Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[DeadParrot]

Bombing children seems to have created some positive sentiment from the juries

War is tres gauche

[Lazare]

lol

[oleras]

Group 2 is surely a straight race between GAB and KKK.

DP and Ole for Group 1.

Giddy up

[DeadParrot]

Iceland

[oleras]

Georgia....

[Strewelpeter]

Italy 1/2
France 7/1 Swiss 4/1 ...they think the public will hate them

[DeadParrot]

Fuck right off uk

Amanda Holden saying Hello in Dutch and French and proudly saying she didn't know which was which really sums the UK up so a good choice of ambassador there

[Strewelpeter]

Public vote must have leaked

[Strewelpeter]

Eurovision Game Two.
Fav/2nd favs France & Italy removed. Remaining 24 countries split into 3 groups of 8 according to oddschecker. One from each list assigned to each player via random org lists.
Only your worst two scores count, add them together and the lowest overall total wins. €25 a head, honour system. contact the winner and pay afterwards.

Hitch	Iceland	Russia	Albania
Gimmebreak	Ukraine	Azerbaijan	Israel
KK82	Malta	Serbia	Spain
premierstone	Lithuania	Bulgaria	Netherlands
Benny Hi-Fi	San Marino	Cyprus	Belgium
Micknail	Portugal	Norway	Germany
RD3	Finland	Greece	UK
Dice75	Switzerland	Sweden	Moldova

and game 1 reposted just to have it on the current page.

Emmet	Switzerland	Bulgaria	UK
Oleras	Portugal	Serbia	Albania
Dead Parrot	San Marino	Azerbaijan	Spain
Solskjaer	Ukraine	Sweden	Belgium
Balfejohn	Malta	Norway	Moldova
ionapaul	Iceland	Russia	Netherlands
Strewelpeter	Finland	Cyprus	Israel
Lao Lao	Lithuania	Greece	Germany

Be interesting to see if Israel is a golden ticket for SP & GAB, hard to see how they can score many points from the tele votes after the countries bad press of the last week.

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[oleras]

WP DP

[Strewelpeter]

Ole wins game 1, no?

Oh no DP by a mile

[DeadParrot]

Ole wins game 1, no?

Oh no DP by a mile

I'm 56 and out

[oleras]

I'm 56 and out

Send me on revolut or PayPal...when I sober up I'll pay...lol
loves me some Eurovision

[ArmaniJeans]

Family jewels on Lithuania to top the UK televote

Winner. wp.
Seems a strange outcome, what was it based on?

[ArmaniJeans]

The bookies must have a share in that Italian shite
how r they favs

It's like you have lost touch with the central/east European gay scene.

[Dice75]

Did RD or Micknail win game 2? Send me on deets if it was the latter

[balfejohn]

Well done all winners. Send on some bank details and I will ship the few Bob
good nights viewing,some great songs and some wacky acts

[balfejohn]

It's like you have lost touch with the central/east European gay scene.

I’m on it
its the transgender binary transgender group I don’t get
they have me confused

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Yes please PM Revolut deets whoever won! Ukraine top five was the breakeven bet for me. But of course the real winner was entertainment.

[ArmaniJeans]

Dead Parrot Game 1 and Micknail Game 2 I think.
Neither had the shambolic UK but those with UK were let down by the second team.
We should hold the money in trust for Micknail until he turns 21.

[Dice75]

We should hold the money in trust for Micknail until he turns 21.

We can buy him some Dogecoin to hold

[KK82]

Wait, who won game 2? PM me details.. I can pay pretty much any method. I knew it was bad when I got landed with the only country I had a bet on to win! Thanks to AJ for running! Did I miss it or did he forget to post his annual Satellite post?

Dunno how to post YouTube links here, but here we go..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pL9...ionSongContest

[ArmaniJeans]

Wait, who won game 2? PM me details.. I can pay pretty much any method. I knew it was bad when I got landed with the only country I had a bet on to win! Thanks to AJ for running! Did I miss it or did he forget to post his annual Satellite post?

Dunno how to post YouTube links here, but here we go..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pL9...ionSongContest

D'oh, I forgot about posting Lena before the votes. Amazing what a break of a year does to the mind.
Will rectify next year hopefully.

[Dice75]

Winner. wp.
Seems a strange outcome, what was it based on?

Patriotic bunch who love Eurovision and a fair whack of them in UK who probably all vote last weeks wages and back it

[Solksjaer!]

Winner PM me . DP? revolute or bank deets. Missed all the fun doh. Heard about Iceland . Raging I missed it .

[Dice75]

In our corporate directory we can now choose which personal pronouns we wish to be referred to by. Quite the baffling galaxy of choice.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/19/u..._medium=social

There ya go

[Micknail]

Spot please, I feel I have an edge vs. those players.

Boom, sensed the value.

Dead Parrot Game 1 and Micknail Game 2 I think.
We should hold the money in trust for Micknail until he turns 21.

Trust fund baby yeah!!!!

Would it be wrong to send it to GAB for a spin up tho?

[Gimmeabreak]

PM bank Micknail pls.

[BennyHiFi]

PM bank Micknail pls.

Likewise. Wp.

[premierstone]

PM bank Micknail pls.

Ditto please.

[Raoul Duke III]

Ditto please.

+1 etc

Was momentarily excited to see I had binked the nul points scoring UK but Greece let me down.

What have the Greeks ever done for us?

[Lao Lao]

DeadParrot - Can you PM me your bank details please and I'll transfer the loots

[Lazare]

Tell you what, that Mickste fella is a true gent, the soundest of the sound.

I put up a tweet saying my wrist was numb on a run, commenting on how cold it is, but not really making it clear in hindsight.

He sent me a dm within a minute of posting it asking was I alright.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

If you are buying a house - should you do stuff like engage a solicitor early in the process? Like say if we get approval and are going to be making bids all over the place hoping some work out - is that just us making the bids, or should it be done through a solicitor who acts on our behalf? I've heard conflicting views, so not really sure.

[Mellor]

If you are buying a house - should you do stuff like engage a solicitor early in the process? Like say if we get approval and are going to be making bids all over the place hoping some work out - is that just us making the bids, or should it be done through a solicitor who acts on our behalf? I've heard conflicting views, so not really sure.

You can bid directly with vendors agent. You need a solicitor for conveyancing, but don’t see the need to pay then to act as a secretary.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

You can bid directly with vendors agent. You need a solicitor for conveyancing, but don’t see the need to pay then to act as a secretary.

Someone was saying that they made all their bids through the solicitor, as they felt the estate agents were able to read their facial expressions a bit too well.

[Strewelpeter]

Property bidding 'tells'... This is what we have become

Once were warriors

[dinekes]

Got a limited edition signed copy of "The Ginger Man" fot bros 60th.

Check out yisser hardback bukes, might be worth a few quid.
Have "The Crossing" by Cormac McCarty selling in rare bookshop for €75. Bought the border trilogy secondhand for next to nothing, either £3 or €3.
Have a terrible habit of 'lending' out books that on reflection I should have kept as they're great for a re-read.

List of numbers on the publisher details page ..if theres a 1 in the list indicates first edition.

[Dice75]

Someone was saying that they made all their bids through the solicitor, as they felt the estate agents were able to read their facial expressions a bit too well.

Will bid for €1k, will overbid and pull out last minute for €1500, will threaten EA with kneecapping for €2k or the delux package for €5k

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

The particular person also managed to survive 10 years on Wall Street as a trader working for a bulge bracket firm, so that's what got me doubting myself when she said that! Plus also me having no clue about the whole process, admittedly.

[Tar.Aldarion]

Are they not just emailing or calling to say a number and that's it? What are they reading from their face, lol.

[Wombatman]

Would have won the Eurovision if the US were allowed to enter.......

[Denny Crane]

I guess defi is blowing itself up.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Are they not just emailing or calling to say a number and that's it? What are they reading from their face, lol.

Well I only heard it through my wife, as its her boss, but no it seemed to be about sitting in a room talking to estate agents.

[Raoul Duke III]

I guess defi is blowing itself up.

Cad e an sceal?

[V for Vendetta]

Bidding in the Dublin market I can't see your poker face making much of a difference. There will always be underbidders etc. so basically it's about making sure they know you are a legit bidder with no chain and mortgage approval in principle Hitch. Then it's about offers and counter offers. Very little poker to be played imo.

Bidding in the countryside where there may not be as many under bidders and vendors are prepared/expecting to wait a little longer before selling etc. it's important to perhaps set the tone that you could lose interest and go looking elsewhere....definitely more games to be played....

[Lazare]

This Belarus thing is insane.

[Raoul Duke III]

Been a while since I heard of 'bloggers' being a notable grouping.

[Lazare]

A 'terrorist' blogger, soon to be executed.

Flights will be taking the long way around Belarus in future I'd say.

[mocata]

Younger brother is trying to get on the ladder in Dublin, me and other family were gonna throw in a few chunky contributions to help him get a decent deposit but the sums are just mind boggling. Obvs the black north is a 3rd world country, but literally half the price. 190k buys a decent class semi D in reasonable areas in Newry/Belfast outright.
https://www.propertypal.com/71-cleve...deshow/photo-7

Looks like he will need 100k+ just for deposit for some shithole in knackerville so far from Dublin City centre it's borderline fraudulent to describe it as being actually in Dublin.

[dinekes]

Cad e an sceal?

Crypto across the board plummeted in value.
Bitcoin approx 50% from ATH and Ether over 50%

This in the wake of Chinas ban on Crypto payments
Musk tweeting
Huobi exchange scaling back on transactions
Climate change organisations now not accepting payments in Bitcoin
US tightening on disclosure of transactions over $10k (not sure if that's happened yet)

Think I'll invest in books

[Wombatman]

Someone was saying that they made all their bids through the solicitor, as they felt the estate agents were able to read their facial expressions a bit too well.

Is there anything to stop estate agents making up phantom bidders?

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Coincidentally I was helping my dad set up his crypto account tonight as he's going to join me on the DOT train.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Is there anything to stop estate agents making up phantom bidders?

maybe its something on that. They'd be less likely to try to insinuate anything if its a solicitor they were speaking to.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Only found out about stamp duty today, so I'm quite far behind the curve for someone who might be getting mortgage approval soon. And solicitors fees. ffs.

[Wombatman]

maybe its something on that. They'd be less likely to try to insinuate anything if its a solicitor they were speaking to.

Obviously goes on. There should be an independent, transparent bid logging system.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/irel...ules-1.3816717

Peoples identity could be obfuscated. But you should be able to see a history of bids from say bidder A,B,C and D all the way through the process until it comes down to the last one.

Make a chart of bid histories. You will see trends and sweet spots and get a feel for optimum bidding increments.

If bidding, be super firm when your stop bid is reached.

[Micknail]

Only found out about stamp duty today, so I'm quite far behind the curve for someone who might be getting mortgage approval soon. And solicitors fees. ffs.

Don't exclude the engineer's report too required by the bank to prove the house in alright shape.
Pay cash, they'll say whatever you want.

[Emmet]

Magic stuff in the golf with Harrington and Lowry finishing up together and then seeing everyone else start to fold them into the big money.

Lowry should have stuck the birdie on 18 though.

[ArmaniJeans]

Magic stuff in the golf with Harrington and Lowry finishing up together and then seeing everyone else start to fold them into the big money.

Lowry should have stuck the birdie on 18 though.

Just need a gigantic meltdown from Phil over the difficult closing holes (and Oosthuizen to drop one more), and the Irish lads are in a playoff.

[Solksjaer!]

Just need a gigantic meltdown from Phil over the difficult closing holes (and Oosthuizen to drop one more), and the Irish lads are in a playoff.

Worth a fiver or 2 @ 200+ to 1 . However be great to see Phil take it done for us ol geezers