Bad Beat/Moaning/Venting - pray for Lazare

[mdoug]

And let's face it, a lot of the people on here are just cranky aging cunts.

Fully accept Winnipeg was an awful guess.
But did you honestly know the answer?

I actually looked up some more state capitals in anticipation of another state coming up, my god I suck at them. I think I got like 7 or 8, but they were all the obvious ones plus alaska which I was just told

The ones I was most shocked that I didn't know/was wrong with my guesses that I was sure about were new york/california/louisiana/illinois/nevada/oregon/florida. Anyone who gets some of these without cheating fair play

[oleras]

And let's face it, a lot of the people on here are just cranky aging cunts.

I love being young.

I see idiots younger than me acting like the world would stop if they did.

Idiots.

[CHDad]

I love being young.

I see idiots younger than me acting like the world would stop if they did.

Idiots.

I knew a lad like that and now he is Minister for Health.

[chips1234]

And let's face it, a lot of the people on here are just cranky aging cunts.



I actually looked up some more state capitals in anticipation of another state coming up, my god I suck at them. I think I got like 7 or 8, but they were all the obvious ones plus alaska which I was just told

The ones I was most shocked that I didn't know/was wrong with my guesses that I was sure about were new york/california/louisiana/illinois/nevada/oregon/florida. Anyone who gets some of these without cheating fair play

off the top of my head poss wrong

new york= buffalo

cali= sacremento

louisiana= biloxi

nevada = reno

oregon no idea

florida= st petersburg

illinois= seems like michigan but i know thats not it.

so how wrong am i in all them :P

[oleras]

I knew a lad like that and now he is Minister for Health.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yom8vZ7lEnQ

[Mellor]

off the top of my head poss wrong

new york= buffalo

cali= sacremento

louisiana= biloxi

nevada = reno

oregon no idea

florida= st petersburg

illinois= seems like michigan but i know thats not it.

so how wrong am i in all them :P

One out of 6 correct.

[chips1234]

One out of 6 correct.

yeah just checked myself, the fact i answered michigan for illinois is ridic i used to know a tonne of them reading down through the list id do awful at guessing them now.

[AndyFatBastard]

GoT:

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And now his watch has ended

[CHDad]

GoT:

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And now his watch has ended

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now he goes to find himself and cry then wildlings catch up and help him beat Ramsey. Meh.

You read the got reddit?

[6starpool]

Fully accept Winnipeg was an awful guess.
But did you honestly know the answer?

I did, but my US geography is pretty good. I didn't know the Massechussets capital though, but knew the Texas one.

[6starpool]

And let's face it, a lot of the people on here are just cranky aging cunts.



I actually looked up some more state capitals in anticipation of another state coming up, my god I suck at them. I think I got like 7 or 8, but they were all the obvious ones plus alaska which I was just told

The ones I was most shocked that I didn't know/was wrong with my guesses that I was sure about were new york/california/louisiana/illinois/nevada/oregon/florida. Anyone who gets some of these without cheating fair play

I think I know a few, not as many as I'd like.

SPOILER

Albany
Sacremento
Not sure
Not sure
Carson?
Not sure
Tallahasee

[MrsFlushdraw]

Awh well done to her! You must be so proud!

I sure am. Great to see the control she has on a horse. Quite the horsewoman she is

[Mellor]

I did, but my US geography is pretty good. I didn't know the Massechussets capital though, but knew the Texas one.

I would have thought Boston/Massachusetts was the easiest one.
If I really though about Alaska, I might have said Anchorage. was never getting the right answer though. New I also thoguh was very hard, kudos on that one

[Raoul Duke III]

The ones I was most shocked that I didn't know/was wrong with my guesses that I was sure about were new york/california/louisiana/illinois/nevada/oregon/florida. Anyone who gets some of these without cheating fair play

Albany
Sacramento
Baton Rouge
Springfield (might be wrong here)
Nevada...dunno. Reno?
Oregon, guessing Portland as it's the only city I know
Florida, hmmm. Jacksonville?

Available for table quiz hire although know nothing of teen heartthrobs.

[mcnugget]

I must be the only one here with a Sporcle addiction. Could rattle off all State Capitals, World Capitals, World Flags, Periodic Table in a heartbeat so at least there is some small benefit to it.

Carson City, Salem and Tallahassee ftw RD.

[Mellor]

I must be the only one here with a Sporcle addiction. Could rattle off all State Capitals, World Capitals, World Flags, Periodic Table in a heartbeat so at least there is some small benefit to it.

Carson City, Salem and Tallahassee ftw RD.

Australian States and Thier capitals...Go!

Clue: There are 6

Anyone can google

[6starpool]

Australian States and Thier capitals...Go!

Clue: There are 6

Anyone can google

Guessing the big cities here?

WA Perth
SAYING Adelaide
Vic Melbourne
NSW Sydney
Qld Brisbane
Tas Hobart

[Lplated]

Dobby get a grip on your life, it's lower league Kerry regional soccer ffs, you're building it to be the biggest treachery since Denis Law

Don't think you get how long a grudge can last down those parts.

@dobby - You should just play the best you can. No matter what happens the one thing you can't control is how others may or may not interpret it.

[DeadParrot]

Please do not do a 'no celebration' celebration if you do score. They are cringe in the premiership,let alone the Kerry District league. Kneeslide towards the opposition bench accompanied by fistpump would be my go to

run finger to the lips to the opposing line then move into Peter Crouch Robot dance

[Lplated]

Can anyone enlighten me as to how to use Aer Lingus' multi city flight search feature?

https://www.aerlingus.com/html/planPage/multi-city.html

I've used this feature on many sites, and I can generally add extra legs, which is usually the whole point of it, but at this does as far as I can tell is let you both 2 flights, but not necessarily depart from the first city you landed at. Am I missing something or is it really as shit as it seems? I saw a decent price elsewhere for a series of flights for AL but wanted to check on their site, but seems no way to replicate it on there. Crock of shit.

Just played round with it there out of interest, unless I too am missing something obvious it's not great.

Alternative might be to use skyscanner - if the AL flights you're interested are decent/best priced they will appear somewhere high up on the skyscanner list.

Tip for using skyscanner - use the 'whole month' feature when selecting dates - if instead you choose a 'fixed' date, the prices for some possible return/related flights will change upward.

[6starpool]

Just played round with it there out of interest, unless I too am missing something obvious it's not great.

Alternative might be to use skyscanner - if the AL flights you're interested are decent/best priced they will appear somewhere high up on the skyscanner list.

Tip for using skyscanner - use the 'whole month' feature when selecting dates - if instead you choose a 'fixed' date, the prices for some possible return/related flights will change upward.

I found it on Skyscanner originally, just thought I'd check the prices direct as well, but it's useless. Even Skyscanner isn't as configurable as I'd like but it is pretty good.

[DeadParrot]

https://www.google.ie/flights/#search;iti=DUB__2016-05-25;tt=m

[6starpool]

Ya, but at the end of a Google flights search it tells you to ring British Airways or whoever to book. The talking lark isn't what I had in mind.

[Mellor]

Guessing the big cities here?

WA Perth
SAYING Adelaide
Vic Melbourne
NSW Sydney
Qld Brisbane
Tas Hobart

That's the one,
Avoided the fact the North isn't a state, and got Tasmania in its place.
And that the actual capital isn't a state capital.

"What's the capital of Australia/Brazil" was always a quiz favourite

[Strewelpeter]

Gonna find myself in a horrible situation on Friday night. My team play my old team. Our chance of promotion is basically gone. We're currently 3rd, level on points with my old team in 2nd with 2 games in hand on us and team in 4th one point behind with 2 games in hand on us too.

If we beat my old team it could hamper their chances to go up cos team in 4th have handy fixtures left so should get maximum points. Manager rang me earlier to tell me I will be starting up front and to get my head round the idea of playing against them. Head has been wrecked all evening. Obviously cos my team won't go up, I want my old team to go up but my team will be expecting me to score given the chance. Fucking head is wrecked. Fuck sport

After two losses in a row it's clear that I am not great at handling defeat. I'm not the ungracious Jose/Pep type but when I get home I seem to take it so personally that I fall into a pit of misery. Anyone else react like that?

LOL KerryPeople

[MrsFlushdraw]

GOT Great line

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"You were dead, and now you're not. That is completely fucking mad sense to me

[Guest]

Sligo and Kerry must be VERY different places

In the scenario Dobby just outlined, a Sligo lad would give up drink and be on steroids for about a month building up to the game, in order to absolutely smash the fuck out of his ex-club


& He would play wearing a t-shirt with this

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on the front

[dobby]

Don't think you get how long a grudge can last down those parts.

@dobby - You should just play the best you can. No matter what happens the one thing you can't control is how others may or may not interpret it.

Nah there's no grudges on either part. Grew up with the lads on my old team sure and my brother still plays. Switched clubs about 5 years ago but would still like to see them to up if we can't. Spoke to their goalie last night who is a good mate and he said we'll see what happens and may the best team win. Out for pints after so it's all good.

[AndyFatBastard]

Totti still got it:

http://youtu.be/mehebfYZHuY?t=3m

[Solskjaer]

Once you get past Rathcoole , it's rednecks , culchies, mullahs and muck savages all the way. Up north it's bog dwellers ( according to Paisley )

[RichieM]

Gonna find myself in a horrible situation on Friday night. My team play my old team. Our chance of promotion is basically gone. We're currently 3rd, level on points with my old team in 2nd with 2 games in hand on us and team in 4th one point behind with 2 games in hand on us too.

If we beat my old team it could hamper their chances to go up cos team in 4th have handy fixtures left so should get maximum points. Manager rang me earlier to tell me I will be starting up front and to get my head round the idea of playing against them. Head has been wrecked all evening. Obviously cos my team won't go up, I want my old team to go up but my team will be expecting me to score given the chance. Fucking head is wrecked. Fuck sport

Seems the issue is how since you left your old team they are now going to get promoted while your current setup are staying put - sounds like your concerns over scoring are for nothing

[6starpool]

That's the one,
Avoided the fact the North isn't a state, and got Tasmania in its place.
And that the actual capital isn't a state capital.

"What's the capital of Australia/Brazil" was always a quiz favourite

It helps that I've been to all 6 of those states and their capitals. Never been to ACT, but was in NT at the big rock, though not Darwin.

Capital of Canada is another one of those too.

[mcnugget]

My cousin released this morning after being detained for 3 days in North Korea along with two BBC colleagues. I'd say twas an interesting weekend.

[Kayroo]

Albany
Sacramento
Baton Rouge
Springfield (might be wrong here)
Nevada...dunno. Reno?
Oregon, guessing Portland as it's the only city I know
Florida, hmmm. Jacksonville?

Available for table quiz hire although know nothing of teen heartthrobs.

Tallahassee. Go Seminoles!

[DeadParrot]

My cousin released this morning after being detained for 3 days in North Korea along with two BBC colleagues. I'd say twas an interesting weekend.

story time!

[DeadParrot]

Ya, but at the end of a Google flights search it tells you to ring British Airways or whoever to book. The talking lark isn't what I had in mind.

Hell is other people

[dobby]

Seems the issue is how since you left your old team they are now going to get promoted while your current setup are staying put - sounds like your concerns over scoring are for nothing

No. Definitely not. The club I play for now only formed 5 years ago and we've had 3 promotions in 5 seasons which is pretty impressive imo so no bad feeling about the old team going up at all and definitely no regrets leaving. We need another season in this division cos after playing a couple of teams in the division above in cup games we're not ready to step up yet.

The issue over scoring is that them losing could hamper their chances of promotion which I don't want to do. I'd rather see them go up because we can't. Best case scenario, I score, they win. Everybody is happy.

[Mellor]

It helps that I've been to all 6 of those states and their capitals. Never been to ACT, but was in NT at the big rock, though not Darwin.

Capital of Canada is another one of those too.

Yeah Canada is in a similar spot as Oz. The non capital cities are just much bigger an more accessible

[Raoul Duke III]

It helps that I've been to all 6 of those states and their capitals. Never been to ACT, but was in NT at the big rock, though not Darwin.

Capital of Canada is another one of those too.

Canberra is surprisingly nice, kind of a city in disguise as it's so verdant. Wallabies jumping on top of the parliament building.

[Mellor]

Canbera has lots of nice attractions, like the War memorial.
But its an incredibly boring city. Very dead any time I've been there
Drove through on the way home from skiing one time, 6pm on a sunday and all shops, pubs, etc were losing.

All the federal types back home for the weekend I suppose.

[Solskjaer]

I think Keane asked for a trip report of the gig. Will this do instead, review of the performance.

https://www.goldenplec.com/live-reviews/jeff-lynnes-electric-light-orchestra-at-3arena/

[Raoul Duke III]

Canbera has lots of nice attractions, like the War memorial.
But its an incredibly boring city. Very dead any time I've been there
Drove through on the way home from skiing one time, 6pm on a sunday and all shops, pubs, etc were losing.

All the federal types back home for the weekend I suppose.

LOL, true that. Do have a memory of trying, and failing, to find 'the city centre' for about three hours.

Although most Aussie downtown eating\drinking areas are dead Sun-Thurs anyway iirc

[Keane]

Thanks Willie.

[Keane]

Krakow in December, yay or nay?

[6starpool]

LOL, true that. Do have a memory of trying, and failing, to find 'the city centre' for about three hours.

Although most Aussie downtown eating\drinking areas are dead Sun-Thurs anyway iirc

Melbourne and Sydney not so much, plenty of lively places in both from memory.

[Mellor]

LOL, true that. Do have a memory of trying, and failing, to find 'the city centre' for about three hours.

Although most Aussie downtown eating\drinking areas are dead Sun-Thurs anyway iirc

Out in the country (aka the bush) Sunday's can be dead, up towards the Hunter, or and of the backass towns. But not in Sydney or any of the proper cities. But tbf Canberra is like 10% size of Sydney.
I'm luckily spoiled for choice for restaurants/drink within walking distance.

[careca]

No. Definitely not. The club I play for now only formed 5 years ago and we've had 3 promotions in 5 seasons which is pretty impressive imo so no bad feeling about the old team going up at all and definitely no regrets leaving. We need another season in this division cos after playing a couple of teams in the division above in cup games we're not ready to step up yet.

The issue over scoring is that them losing could hamper their chances of promotion which I don't want to do. I'd rather see them go up because we can't. Best case scenario, I score, they win. Everybody is happy.

def overthinking it dobbo. go out to win and play your best and if they are good enough, good for them.

I went up to watch my mates play in an inter pub league QF many years back. When I got there the other team were short and asked me to tog out. Put two newspapers in my socks as shin guards and away I went. Scored an absolute screamer of a free kick in the last minute to win it. Not joking when I say I was about 400 yards away in another pitch by the time I stopped celebrating. My mates thought about putting in an objection as I was a banger but realised it would only prolong the suffering. We still have the craic about it now on the odd occasion I bring it up

[mdoug]

In all seriousness, mcnugget needs to make an appearance at one/every single one of these quizzes.


On another note, DublinBus rang me there saying they reviewed the incident and they apologised and are suspending him and bringing him in for his side of the story. Probably the only thing that will come out of it but happy I fucked his life up a little bit

[CHDad]

You are clearly a racist Dug

[mdoug]

I don't deny it, hate that black cunt. Would absolutely love to find out where he lives and fuck with him. Kinda wish I didn't report him so I could do that now. I need a bit of mischief.


Enjoying trailer park boys so far so I am. For some reason I love that season 1 had 6 episodes, season 2 - 7, all the way up to season 5 - 10. Not really sure why I like it though

[Strewelpeter]

[Guest]

I don't deny it, hate that black cunt. Would absolutely love to find out where he lives and fuck with him. Kinda wish I didn't report him so I could do that now. I need a bit of mischief.

A bus drivers house?
A bus driver who seemed ok about clipping you with his bus?

He would cave in your skull if you went near his fucking house

All the under the rainbow

[CHDad]

Doug has a big muscle in his right arm m8

[Guest]

def overthinking it dobbo. go out to win and play your best and if they are good enough, good for them.

I went up to watch my mates play in an inter pub league QF many years back. When I got there the other team were short and asked me to tog out. Put two newspapers in my socks as shin guards and away I went. Scored an absolute screamer of a free kick in the last minute to win it. Not joking when I say I was about 400 yards away in another pitch by the time I stopped celebrating. My mates thought about putting in an objection as I was a banger but realised it would only prolong the suffering. We still have the craic about it now on the odd occasion I bring it up

Had something similar but in an inter company friendly

Couple of mates office were looking for games before the summer leagues, arranged a game for them against a place I used to work, ex-office 1 man short and manager of lads team said I go play with them

Mates argued the point but he wanted to try out his players etc

First 30 seconds i win a corner on the right, bang it in with the left foot straight onto the head of big centre half

Hilarity ensued

[Solskjaer]

What's the correct line if you ride your excoaches daughter I like the crouch robot dance. Will recommend.
Dobby don't read this before half six mass (ah too late )

[mdoug]

A bus drivers house?
A bus driver who seemed ok about clipping you with his bus?

He would cave in your skull if you went near his fucking house

All the under the rainbow

Oh I wouldn't actually go near him or let him know I existed, sure he'd destroy me. I would however fuck with him in many ways during the night.

I'm bored a lot these days, thinking I need to find utterly horrible cunts and become them. Find the cunts who steal bikes and go slash some tyres, break some windows. Top bants.

[Guest]

Oh I wouldn't actually go near him or let him know I existed, sure he'd destroy me. I would however fuck with him in many ways during the night.

I'm bored a lot these days, thinking I need to find utterly horrible cunts and become them. Find the cunts who steal bikes and go slash some tyres, break some windows. Top bants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAei6YFGlDQ

[NoRiverRequired]

Krakow in December, yay or nay?

Yay.
Was there that time of year a couple of years ago. Lovely spot with plenty of nice xmas markets etc.

[RichieM]

Oh I wouldn't actually go near him or let him know I existed, sure he'd destroy me. I would however fuck with him in many ways during the night.

I'm bored a lot these days, thinking I need to find utterly horrible cunts and become them. Find the cunts who steal bikes and go slash some tyres, break some windows. Top bants.

Or just get a hobby - you strike me as the sort of guy who should take up carpentry.

Getting together some nice wood and slowly crafting it into the finest drinks cabinet man has ever seen - then selling it to Denny at a massive cost and buying cans

[DeadParrot]

10 years ago today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjb0iUQ9aXw

And Vice have done a piece to remind us all of its greatness

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/ten-years-on-a-lesson-in-thinking-on-your-feet-by-guy-goma

Ten years, huh. Been a long time. We've all grown up, grown out. Got better, got wiser. Worked hard, worked long. Got on that grind. Ten years. A decade. A decade-o. A decade-y. A Big Deck. A tenner. But: who would have thought we'd be here? The only word is 'wow'. We did it together. We all got better together. I'm proud of you, proud of all of you. I'm proud of us.

Anyway ten years to the day since the BBC accidentally interviewed Guy Goma on live TV, and Guy Goma very pleasantly answered their questions about Apple Computer's court case with Apple Corps, despite quite visibly knowing nothing about either, and I don't think it's a push to say this was an iconic day, the day everything changed, for all of us, for everyone.

Consider the face Guy Goma pulls when he realises he is about to be interviewed on live TV about a subject he knows absolutely nothing about, and tell me you've never felt moments like this. This is proper that dream you have where you're doing your exam and you've forgotten to put any clothes on, only made flesh, the dream, made real, and happening to Guy Goma. This is that jolt of adrenalin that makes your whole body light up for days. This is walking into the wrong classroom on the first day of college and being like, 'Well, guess I have to learn about photosynthesis now, because I'm too polite to leave.' This is taking a train three hours in the wrong direction because you don't want to double-check with the guard that this does go to Hartlepool in case you look silly. This is Guy Goma's face contorting into a silent scream. Guy Goma thinking momentarily about mentioning the fact that he is the wrong man called 'Guy'. Guy Goma not going through with it. Guy Goma shutting his own mouth. Guy Goma taking a deep breath. Guy Goma knowing hell can't last forever. Guy Goma will be through the worst of it soon.

On this day of our lord ten years and one day ago, Guy Goma, so the story goes, was sat in BBC Television Centre awaiting a job interview as a data support cleanser in the company's IT department. Meanwhile, in a separate reception area called 'Stage Door', internet expert Guy Kewney was preparing for an on-air interview about Apple vs. Apple. You can see where this is going. A producer went to the wrong reception area and asked for someone called 'Guy' who was awaiting an interview. Guy Goma said he was Guy. Guy Kewney watched in confusion as a man who was not him but had his name was interviewed on BBC News. A legend was made.

To focus on the fine details of the Carry On–style mix-up that led to Guy Goma being confused for Guy Kerney and then being interviewed on TV as Guy Kerney despite being Guy Goma, lost and staring down the barrel of reality, Guy Goma silently going "aaaaaaHHHHHHH" when he hears the wrong surname being announced, Guy Goma trying his best— but to focus on the logistics of the mix-up detracts from the sheer quiet beauty of the interview itself. Firstly: because this is a man shitting his pants so hard it is going backwards, a man in a suit in the wrong place entirely, the living definition of blagging your way through an interview, Guy Goma seconds away from telling Karen Bowerman he sees himself in five years "uh... still here, and... uh... maybe in charge!", Guy Goma basically you when you were 17 and your mum made you put one of your dad's blazers on and ask for a job at Morrisons, and the store manager took you to a quiet office and asked you what your strengths and skills were and you said "err" for four straight minutes before answering, "uh, revision?", a small part of Guy Goma clearly suspecting this might be how the BBC actually does interview for data cleansers, Guy Goma is a man out of his depth but making it work, Guy Goma is thinking on his feet and killing it, Guy Goma is giving quotes so anodyne and anonymous that they are essentially about nothing but conversely so about nothing that it's hard to tell that he isn't an actual BBC News pundit, I mean is he even saying anything so wrong anyway, is this really that out of the ordinary, apart from the eyes searching longingly deep into the barrel of the camera and pleading for help and support— beyond that, is Guy Goma even that wrong about the internet? Take this quote, ten years ago today, by our saviour Guy Goma:

"Actually, if you can go everywhere you're gonna see a lot of people downloading through Internet and the website, everything they want. But I think it is much better for the development and...eh...to inform people what they want, and to get on the easy way, and so faster if they are looking for."

I ASK YOU: WAS GUY GOMA WRONG? I ask you: did Guy Goma just predict Spotify, predict Netflix? Did he see the way iTunes would go on to dominate the charts? Did he just foresee Tidal, like some tech Nostradamus, some baffled Oracle? Did the pundit in the ensuing segment not echo Guy Goma's sentiments immediately after he made them? Ask yourself: do you download through the Internet and the website? Do you have everything you want? Has there not been better development? Do you not want the easy way? Do you not look for it faster? Ask yourself: Put anyone on the spot and can they predict the future? Is that all psychics are? Just people under extreme pressure?

Ten years later and we don't appreciate Guy Goma for what he was: a man out of time, a future traveller sent to inform and shape our present, a soft-spoken arbiter of what we would become. Plus: I got nothing but respect for a man who knew he was in entirely the wrong place, at the wrong time, doing and saying the wrong things, but just trying his best anyway. Interviewing Guy Goma on BBC News wasn't a mistake. It was the single most important moment in the formation of the internet as we know it today. Guy Goma should have a regular segment on BBC Tech. We should make statues of him and pay respect to them. And, most of all, we should remember him. On fond days like this, ten years on from his wise words, raise a glass to Guy Goma. Raise a glass and think of him.