Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - BabyforV

[Wombatman]

Arsenal were absolute puke muck today. Ten man Liverpool sauntering up to have shots at will at the end. Couldn't string three passes together. No togetherness or coordination. Wellbeck looking like headless chicken Man U Wellbeck. Honestly worst performance I've ever seen from an Arsenal team against a piss poor Liverpool team. Those players should be ashamed of themselves.

[Lazare]

Cleaned out the gas oven earlier and now it's tripping the RCD, rang an electrician friend and he's confident the problem is the igniter is wet and to just give it time to dry out.

Anyone any experience of this? I've to cook for eight people on xmas day and I'm currently shitting myself.

[The Situation]

The NFC South making a complete mockery of the NFL playoff format. Fairly flawed that a team with a sub .500 win rate will make playoffs over others with far superior records, home draw too for added lol.

[BallymoreChris]

Golf Question

In a stableford competition if a player has the honour and pars a hole playing off 18 for three points and his opponent who plays off scratch birdies the same hole also gaining three points who has the honour at the following hole?

[BallymoreChris]

Cleaned out the gas oven earlier and now it's tripping the RCD, rang an electrician friend and he's confident the problem is the igniter is wet and to just give it time to dry out.

Anyone any experience of this? I've to cook for eight people on xmas day and I'm currently shitting myself.

Your electrician is probably right 99% of the time.
Very small chance you damaged it or done any permanent harm with water.
Turn the heat in your kitchen up to dry it faster.

[TheJiggaman]

In a stableford competition if a player has the honour and pars a hole playing off 18 for three points and his opponent who plays off scratch birdies the same hole also gaining three points who has the honour at the following hole?

It's the stroke score, not stableford score that counts towards the honour.

The guy who birdied has the next honour, regardless of points scored.

[BallymoreChris]

It's the stroke score, not stableford score that counts towards the honour.

The guy who birdied has the next honour, regardless of points scored.

Do you know of any documented set of rules I could get? - trying to settle a bet here.

[DAMO72]

Do you know of any documented set of rules I could get? - trying to settle a bet here.

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but it may help

http://www.golfmagic.com/forum/golf-rules-and-handicapping/honour-on-the-tee/24024.html

[poprock]

Christmas recommendation, ignore the world and put on the headphones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxFThs_aJKs&app=desktop

[elbows]

In a stableford competition if a player has the honour and pars a hole playing off 18 for three points and his opponent who plays off scratch birdies the same hole also gaining three points who has the honour at the following hole?

The player who parred the hole has the honour

[dobby]

I honestly dont know what to make of you....

the draw is a perfect result for United after they drew yesterday! And my bet was over after the Tyne derby so a draw in LFC AFC was a nice consolation. Keeps Arsenal from gaining ground.

[ArmaniJeans]

The NFC South making a complete mockery of the NFL playoff format. Fairly flawed that a team with a sub .500 win rate will make playoffs over others with far superior records, home draw too for added lol.

I think the last time it happened was 7-9 Seattle in 2010 and in the end they were the only Divisional winner to get a win in wildcard weekend!
At least in the NFL it tends to be selfcorrecting and/or cyclical - theres every chance that in two years the NFC South will have 3 teams with positive records.

[KevIRL]

Tipp senior football county final was only played today. Ended in a draw lol. Replay next Sunday, dry old Christmas for the lads then

[luckforsome]

...Loving this moment with B.O.D ...he's actually on the verge of crying right now...

[luckforsome]

...It would be funny if Rory comes second in this award...

[jack90210]

The NFC South making a complete mockery of the NFL playoff format. Fairly flawed that a team with a sub .500 win rate will make playoffs over others with far superior records, home draw too for added lol.

This has been a fact that it was going to happen for a few weeks now so old news.

Wouldn't say the NFL are too upset about it as the division has been very relevant for the last couples of weeks.

[digiman]

Booking flights to Hawaii for honeymoon and have the option of 21.5hrs economy class flight which is 2 stops from Dublin, one in Heathrow and one in LAX. Would arrive in Maui at 10PM.

Second option is first class on 2 legs and business on 2 legs so 3 stops but with an 8-9 hour night layover in LAX making the total trip 33 hours and arriving in Maui at 11AM the following day.

Both flights are using points so basically getting the first class flights cheaper than I would if I paid for them through skyscanner or whatever. Is there anything to do in LAX on an 8 hour stop-over?

[The Situation]

This has been a fact that it was going to happen for a few weeks now so old news.

Wouldn't say the NFL are too upset about it as the division has been very relevant for the last couples of weeks.

Not it hasn't, It only became certain today that the winner would have a losing record, Saints could've gone 8-8.

It's relevant for all the wrong reasons though imo, should be a blanket rule that if you've a losing record you can't progress and your place as divisional winners goes to the top wildcard from that conference. Can't see any reasonable argument that The Panthers are more deserved of a place in the playoffs over Eagles who will prob be eliminated with a 10-6 record.

[jack90210]

Not it hasn't, It only became certain today that the winner would have a losing record, Saints could've gone 8-8.

It's relevant for all the wrong reasons though imo, should be a blanket rule that if you've a losing record you can't progress and your place as divisional winners goes to the top wildcard from that conference. Can't see any reasonable argument that The Panthers are more deserved of a place in the playoffs over Eagles who will prob be eliminated with a 10-6 record.

Thems the rules. Eagles beat the wrong teams. Divisional games are more important.

[Kayroo]

Tipp senior football county final was only played today. Ended in a draw lol. Replay next Sunday, dry old Christmas for the lads then

Someone I know down there told me this and I still can't believe it. Leinster football championship is over already. Mad stuff.

[cardshark202]

Same happens in all US sports pretty much. In the NBA you have shitty eastern conference teams making the playoffs with some very good western teams who would challenge near the top of the east not even making the playoffs. Will happen again this year. And in the MLB you have weak and strong divisions. Doesn't make sense to me either. I think the best teams should make the playoffs and the conference/divisional separations are pointless and arbitrary

[ArmaniJeans]

Same happens in all US sports pretty much. In the NBA you have shitty eastern conference teams making the playoffs with some very good western teams who would challenge near the top of the east not even making the playoffs. Will happen again this year. And in the MLB you have weak and strong divisions. Doesn't make sense to me either. I think the best teams should make the playoffs and the conference/divisional separations are pointless and arbitrary

Basketball/Baseball are kind of different as everyone plays 150 regular season games and you can judge their overall ability as they face a wider range of opponents.

Whereas NFL is just a 16 game regular season so its plausible that the NFC South teams were just unlucky to be up against the nut worst intra/inter conference setup possible this season, and then proceeded to split the inter divisional games perfectly leading to the winners having a neg record. Mathemetically its possible that a division could be the 4th/5th strongest yet have a negative record champion.

(Interestingly I was on the opposite side of the argument 4 years ago and thought Seattle shouldn't have been in the playoffs. )

[Lord Sir Banter]

Sickpuppy is all puppy. bfg. loves a bear hug just like Damo.
Last night's G5 meeting went great.

Nightcrew, present yourselves.

[DeadParrot]

Sickpuppy is all puppy. bfg. loves a bear hug just like Damo.
Last night's G5 meeting went great.

Nightcrew, present yourselves.

Hugs are great

[Lord Sir Banter]

Hugs are great

/brohug

hotspur hasn't seen die hard

[TheDrunkenOne]

just finished watching this movie. Unsure if I am too sober or too drunk to understand wtf was going on it ...........

SPOILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY1uYbueymU

[Lord Sir Banter]

Hi drunkenone

[tipp86]

Tipp senior football county final was only played today. Ended in a draw lol. Replay next Sunday, dry old Christmas for the lads then

Its on Stephens day now. Im not sure I can deal with how mental the town will be if they win.

Have you had any look at Waterford yet this year? My cousin is after getting three runs this year. Id be interested in hearing your thoughts on him although unlikely you have been to any of the games. John Morrissey is his name.

[cardshark202]

Basketball/Baseball are kind of different as everyone plays 150 regular season games and you can judge their overall ability as they face a wider range of opponents.

Whereas NFL is just a 16 game regular season so its plausible that the NFC South teams were just unlucky to be up against the nut worst intra/inter conference setup possible this season, and then proceeded to split the inter divisional games perfectly leading to the winners having a neg record. Mathemetically its possible that a division could be the 4th/5th strongest yet have a negative record champion.

(Interestingly I was on the opposite side of the argument 4 years ago and thought Seattle shouldn't have been in the playoffs. )

In both baseball and basketball you play a higher proportion of your games against your divisional rivals and then other conference rivals so it's still very lopsided. For example a team in the NBA who would have a .500 record in the west would probably be a .600+ team in the east. The 9th placed team in the west last year(phoenix) would have finished 3rd in the east, and possible higher considering the all round weaker opponents they would be more regularly facing

[The Situation]

There's teams with slimmer mathematical chance of making Wildcard week with a guaranteed away match that are shorter in the Super bowl outright betting than Falcons/Panthers which tells you everything you need to know about the quality of the NFC South. If you watched much of them this season you'd know that a fixture anomaly argument is super tenuous.

[careca]

You can win the Champions League without being Champions of your own league !!

Same shit, different country.

Once the rules are transparent then its all cool.



/different topic

Anyone know of any xmas Carol singing xmas eve between 3pm to 6pm (ish).

Ta

[Raoul Duke III]

different topic

Anyone know of any xmas Carol singing xmas eve between 3pm to 6pm (ish).

Ta

usually some outside the Mansion House at that time. Ruined my chat with Mr & Mrs Dice a few years back.

[Raoul Duke III]

These are the days when 'working' in the city centre comes into its own. Shopping, boozing, eating with most colleagues either gone or too busy doing the same to care. Ho ho ho.

[careca]

usually some outside the Mansion House at that time. Ruined my chat with Mr & Mrs Dice a few years back.

LOL.

cheers, might give that a shot. As per usual leaving everything til the last minute !!

[KevIRL]

Its on Stephens day now. Im not sure I can deal with how mental the town will be if they win.

Have you had any look at Waterford yet this year? My cousin is after getting three runs this year. Id be interested in hearing your thoughts on him although unlikely you have been to any of the games. John Morrissey is his name.

Afraid not, valuable match day passes need to be kept for league and championship games this season. Not that I anticipate many championship games

[Guest]

DCU is empty today. Bloody public sector wasters.

[Strewelpeter]

Booking flights to Hawaii for honeymoon and have the option of 21.5hrs economy class flight which is 2 stops from Dublin, one in Heathrow and one in LAX. Would arrive in Maui at 10PM.

Second option is first class on 2 legs and business on 2 legs so 3 stops but with an 8-9 hour night layover in LAX making the total trip 33 hours and arriving in Maui at 11AM the following day.

Both flights are using points so basically getting the first class flights cheaper than I would if I paid for them through skyscanner or whatever. Is there anything to do in LAX on an 8 hour stop-over?

It's your honeymoon, you will have acces to a lounge... The hours will fly by

[Raoul Duke III]

It's your honeymoon, you will have acces to a lounge... The hours will fly by

Finish your well you

[AndyFatBastard]

just finished watching this movie. Unsure if I am too sober or too drunk to understand wtf was going on it ...........

SPOILER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY1uYbueymU

It's all about Freud. From wikipedia:

Michael Atkinson reads Jeffrey as an innocent youth who is both horrified by the violence inflicted by Frank, but also tempted by it as the means of possessing Dorothy for himself. Atkinson takes a Freudian approach to the film; considering it to be an expression of the traumatised innocence which characterises Lynch's work. He claims that "Dorothy represents the sexual force of the mother [figure] because she is forbidden and because she becomes the object of the unhealthy, infantile impulses at work in Jeffrey's subconscious".

[Emmet]

Anyone know who the guy who sings the second verse at 1:05 is here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSImsOKDa2o

[White Knight]

Booking flights to Hawaii for honeymoon and have the option of 21.5hrs economy class flight which is 2 stops from Dublin, one in Heathrow and one in LAX. Would arrive in Maui at 10PM.

Second option is first class on 2 legs and business on 2 legs so 3 stops but with an 8-9 hour night layover in LAX making the total trip 33 hours and arriving in Maui at 11AM the following day.

Both flights are using points so basically getting the first class flights cheaper than I would if I paid for them through skyscanner or whatever. Is there anything to do in LAX on an 8 hour stop-over?

Would you not be better off arriving at 10pm to get the full next day to start the honeymoon (ahem, it should have started!) rather than the 1st day being a write off after arriving at 11am?

[Keane]

Can someone put that video in NSFW tags please

[oleras]

Anyone know who the guy who sings the second verse at 1:05 is here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSImsOKDa2o

Who ever he is he has a cracking voice for traditional style music.

[Emmet]

Who ever he is he has a cracking voice for traditional style music.

Puts all the rest of them to absolute shame really.

[ArmaniJeans]

Can someone put that video in NSFW tags please

There you go.

[NSFW=""]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY1uYbueymU[/NSFW]

[LuckyLloyd]

Can someone put that video in NSFW tags please

Yah

[tylerdurden94]

Anyone know who the guy who sings the second verse at 1:05 is here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSImsOKDa2o

According to the comments section on the video Simon Byrne.

[digiman]

Would you not be better off arriving at 10pm to get the full next day to start the honeymoon (ahem, it should have started!) rather than the 1st day being a write off after arriving at 11am?

Have held a booking for the shortest flights, would rather make the most of the time in Hawaii than in first class.

[Guest]

Don't forget to confuse any of your hilarious friends that roll out the classic: 'grand stretch in the evenings' later by asking them if it took a week for them to notice.

[jack90210]

There's teams with slimmer mathematical chance of making Wildcard week with a guaranteed away match that are shorter in the Super bowl outright betting than Falcons/Panthers which tells you everything you need to know about the quality of the NFC South. If you watched much of them this season you'd know that a fixture anomaly argument is super tenuous.

Only the Chargers fit that category from what I can see.

[tipp86]

On the American Football front im not as up on it as others here but is the Oregon vs FS game on New Years day not going to be pretty epic as games go? 2 Heisman winners against each other and FS going in as underdogs with a 29 game win streak.

[jack90210]

On the American Football front im not as up on it as others here but is the Oregon vs FS game on New Years day not going to be pretty epic as games go? 2 Heisman winners against each other and FS going in as underdogs with a 29 game win streak.

Should be a really good game.

Oregon have an explosive offense and have scored 40 points in all but two games this season. Have one loss but beat Arizona by a landslide later in the season.

FS are on an amazing unbeaten run but have limped to a lot of their wins this season but have found a way to get it done everytime.

2 QBs is the big story probably picks 1 and 2 in the draft next year.

[tipp86]

Should be a really good game.

Oregon have an explosive offense and have scored 40 points in all but two games this season. Have one loss but beat Arizona by a landslide later in the season.

FS are on an amazing unbeaten run but have limped to a lot of their wins this season but have found a way to get it done everytime.

2 QBs is the big story probably picks 1 and 2 in the draft next year.

Winston surely has to be a worry to any NFL club with all the negative publicity lately.

[jack90210]

Winston surely has to be a worry to any NFL club with all the negative publicity lately.

100% major character issues. But he has serious talent. Its likely to be Tampa and Tennessee at the top of the draft both desperate for QB help so one of them will probably take a punt on him.

[DeadParrot]

Don't forget to confuse any of your hilarious friends that roll out the classic: 'grand stretch in the evenings' later by asking them if it took a week for them to notice.

You've confused me

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149

[TheDrunkenOne]

Can someone put that video in NSFW tags please

sorry

[Guest]

You've confused me
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149

It's in your article! The earliest sunset in Dublin was over a week ago.

[oleras]

Thats some sad news coming from Glasgow atm, a bin lorry crashed into pedestrians and could be up to 6 killed.

[Wombatman]

Sean Quinn back at the helm. What a sham.

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/bankrupt-sean-quinn-hired-by-new-owners-of-his-empire-30854995.html

[Raoul Duke III]

Sean Quinn back at the helm. What a sham.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...-30854995.html

Doesn't sound like 'back at the helm' but yes, wtf indeed