Bad beat/Moan/Venting Thread - BBV Archive 3

[oleras]

No. But had an exceptionally enjoyable one today. Had the go looking for the jizm that went far beyond projections.

Excellent result, been a while since i lobbed one over the shoulder...may need to let the back pressure increase more than 24hrs.

[SatNav]

IPO number 4 in the bag weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[ComradeCollie]

Comma in that last sentence changes the meaning somewhat, not sure exactly how but it no longer means what you want it to mean

Yeah, it kinda implies the excellent wank was an afterthought. I'm so useless using a touchscreen keyboard

[smurph]

IPO number 4 in the bag weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Yet another selling thread coming so !

[SatNav]

IPO number 4 in the bag weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

sold to GAB

[smurph]

sold to GAB

For a discount I hope

[smurph]

€100, not a bad deal.

Extras included ?

[SatNav]

€100, not a bad deal.

[smurph]

Is that ex-horse of yours gonna win tomorrow ?

[Flushdraw]

IPO number 4 in the bag weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Boooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring. ...

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[pokerhand]

hmm maybe lol

Women poker heh!! That's mad Ted <insert obligatory picture here>

[pokerhand]

that for me? Don't think there is anything running tomorrow that I have even been involved in.

What happened to Our Coner? Is he running anytime soon?

[Bubbleking]

I know everyone has their favourite sport but jesus I love college football. Passion, excitement and a great show.

great game going to OT if anyone wants a watch

http://firstrownow.eu/watch/212236/1...ennessee-.html

[eamonhonda]

I know everyone has their favourite sport but jesus I love college football. Passion, excitement and a great show.

great game going to OT if anyone wants a watch

http://firstrownow.eu/watch/212236/1...ennessee-.html

If only they created some sort of proper structure and . Could pick a team and follow the Damn thing

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[oleras]

How do people live with long-term illness? Have a sniffly cold these last two days, like nearly everyone else at the moment, and feels like the down-est event ever. The poor uncle popped into the doctor for nearly the first time in his 52 years a few weeks ago and found out he'll be dead before Christmas with the meantime taken up by extreme pain and brain-blasting medication. How would you even handle news like that, or go through the pain knowing there was no positive end in sight? Guess it's the enjoying the last moments with the family thing is a big part.

/hmm might be a bit of a downer of a post.

That's awful news about the uncle dude.

What would you do tomorrow if you found yourself in a situation where that was it, end game and by chance you were given another chance ?

It's a hard one, do you treat people you love and care about differently?

When you are gone that's all that's really left, what kind of person were you to them, what was your legacy ? To be remembered fondly, that's what i would like to achieve, not as the prick i can be at the drop of a hat.

Time for lunch...I have a hankering for buttery toast.

[Bubbleking]

If only they created some sort of proper structure and . Could pick a team and follow the Damn thing

theres playoffs this year - plus just watch any game with ranked teams are they are likely to be the closest. next one starts here at 1am should be good

http://firstrownow.eu/watch/212510/1...thwestern.html

How do people live with long-term illness? Have a sniffly cold these last two days, like nearly everyone else at the moment, and feels like the down-est event ever. The poor uncle popped into the doctor for nearly the first time in his 52 years a few weeks ago and found out he'll be dead before Christmas with the meantime taken up by extreme pain and brain-blasting medication. How would you even handle news like that, or go through the pain knowing there was no positive end in sight? Guess it's the enjoying the last moments with the family thing is a big part.

/hmm might be a bit of a downer of a post.

horrible situation for everyone especially the family

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[Bubbleking]

E.g. prostate cancer is eminently treatable if caught early, but needs regular scans after certain age in men to detect early. Think breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening is funded by state, but not the male cancer. Although perhaps BK might be able to correct on that. Doesn't sound quite right that there would actually be a policy like that, so might have got it mixed up.

its an awkward one - the marker that is screened (PSA) has controversy surrounding it as to its usefullness and there are loads of false positives (or negatives I can't remember). A proper screening programme hasnt been implemented because at the moment they arent sure if the benefit of screening outweighs the risks and morbidity of over diagnosis and over treatment.

Even the breast screening programme we have at the moment is massively ineffective - cant remember last figures but its something huge like having to justify the cost of running a screening service where the catch rate is 1/300 (not sure of exact figures) i.e. for every 300 women screened 1 will show up with signs that warrant further investigation

[oleras]

its an awkward one - the marker that is screened (PSA) has controversy surrounding it as to its usefullness and there are loads of false positives (or negatives I can't remember). A proper screening programme hasnt been implemented because at the moment they arent sure if the benefit of screening outweighs the risks and morbidity of over diagnosis and over treatment.

Even the breast screening programme we have at the moment is massively ineffective - cant remember last figures but its something huge like having to justify the cost of running a screening service where the catch rate is 1/300 (not sure of exact figures) i.e. for every 300 women screened 1 will show up with signs that warrant further investigation

Isn't the philosophy now prevention rather than cure ? catch it early? Well, from personal experience that seems to be how they are treating CAD, or maybe it was the VHI plan i have.

[Bubbleking]

Isn't the philosophy now prevention rather than cure ? catch it early? Well, from personal experience that seems to be how they are treating CAD, or maybe it was the VHI plan i have.

prevention rather than cure is the philosopy. For something like CAD a large responsibility is on the public to look after their own healthcare meaning cure as a last resort is the plan. Unfortunately for cancers there are only so many preventative measures you can take and with a finite amount of resources its not practical or feasible to screen everyone

[eamonhonda]

theres playoffs this year - plus just watch any game with ranked teams are they are likely to be the closest. next one starts here at 1am should be good

http://firstrownow.eu/watch/212510/1...thwestern.html



horrible situation for everyone especially the family

Yeah I've watched and enjoyed the games. But I like to pick a side or at least understand the significance of the game to get the full enjoyment and I think the strange set up takes away from that.

I wanna know who the world champion of college football in murica is!

[CHDad]

Saturday nights are shit when there is no UFC.

[Downtown]

How do people live with long-term illness? Have a sniffly cold these last two days, like nearly everyone else at the moment, and feels like the down-est event ever. The poor uncle popped into the doctor for nearly the first time in his 52 years a few weeks ago and found out he'll be dead before Christmas with the meantime taken up by extreme pain and brain-blasting medication. How would you even handle news like that, or go through the pain knowing there was no positive end in sight? Guess it's the enjoying the last moments with the family thing is a big part.

/hmm might be a bit of a downer of a post.

Cook some meth?

[hotspur]

From Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom:

A brief look at a core concept of existential philosophy may provide
clarification. Martin Heidegger, in 1926, explored the question how the
idea of death may save man, and arrived at the important insight that
the awareness of our personal death acts as a spur to shift us from one
mode of existence to a higher one. Heidegger believed that there are
two fundamental modes of existing in the world: (1) a state of forgetfulness
of being or (2) a state of mindfulness of being.7

When one lives in a state of forgetfulness of being, one lives in the world of things and immerses oneself in the everyday diversions of
life: One is "leveled down," absorbed in "idle chatter," lost in the
"they." One surrenders oneself to the everyday world, to a concern
about the way things are.

In the other state, the state of mindfulness of being, one marvels not
about the way things are but that they are. To exist in this mode means
to be continually aware of being. In this mode, which is often referred
to as the "ontological mode" (from the Greek ontos, meaning "existence"),
one remains mindful of being, not only mindful of the fragility
of being but mindful, too (as I shall discuss in chapter 6), of one's responsibility
for one's own being. Since it is only in this ontological
mode that one is in touch with one's self-creation, it is only here that
one can grasp the power to change oneself.

Ordinarily one lives in the first state. Forgetfulness of being is the
everyday mode of existence. Heidegger refers to it as "inauthentic" -a
mode in which one is unaware of one's authorship of one's life and
world, in which one "flees," "falls," and is tranquilized, in which one
avoids choices by being "carried along by the nobody."8 When, however,
one enters the second mode of being (mindfulness of being), one
exists authentically (hence, the frequent modern use of the term "authenticity"
in psychology). In this state, one becomes fully self-aware - aware
of oneself as a transcendental (constituting) ego as well as an
empirical (constituted) ego; one embraces one's possibilities and limits;
one faces absolute freedom and nothingness-and is anxious in the
face of them.

Now, what does death have to do with all this? Heidegger realized
that one doesn't move from a state of forgetfulness of being to a more
enlightened, anxious mindfulness of being by simple contemplation,
by bearing down, by gritting one's teeth. There are certain unalterable,
irremediable conditions, certain "urgent experiences" that jolt one,
that tug one from the first, everyday, state of existence to the state of
mindfulness of being. Of these urgent experiences (Jaspers later referred
to them as "border" or "boundary" or "limit" situations 9
), death is the nonpareil: death is the condition that makes it possible for us to live life
in an authentic fashion.

This point of view-that death makes a positive contribution to
life-is not one easily accepted. Generally we view death as such an
unmitigated evil that we dismiss any contrary view as an implausible
joke. We can manage quite well without the plague, thank you.

But suspend judgment for a moment and imagine life without any
thought of death. Life loses something of its intensity. Life shrinks when death is denied. Freud who, for reasons I shall discuss shortly,
spoke little of death, believed that the transience of life augments our
joy in it. "Limitation in the possibility of an enjoyment raises the value
of the enjoyment." Freud, writing during the First World War, said that
the lure of war was that it brought death into life once again: "Life has,
indeed, become interesting again; it has recovered its full content."10
When death is excluded, when one loses sight of the stakes involved,
life becomes impoverished. It is turned into something, Freud wrote,
"as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation, in which it
is understood from the first that nothing is to happen, as contrasted
with a continental love-affair in which both partners must constantly
bear its serious consequences in mind."

[ArmaniJeans]

From Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom:

I was just about to post that

[CHDad]

Found a pet rock.

Delighted.

[oleras]

Found a pet rock.

Delighted.

What shall you call it ? Rocky ?

[Opr]

Just finished up watching a fascinating first series of a show called Rectify. Guy who was sent to death row very young who is released after 20 years due to new evidence. It's a slow paced, beautifully filmed, thought provoking piece of television. In keeping with the melancholy mood in the thread I keep thinking about one particular scene when he's talking about how everything surprises him even the most mundane of things because he hasn't learned through repetition of daily living to have the experience dulled. Highly recommend it.

Opr

[Icarus152]

Found a pet rock.

Delighted.

Get a pet Blaa next. Rock and roll.

[CHDad]

Get a pet Blaa next. Rock and roll.

Yeah, they are like rocks.

[Icarus152]

Yeah, they are like rocks.

You bitch.

[CHDad]

You bitch.

Shirley there is something else in Waterford to cling onto since the crystal disappeared?

[Icarus152]

Shirley there is something else in Waterford to cling onto since the crystal disappeared?

Not much tbh, and I have to go on a diet soon so dunno if I'll be able to hold onto my beloved delicious artisan bread product.

[Icarus152]

Well, it's bedtime, goodnight friends.

[oleras]

Pleasant dreams young Icarus.

[Icarus152]

I was just about to post that

Acta Non Verba.

[CHDad]

Lotsa love Icky.

[oleras]

Not much tbh, and I have to go on a diet soon so dunno if I'll be able to hold onto my beloved delicious artisan bread product.

I want one of these.

[Flushdraw]

@flushdraw - have u seen house of cards this is really good

Not sure if i replied to this at the time Philip, sorry! I've zero interest in politics so can't imagine this holding my interest at all so i wouldn't even try it. Not sure Boardwalk Empire is going to float my boat either tbh. Will need to find something else along the lines of The Wire, Love/Hate, Top Boy etc with some more drugs/guns/street action!

[Flushdraw]

I want one of these.

You should get some 'Actual Size' stickers and plaster them all over this

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[NewApproach]

BB Spoiler

SPOILER

Walter White's obituary is a local Albuquerque newspaper

[Flushdraw]

Speaking of BB. Saw an interview with Dean Norris (Hank) on The Saturday Night Show last night. Zero spoilers no matter where you are in the series. Starts about 53mins in

http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10205437/

Edit - Jedward also on it for DeadParrot/Rigger!

Just incase

I wouldn't be quite sure about no spoilers, that tool O'Connor did his best to give something pretty big away.

He was in Workmans on Friday night and by the looks of things he'd been on it for most of Saturday too.

[RasTa]

How do I unbrick my old HTC desire, well I bought it in Canada. Can't get 3G working on it using mildwild

[Bubbleking]

Love/Hate starts back tonight

[Tar.Aldarion]

Jesus Christ chd, it's a mineral.

[carlop]

Speaking of BB. Saw an interview with Dean Norris (Hank) on The Saturday Night Show last night. Zero spoilers no matter where you are in the series. Starts about 53mins in

http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10205437/

Edit - Jedward also on it for DeadParrot/Rigger!

I wouldn't be quite sure about no spoilers, that tool O'Connor did his best to give something pretty big away.

He was in Workmans on Friday night and by the looks of things he'd been on it for most of Saturday too.

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[iSnow]

Went away with herself to a hotel in Wicklow. Last time I was there some idiot kept knocking on the door at all hours. Asked for a quiet room away from the action having told the receptionist on the phone what happened. She asked was it any special occasion and I insta-replied it was our anniversary.

Arrived in room to find a complimentary bottle of prosecco and a €50 voucher for the hotel.

[Guest]

I wouldn't be quite sure about no spoilers, that tool O'Connor did his best to give something pretty big away.

He was in Workmans on Friday night and by the looks of things he'd been on it for most of Saturday too.

Ya I'm only half way through season 4 and I'm pissed off after watching that, I'm pretty sure I have an idea of the ending now, so i'd avoid it at all costs unless you have finished the show

Actually it's a shit interview as well so I wouldn't bother either way

[Flushdraw]

Hmm Jenga cost €15.99. Rival unbranded similar number of wooden blocks €6.99. How could anyone ever buy the actual Jenga?

Aldi been at it for years. Almost identical in taste to their more illustrious bars

Penguin Bars



Mars Bars



Oreo's

[Micknail]

Speaking of unavoidable spoilers, there's a Netflix ad running atm on Irish terrestrial tv which shows loads of season five (both parts) plots and characters etc.

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[Micknail]

Can't believe they are ripping off Jacobs J-Os already.

[Guest]

Aldi been at it for years. Almost identical in taste to their more illustrious bars

Lots of Lidls chocolates are made by the people they are "ripping off"


Was working in a shop years ago and this lad asked me what was the difference between Hellman's and the shops own brand, told him much of a much

but he stood there staring, manager comes up and asks me whats going on, I tell her and she goes over.

Lad starts asking her and she says much of a much, he stands there staring for a bit longer when finally she tells him that they are the same as Hellman's made the shop one (which was half the price)

He still bought the name brand stuff

Oreo's

The use of the word original in the name is a piece of legal genius for when them fat cats from oreo come calling




*moral of the story (trade secrets and all that): supermarkets as a rule don't own production plants and buy there stuff off other people, so if it looks like the name brand competitor and tastes like the name brand competitor, there is a good chance it is the name brand competitor (unless they are ripping off kellogs).

[Bubbleking]

shroom season

[Raoul Duke III]

Going in to work on a Sunday, yay. Not, I would add, due to the volume or complexity of work that I have to do but rather the fact that I had 32 hours of meetings last week.

32 hours