Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - BabyforV

[Lord Sir Banter]

Piano is pretty class alright. tbf. They have full sized piano keyboards in the Ilac Library if one wanted to practice or fuck about. On my long list of stuff to do that I ignore.

Any excuse to post some Victor Borge. You could pull off this amusing jape:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWUp1M-vuM

Definitely a guy I would have at my fictional dinner party.

[Lord Sir Banter]

It would take a proper sort of commitment to be a piano wanker, lugging a baby grand around on your back lest a party might break out.

[The Situation]

Lol Engerland.

[digiman]

I think the generally official rule with most airlines is:
1 piece of carry-on luggage plus 1 additional item (such as laptop or handbag).

But I have seen people get away with both too.

Talking about airline luggage, I'm moving back home for good next month so was looking to see how much a 2nd 30kg bag would cost. Ticket for 2 people one way was around $2100 so thats a total of 60kg plus the carry one. One extra 30kg bag was $2700 per person, bloody cheaper to fly home and then get a return flight from Dublin to Sydney, stay in a 5 star hotel for a couple of nights and pick up the 2nd bag!!

Where the hell is the logic in that?

[Dice75]

Talking about airline luggage, I'm moving back home for good next month so was looking to see how much a 2nd 30kg bag would cost. Ticket for 2 people one way was around $2100 so thats a total of 60kg plus the carry one. One extra 30kg bag was $2700 per person, bloody cheaper to fly home and then get a return flight from Dublin to Sydney, stay in a 5 star hotel for a couple of nights and pick up the 2nd bag!!

Where the hell is the logic in that?

See how much DPD or someone would charge?

[KevIRL]

Lol Engerland.

The weather in Brisbane concerns me. A cyclone likely to wash out the Aus v Bangladesh game. If it causes us to lose points v UAE on wed it would be a disaster

[Mellor]

Talking about airline luggage, I'm moving back home for good next month so was looking to see how much a 2nd 30kg bag would cost. Ticket for 2 people one way was around $2100 so thats a total of 60kg plus the carry one. One extra 30kg bag was $2700 per person, bloody cheaper to fly home and then get a return flight from Dublin to Sydney, stay in a 5 star hotel for a couple of nights and pick up the 2nd bag!!

Where the hell is the logic in that?

Which airline?

What way does that leave your PR?

[balfejohn]

He's a terrible public speaker. Awful. But is quality of public speaking really how we want to judge our politicians? He's smart. But more importantly he picks a gooand sends them out rather than hogging every bit of limelight for himself. I'm a bit of a fan, despite having been bored senseless by hearing him speak on a lot of occasions. Like this idea of the humble man as leader rather than the charming rogue ala Charlie Hottie / Happy Bertie. If he gets the next term he'll be judged favourably by history imo.

Cant judge on public speaking.The humble part is from him been a cute politician concern in the public eye but always has a fall guy when things go wrong.last year with scatter been a prime example.not a supporter.

[digiman]

Which airline?

What way does that leave your PR?

That was Etihad, just spoke with Qantas and it was $1800. Another problem was I had flights booked home to Dublin in April for my wedding with Qantas/Emirates but have now had to change them to mid March with Qantas. I'll just ship stuff home. Have so much stuff to sell now, car and lots of household furniture and highly likely will have 6 weeks rent to pay for breaking my lease early. Also had to change flights for honeymoon to go to Dublin instead of Sydney so all in all going to be a very expensive relocation!!

On flip side really looking forward to returning home and seeing family and friends again, no doubt I'll hugely miss Sydney after a few weeks at home though.

PR probably going to be a waste of money unless I get sick of Ireland in next few years and decide to return which I wouldn't rule out.

[Raoul Duke III]

Agree that she is very deluded and always looking for a tree to take a piss on, but having also watched Edna (long way round) Kenny mumble thru a 20 minute interview and not give a proper answer was very sad as well, how long before we get this sad bastard off our televisions is the big question, the mans a waster.

Compared to Cowen, Bertie....he's a genius.

Everyone knows Noonan is the real boss anyway.

[Raoul Duke III]

Cant judge on public speaking.The humble part is from him been a cute politician concern in the public eye but always has a fall guy when things go wrong.last year with scatter been a prime example.not a supporter.

Who would you prefer out of the available alternatives?

[Emmet]

Does anyone here play the violin? Been considering taking it up and getting lessons. I know it's an extremely difficult instrument to learn, but I've never played any musical instrument and it seems a shame to live without ever having played music.

First instrument I ever attempted. Gruelling enough for each and everyone near you as you try to get even passable. It's pretty much utterly offensive noise for the first 5/6 months minimum.

Needless to say, my mother decided that my time would be best spent elsewhere after a couple of those months. Never made the grade!

Considered buying one recently and having another go though, it is a fantastic instrument when mastered.

[balfejohn]

Who would you prefer out of the available alternatives?

Noonan is the one pulling the strings alright.think Coveney would make a good leader from the current team.not much coming thru from the opposition benches.complete overhaul needed from all parties.

[Dice75]

Noonan is the one pulling the strings alright.think Coveney would make a good leader from the current team.not much coming thru from the opposition benches.complete overhaul needed from all parties.

Joan Burton for Taoiseach

[mocata]

Viola is a much nicer sound, what about learning to play a keyboard? Bigger reward to effort ratio and flexibility. Plus with headphones you arent inflicting aural torture on all around you.

[Denny Crane]

Compared to Cowen, Bertie....he's a genius.

Everyone knows Noonan is the real boss anyway.

Martin Fraser surely

[Emmet]

"Je suis Derek" is actually funny. I hope he's trying to be ironic, because if he is, that's spectacular.

[Tar.Aldarion]

Piano is pretty class alright. tbf. They have full sized piano keyboards in the Ilac Library if one wanted to practice or fuck about. On my long list of stuff to do that I ignore.

Any excuse to post some Victor Borge. You could pull off this amusing jape:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWUp1M-vuM

Definitely a guy I would have at my fictional dinner party.

Sounds tiring

http://virtualpiano.net/

I'll just being my phone around to parties to be a piano wanker

[Denny Crane]

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[V for Vendetta]

Online HR goal setting system is asking me to set myself impactful objectives for the year. Does buying more impactful ties count??😊

[AndyFatBastard]

@Hotspur you really need to start early on the violin. Arm flexibility is required and there's a good chance yours will never be flexible enough.

IMO you should build a programmable machine that plays the violin. That's what I'd do, and I'm usually right about everything.

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[bp_me]

@Hotspur you really need to start early on the violin. Arm flexibility is required and there's a good chance yours will never be flexible enough.

IMO you should build a programmable machine that plays the violin. That's what I'd do, and I'm usually right about everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2yhNeoVmlw

[Raoul Duke III]

Online HR goal setting system is asking me to set myself impactful objectives for the year. Does buying more impactful ties count??😊

Impactful hats imo

Looking forward to seeing it later (your camo one from 2007).

[V for Vendetta]

Impactful hats imo

Looking forward to seeing it later (your camo one from 2007).

That got culled along with about 20 bags of clothes....

[Strewelpeter]

Does anyone here play the violin? Been considering taking it up and getting lessons. I know it's an extremely difficult instrument to learn, but I've never played any musical instrument and it seems a shame to live without ever having played music.

As an adult learner you might want think about trying Trad and starting with something like a tin whistle in order to learn a bit of music before settling on an instrument.
If you tried one of the Comhaltas programs you should pick up enough fairly quickly to be able to play along at sessions they have for beginners. That will give you a chance to have a look and try out some of the other instruments and genres you might want to try.

[Tar.Aldarion]

Surely there should be cool new instruments by now, instead of traditional he should be learning contemporary instruments to get ahead of the curve.

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[Dice75]

Not the most promising start of interaction with French bureaucracy.

1. Email the embassy about visa for wife on the email address suggested on their website. Receive automated email back going: please direct your queries to this other email. Its the exact same email. I email it again, get message back saying to direct queries to the same email again.

2. The website says to ring their visa section from 11-12 Monday to Friday. I ring them multiple times between 11 and 12 and each time receive an automated message saying the service is closed and I need to instead ring between 11 and 12.


Trying to fight back the urge to go to Strewel levels on this.

Hour ahead?

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[SatNav]

Yessss freedom. My mother just went home

Looking forward to getting absolutely plastered tonight!!!

[Strewelpeter]

Did consider that, but its the French embassy in Dublin. Surely they're not asking people to ring at French time?

They are French, for them there is only French time

[Denny Crane]

Any interest in a counter protest on Saturday? #HigherWaterChargesNow

[Mickey Rosa]

Any interest in a counter protest on Saturday? #HigherWaterChargesNow

Sponsored by San Pellegrino

[AndyFatBastard]

Any interest in a counter protest on Saturday? #HigherWaterChargesNow

That'd be a larf. I'll bring a sign saying "Metered Water A-OK".

[Dice75]

Any interest in a counter protest on Saturday? #HigherWaterChargesNow

Funny, was only thinking I haven't heard much from The Green Party lately. Where are all the Celtic Tiger tree hugging hippys gone these days?

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[Denny Crane]

Sponsored by San Pellegrino

There's pics last night of the protesters buying bottled watered on the street/

[The Situation]

The weather in Brisbane concerns me. A cyclone likely to wash out the Aus v Bangladesh game. If it causes us to lose points v UAE on wed it would be a disaster

Yeah we need to keep that momentum building. We're the only non favourite to have won a game so far, it's all been nicely predictable. Think Pakistan are a whopper bet tonight, not that they're any great shakes but Windies were embarrasing at times in the field in terms of effort levels and once a team enters that sort of mind set its very difficult to find that killer edge again without a big cull to the line up. Think a lot of em stopped bothering after they won that T20 WC a few years back.

[tylerdurden94]

Nightcrawler
Big Lebowski

Report back.

Seen Nightcrawler ages ago, really enjoyed it could've done with being a little more gritty my post HERE

[Lao Lao]

Does anyone here play the violin? Been considering taking it up and getting lessons. I know it's an extremely difficult instrument to learn, but I've never played any musical instrument and it seems a shame to live without ever having played music.

[Guest]

Yeah we need to keep that momentum building. We're the only non favourite to have won a game so far, it's all been nicely predictable. Think Pakistan are a whopper bet tonight, not that they're any great shakes but Windies were embarrasing at times in the field in terms of effort levels and once a team enters that sort of mind set its very difficult to find that killer edge again without a big cull to the line up. Think a lot of em stopped bothering after they won that T20 WC a few years back.

Bravo and Pollard effectively sacked too cant be good for moral.

[DeadParrot]

When did Icky last post?

as the new king of cans he has no time for us anymore

[TheDrunkenOne]

Think Pakistan are a whopper bet tonight, not that they're any great shakes but Windies were embarrasing at times in the field in terms of effort levels and once a team enters that sort of mind set its very difficult to find that killer edge again without a big cull to the line up. .

Spread is Pakistan/West Indies 10-20 ( 1pt per run or 10pts per wicket won by)

Toss will make a difference but buying @ 20 looks good value.

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[Denny Crane]

Two and a Half Men totally wasn't bitter about Charlie Sheen in their finale.

Pity that wasn't a real piano

Lorre has created many successful sitcoms since the 1990s including Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, and Mom. Lorre also served as an executive producer of Roseanne and Mike & Molly

[Strewelpeter]

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[Strewelpeter]

wow, that is a roll call of shame, I'd imagine an epitaph saying 'he literally did nothing' would be more desirable than that.

Its a long time ago but I remember liking Grace under fire.
Except for maybe one episode and a few random scenes from BBT I've never seen any of the others.

[DeadParrot]

Icky would love those

[Strewelpeter]

Icky would love those

He probably wrote half of them.

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[hotspur]

Continuing my wildly popular poetry series, of relevance to my musical musing is a poem from the remarkable 13th Century Persian poet Rumi. I don't think he is well known in these parts, but his poetry is simple, beautiful, and heartful. He is very popular in America. I am not sure if this poem of his has a name.

SPOILER

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

And since it was a short poem let's have another from Hafiz called It Felt Love.

SPOILER

How did the rose
Ever open its heart
And give to this world
All its beauty?
It felt the encouragement of light
Against its being,
Otherwise,
We all remain
Too frightened.

I have been inundated with requests to persuade GAB to replace our poker game tonight with a poetry reading evening, but he won't budge.

[Guest]

I'm with Paul Dirac on Poetry:

"In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say... something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand."

[Lao Lao]

I'm totally robbing that by the way SP - Fantastic punage!

[tipp86]

Does Ryanair have that check in thing on app. I'm heading off in 7 weeks to lanza with just carry on bag. Does it mean I can just saunter off through security. As in no desk etc

The app is great and I used it on a recent trip to London from Shannon. They just scan it and it is all easy....until you sit back and let everyone get on the plane and wander up as the last person and then realise your phone is just a black screen and wont turn on.

[hotspur]

I'm with Paul Dirac on Poetry:

"In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say... something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand."

When you are lying on your death bed you may not be quite so thirsty for that which is informational rather than transformational. You already are, you just don't realise it.

[Megatron]

Big Birdman

Kind of a Spoiler

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