Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[ComradeCollie]

Gonna plant a flag here for future reference. No matter what the media stories about the deal say, the actual deal will not be anything close to that.

There’s a real smell off this that Johnson needs to bounce this through parliament with the ERG having time to actually understand it.

I assume you mean 'no time to'?

[Lazare]

Love it when someone randomly decides to post of video of 4 people getting mown down by an artic truck on a Chinese motorway to a sports group WhatsApp group. Lovely stuff thanks

Spent 30 mins earlier clearing loads of WhatsApp shite out of my phone storage.

It's a curse. None of it I've ever watched. Used to reply back with laughing emojis but realised that was just encouraging it. Stopped replying to the one on ones and they stopped sending them to me.

Was thinking of setting up a m8s group dedicated to midget porn to see if it degenerated into decent chat.

[Guest]

Spent 30 mins earlier clearing loads of WhatsApp shite out of my phone storage.

It's a curse. None of it I've ever watched. Used to reply back with laughing emojis but realised that was just encouraging it. Stopped replying to the one on ones and they stopped sending them to me.

Was thinking of setting up a m8s group dedicated to midget porn to see if it degenerated into decent chat.

I have a general rule that I don't post/respond/voice note(new thing) anything that I'm remotely uneasy about anyone resharing at any point in the future.

If I want to say something that would make me any way uneasy I just call or meet the person.

I'm not paranoid about anything right now but it feels like the type of thing that might fall into that "known unknown" category.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Yep. Theres a lot worth being careful on, on WhatsApp.

[ComradeCollie]

Spent 30 mins earlier clearing loads of WhatsApp shite out of my phone storage.

The google files app is pretty good at doing that more quickly https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...es&hl=en&gl=US

[Lazare]

The google files app is pretty good at doing that more quickly https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...es&hl=en&gl=US

Cheers Noel, I've downloaded it. Haven't time right now to look at it but the problem I have is I've about 5% of content that I want to keep, therefore the need to go through it all. Does it do that for you?

[ComradeCollie]

Cheers Noel, I've downloaded it. Haven't time right now to look at it but the problem I have is I've about 5% of content that I want to keep, therefore the need to go through it all. Does it do that for you?

Ah, I've nothing I want to keep, so not sure about that. Also credit to DeadParrot for recommending that app ages ago.

[Theresa]

Just delete it all. Fuck it. Not worth the hassle.

What more do you need than a dog, a missus/mister, some music and some decent stout.

[Strewelpeter]

Goodreads is suggesting I've read 82 pages a day this year (30,000 pages overall). Just looking through the books and they all look so brilliant. What a reading year. Might be a while before there's time enough to repeat that.

Felt like I'd read twice that by the time I finished the Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall 3) but it was well worth the effort. Read a lot of short stories George Saunders and Kevin Barry were the highlights. Loads of crime novels and some SF I'm still loving the Fred Vargas Adamsberg novels.

[Lazare]

You read some Sinn féin?

[hotspur]

Felt like I'd read twice that by the time I finished the Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall 3) but it was well worth the effort. Read a lot of short stories George Saunders and Kevin Barry.

Did you like his latest collection? I've been struggling to get through it, not enjoying them at all.

[Keane]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

[ComradeCollie]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

Nice to know the cycling didn't ruin your balls. Congrats.

[Theresa]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

Unreal, congrats on the sex. No tips from me. Childless as it stands.

all the best to you and the missus.
need a dog, music and some stout now and yer right.

[Theresa]

Can we revive to stock picks theme/content for 2021?

RD3 I think you should go first? You were the original purveyor of stock pick content.

[Lazare]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

Wahoo, nice one man, that's brilliant news. Was only reflecting the other day that the months following the birth of our first were the happiest I've been in my life.

Tough at times, tiring and trying but absolutely beautiful too.

Enjoy it all, very happy for you.

[BennyHiFi]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

The single greatest thing for me to understand was about 'leaps' - it explained (and still does with a 5-year-old) so much about baby/toddler/child metal development and behaviour and gives amazingly grounded context to all the 'difficult' times you think you're experiencing.

https://www.thewonderweeks.com/the-m...-wonder-weeks/ - get the app. Worth it's weight in gold.

Good luck man, what a ride you're in for.

[Strewelpeter]

Did you like his latest collection? I've been struggling to get through it, not enjoying them at all.

I enjoyed some more than others, I guess they don't stand out or shine the way the first two collections did but I think that might be because his voice is now more familiar.

[Solksjaer!]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

Run for home , run as fast...


Congrats- a game changer. Hope the world improves for the next lot of arivals . My biggest tip , try to experience every down in autopilot mode .

Well done to the winning sperm - ship the baby

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

That's class Keane!!

[dobby]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

I'll take the match tickets you cant use. Congrats

[Guest]

I made the terrible decision 3-4 years ago volunteering to queue for that bakery I've mentioned in the past before it opens.

As it has become more popular the queue has become crazy, combine that with Covid and a 40 person queue will be there when it opens.

I'm going down 30 mins early. I feel I'm worse than the people who queued for Penny's when the last restrictions lifted.

[Guest]

08:02 and the queue is 100+ while I'm in and out having been 2nd in line.

Genuinely a mad sight.

[DeadParrot]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

Congrats man.
Hmmm tips...

Bottle makers are a godsend if Mrs Keane is having problems with the milk

The terrors of shitty nappies is just an overblown meme

Holding baby under the chest with one hand and wiggling the bum/hips of baby is an amazingly effective way of burping baby. And it looks hilarious.

You WILL buy stupid unnecessary stuff. It's OK.

One that note, don't sweat the small stuff. If you are worrying if you are doing a good job, congratulations, that means you are.

Enjoy it. Newborn is a golden time.

[ComradeCollie]

[Strewelpeter]

I made the terrible decision 3-4 years ago volunteering to queue for that bakery I've mentioned in the past before it opens.

As it has become more popular the queue has become crazy, combine that with Covid and a 40 person queue will be there when it opens.

I'm going down 30 mins early. I feel I'm worse than the people who queued for Penny's when the last restrictions lifted.

Damn I could have got you to pick up a few bits for my nephew who is probably at the back of the queue or more likely still in bed

[Raoul Duke III]

Can we revive to stock picks theme/content for 2021?

RD3 I think you should go first? You were the original purveyor of stock pick content.

I just max out my pension these days and the rest gets thrown into the big pile marked 'modernise house'.

[Dice75]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

Pray its not twins

[Raoul Duke III]

Brexit deal is done apparently. Should be announced shortly.

Pressers incoming.

Hope my buddy gets some time to sleep after months of 16 hours, as he eloquently put it, 'negotiating with fucking amateurs who have to have simple details explained three times before they understand them and don't even know what the fuck they want anyway.'

[shrapnel]

08:02 and the queue is 100+ while I'm in and out having been 2nd in line.

Genuinely a mad sight.

i was out queueing at 730 this morning for my oysters for tonight. Wasn't too bad, only about 10 people ahead of me. Opposite the fishmongers though is the butcher's, which had a queue of about 100 people, and it was moving sooo slowly. the people there looked dejected. i'd hate to think what it's like now

[Emmet]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

We're t-4 days to 'due date' here so not much pointers yet

this was decent - https://www.dubraybooks.ie/the-irish..._9781788490283

Couple of online ante-natal courses we took in lieu of face-to-face were reasonably good I thought, with https://babyacademy.ie .

Lockdown has had to have had a tangible impact on birthrate, or else maybe it's just the 'oldening' setting in here amongst my cohort.

[Guest]

Damn I could have got you to pick up a few bits for my nephew who is probably at the back of the queue or more likely still in bed

That would have been no problem and I'd have gone easy on the mark up too.

An unrelated question for the crypto followers, I see XRP has dropped approx 72% this month in light of the SEC issues.
Is it inevitably dead as a crypto?

[Denny Crane]

We're t-4 days to 'due date' here so not much pointers yet

this was decent - https://www.dubraybooks.ie/the-irish..._9781788490283

Couple of online ante-natal courses we took in lieu of face-to-face were reasonably good I thought, with https://babyacademy.ie .

Lockdown has had to have had a tangible impact on birthrate, or else maybe it's just the 'oldening' setting in here amongst my cohort.

Best of luck!

It's definitely a cohort effect.

[Lazare]

I thought of one Keano. Don't buy one of those nappy bin things with the cartridges of bags.

A complete waste of money.

A bowl, a pack of water wipes and nappy bags is all you need.

Hot water in the bowl, drop a wipe into it. Nappy and wipe into a bag and into the bin.

Spent a small fortune on those cartridges on #1. Plus the thing stinks when it starts to get full.

[RichieM]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

congrats, it’s both terrifying and amazing in equal measure, eventually you will realise they are not made out of porcelain.

No matter how many muslin cloths you have before the big arrival buy more. If you don’t have a tumble drier get one. Anything wool that you have to hand wash put away for the first few months.

As you can see a lot of raising tiny babies is laundry related

[ComradeCollie]

IrishBabyBoards

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Set up the out of office message on email. This should be what we all do imo.

Hello, I am on holiday leave until Monday January 11th. I won't be responding to emails received during this period, so if you could please re-send any important emails from Monday January 11th

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Can we revive to stock picks theme/content for 2021?

RD3 I think you should go first? You were the original purveyor of stock pick content.

I'm planning to buy a decent few acres of scrubland and grow a forest in 2021.

[Guest]

New favourite YouTube channel



AFTV is a close second

[Western_Sean]

I'm impressed with the volume of reading you guys are managing. Particularly those of you with kids.

I struggle to fit in more than about 15 mins at bedtime.

I could probably add to that at lunchtime but can't see any other part of the day where I can fit it in.

Curious to know how you guys do it.

I usually read for half an hour before I nod off. I'll often read in the early morning before the household surfaces - but that's probably your running time. I used to travel a lot for work so I filled in airport/hotel/waiting for stuff time, by reading which is how I ended up reading so much pre 2020.

[Hectorjelly]

That would have been no problem and I'd have gone easy on the mark up too.

An unrelated question for the crypto followers, I see XRP has dropped approx 72% this month in light of the SEC issues.
Is it inevitably dead as a crypto?

It should be. Even before this scandal XRP was a meme, they are a business masquerading as a cryptocurrency.

A lot of the smaller crypto exchanges have de-listed them.

That said it's very hard to kill a coin off completely. There are loads of coins around that have pretty large market caps that are basically failed experiments. Litecoin, Zcash, BCH (Bitcoin cash) etc

[Ed]

Favourite Albums of the Year, in no particular order:

Felbm - Tape 3/Tape 4
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
Pillow Queens - In Waiting
Khruangbin - Mordecai
Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
US Girls - Heavy Light
Andy Dragazis - Afterimages
Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

Reissues/Old Stuff that's been getting lots of listens:

Jim Sullivan - UFO
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis Abbey road remaster
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
David Axelrod - Earth Rot Instrumentals

[Guest]

Favourite Albums of the Year, in no particular order:

Felbm - Tape 3/Tape 4
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
Pillow Queens - In Waiting
Khruangbin - Mordecai
Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
US Girls - Heavy Light
Andy Dragazis - Afterimages
Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

Reissues/Old Stuff that's been getting lots of listens:

Jim Sullivan - UFO
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis Abbey road remaster
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
David Axelrod - Earth Rot Instrumentals

So this is what it's like to be 6star?

I might know 1 of them.

[Solksjaer!]

Favourite Albums of the Year, in no particular order:

Felbm - Tape 3/Tape 4
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
Pillow Queens - In Waiting
Khruangbin - Mordecai
Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
US Girls - Heavy Light
Andy Dragazis - Afterimages
Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

Reissues/Old Stuff that's been getting lots of listens:

Jim Sullivan - UFO
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis Abbey road remaster
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
David Axelrod - Earth Rot Instrumentals

I'm shocked . No mention of Evermore by Taylor Swift ?

[DeadParrot]

Laz, I'd forgotten about those stinky fucking bin things.

[eamonhonda]

Favourite Albums of the Year, in no particular order:

Felbm - Tape 3/Tape 4
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
Pillow Queens - In Waiting
Khruangbin - Mordecai
Yves Tumor - Heaven To a Tortured Mind
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals
US Girls - Heavy Light
Andy Dragazis - Afterimages
Jonathan Wilson - Dixie Blur
Run The Jewels - RTJ4
Sault - Untitled (Black Is)
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

Reissues/Old Stuff that's been getting lots of listens:

Jim Sullivan - UFO
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis Abbey road remaster
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
David Axelrod - Earth Rot Instrumentals

A few there for me to dig through.

For me the ones that stick out are

Sault - both releases J Hus - Big conspiracy
Blu & exile - miles
Ego Ella May - Honey for Wounds
Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist - Alfredo
Khruangbin - Mordecai
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
cleo sol - rose in the dark
Caribou - suddenly
Malaki - Chrysalis
Steve Spacek - Houses

[Keane]

We're t-4 days to 'due date' here so not much pointers yet

this was decent - https://www.dubraybooks.ie/the-irish..._9781788490283

Couple of online ante-natal courses we took in lieu of face-to-face were reasonably good I thought, with https://babyacademy.ie .

Lockdown has had to have had a tangible impact on birthrate, or else maybe it's just the 'oldening' setting in here amongst my cohort.

Oh great stuff, very exciting. Great timing for underage sports

[Ed]

I'm shocked . No mention of Evermore by Taylor Swift ?

She just missed the cut

[eoghan104]

As there was a bit of talk about kids I will take the opportunity to announce that we are expecting our first in June with great excitement.

Any tips?

Congrats. Ditto for us, July 4th is the due date. God bless the USA.

Lockdown babies everywhere!

[Lao Lao]

Mrs Lao Lao was off today while I was in work so she was out and about picking up the last minute stuff for dinner tomorrow.

I get a text from her around 11am saying the queue for the butchers is half way down the road and how she feels somewhat smug to have picked up all the meat yesterday.

I get home from work later and only at 6:45pm realise she bought all the wrong beer so I nip out to the offie to change it. When I'm on the way back I get a call from her to say she forgot to pick up spuds and could I somehow get some as there is none for Christmas Day. Apparently this wasn't the time to jest about smugness coming back to bite you in the arse.

First time we are spending Christmas Day together in 7 years of being with each other, only took a global pandemic and 1st time I have ever cooked Christmas dinner. Usually either go to the sister (who is a chef) or there was a good few years where I managed to get her to come to my house with all the food and cook it there, still not sure how I pulled that off

Happy Christmas ya filthy animals!!!

[eamonhonda]

A few there for me to dig through.

For me the ones that stick out are

Sault - both releases J Hus - Big conspiracy
Blu & exile - miles
Ego Ella May - Honey for Wounds
Freddie Gibbs & Alchemist - Alfredo
Khruangbin - Mordecai
Beatrice Dillon - Workaround
cleo sol - rose in the dark
Caribou - suddenly
Malaki - Chrysalis
Steve Spacek - Houses

Missed Four Tet -Sixteen Oceans, and on that note it looks like he's gonna drop 2 albums tonight. And another coming with Madlib in January.

[DeadParrot]

Just got the message on school app.

Confirmed case in your child's jnr infants class.
As they are jnr infants they all are close contacts.
Xmas with grandparents cancelled, live in FIL in super isolation now and extended family worrying how 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon it all gets.
Me da was down yesterday for an hour and now is cancelling visiting family. Me niece was visited by my wife and daughter and they are all now freaking out about the other side of the family now.

HSE isn't very clear on the close contact of close contact behaviour... FML

[Solksjaer!]

Lads, just wanted to take a minute to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy year, most of all good health!
These days people don't spend much time or thought on some personal words to their friends and family, they just copy and paste some random shit and send it on.
So, after all we've been though together this year I want to thank you for your friendship and wish you a happy 2018!
You are the best gymnastics group anyone could ask for.
Best wishes, Helen

[Lazare]

Jesus DP. That's some shit to have to deal with at this stage.

[Closed_Account]

If anyone is properly versed or knows someone good in tenant rights particularly within the context of Covid etc could you please Pm me or forward on releveant details.

[V for Vendetta]

Congrats to the expectant new fathers in 2021.

Just finished laying out all the pressies for my little Miss. COVID and the rest of the world can go shite tmrw it’ll just be great to see her excitement and have fun playing and seeing the wonder in her eyes. It’s all ahead of ye men.

[DeadParrot]

Jesus DP. That's some shit to have to deal with at this stage.

In the middle of norad santy when it happened.
Ah, there's literally nothing we can do at this stage. I'm such a fucker I wrote a model based off R rate, the number of kids in the class, the people she has interacted with and the potential numbers of exponential cases over the next ten days.

Mathematically its a much miniscule risk for FIL and ever depreciating as it goes out.
Still doesn't help settle everyone's nerves

[Solksjaer!]

Doesnt get enough love as a Christmas classic.

If ya dont like this you have to hand back in yer babies

[ComradeCollie]

Doesnt get enough love as a Christmas classic.

I only associate it with the first time I took a lot of magic mushrooms.

[DeeBrown]

Daughter staying put at university in USA.
Sister is only family member with Santa sized kids,
usually travels from France & stays in house.
Not this year though for obvious reasons.
Mother in nursing home and they're not allowing residents back in if they leave for family gathering.

Basically I'm eating alone, fucking sucks.
Couldn't even justify buying a full Turkey.
Worst Christmas since I was five when
Santa couldn't source a Commodore 64.

Jingle Bells to all ye feckers and rejoice in being around your loved ones.