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Originally posted by coillcam View PostBeen underground for a while. Changed jobs, bought a 2yo EV (love it), still shite at golf, went to Naples a couple of weeks back. Pompeii and food were unreal.
What have I missed here in the last few months?
I briefly looked up lessons, but at €95 an hour, I'll probably pass.
Not sure even Theresa could save me
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If you have a moment and are wondering about practical AI for the workplace have a look at this video. At the very least this would pop the little socks off Lao Lao in a way that not even the finest Meerlust could ever dream of doing.
After the video I went in a set up a workflow and it works precisely as easy as the video says. Free to try. We've got a new generation of capabilities on our hands.
Note: the first 15 minutes of the video contain all the necessary information, the last 15 minutes seems to be all about giving everyone else in a company, no matter how pointless, a chance to speak to camera. Bear in mind the video is all about workflows, its not showing some magic trick, so go in with a practical mindset in mind rather than expecting juggling!
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
How often do people here wish their friends happy birthday?
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I've invited to a work golf event. I've never played. I'm guessing I should head straight to the 19th.
I briefly looked up lessons, but at €95 an hour, I'll probably pass.
Not sure even Theresa could save me
If you've played pitch and putt, hurling or any kind of racket sport it's not too bad to pick up. Good craic overall and there's a decent social element to the game also. Although it's not for everyone and many think it's too long to play a round.
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View Post
Usually once a year
I met a friend recently for pints. He presumed I had picked the date because it was his birthday. I had no idea. He showed me a WhatsApp group where they were organising something for someone else. Basically no one had said it to him.
He even ended up telling me to just pretend that I had intentionally picked the day.
I imagine it probably is relatively common as people age.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
Just reading this today, we may need to bail them out
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/20...ate-be-enough/
It's a good read.
I know my purchases will be down this year as I'm pumping all money into the house although, I do have shares due to vest in a month or two that I may quite literally liquidate
There should still be a demand from Asia, which caused a lot of the big increases in Bordeaux and Burgundy wines prices originally but even that will probably be down on previous years.
I've seen a few older Bordeaux bottles for sale recently (retail) at competitive prices so it does look like there is some stock let over alright.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I met a friend recently for pints. He presumed I had picked the date because it was his birthday. I had no idea. He showed me a WhatsApp group where they were organising something for someone else. Basically no one had said it to him.
He even ended up telling me to just pretend that I had intentionally picked the day.
I imagine it probably is relatively common as people age.
But you’re not wrong really. If my wife remembers it’s my birthday before 6pm I’m having an unusually good day, as they go"Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I've invited to a work golf event. I've never played. I'm guessing I should head straight to the 19th.
I briefly looked up lessons, but at €95 an hour, I'll probably pass.
Not sure even Theresa could save me
Bit easier to control
Or Happy Gilmore it!
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I've invited to a work golf event. I've never played. I'm guessing I should head straight to the 19th.
I briefly looked up lessons, but at €95 an hour, I'll probably pass.
Not sure even Theresa could save me
Or better yet, go out for 9 holes beforehand with a friend (preferably one who is someway decent).
Don’t turn up stone cold on the day anyhow.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I met a friend recently for pints. He presumed I had picked the date because it was his birthday. I had no idea. He showed me a WhatsApp group where they were organising something for someone else. Basically no one had said it to him.
He even ended up telling me to just pretend that I had intentionally picked the day.
I imagine it probably is relatively common as people age.
I keep birthdays of friends and family in there too so I'd always text them happy birthday.
Personally, I'm still pushing for the birthweek of celebrations rather than birthday but at this stage Mrs Lao Lao is very much in the camp of ' Will ya go and ask me bollix'
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I met a friend recently for pints. He presumed I had picked the date because it was his birthday. I had no idea. He showed me a WhatsApp group where they were organising something for someone else. Basically no one had said it to him.
He even ended up telling me to just pretend that I had intentionally picked the day.
I imagine it probably is relatively common as people age.
I'm in the LL camp of google calendar reminders for all of this stuff. Definitely getting older I think we all put a lot less weight behind these things. Amongst my mates it's naturally all about the kids' birthdays and activities over the last few years.
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Originally posted by zuutroy View PostMain thing that put me off the En Primeur is that for a good few years it hasn't actually been good value for money. You have money locked up for 2 years, all to save 5% on the retail price when it hits the shelves.
You can definitely save more than 5% - I've had savings over the last few years of 25-30% on some wines.
There is also an element that some wines are hard to get in Ireland as we don't get the same variety that larger countries get.
Money is tied up though, no getting around that.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe big move I made on calendar reminders was adding the year of birth next to birthday reminders - almost seems like a superpower with the nieces where even their parents have started to forget their ages.
I exported an of the FB birthdays to Google Calendar, but I guess I need to be better about actually checking it.
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Seville booked.
Going via stanstead there and back. Had considered the other options but it'd be twice the price and I'd lose nearly a day of "holiday" with the flight times.
Absolutely nothing worse imho, that a 7am flight home from a destination, closely followed by a 11pm landing to a location.
The inner oul fella in me baulks at the savage waste of money in accomadation and usageLast edited by DeadParrot; 01-05-24, 16:19.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
Just reading this today, we may need to bail them out
https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/20...ate-be-enough/
Just looked at one wine - Leoville Las Cases which would be very well known and very good.
2022 En Primeur price was €2671.56 (inc VAT) for 6 bottles
2023 En Primeur price is €1210.32 (inc VAT) for 6 bottles
Almost a 55% reduction which is huge. You would think that if they are on the first big chateau's to do this, the others would follow. I'm pretty sure that Leoville Las Cases was one of the last to release last year whereas this year, they are one of the first out of the block.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I've invited to a work golf event. I've never played. I'm guessing I should head straight to the 19th.
I briefly looked up lessons, but at €95 an hour, I'll probably pass.
Not sure even Theresa could save meThis may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostThe Rwanda bill seems like something concocted in the back of the car in The Thick of It.
https://archive.is/WLT8Q
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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You can't help feeling that if the newtownmountkennedy freaks had put a bit more effort into their protests they could have remained a collection of pristine potato heads. but look at them now. its the lack of effort that has really let them down. they need a pat kenny type figure who has managed to bat off housing beside him for a generation by simply making up new animals. thats why the dalkey lads are where they're at."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostYou can't help feeling that if the newtownmountkennedy freaks had put a bit more effort into their protests they could have remained a collection of pristine potato heads. but look at them now. its the lack of effort that has really let them down. they need a pat kenny type figure who has managed to bat off housing beside him for a generation by simply making up new animals. thats why the dalkey lads are where they're at.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostOpen AI writing legislation to make themselves a monopoly and to criminalise anyone using open source,
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostSeville booked.
Going via stanstead there and back. Had considered the other options but it'd be twice the price and I'd lose nearly a day of "holiday" with the flight times.
Absolutely nothing worse imho, that a 7am flight home from a destination, closely followed by a 11pm landing to a location.
The inner oul fella in me baulks at the savage waste of money in accomadation and usage
Please put me in for all possible draws and sweepstakes.
If i'm not online then, I'm still good for itPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View Post
Just looked at one wine - Leoville Las Cases which would be very well known and very good.
2022 En Primeur price was €2671.56 (inc VAT) for 6 bottles
2023 En Primeur price is €1210.32 (inc VAT) for 6 bottles
Almost a 55% reduction which is huge. You would think that if they are on the first big chateau's to do this, the others would follow. I'm pretty sure that Leoville Las Cases was one of the last to release last year whereas this year, they are one of the first out of the block.
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Happened to have the tab open on my computer so here you go: https://www.millesima.ie/producer-ch...ter=in_stock:P
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Originally posted by zuutroy View PostHappened to have the tab open on my computer so here you go: https://www.millesima.ie/producer-ch...ter=in_stock:P
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Is there a pricing sweet spot where you think you're getting the best bang for your beverage buck? i.e. in terms of cost per bottle, €20, €30, €50, €100?
And what would be your average annual spend on en primeur? (Ignore if too personal a Q)"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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I think right about €40 to €50 is where you are paying for quality and not rarity. St. Julien and St. Estephe are my favourite and I think Chateau Lagrange is the perfect balance of cost to quality. Have only done the en primeur a couple of times. The most I ever spent was about €150 when McHughs in Artane were selling 1981 Mouton Rothschild for that, and it really would have been losing money not to buy it.
I tend to buy about 40-50 bottles ready to drink (€20 range) and 24-36 bottles to keep....slightly higher price tag. That does me for the year and means that the stash grows rather than depletes. Getting to the point now where I will need a 3rd fridge. One of these days there will be a bottle in the garage that will outlast me...not for a while though, I hope!
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Five beers (400ml each)
2 glasses of wine
4 ham croquettes
8 chicken goujons
1 criollo sausage with chimichurri and bread
3 small bowls of mixed nuts
€34.70
i commented that it was a bit expensive and the boss said to post it here and be disabused of my mad notions.
Can’t add much to the wine conversation. We’re generally paying about €2.90 a bottle (of rioja crianza) when we take advantage of various offers. Though we do occasionally go ‘all out’ and buy the gran reserva when it’s on offer at about €6.50 or so a bottle.
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Originally posted by Iago View PostFive beers (400ml each)
2 glasses of wine
4 ham croquettes
8 chicken goujons
1 criollo sausage with chimichurri and bread
3 small bowls of mixed nuts
€34.70Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
How often do people here wish their friends happy birthday?
I'm turning 54 June 20th and I'll be celebrating it at the full moon party in Ko Pha Ngan
I don't think I'm ever going to get sense
Tbf I actually cannot wait for this trip. Will be an experience!
Approx 3 nights in each
Phuket .
Koh phi phi
Koh Samui
Koh pha ngan
Koh Tao
Koh samui Last edited by SatNav; 02-05-24, 20:52.Her sky-ness
© 5starpool
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Originally posted by SatNav View Post
Talking of birthdays.
I'm turning 54 June 20th and I'll be celebrating it at the full moon party in Ko Pha Ngan
I don't think I'm ever going to get sense
Tbf I actually cannot wait for this trip. Will be an experience!
Approx 3 nights in each
Phuket .
Koh phi phi
Koh Samui
Koh pha ngan
Koh Tao
Koh samui
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
ARE WE REDUCED TO THIS!!!!?
they were delicious though
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Originally posted by SatNav View Post
Talking of birthdays.
I'm turning 54 June 20th and I'll be celebrating it at the full moon party in Ko Pha Ngan
I don't think I'm ever going to get sense
Tbf I actually cannot wait for this trip. Will be an experience!
Approx 3 nights in each
Phuket .
Koh phi phi
Koh Samui
Koh pha ngan
Koh Tao
Koh samui
Enjoy SatNav, don't kill yourself by overindulging!
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Have rediscovered, or maybe that should be refocused, my love of reading.
it seems fantasy & sci-fi for escapism don’t have the same hold when you’re not looking to switch your brain off for an hour or two a day.
in the last month I’ve read
Dopamine Nation - Anna Lembke
The comfort crisis & The Scarcity Brain - Michael Easter
The trading game - Gary Stevenson (think it might have been OPR who recommended it here)
Thinking, Fast and Slow. - Daniel Kaheman
and have Strangers to ourselves by Timothy Wilson as well as Mary Beard’s A History of Ancient Rome and Dominic Leiven’s Towards the flame (about the lead up to and impacts of the russian revolution) lined up next.
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There's a great book I'm reading at the moment - Co-Intelligence, about the future under AI. The prof who wrote it is rather brilliant."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThere's a great book I'm reading at the moment - Co-Intelligence, about the future under AI. The prof who wrote it is rather brilliant.
Perfect loo readingPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Two recent non fictions I'd recommend, I rail against Gray's vision of the world but he is very persuasive.
John Gray’s The New Leviathans
How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn
Turning millions into thousands
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