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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Its completely indistinguishable from the traditional stuff. The worlds best scientists, recruited away from curing cancer in order to make a drink, have outdone themselves in Guinness Inc. Very drinkable, which is often where the 0.0s fall down. Like I could enjoyably keep up with CC and his 'real' pints of the same.alcoholicdrinker.
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Originally posted by Degag View Post
Is it really indistinguishable though? I wouldn't be too sure. Most of these "0.0" beers, while fairly authentic tasting are generally discernible as "fake" to the distinguishedalcoholicdrinker."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostI just finished a good book that might be of interest to some here A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It's an interesting overview of many of the financial crises the world has gone through over the last 200 years, with particular attention paid to private debt, and lending booms. (He basically makes the case that private debt causes crises) It's very interesting, especially the last chapter about the challenges and failures of regulators."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Brickbats.
A word which must surely have an interesting etymology.
However, sometime around the 16th century, 'throwing brickbats' metamorphised from being a physical means of expressing displeasure and became a metaphysical one, meaning to inundate with insults. Presumably society began to frown on clocking punters in the head with odd bits of masonry.
Hence Milton's use of the term in 1642:
I beseech ye friends,
ere the brick-bats flye,
resolve me and yourselves"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Have had quite the last 18 months of flying through trying all of the 0 alcohol beers we could find, herself is a beer drinker, so pregnancy & breastfeeding meant some changes!
Lager
Heineken - not bad, not a million miles from the original
Bavaria - no thanks
Moretti - not a fan
Becks Blue - awful
Peroni - Very good effort
San Miguel - so bad we couldn't even use the reject for making bread
St Etienne - Aldi - A decent lager if you don't mind the french style lagers
IPA
'Early Start IPA - Aldi - Absolutely delicious, putting these away regularly now.
Stout
Guinness 0.0 - Not quite as good as the real thing, but an excellent option if driving. Plenty better than other alcoholic stouts I've had.
An absolute joke that these'll all be charged at same price as their handsomer, funner, tastier counterparts though.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostAnyone know if Shanahans has reopened this time round?
Nothing on the web and their phone has a message from Jan.airport, lol
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I dont know where the laziness lies but I put a lot more into Spinning than I do jogging. Im once again restarting my run training and it's hard . Bit of extra on board but I think I'm running too much within myself. I'm thinking it's the fear of injury again but I'm going to have to suck it up or zero progress. Also I Need to get to mid 90kgs and I'll be flying. Currently 100 on the button , stopped the rot somewhat. Fun and games wha..
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I tried to do a Tar and went for a two hour walk tonight as part of the beginning of a six week plan to get the last bit of weight sorted. It seems like an awful lot of effort to get in 20k steps in a day.
On the plus side was finding the Off Menu podcast with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. A top quality listen."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Degag View Post
Is it really indistinguishable though? I wouldn't be too sure. Most of these "0.0" beers, while fairly authentic tasting are generally discernible as "fake" to the distinguishedalcoholicdrinker."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Think I've been doing a disservice to Taiwan. Always thought they were the elites who ruined China and then fled due to a popular uprising. But turns out they were just the same as the CCP, a different popular party trying to do good by China, but who lost out in the end to the CCP in terms of popular support. They never did anything wrong though by the looks of where I'm at in this course on China."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Emmet View PostHave had quite the last 18 months of flying through trying all of the 0 alcohol beers we could find, herself is a beer drinker, so pregnancy & breastfeeding meant some changes!
Lager
Heineken - not bad, not a million miles from the original
Bavaria - no thanks
Moretti - not a fan
Becks Blue - awful
Peroni - Very good effort
San Miguel - so bad we couldn't even use the reject for making bread
St Etienne - Aldi - A decent lager if you don't mind the french style lagers
IPA
'Early Start IPA - Aldi - Absolutely delicious, putting these away regularly now.
Stout
Guinness 0.0 - Not quite as good as the real thing, but an excellent option if driving. Plenty better than other alcoholic stouts I've had.
An absolute joke that these'll all be charged at same price as their handsomer, funner, tastier counterparts though.
Brewdog Nanny state
And an honorable mention to the paulaner which is decent also.
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Originally posted by Emmet View PostHave had quite the last 18 months of flying through trying all of the 0 alcohol beers we could find, herself is a beer drinker, so pregnancy & breastfeeding meant some changes!
Lager
Heineken - not bad, not a million miles from the original
Bavaria - no thanks
Moretti - not a fan
Becks Blue - awful
Peroni - Very good effort
San Miguel - so bad we couldn't even use the reject for making bread
St Etienne - Aldi - A decent lager if you don't mind the french style lagers
IPA
'Early Start IPA - Aldi - Absolutely delicious, putting these away regularly now.
Stout
Guinness 0.0 - Not quite as good as the real thing, but an excellent option if driving. Plenty better than other alcoholic stouts I've had.
An absolute joke that these'll all be charged at same price as their handsomer, funner, tastier counterparts though.
Crowd in the UK called Big Drop Brewing who apparently put out some world class stuff. Won't ship to Ireland at the moment though.
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 PostI tried to do a Tar and went for a two hour walk tonight as part of the beginning of a six week plan to get the last bit of weight sorted. It seems like an awful lot of effort to get in 20k steps in a day.
On the plus side was finding the Off Menu podcast with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. A top quality listen.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
Probably best not to just jump to 20k, try 10k a day or something. I like to mix it up, what I'm listening to or I get bored. Last 4 days I've played 5 aside football 3 times and walked 125k steps apart from that, a good week for weight, a bad week for feet."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI have a financial advice question on behalf of my driving instructor:
Him: about 50, full time driving instructor, in a past life he was a banker and has an 'okay' pension due at 66 as part of that
The wife: probably the same age, has given up full time work and now works part-time in a lowish wage administrative role
Kids: two; about 10, 12 years old from what I can guess
The situation:
Through a variety of past successful decisions and inheritances, they have a nice house in a nice area, worth a fair whack, and have a mortgage on it of €310,000. Paying €1,700 a month. They also have a recently acquired bundle of cash (inheritance) of €230,000 which is currently invested in prize bonds.
The guy was diagnosed by a decent financial advisor in the past as 'extremely risk averse' and feels very comfortable with that label. So bearing that in mind, and their types of jobs: what do they do? Do they pay down the mortgage, pay down part of the mortgage, keep it in savings (with the idea of drawing it down bit by bit over the years, especially towards the retirement stage of life)?
Some related things that came up as I was probing (and trying not to crash the car):
1. They would view it as a crying shame to pay down the mortgage and then die, thus not using their mortgage insurance. Although I was saying they could take out life insurance separate to the mortgage.
2. They seem singularly uninterested in 'making money'. They've some past experience of owning a second home and didn't like it. I suggested forestry as a low risk investment and that was shot down. I decided not to proffer my views on NFTs as an investment asset class.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThink I've been doing a disservice to Taiwan. Always thought they were the elites who ruined China and then fled due to a popular uprising. But turns out they were just the same as the CCP, a different popular party trying to do good by China, but who lost out in the end to the CCP in terms of popular support. They never did anything wrong though by the looks of where I'm at in this course on China.
Russians obv."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Ha yeah. Although I'd regularly enough go over 20k on an active day out, it's more when you go out and try to get all the steps in one big walk in the evening.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
I do a few walks during the day, morning, lunch, couple in the evening in between doing other things. 20k at once is a big ask without any goal/event at hand.
Flexible thing, language."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
if you substitute a single consonant, it could be a CC post.
Flexible thing, language.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostWon't ship to Ireland at the moment though.
Early December last year i put in an order to Brewdog.com for ~ €200. Delivered via Parcel Motel (Never once got an alcohol order rejected in about 20 attempts).
All different types of beers and abv. Monumental selection from some sale they were plugging at the time. They done me all of December, XMAS and well into Lockdown. I'd been regurlarly purchasing on teh site before too.
It was gone overnight.
Yes i know Brewdog are wankers who ride their staff and i fundamentally disagree with the hipster take that their beer is rubbish on the back of the first part of this sentence.
I'm a big fan of all Whiplash beers. I think they are bang on the money with their releases. But of course like everything else. We are getting absolutely robbed when it comes to the price. Especially compared to what i could get online or even in a supermarket up North. It seems like extra robbery in the craft beer game though.
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I don't know if the history of China is so ridiculously fascinating or the professor is so brilliant, but it's some course this China course. Haven't learned history since before the Junior Cert and it sure wasn't like this back then. Going to maybe follow another course after this, just to check if it's a general history-is-amazing thing."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Silver-Tiger View Post
This is a pain in the hole.
Early December last year i put in an order to Brewdog.com for ~ €200. Delivered via Parcel Motel (Never once got an alcohol order rejected in about 20 attempts).
All different types of beers and abv. Monumental selection from some sale they were plugging at the time. They done me all of December, XMAS and well into Lockdown. I'd been regurlarly purchasing on teh site before too.
It was gone overnight.
Yes i know Brewdog are wankers who ride their staff and i fundamentally disagree with the hipster take that their beer is rubbish on the back of the first part of this sentence.
I'm a big fan of all Whiplash beers. I think they are bang on the money with their releases. But of course like everything else. We are getting absolutely robbed when it comes to the price. Especially compared to what i could get online or even in a supermarket up North. It seems like extra robbery in the craft beer game though."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
You're missing the best one by a country mile for me:
Brewdog Nanny state
And an honorable mention to the paulaner which is decent also.
Completely forgot about Brewdog, Nanny State is a very good beer in its own right. Punk AF (Alcohol Free) is a no for me. Somehow manages to taste like a high alcohol beer while having none.
Erdinger is quite good - has always been around though, I remember one of the lads showed up to a house party aged 19 or something with 6 big bottles of it ready to get wrecked. Think he was half way through number 3 before releasing it was alcohol free.
Lazare right too, Carlsberg is surprisingly good, considering their alcohol lager is only two or three steps away from water. (Their export is great though!) And yeah we had a few cans of the Big Drop stuff before we left London. Thought it was a bit too specific to be mentioning a beer that isn't available in Ireland though!
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Best beer I ever tasted was in Munich . A Bavarian beer and of course I have no idea what it was called , so just like that nymphette I met in coppers in the 90s the memory of the night has faded somewhat but time has added to its glory. Was like getting a few go's on Dawn Run . (Minus the horsey head of course , dont be getting ideas Raoul)
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostFinally got vaccine now (steps++). First vaccine took 1.5 hours queuing to get. This time no queue at all. The woman had lavender for me to smell while getting it and offered me chocolates after
Nurse / courtesan: Do you like this nice smell? What would you say it is?
Tar: Um, strawberry?
SPOILER
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In a podcast yesterday Ed Gamble, now a vegan, was discussing how he thought about past meat he'd eaten. He said he thinks about it like a reformed hooligan - reliving past meat crimes and revelling in their debauchery, but never wanting to return to those days. Thought it was an interesting idea. The person he was interviewing about her favourite meals was a bit perplexed as to why she, also a vegan, when she thought about her favourite ever dishes also found herself drawn to some past meat dishes she had eaten."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIn a podcast yesterday Ed Gamble, now a vegan, was discussing how he thought about past meat he'd eaten. He said he thinks about it like a reformed hooligan - reliving past meat crimes and revelling in their debauchery, but never wanting to return to those days. Thought it was an interesting idea. The person he was interviewing about her favourite meals was a bit perplexed as to why she, also a vegan, when she thought about her favourite ever dishes also found herself drawn to some past meat dishes she had eaten.
Durty thought Do vegans swallow ? (Ok it's too early for that convo) still though a valid question.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIn a podcast yesterday Ed Gamble, now a vegan, was discussing how he thought about past meat he'd eaten. He said he thinks about it like a reformed hooligan - reliving past meat crimes and revelling in their debauchery, but never wanting to return to those days. Thought it was an interesting idea. The person he was interviewing about her favourite meals was a bit perplexed as to why she, also a vegan, when she thought about her favourite ever dishes also found herself drawn to some past meat dishes she had eaten.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI don't know if the history of China is so ridiculously fascinating or the professor is so brilliant, but it's some course this China course. Haven't learned history since before the Junior Cert and it sure wasn't like this back then. Going to maybe follow another course after this, just to check if it's a general history-is-amazing thing.
Possibly by me."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIn a podcast yesterday Ed Gamble, now a vegan, was discussing how he thought about past meat he'd eaten. He said he thinks about it like a reformed hooligan - reliving past meat crimes and revelling in their debauchery, but never wanting to return to those days. Thought it was an interesting idea. The person he was interviewing about her favourite meals was a bit perplexed as to why she, also a vegan, when she thought about her favourite ever dishes also found herself drawn to some past meat dishes she had eaten.
This is a funny, Simon Amstel: Carnage:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...mstell-carnage
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
Nurse?
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
At first you tend to remember the great meals you've had in your life, as time goes on they fade and new memories appear. When I was watching that chicken eating man you put up I saw him take a bone out of a chicken wing and thinking how weird it was to see a bone of a living creature in somebodies meal, didn't register as food any more. I'd never have thought like that initially, everything would still have been "normal" but it's been 17 years and now it's strange to me.
This is a funny, Simon Amstel: Carnage:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...mstell-carnage
There are AA style support groups for people that are reliving eating cheese.
I turned down a few sambos due to my new eating departure
The looks I got , you would swear i was claiming to be Francis of Assisi reborn.
I believe my new title is semi veg . Which is not accurate as I now rarely eat meat so semi is not right. . I'm thinking we need a new name I think transitionary veggie is accurate .
I also will eat meat if there are no other sambos available at a function or if I'm so demented with the hunger I'll eat what's in front of me. I'm open to coaching on this .
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostSorry, but this lad can go fuck himself, the world is fucked if this sort of shit isn't immediately laughed at..
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc...s-58327844.amp
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Do what's best for you Solks, sounds like you're trying, well done! No harm doing what you are able and expanding that if you feel able to later on.
Was just doing the old sign up to new deals for cheaper prices on internet and electricity, they are rather silly. Take the electricity for instance. I ring my provider up and say yo I'm out of contract, can I have the new customer deal on your site, they can't offer it to me. They offer some crap deal, I list off about other deals available and say that the best two deals are 1) Your New Customer deal. 2) Switching to Electric Ireland. I then just switch as they'd rather lose €1500 a year from me than let people get a deal that is 2 cent lower on rates.
Broadband guy was much better, released I didn't give a fuck about what he was talking about and gave me the deal I asked for so I stayed with them.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostDo what's best for you Solks, sounds like you're trying, well done! No harm doing what you are able and expanding that if you feel able to later on.
Was just doing the old sign up to new deals for cheaper prices on internet and electricity, they are rather silly. Take the electricity for instance. I ring my provider up and say yo I'm out of contract, can I have the new customer deal on your site, they can't offer it to me. They offer some crap deal, I list off about other deals available and say that the best two deals are 1) Your New Customer deal. 2) Switching to Electric Ireland. I then just switch as they'd rather lose €1500 a year from me than let people get a deal that is 2 cent lower on rates.
Broadband guy was much better, released I didn't give a fuck about what he was talking about and gave me the deal I asked for so I stayed with them."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI don't know if the history of China is so ridiculously fascinating or the professor is so brilliant, but it's some course this China course. Haven't learned history since before the Junior Cert and it sure wasn't like this back then. Going to maybe follow another course after this, just to check if it's a general history-is-amazing thing.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Switching Day. Should be in your diary every year.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post@Tar actually he was a recent vegan at the time of this podcast so that might be it. That he hasn't had time to build new food memories.
The food was amazing but so too was the occasion, the atmosphere, the furnishings, the evening, that we ordered everything on the menu, that you could see the head chef drinking a glass of wine while cooking and dancing, and that they got it for free.
These 3 non vegans now talk about the place and the food like it is the second coming of Jesus, best food they've had and so on. There's a lot that goes into those memories apart from the actual food.Last edited by Tar.Aldarion; 25-08-21, 12:31.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostOh absolutely. I think thats the glory of their podcast format (name your best starter, main course, desert) as it becomes a cool storytelling device as your favourite meal is always about the context."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by ionapaul View Post
History is amazing If you like storytelling (like every other human), then the most fantastic things you can imagine, the greatest heroes, the vilest villains, they are all there and they were REAL people!
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe situation:
Through a variety of past successful decisions and inheritances, they have a nice house in a nice area, worth a fair whack, and have a mortgage on it of €310,000. Paying €1,700 a month. They also have a recently acquired bundle of cash (inheritance) of €230,000 which is currently invested in prize bonds.
The guy was diagnosed by a decent financial advisor in the past as 'extremely risk averse' and feels very comfortable with that label. So bearing that in mind, and their types of jobs: what do they do?
But it’s pretty much a given that mortgage % > bonds %. So they’re essentially losing money overall.
Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostI've never heard of anyone owning prize bonds before. The rate isn't actually that bad -
"The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) sets the variable percentage rate used to calculate the prize fund. Effective from February 2021 this variable percentage rate is set at 0.35% of the total value of Prize Bonds outstanding."
I assume you can't get better in any long term savings a/cs?
Given the “risk adverse” description above, I thought that maybe that’s what they had invested in.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
This is quite the 360 from your previous attitude of blithely dismissing historical context from any debate (mainly because you usually have no idea of what it is). What will this new, improved HH do next?
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