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

[eamonhonda]

Just in the interest of a flip side.

A few years ago I went up to the counter of my local hardware shop with €8.50 worth of stuff.

Owner said he can't accept my card as the bank have a minimum limit of €10 set on his machine.

Rather than buy something for €1.50 I handed the lying cunt his stuff back and went to Woodies.

Have never went back.

Miserable bastard not understanding that the 40c charge he incurrs means he doesn't have to secure my cash or visit the bank with it.

That's almost 5%. Things are tight enough for independent businesses like that, they had to have some limit
Contactless has given them a break tho at least. How much petrol did you use to drive to Woodies?

[Lazare]

Oh it definitely cost me more to go to Woodies, and has since. But fuck him.

[eamonhonda]

The woman in local shop here gives out if you don't buy enough. If you don't buy bread and milk she gives out that you don't buy that stuff with her.
Give me my bin tags and shut up please

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[pokerhand]

Was quite randomly thinking about you today @pokerhand. You've come back from the big LA and Oz adventure and seem to be living ten miles outside of a small place in the West of Ireland (based on your burger story, but maybe that's just where your family is from, think you said your mum was from that part of the world anyway). How is that whole shift in perspective working out? It might be kinda cool and a return to what you want, but I'm doubting it a bit.

I am actually based in Dublin, that Kebeb story is my family, purely there for the holidays.

Yeah still to do a trip report for that 4 years. Will get to it when back from london (weekend trip)

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[luckforsome]

Win A House in Dublin Roscommon GAA draw tonight. Wish me luck dudes. Although my gut is telling me this is already in the bag and your best wishes are superfluous. 15,000 tickets sold, so 14,999 other suckers have spent €1,499,900 for me to have a cheap house in a city I don't live in.

...Actually came on here to post my wishes for you to win one of the consolation prizes, as clearly I'm winning this...14997 people will be disappointed in just over 3 hours, as I float to victory with one of of my 3 tickets...I'll have an IPB welcome party in late January though...

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[Denny Crane]

Just in the interest of a flip side.

A few years ago I went up to the counter of my local hardware shop with €8.50 worth of stuff.

Owner said he can't accept my card as the bank have a minimum limit of €10 set on his machine.

Rather than buy something for €1.50 I handed the lying cunt his stuff back and went to Woodies.

Have never went back.

Miserable bastard not understanding that the 40c charge he incurrs means he doesn't have to secure my cash or visit the bank with it.

Yeah I've read that cash costs in the US are around 15%

[Goodluck2me]

Just in the interest of a flip side.

A few years ago I went up to the counter of my local hardware shop with €8.50 worth of stuff.

Owner said he can't accept my card as the bank have a minimum limit of €10 set on his machine.

Rather than buy something for €1.50 I handed the lying cunt his stuff back and went to Woodies.

Have never went back.

Miserable bastard not understanding that the 40c charge he incurrs means he doesn't have to secure my cash or visit the bank with it.

Since when did you become a miserable auld bollox?!

[Raoul Duke III]

Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon.

aka Las Vegas

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[Raoul Duke III]

The CCTV notice adding a nice little truism to 'he sees you when your sleeping, he knows when your awake, he knows if you've been bad or good...'

That was only about quarter of the madness captured there. He had both sides of the road done.

All in a good cause anyway so we lobbed in a few quid and marvelled at the wonders.

[luckforsome]

Win A House in Dublin Roscommon GAA draw tonight. Wish me luck dudes. Although my gut is telling me this is already in the bag and your best wishes are superfluous. 15,000 tickets sold, so 14,999 other suckers have spent €1,499,900 for me to have a cheap house in a city I don't live in.

...Unless your name is KUMAR GANAGH FROM LUCAN, then hard luck with this one...

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[dobby]

Maybe the move to Francel.

You moved to France? Should have mentioned it m8

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[dobby]

Posted a notice in elbows potato room m8, did you not see it Fri night?

Nah he's avoiding me

[DeadParrot]

We actually use adult Lego to teach 'design thinking' (the big innovation thing at the moment)

Lego was ruined for me as soon as they started putting instructions in it.
Gimme a bag of random blocks and imagination over 3500 color coded steps any day

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[ghostface]

Bears D gonna throw this to fuck over the eagles I'd say

[SatNav]

I'm keen to buy myself a big jigsaw to tackle at the end of January. Any recommendations of where to go shopping online?

Might take a while lol

https://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/Ascot-Horse-Racing-1500-02047jum.html

[ghostface]

I'm keen to buy myself a big jigsaw to tackle at the end of January. Any recommendations of where to go shopping online?

Art and Hobby shops have decent selection, have shops in most of the big shopping centres and online shop. Did this one while back https://www.artnhobby.ie/1000pc-puzzle-munich was enjoyable. The next one I got was a panorama which didnt realise at the time, takes up a shitload of space so prob better off sticking to regular format

[pokerhand]

Art and Hobby shops have decent selection, have shops in most of the big shopping centres and online shop. Did this one while back https://www.artnhobby.ie/1000pc-puzzle-munich was enjoyable. The next one I got was a panorama which didnt realise at the time, takes up a shitload of space so prob better off sticking to regular format

How long did it take you to do roughly?

[Strewelpeter]

Lego was ruined for me as soon as they started putting instructions in it.
Gimme a bag of random blocks and imagination over 3500 color coded steps any day

Spent hours today messing with a 30 month old and a box of lego, he was having much more fun with the random blocks and bits and pieces than the made up cars etc.
He was telling me the names of the different shapes and told me that one was a trapezoid I had to check the and was right! 2 and a half years and he knows a trapezoid from a rectangle

[Strewelpeter]

The John Malkovich Poirot on BBC was much better than you'd expect that sort of thing to be.

[luckforsome]

...I got a 3d jigsaw when I was 12 or 13...Think it was a 15,000 piece...Was super excited to finish all of the base of it, but to this day have never figured out how to make the jigsaw go upwards...

[Strewelpeter]

If the championship races at Cheltenham aren't puzzle enough to be challenging you during February, I can only surmise that you have them solved already. WP

[V for Vendetta]

I'm keen to buy myself a big jigsaw to tackle at the end of January. Any recommendations of where to go shopping online?

The bro got one for Christmas of personal photographs in a 1000 piece jigsaw. The SIL ordered it online. Might be an idea to order some equine picture that has meaning for you.

[CHDad]

I'm keen to buy myself a big jigsaw to tackle at the end of January. Any recommendations of where to go shopping online?

Ever heard of Google? Just buy a fucking jigsaw you monumental twat.

I'm keen to buy myself a pair of socks in February. Any recommendations of where to go shopping online?

[SatNav]

The bro got one for Christmas of personal photographs in a 1000 piece jigsaw. The SIL ordered it online. Might be an idea to order some equine picture that has meaning for you.

I bought a. Jigsaw few yrs back of a memory . Did in black and white for extra confusion. Was good crack putting together. Stuck with sellotape at back to keep together.

Again a photo. Uploaded to some site online. Well worth the money and wasn't expensive

[Lao Lao]

Are jigsaws back in fashion? (or maybe they never went out)

Mrs Lao Lao's niece brought 3 of them back with her from Canada (they are staying with us over Christmas/New Year).

I came home from work last week and saw one just started on the kitchen table and got stuck into it. Had to eventually pull myself away from it as the poor 9 year old wasn't getting a look in to her own jigsaw.

Hadn't done a jigsaw in years and had forgotten how enjoyable they were.

[shrapnel]

Are jigsaws back in fashion? (or maybe they never went out)

Mrs Lao Lao's niece brought 3 of them back with her from Canada (they are staying with us over Christmas/New Year).

I came home from work last week and saw one just started on the kitchen table and got stuck into it. Had to eventually pull myself away from it as the poor 9 year old wasn't getting a look in to her own jigsaw.

Hadn't done a jigsaw in years and had forgotten how enjoyable they were.

they never went out of fashion. xmas week without a jigsaw or 2 is just not xmas. we've got a few Jan van haasteren ones like the below which are great fun to do.

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[elbows]

Jigsaw wankers.

Get a few colouring books too.

[Guest]

Jigsaw wankers.

Get a few colouring books too.

https://www.easons.com/adult-colouring-books/

[ComradeCollie]

Still waiting for someone to come on looking for recommendations on a water sommelier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6QvVAD1oM

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[Lao Lao]

That time of year again, when I pull together my top twenty tunes of the year. Rather than sticking in a You Tube video for each one, I've tried to add my Spotify playlist (will probably make a balls of it )

20) Editors – Magazine
19) Squarehead – Always On
18) We Cut Corners – Rainy Night in Slomo
17) David Kitt - Like Lightning
16) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Beginners Luck
15) AE Mak – Glow
14) Christine & The Queens – 5 Dollars
13) Jungle – Heavy, California
12) George Ezra - Shotgun
11) Roisin Murphy – The Rumble
10) Maggie Rogers – Give A Little
9) The 1975 – Love If We Made It
8) SPIES – Watchman
7) Villagers – A Trick Of The Light
6) Tanjier – Lights
5) Saint Sister – Twin Peaks
4) The Fontaines DC – Boys In The Better Land
3) Young Fathers – Toy
2) Janelle Monae – Make Me Feel
1) David Byrne – Everybody’s Coming To My House

https://open.spotify.com/user/1174268614/playlist/1FgPBtfDL64Ib2ZfRw6FRk?si=KnAqMjtdQyOoIkSdEQP1_A

[Lao Lao]

The below can be read by everybody except Dom

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I'm setting the line at 3.5 for number of artists Dom has heard of

[Lao Lao]

If there is a better way to add a Spotify playlist, can one of the intelligent members on here, let me know, please and thanks!

[SatNav]

So 3 days off work. My dad coming up from kerry this eve as he does most yrs. I wake up with sore throat, nose, cough and weak as fuck.

Post arrived a gift from Miss Hansen

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27202127-this-naked-mind

Currently drinking mulled wine (quite soothing) while reading the above

[DeadParrot]

If there is a better way to add a Spotify playlist, can one of the intelligent members on here, let me know, please and thanks!

The link works fine.
There's add ons to embed Spotify playlists etc but link works fine

[Lazare]

Spent hours today messing with a 30 month old and a box of lego, he was having much more fun with the random blocks and bits and pieces than the made up cars etc.
He was telling me the names of the different shapes and told me that one was a trapezoid I had to check the and was right! 2 and a half years and he knows a trapezoid from a rectangle

That's from watching Umi Zumi, my little one said the exact same at that age. Blew me away.

[bohsman]

The below can be read by everybody except Dom

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I'm setting the line at 3.5 for number of artists Dom has heard of

Unders please.

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2 at most.

[Guest]

The below can be read by everybody except Dom

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I'm setting the line at 3.5 for number of artists Dom has heard of

Hmmm I'll take the overs there.

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George Ezra, The 1975, Roisin Murphy & David Kitt.

Janelle Monae an outsider too, she's done a few bits with some bigger stars like Lupe Fiasco & she starred in Hidden Figures too

[dobby]

The below can be read by everybody except Dom

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I'm setting the line at 3.5 for number of artists Dom has heard of

Overs for sure

[V for Vendetta]

Unders please.

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2 at most.

Definitely unders.

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Ive only heard of two of the artists and none of the tracks. I clearly need to stop doing conference calls and listening to podcasts on my commute and diversify my music listening habits.

[V for Vendetta]

Anyone watch the Jayo documentary on RTÉ last night? A very interesting watch but so many unanswered questions. How exactly did he go off the rails after 1995? How come he married and had a kid so young? What did he do for money apart from TV and ads? When he went back to college what did he do? A bit more detail on his Chinese family (although that was so raw that maybe that needs more time).

A great watch on the RTE player if you’re doing nothing today.

[ArmaniJeans]

2019 MultiSport Competition open now.

http://www.irishpokerboards.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24080

Very popular comp last year. Not the easiest, takes a good hour to come up with an entry.

Don't worry if you know little about some of the sports, this years victor RichieM only needed to get 9 of the 40 correct to win.

[Silver-Tiger]

Is there a good website where you can put in what tv shows you like and it spits out recommendations?

[ionapaul]

Anyone watch the Jayo documentary on RTÉ last night? A very interesting watch but so many unanswered questions. How exactly did he go off the rails after 1995? How come he married and had a kid so young? What did he do for money apart from TV and ads? When he went back to college what did he do? A bit more detail on his Chinese family (although that was so raw that maybe that needs more time).

A great watch on the RTE player if you’re doing nothing today.

When I was with PPP I ran into him in a work situation, he was employed by the Louis Fitzgerard hospitality group at the time, was their PR guy or something similar (general glad-hander type role, which you'd imagine former GAA stars would have a lot of value as). This was back in 2009/2010.

[Raoul Duke III]

2/20 for me. And I'm way cooler than 5star.

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[Flushdraw]

I think it's a good line by Lao Lao. I'll go with the unders too.

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17) David Kitt - Like Lightning
12) George Ezra - Shotgun
1) David Byrne – Everybody’s Coming To My House

[Solksjaer!]

Good list lao lao. Yer average non muso deffo knows at least 6 though .

My fav from last year. Portugal man.