Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - BabyforV

[6starpool]

I should never have pointed that out.

Is it generally noticeable, or its just noticeable because I said about trying not to use it?

Trying to deliberately use 'I' now?

[luckforsome]

Its such a bizarre thing. Like a writing nervous tic

...I've been told that a few people actually do it...Possibly not every sentence, but I'd hope its not too uncommon...
...With Regards that country thing, 22 is a lot of countries...Ireland, England, France, Italy, China, Canada, Usa (9 times 2 states), Spain, Greece, Turkey...That's my hitlist so far...

[Guest]

I should never have pointed that out.

Is it generally noticeable, or its just noticeable because I said about trying not to use it?

No I definitely noticed it before you pointed it out. Think you abandoned it for a while there recently and went back to your old narcissistic first person ways .

[Flushdraw]

Looks like he was running to catch the smallest bus in the world!

[Guest]

15 US states for me...Oklahoma definitely the worst.

Edit: DC as well!

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[Percy007]

Looks like he was running to catch the smallest bus in the world!

Ha yes, that's mirrors for you.

[Guest]

Think its partially due to reading Private Eye too much as an undergraduate in England where they had an 'I' count piece for journalists to measure their self-involvement. Michael Winner always came out on tops.

At the same time, my main bone of contention with my final year project student's literature survey was overuse of the 'I'. Time and a place!

[darwinatemyhamster]

...ha...that came out wrong...I would have eaten the banana but it wouldn't have filled me...and if I didn't want the banana, freeze it for an hour and I'd have a clean prostate the next morning...

Ha, was only joshing. I am curious about something though, if you don't mind me prying(obv ingnore this post at your leisure).
Did you genuinely need to text a friend to help you decide, like tossing a coin wouldn't do. Just curious if it's aligned with another obvious ocd tendancy?
Feel free to ignore or tell me to fk off and mind my own business off of course!

[Guest]

Ugh...stupid wife no longer drinking wine...whole dinner bottle to myself...it's just that little bit too much for a Sunday.

[luckforsome]

Ha, was only joshing. I am curious about something though, if you don't mind me prying(obv ingnore this post at your leisure).
Did you genuinely need to text a friend to help you decide, like tossing a coin wouldn't do. Just curious if it's aligned with another obvious ocd tendancy?
Feel free to ignore or tell me to fk off and mind my own business off of course!

...Yep, needed to ask what to get...It happens with a few things where I cannot make a decision and the more I try to decide the worst it gets...The coin thing works sometimes, but on occasions I can't actually decide which is heads and which is tails...It's fun living in my head sometimes :-)...

[NewApproach]

I've been in 11 US states, and only 8 (!) countries outside of GB&I as far as I can remember.

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[NewApproach]

Wonder if maybe it used to be, but not so much anymore given that Ryanair will bring you to 30 countries for next to nothing.

17 countries outside UK/NI/Ire over 37 years doesn't seem much

There'd still be a huge amount of people in Ireland who'd have been to <= two foreign countries imo.

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[The Situation]

Would people count a brief stop off at an airport as having visited a country?

[Guest]

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Interstellar

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stellar, 1st megabudget film in ages where I haven't walked out of the cinema feeling insulted

[Lord Sir Banter]

Travel is overrated, can't go anywhere without bumping into some cunt in a gaa jersey. It was better 20 years ago+ when air travel was more expensive.

Its really not. The main thing it allows at that stage is for them to be working well within their ability rather than having to be flat out to keep up.

If its a problem of how their peers react well frankly the childs outlook is already completely in thrall to what a gang of 9 and 10 year olds think then you are already in deep trouble.

This is mad stuff!

While on the subject, could banks/atm makers etc not sort it so the buttons on the ATM line up with the multiple options on screen? Fairly mad how shit and archaic atms are. Are they running off 386's?
You'd get a better interface on an old nokia.

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[eamonhonda]

Would people count a brief stop off at an airport as having visited a country?

Nah, you'd need a couple hours trip to nearest city to qualify imo

[The Situation]

Specifically excluded Sweden and Latvia overnight stays for that reason. Was just airport -> hotel -> drink -> sleep fitfully -> wake up full of regret -> airport. You can't really say you've been to a country in that scenario?

Nah, you'd need a couple hours trip to nearest city to qualify imo

Yeah I agree but I'd say studies on such things are very skewed by people adding counties they've stoped off at briefly or driven through on route to their holiday/work destination.

[Raoul Duke III]

46 countries but a lot of that would have been either backpacking or work. Never been to South America which seems like a major oversight.

[eamonhonda]

Yeah I agree but I'd say studies on such things are very skewed by people adding counties they've stoped off at briefly or driven through on route to their holiday/work destination.

More than likely, we run a tighter ship round here though

[Guest]

Hmm what happened to the history show at 6 on newstalk. Seems to have been replaced by some awful Ted talk garbage.

[Strewelpeter]

While on the subject, could banks/atm makers etc not sort it so the buttons on the ATM line up with the multiple options on screen? Fairly mad how shit and archaic atms are. Are they running off 386's?
You'd get a better interface on an old nokia.

They should buy our software!

Puts me on tilt that BoI ATM's by default ask you if you want to use a fucking language that there is not a single person on the planet would need to use but they will still present you with fast cash options that cannot be dispensed because there are no twenties in the machine. This is basic stuff that could be solved with five lines of code and a time cost of <100 milliseconds. Grrrrrrrrrr!

Some of the old AIB ATM's appear to be still running OS/2 though tat this stage that is probably an OS/2 emulator running on WinXP

Its shockingly bad but they see no margin in improving the experience for us punters

[Guest]

I think I'm going to emigrate for 2016, the bullshit is just going to be too much.

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Our eldest daughter is four in march and everyone we have talked to in the education field has advised to leave her till September 2016 before starting school which will make her five 1/2.
She is doing the free year this year and we first sent her to a playschool at seventeen months. She was also in a daycare in New York for 10 months which was run by Columbians so she understands Spanish quite well.
What I am trying to say is that she has been well socialised but the reason for everyone saying to leave her till she is over five is for social reasons.
Tbh I could see it this year when she started the free year she walked in like she owned the classroom whereas the other boys and girls clung furiously to their parents legs and some still do even after two 1/2 months.
We are still debating it but it looks like we will leave her the extra year.

Ignore everyone who told you to wait until she's 5.5, she's already way ahead of the preschoolers by the sound of it, so why wait until she's older to share a class with kids that are 12 months plus younger than she is. Our youngest was born in September and we had to wait until he was 5 to start school, he's an intelligent little guy and stopped going to play group after Christmas because "all the kids are babies" his words. He would stay at home and look through books and colours for hours. When he started juniors in sept he ditches his classmates at break time and plays with the boys in seniors ( the share the yard) The teacher tells us he's way ahead for his age.....you'd wanna hear him talk about all the different dinosaurs etc. Anyway my advise would be to get her in this year, she can alway be held back in the future if you think it's necessary, also there's the trans year to ad on too for her age going into college.

[6starpool]

I've been in 11 US states, and only 8 (!) countries outside of GB&I as far as I can remember.

16 US States and also Washington DC. Delaware, Maine and Rhode Island are the only East Coast states I haven't set foot it. I've passed through Rhode Island I think but never got out.

My list of States I've never been to but most want to go to are:

Oregon
Washington
Texas
Colorado
Alaska
Hawaii
and then some of the middle rural states like the Dakotas and Montana.

Some of the others I'm not too bothered about.

[Percy007]

Good start to Italy vs Croatia on Itv4

[Guest]

Brucey bonus of three kids to bring on your next French roadtrip?

Jesus no. Calorific reasons.

[Opr]

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stellar, 1st megabudget film in ages where I haven't walked out of the cinema feeling insulted

Interstellar

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Only got around to seeing it last night. I thought it was a complete mess. A mess not without merit the majority of which belongs to the spectacle but I found it a deeply frustrating movie to watch. I ended up completely disengaged with story as it jumped from one chaotic scene to another interspaced with long narrative exposition often without need. I ended up watching it as a series of set pieces which still made for a decent watch as Nolan's ability to make impacful, interesting scenes often with cool concepts remains even within the mess. I do really like this idea with regards to the film.

Firstly, Cooper is Nolan and Nolan is Cooper. There is a line in the movie where Donald (the grandfather) says to Cooper: "You were born forty years before your time, or forty years after it", and I believe this is a reference to Nolan and his film-making. A few months ago, there were suggestions that Interstellar, as much as it is a movie about space exploration, is a movie about the current state of Hollywood. Nolan is highly critical of the use of green-screen, the lack of innovation in movie-making, and the switch to digital. The idea Earth(the movie industry) is dying, engineers, pioneers, explorers are of no use any more, and all that is needed to survive is the knowledge to grow the same crop over and over until complete exhaustion, is a good metaphor for how movies are being made today.

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[Wombatman]

Interstellar

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Cinematic gibberish . Who gave him directions to the NASA Base, the first time, so he could travel into Space to give himself directions to the NASA Base?

[Strewelpeter]

LOL Murphy is actually trying to associate himself with and justify the behaviour of the thugs in Tallaght yesterday.

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Interstellar

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Cinematic gibberish . Who gave him directions to the NASA Base, the first time, so he could travel into Space to give himself directions to the NASA Base?

Mconnaughy already explained this in true detective

[AndyFatBastard]

Anyone who didn't enjoy Interstellar didn't understand it.

[6starpool]

Anyone who didn't enjoy Interstellar didn't understand it.

Anyone who posts things like this is being deliberately patronising.

[AndyFatBastard]

Anyone who posts things like this is being deliberately patronising.

[CHDad]

We're all m8's here m8's.

Interstellar was gr8 I r8 it 8/8.

[hotspur]

Anyone here watched Alpha House with John Goodman? Any good?

I see season 2 is out, spiffing, back to having a breakfast show for the next week and a half.

...Yep, needed to ask what to get...It happens with a few things where I cannot make a decision and the more I try to decide the worst it gets...The coin thing works sometimes, but on occasions I can't actually decide which is heads and which is tails...It's fun living in my head sometimes :-)...

Have you ever been diagnosed with OCD or something? Like, what would it feel like to choose to write without those dots? Is there a significance to the fact that there are 3 dots? I know it's convention, but is 3 a lucky number for you? Do you have unlucky numbers?

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[Strewelpeter]

I see season 2 is out, spiffing, back to having a breakfast show for the next week and a half.

Thats the best news I've had all day, I'm travelling this week so I'll have it all watched by the time I get home.

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The kid ended up doing the 100 piece 6+ (HH bolds with gushing oxfordian pride) jigsaw, but it ended up taking her an hour. Actually a proper level of frustration on her part at times while she was doing it, so it might be the limit of her current abilities. She did it again a bit later in way less time, but I'd say the first test was more accurate as there was less memory at play.

Reasonably day's rewards for the €50 spent on jigsaws though at the expense of actually being able to buy food for the rest of the month.

Couldn't remember though whether to congratulate her or not due to Hotspurs post which I didn't quite understand but which seemed to be making a point one way or the other. So we just gave each other a limp high-five.

Just moved our 2.75 year old up to the 20 piece jigsaws this week. Now that there is competition out there I will have step up the training to get her to 100 piece ones in 6 months time.

[Jam-Fly]

The kid ended up doing the 100 piece 6+ (HH bolds with gushing oxfordian pride) jigsaw, but it ended up taking her an hour. Actually a proper level of frustration on her part at times while she was doing it, so it might be the limit of her current abilities. She did it again a bit later in way less time, but I'd say the first test was more accurate as there was less memory at play.

Reasonably day's rewards for the €50 spent on jigsaws though at the expense of actually being able to buy food for the rest of the month.

Couldn't remember though whether to congratulate her or not due to Hotspurs post which I didn't quite understand but which seemed to be making a point one way or the other. So we just gave each other a limp high-five.

say "really good work kid Hitch, your effort was very impressive"

not

"you're the best kid Hitch. Oxford will be lucky to have such a naturally talented and genius kid"


the jist is complimenting hard work means when they encounter troubles in the future, they'll find a way to work through them. Complimenting ability or natural genius means when they encounter troubles in the future, they'll feel their failures are due lack of ability and won't reach their potential.

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* Jigsaw Ability Rating

He got bored with 1000 piece sets

Never struck me to time him when he was preschool but he did complete all the kid jigsaws we had and with 3 older children we have lots, he's now 6 and probably to old for your jar test, it's been a while but I must take out some older js and see how he gets on with them.

Btw your little girl is showing good abilities, for reference what type of js is she completing, number of pieces/piece size/age group/picture topic.

[luckforsome]

Have you ever been diagnosed with OCD or something? Like, what would it feel like to choose to write without those dots? Is there a significance to the fact that there are 3 dots? I know it's convention, but is 3 a lucky number for you? Do you have unlucky numbers?

...I actually feel stressed and agitated if I don't do the 3 dots, although I'm not entirely sure why it's that Amount...but at this stage if I type 2 or 4 dots I have to fix it before sending, and if I send it without the correct dots then It really pisses me off , as stupid as it sounds...Shrink says its plainly obvious I have OCD, but sure what do they know...oh, and try using tinder and pof and trying not to look a twat for using dots...Add that to my face and I'm actually in th process of having my Virginity grow back...

[Wesley Harms]

Jimmy Bullard is some pussy homo cunt. Dave Lister FTW

[Opr]

The ignorance is incredible but I nearly fell over laughing at this picture posted on an fb timeline.

Are we seeing history repeat itself before our eyes??

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[eamonhonda]

LOL Murphy is actually trying to associate himself with and justify the behaviour of the thugs in Tallaght yesterday.

You need some more debate tactics than lol, up there with hope this helps

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[ComradeCollie]

Feel kind of bad for enjoying Robocop http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234721/?ref_=nv_sr_1 . Though can't help thinking Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L Jackson and Michael Kenneth Williams should really be up to something better.

[Flushdraw]

3.25. No the stupid school system won't let her go next year as she'll just be 4 on Sept 2nd next year. Think that means she's a day too late.

Just moved our 2.75 year old up to the 20 piece jigsaws this week. Now that there is competition out there I will have step up the training to get her to 100 piece ones in 6 months time.

2.75 is okay, its 3.25 where you really have to put the pressure on.

When did kids start being referred to as decimals and stop being 2 and a half, or 2 years and 9 months etc

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We're going to need some proof to award you an accredited JAR score

I'm not really sure about the jigsaw, it says Ravensburger 6+ on it. Was a Frozen Disney one. Is there different gradients of these things? She definitely struggled on it, but had to see it through. Was rather sweet her pride in the whole thing!

I'll try the him out this week... Yeah there are different grades and sizes but I think the sizes of the pieces reduce as the piece count / age goes up. I think Ravensburger are the most common for kids / movies etc. I've just looked there and we've got a Spider-Man 100 piece 6+ Ravensburger I'll get him to do that as I know he hasn't done it in a good while. But as he's older I don't know how the JAR will be achieved.

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When did kids start being referred to as decimals and stop being 2 and a half, or 2 years and 9 months etc

...Just easier to write.