Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[Strewelpeter]

Been living on a mainly tomato diet for weeks now and it's just bliss

SPOILER

Made the most perfect pizza sauce last night


Loads of homegrown tomatoes chopped up finely. I've like five different varieties here but the more the San Marzano ones the better
add loads of herbs a bit of salt and a splash of olive oil and thats it, nothing else after a while squeeze off the excess juice and put it on your pizza

How am I ever going to stop being a fat bastard when I can rustle up shit this good in a few minutes?

SPOILER

[Raoul Duke III]

Looks good sp!

BBQing/pizza'ing for 25 tomorrow, will have to channel that although your sauce is a lot chunkier than I would like.

[Lao Lao]

Opinions on Matt the thresers?
Have never been (been to both above)

I've never eaten in Matt The Thresers so not sure what it is like - Pretty sure Bourdain had oysters and a pint of Guinness there on one of his layover/36 hours in shows and he loved them but that was early morning

[Silver-Tiger]

Looks great, SP. Really great.

[Silver-Tiger]

I like Matt the Thresher. Been there plenty. Their specials usually get selected.

Seafood joint though. If either of you are picky at all the seafood don't bother.

[DeadParrot]

Booked.
Herself was in the mood for seafood.
I'm not picky in the slightest.

Review will follow in due course

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Booked asador for a few weeks time on the back of here. That menu looks ridiculously tasty. Kinda running out of people to finangle into lunch, so if we do manage to start a bbv lunch club then count me in. I'll bring the style with my new fade.

[Mellor]

I find it amazing being honest that people willingly accept that we have to keep getting injected with an experimental vaccine. I got my two jabs pzizer not been sick since 2003 had a viral thing roaring temp missed the Christmas dinner.

You had a vital thing after the jab?

How many boosters are needed any other vaccine is a one off finito. If I don’t get a booster do I then get relegated into the division of unvaccinated.

Most vaccines are one and done. But the vast majority of them are temporary. I’d guess the most common vaccine is the flu shot. Only good until next season.

The is the problem with covid. People have their mind made up, then find something that sounds sophisticated enough to them to pass off as science and fact.

Adverse reactions exist. But statistically much less common that a covid death. So somebody citing that as a reason for not getting it has a very loose application of science. More likely that they are just it getting it and finding justification in their head.

[Pat Mustard]

Booked.
Herself was in the mood for seafood.
I'm not picky in the slightest.

Review will follow in due course

I always find the food good, the seafood linguine is very good if none of the specials suit. Service can be hit and miss.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

It also says over 1m in height. Think you'd want to be well over that to bluff it.

A three year old could be 1m without being a freak. A six year old would have a significant height problem if they weren't 1m! Its a strange height restriction.

[Dice75]

Hmmm, young lad starting football tonight so emailed to confirm a few details and offered a hand with anything needing doing.

Reply I got was "Thanks we'll allocate you a Sunday team" - what does that mean It sounds ominous....

[elbows]

Hmmm, young lad starting football tonight so emailed to confirm a few details and offered a hand with anything needing doing.

Reply I got was "Thanks we'll allocate you a Sunday team" - what does that mean It sounds ominous....

That’s you fully roped in

[dobby]

Hmmm, young lad starting football tonight so emailed to confirm a few details and offered a hand with anything needing doing.

Reply I got was "Thanks we'll allocate you a Sunday team" - what does that mean It sounds ominous....

Lol. That means you are now the coach of the Sunday team for the year. Unlucky/well played but I get the feeling its unlucky

Never say anything like that in email. Sports clubs are so stretched you'll get nailed straight away. I help out the club here the odd time with the under 6s and 7s and what I see parents doing is saying they can stay to help for the hour instead of being committed to every single Saturday morning. Mostly they just drop and go but every few weeks they stay to help. That's what you need to do but as it is, sounds like you're a coach now

[ArmaniJeans]

Hmmm, young lad starting football tonight so emailed to confirm a few details and offered a hand with anything needing doing.

Reply I got was "Thanks we'll allocate you a Sunday team" - what does that mean It sounds ominous....

The players play and the coaches coach.
But no junior Sunday team can survive without a dogsbody.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to perching the smallest member of the team on your shoulder to put up the nets, filling in the team sheet for the ref using a stubby pencil whilst gale force wind and rain pound at you, and picking up mucky jerseys and shorts off the floor of the dressing room post match.
Sounds like you've been nominated for this little-appreciated role.

[coillcam]

Hmmm, young lad starting football tonight so emailed to confirm a few details and offered a hand with anything needing doing.

Reply I got was "Thanks we'll allocate you a Sunday team" - what does that mean It sounds ominous....

If you don't want to or don't have free time for helping out, then stay as far away as possible and have the excuses well prepared. I was one of the coaches for an underage hurling team and also secretary a few years back. Doing one job was enough but two is tough going. I was still playing senior at the time so I barely had an evening free in the middle of the season. They try to rope the Dads in with a "can you come early to a session?" and "put out a few cones" or even "fill the water". It's all downhill after this and you'll be doing a tactics board in a few weeks .

Parking that for a moment, I did really enjoy the coaching side of it and found it very rewarding. I eventually ended up playing senior for a couple of years with some of the lads I coached. I even marked one of those kids in a junior match (from a different club as it was an amalgamation I coached on). The fucker was determined to burst me with the hurley. He was taught well .

[Raoul Duke III]

Fucking Scandies. Had a flight booking with SAS to Copenhagen for the family at 12.40pm on a Friday i.e. the perfect time to arrive and they've now changed it to 8.15pm, meaning we won't arrive until after midnight (not ideal with kids).

FFS!

[Dice75]

Better prepare myself for later so. "Why yes i'd love to help out. Whats that you say, manage a team? Oh I'd love to but am away every second weekend with work, such a pity". (and half true tbf)

[Mellor]

Mellor I was asking about your ethical opinions, not whether people have a hierarchy or not of valuing creatures. They do, and it tells you nothing about the reasons that they do.

Which ethical is opinions were you asking about?
As my original post was entirely a counter to the ideal that all creatures are equal, and/or that’s it’s equally bad to cause their death. That view, is entirely at odds with any hierarchy. I’m not claiming to know people’s motives or justifications for their hierarchy, just that it’s existence proves my point.

Why do you think it's okay to kill some creatures and not others? I'm asking an ethical question, not wondering if you or others do or don't hold that view.

In short, because some creatures are “worth” more than others. That worth is based on a value that we all assign, consciously or subconsciously.
That only one aspect of course, not a case of a white and black lists. Reason, circumstance, etc.

When you say that creatures have different innate values of existence, what does that mean? If the sense of the value of their existence resides in a human mind, then in what way is it innate to the creature itself?

I was referencing the fact we assign the value to a species, or groups of species, as a characteristic of that species. Present by virtue of its existence. It’s innate in the sense that it’s is an inborn value.

Maybe we should say a perceived innate value and it exists only in our minds. But many things exist only in our perception.

I mentioned complexity as I imagined you might think that the quality of life a more complex being could have would make an ethical difference to depriving them of that life. To quote John Stuart Mill:

Well, no I don’t, as I don’t see a parallel with complexity.

But maybe you should define what you mean my complexity. As I said above, there are creatures far more genetically and biologically choked than humans, than lack any worth outside of their study.

I find find your quote interesting. Again seems by complexity you mean intelligence. Do you think intelligent people are worth more? In the sense of perceived worth automatically afforded by their existence. Quite an archaic view imo.

But if you really did just mean that bigger animals are more worthy of living absent their emotional, intellectual, and social complexity then why do you hold that view?

I didn’t say that was my view. I said that seems to be the view that people hold. When I think I of creatures that people appear to value, I can’t help but notice the correlation to size.

Your own example, an elephant and a fly. I’d hazard a guess you’d value a horse over a spider, or a whale over a shrimp.I’m sure there are other factors, but size
seams to be one. Not the only one.

My own view would be a combination of multiple factors.

[Raoul Duke III]

Ryanair to the rescue with their 11.55am flight.

Had to waste 30mins on the phone to SAS who seemed to think I should pay them €150 for the privilege of cancelling a flight they had moved by 8 hours.

[The Istanbul]

Been living on a mainly tomato diet for weeks now and it's just bliss

SPOILER

Made the most perfect pizza sauce last night


Loads of homegrown tomatoes chopped up finely. I've like five different varieties here but the more the San Marzano ones the better
add loads of herbs a bit of salt and a splash of olive oil and thats it, nothing else after a while squeeze off the excess juice and put it on your pizza

How am I ever going to stop being a fat bastard when I can rustle up shit this good in a few minutes?

SPOILER

Beats the poxy haircut pics anyhow

[The Istanbul]

Booked asador for a few weeks time on the back of here. That menu looks ridiculously tasty. Kinda running out of people to finangle into lunch, so if we do manage to start a bbv lunch club then count me in. I'll bring the style with my new fade.

I'd go with that too

[Dice75]

Booked asador for a few weeks time on the back of here. That menu looks ridiculously tasty. Kinda running out of people to finangle into lunch, so if we do manage to start a bbv lunch club then count me in. I'll bring the style with my new fade.

You do know a BBV lunch club would decend into last man standing in some shithole strip club at 2am via a dozen other venues en route

[The Istanbul]

You do know a BBV lunch club would decend into last man standing in some shithole strip club at 2am via a dozen other venues en route

And your problem is.............

[Raoul Duke III]

@Dice, it's only fair that you help out but, assuming there's an actual coach, just say you'll help out every 3rd/4th week and get a rota going with the other dads.

[Lao Lao]

I can see Dice now, standing in front of fourteen 7 year old's bleary eyed from only logging off an online poker tournament about 30 minutes previously.

'I'm the boss. I'm the gaffer. At the end of the day what I say goes. The buck stops with me and there'll be no banana skins on my watch, ya hear?'

And then wheels out a cardboard cut out of Bobby Robson.

[Dice75]

And your problem is.............

Trying to pour the likes of you into a taxi at 5pm

[DeadParrot]

Better prepare myself for later so. "Why yes i'd love to help out. Whats that you say, manage a team? Oh I'd love to but am away every second weekend with work, such a pity". (and half true tbf)

Which weekends?
Oh that's fine, those are the home matches. You can manage the away ones

[Dice75]

@Dice, it's only fair that you help out but, assuming there's an actual coach, just say you'll help out every 3rd/4th week and get a rota going with the other dads.

Ah yeah , of course. Id even stretch to "most" weekends unless I've something on which wouldnt be too often

[oleras]

Just catching up after a week in Spain, noone checked my vaccine pass on the way out or in Spain, temp checks and locator qr checked in Spain, zero checked when i came back to Ireland.

See there was talk of Bourdain, there is a new doc about him out, havent watched it yet, you will really want to be in a good head space id say to give it a lash.

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

[Goodluck2me]

Been living on a mainly tomato diet for weeks now and it's just bliss

SPOILER

Made the most perfect pizza sauce last night


Loads of homegrown tomatoes chopped up finely. I've like five different varieties here but the more the San Marzano ones the better
add loads of herbs a bit of salt and a splash of olive oil and thats it, nothing else after a while squeeze off the excess juice and put it on your pizza

How am I ever going to stop being a fat bastard when I can rustle up shit this good in a few minutes?

SPOILER

Where did you get that mozzarella?

[Goodluck2me]

asador on the short list
We got Saba in kildare village not too long ago.

As adorn was very poor the last time I was there too. I’d vote FXBs for sure, they are 5/5 for good meals so far.

[Strewelpeter]

Hmmm, young lad starting football tonight so emailed to confirm a few details and offered a hand with anything needing doing.

Reply I got was "Thanks we'll allocate you a Sunday team" - what does that mean It sounds ominous....

And there was I thinking I wouldn't get a better laugh than Hitch's hair this weekend

[hotspur]

My own view would be a combination of multiple factors.

Which is the question I asked you in the beginning. I still don't know what the answer is other than size might be one of them. But look let's leave it, I didn't expect it to be a multi- day one. Time difference is a factor I suppose.

[Hectorjelly]

Looks like Ronaldo back to united. Solks should be happy!

[DeadParrot]

plenty of happy little willys in the bbv tonight

[Micknail]

Am I the only one that thinks that's a terrible move for both parties?

[balfejohn]

Hmmm, young lad starting football tonight so emailed to confirm a few details and offered a hand with anything needing doing.

Reply I got was "Thanks we'll allocate you a Sunday team" - what does that mean It sounds ominous....

Start watching Kes good Yorkshire film
it will give u some coaching tips for the older footballer

[Tar.Aldarion]

Hotspur: What day are you going to the barber Mellor?

Mellor: Well you see, many different cultures have had different calendars throughout history...
<723 lines later> ...and so, in conclusion, people like to go to the barber on different days, for a variety of reasons, often based on the size of their do.
One thing we know for sure, Hitch is going to the wrong one.

[Solksjaer!]

To be honest I'm not a fan of the move. Too many EGOs there already you'll win nothing with ol fellas

[pokerhand]

plenty of happy little willys in the bbv tonight

Thank fuck for that. I hated the idea of him going to City. Don't want him at the club.

[Raoul Duke III]

Good fightback by India here although would still fancy Ingerland to skittle them in the morning. Although potential for 1.01-esque gubbing hilarity.

[Theresa]

Have to laugh when any fan, team or manager would say that 30 goals a season is not wanted.

Give me a break. He will make every team better. Even still.

My main concern with him at United is not whether he will perform but I’m more concerned about what it means for the likes of Greenwood’s development. And some concern over whether he really fits the type of team Ole has built.

[pokerhand]

Have to laugh when any fan, team or manager would say that 30 goals a season is not wanted.

Give me a break. He will make every team better. Even still.

My main concern with him at United is not whether he will perform but I’m more concerned about what it means for the likes of Greenwood’s development. And some concern over whether he really fits the type of team Ole has built.

He is 36. Hardly one to build a team around.

[Raoul Duke III]

Seems like a ploy to sell shirts more than anything.

Anyone want to set a line on how many PL+CL goals he'll get this season? He got 29+6 last season.

[Theresa]

He is 36. Hardly one to build a team around.

But I don’t think anyone really thinks the plan is to build a team around him. Or at least it definitely shouldn’t.

[Solksjaer!]

Have to laugh when any fan, team or manager would say that 30 goals a season is not wanted.

Give me a break. He will make every team better. Even still.

My main concern with him at United is not whether he will perform but I’m more concerned about what it means for the likes of Greenwood’s development. And some concern over whether he really fits the type of team Ole has built.

Hes on the wane and I'm not sure Ole has the balls to drop him if it means less Greenwood NO. If it means less Martial YES.

Tend to agree with Raoul here. Shirt sales

[Guest]

Good fightback by India here although would still fancy Ingerland to skittle them in the morning. Although potential for 1.01-esque gubbing hilarity.

16/1 lads very settled England had to chase 260 just get root out rest collapse easy game

[Raoul Duke III]

16/1 lads very settled England had to chase 260 just get root out rest collapse easy game

They'd need to get 600+ for that to happen, which would be truly remarkable.

260 is generous, 150 is a tough ask in the 4th innings of any test. Although Root would get it on his own with one hand tied behind his back and a blindfold on in his current form. Pure Lara-esque God Mode.

[dobby]

He is 36. Hardly one to build a team around.

Considering the current centre forward options are Martial who is dogshit and a never fully fit Cavani, I think it's a decent move to get Ronaldo in for 2 years. Guaranteed goals still and is known for keeping himself in shape. Allows Greenwood to develop I hope by working with him and gets Martial out to some other club. Along with the 25mil they've reportedly got him for, I'm not seeing many negatives tbh.

[Guest]

They'd need to get 600+ for that to happen, which would be truly remarkable.

260 is generous, 150 is a tough ask in the 4th innings of any test. Although Root would get it on his own with one hand tied behind his back and a blindfold on in his current form. Pure Lara-esque God Mode.

Ah ya just nothing happening for the bowlers Kohli due a big score. Down to 10/1 insane trades on cricket

[ComradeCollie]

One of my nieces had her second child today. Am I correct in thinking 12lb 2oz is unusually big?

[Guest]

Pulling into Galway in the train a load about 30 loud obnoxious half pissed dubs singing abs being loud. An Isis or other suicide bomber be welcome the confines of the carriage helping maximum blast damage. There not even wearing masks joe and there drinking.

[Guest]

One of my nieces had her second child today. Am I correct in thinking 12lb 2oz is unusually big?

Yes it’s a whopper brother in laws kid was 6 little early long very skinny.

[Solksjaer!]

Lol utds stock up 8%. 250m. a bargain for the books.

[Solksjaer!]

Westport was buzzing today. Literally. Outdoor pints ruined by Wasps . got stung .

[elbows]

One of my nieces had her second child today. Am I correct in thinking 12lb 2oz is unusually big?

Small Turkey

[ComradeCollie]

Small Turkey

Felt like I was fishing for that as I typed it. Think one of Hitches was 13lb wasn't it?

[elbows]

Felt like I was fishing for that as I typed it. Think one of Hitches was 13lb wasn't it?

I watched a 9lbsder come out and that looked painful.

[ComradeCollie]

I watched a 9lbsder come out and that looked painful.

It was a planned C-section anyway, I'd assume at least partially because they knew what was arriving.

[Lazare]

My neighbours across the road sold up recently, process took a few months with lots of delays.

We were pretty close, living as neighbours about 14 years. Was at their wedding, house parties etc. Not exactly mates but close. He was very good to me during tough times.

We bought them a gift a few weeks ago for moving. Knocked over and they were out.
Told them we had a gift and card for them.

Struggled though to get an opportunity for both of us to call over. Tried again the night before last and again no answer, they went to bed early.

I met them separate a few times on the street and they mentioned the hassles and delays they were having. They were ready to move out and it fell through due to some legal crap. That was the other day. She reckoned then it would be another couple of weeks.

Wife saw himself loading a van yesterday and went out to him with the gift and he waved her away and said 'ah don't worry, I'll be back later', they'd been throwing stuff into storage the last couple of weeks.

Came home from work tonight. The sold sign is gone. So are they. New car in the driveway, new guy in the gaff.

No 'see ya later alligator' not even a text.

Am I mad to think that's odd?