period was an outlier in results since last WC. Obv we couldn't have been much more impressive last year but still hard to avoid smashing up England at a historically high odds vs us.

the autumn results flatter them though. they were rubbish. should have lost by a country mile against SA, but SA just let them off completely byt not being able to hit a throw in or a decent pass in the final 10, plus the last minute Farrell shoulder charge should have given a last gasp chance to SA to seal the win.
The game against the ABs was possibly the worst performance from Barrett i have ever seen. not only did he play bad, but he also missed 4 or 5 penalties
against Japan they were losing at half time, and only the bench saved them in the last 10 minutes showing a result which doesn't reflect the actual closeness of the game.

You should trounce them tomorrow

[Strewelpeter]

I'm even more suspicious of non-religious people as I don't know what they're most major logic gaps are yet and even more scary is wondering what my own is. I'm often sat there and hear somebody eventually mention some crazy belief like chem trails (give somebody enough time and it comes out) and think, ah there it is.

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[Opr]

Guy at work who's mad into his cycling was saying he's been spending a tonne of time over winter on Zwift. Essentially you set up your bike indoors on some sort of frame with sensors and then race virtually against each other. Bike adjusts difficulty based on whether you are e.g. going up a hill. You make the turns yourself and they happen in the game. Sounds really cool tbh. Example vid below. Just interesting to watch for a second or two to get a feel of how it works.

That looks really cool. I always thought gyms at some stage would start to move more into this type of thing to make it less monotonous. Then as the tech gets better finding ways to eventually involved virtual reality/augmented reality.

Opr

[ghostface]

Guy at work who's mad into his cycling was saying he's been spending a tonne of time over winter on Zwift. Essentially you set up your bike indoors on some sort of frame with sensors and then race virtually against each other. Bike adjusts difficulty based on whether you are e.g. going up a hill. You make the turns yourself and they happen in the game. Sounds really cool tbh. Example vid below. Just interesting to watch for a second or two to get a feel of how it works.

They had that thing on the cruise ship I was on in the Summer. Its pretty good but wasn't linked up to the interwebs so you were racing against previous ghosts. Really notice a difference when going up/downhill and say would take a while to get used to switching the gears on the bike - might be different if you can use your own

[Strewelpeter]

House selling woes. FIL and missus are convinced it's over 20 years ago but I've no way to prove it? or do I? Is it a case of just ponying up for the cert?

No photos?

[Guest]

Guy at work who's mad into his cycling was saying he's been spending a tonne of time over winter on Zwift. Essentially you set up your bike indoors on some sort of frame with sensors and then race virtually against each other. Bike adjusts difficulty based on whether you are e.g. going up a hill. You make the turns yourself and they happen in the game. Sounds really cool tbh. Example vid below. Just interesting to watch for a second or two to get a feel of how it works.

https://youtu.be/VcapZNk2JNo?t=225

GF's family are into triathlon and Ironman in a big way, her sis and bro in law both competed in Half Ironman Worlds in October.
I know they use a similar set up, often "cycling" a stage of the Tour de France, 100km cycles from their living room, expensive sport but the gear is pretty cool.

[newbie2]

House selling woes. FIL and missus are convinced it's over 20 years ago but I've no way to prove it? or do I? Is it a case of just ponying up for the cert?

Was it paid for via bank transfer /cheque? If so bank may have records..


in other news, 'Mortal engines' is fucking pants. Don't waste your bandwith

[ghostface]

House selling woes. FIL and missus are convinced it's over 20 years ago but I've no way to prove it? or do I? Is it a case of just ponying up for the cert?

May be a longshot but the OSI Geohive mapping includes layers of aerial imagery from 2000 and 1995, not sure if provides enough detail to pick out a conservatory building

http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html

[DeadParrot]

No photos?

of the conservatory?
or lack thereof?
I think I get what you mean but it's hard to date random pictures of a kitchen

[bp_me]

Guy at work who's mad into his cycling was saying he's been spending a tonne of time over winter on Zwift. Essentially you set up your bike indoors on some sort of frame with sensors and then race virtually against each other. Bike adjusts difficulty based on whether you are e.g. going up a hill. You make the turns yourself and they happen in the game. Sounds really cool tbh. Example vid below. Just interesting to watch for a second or two to get a feel of how it works.

https://youtu.be/VcapZNk2JNo?t=225

Its all about levelling up to get the tron bike...

[DeadParrot]

May be a longshot but the OSI Geohive mapping includes layers of aerial imagery from 2000 and 1995, not sure if provides enough detail to pick out a conservatory building

http://map.geohive.ie/mapviewer.html

that should prove an interesting evening

FIL's memory is sadly not what it once was so how he paid might be beyond him.
I'll have a look at options later

cheers all

[bp_me]

that should prove an interesting evening

FIL's memory is sadly not what it once was so how he paid might be beyond him.
I'll have a look at options later

cheers all

If you install google earth you can also backwards in Time and it's pretty good. I could see a shed being constructed at my previous house between different satellite images.

You have to install the desktop application to do this.

[DeadParrot]

That looks really cool. I always thought gyms at some stage would start to move more into this type of thing to make it less monotonous. Then as the tech gets better finding ways to eventually involved virtual reality/augmented reality.

Opr

kinda like peloton?

[bp_me]

That looks really cool. I always thought gyms at some stage would start to move more into this type of thing to make it less monotonous. Then as the tech gets better finding ways to eventually involved virtual reality/augmented reality.

Opr

Zwift have already demo'd it working on oculus. Apparently it's not that difficult. There would be some issues with the sweat killing the oculus though! And possibly the rider overheating.

[Opr]

kinda like peloton?

From a quick look having never seen it before, that seems like the kind of equipment. I more meant though that a physical gym implements that kind of equipment. I presume it is still exorbitantly expensive kit so have the gym kitted out with the technology and pay the normal monthly/yearly fee to use the gym. People then log into an account and can compete with people online, people in the gym, etc.

Zwift have already demo'd it working on oculus. Apparently it's not that difficult. There would be some issues with the sweat killing the oculus though! And possibly the rider overheating.

Not surprised. I guess the bulk, weight etc and the things you mention mean it still seems impractical at this point to incorporate in a meaningful way.

Opr

[Guest]

Zwift have already demo'd it working on oculus. Apparently it's not that difficult. There would be some issues with the sweat killing the oculus though! And possibly the rider overheating.

Also a problem with the occulus headset making cyclists look like even bigger bell-ends than they normally do when combined with their Lycra gear

[Guest]

Really?
If I was locked up in a room for a week with nothing else to watch I wouldn't have considered turning it on.
Is it one of those its that bad its good kind of things or what?

It got a lot of negative buzz because people wanted a pastel suit filled 80s nostalgia fest , Mann did not pander to that crowd at all
The plot is a bit all over the place (it was a pretty troubled shoot)but it’s all about the mood , visuals and sound.

[Denny Crane]

Opened my postbox for the first time in 3 months and the only useful thing in it was a new bankcard. I was at least expecting some vaguely threatening overdue letters, didn't even get a dominos voucher.

[Solksjaer!]

Also a problem with the occulus headset making cyclists look like even bigger bell-ends than they normally do when combined with their Lycra gear

Is ? That ?

[Solksjaer!]

Picamoleeee !!! someone direct me to the aftertiming thread

[Dice75]

No interest in this stuff tbf but apparently its...

sex
no rape
bad feeling
300k
no 5m
maybe 3m

[Strewelpeter]

No interest in this stuff tbf but apparently its...

sex
no rape
bad feeling
300k
no 5m
maybe 3m

You wat?

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[Emmet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxfPpwuERBM

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[Strewelpeter]

Class performance from the U20's, great game

[Emmet]

Guy at work who's mad into his cycling was saying he's been spending a tonne of time over winter on Zwift. Essentially you set up your bike indoors on some sort of frame with sensors and then race virtually against each other. Bike adjusts difficulty based on whether you are e.g. going up a hill. You make the turns yourself and they happen in the game. Sounds really cool tbh. Example vid below. Just interesting to watch for a second or two to get a feel of how it works.

https://youtu.be/VcapZNk2JNo?t=225

Not a patch on Guitar Hero

[Emmet]

great score for the game!

[Emmet]

LOL

[Raoul Duke III]

LOL

Two hilariously bad teams. We'll beat France by 30.

[Raoul Duke III]

Poor shraap.

[rounders123]

Good lord

[Strewelpeter]

This is my kind of Rugby

LOL out loud