Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Mammy told me not to come.

[Denny Crane]

120!

[eamonhonda]

I can't believe that anyone is in the least bit surprised by this, I mean what other possible logic is there to the decision

Well that and the fact a lot of Yanks don't consider UK and Ireland as Europe. Just a Europe ban with not much else thought I'd imagine.

[Strewelpeter]

Ridiculous scenes in Tesco Naas.

There is a video from Kildare Weather page on facefuck showing queues of trollies >100 long

People are very stupid

[Hectorjelly]

Couldn't be more ridiculous than these people:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES3XCvTUMAIggKf?format=jpg&name=large

[RichieM]

Forgot what a shit show web conferences/calls can be, heavy breathing central

People who don’t adhere to the mute unless your talking rule are the worst.

[tylerdurden94]

Looking to get my driving licence soon, any tips for driving schools or any tutorials/help for the theory test greatly appreciated.

[Closed_Account]

No need Tyler. Zombie apocolypse.

[Solksjaer!]

PSV spot on about Cheltenham tbf

Empty the clip ?

[Keane]

Empty the clip ?

Jeez haven't bet with my own money for years!

[Solksjaer!]

Was paying for a bet today and actually put the tax coinage on the counter with the stake.

Hmmm early Alzheimers?

[Kayroo]

Anyone who thinks Cheltenham going on tomorrow is ok should get their fucking head examined.

Idiots. Every single one of them. Idiots. Anyone who goes there. Anyone who is involved with the organising. Every one of them is a fool.

[Kayroo]

Was paying for a bet today and actually put the tax coinage on the counter with the stake.

Hmmm early Alzheimers?

Early?

[The C Kid]

Very impressive response here in Riyadh from Saudi Arabia so far.

Imposed huge travel restrictions as early as possible, suspended public gatherings, cinemas, all sporting events very early, and closed school and universities. All while official cases were in low double digits.

In turn, they have started a price war to cement their position of global dominance in the oil market, and bury their arch enemy who are completely ravaged by Coronavirus, all while taking advantage of the old good time to bury bad news strategy by arresting four senior princes including one with a genuine claim to the throne.

MBS clear crisis MVP so far.

[Lao Lao]

27 new cases and one new death apparently - Can't help feeling that this will spiral over the next few days.

[tylerdurden94]

I have a friend getting married here next month and she's very panicked at the possibility of the wedding being cancelled. I don't think so but who knows.

We're going to NYC in October and if the US fails to get it under control over the next few months I'm fearful that Trump will have banned all travel to the US for quite a while longer than necessary, possibly in the lead up to the election.

I think you'll be fine to go though.

I'm getting married 9 weeks from today and our wedding venue reached out to us the other day to say that they'll work with us in regards to anything happening with the Coronavirus which is good.

On a personal note I'd a bunch of poker work booked in for EPT Monte Carlo & WSOP this year, high possibility that both might not go ahead.

I'd gotten word a couple weeks back to say my contract was in the process which had alievated a bunch of my worries to paying for our wedding, to say I was devastated yesterday was an understatement when I heard the news.

[Guest]

27 new cases and one new death apparently - Can't help feeling that this will spiral over the next few days.

Yea the trend looks like 1000 cases by March 24th or so.

[ComradeCollie]

UK seem determined to achieve the highest death toll possible.

[Fullof..It]

Due to head to Manchester with young lads football team tomorrow - due to visit Old Trafford and watch match at City vs Burnley. Was optimistic Brits would follow suit and enable some sort of lockdown meaning travel company could recoup/reorganise. Thats fecked now and looks like its going ahead.

Head hurting as 75 yo mother lives with us and suffers with lung disease.

[Theresa]

Credit where its due to shut things down now though. May be late, but every day seems to count.

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[LuckyLloyd]

Credit where its due to shut things down now though. May be late, but every day seems to count.

I knew we’d reach this point and do it anyway and ideally we’d have done it earlier - it was always a massive economic hit either way. But glad we’ve done it nonetheless. Better late than never

[Kayroo]

re: Cheltenham shouldn't have gone ahead. What's the view on the London Tube system being open?

The ability and capacity to keep a large metropolis moving is different to a sporting event that does not need to go ahead. There are acceptable risks and unacceptable risks. The Tube might be unacceptable. But Cheltenham is DEFINITELY unacceptable.

[ComradeCollie]

[Theresa]

I knew we’d reach this point and do it anyway and ideally we’d have done it earlier - it was always a massive economic hit either way. But glad we’ve done it nonetheless. Better late than never

Im trying to convince the missus it'll be like it is there here very soon. We might as well get ahead of it a small bit, and not be rushing and panicking.

I'm working from home indefinitely and have her glanning the lamh in a major way when she comes in the door.

My company are currently going into full crisis mode given the HQ is literally dead centre of silicon valley.

[Kayroo]

I knew we’d reach this point and do it anyway and ideally we’d have done it earlier - it was always a massive economic hit either way. But glad we’ve done it nonetheless. Better late than never

The logic ran that the shutdown was going to be extended and that people would start to get fed up with it as it wore on so only initiating it when it would do the most good while minimising the total length of the shutdown made sense.

I suspect the sudden jump in identified numbers per day and the deaths were the trigger to move to the next phase and shut down most of public life.

That being said the courts are still open. So fuck that.

[Theresa]

Yeah quarantine fatigue is a reasonable reason to delay.

Wuhan was shut down with 400 new cases in a day and did well containing after that (if you believe the data).

We have gotten a jump on it. Now to keep the foot on the throat.

[Denny Crane]

re: Cheltenham shouldn't have gone ahead. What's the view on the London Tube system being open?

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[Hectorjelly]

Please tell me what the crowd attending the 2016 opening day of Cheltenham have got to do with Coronavirus?

SPOILER

[Thats Altior beating Min and Buveur D'air in the Arkle, the signage includes sponsors not active in the current year - but fuck it yea - sure if it's on Social Media then it's true]

You might be slightly missing the point.

[ComradeCollie]

The man can deliver the big speech on the night. Thought that was brilliant. Lovely level of pathos.

Everything sounds better in French though

[Strewelpeter]

[Guest]

Ah come on with the conspiracy theories. They are working with WHO and it would be extremely obvious if there were more than the 20 new cases a day that they are reporting. They have a massive twitter-type community where any dodgy data would immediately come out - that's where the original news about the virus emerged.

It's fair to have immediate questions around the validity of the data.

I think youre largely right though that as time has passed, the questions have slowly dissipated but they're not as forthcoming as other nations. That data Sean shared earlier doesn't contain China as there are no official sources.

The quality of the data is likely fine but FWIW they've let multiple agencies into Xinjiang to dispel questions when we all know it's clearly a mass internment zone.

[dobby]

Please tell me what the crowd attending the 2016 opening day of Cheltenham have got to do with Coronavirus?

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[Thats Altior beating Min and Buveur D'air in the Arkle, the signage includes sponsors not active in the current year - but fuck it yea - sure if it's on Social Media then it's true]

Stealing this to correct some people I've seen posting it and hopefully wind them up. Ty

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[ComradeCollie]

Rather awkwardly they've just announced the tube is shutting from tomorrow morning for three weeks,

Where did you see that? All I could find is ASLEF voting to strike over pay.

[DeadParrot]

Had a night away booked in a Wexford hotel for tomorrow night. Cancelled it.

Trying and failing miserably to convince me mam and dad to cancel a weekend in the killashee.
At this stage I'm just hoping they have the place to themselves

[Guest]

The reason we can trust the covid numbers is that everyone massively cares about this. There's zero change anyone is hiding it as it would create mass panic if caught and you can't hide whats happening in every hospital.

I don't disagree with you per se but I can completely understand why people are not quite as trustworthy of the relevant data.

For example, in recent months, they have detained those spreading accurate information on the virus.

IMO, it's fair to question the validity but as I said, I tend to agree that it's likely spot on at this stage.

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[Guest]

fcker sent me the story on whatapp with a link. never clicked on the link obv. Just opened it now and its actually a link to a picture of a very large black dick.

Aul Switcheroo caught me with one of those recently on a widescreen sitting beside the CTO

[Theresa]

Ah come on with the conspiracy theories. They are working with WHO and it would be extremely obvious if there were more than the 20 new cases a day that they are reporting. They have a massive twitter-type community where any dodgy data would immediately come out - that's where the original news about the virus emerged.

I didnt know it was a conspiracy theory. Im just skeptical of any data from china. Suppose you have a point though re twitter/who shrewdies.

[Silver-Tiger]

Nm

[Theresa]

fcker sent me the story on whatapp with a link. never clicked on the link obv. Just opened it now and its actually a link to a picture of a very large black dick.

Ah that old dick. Pro Tip, use the whatsapp desktop version and it crops more of the pic so you see the dick before you open it.

I mean, you still see the dick so its not really a pro tip but at least you know you didnt open it like a sucker.

[ComradeCollie]

Ah that old dick.

God be with the days when Rick Astley was the worst thing you were tricked into clicking onto.

[Silver-Tiger]

Betting companies gonna be ramming casino ads down our throats when all the sport is postponed.

[Tar.Aldarion]

Just ordered €400 of largely canned goods and now going to forget about the whole thing. Delivery tomorrow. But Macron is giving a big speech tonight and I guess the real panic starts then.

I have hundreds of cans of these soups (really they are more like stews) of different varieties laying around in general, due to lunch laziness. As they are very healthy, tasty and cheap. Doomsday prepped by default.

I don't think Cheltenham should have went ahead. But I say that today with todays information. 10 days ago I didn't see a problem. 5 days ago I didn't see a problem. I even went over yesterday for a day trip myself and it wasn't until I hit the airport yesterday morning that the gravity of the situation truly hit me. It hit me further as I moved my way around the racecourse yesterday. The problem is with the after dinner speaking from people that expect decisions of 10 days ago to have been made with todays information.

My point re: Tube is that Cheltenham and the majority of UK sporting events were taking their lead from the Government, their instruction was keep kicking. The relative point is that Cheltenham would have been a tokenistic sacrificial lamb on the periphery of what is happening every day in London. 60,000 or so people in the open air in the west country compared to 250k people on the tube daily. By all means take measures but start at the bullseye and work outwards.

My dad went over to Cheltenham on Tuesday and returns tomorrow and I am honestly shitting it for him. He is 70, a diabetic, overweight, pacemaker, 10 or so stents in the valves of his heart. If he get's it he is dead.

Anyway, just my thoughts, thought id write them to confirm for you that I R Smart

We had today's information 10 days ago. Only what people did with that in their minds varied.

Even when people initially saw the length of incubation and the contagiousness of this from the start they should know that unless the really unlikely happens it will spread all over the place.

[Lao Lao]

Due to head to Manchester with young lads football team tomorrow - due to visit Old Trafford and watch match at City vs Burnley. Was optimistic Brits would follow suit and enable some sort of lockdown meaning travel company could recoup/reorganise. Thats fecked now and looks like its going ahead.



Head hurting as 75 yo mother lives with us and suffers with lung disease.

Seriously, just don't go.

It's in no way essential travel and you can go to see City play a shit team next season when they have a chance of winning the league and will be proper up for it. It'll be a much better game for the kids to watch.


In other news, I just went through Ranelagh and

Host - absolutely packed
Rita's - absolutely packed
Exchequer - packed
Kinara - couldn't see in properly but looked busy
Mario's - 3/4 full
Dillingers - packed
Tribecca - 3/4 full
Butchers Grill - absolutely packed
Nightmarket - absolutely packed
Pizza Yard - 1/2 full which is a feat as it's shit
Cinnamon - a handful of people but it always is for dinner, it's only busy for lunch/brunch
Milanos - about a dozen people in it which is the most I've seen in there in about 6 years as it's an absolute shit hole.

So much for the social distancing!


And yes, before anyone asks, there is a difference between packed and absolutely packed.

[ComradeCollie]

We had today's information 10 days ago.

That is the most ridiculous statement I've ever read.

[Tar.Aldarion]

I have a few choice twitter accounts from here for you to follow if so!

[Raoul Duke III]

Tar clearly took the soup.

[ComradeCollie]

Cancelled my gym membership today. Went last Sunday, as it's normally one of the quietest days, and it was quite packed. Like no way you were keeping a 1m distance to the next person. 18 months there was a longer run than I would ever have expected, think I'll have to get into outdoor stuff now.

[Tar.Aldarion]

The gyms around me have shut down. So has my climbing centre essentially, and probably my dance school, and the places where I play football. We also had to halt the boardgames meetup I run.

My workplace is now working from home until further notice, most of my friends have been working from home for over a week (but how could they have known?!) now as they are tech places too.

[Guest]

I don't think Cheltenham should have went ahead. But I say that today with todays information. 10 days ago I didn't see a problem. 5 days ago I didn't see a problem.

No offence but if you didn’t see a problem 5 days ago you can be helped, we did have the info available at that stage to know it should have been cancelled
I assume there was advice given to the organisers that cancelling would be a good idea which the chose to ignore because money.
Calls were being made last week to cancel Patrick’s day and government finally caved on Monday so the idea of large events not being a good idea has been firmly in the public’s mind.
Authorities and the public at large have had the benefit of hindsight in advance thanks to how it has spread in other countries
Unfortunately the pre existing narcissism pandemic is making this thing worse

[Guest]

And yes football games should have been cancelled too but Cheltenham is jus worse on so many levels especially for Ireland

[oleras]

I heard this evening that my work will have office staff grab from the canteen and go back to their desks, and folks on production floor, me, will take their breaks in 15 min shifts, with 2 m spacing between them, most of the chairs removed from the canteen, no cash transactions either. Not too bad on nights but absolute chaos i can imagine on days. Canteen is an absolute joke as it is, seriously undersized for the amount of people there, >1000.

The car for my breaks i think !

[Tar.Aldarion]

Ohio health service have come out and said they think 100,000 people in Ohio have it by now, based off CDC report estimations.
They only have 5 confirmed cases, so lets see how that estimation pans out heh.

[Tar.Aldarion]

In Italy they are now taking 40 year olds off ventilators in favour of 30 year olds, jeez that is rough.

[Strewelpeter]

No offence but if you didn’t see a problem 5 days ago you can be helped, we did have the info available at that stage to know it should have been cancelled

Bollocks, complete and utter self aggrandising bullshit. We get that you hate people who like things you don't like and are foaming at the mouth to get a lynch mob going.

Calls were being made last week to cancel Patrick’s day and government finally caved on Monday so the idea of large events not being a good idea has been firmly in the public’s mind.

You are guessing that you know better than the people whose job it is to plan and execute the best response to the epidemic.
You are just as informed and ignorant as the imbiciles fighting over jacks roll in Lidl.

The fact is that the Government are taking their decisions from the DoH experts and not from spanners like you and the gobshites on the line to Joe

I assume there was advice given to the organisers that cancelling would be a good idea which the chose to ignore because money.

You assume wrong. Up until last Monday night the jockey club were in consultation with the Government and those contacts were ongoing today.

Add another layer to your tinfoil hat.