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worst thing about all this is i have a very close friend who is Scottish, and who is the tightest fucker you've ever met. He NEVER takes bets with me anymore, because he's lost a good few, and mainly because he hates parting with his money for anything. Anyway, during the wales game last week, i managed to goad him into taking a bet for yesterday (this is for peanuts mind you), but still, managing to get him to accept it was a big deal. i'll never hear the end of it now
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
still a brain fart of epic proportions. how do you not have the wherewithal to figure out the situation in that spot? i'd turned away from the TV when we turned the ball over as i thought that was it, only to look back and see penalty for Scotland. What a stupid fucking moron. he'll never live that one down lol
Tremendous entertainment all the same."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
In not giving it was he making a mistake or following the rules, he was very clear talking to the TMO, 'if its not touched down we are going under the sticks' and afaik that implies a YC
I remember once engaging in what can only be described as 'dicking about' with the ball just outside my own 25 in hockey when the sneaky forward I hadn't even realised was there robbed the ball off me and hurtled towards goal. I attempted a filthy sliding tackle which almost but not quite sent him to hospital and he escaped to round our keeper and stick the ball in the goal as I was lying there watching in horror.
Then as my entire team, bench and supporters were roaring abuse at me, the umpire fished into his pocket and dealt me a yellow, sending me to the bin.
My plea for mitigation of 'have I not suffered enough?' didn't earn a reprieve."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostThere's a Brazilian central defender who still plays in the first team for Montpellier in Ligue 1 at aged 43 and a half called Hilton.
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post.......and three people have absconded from hotel quarantine in Dublin
Ridiculous scheme, hopefully will have one good outcome of making everyone who wanted to extend it to everyone entering the country realise how dumb they are.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostMy daughter's an East yank.
Had her in the car last week on the way back from the dentist. Thought there was an accident at the canal bridge.
'should we call 911' she said
Whenever anyone tells me to 'reach out', I always have to suppress a wild desire to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Possibly the worst corporate corruption of the English language to date."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
She'll be reaching out to people next.
Whenever anyone tells me to 'reach out', I always have to suppress a wild desire to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Possibly the worst corporate corruption of the English language to date.
Had a new Logistics manager start one time when I was van driving full time. He was a corporate monkey, is the best way to describe him.
Anyway, because I used to like getting in early to beat the traffic into city centre with the bonus of finishing early, I rarely met him so he rings me about a week in and says I'm just ringing to touch base and have a chat about the way I'd like to do things moving forward
It was the first time I've ever started laughing directly at a manager. He didn't see what was so funny so I explained that I'm a lowly van driver, breakfast rolls and garage tea. No need for the corporate mumbo jumbo. Amazingly he never used the phrase in conversation with me again lol.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostThey're a thing of beauty though don't you think?Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
They look good, I'm sure it will be a lovely object to have and hopefully it will fit and work well, there is no way I'd buy an expensive one without trying it out. I'm really fussy about the knives I use for cooking the ones I like best were reasonably cheap and current no 2 favourite was €15 in Ikea.
Cheers dobby BTW.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
She'll be reaching out to people next.
Whenever anyone tells me to 'reach out', I always have to suppress a wild desire to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Possibly the worst corporate corruption of the English language to date.
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
Dobby tagged me in a tweet from that lad Gaz from Michael's who had gotten one and was raving about it. So the utility aspect of them comes well reviewed.
Cheers dobby BTW.
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
Years of grassroots neglect. No proper structures to foster talent. You are seeing the cost of Delaney's FAI right there.
We're genuinely bad at soccer, tonight just proves it. Not like Irish players are household names in the PL or anything."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by pokerhand View PostKenny looks like somebody shagged his wife and kept shagging after he caught them at it. Feel terrible for him. Must be very painful having to do interviews after that.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
But aren't we just stuck on overinflated expectations left over from the Charlton years?
We're genuinely bad at soccer, tonight just proves it. Not like Irish players are household names in the PL or anything."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIn what is possibly, but maybe not, the BBVs first academic study, I wrote a study on NFTs. The idea for which was exclusively based on BBV discussion.Last edited by paul8200; 28-03-21, 00:31.
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I've been watching a series called Bored to Death for the last week or two. From 2009-2011. Finding it to be such a low-key glorious show. Nothing much really happens, but its written so nicely. Ted Danson is even likeable in it."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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That NFT thing just makes me go every time. And I work with some pretty advanced technologies and technologists.
Maybe I'm just OLD but literally the only word that makes sense to me is 'blockchain'.
Decentraland is one of a new generation of virtual world, popularly referred to as metaverses, built on the blockchain. To become a citizen, all you need is to buy LAND, a coded piece of the metaverse that translates to a 16m by 16m plot of virtual
land"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostThat NFT thing just makes me go every time. And I work with some pretty advanced technologies and technologists.
Maybe I'm just OLD but literally the only word that makes sense to me is 'blockchain'.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I can personally see some obvious value prospects in things like LAND. Its like a blank store in a shopping centre. If people turn up to the virtual world and walk around and go into businesses and spend money, and the way of having a piece of that pie is to own LAND and build the business of your choice on it, then there's as much a value prospect there as there is for owning a store in Dundrum shopping centre. Now the big issue and the big risk is that its far less certain that people will actually turn up and part with their hard-earned cash. But as a core business idea, I'm thinking a piece of that land for $4,000 could end up being the bargain of the century.
And the only utility to the buyer is whatever pleasure they derive from ownership of said virtual goods?
I guess I can kinda see it. I own paintings, I own some Venetian glass - I can look at them and derive pleasure from that. Why should it not be the same with virtual art..."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Proximity isn't the osmosis you hoped for haha. That's a great idea to make money actually, we will probably see more of it in games like that.
edit: Oh there was more posts since the initial, virtual items are HUGE business for years now, some can go for hundreds of thousands, or rarely - millions. NFT's have brought it to the next level.Last edited by Tar.Aldarion; 28-03-21, 11:22.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostThat NFT thing just makes me go every time. And I work with some pretty advanced technologies and technologists.
Maybe I'm just OLD but literally the only word that makes sense to me is 'blockchain'.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostI discovered that French Guiana in South America is officially part of the EU and uses the Euro as it's now fully part of France. You can go and work there. They have gold.
Martinique is definitely one.
Then places like Pitcairn and the Falklands on the UK side. I read a good book about these outposts a few years back."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
You mean build a virtual business selling virtual goods, paid for with real money?
And the only utility to the buyer is whatever pleasure they derive from ownership of said virtual goods?
I guess I can kinda see it. I own paintings, I own some Venetian glass - I can look at them and derive pleasure from that. Why should it not be the same with virtual art...
Can anyone point me to me examples of someone reselling an NFT that initially cost €5M + for a profit?
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
You mean build a virtual business selling virtual goods, paid for with real money?
And the only utility to the buyer is whatever pleasure they derive from ownership of said virtual goods?
I guess I can kinda see it. I own paintings, I own some Venetian glass - I can look at them and derive pleasure from that. Why should it not be the same with virtual art...
Imagine you buy your original piece of Venetian glass but everyone else in the world can have it too, an identical replica, for free.
Other than the potential to sell on to someone else, I just can't see why somebody would pay $2m + for Jack Dorsey's first tweet, when I can just pull it up on my phone.
It all seems a little ridiculous.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Speaking of overseas territories, who dares to speak of the Chagossians?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
I can't get my head around it at all.
Imagine you buy your original piece of Venetian glass but everyone else in the world can have it too, an identical replica, for free.
Other than the potential to sell on to someone else, I just can't see why somebody would pay $2m + for Jack Dorsey's first tweet, when I can just pull it up on my phone.
It all seems a little ridiculous.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
Except that the exact NFT item someone paid bazillions for I also have for free at no cost, all the buyer has is a token saying he owns an individual copy of the item.
Can anyone point me to me examples of someone reselling an NFT that initially cost €5M + for a profit?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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The original NFTs
* https://www.highlandtitles.com/
* https://www.buyastar.ie/
* https://www.moonestates.com/
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Medical guy on Brendan O'Connor saying the closure of hair salons is leading to mental health issues, particularly among women obv.
When did we become such pussies?
20 minutes earlier, I was in the shower thinking what a luxury it is to have an abundance of hot water to languish in.
Why do people put these pressures on themselves? I guess it's hard to escape the 'perfect is attainable' barrage from all types of media.
I wish more people, particularly the younger smartphone 24/7 generation, were less image conscious.
Teaching resilience is a real challenge.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostSpeaking of overseas territories, who dares to speak of the Chagossians?
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
Except that the exact NFT item someone paid bazillions for I also have for free at no cost, all the buyer has is a token saying he owns an individual copy of the item.
Can anyone point me to me examples of someone reselling an NFT that initially cost €5M + for a profit?
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
That's interesting. Re your Outposts book, I fondly remember reading Lost White Tribes about anachronistic remnants of groups of white settlers such as descendants of defeated Confederates who moved to Brazil.
The Welsh Patagonians. The Lebanese Paraguayans. Jews pretty much everywhere."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Gimmeabreaklate to this convo about houses ionapaul and Hitchhiker's Guide To... - you guys really need to broaden your horizons. 700k or so in The Gallops. Hop in the car and pop out to mine some evening and see the potential of what you can get for that or less on the doorstep of the M50. Given the choice between where I am at 700k or The Gallops at 350k I wouldn't need more than 2 seconds to work it out. At the same price there'd be no time wasted on thinking. I understand there are items like schools, transport and so on. But there's more to it.
I'm always happy to visit the countryside but I'm always delighted to leave"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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