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

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[shano1888]

Checking in for an 9hr flight yesterday which marks the end of holiday is very grim, this was tempered by being bumped to business... I heard of it happening to other people but never happened to me before. Then found out it was those type of seats that recline all the way to a bed. Considering it was a red eye flight, felt like I won the lotto.


Now need to work out how to get these free upgrades again in the future

Same thing happened to us last week. We were both bumped by BA, to world plus I think, (the ones with the walls that kind of curve around). Trip highlight for sure although I was immediately clocked for the pleb that I am when I was totally stumped when asked what kind of champagne I would like when I asked for a glass.

If you figure out how to get them again please share as I don't know how I will ever travel transatlantic again in the cheap seats.

[Raoul Duke III]

And that's only in Dublin . Once you hit culchie land it's wacky races all the way . Got waving fist from pug headed boyo in West cork because I wouldn't go 120k on a mountain road with kids on board.
Was willing to discuss but he whizzed off towards deeper culchie land. Probably had 3 glasses of stout on board as per the recommended Healy Rae dosage. Ireland is an open air asylum (not even counting the lolpool fans). Wimmin ? Now have ya a spare hour ? (Think I've covered everyone)

Sometimes the boyos really are boyos

[Blip]

Could we have a referendum to legalise on the spot execution of fucking Rubberneckers and Cunce that switch lanes 17 times a minute on the Naas road.
FFS!
There is a lorry on fire Southbound at Citywest causing a severe tailback to the M50 but Why the fuck should that be causing a 20 mile tailback past Naas on the other side? I'll tell you why ... because you are all fucking morons who shouldn't be allowed drive.

Self driving cars is going to turn out to have been a giant prank getting my hopes up in vain , isn't it?

Think that was one of those self drive lorries, well there was no driver in the cab when I went rubber-necking past.

[Lazare]

Could we have a referendum to legalise on the spot execution of fucking Rubberneckers and Cunce that switch lanes 17 times a minute on the Naas road.
FFS!
There is a lorry on fire Southbound at Citywest causing a severe tailback to the M50 but Why the fuck should that be causing a 20 mile tailback past Naas on the other side? I'll tell you why ... because you are all fucking morons who shouldn't be allowed drive.

Self driving cars is going to turn out to have been a giant prank getting my hopes up in vain , isn't it?

Had to blast the horn at a fucking moron in front of me in the fast lane, with his phone out videoing the thing. I'm with you, drives me bananas.

[ArmaniJeans]

Had to blast the horn at a fucking moron in front of me in the fast lane, with his phone out videoing the thing. I'm with you, drives me bananas.

Whats the fast lane?

[Dice75]

Whats the fast lane?

Normally the inside lane in Ireland

[oleras]

Whats the fast lane?

Where laz lives his life.

[Lazare]

Whats the fast lane?

It's my preferred nomenclature.

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[Lazare]

You made me google it too...

'The term or terms applied to someone or something'

'Fast Lane" is the term I apply to describe the overtaking lane on a dual carriageway.

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[bp_me]

I think its more correctly used for a system of names, rather than a singular name. Hence my initial doubt. E.g. your system of naming lanes on a motorway might be: shoulder, slow lane, regular lane, fast lane. So that would be the nomenclature for motorway lanes. Not sure it works that you would have a single nomenclature of e.g. fast lane, as it doesn't speak to the naming system you are using.


^^^ bizarely the above is not the most boring thing I've written today

Nahh...

nomenclature
nə(ʊ)ˈmɛŋklətʃə,ˈnəʊmənˌkleɪtʃə/Submit
noun
the devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other discipline.
"the Linnean system of zoological nomenclature"
the body or system of names used in a particular specialist field.
plural noun: nomenclatures
"the students found it hard to decipher the nomenclature of chemical compounds"
formal
the term or terms applied to someone or something.
"‘customers’ was preferred to the original nomenclature ‘passengers’"

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[bp_me]

I see what you did there - you googled the word and copied the first link I don't think that last definition is normally used though when people use the word. A dictionary definition is just the list of all feasible definitions, not which ones are used in practice.

Im even lazier than that... I copied the google answer

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[Tar.Aldarion]

Considering words meaning are changed by usage, Lazare is merely a trailblazer (who surely has other compadres as it exists in the definition above), or tazzwozzas as I call them.

[pokerhand]

a new low for BBV....

[Lazare]

I think its more correctly used .....

Just sayin

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[Strewelpeter]

No wonder Denny's favourite orange buffoon was obsessed with lying to convince people that there were tremendous crowds at the commemoration of the death of democracy or as he preferred to call it his inauguration, he raised $107M to pay for it! The surplus is supposed to go to charity and this is more than double any previous inauguration fund so there will be plenty of funds to distribute.
So much that it is going to be a bit tricky for the scumbag to do his usual trick of pocketing all the profits from the so called charity gigs he gets involved in.

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[Lazare]

oh dear lord, what have we started! And out of all my many grammatical flaws, you had to pick the one non-flaw. What's your (faulty) thinking on why 'more correctly' is wrong?

Even though people use figures of speech like 'not 100% correct' or 'more correctly' it is grammatically incorrect and they need to be corrected as something is either correct or incorrect.

Also, you imply by saying it that my use of nomenclature is in fact correct.

[DeadParrot]

Daily Seethe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU2p6YakNJg

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[Lazare]

Wha?!! Surely you accept that something can be correct, and something else can be more correct? It's perfectly correct (or simply 'correct' according to these new rules) to say more correctly

Nope. One may be preferable, in more common usage, more encompassing etc, but not more correct.

[Lazare]

I've paged kayroo.

[Tar.Aldarion]

What you are looking for is "more accurately", but "more correctly" is acceptable. Much like partially correct is valid, everything has degrees.

I mod a grammar forum, page me you bastard. I also google well.

[DeadParrot]

oh dear lord, what have we started! And out of all my many grammatical flaws, you had to pick the one non-flaw. What's your (faulty) thinking on why 'more correctly' is wrong?

correct-er obv

[Kayroo]

There's nothing inherently wrong with describing something as "more correct" when you are using it in a relative sense. For example:

"He was right to say that moon starer is an anagram of astronomer, however it would
Be more correct to say that it was an aptagram".

In that example there is a relativity.

However where the object described as being "correct" is absolute then, strictly speaking, it would be wrong to describe any given answer as more or less correct since it relates to an absolute.

For example:

2+2= 4 is neither more nor less correct than 2+2=2*2

Although they are both correct and both different they relate to an absolute and therefore cannot be either more or less correct.

[Lazare]

I stand more corrected.

[cooker3]

Epic game of Blockbusters between Macron and Le Pen.

Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk

[Kayroo]

I mod a grammar forum, page me you bastard.

Sexiest sentence ever

[KevIRL]

After all that today, i think I speak for everyone when i say

GfYL

[rounders123]

Could we have a referendum to legalise on the spot execution of fucking Rubberneckers and Cunce that switch lanes 17 times a minute on the Naas road.
FFS!
There is a lorry on fire Southbound at Citywest causing a severe tailback to the M50 but Why the fuck should that be causing a 20 mile tailback past Naas on the other side? I'll tell you why ... because you are all fucking morons who shouldn't be allowed drive.

Self driving cars is going to turn out to have been a giant prank getting my hopes up in vain , isn't it?

Dealt with one of these ones lovely recently. Coming near the end of the M50 going over the limit myself when this one comes bombing up behind but im so close to the end i dont want to move over to facilitate a blatant speed breaker. The car loses patience and undertakes me and just to teach me zips back in quite close to me before giving me the finger.

Up ahead near the 2nd roundabout for someone who cant get somewhere fast enough she chooses a lane unwisely and I go past on the other. She must be turning right after the roundabout I thought. A little ahead on the N3 I look im my mirror and notice shes bombing up again and as luck happened theres a slow coach I spot ahead of me who i catch up with. Shes wise to the move and tries to beat me too it but its too late for her i step on it catch the slow coach thwarting her move and shadow the car at 60kph for the
remainder of the stretch with the cavalcade stacking up by half way!. Her behind me(almost on my bumper) mock laughing 'ok ok you got me good'. Felt like going on and letting her out a couple times but felt stronger that i needed to teach her a lesson when i cast my mind back to getting the middle finger and ive always been a revengous bastard so why change now. So stood firm leading the cavalcade right to the Malahide rd. She fell on her own petard!.

SPOILER

http://tinypic.com/r/2i7y8l/9

[Guest]

This

https://www.amazon.com/Hario-Skerton-Ceramic-Coffee-Mill/dp/B001802PIQ

Recommended on here a while back. Handheld grinder, great bit of kit and less than €40.

2nd this definitely best value and definitely upgrade to the aeropress far nicer than a French press

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[Strewelpeter]

i needed to teach her a lesson when i cast my mind back to getting the middle finger and ive always been a revengous bastard so why change now. So stood firm leading the cavalcade right to the Malahide rd. She fell on her own petard!.

SPOILER

http://tinypic.com/r/2i7y8l/9

Class! Nice run up the inside lane at the roundabout by the hotel.

LOL Mayo people

[Keane]

you Frank - how's the Rigger?

[hotspur]

Never mind dangerous drivers, first up against the wall should be those who come to a stop at a distance from the next car and then at some point decide to randomly inch up a bit causing everyone behind to follow suit.

[Raoul Duke III]

Never mind dangerous drivers, first up against the wall should be those who come to a stop at a distance from the next car and then at some point decide to randomly inch up a bit causing everyone behind to follow suit.

FAO you. The Noel Coward thingy in the Gate is quite the enjoyable romp.

[ComradeCollie]

Never mind dangerous drivers, first up against the wall should be those who come to a stop at a distance from the next car and then at some point decide to randomly inch up a bit causing everyone behind to follow suit.

They are usually the same cunts who leave the same 3m distance between themselves and the car in front, regardless of whether they're stopped or doing 60kph. When stopped at lights, I refuse to crawl after crawlers until they've advanced by more than 3.5 metres,

[Guest]

They are usually the same cunts who leave the same 3m distance between themselves and the car in front, regardless of whether they're stopped or doing 60kph. When stopped at lights, I refuse to crawl after crawlers until they've advanced by more than 3.5 metres,

I've never experienced driving like the driving in Auckland. They are completely reckless, far worse than driving to and from work in Dublin.
I'm sure it's not directly caused by it but I think the lack of liability is definitely an issue. Car insurance isn't compulsory and even when you do get it, there is no personal liability, it's simply the car that is insured not the driver. Teenagers driving around in 3l Nissan Skylines etc, incredible amount of accidents on 50km/h roads.

[SatNav]

Skiing heads out there

I am looking at flights for Salzburg 30th Dec has to be them dates as loads going but price huge also has to be ryanair, my question is ...

Do the prices come down or should I book fairly quick as I see they only do a few flights a week.

A few have booked already but you know ryanair prices change , i have never been skiing so have no idea

#alsoacerttobreakbones

[6starpool]

Checking in for an 9hr flight yesterday which marks the end of holiday is very grim, this was tempered by being bumped to business... I heard of it happening to other people but never happened to me before. Then found out it was those type of seats that recline all the way to a bed. Considering it was a red eye flight, felt like I won the lotto.


Now need to work out how to get these free upgrades again in the future

I had a baby and 2 young kids in the row behind me tonight on the way home. One of the kids kept kicking my seat. In the row in front there was a toddler and a kid with what I assume was bad autism. The mother of these kids decided also to recline her seat (sitting in front of me) and I was in the middle seat.

I fucking hate other people, especially in confine places like airplanes.

[NewApproach]

Hate vigilantism on the roads. Let the Guards police the roads and otherwise move into the driving lane to let someone who is going 150 go by.

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[Raoul Duke III]

I had a baby and 2 young kids in the row behind me tonight on the way home. One of the kids kept kicking my seat. In the row in front there was a toddler and a kid with what I assume was bad autism. The mother of these kids decided also to recline her seat (sitting in front of me) and I was in the middle seat.

I fucking hate other people, especially in confine places like airplanes.

Bear in mind, 'that guy with the screaming kid'.

That's going to be you.

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[KevIRL]

sigh, looks like another bump in business for SatNav today

Chelsea TV
Sky Living
Sky sports 2, 4, 5, News
Sky Atlantic plus 1
disney junior
disney junior plus 1
disney xd
disney xd plus 1
pick
sky2

All gone dark on cs.

[RichieM]

sigh, looks like another bump in business for SatNav today

Chelsea TV
Sky Living
Sky sports 2, 4, 5, News
Sky Atlantic plus 1
disney junior
disney junior plus 1
disney xd
disney xd plus 1
pick
sky2

All gone dark on cs.

CHD will be delighted to see that you put Chelsea TV down as the priority loss

[Raoul Duke III]

Chinese companies are surprisingly huge. Also didn't think car companies were quite that gigantic. Top 50 companies in the world by revenue from reddit

Wouldn't doing it by profitability make more sense?

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[Solksjaer!]

whatever about screaming g kids etc. I was on a plane back from Austria years ago sitting beside the famous Gary Clarke when the plane started dropping straight down , then flying then dropping again. As a nervous flyer I was freaking it inside. Guy in the seat in front says. I'm an ex pilot and this is not good. STFU you are not helping. Turns out the pilots were saving fuel a practice that was later deemed illegal. Give me screaming kids anytime. I need the distraction. Funny though small planes don't bother me I just sweat up on the big ones .

[Strewelpeter]

Funny though small planes don't bother me I just sweat up on the big ones .

Thats ridiculous. Flying in a big plane is safer than sitting at home on the sofa. Zuut is buzzing around the country sitting in a homemade lump of balsa wood bolted onto a glorified lawnmower engine.

[careca]

I got sick about 4 times on the plane coming home from a Che-Pool match once (was on the rip for 2 full days). Luckily I had the 3 seats for myself, and would have been fine if the cabin crew hadn't woken me for landing, but the poor girl across the way nearly puked herself when she saw me. God knows what I looked like walking through the airport

Give me screaming kids any day.

[MrsFlushdraw]

whatever about screaming g kids etc. I was on a plane back from Austria years ago sitting beside the famous Gary Clarke when the plane started dropping straight down , then flying then dropping again. As a nervous flyer I was freaking it inside. Guy in the seat in front says. I'm an ex pilot and this is not good. STFU you are not helping. Turns out the pilots were saving fuel a practice that was later deemed illegal. Give me screaming kids anytime. I need the distraction. Funny though small planes don't bother me I just sweat up on the big ones .

I am the exact opposite. The bigger the better as they feel more stable in the air for me. Not a great fan of the 737 -800 I think Ryanair use. I stupidly watched a program on air crashes...

Give me a boat any day!

[Guest]

There's nothing inherently wrong with describing something as "more correct" when you are using it in a relative sense. For example:

"He was right to say that moon starer is an anagram of astronomer, however it would
Be more correct to say that it was an aptagram".

In that example there is a relativity.

However where the object described as being "correct" is absolute then, strictly speaking, it would be wrong to describe any given answer as more or less correct since it relates to an absolute.

For example:

2+2= 4 is neither more nor less correct than 2+2=2*2

Although they are both correct and both different they relate to an absolute and therefore cannot be either more or less correct.

Correct is an adjective, correctly is an adverb. An Adverb is needed to modify a verb. 'You read it correctly.' 'Read' is the verb. 'Correctly' is the adverb. 'The boy is correct'. 'Boy' is the noun. 'Correct' is the adjective. Whether or not the noun is an object noun or not makes no difference.