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"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Cigs are probably less than a euro a pack to import into the country illegally, five or six euro a pack to buy on black market vs maybe €13-15 in the shop, so it's clearly worth the effort for economically challenged people to seek them out in Moore Street, and for black marketeers to go to the effort of importing. Its probably not the same with slabs of beer. There's not enough gain for either the importer or the customer. Plus it's bulky as fuck.airport, lol
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Maybe we'll get semi-professional at the booze cruises, a bit like people in the south-east of England pre-Brexit.
London-Dover is roughly the same distance as Dublin-Newry, and the former also required a couple of ferries to get to France.
It's probably not cost effective for a couple to travel up in their micra buying a slab of guinness and 6 bottles of wine.
But yer Brits would use a big lorry or a trailer, with 3 or 4 people travelling to split the costs. And then buy eye-watering amounts, 4 figure stuff.
Perhaps we'll start doing that?
Though a couple of drawbacks would include that the max savings are only going to be on the cheap stuff - the medium/expensive stuff will have lesser/minimal saving.
And part of the attraction of the Dover-Calais route was cheaper cigarettes, which won't be a factor.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostMaybe we'll get semi-professional at the booze cruises, a bit like people in the south-east of England pre-Brexit.
London-Dover is roughly the same distance as Dublin-Newry, and the former also required a couple of ferries to get to France.
It's probably not cost effective for a couple to travel up in their micra buying a slab of guinness and 6 bottles of wine.
But yer Brits would use a big lorry or a trailer, with 3 or 4 people travelling to split the costs. And then buy eye-watering amounts, 4 figure stuff.
Perhaps we'll start doing that?
Though a couple of drawbacks would include that the max savings are only going to be on the cheap stuff - the medium/expensive stuff will have lesser/minimal saving.
And part of the attraction of the Dover-Calais route was cheaper cigarettes, which won't be a factor.
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Originally posted by rounders123 View PostI hope the Flushdraws are all well?, I haven't heard anything in a while here. Heard the cannabis is meant to be legalized there soon enough which brought them to mind most recently?.
I wonder how much watches on each hand Iago is wearing these days?.This too shall pass.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostMaybe we'll get semi-professional at the booze cruises, a bit like people in the south-east of England pre-Brexit.
London-Dover is roughly the same distance as Dublin-Newry, and the former also required a couple of ferries to get to France.
It's probably not cost effective for a couple to travel up in their micra buying a slab of guinness and 6 bottles of wine.
But yer Brits would use a big lorry or a trailer, with 3 or 4 people travelling to split the costs. And then buy eye-watering amounts, 4 figure stuff.
Perhaps we'll start doing that?
Though a couple of drawbacks would include that the max savings are only going to be on the cheap stuff - the medium/expensive stuff will have lesser/minimal saving.
And part of the attraction of the Dover-Calais route was cheaper cigarettes, which won't be a factor.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
Cunce just need to develop a taste for expensive beer. This shit just doesn't affect me.
The Irish government comes along and says Tuborg and every other drink in its low quality category now have to cost a minimum of €3.50 a litre. Hitch seems to think I'll say 'so long Tubes it was good while it lasted', shut down the Tuborg brewery and leave Carlsberg where it is at €3.50 a litre. I have just a ghost of a suspicion that John Carlsberg will have a slightly different approach and we'll end up with Tuborg €3.50 a litre, Carlsberg €3.80 and Kronenburg or your equivalent nice beer sitting at €4.10.
It's just going to be inflation across the board I have very little doubt.
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We did two or three booze cruises back in the day, last one being 23 years ago. We got on the ferry to Hollyhead, got stuck into booze, got off in Hollyhead, headed to the nearest pub, which was a dive, sank a few pints in record time and then got back onto the ferry home to drink more cans.
Now, on the way back, we may have been a tad bit tipsy and we may have gate crashed the kids area and insisted that the children's entertainment also painted our faces. One of the lads went with the joker while I went with a tiger, can't remember what everybody else went with.
On arrival back in Dublin, the lad with his face painted as the joker got sick into the cardboard packaging of the slab of beer he drank on the way back and I can vividly remember some poor sod who was cleaning up pick it up and the sick ran out of the packaging and all down his arm.
We then proceeded to lead a large group of people the wrong way off the ferry as we sang stupid songs at the top of our voices. More fool the eejits that followed 8 clearly shit faced people but maybe they were tipsy too. At one point, one of the group, not so politely, asked us to shut the fuck up singing as his kid was trying to sleep so we responded with a lullabie which everyone else thought was hilarious.
Eventually, we ended up in the section of the ship where all the cars were parked (I should know the technical name) where we were met by an employee of the ferry who was not happy that we had led several dozen people down here and roared at us that if we weren't fucking singing, we would have heard the instructions on how to disembark correctly. We responded with several renditions of 'Spot, spot, spot the grumpy bastard' which went down well with the crowd but not the staff.
As we got off the ferry, I heard somebody say 'They're coming through now' on a radio but thought nothing of it, but sure enough as we got into the terminal, there was customs waiting for us who proceeded to ask us all our nationality. We all answered Irish and were allowed through, except my mates girlfriend at the time who was a yank. Now, she could have easily said Irish and sailed through but a combination of alcohol and actually being American meant she responded with 'I'm from the mother fucking U S of A'
Immediately customs asked for a passport which she did not have with her. She was living here for 10 years and didn't think a booze cruise to Hollyhead was international travel. She was arrested, told if she couldn't produce her passport and a work visa, she would be deported to the UK on the next ferry where they wouldn't accept her either and she would spend her time going back and forth until the issue was resolved. She and her fella were taken to a detainment room inside the port while they tried to get hold of somebody who could bring her passport/work visa to the port.
My mate, whose face was painted as the Joker, tried to complain and explain that although he looked like he was smiling, he was very unhappy at the course of events and it was clearly way OTT. This was met with a very clear 'Go fuck yourselves'
Eventually, they were able to get hold of the yanks flatmate who had to get home, get the passport/work visa and get to the port before they agreed to release her. We sat outside in a silent protest for a while but got fed up and went to the pub as we reckoned they'd never put her back on the ferry to the UK.
Should look at organising another booze cruise!
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Originally posted by Keane View Post
IDK, say I'm John Carlsberg and I currently make a bomb selling Tuborg for €2.90 a litre, at the low end of the market, Carlsberg a bit up the way at €3.50 a litre and Kronenburg for €3.80 a litre for people with money and no taste.
The Irish government comes along and says Tuborg and every other drink in its low quality category now have to cost a minimum of €3.50 a litre. Hitch seems to think I'll say 'so long Tubes it was good while it lasted', shut down the Tuborg brewery and leave Carlsberg where it is at €3.50 a litre. I have just a ghost of a suspicion that John Carlsberg will have a slightly different approach and we'll end up with Tuborg €3.50 a litre, Carlsberg €3.80 and Kronenburg or your equivalent nice beer sitting at €4.10.
It's just going to be inflation across the board I have very little doubt.
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Originally posted by Keane View Post
IDK, say I'm John Carlsberg and I currently make a bomb selling Tuborg for €2.90 a litre, at the low end of the market, Carlsberg a bit up the way at €3.50 a litre and Kronenburg for €3.80 a litre for people with money and no taste.
The Irish government comes along and says Tuborg and every other drink in its low quality category now have to cost a minimum of €3.50 a litre. Hitch seems to think I'll say 'so long Tubes it was good while it lasted', shut down the Tuborg brewery and leave Carlsberg where it is at €3.50 a litre. I have just a ghost of a suspicion that John Carlsberg will have a slightly different approach and we'll end up with Tuborg €3.50 a litre, Carlsberg €3.80 and Kronenburg or your equivalent nice beer sitting at €4.10.
It's just going to be inflation across the board I have very little doubt."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Starting a diet with my wife in January. It's a five day fasting diet, called Prolon.
I'm not into faddy diets or any diets at all really, but Conan O'Brien and his equally cool guest on a show were discussing doing it and how everyone is doing it at the moment.
Then I did a bit of reading on it, and it's a box you receive in the post containing all food and drinks for the five day period. Nothing to be added except water. Sounds kinda interesting, not having to think about food for five days?
It's meant to be a one off diet to clean out your system. Where they explicitly suggest you shouldn't do it a second time unless there is a big time gap.
Read a few reviews of it and people seem to have a nice glow about them after the five days, but a painful five days, so here we are. I am what I am. I've become everything I used to mock."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by eamonhonda View Post
You make all the other beers even more expensive again I suppose."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Ah Hitch... I love Conan but that diet box just sounds like torture and the type of bullshit rich Americans fall for. Do you really need to do it? Next up you'll be buying shite from Goop and inhaling flavoured oxygen or something.
Jesus the photo they used on that homepage! I desperately want to punch each one of those models in the face for crimes against marketing.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe problem with Tuborg is that it was famously been marketed as this cheap beer. How do you get people to buy it when it's no longer cheap?
As opposed to the crap we get here."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by ionapaul View PostAh Hitch... I love Conan but that diet box just sounds like torture and the type of bullshit rich Americans fall for. Do you really need to do it? Next up you'll be buying shite from Goop and inhaling flavoured oxygen or something.
Jesus the photo they used on that homepage! I desperately want to punch each one of those models in the face for crimes against marketing."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe problem with Tuborg is that it was famously been marketed as this cheap beer. How do you get people to buy it when it's no longer cheap?I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostStarting a diet with my wife in January. It's a five day fasting diet, called Prolon.
I'm not into faddy diets or any diets at all really, but Conan O'Brien and his equally cool guest on a show were discussing doing it and how everyone is doing it at the moment.
Then I did a bit of reading on it, and it's a box you receive in the post containing all food and drinks for the five day period. Nothing to be added except water. Sounds kinda interesting, not having to think about food for five days?
It's meant to be a one off diet to clean out your system. Where they explicitly suggest you shouldn't do it a second time unless there is a big time gap.
Read a few reviews of it and people seem to have a nice glow about them after the five days, but a painful five days, so here we are. I am what I am. I've become everything I used to mock.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Hitchhiker's Guide To...
If you want to look at a controlled diet, go with the likes of Gourmet Fuel or somebody similar. You can order set calorie lunches/dinners which actually taste pretty decent.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostI think if you're doing any sort of major change to your diet because it's the first week of January you've already failed at whatever long term goal you want to achieve."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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My birthday is in January . Last time I checked yonks ago so was half of the poker forum
My goal for 2022 is to have no targets only habits both new and broken. Get me some good habits . Gonna have a stab at this kindness lark. I heard its fulfilling Hmmm I guess that is a target. Ah feck off ya cunts .
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
You'll be laughing out the other side of your uncleansed colon when I'm top of the walk, king of the game, glowing from the inside.
Good luck man, sorry, on a re read of that it comes across quite aggroI hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostStarting a diet with my wife in January. It's a five day fasting diet, called Prolon.
I'm not into faddy diets or any diets at all really, but Conan O'Brien and his equally cool guest on a show were discussing doing it and how everyone is doing it at the moment.
Then I did a bit of reading on it, and it's a box you receive in the post containing all food and drinks for the five day period. Nothing to be added except water. Sounds kinda interesting, not having to think about food for five days?
It's meant to be a one off diet to clean out your system. Where they explicitly suggest you shouldn't do it a second time unless there is a big time gap.
Read a few reviews of it and people seem to have a nice glow about them after the five days, but a painful five days, so here we are. I am what I am. I've become everything I used to mock.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostStarting a diet with my wife in January. It's a five day fasting diet, called Prolon.
I'm not into faddy diets or any diets at all really, but Conan O'Brien and his equally cool guest on a show were discussing doing it and how everyone is doing it at the moment.
Then I did a bit of reading on it, and it's a box you receive in the post containing all food and drinks for the five day period. Nothing to be added except water. Sounds kinda interesting, not having to think about food for five days?
It's meant to be a one off diet to clean out your system. Where they explicitly suggest you shouldn't do it a second time unless there is a big time gap.
Read a few reviews of it and people seem to have a nice glow about them after the five days, but a painful five days, so here we are. I am what I am. I've become everything I used to mock.
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Don't listen to them Hitch, anytime anyone mentions anything about dieting or fasting every tom dick and harry comes out of the woodwork to pooh-pooh it with some nonsense their domestic studies teacher told them. Fasting is perfectly healthy, at worst you're overpaying but that's basically the fashion here anyway.
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostDon't listen to them Hitch, anytime anyone mentions anything about dieting or fasting every tom dick and harry comes out of the woodwork to pooh-pooh it with some nonsense their domestic studies teacher told them. Fasting is perfectly healthy, at worst you're overpaying but that's basically the fashion here anyway.
Seriously. Just eat less.
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All these years have I not managed to put the obvious going cold turkey and post Christmas binge abstinence together. Always presumed it was more to do with the texture of a raw turkey and a sudden coming off junkies cold sweaty skin.
Either way hitch both yourself and your misses doing this at the same time, it’s a novel way to get your kids excited about going back to school I will give you that.
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I never start my new years resolutions until Feb that way if I fall off the wagon I can say Hey I nearly made it to March.
I lasted very well through Christmas until the last 3 days . I refuse to throw anything out so I ate what should be in a bin ...urghhh. Fasting you say . Lifes too short and few enough pleasures to deprive yourself of food . I will however eat more slowly as opposed to the homer Simpson rapid Nom noming. Apparently slow eating is a diet plan too . Starts Feb.
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Was curious to see how much they charge you for "food" for 5 days so you can fast for 5 days. €179 could get you a fitness/nutrition coach for 3 months ish that won't starve you, you could be accountable for the odd off day ands actually get you into some good habitsRedbet at the Dublin Poker Invasion FTW
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Eat less or exercise like a butchers dog. Do one. Do both. Whichever you prefer.
I'm currently eating excessively and exercising excessively. Need to change the excessive to moderate I know. Love food. My main source of unadulterated, lizard brain, pleasure. Thankfully I love sport too and all the lovely endorphins that come with it. I just know as I get older I have to dial both back. Digestion can be a challenge!
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFinished season 2 of Succession last night, what an ending. That wry smile.
Some show, really love it.
What's the craic with the show now, don't want to Google this in case of spoilers.
Is season 3 complete?
'New show called 'The Tourist' is shaping up like it is worth a watch. Only seen the first two episodes but they have been great.
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Anybody got a recommendation for a cleaner? How much they cost?Last edited by Tar.Aldarion; 02-01-22, 16:20.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFinished season 2 of Succession last night, what an ending. That wry smile.
Some show, really love it.
What's the craic with the show now, don't want to Google this in case of spoilers.
Is season 3 complete?
It's goodPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
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Weight change for the year doesn't look as great on a graph as it feels. Pretty nice 10kg gone, though a lot left to go too.
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Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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