Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[Wombatman]

Going to have to have do a Meryl Streep or Scarlett Johansson day for gender balance.

[Wombatman]

I only ever wear shirts to functions or interviews if it can't possibly be avoided. Probably wore a shirt 10 times in the last 5 years. Shirt collars were invented by Satan. Don't get me started on ties.

[DeadParrot]

The cobblestone is to be turned into a hotel.
That's shameful

[Degag]

On the Bond thing, i inadvertently read a spoiler the other evening that if true surely heralds the end of the franchise.

SPOILER

Apparently Bond retires and some woman inherits the 007 moniker. Was browsing PP and saw the "next James Bond" market, saw a name that looked female high up the list; wikipedia'd it and the rest was history.

Might still go and see the current film but future films are fucked IMO if that's the case

[dinekes]

GP going to refer me to a spine specialist in the Mater. €275 just for the consultation...gulp

Did my back in at work a few months ago. Pain going from lower back up into neck.
MRI done and prolapsed disc with other problems.

Balls

[Raoul Duke III]

Tomorrow is Sylvester Stallone Day

[V for Vendetta]

Where would you be looking now, if so forced?

Ah I've been out of the game for two years really...still if I was treating myself and looking for something to transition between sports jacket and dressing down then something like this maybe...

Edit: Link not working right. Click on shop and select blue oxford shirt for 185 to see what i was trying to show you.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

The cobblestone is to be turned into a hotel.
That's shameful

It's not.

[MysteryGuest]

On the Bond thing, i inadvertently read a spoiler the other evening that if true surely heralds the end of the franchise.

SPOILER

Apparently Bond retires and some woman inherits the 007 moniker. Was browsing PP and saw the "next James Bond" market, saw a name that looked female high up the list; wikipedia'd it and the rest was history.

Might still go and see the current film but future films are fucked IMO if that's the case

I’ve read all the spoilers on purpose rather than waste time and money watching it- that’s not a spoiler it’s the beginning of the money
am enjoying the outraged spluttering from certain quarters about minor concessions to modern sensibilities. People seriously using the term “double o woke” , fair enough if they had bond raising a surrogate gender fluid kid with his gay partner but no it’s just a woman teaming up with bond

[Tar.Aldarion]

GP going to refer me to a spine specialist in the Mater. €275 just for the consultation...gulp

Did my back in at work a few months ago. Pain going from lower back up into neck.
MRI done and prolapsed disc with other problems.

Balls

A consultant is free if referred? Or are you wanting to pay yourself to hurry it up.

[MysteryGuest]

Horse racing’s favourite Despot showing his true colours again and I’m not talking maroon and white

[Solksjaer!]

I’ve read all the spoilers on purpose rather than waste time and money watching it- that’s not a spoiler it’s the beginning of the money
am enjoying the outraged spluttering from certain quarters about minor concessions to modern sensibilities. People seriously using the term “double o woke” , fair enough if they had bond raising a surrogate gender fluid kid with his gay partner but no it’s just a woman teaming up with bond

1st one - The Bond identity

[Degag]

I’ve read all the spoilers on purpose rather than waste time and money watching it

You sound like so much fun.....

[Ed]

Tomorrow is Sylvester Stallone Day

Over The Top!

[V for Vendetta]

I thought this was pretty interesting on the subjects of ESG, diversity and Tesla....

[RichieM]

GP going to refer me to a spine specialist in the Mater. €275 just for the consultation...gulp

Did my back in at work a few months ago. Pain going from lower back up into neck.
MRI done and prolapsed disc with other problems.

Balls

Went to joe butler in their 7 weeks ago today to get a disk taken out. Absolutely amazing and the pain levels were next to nothing the day after.

took time to build up the walking afterwards but back to normal now bar not being able to lift anything too heavy. Shopping and toddlers are fine tho.

Two tier health system at work, appointment on the Friday for the consultation and under the knife on the Wednesday.

[Lao Lao]

Going to have to have do a Meryl Streep or Scarlett Johansson day for gender balance.

It would have to be Helen Mirren so Strewel could spend the entire day foaming at the mouth going through his personal back catalogue

I only ever wear shirts to functions or interviews if it can't possibly be avoided. Probably wore a shirt 10 times in the last 5 years. Shirt collars were invented by Satan. Don't get me started on ties.

12 years solid of shirt, tie and suit 5 days a week - At times, it can be painful but overall, it's a super simple work wardrobe - Rack of suits, rack of shirts, rack of ties, hand into the wardrobe every morning half asleep, always picking something that is worry free.

[MysteryGuest]

I'd imagine China won't touch Taiwan unless Taiwan declares independence. Then its a fairly obvious Cuba situation, where you have this US-funded heavily-armed pain in the ass on your border, and its automatic invasion. That's probably why the US has repeatedly warned Taiwan not to declare independence.

The current situation is nothing. Taiwanese domestic defence minister wants approval for billions of extra armaments, so he ratchets up the fear factor. China doesn't want to have billions of armaments aimed against them so they are sabre-rattling. Its all meaningless though, there won't be any 'war' when it eventually comes to it because everyone loses from destroying resources and the China-Taiwan imbalance will be so great.

Being invaded by Chinese doesn’t sound all bad- I’d say they improved things a lot in Tibet.

[eamonhonda]

It's not.

Its losing the beer garden, back room and upstairs so it's fairly fucked. Only money matters these days there won't be a cultural venue left at the rate they are going.

[Strewelpeter]

Squid games e06 spoiler / prediction

SPOILER

No fucking way is 001 dead, he's the real boss

[Hectorjelly]

I thought this was pretty interesting on the subjects of ESG, diversity and Tesla....

It is interesting and skirts around some interesting points, but it's also pretty self-serving and a little lacking in intellectual rigour! Matt Levine has been writing about problems with ESG in Bloomberg for the last few months, it's pretty interesting reading.

[Lazare]

Squid games e06 spoiler / prediction

SPOILER

No fucking way is 001 dead, he's the real boss

Some ep wasn't it. Amazing TV.

[V for Vendetta]

It is interesting and skirts around some interesting points, but it's also pretty self-serving and a little lacking in intellectual rigour! Matt Levine has been writing about problems with ESG in Bloomberg for the last few months, it's pretty interesting reading.

Oh it’s clearly self serving. He’s writing to his clients who have invested in his fund. BUT it’s the contrarian view to the mainstream thinking which makes it interesting.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Its losing the beer garden, back room and upstairs so it's fairly fucked. Only money matters these days there won't be a cultural venue left at the rate they are going.

Actually, I'm wrong - I'd forgotten there was a fair few music venues shut down recently. We do need some sort of balance, as much as I hate the fact that this single pub will probably be a bigger news story than the decisions made in the €165bn national development plan.

[Strewelpeter]

Some ep wasn't it. Amazing TV.

Ah it's absolute bunkum but very entertaining bunkum, can see it unravelling towards the end.

[dinekes]

A consultant is free if referred? Or are you wanting to pay yourself to hurry it up.

Only had a phone message from GP so havent had a chance to talk and discuss options yet.
She is recommending Ashley Poynton in the Mater as a number of her patients had good outcomes with him.

I asked the secretary for a copy of the MRI report and she said she has to get permission from the GP to send it to me!
Like it would be beneficial to have a look and formulate questions in advance of an options discussion with said GP (another €65 for that meeting) rather than just accepting that you get referred to the most expensive consultant in the solar system (may be an an exaggerateion). GPs job is fairly easy...look at report...disc prolapse etc...refer preferred consultant..job done. Her duty of care has been fulfilled. Does it really need an uber expert though?

Most of the time going to these GPs you already know the problem..get charged 50 to 65 and get a chit for drugs.

Broke my thumb hurling years ago..spent about 3 or 4 days working etc in pain all swollen...Medic in the Fitz took one look ..broken no question.

Had to go to a GP to get referral. Hardly looked at the thumb said he was more worried about my wrist!! Very slight bony protrusion on my wrist and hes all over it like hes made a major discovery . Now my thumb was swollen to about 1.5 size.. tight and sore black and blue. Told him it was a specific hurling injury definitely on the thumb and him mesmerised with my wrist. Me dubiously checking the framed qualification certs on the wall. "Oh, was that an online course you did on skeletal systems?".

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Our house hunting journey seems to have finished today with the vendors signing on the dotted line. A somewhat unimaginative journey given that we bought a house we saw on the very first day.

Quite an interesting situation on the close though, which I have to thank my car driving instructor for. The basic situation is that we agreed to pay €610,000 for a bog standard council house measuring a grand total of 80sqm, and everything was going grand until the bank valuer came back and said its not worth a penny over €550,000 - so the mortgage was stuck to that amount.

That left us with a €60,000 hole to fill as we genuinely like the place and the vibe it gives off, despite me dismissing it above as a small run-down council house.

How we did that was first to get the mortgage valuer to increase his valuation. We tried to get him to go half the distance, but he would only reluctantly go up €10,000. And that was just a favour to the broker. €10,000 down and €50,000 to go. We were going to give up and then I decided to give it a last push remembering what my driving instructor said about him and his siblings selling their parents house. He said the broker, when they were selling, had implored him to wait another another month or two before closing and there might be an extra €20,000 in it. He said - well whats €20,000 to me - it will be divided four ways with the rest of the family and what if the sale falls through. Grab the duck in hand not the 20k richer duck in the bush.

And that's what our situation was, approximately. Three siblings selling for their father who had lived there happily since 1959 and was now in assisted living. I sold €30,000 of my precious crypto, narrowing the remaining gap to €20,000, and we went back and said - look we can close tomorrow, everything is ready to sign. The bank has the mortgage ready to pay out. Except that we can't go over €590,000. Really sorry, we'd love to pay you what we initially promised, but we physically can't due to that darned valuer. They came back the next day saying no bother, let's sign. Everyones happy. And I get to write about how I negotiated 20k off a house at the height of the boomiest boom in boomtimes. (leaving unquestioned the idea that maybe we agreed to overpay so much, that even the seller felt sorry for our cluelessness).

[dinekes]

Our house hunting journey seems to have finished today with the vendors signing on the dotted line. A somewhat unimaginative journey given that we bought a house we saw on the very first day.

Quite an interesting situation on the close though, which I have to thank my car driving instructor for. The basic situation is that we agreed to pay €610,000 for a bog standard council house measuring a grand total of 80sqm, and everything was going grand until the bank valuer came back and said its not worth a penny over €550,000 - so the mortgage was stuck to that amount.

That left us with a €60,000 hole to fill as we genuinely like the place and the vibe it gives off, despite me dismissing it above as a small run-down council house.

How we did that was first to get the mortgage valuer to increase his valuation. We tried to get him to go half the distance, but he would only reluctantly go up €10,000. And that was just a favour to the broker. €10,000 down and €50,000 to go. We were going to give up and then I decided to give it a last push remembering what my driving instructor said about him and his siblings selling their parents house. He said the broker, when they were selling, had implored him to wait another another month or two before closing and there might be an extra €20,000 in it. He said - well whats €20,000 to me - it will be divided four ways with the rest of the family and what if the sale falls through. Grab the duck in hand not the 20k richer duck in the bush.

And that's what our situation was, approximately. Three siblings selling for their father who had lived there happily since 1959 and was now in assisted living. I sold €30,000 of my precious crypto, narrowing the remaining gap to €20,000, and we went back and said - look we can close tomorrow, everything is ready to sign. The bank has the mortgage ready to pay out. Except that we can't go over €590,000. Really sorry, we'd love to pay you what we initially promised, but we physically can't due to that darned valuer. They came back the next day saying no bother, let's sign. Everyones happy. And I get to write about how I negotiated 20k off a house at the height of the boomiest boom in boomtimes. (leaving unquestioned the idea that maybe we agreed to overpay so much, that even the seller felt sorry for our cluelessness).

If you had just HODLed your Ether coins this would be a "I lit our celebratory cubans with a fifty euro note" story!

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

If you had just HODLed your Ether coins this would be a "I lit our celebratory cubans with a fifty euro note" story!

oh man, i nearly forgot about the eth! ffs.

[dinekes]

@HH

Its the classic gamblers remorse situation "I should have bet more" .... "if only I hadnt" and so forth.

You made your play and won so happy days!


A customer of mine was into ETH last year. In Portugal now trading due to massive CGT bill of over 300k on his ETH profits.
Tipped Cardano as a mover. It was 1.12 when he tipped. Went to 2.40 now @ 1.93 or so.

[DeeBrown]

Congratulations Hitch.
A little (unrequested) suggestion.
Try to get any work you're planning for the house completed before you move in.
Anything that's not started before you move in
will almost inevitably get long fingered on arrival.

[Raoul Duke III]

Where is the house, HH? You were talking about Deansgrange at one point.

[ComradeCollie]

Where is the house, HH? You were talking about Deansgrange at one point.

I'm guessing St Fintans.

[Dice75]

@HH

Its the classic gamblers remorse situation "I should have bet more" .... "if only I hadnt" and so forth.

You made your play and won so happy days!


A customer of mine was into ETH last year. In Portugal now trading due to massive CGT bill of over 300k on his ETH profits.
Tipped Cardano as a mover. It was 1.12 when he tipped. Went to 2.40 now @ 1.93 or so.

Fairly sure Hitch tipped Cardano too at that price

[dobby]

2 free tickets for Rocky Horror show at 5pm in the Bord Gais tomorrow (Friday) evening. Sister bought tickets ages ago but now cant make it. Dont want to see them wasted so free to a good home.

[Raoul Duke III]

Getting the DART to work in a daring 2019-style move (going out after work). Noticeable how empty it still is, mostly students. About 20% of what it would have been.

[Solksjaer!]

2 free tickets for Rocky Horror show at 5pm in the Bord Gais tomorrow (Friday) evening. Sister bought tickets ages ago but now cant make it. Dont want to see them wasted so free to a good home.

Cant make it but if anyone has never been. Take the offer. Great fun

[ComradeCollie]

2 free tickets for Rocky Horror show at 5pm in the Bord Gais tomorrow (Friday) evening. Sister bought tickets ages ago but now cant make it. Dont want to see them wasted so free to a good home.

I'd be happy to use them.

[Solksjaer!]

Day off to play golf . Lie in ? NOPE. 5 year old up at the crack of dawn. FML . went to bed late in anticipation of lie in. Ah I'll sleep when I'm dead

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Where is the house, HH? You were talking about Deansgrange at one point.

That's the one. I posted a link to it before - end of terrace place on kill avenue.

[ComradeCollie]

Going to my GP this morning for the flu vaccine. There doesn't seem to be much promotion of it this year, or has it just been drowned out by the covid coverage?

[DeadParrot]

It's not.

It is.
‘Let’s keep the interesting parts of Dublin sacred’ – fears for character of Cobblestone pub in hotel plan
https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-40924207.html

Friend of mine is heavily involved in the scene and was in there last night.

[Mellor]

Broke my thumb hurling years ago..spent about 3 or 4 days working etc in pain all swollen...Medic in the Fitz took one look ..broken no question.

Had to go to a GP to get referral. Hardly looked at the thumb said he was more worried about my wrist!! Very slight bony protrusion on my wrist and hes all over it like hes made a major discovery . Now my thumb was swollen to about 1.5 size.. tight and sore black and blue. Told him it was a specific hurling injury definitely on the thumb and him mesmerised with my wrist. Me dubiously checking the framed qualification certs on the wall. "Oh, was that an online course you did on skeletal systems?".

Was the wrist ok in the end?

I assume a broken thumb is obvious. But a bone sticking out of the wrist is hardly normal. Sounds like both where done.

@HH
A customer of mine was into ETH last year. In Portugal now trading due to massive CGT bill of over 300k on his ETH profits.
Tipped Cardano as a mover. It was 1.12 when he tipped. Went to 2.40 now @ 1.93 or so.

I've heard a lot of people doing similar due to crypto CGT. I wonder what the plan is. Portugal means no tax on future crypto. The current 300k bill doesn't go away.
But no idea how they are policing this, if at all.

[dobby]

I'd be happy to use them.

Mighty. Send me your email address and I'll forward them on

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

It is.
‘Let’s keep the interesting parts of Dublin sacred’ – fears for character of Cobblestone pub in hotel plan
https://www.independent.ie/irish-new...-40924207.html

Friend of mine is heavily involved in the scene and was in there last night.

Wait. I thought they were knocking it down. They are just building a hotel around the structure, while retaining the pub. Planning applications are most definitely the opium of the Irish people. Worrying about if a pub will lose a backroom while the gov says how it will shape the actual physical future of the country with €165 billion spending, unopposed.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

What we need to do in Ireland is everytime there's a news story about a ramshackle building being knocked down for apartments is to personally hand deliver a letter to the journalist who wrote about it saying: fuck off and do some actual journalism. It doesn't matter. We've been made to believe it matters, but it simply doesn't. There's going to be loads more city centre hotels as tourism is maybe 50,000 jobs in Dublin alone, there's going to be hundreds of thousands of more apartments, over the next few decades, as we modernise the city making it capable of handling almost double the population. That's the way it is. We fit the city around who we are now, not who we were in the past. The fabric of the city will change. Things will turn into memories.

[SatNav]

Sky Glass, I'm blown away!! The excitement is real

[oleras]

Sky Glass, I'm blown away!! The excitement is real

Will they be on sale here soon ?

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Sky Glass, I'm blown away!! The excitement is real

I hate to be all grumpy mcgrumpersome in my posts this morning, - but their innovation to replace the dish they put on your house, is to charge you an extra €40 a month, on top of your regular channels subscription charge, for a tv with the sky version of a cheapo chromecast dongle? And its a telly you don't need, at a cost of €40 a month, given everyone already has a telly, and whose only purpose is to fix a satellite problem that is sky's problem not the customers. This is a shit sandwich, packed with oozing shit, and made of solid shit bread. The only reason it makes sense to you is that Sky gave you the telly for free. Its surely not going to work in the market, as the cost is huge.

[Strewelpeter]

If the Cobblestone wasn't a rancid shithole tourist trap it wouldn't be up for replacement by something better.

FFS! it wouldn't make it onto any reasonable persons list of 50 Dublin pubs worth preserving and you can be certain that the overall quality of traditional music in Ireland will increase when the filthy kip is expunged from history.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

If the Cobblestone wasn't a rancid shithole tourist trap it wouldn't be up for replacement by something better.

FFS! it wouldn't make it onto any reasonable persons list of 50 Dublin pubs worth preserving and you can be certain that the overall quality of traditional music in Ireland will increase when the filthy kip is expunged from history.

Its not even up for replacement. They are building the hotel around it in order to preserve it. The protests are about how, maybe, a backroom might be altered.

[SatNav]

I hate to be all grumpy mcgrumpersome in my posts this morning, - but their innovation to replace the dish they put on your house, is to charge you an extra €40 a month, on top of your regular channels subscription charge, for a tv with the sky version of a cheapo chromecast dongle? And its a telly you don't need, at a cost of €40 a month, given everyone already has a telly, and whose only purpose is to fix a satellite problem that is sky's problem not the customers. This is a shit sandwich, packed with oozing shit, and made of solid shit bread. The only reason it makes sense to you is that Sky gave you the telly for free. Its surely not going to work in the market, as the cost is huge.

You'll be back to eat your words, I can't say much more

[Raoul Duke III]

@HH, where's the list of insider tips for Denmark?

[MysteryGuest]

What we need to do in Ireland is everytime there's a news story about a ramshackle building being knocked down for apartments is to personally hand deliver a letter to the journalist who wrote about it saying: fuck off and do some actual journalism. It doesn't matter. We've been made to believe it matters, but it simply doesn't. There's going to be loads more city centre hotels as tourism is maybe 50,000 jobs in Dublin alone, there's going to be hundreds of thousands of more apartments, over the next few decades, as we modernise the city making it capable of handling almost double the population. That's the way it is. We fit the city around who we are now, not who we were in the past. The fabric of the city will change. Things will turn into memories.

Yep sick of all the NIMBY crap Dublin seems to be full of it- not knocking buildings because someone tangentially related to 1916 slept there a few nights etc
we need progress and I’m putting my feelings out there for all to see
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[Mellor]

What we need to do in Ireland is everytime there's a news story about a ramshackle building being knocked down for apartments is to personally hand deliver a letter to the journalist who wrote about it saying: fuck off and do some actual journalism. It doesn't matter. We've been made to believe it matters, but it simply doesn't.

Are you saying it doesn't matter in any case? That's an impressively bad take if so.
Whether or not it matter in this case is is not the point.

There's going to be loads more city centre hotels as tourism is maybe 50,000 jobs in Dublin alone, there's going to be hundreds of thousands of more apartments, over the next few decades, as we modernise the city making it capable of handling almost double the population. That's the way it is. We fit the city around who we are now, not who we were in the past. The fabric of the city will change. Things will turn into memories.

None of that justifies ignoring the past. Dublin isn't stuck for hotel potential.
It's quite easy to change something without deleting it.

[DeadParrot]

Sky Glass, I'm blown away!! The excitement is real

the firestick is IN the tv and I'm paying for the TV on tick?
This futuristic model of renting tvs is inspiring

[Wombatman]

What we need to do in Ireland is everytime there's a news story about a ramshackle building being knocked down for apartments is to personally hand deliver a letter to the journalist who wrote about it saying: fuck off and do some actual journalism. It doesn't matter. We've been made to believe it matters, but it simply doesn't. There's going to be loads more city centre hotels as tourism is maybe 50,000 jobs in Dublin alone, there's going to be hundreds of thousands of more apartments, over the next few decades, as we modernise the city making it capable of handling almost double the population. That's the way it is. We fit the city around who we are now, not who we were in the past. The fabric of the city will change. Things will turn into memories.

Hitch is the dastardly guy in the movies trying to build on Indian burial grounds.......

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/m...-40298711.html

[Denny Crane]

What we need to do in Ireland is everytime there's a news story about a ramshackle building being knocked down for apartments is to personally hand deliver a letter to the journalist who wrote about it saying: fuck off and do some actual journalism. It doesn't matter. We've been made to believe it matters, but it simply doesn't. There's going to be loads more city centre hotels as tourism is maybe 50,000 jobs in Dublin alone, there's going to be hundreds of thousands of more apartments, over the next few decades, as we modernise the city making it capable of handling almost double the population. That's the way it is. We fit the city around who we are now, not who we were in the past. The fabric of the city will change. Things will turn into memories.

Meanwhile decrepit Moore holds up what should be a huge devolvement in center of the city. That hoarding on O'Connell street has been there for as long as I can remember.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

How much would a petrol station make, approximately, for selling, say, €50 of electricity?

[dinekes]

Was the wrist ok in the end?

I assume a broken thumb is obvious. But a bone sticking out of the wrist is hardly normal. Sounds like both where done.



I've heard a lot of people doing similar due to crypto CGT. I wonder what the plan is. Portugal means no tax on future crypto. The current 300k bill doesn't go away.
But no idea how they are policing this, if at all.

The wrist was perfect and I knew that going in. It's just a bit knobbly looking (but well within knobbly bone parameters)where the forearm meets hand on the outside edge.He didnt even think the thumb was broken!! I was basically just wanting a referral letter so I could get it treated quicker in ER


On the Crypto dont know if he had to swallow and pay it and hes protecting future earnings. Either way he made a chunk and if be was into Cardano then another chunk.