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Originally posted by Flushdraw View Post
Looked it too! The sound of the cursor moving brings back so many memories. It was a tricky game at times, but once you got got the hang of it, you could rattle in some centuries. The times where the red went into the pocket and didn't drop was the killer. Almost impossible to pot it and screw back
Years later we watched Home Alone and remember Kevins brother Fuller. I said 'Fuller Joystick' to great laughs!. Ah its the small things.
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Originally posted by Murdrum View PostThe highlighted above isn't true to date though.
The most successful country to date especially if you have questions around the Chinese numbers is SK and they haven't applied the same draconian measures as others.
Similar can be said of Hong Kong & Singapore who have also been relatively lenient in their restrictions yet have been successful in containing the outbreak.
The draconian measures are not proving to be successful anywhere outside of China and if you believe their numbers are false then there's little merit in their effectiveness to date.
Within just days of the first case confirmed in Hong Kong, an emergency response level was declared, quarantine stations were established, schools and public facilities were closed, and official celebrations for the Chinese New Year (the largest social event of the year) were canceled.
They currently have 317 cases with 4 deaths out of a population of 7.3 million. Remarkable considering the influx of workers in and out of China.
I think we are guilty in the West of not having our eye on the ball when the problem and workaround was a known.
Hong Kong are currently experiencing a mini second wave. Winter holiday makers coming back from hot spots in Europe.
In other news played a round of golf today with a buddy. We both had best intentions to keep at least 2 meters apart. Lapsed into old habits quite a few times. You really have to be concentrating 100% of the time on the social distancing. So easy to get distracted when trying to concentrate on the game. We both swerved the handshake that the end at least and just touched putter bases in a cheers like gesture. Wonderful to get out and about.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Iago View PostUnless you buy it direct. Your €15 bottle of wine in Ireland is €4.29 here (actual example of a wine we drink)
Not the best wine we have ever had by any means but a very acceptable bottle. Better than a Tuesday bottle at any rate
Our tax regime here sadly doesn't allow for French/Spanish prices.
I've had very limited experience of buying direct from a vineyard but when I did, the saving was pretty decent, around 30%
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostBeen playing table tennis since getting here, the only 'sport' I even attempted as a kid. Awful at the beginning of the week, but its mad to see some of the old moves coming back gradually over the days - must be some sort of innate thing once you pick it up. Just can't quite seem to stop the wife slaughtering me. Anyone come across any useful sets of videos online that I could sneak in to be beaten less badly? I see YouTube is full of them, just wondering if anyone has any to recommend.
No recommendations for vids. Sorry Hitch.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostBeen playing table tennis since getting here, the only 'sport' I even attempted as a kid. Awful at the beginning of the week, but its mad to see some of the old moves coming back gradually over the days - must be some sort of innate thing once you pick it up. Just can't quite seem to stop the wife slaughtering me. Anyone come across any useful sets of videos online that I could sneak in to be beaten less badly? I see YouTube is full of them, just wondering if anyone has any to recommend.
No videos but I find the difference is the serve. I beat the people I have a better serve than and I lose to the people I don't.
Get one or two different serves down and you'll have a far better chance.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostDo you do the fancy Chinese serve or just a regular as low as possible over the net serve?
One guy is unbelievable, never seems to move but he just flicks his wrist and generates so much speed.
Another girl is very good too, she just seems to return everything.
It's such a good sport, you'd never think until you play it but it's addictive.
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Hitch, best advice would be don't try to win rallies, let the other person lose them instead. Concentrate on getting the ball back.
Let the other person be the one doing the forehand smashes, you should just stand a distance behind the table and spin it back at them. They'll eventually miss.
You'll just leak points if you try to smash your way through a marginally better player.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostHitch, best advice would be don't try to win rallies, let the other person lose them instead. Concentrate on getting the ball back.
Let the other person be the one doing the forehand smashes, you should just stand a distance behind the table and spin it back at them. They'll eventually miss.
You'll just leak points if you try to smash your way through a marginally better player.
Smash and live. You'll lose but at least those winners will give you a semi.
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Originally posted by Gimmeabreakbut wouldn't they be standard enough? Presume others while sitting in their hotel room in The Rio have seen the monstrous freight trains rumble through. Would take what seemed like 15 minutes to pass but most likely half that?
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Originally posted by Fullof..It View PostSeeing multiple videos and pics of US mobilisation. Talk of national guard being deployed nationwide but looks like New York specific which, as an action, doesn't feel like its too out there
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Originally posted by Gimmeabreakbut wouldn't they be standard enough? Presume others while sitting in their hotel room in The Rio have seen the monstrous freight trains rumble through. Would take what seemed like 15 minutes to pass but most likely half that?
Was more the cargo in this case.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostBut it's undeniable that he took this seriously before anyone else.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostMaybe one of the scientific types can answer this one.
In theory, if every family in the world self-isolated for, say, the next four weeks, what would happen with covid? Would it 'die out' or what would happen?
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Originally posted by Opr View PostWhy is it the relevant bit? Why are people getting so touchy about this whole thing? People are entitled to have the opinion that putting a huge number of people together in an enclosed area at the early stages of the current situation wasn't a good decision. Whether this guy contracted the virus in Cheltenham, or had it in Ireland and carried it over to Cheltenham to spread to huge numbers of people he would have been in close proximity with or whether he contracted it since his return is all largely irrelevant. The fact remains, it shouldn't have gone ahead. I am almost certain the numbers that will, unfortunately, come out of England over the next few weeks will be catastrophic partly down to completely stupid decisions made to allow things like this to go ahead.
OprTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Emmet View Post
Oro stay the fuck abhaile,
Oro stay the fuck abhaileee
And nigh thy fking laimhe
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Ultimately we require a full lockdown. Cheltenhem and the Liverpool / Madrid match and queues of people at a chipper or a cafe are all different sides of the same coin: people will do whatever suits them and will always feel individually entitled to entertain themselves. We will need police / army on the streets actively taking individual choice away. For at least a month unbroken.
Cheltenhem is emotive here because so many on here are into horse racing and have travelled to similar festivals over the years. But I would reserve my ire for the organisers and the government that allowed it to go ahead before the people who attended. We had lads cramming into bookies and pubs railing the action in Dublin. Fundamentally it is far more about allowing people the leeway to make bad choices. Choice must be removed for the service of the greater good for a period."Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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Originally posted by DeeBrown View PostIs it my imagination or have NetFlix lowered the quality of their transmissions?
I've checked the hardware settings and data speeds but 4k definition is definitely not coming off my screen.
First world problems etc but I'd expect even Trump to recognise the gravity of this.
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostUltimately we require a full lockdown. Cheltenhem and the Liverpool / Madrid match and queues of people at a chipper or a cafe are all different sides of the same coin: people will do whatever suits them and will always feel individually entitled to entertain themselves. We will need police / army on the streets actively taking individual choice away. For at least a month unbroken.
Cheltenhem is emotive here because so many on here are into horse racing and have travelled to similar festivals over the years. But I would reserve my ire for the organisers and the government that allowed it to go ahead before the people who attended. We had lads cramming into bookies and pubs railing the action in Dublin. Fundamentally it is far more about allowing people the leeway to make bad choices. Choice must be removed for the service of the greater good for a period.
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Originally posted by DeeBrown View PostIs it my imagination or have NetFlix lowered the quality of their transmissions?
I've checked the hardware settings and data speeds but 4k definition is definitely not coming off my screen.
First world problems etc but I'd expect even Trump to recognise the gravity of this.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostIf not running Cheltenham behind closed doors was a bad decision by the Jockey club and the government who advised them to go ahead then the decision to fly in 5000 soccer fans from the second-worst affected area in Europe for a match in Liverpool was way worse... and I would guess there were a large number of Irish people traveled to that as well.
Personally, this has all made me reevaluate my disregard for politics. I would have been very much in the Brand ideal that disengagement was warranted given the complete lack of difference or significant movement in idealogy between the parties. Having watched the capable people we have in charge navigate the current waters with a particular shoutout to Harris who has garnered such respect form me and who I think has just been so amazing on so many levels has really hit home how much having educated, intelligent and capable people in charge has an effect on peoples lives.
We are facing something which should unite us as a human race against a common enemy and all the things we consider life should fall into insignificance at the moment. If anything good could have come out of this it would be that shared humanity and the need to protect us all as a whole and we are not nearly as divided as we think but yet we have ended up with absolute buffons in a change in certain sections of the world which has made that message impossible.
OprLast edited by Opr; 23-03-20, 00:16.
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@ole, have you tried sous vide? Got one for xmas and consistent fab results for ribeyes/sirloins so farLow fee Euro/UK money transfer, 1st transfer free through my referral
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Originally posted by mocata View Post@ole, have you tried sous vide? Got one for xmas and consistent fab results for ribeyes/sirloins so far
The vac packer i got the same time is used a bit more often, i will do a pork neck on the bbq, portion it up and vac seal them and then freeze them. pot of boiling water and the vac packed pork neck heats up really good, smell of the bbq stays the same once opened.
Edit: wife gives out to me about taking pics of food and food i cook.
Thing is...ask me about a holiday i had 4 years ago in lanza or italy...its a blur, show me a pic of a meal i had and its instant memory, can remember what i was wearing that night and what i did pre/post meal....coming froma guy who has a really bad memory, its strange..
anyway...my first sous vide...i had pics...lol
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Nov 2016 date, so not that far off.Last edited by oleras; 23-03-20, 01:34.This too shall pass.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostThis is what were were being told last week as well... Was it Holohan who said it would require c.15 minutes sharing personal space to transmit, it was certainly HSE information.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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