Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

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[Guest]

As someone who played basketball to a reasonable standard and stayed up late all those summers watching the NBA finals, The Last Dance is the ultimate warm nostalgia blanket.

[eagle eye]

Just on this point. That pretty much means you'd also have shut down early for SARS and MERS before which also showed similar initial breakout patterns. So this would now be the third shutdown after two previous non-event shutdowns (that incidentally have probably added maybe 15% to government debt, and lost countless multinationals as they can't handle your over-active shutting down of companies every time someone in the world sneezes). No chance people would have obeyed this shutdown in that case. So, you've just killed everyone. Game over.

I don't remember a major European outbreak of Mers or Sars so no I wouldn't have shut down. When I say weeks earlier I'm talking about early in March when it had already invaded Europe and was rife in Italy.
We took our time instead of getting on top of things early on.
We still don't have quarantine or an order for everybody to wear facemasks. Why are we not doing our utmost to prevent community spread so we can all get back to work? When our shutdown began it should have included quarantine for everybody coming in and facemasks. I'm pretty confident we'd all be back working now if they had done that and they still haven't. You can expect a large second wave here I think.

[Keane]

I fully agree that its good we're not in the vanguard. I'm actually fine with being conservative too by the way I just compare the time lines of other places and can't get them to jive with ours at all.

Hopefully all will go well and in three weeks time we'll be sitting with low numbers and some best practises from other places and can accelerate things. There has to be some situation somewhere between 15% ICU capacity and 120% that doesn't involve 1.2 million people on income support and being the only country in Europe where you can't get a haircut.

Edit: interesting tweet on David Higgins twitter where in Denmark they R0 went up to 0.9 after they opened the schools and shops weeks ago but it's down to 0.7 again.

Most embarrassed to have said 'jive with' instead of 'jibe with'. Jiving is the last thing we need.

[elbows]

As someone who played basketball to a reasonable standard and stayed up late all those summers watching the NBA finals, The Last Dance is the ultimate warm nostalgia blanket.

Same. We had a decent schools team and I played for Killester underage too. From 1992 onwards.

[6starpool]

I haven't seen reopening of bookmakers mentioned at all - I assume they are Stage 5 with pubs? Maybe a stage earlier?

Should just leave them closed.

[Theresa]

As someone who played basketball to a reasonable standard and stayed up late all those summers watching the NBA finals, The Last Dance is the ultimate warm nostalgia blanket.

As someone who knows sfa about basketball and would never have been a fan. The Last Dance is compelling sporting tv. Incredibly interesting and so well done.

[Guest]

My wife who hates sport and typically spends half the time watching stuff she likes looking at her phone is glued to it. Great job making it appeal to seemingly everyone.

[Apache]

I fully agree that its good we're not in the vanguard. I'm actually fine with being conservative too by the way I just compare the time lines of other places and can't get them to jive with ours at all.

Hopefully all will go well and in three weeks time we'll be sitting with low numbers and some best practises from other places and can accelerate things. There has to be some situation somewhere between 15% ICU capacity and 120% that doesn't involve 1.2 million people on income support and being the only country in Europe where you can't get a haircut.

Edit: interesting tweet on David Higgins twitter where in Denmark they R0 went up to 0.9 after they opened the schools and shops weeks ago but it's down to 0.7 again.

We're not at 15% ICU capacity though. As of yesterday there were 69 confirmed Covid cases included in the total of 254 occupied critical care beds with 155 beds unoccupied. That is 62% occupancy.

Also there was one of the contact tracing heads on Prime Time earlier stating that they are not quite where they want to be in respect of testing turnaround to enable efficient tracing. We've seen from South Korea, on a couple of occasions now, the damage one person can do.

Perhaps if rigorous and effective testing and contact tracing can be shown to keep reproduction down over the coming weeks it may be possible to accelerate the easing of restrictions.

[Lazare]

My wife who hates sport and typically spends half the time watching stuff she likes looking at her phone is glued to it. Great job making it appeal to seemingly everyone.

Nail on the head. Neither of us into sport at all here pretty much and are both hooked on it.

Mad to watch a game of basketball now.

Scotty.

[Tar.Aldarion]

Anybody have experience learning sign language, ISL. Gf has a keen interest in it and wants to learn it. Know any good resources?

[Keane]

We're not at 15% ICU capacity though. As of yesterday there were 69 confirmed Covid cases included in the total of 254 occupied critical care beds with 155 beds unoccupied. That is 62% occupancy.

Also there was one of the contact tracing heads on Prime Time earlier stating that they are not quite where they want to be in respect of testing turnaround to enable efficient tracing. We've seen from South Korea, on a couple of occasions now, the damage one person can do.

Perhaps if rigorous and effective testing and contact tracing can be shown to keep reproduction down over the coming weeks it may be possible to accelerate the easing of restrictions.

Thanks for posting that stat. I copied it into google and found the HSE PDF with the full run-down of the bed situation and it makes the whole approach a lot more comprehensible.

[Guest]

World economy going to crash (was heading for a crash anyway but now mental)

Brexit on horizon, should hit Ireland bad

Tiny country with underfunded health service and neighbours with serious covid problems, if we open up we could get hammered and seeing what is happening in Germany and China we probably should not rush into anything

Tiny country, so going to be hit by economy slowdown no-matter what we do, anything we do will probably be like a plaster on a bullet wound

Largely an Export and Service economy (counting Tourism in here) and while some exports will be fine (next point), neither going to do well in a world wide recession, most people I know wary of setting foot in pubs, restaurants, cinema etc for a good while after they reopen

Large parts of economy that will stand up to a crash can in part be done from home and/or in plants with clean rooms/ability to isolate people etc so should be able to handle restrictions

The bank bail out cost a hell of a lot more than the covid payments

If we open up and have to shut down again, it will lead to unrest and ruin any confidence in the economy/government etc

I fail to see what is gained from being anything other than a middle to late adopter of change

My 50 cents; glad to be proven wrong!

[limpwhacker]

I haven't seen reopening of bookmakers mentioned at all - I assume they are Stage 5 with pubs? Maybe a stage earlier?

Hope the fuckers never reopen. Save me a fortune.

[Guest]

That story on BBC website about the UK rail worker that died from COViD after been spat on by a random person with COVID is really tragic. To think someone would do that on purpose is horrific.

With her underlying health conditions she shouldn't even have been there

If that was Ireland/France etc she would have been given a back office job of some sort or put somewhere safe

Her cousin Agnes and a colleague who witnessed the incident said Mujinga had pleaded against working outside the protection of the ticket office without PPE.

They alleged her employers, Govia Thameslink, knew she had respiratory problems but still insisted she work on the concourse and interact with passengers. They claimed she was also sent back to work on the concourse after the spitting incident despite physically shaking because of the trauma of what had happened.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/12/uk-rail-worker-dies-coronavirus-spat-belly-mujinga

England is fucked!

[Iago]

Are you sure on the bolded? Spain shut down a few weeks before and is only opening now, same with Italy. France two weeks before and only slowly reopening now. UK will take a small bit longer than Ireland to reopen. They're the only four with bad outbreaks I'm aware of, but seem to be following the exact same pattern as Ireland give or take a few days.

This piece has a large * attached. No reopening yet in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia i.e. the 3 biggest cities, and no indication of when they might be allowed either.

Still at phase 0 in the municipalities, so while the international headline is 'Spain is reopenin g' there are massive caveats attached. Latest is that the current emergency period will be extended to the end of June.

edit: an example of the depth of restriction is that the lottery (including euromillions) has been suspended in Spain since March 15th, they are talking about maybe letting people play again from next week or the week after.

All to avoid people exchanging money/paper and queuing in small local shops.

[Raoul Duke III]

Scotty.

He comes across really badly imo, refusing to play - WTF is that?

Jordan doesn't come across great either, feels like he is still nursing grudges from his playing days. They should have based it on Phil Jackson as the central character.

[Pat Mustard]

Mickey Martin on the TV this morning talking about what "we as a government" need to do. The end is nigh

[Raoul Duke III]

Mickey Martin on the TV this morning talking about what "we as a government" need to do. The end is nigh

pffft, FF in power, what could possibly go wrong?

It will be interesting to see which if the FF nonentities develops megalomaniacal tendencies once they get a ministry. I'm sure people remember the 2002-07 government bench with great fondness.

[ArmaniJeans]

I haven't seen reopening of bookmakers mentioned at all - I assume they are Stage 5 with pubs? Maybe a stage earlier?

Should just leave them closed.

Hope the fuckers never reopen. Save me a fortune.

Fair enough - I'll ask on a gambling forum instead

[Guest]

Sligo tourism board must be grinding their teeth as Normal people goes on, not the coup they were hoping for,place being painted as a backwards desolate dump (true of south Sligo) fk all scenery porn too

It’s a fantastic show

[The Situation]

Lenny Abrahamson rarely let's you down, phenomenal body of work he has.

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[DeadParrot]

He comes across really badly imo, refusing to play - WTF is that?

Jordan doesn't come across great either, feels like he is still nursing grudges from his playing days. They should have based it on Phil Jackson as the central character.

my missus cannot get over jordons eyes
I have pointed out the glass of brownish whiskey constantly at his side might have something to do with it.

[Guest]

my missus cannot get over jordons eyes
I have pointed out the glass of brownish whiskey constantly at his side might have something to do with it.

Whiskey; cigars; probable long shoot; various bouts of crying (his Dad etc)...cut...film...cry...cut etc

[coillcam]

Is there any source online where you can combine news/magazine subs together to reduce costs? The likes of economist, FT, Wired etc...

I think Hitch, Denny or Murdrum may have mentioned something about this before but can't find the post.

[Strewelpeter]

Is there any source online where you can combine news/magazine subs together to reduce costs? The likes of economist, FT, Wired etc...

I think Hitch, Denny or Murdrum may have mentioned something about this before but can't find the post.

IMO the first crowd that manages to create a spotify style subscription service is going to scoop.

I can't see why there can't be a broker service who would collect the sub and divide it up between all the articles that the subscriber has read. Ideally would be a sub per household system and probably a reasonable limit on the number of articles per week etc.

Its what punters have been asking for but none of the media companies seem willing to play.
It would even make sense for the Irish media companies to do it but the way they operate its a close to 0% chance of happening.

[Keane]

Is there any source online where you can combine news/magazine subs together to reduce costs? The likes of economist, FT, Wired etc...

I think Hitch, Denny or Murdrum may have mentioned something about this before but can't find the post.

Wired & Economist are both available using the RBDigital app through your library. Along with a huge variety of others.

You can sign up to all the services online currently.

[pokerhand]

8 years ago this day, city won the title with that Agueroo moment. Been watching a few YouTube clips of it this morning. Still get the goosebumps watching it... A magical magical moment!

[Denny Crane]

my missus cannot get over jordons eyes
I have pointed out the glass of brownish whiskey constantly at his side might have something to do with it.

racial melanosis of the conjunctiva

[hotspur]

Anybody have experience learning sign language, ISL. Gf has a keen interest in it and wants to learn it. Know any good resources?

Does she know that only 5,000 deaf people use it? I had considered it at one point until I realised that.

[Solksjaer!]

Does she know that only 5,000 deaf people use it? I had considered it at one point until I realised that.

Maybe they thought you asked them something else ?

[Solksjaer!]

8 years ago this day, city won the title with that Agueroo moment. Been watching a few YouTube clips of it this morning. Still get the goosebumps watching it... A magical magical moment!

GFYPH

[Lazare]

Learning sign language would be great for eyewigging on people.

[Strewelpeter]

Did ye know that its fairly easy to teach babies from a few months up a limited form of sign language.
Obv No.1 Granddaughter is a special genius but its been amazing to watch her be able to clearly communicate a few different things (in fairness mostly the 'more food' sign) since she was only a few months old.

[Dice75]

8 years ago this day, city won the title with that Agueroo moment. Been watching a few YouTube clips of it this morning. Still get the goosebumps watching it... A magical magical moment!

Was the day after a wedding in Spain. There were about a dozen hardcore old school City fans at it. I woke up a bit late and just ambled down to hotel bar to watch it with somene. contemplated heading across road to Irish bar with 10 mins to go to rub their noses in it. Thank God i was too lazy

[ComradeCollie]

O'Doherty and Waters told to GFT https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2020/...9-coronavirus/

He said Mr Waters and Ms O'Doherty, who had no medical or scientific qualifications, maintained the numbers were overstated and the Minister for Health was following fraudulent science.

There was no factual basis or any supporting expert opinion put forward to support this.

The judge said the applicants gave unsubstantiated options, speeches, engaged in empty rhetoric and sought to draw an "absurd and Offensive" historical parallel with Nazi Germany.

Unsubstantiated opinions, speeches, rhetoric and bogus historical parallel were not substitutes for facts.

[dobby]

Dont know who these guys are and havent heard of the station before but this must be a pretty big scoop for them. Matt Damon seems like a good sport too.

http://youtu.be/4B4ejJo5wOA

[Apache]

Thanks for posting that stat. I copied it into google and found the HSE PDF with the full run-down of the bed situation and it makes the whole approach a lot more comprehensible.

No problem! The HSE get a lot of stick but they've been very upfront about producing daily statistics. The HPSC daily reports are also interesting even if only for the age breakdown on page seven. For those of us with elderly relatives it really highlights how they are disproportionately affected by this disease.

https://www.hpsc.ie/a-z/respiratory/coronavirus/novelcoronavirus/casesinireland/epidemiologyofcovid-19inireland/

[ComradeCollie]

Surprised to see my local Burger King is open. It's take away only, just seems so unnecessary.

[Tar.Aldarion]

Does she know that only 5,000 deaf people use it? I had considered it at one point until I realised that.

I don't know, will ask! Surprisingly small amount, there seems to be that many translators. Is there some better one to learn I wonder.

She came across some people while working that were really appreciative of the few signs she knows and liked making them feel included, and just loves sign language for whatever reason, so the passion may be enough

[Goodluck2me]

Progress..for someone who literally hasn't a clue what they are doing..

Big boys mechano.

Make sure it's well anchored as it'll act like a sail in Winter, also do you have significant pitch on the roof to ensure good flow away? thinking of winter of snow which would add significant weight. Looks class though.

I don't know, will ask! Surprisingly small amount, there seems to be that many translators. Is there some better one to learn I wonder.

She came across some people while working that were really appreciative of the few signs she knows and liked making them feel included, and just loves sign language for whatever reason, so the passion may be enough

ISL can stand for Irish or International, I know the Irish SL community are struggling to gain recognition from various gov't sources, I would imagine best to focus on the most ubiquitous version like any language.

[dobby]

Surprised to see my local Burger King is open. It's take away only, just seems so unnecessary.

They never shut down anywhere afaik. Dont see a reason for them to close if they're doing takeaway and drive thru only. Supermacs opened up some shops last week, McDonalds starting.up again. I see bucket loads of pubs and restaurants setting up click and collect orders. May as well stay open, keep people working at least.

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[Tar.Aldarion]

ISL can stand for Irish or International, I know the Irish SL community are struggling to gain recognition from various gov't sources, I would imagine best to focus on the most ubiquitous version like any language.

Also Indian!

I think, for her, if nobody here speaks the international one it will be more useless than one where 5k people can understand. Unless she wants to work in the area I guess which I'll ask about, even then Irish may make sense since I assume that is what they use officially here, or do you allude to them using international here?

It's kinda mad that the deaf community had the opportunity to overcome the flaw with spoken languages and design a language that was truly universal - would have surely given it a unique selling point even compared to spoken language, and instead chose to mimic the weakness of spoken languages.

Like oral language it also evolved separately around the world, ASL being based on French and so on. Also, deaf people are taught to communicate in their country's language via writing and orally. This effects sign language, they develop signs that match some of the local language's vocabulary that won't exist in other languages. You can also have slang, accents and so on.

[TheJiggaman]

Anyone know the best Hashtags on Twitter for advertising a few jobs that would suit a student or somebody just looking to make a few quid?

Have a few databases I want filled out on Excel (Rosters, Venues, Teams etc).

Mundane work but easiest money they'll ever make.

EDIT: Should mention - Interests in any combo of the following would be great: MMA, GAA, Golf and Pro Wrestling

[Solksjaer!]

They never shut down anywhere afaik. Dont see a reason for them to close if they're doing takeaway and drive thru only. Supermacs opened up some shops last week, McDonalds starting.up again. I see bucket loads of pubs and restaurants setting up click and collect orders. May as well stay open, keep people working at least.

Whopper of a mistake in my view.


Hypocritical of me but will be in the Rathcoole garage one later to stuff the clan

[ComradeCollie]

They never shut down anywhere afaik. Dont see a reason for them to close if they're doing takeaway and drive thru only. Supermacs opened up some shops last week, McDonalds starting.up again. I see bucket loads of pubs and restaurants setting up click and collect orders. May as well stay open, keep people working at least.

There is no way you could have 2m distancing in the food preparation area without redesigning it. Probably no more dangerous for the public than eating the stuff I suppose.

[Guest]

Any ideas as to why this site wont open on the Microsoft Edge browser?

never mind... .com doesn't work, .com/forum/index.php does

[dobby]

There is no way you could have 2m distancing in the food preparation area without redesigning it. Probably no more dangerous for the public than eating the stuff I suppose.

No definitely not. But that's why the €350 payment was brought in, if you feel you have symptoms you can take the time off and not worry too much about money. I'm sure they have some kind of safety protocol, masks, wash hands regularly etc. Should be doing it working with food anyway so just up it now. Jaysus I'd love an XL Double quarter pounder with cheese now. Havent had takeaway for about 2 months at this stage.

[V for Vendetta]

He comes across really badly imo, refusing to play - WTF is that?

Jordan doesn't come across great either, feels like he is still nursing grudges from his playing days. They should have based it on Phil Jackson as the central character.

They come across as flawed and lads who made mistakes as we all do. I think overall they’ve come across well, as guys who were massively high achievers delivering on big stages with a lot of competing noise around them.


The absolute hunger and drive is incredible and it’s hard to imagine the hollowness of life having lost that sense of singular purpose.The lesser lights on the team seem more content now and that makes a lot of sense to me, but it’s hard not to admire the dedication and focus.

[Wesley Harms]

Fair enough - I'll ask on a gambling forum instead

Stage 3

[oleras]

Make sure it's well anchored as it'll act like a sail in Winter, also do you have significant pitch on the roof to ensure good flow away? thinking of winter of snow which would add significant weight. Looks class though.

Oh, its well bolted down,there will be 8 posts in total when finished, each anchored down into the base with 75m concrete bolts. Will then put coach screws into the bases of the posts horizontally to make sure.

[dobby]

Oh, its well bolted down,there will be 8 posts in total when finished, each anchored down into the base with 75m concrete bolts. Will then put coach screws into the bases of the posts horizontally to make sure.

Just letting you know when the restrictions are lifted and things get back to "normal" I'm coming to you for drinks and bbq. I'll supply the booze. I just invited myself so you dont have a choice

[6starpool]

Thread here about forum upgrade work. Keep any comments/questions/complaints in that thread please if you can.

https://www.irishpokerboards.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1132740#post1132740

[Strewelpeter]

Dont know who these guys are and havent heard of the station before but this must be a pretty big scoop for them. Matt Damon seems like a good sport too.

http://youtu.be/4B4ejJo5wOA

Quite an achievement to turn the scoop of the year into inane drivel.

Any of the morons who argue against funding RTE and Public service broadcasting should be made watch that on loop

[LuckyLloyd]

Has public opinion shifted here to getting back open soon and as quickly as possible? The prevailing populist opinion on boards seems to suggest that is the case form reading the threads today. I know frustration levels are extremely high at this stage but surprised how much people are getting behind opening up aggressively and quickly.

Opr

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/05/12/science.abc3517

Covid study using french data. Authoritative.

Grim read. They estimate 4.4% of French population has been infected. So if the French just let the virus run wild, we're talking ~600k deaths if everyone caught it.

The lads on boards are on the wrong side of this thing. Hopecasting the way they want things to be. It’s the other way.

[dobby]

Quite an achievement to turn the scoop of the year into inane drivel.

Any of the morons who argue against funding RTE and Public service broadcasting should be made watch that on loop

Yep. It was a brutal watch

[Solksjaer!]

Quite an achievement to turn the scoop of the year into inane drivel.

Any of the morons who argue against funding RTE and Public service broadcasting should be made watch that on loop

And those who do should watch Mary Black crowing away on a Friday Prime time slot when there are 100s of artist was can play\sing out there.

[DeadParrot]

Anyone know the best Hashtags on Twitter for advertising a few jobs that would suit a student or somebody just looking to make a few quid?

Have a few databases I want filled out on Excel (Rosters, Venues, Teams etc).

Mundane work but easiest money they'll ever make.

EDIT: Should mention - Interests in any combo of the following would be great: MMA, GAA, Golf and Pro Wrestling

#dataentryjobs
#etljobs
#TheMam