Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[Raoul Duke III]

I'd imagine this might be the one act that drives Trump totally over the edge.

[limpwhacker]

I was saving Rex Magee for you.

[Solksjaer!]

My surname is Magee. Not the first time I've heard it either. Any prizes for guessing what my nickname was as a kid

3 labourers on a building side . Murphy Lynch and Mcgee Foreman said hey Lynchie can you bring me over the shovel .
Ask Murphy hes closer to it . Hey Murphy can you bring me over that shovel. Murphy sez , ask Mcgee. Foreman sez. Ah ask me bollix I'll get it myself

[Solksjaer!]

Mcpussy?

[SatNav]

Yeah those Tesco ones are the sort I was thinking of, we got one and it was total rubbish.

The one in your link is 20l which is similar to the one I linked. If you drop down to a ten litre they seem to be slightly more reasonable so say something like this:

https://www.buyitdirect.ie/p/electri...midistat-cd10l

The ones with smaller tanks again are cheaper, might be ok just for stopping mould developing in a room but probably not much good for drying clothes in winter

No mould just alot of condensation on window every morning. My mother used sleep in that room and nothing so I'm Putting it down to breathing maybe.
Window absolutely dripping wet every morning.

[AndyFatBastard]

I don't understand tictoc but I love that

Do you remember David Bowie talking about the artist and the audience being in sympatico and nobody would understand it? That's what's going on here.

[limpwhacker]

Mcpussy?

Disappointing effort from someone who usually delivers imo

[Solksjaer!]

Disappointing effort from someone who usually delivers imo

[Mellor]

how many people not of skin colour are there, and yet here we are with the phrase 'person of colour' - which is apparently now the preferred phrase for non white people.

That’s very different to “gender” though.
Coloured was literally used as collective for people who were non-white.

And I don't understand how most Asian people, such as Chinese, don't count as white, given they clearly have white skin.

Being “white” isn’t about a bit more than the general colour of skin. Certainly don’t think an Asians would feel included with white in its modern meaning.

At some point post war, a group met to discuss a preferred description. Asian was the chosen over other options. One of the other terms in consideration was “yellow” (which I found surprising). Filipinos present voted against it as they considered themselves brown.

[RichieM]

I'd imagine this might be the one act that drives Trump totally over the edge.

Would be good if it becomes a Twitter policy to ban people like this.

I just heard that the guard that Gemma O’Doherty and her followers abused over social media for most of a year killed himself.

[ComradeCollie]

I just heard that the guard that Gemma O’Doherty and her followers abused over social media for most of a year killed himself.

That was last Monday, btw.

[Keane]

No mould just alot of condensation on window every morning. My mother used sleep in that room and nothing so I'm Putting it down to breathing maybe.
Window absolutely dripping wet every morning.

I expect that's going to be at its worst currently as the cold weather will exacerbate the condensation. We have similar every morning in our sitting room which has a bunch of windows just from the difference in temperature inside and out. We wheel the duhumid in there many mornings and it clears it up alright. Just opening the windows regularly would do the same thing but not very pleasant at the moment!

[Keane]

Do you remember David Bowie talking about the artist and the audience being in sympatico and nobody would understand it? That's what's going on here.

I do remember that Bowie stuff and how aspirational and magical it sounded, and I'm trying to be less cynical about popular things in general at the moment so I must actually try and figure it out. Thanks

[Keane]

Jesus Christ will cunts never get their fucking comeuppance?

*cathartic sigh*

[ComradeCollie]

[Denny Crane]

I don't understand tictoc but I love that

Mad how this kinda content builds up such a following.

https://www.tiktok.com/@miriammullins_?lang=en

[Hectorjelly]

That was last Monday, btw.

That's awful.

[hotspur]

At what point we we call it and say that the democratisation of media has been a bad thing? Ah for the days when the conspiracy nut had one or two conspiracies he somehow came across and had nobody to talk to about them who would listen. Now they can gather and storm Capitol Hill.

[elbows]

Wellerman overload

[Silver-Tiger]

Who's the shout in the Welsh?

[Guest]

At what point we we call it and say that the democratisation of media has been a bad thing? Ah for the days when the conspiracy nut had one or two conspiracies he somehow came across and had nobody to talk to about them who would listen. Now they can gather and storm Capitol Hill.

I was thinking about this exact thing when I saw Trump removed from Twitter.

At what point does rhetoric cross that threshold where it becomes inflammatory enough to justify censorship.

Does his account get banned in the event that the Capitol Building doesn't get stormed but his tweets are exactly the same or is the ban simply reactive to the actions of others.

A difficult issue to navigate

[Dice75]

Would be good if it becomes a Twitter policy to ban people like this.

I just heard that the guard that Gemma O’Doherty and her followers abused over social media for most of a year killed himself.

He didnt kill himself, he just sadly happened to pass away.

[Keane]

Mad how this kinda content builds up such a following.

https://www.tiktok.com/@miriammullins_?lang=en

As we know, it's the children who are wrong. I'm finding that worst case scenario I'm getting many, many 15 second snippets of absolute bangers even if the video they're accompanying is stupid.

[Wombatman]

Tough watching Bitcoin from the sidelines after bailing out a couple of week ago. Is $100k the next realistic ceiling?

[RichieM]

He didnt kill himself, he just sadly happened to pass away.

Ah, social media strikes again. Either way Ireland would be a significantly better place if she was removed from social media.

[Keane]

Tough watching Bitcoin from the sidelines after bailing out a couple of week ago. Is $100k the next realistic ceiling?

I suppose it's plausible that there would be sell orders at a number like 50k?

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

TikTok is genuinely class. For those brief moments in the day when you just want to switch off. I just block anything that seems even slightly political or serious. Mostly Irish cunts that want to bring their complaining to a new platform. But 99% of stuff there is mindless upbeat fun.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

[Wombatman]

Would be good if it becomes a Twitter policy to ban people like this.

I just heard that the guard that Gemma O’Doherty and her followers abused over social media for most of a year killed himself.

Not having a go at you Richie, but it's the misinformation \ disinformation, like your post, that is the real danger, not the platforms themselves.

Topical, as that Irish CNN reporter, Donie O’Sullivan was going on about it during the week and the young scientist winner was detecting 'deepfakes'.

Amazing how easily bad information can spread and mutate like a virus. Most of the mutations happen in peoples heads not on Twitter or Facebook.

[Mellor]

Seen that wine stair before, or a version. Very good, and piss easy to do, those boxes are available as modular pieces.

Too bad I’ve no stair.

[balfejohn]

Dominiteur

sorry about the spelling

[shrapnel]

I suppose it's plausible that there would be sell orders at a number like 50k?

I've started mining bitcoin (not exactly mining but selling my processing power). At these prices, profitability fluctuates between 3.5 to 8 quid a day. Just doing it out of curiosity if anything else, but it's a lot of fun so far.

[Raoul Duke III]

Who's the shout in the Welsh?

Going for Big River as my last bet before Cheltenham (mainly as I can see my time is going to be 100% split between schooling, general parenting duties and somehow getting a flying start at my new job and I won't have time for anything else )

[Guest]

Going for Big River as my last bet before Cheltenham (mainly as I can see my time is going to be 100% split between schooling, general parenting duties and somehow getting a flying start at my new job and I won't have time for anything else )

What’s the general word in your place regarding back to the office?
Not so much timeline because who knows but do you feel they’re happy with long term WFH for staff?

[Strewelpeter]

Dominiteur

sorry about the spelling

Was top of my shortlist early but went off it completely so that should provide you with all the encouragment you need

I'm laying the fav and ew on Cloudy Glen and YalaEnke

[Keane]

I've started mining bitcoin (not exactly mining but selling my processing power). At these prices, profitability fluctuates between 3.5 to 8 quid a day. Just doing it out of curiosity if anything else, but it's a lot of fun so far.

How do you do that?

[Raoul Duke III]

What’s the general word in your place regarding back to the office?
Not so much timeline because who knows but do you feel they’re happy with long term WFH for staff?

Depends on the location. NY and London were very much being told to get back into the office before the third wave. Dublin on the other hand has basically been a ghost building for the last 10 months and local management are 100% fine with that.

Lots of non-Irish people went home during the first wave and have now got serious tax issues. That is one thing pushing people back.

[shrapnel]

How do you do that?

Very straightforward with a site called nicehash who essentially brokers your hash power out to the highest bidder.

[dinekes]

I've started mining bitcoin (not exactly mining but selling my processing power). At these prices, profitability fluctuates between 3.5 to 8 quid a day. Just doing it out of curiosity if anything else, but it's a lot of fun so far.

I presume above figures have taken into account increased electricity usage as mining obv uses a fair bit.
Have you checked your leccy bills to reconcile?

How much of your processing power do they access or fo you just restrict them to times when you wont be using computer?


# was reading a bit about the co founder Matjaz Skorjanc
Did 4 years for a malware program he developed called botnet. Scanned for passwords, bank deets etc.

[Guest]

I presume above figures have taken into account increased electricity usage as mining obv uses a fair bit.
Have you checked your leccy bills to reconcile?

How much of your processing power do they access or fo you just restrict them to times when you wont be using computer?


# was reading a bit about the co founder Matjaz Skorjanc
Did 4 years for a malware program he developed called botnet. Scanned for passwords, bank deets etc.

Crypto world is full of scammers and fraudsters- you don’t have to do much digging

[Guest]

Depends on the location. NY and London were very much being told to get back into the office before the third wave. Dublin on the other hand has basically been a ghost building for the last 10 months and local management are 100% fine with that.

Lots of non-Irish people went home during the first wave and have now got serious tax issues. That is one thing pushing people back.

I’ve heard people talk about the tax issues as it was the main thing that stopped a friend of mine travelling during the pandemic.

I’m interested how US firms based here approach it. They must see the benefit of having people not leave offices at 5/6 local time to commute an hour and instead use at least a proportion of that time to communicate with those in the US.

[dobby]

Not having a go at you Richie, but it's the misinformation \ disinformation, like your post, that is the real danger, not the platforms themselves.

Topical, as that Irish CNN reporter, Donie O’Sullivan was going on about it during the week and the young scientist winner was detecting 'deepfakes'.

Amazing how easily bad information can spread and mutate like a virus. Most of the mutations happen in peoples heads not on Twitter or Facebook.

Just had an exchange with a mate who put on Facebook an RIP to the Gard and mentioned suicide. I said he didnt kill himself and he called me a GemBot

I tried to explain that spreading misinformation of any kind is bad and he said if its proven that the Gard didn't kill himself he will take it down. Tried to explain that the damage is already done, even if he deleted it and he couldn't see it.

As you say, it's all in the head.

[Elshambles]

How does the Ex get to keep the golden boot?

[oleras]

I admire her carpentry and glazing skilz.

Unless she got someone in to do it, then its not a lockdown project...imo.

[Denny Crane]

Not meant to be a great spot for the long-term

[Lazare]

Seen that wine stair before, or a version. Very good, and piss easy to do, those boxes are available as modular pieces.

Too bad I’ve no stair.

We've a playroom under ours. It's definitely getting that treatment in the future.

[Hectorjelly]

Tough watching Bitcoin from the sidelines after bailing out a couple of week ago. Is $100k the next realistic ceiling?

20k was a very natural ceiling because it was a round number, and also the previous ATH - so you had a tonne of people patiently waiting since 2017 who could finally get out at a profit/even. (I think there was a few from here).

There is no other level that will have the same effect - anyone who has ever bought BTC is hugely in profit so it's hard to think of a figure a sell wall would be constructed at. There isn't much difference in selling at 45k or 48 than 50k.

[dinekes]

So finally feeling a bit chipper..

Basically since last Tue week have had an elevated temp between 100 and 102degs pretty much 24/7 unless suppressing with paracetamol and ibuprofen.

Constant headache from the higher temp, breathing a bit laboured, chills, weird pains that came and went, no energy, no appetite (soup and a few crackers was about all I could eat on daily basis) and no taste or smell.
Got worse after about 6 days with cough, pain on inhalation and higher temp.
It finally broke on Fri am sometime when I woke up completely soaked in sweat. So fever free now since then so another day or so I can venture out and see how the lungs hold up to a walk.

Worst part about it is the rinse and repeat nature of it.
It's not like a normal illness where you feel bad get worse get better.
It was pretty much day 1 repeated 10 times with an escalation after day 5.


My routine for the past long while now ...

Close contacts zero
Christmas shopping zero
Socialising zero
Family/Friends met zero

I suppose my part time job in retail put me at high risk despite my Howard Hughes like approach to sanitizing.

[limpwhacker]

Gr

Very straightforward with a site called nicehash who essentially brokers your hash power out to the highest bidder.

Great name for a site. Do they sell grass as well as hash ?

[Raoul Duke III]

I’ve heard people talk about the tax issues as it was the main thing that stopped a friend of mine travelling during the pandemic.

I’m interested how US firms based here approach it. They must see the benefit of having people not leave offices at 5/6 local time to commute an hour and instead use at least a proportion of that time to communicate with those in the US.

From that perspective, I could pretty much decide to WFH as much as I wanted pre-pandemic anyway. Although I'm probably not the best example as all my team are based in other locations.

I think generally it depends on your function. Tech people get far more leeway than business.

[Pat Mustard]

Who's the shout in the Welsh?

I told yiz on the 26th

Sorry only seeing this now, wouldn't have made much with my selections today. But for tomorrow my e.w lucky 15 would be Secret Reprieve for the Welsh National, Home by the Lee in the PP in Leopardstown, Cap Du Nord at Kempton and Blazing Khal at Limerick.

[Lazare]

I'm finding WFH really nice. Have a nice set up at a hair drying desk in a nice bedroom in the house. It's a corner room so two windows which creates a nice comfortable office.

Am working solely on a new product launch, lots of time spent studying, learning all about it.

Being able to take a break and mess about with the kids is amazing. Also just nipping out for a run on the lunchbreak.

Employer giving me all the time and space I need really helps.

[shrapnel]

I presume above figures have taken into account increased electricity usage as mining obv uses a fair bit.
Have you checked your leccy bills to reconcile?

How much of your processing power do they access or fo you just restrict them to times when you wont be using computer?


# was reading a bit about the co founder Matjaz Skorjanc
Did 4 years for a malware program he developed called botnet. Scanned for passwords, bank deets etc.

power consumption isn't much more than when the PC is running as normal. I only turn off the mining when i'm gaming. Profitability so far is about £4-5 per day (after electricity is taken into account). i know i can get better rates if i lower the voltage on the GPU but haven't done that yet. I've got a good 60Mh/s currently. just learning and tweaking as i go along tbh.

I only give access to my GPU as rates for CPU are so much lower and puts the CPU at 80% load so really not worth it.

[Lazare]

lol

[Raoul Duke III]

I'm finding WFH really nice. Have a nice set up at a hair drying desk in a nice bedroom in the house.

Like I have two daughters and a wife but that still seems ludicrous.

[Guest]

The “trump has the nuclear codes” headlines are fairly sensationalist no? Implying that’s he’s the last human to press the button

[Lazare]

Like I have two daughters and a wife but that still seems ludicrous.

It's just a thin IKEA drawer desk, a mirror and a chair, hardly Kim and Kanye

[Lazare]

The “trump has the nuclear codes” headlines are fairly sensationalist no? Implying that’s he’s the last human to press the button

Yeah, you'd have to imagine it's bollox.

I'm sure a situation like this wasn't overlooked when planning protocol around ending the world.

[dinekes]

Yeah, you'd have to imagine it's bollox.

I'm sure a situation like this wasn't overlooked when planning protocol around ending the world.

https://youtu.be/4LvWIYOK1p8

[Raoul Duke III]

Yeah, you'd have to imagine it's bollox.

I'm sure a situation like this wasn't overlooked when planning protocol around ending the world.

This story covers it well.

key point:

A senior military official stressed on Friday that troops have been taught to recognize and disobey illegal orders, particularly those at U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees America’s nuclear arsenal. While theoretically Trump could fire any officer who refused to obey an illegal order, he would be hard-pressed to find another who would implement it, the person said.