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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Post
If its shillings you want why not enter the IPB..........never mind he does it better .
Fuck me, coins were enormous yokes back in the day.
1928pennyhen.tmb-thumbnail.jpg?sfvrsn=1.jpg"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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You would win 12,000 old pennies if you were to win the IPB Cheltenham Tipping Comp.
Edit: Actually that's merely the cost of entry. You could win about 300,000 of the things. Which would be 25,000 shillings. Or indeed 10,000 half crowns.
I realise that this will be bringing back strong memories for Strewelpeter.Last edited by Raoul Duke III; 23-02-21, 16:57."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostYou would win 12,000 old pennies if you were to win the IPB Cheltenham Tipping Comp.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Post
You wouldn't be able to carry them home I'm reliably informed just one is the size of a wagon wheel
Not hard to see where the value lies."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Speaking of shillings, found a pre-decimal penny in the garden at the weekend.
Fuck me, coins were enormous yokes back in the day.
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Just found out an Irish Times sub is free for students and I'm wondering what else I'm missing out on that people know about?
Assume everyone here knew about this but long for anyone that's a student and not signed up
https://www.irishtimes.com/subscribe...udentsub_feb23
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Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
Someone was telling me that a 20p coin from 1985 is worth a few grand now. Bitcoin my backside, I'm going rooting through my old bedroom next time im in the aul lads. I used get 20p a week pocket money back thenI hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
So they just nicked their schtick from the black fella and diluted it for middle class white birds to dance and feel hip to at overpriced enormo-fests.
Tepid, beige, French house which begat EDM. C- for originality, F for legacy but B+ for business studies.
Alex Petridis should know better.
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Originally posted by dobby View PostJust found out an Irish Times sub is free for students and I'm wondering what else I'm missing out on that people know about?
Assume everyone here knew about this but long for anyone that's a student and not signed up
https://www.irishtimes.com/subscribe...udentsub_feb23
Pretty sure you keep it for a couple of years too so you'll have it for a while.
I used it for Spotify, there's some sort of discount there.
Also discounted Economist/WSJ and a few others but Keane gave us a free in for some of them
Discount on Apple for educational but thats only around 5-10% if interested.
I'm sure there's loads but IT definitely one of the better ones I came across too.
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Originally posted by dobby View PostJust found out an Irish Times sub is free for students and I'm wondering what else I'm missing out on that people know about?
Assume everyone here knew about this but long for anyone that's a student and not signed up
https://www.irishtimes.com/subscribe...udentsub_feb23This too shall pass.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
A quick calculation tells me that one IPB Cheltenham Tipping Comp entry would buy you 309 Wagon Wheels.
Not hard to see where the value lies.
can you send me bank details and I will send u my wagon wheel donation
thanks
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The 20p came in in 1986, the 1985 ones were around for testing them the previous year for vending machines etc.
Funnily enough I was on Vcoins today looking at Alexander the Great coins. It's funny that ancient Roman etc. coins millennia old are cheap. Apparently due to their abundance, lack of demand, lack of metal worth, and difficulty of authenticating. Still seems strange to me though.
I was cracking up laughing listening to my latest Darby O'Gill and the Good People chapter today. Cracking little story about how the fairies came to Ireland. You can have a read of it here, but it's more fun hearing the language read to you.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSome news flash on the phone about Tiger being injured in a car crash. Don't know if it's serious, but I'd imagine NYT reserve their news flashes for when they think something is serious.
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gol...eles-1.4493272
People 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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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSome news flash on the phone about Tiger being injured in a car crash. Don't know if it's serious, but I'd imagine NYT reserve their news flashes for when they think something is serious.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSome news flash on the phone about Tiger being injured in a car crash. Don't know if it's serious, but I'd imagine NYT reserve their news flashes for when they think something is serious.
He was struggling for fitness and made an appearance last week saying he hoped to be back for the Masters.
It'll be one of those sports stories that everyone is glued to now.
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If you look at the tiger threads on boards there’s a few comments from yesterday about a promo event tiger appeared at yesterday looking in bad nick movement wise and eyes looking droopy similar to his old mugshot- good chance of painkillers being involved here“PSV was right all along” -Hitch 20 May 2019
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Originally posted by dobby View PostJust found out an Irish Times sub is free for students and I'm wondering what else I'm missing out on that people know about?
Assume everyone here knew about this but long for anyone that's a student and not signed up
https://www.irishtimes.com/subscribe...udentsub_feb23
Unidays has loads of online discounts you'll never use.
Leap card has tons of brick and mortar retail discounts that you'll never use.
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostThe 20p came in in 1986, the 1985 ones were around for testing them the previous year for vending machines etc.
Funnily enough I was on Vcoins today looking at Alexander the Great coins. It's funny that ancient Roman etc. coins millennia old are cheap. Apparently due to their abundance, lack of demand, lack of metal worth, and difficulty of authenticating. Still seems strange to me though.
I was cracking up laughing listening to my latest Darby O'Gill and the Good People chapter today. Cracking little story about how the fairies came to Ireland. You can have a read of it here, but it's more fun hearing the language read to you.
Probably still people out there trying to sell millennium coins.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostLook like a fell asleep at the wheel thing
Strange how someone of that wealth wouldn't have a chauffeur to ferry them round."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights bookshop, dies aged 101
A counter-cultural behemoth who was, at least in part, responsible for my beatnik love affair when I picked up Ginsberg's 'Howl' (which he published) at a second hand bookshop in my first week as a fresher over 30 years ago.
"Returning to the US in 1951, he was drawn to California as a place to start afresh. “San Francisco had a Mediterranean feeling about it,” he told the New York Times. “I felt it was a little like Dublin when Joyce was there. You could walk down Sackville Street and see everyone of any importance in one walk.”
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostFree banking, half priced Spotify and Amazon prime probably best.
Unidays has loads of online discounts you'll never use.
Leap card has tons of brick and mortar retail discounts that you'll never use.
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Originally posted by BennyHiFi View PostLawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights bookshop, dies aged 101
A counter-cultural behemoth who was, at least in part, responsible for my beatnik love affair when I picked up Ginsberg's 'Howl' (which he published) at a second hand bookshop in my first week as a fresher over 30 years ago.
"Returning to the US in 1951, he was drawn to California as a place to start afresh. “San Francisco had a Mediterranean feeling about it,” he told the New York Times. “I felt it was a little like Dublin when Joyce was there. You could walk down Sackville Street and see everyone of any importance in one walk.”
Turning millions into thousands
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Resident Alien, a new series, might be right up a few alleys.
First episode is decent.
The first seven minutes are in this clip and it starts ridic strong.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Zuutroph on Home of the Year next week.
https://twitter.com/zuroph/status/13...283374082?s=19Sign up to Betkings.ie using the code 'flush'
https://betkings.ie/ecps/
Irish based, Irish licenced, on the GG Network
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Originally posted by BetKings,ie View PostZuutroph on Home of the Year next week.
https://twitter.com/zuroph/status/13...283374082?s=19"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by BetKings,ie View PostZuutroph on Home of the Year next week.
https://twitter.com/zuroph/status/13...283374082?s=19
Looking forward to seeing the world's most famous dishwasher too
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Originally posted by Mellor View Post
Still have the tweet pinned on his twitter I see. I think that was his career highlight
I now get Twitter alerts on my phone when I didnt request them. I know I can turn them off but how can they suddenly start notifying me . Seems odd.
Tiger ok ? In as much as I hate the OTT fanboy hurt , the man himself is a living game changing legend His putting was in the stratosphere. Maybe we'll see him plaing again . Fingers crossed .
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Post
Tiger ok ? In as much as I hate the OTT fanboy hurt , the man himself is a living game changing legend His putting was in the stratosphere. Maybe we'll see him plaing again . Fingers crossed .
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Woop, an entire day of test cricket in the background on the tv.
I had no idea where Ahmedabad was. Definitely a feature of 21st century life, that you can be completely unaware of the existence of mega-cities that have greater populations than Ireland.
Look down this list and see what the biggest city you never heard of is. Tianjin for me."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostAccepting bribes not to back this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Must admit I didnt know the capital of Bangladesh
images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSxRP5eFn_rwCSNIFyCTaIn2mG2qxQwIQMDtA&usqp=CAU.jpg"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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RANT:
Applied for a credit card in every single possible place in Ireland as I'm leaving next month and just want one for emergencies/renting cars in future. I cannot for the life of me get one. Also wanted to rent a car here in Ireland for the next month as my tax/insurance just expired and don't want to renew.
Avantgard said absolutely, no problem, just send us your last payslip - proceeded to do so, and they said oh no, it must be last month and they do not take the business closures/covid payments into account. I have a nice amount in my PTSB account, untouched for 3 years or so, and they instantly declined me as did KBC where I have an okay amount. Utterly tilting!!!
Literally going to have to find someone to pretend I'm their employee and pay them to pay me through government channels.. money laundering legitimate money just to have a hope of getting a credit card. FMLGo big or go homeless.
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post
you get free rare cards I believe.
Tips...
Get on sorare data and see historic points and stuff
You want players who start over anything else. J League and K League will run all through summer so for me
its an avenue that'll keep the $$ ticking over.
There's a TON of dead money and some people are spending insane money on cards.Go big or go homeless.
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Encouraging but also quite surreal to hear the outgoing boss of the GAA John Horan simply accepting that the government plan is what they have to work with, to paraphrase him: 'Yeah it would be great to get kids training going again but if you do that then you will be bringing all the parents as well, so lets see how the schools opening works out first'. No matter how hard Claire Byrne tried to get him to row in with the level of hysteria they are whipping up looking for a 'Clear Roadmap' - todays version of 'Meaningful Christmas' - he refused to catastrophise. The contrast with Alan Kelly wetting himself with his racist variant rhetoric and screechy demands for exact numbers and dates for reopening was striking.
Strange system the GAA have of having very short term presidents of varying competence, this lad appears to have done well through a difficult time. I suppose it fits in with the amateur ethos but it can't be ideal.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
Must admit I didnt know the capital of Bangladesh
A couple of months ago, I thought I was working on a test machine in the banks IT test office and started doing some experiments that fired cash out the front of an ATM, turns out the machine was in a live branch and the cash was being fired out onto the street, at the branch they only realised what was happening when someone walked in from the street and told them!
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Mellor View Post
Not sure what you mean.
Murdun referenced his dishwasher, I had literally just seen the tweet a few hours ago. It was a global news story at the time.
Such,as, eh, this Ruth Bader Ginsburg toaster.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostThis is what Zuroph's house looks like:
SPOILER
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostThis is what Zuroph's house looks like:
SPOILERTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by mdoug View PostRANT:
Applied for a credit card in every single possible place in Ireland as I'm leaving next month and just want one for emergencies/renting cars in future. I cannot for the life of me get one. Also wanted to rent a car here in Ireland for the next month as my tax/insurance just expired and don't want to renew.
Avantgard said absolutely, no problem, just send us your last payslip - proceeded to do so, and they said oh no, it must be last month and they do not take the business closures/covid payments into account. I have a nice amount in my PTSB account, untouched for 3 years or so, and they instantly declined me as did KBC where I have an okay amount. Utterly tilting!!!
Literally going to have to find someone to pretend I'm their employee and pay them to pay me through government channels.. money laundering legitimate money just to have a hope of getting a credit card. FML
I remember looking for a 10k car loan a few years back and no bank would give me a proper rate without it being cash secured (you make a 2-3k deposit from savings that can't be touched during the loan). To go "unsecured" as they put it was about 30% higher of an interest rate. They are punitive in terms of requirements for anything these days.Last edited by coillcam; 24-02-21, 12:39.
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