Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - BabyforV

[Flushdraw]

...If its like snooker, then the referee is not allowed move it...It is up to the player to move his own cue/rest/extension...Technically it should have been a foul...(99% sure anyway)...

That's my thoughts too.

[ArmaniJeans]

Question for Jimmy Magee AJ (or other pool heads)

Watching the Mosconi Cup last night, and the Niels Feijen game. Not sure if you saw it. When he pot the final 9 to win the match, he put his cue down on the table while the white was still travelling and heading towards the cue. The referee, pretty quickly, picked the cue off the table. What's the rules/etiquette there?

Yep, they mentioned it before the first game tonight, said their tweeter feed was exploding with questions about it (translation : ~7 people questioned it).
Seemed it was definitely a mistake by the referee and would have been a foul if the ball had touched the cue. Jim Wych quoted Corey Deull as saying it wasn't a big issue as the ball definitely wasn't heading towards a pocket. (maybe I'm doing Corey an injustice but it doesn't sound like something he'd say)

[careca]

Yep, they mentioned it before the first game tonight, said their tweeter feed was exploding with questions about it (translation : ~7 people questioned it).
Seemed it was definitely a mistake by the referee and would have been a foul if the ball had touched the cue. Jim Wych quoted Corey Deull as saying it wasn't a big issue as the ball definitely wasn't heading towards a pocket. (maybe I'm doing Corey an injustice but it doesn't sound like something he'd say)

Just taking his cue from someone else

[Flushdraw]

Yep, they mentioned it before the first game tonight, said their tweeter feed was exploding with questions about it (translation : ~7 people questioned it).
Seemed it was definitely a mistake by the referee and would have been a foul if the ball had touched the cue. Jim Wych quoted Corey Deull as saying it wasn't a big issue as the ball definitely wasn't heading towards a pocket. (maybe I'm doing Corey an injustice but it doesn't sound like something he'd say)

Ahh, didn't realise it was discussed because i didn't switch on til after 8, but the missus did ask me what i let out an 'Oohhhh' for last night when he did it lol. Yeah the ref, definitely (intentionally) stopped the ball hitting the queue, but it wasn't going near a pocket.

[tylerdurden94]

Yo BBV advice/opinions needed, thinking about spending 6 days in New York after the PCA in January, location/places to stay and stuff to do & see that's little off the beaten track.

[Keane]

Am I looking in the wrong place or is it very tough to get tickets to EPL games? Basically want two tickets for a match in London in January, ideally Arsenal but beggars/choosers etc.

Anyone point me in the right direction?

[rounders123]

What are your thoughts on the homeless issue ?

They are surely cleaning up at the min, with people who are following the media right now. Obv wont last long.

A percentage of them are more than likely in a situation that they never dreamed could have happened and possibly held down a decent job at some point and I would imagine wont be homeless that long . But then what about the others who are in and out of prison, drug addicts and have been homeless years

If more places come available now to tackle the problem which I am sure it will now, how can you put a normal person down on their luck , hit hard times in with someone who is a heroin addict .

Dont think it will really ever work as I would presume some would rather sleep on the street than stay in a hostel.

Capuchin food queues down 8%(housed folk laying off the free food queue for fear being captured by the press). Didnt stop this shameless professional(imo) on his way to work picking up some free food. Look at the haters gonna hate stance and the stylish brogs on him. No way he's homeless.

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[6starpool]

Yo BBV advice/opinions needed, thinking about spending 6 days in New York after the PCA in January, location/places to stay and stuff to do & see that's little off the beaten track.

New York is very expensive to stay in. Perhaps use airbnb for more reasonable rates? January will be very cold as well obviously but it's a fine city to do anything in really.

[6starpool]

Capuchin food queues down 8%(housed folk laying off the free food queue for fear being captured by the press). Didnt stop this shameless professional(imo) on his way to work picking up some free food. Look at the haters gonna hate stance and the stylish brogs on him. No way he's homeless.

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On homelessness in general the government are falling over themselves to be able to say that anyone who wants a bed for the night will have one by Christmas, and while that's all well and good it doesn't tackle in any way the two main issues that drive homelessness I'd say, which are probably drug addiction and mental illness. Without having a better approach to treating these they are just fighting a losing battle to try and fudge the numbers for the short term media storm before it's all ignored again which will just push the can further down the road.

[newbie2]

London trip report

Went to London yesterday for our annual Arsenal v Southampton match.

Had lunch in l'atelier de joel robuchon. It was fucking fantastic. I may lash something up in the RRV thread later.
We stayed in the raddison Blu on Leicester Square and were in the middle of the premiere of Exodus (christian Bale's new movie)at about 5.30pm. We managed to see him over the barricades. My mate deemed it funny to ask him what was it like playing for Real Madrid. He wasn't impressed.

Match was okay - we won.
Got back to Leicester square at about 11.00pm and went into the Hippodrome Casino. Possibly the nicest casino I've ever been in. Very nice staff. Very safe. nice food and cocktails (if a little pricey). Won a few bob in the poker and roulette stayed there until we couldn't possibly drink any more.

Would deffo recommend the casino to anyone visiting London.

[AndyFatBastard]

Friend of mine made this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsbGxYrP3Ps

[AndyFatBastard]

Probably substitute 'more experienced, know what they want and know how to get it' for 'really horny'.

Again, so I hear.

I always thought it was the great tragedy of humanity that all of the groups that have the most desire for sex have the least demand.

[SatNav]

Capuchin food queues down 8%(housed folk laying off the free food queue for fear being captured by the press). Didnt stop this shameless professional(imo) on his way to work picking up some free food. Look at the haters gonna hate stance and the stylish brogs on him. No way he's homeless.

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that is so funny because I also copped that dude this eve while looking at the same pic and thought wtf he aint homeless


@danny I am so jealous, check out :

http://www.booking.com/hotel/us/pennsylvania-new-york.en-gb.html?aid=356998;label=gog235jc-hotel-XX-us-pennsylvaniaNnewNyork-unspec-ie-com-L%3Aen-O%3Aunk-B%3Aunk-N%3AXX-S%3Abo;sid=1634cadd63edd6bb9f9d9f42a94006c6;dcid=4;dist=0;type=total&

up to 64% off at the min too on booking.com for there.

It was cheap both times I went, its not a fabulous hotel but the rooms are clean . Its the location. its next door to macys, 5th ave is around the corner and times sq is a ten min walk. There is also a chip as chips diner beside it that does great breakfast.

[rounders123]

Friend of mine made this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsbGxYrP3Ps

She did well. Im guessing its a she?, late 30's?

[AndyFatBastard]

She did well. Im guessing its a she?, late 30's?

Him. Dude in the video. He'd be 31ish. Was never one for ascribing to gender stereotypes, but is married with a kid.

[rounders123]

Him. Dude in the video. He'd be 31ish. Was never one for ascribing to gender stereotypes, but is married with a kid.

I was only joking about the earlier discussions above. It was well acted and nice and clearly shot. Didnt think they got to the real knub of the issue though. I cant understand why they cant go to a party just because shes found out shes pregnant.

[aidankk]

Yo BBV advice/opinions needed, thinking about spending 6 days in New York after the PCA in January, location/places to stay and stuff to do & see that's little off the beaten track.

I stayed in the Embassy Suites Secaucus - which is actually in New Jersey, but a 10 mins bus ride from central new york. Decent value for New York and the embassy suites are nice big rooms. It also very close to one of the outlet malls ... There is a happy hour which is free beer in all those hotels with unbelievably almost no queuing at all while its on, if that were here there would be a stampede..

[tylerdurden94]

Dubai Duty free were looking for €49 for it yesterday, that place is some rip off.

Two questions on the chromecast

I presume its no use to me unless I buy a TV with a hdmi port, yea?

Can you stream from vlc player?

It was €39 across in Argos, according to this video you can stream local files but I haven't set mine up yet.

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

Went to London yesterday for our annual Arsenal v Southampton match.

Had lunch in l'atelier de joel robuchon. It was fucking fantastic. I may lash something up in the RRV thread later.
We stayed in the raddison Blu on Leicester Square and were in the middle of the premiere of Exodus (christian Bale's new movie)at about 5.30pm. We managed to see him over the barricades. My mate deemed it funny to ask him what was it like playing for Real Madrid. He wasn't impressed.

Match was okay - we won.
Got back to Leicester square at about 11.00pm and went into the Hippodrome Casino. Possibly the nicest casino I've ever been in. Very nice staff. Very safe. nice food and cocktails (if a little pricey). Won a few bob in the poker and roulette stayed there until we couldn't possibly drink any more.

Would deffo recommend the casino to anyone visiting London.

That's where the first stop of the new UKIPT season is going to be held.

that is so funny because I also copped that dude this eve while looking at the same pic and thought wtf he aint homeless


@danny I am so jealous, check out :

http://www.booking.com/hotel/us/pennsylvania-new-york.en-gb.html?aid=356998;label=gog235jc-hotel-XX-us-pennsylvaniaNnewNyork-unspec-ie-com-L%3Aen-O%3Aunk-B%3Aunk-N%3AXX-S%3Abo;sid=1634cadd63edd6bb9f9d9f42a94006c6;dcid=4;dist=0;type=total&

up to 64% off at the min too on booking.com for there.

It was cheap both times I went, its not a fabulous hotel but the rooms are clean . Its the location. its next door to macys, 5th ave is around the corner and times sq is a ten min walk. There is also a chip as chips diner beside it that does great breakfast.

One main thing I wanna do is find a hotel that has free WiFi fucking hate having to pay for it (cunts) will put that place on the list to check out, cheers.

[luckforsome]

...Bit of a random question that cant seem to get a decent answer on...If I was to have a conversation with someone for 20 minutes, roughly what % of English dictionary would I cover?...Obviously I would say all basic words, but would there be much uncovered?...Same if it was a 1hr conversation...I'm curious, if I could hold down a 20 minute conversation with someone whilst speaking Manderin, how much of the language would I know, and would it be a different % as to speaking English...

[Mellor]

A bit late to the PED discussion, a few things that jumped out at me;

Jaysus Paul Kimmage really has a hard on for drugs in rugby. Bit weird because there was so much evidence about cycling and from a brief glance at the ones on rugby, all he has is a view from some French International from a couple of decades ago that the size of today's rugby players isn't normal.

The prevalence of PEDs/Steroids in rugby has almost nothing to do with the size of players today. The general public perception that steroids are for turning you into a hulking behemoth is overlooking most of their scope of application imo.

Teams are probably clever to not have a traceable doping program, but I imagine most have a doctor on retainer to “treat” players at his own discretion. And I’d also guess that most players have received “treatment”, where they didn’t need to know what they were being given.

In fact i'd be surprised if there is any sport out there that wouldn't have participants who would look to get an edge by taking illegal supplements.

This.
People would probably cite non-contact, “skill” sports are exemptions, like golf or archery. But they’d be miles off.
I’m struggling to think of any sport where PEDs don’t have an application – even using a uber-lax definition of sports that includes poker etc

What drug is so popular one that open the airways -lungs allowing more oxygen in.
A poor mans epo?

Bronchodilators

Unless you actually have asthma those inhalers will provide no benefit to you in terms of performance. Unless you are at the extreme ends of the scale the air in your lungs isn't the rate limiting step.

It doesn’t need to be the limiting step to be a benefit though. If there’s a small but consistent increase from using them, then it’s a PED. See GB track cycling team and marginal gains theory (not specifically PED related btw).

Here’s two studies involving two different inhaled bronchodilators
One suggests no significant effect, the other shows a significant increase.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/39/12/917.full

Conclusions: A therapeutic dose of salbutamol and fluticasone did not attenuate EIAH during maximal cycling in a group of trained male non-asthmatic athletes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3293733

Conclusions: VO2Max and max ventilation increased, Albuterol may provide a competitive advantage for non-asthmatic athletes who might use it.

So that’s quite inconclusive really. But oral and injectble bronchodilators are much clearer. I’m sure you are familiar with clenbuterol, fairly well established as having an anabolic effect.

Nope, nothing like that. I meant that I can't explain why creatine is an allowable substance and a steroid isn't. They're both naturally produced in the body.
How the line is drawn is beyond me. So I just listen to what WADA tell me.

Both are naturally produced in the body. Steroids are drugs, creatine is not. Maybe that’s just a matter of classification in your eyes.
But the obvious line to draw is that creatine is readily available in food. Red meat, fish, milk etc. Therefore, creatine mono is a dietary supplement, like whey protein.
But steroids aren’t in food in any quantity. Not even if you sat around all day eating bulls testicles (which produce the hormones), would you ingest any steroids.

[hotspur]

My God I love Conor McPherson's The Seafarer. Saw an amateur production of it tonight in a community theatre, and it's a measure of the brilliance of the play that the three times I've seen it have been amateur productions and I've blown away by it each time.

I reckon it's the GOAT Christmas play. On tomorrow and Saturday in Sean O'Casey theatre in East Wall if anyone fancies it, 8pm, probably no need to book.

[AndyFatBastard]

This Trump lad is playing like as if he once had a crushing defeat to a nobody and it didn't affect him at all.

[tipp86]

I stayed in the Embassy Suites Secaucus - which is actually in New Jersey, but a 10 mins bus ride from central new york. Decent value for New York and the embassy suites are nice big rooms. It also very close to one of the outlet malls ... There is a happy hour which is free beer in all those hotels with unbelievably almost no queuing at all while its on, if that were here there would be a stampede..

It was €39 across in Argos, according to this video you can stream local files but I haven't set mine up yet.

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

That's where the first stop of the new UKIPT season is going to be held.



One main thing I wanna do is find a hotel that has free WiFi fucking hate having to pay for it (cunts) will put that place on the list to check out, cheers.

AirBnb ? I really try and sell this as a great option without ever having used it.

[gorrrr72]

I was only joking about the earlier discussions above. It was well acted and nice and clearly shot. Didnt think they got to the real knub of the issue though. I cant understand why they cant go to a party just because shes found out shes pregnant.

We don't need to know the reason why the pregnancy is an issue.
The issue is she did the test when they were both ready to go to a 30th birthday party knowing that if it's positive there is going to be a problem.

[tylerdurden94]

AirBnb ? I really try and sell this as a great option without ever having used it.

Just actually checking out some spots on it, some of them look pretty decent and the rates seem very good, what I think would feel strange is the sharing of somebodies house but I'm sure that could be gotten over very easily.

[Wesley Harms]

This Trump lad is playing like as if he once had a crushing defeat to a nobody and it didn't affect him at all.

Be careful

[tipp86]

Just actually checking out some spots on it, some of them look pretty decent and the rates seem very good, what I think would feel strange is the sharing of somebodies house but I'm sure that could be gotten over very easily.

Id imagine with NY hotel prices you would get close to the same price for an apartment to yourself.

[TheDrunkenOne]

quiet here again..so I will post a quote;

“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
― Charles Bukowski


Looking forward to my new life tomorrow .....hic

[Jam-Fly]

Have in my hand last 2 discs of Breaking Bad.
Dont want to watch them as it will then be over.
Twas/Is awesome

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Skip if you want coz it's probably a bit of a downer on your mood

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Looking back, the last season of Breaking Bad really was the worst. And the second half of the season was even worse. And the final episode was even worse again. Poor ending all in all.
I think people alluded to it before, but after Gus Frings, it was impossible to create a better antagonist. There was loads of annoying flaws in the final season imo (the nazi characters as a whole, the Todd and Lydia thing, the cameo for the sake of a cameo by Badger and Pete in the final episode, lots of other things that weren't consistent with Breaking Bad and/or Walt's personality up to this point)

We stayed in the raddison Blu on Leicester Square and were in the middle of the premiere of Exodus (christian Bale's new movie)at about 5.30pm. We managed to see him over the barricades. My mate deemed it funny to ask him what was it like playing for Real Madrid. He wasn't impressed.

fhihctaj, I approve of your mate's sense of humour

[Raoul Duke III]

Watched Judgment at Nuremberg again last night. Hard to see a film like that being made these days.

Also got me thinking: what movies have had a comparable contingent of all-time great actors playing to their peak? Nominations please.

[Guest]

The Expendables?

[Lplated]

...Bit of a random question that cant seem to get a decent answer on...If I was to have a conversation with someone for 20 minutes, roughly what % of English dictionary would I cover?...Obviously I would say all basic words, but would there be much uncovered?...Same if it was a 1hr conversation...I'm curious, if I could hold down a 20 minute conversation with someone whilst speaking Manderin, how much of the language would I know, and would it be a different % as to speaking English...

I don't know the answer, but you might have a look at Timothy Ferris '4 hour chef' [book is only partly about learning to cook, the overall theme is how to learn something to a high standard in a short time].

In his book, and maybe on his one of his 'four hour' websites, he talks about quick ways to learn the basics of a language, the minimum amount of words [think its about 500 to cover 75% of all conversations] you have to learn in a new language to get you to basic conversation ability etc...

He has a couple of website/blog type things, do a google - the precise answer to your question is probably in there somewhere.

[Raoul Duke III]

The Expendables?

Had to Google that. FU.

[shrapnel]

Watched Judgment at Nuremberg again last night. Hard to see a film like that being made these days.

Also got me thinking: what movies have had a comparable contingent of all-time great actors playing to their peak? Nominations please.

the great escape springs to mind, also to a lesser extent grand hotel budapest.

also a lot of altman films used to have major castings, only one i can think of is "short cuts"

[Emmet]

Took the pound shop thing literally, was in Aldi getting meat, they had a sunrise alarm clock for £25. Bought it on the spot.

Will report tomorrow after I glow into conciousness.

oh sweet placebo effect. Woke before the light came on.

[pokerhand]

Watched Judgment at Nuremberg again last night. Hard to see a film like that being made these days.

Also got me thinking: what movies have had a comparable contingent of all-time great actors playing to their peak? Nominations please.

Pulp fiction or The Departed?

[Denny Crane]

Nothing to make you feel like a peasant like overhearing the guy across you discussing the issues he has with his plane

[Emmet]

A friend of mine got a job about 12 weeks ago with a well known airline, they did their secret santa yesterday and he's gotten the main man. €10 max spend.

Put yourself in his shoes, what you buying? (new underling knowing the bossman likes a bit of messing)

[Lord Sir Banter]

A friend of mine got a job about 12 weeks ago with a well known airline, they did their secret santa yesterday and he's gotten the main man. €10 max spend.

Put yourself in his shoes, what you buying? (new underling knowing the bossman likes a bit of messing)

Ten euro note, probably appreciate it most. Novelty factor in that he may not have handled one in a long time.

Are we talking O'Leary?

[Denny Crane]

A friend of mine got a job about 12 weeks ago with a well known airline, they did their secret santa yesterday and he's gotten the main man. €10 max spend.

Put yourself in his shoes, what you buying?

Pack of batteries?

[Trippie]

My assumption is that Rugby pros are using indiscriminately. Certainly I don't see the type of testing protocols that could prove otherwise. Heavy gym work; heavy conditioning work; more games than ever before; calendars that run longer than ever before.

They'd be dead right to be availing of all chemical assistance available imo. I'd say HGH would be particularly beneficial.

I think anyone who says that there aren't any rugby players playing at any sort of decent level not dabbling in any banned substances would be kidding themselves.

In fact i'd be surprised if there is any sport out there that wouldn't have participants who would look to get an edge by taking illegal supplements.

yeah but I think what's so potent about Lloyd's point is that he thinks pretty much all rugby players are using.

I'm sure in every professional sport there are participants using, but the percentage of those using would vary a lot between sports.

Not just at the highest level, I am part of an "amateur" club here in Dallas and from working with regional team I know of 3 who are cycling onto a steroid programme shortly or have done so already and then another 4 who are using HGH. That's just what I know of so I imagine it's at least triple that judging by the guys.

I would believe 99% of pro players at elite level are engaging in PED's in some form or the other.

[V for Vendetta]

Watched Judgment at Nuremberg again last night. Hard to see a film like that being made these days.

Also got me thinking: what movies have had a comparable contingent of all-time great actors playing to their peak? Nominations please.

12 Angry Men. The Big Lebowski. The Odd couple (probably didn't have enough acting parts） Glengarry Glen Ross.

[eamonhonda]

Ten euro note, probably appreciate it most. Novelty factor in that he may not have handled one in a long time.

Are we talking O'Leary?

We are assuming yes

[LuckyLloyd]

I was actually slightly disappointed with Serial on the basis that I had been promised it was a real 'did he do it / did he not' deal. It quickly became clear in my mind: not guilty, shouldn't have been convicted. The purported motive doesn't stand up and the time line of when he was supposed to kill her is bullshit. As such, you are left with veritable oceans of reasonable doubt. The most compelling reason for thinking he's guilty is that he was convicted - i.e. there is a de facto presumption of guilt. But when you listen to the jurors in later episodes and consider the magnitude of the defense not following up on a potential eye witness alibi that would have contradicted the prosecution time line I consider that an irrelevance. It's scary that he was convicted on the basis of, what?, that he was an ex boyfriend who couldn't prove he didn't do it. From there the motive was assigned; a shaky timeline was constructed and a lack of solid DNA evidence and reliable chief witness was overlooked. Maybe he did do it. But at some other time of day in a different location. Once you start having to imagine how / when / why outside of the actual prosecution case though, it's ridiculous to convict.

[Guest]

Speaking of drugs in sport
Is it not a generally accepted fact that your average GAA player is off his head on goofballs too?

[Guest]

Watched Judgment at Nuremberg again last night. Hard to see a film like that being made these days.

Also got me thinking: what movies have had a comparable contingent of all-time great actors playing to their peak? Nominations please.

Tin Men; Being There; like them or loath them, most if not all Mike Leigh films

[luckforsome]

A friend of mine got a job about 12 weeks ago with a well known airline, they did their secret santa yesterday and he's gotten the main man. €10 max spend.

Put yourself in his shoes, what you buying? (new underling knowing the bossman likes a bit of messing)

...Can't beat an old mans walking stick with skirt mirror...

[Guest]

Ten euro note, probably appreciate it most. Novelty factor in that he may not have handled one in a long time.

Are we talking O'Leary?

£10 worth of pennies in a sealed bag?

[Lord Sir Banter]

£10 worth of pennies in a sealed bag?

Happy meal voucher.

[Lord Sir Banter]

Watched Judgment at Nuremberg again last night. Hard to see a film like that being made these days.

Also got me thinking: what movies have had a comparable contingent of all-time great actors playing to their peak? Nominations please.

Usual Suspects.

Pete and Kevin pwning
Benicio romping
Certainly that forgotten Baldwin brahs best turn.
The other guy.
The dectective guy.

And aside from Into the West, best turn for Gabriel too.

[Keane]

Speaking of drugs in sport
Is it not a generally accepted fact that your average GAA player is off his head on goofballs too?

There's definitely guys at it, although I think the majority of these cases would be guys working off their own bat rather than under supervision from county staff.

I was actually slightly disappointed with Serial on the basis that I had been promised it was a real 'did he do it / did he not' deal. It quickly became clear in my mind: not guilty, shouldn't have been convicted. The purported motive doesn't stand up and the time line of when he was supposed to kill her is bullshit. As such, you are left with veritable oceans of reasonable doubt. The most compelling reason for thinking he's guilty is that he was convicted - i.e. there is a de facto presumption of guilt. But when you listen to the jurors in later episodes and consider the magnitude of the defense not following up on a potential eye witness alibi that would have contradicted the prosecution time line I consider that an irrelevance. It's scary that he was convicted on the basis of, what?, that he was an ex boyfriend who couldn't prove he didn't do it. From there the motive was assigned; a shaky timeline was constructed and a lack of solid DNA evidence and reliable chief witness was overlooked. Maybe he did do it. But at some other time of day in a different location. Once you start having to imagine how / when / why outside of the actual prosecution case though, it's ridiculous to convict.

The conviction based on the evidence and the prosecution timeline we've been shown to date was lol.

That being said, I think it's still doing a good job of posing the "did he do it" question.

This latest episode was the weakest to date, very little time spent on the only two things we hadn't heard before (Jay's attorney & Adnan's plea bargains), all the rest was stuff about the lawyer we already knew to a large extent, wrapped up by Koenig saying she didn't think the lawyer was too bad anyway.

[Megatron]

Watched Judgment at Nuremberg again last night. Hard to see a film like that being made these days.

Also got me thinking: what movies have had a comparable contingent of all-time great actors playing to their peak? Nominations please.

L.A Confidential?

[Megatron]

A friend of mine got a job about 12 weeks ago with a well known airline, they did their secret santa yesterday and he's gotten the main man. €10 max spend.

Put yourself in his shoes, what you buying? (new underling knowing the bossman likes a bit of messing)

I got my Secret Santa a Willy grooming Kit. Figured I'd make the SS a bit more risque this year.

[KevIRL]

JJ Delaney the latest to hop on the KK retirement bus, first of the regular starters from 2014 t do so

[Emmet]

Gold 50 years ago

Most Recent Gold

[Rufio]

Can anyone tell me what the story is with Soccer players seemingly giving the two fingers in photos?

[Megatron]

Without Google.

Four Paul's have won a Premier League winner's medal. Name them

[The Situation]

Was met with the latest rise in dart prices followed by a 30 minute delay. It must be the worst value for money transport system in the developed world. It's an appalling service. Where do they get off continually raising their prices when they haven't made a single decent improvement in decades. At least Dublin Bus can point to plenty of quality improvements to justify their prices.

My mind works in weird ways at times, can brush off big gambling loses in seconds but get tilted by a €2 increase to my weekly dart ticket.

[Denny Crane]

Ince/Scholes. That's my football knowledge exhausted.

[shano_88]

Pogba?