Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[Solksjaer!]

From that Era . The Devil Rides out , The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby were my favs. I liked the Omen. I didnt realise then it was about Trump

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

I dont dislike her at all. She can flick her nails at me any time. Just not very funny tis all. However as pointed out , not many of the higher wit around these days. Had great hope's for Andyfatbastard. Hoping to see him on the celebrity Chase

All her jokes seem to be about men - men this, men that. Its the righteous equivalent of those 1950s British working men club comedians talking about their wife. Surely comedy has evolved past dividing the population in two and laughing at half.

[dobby]

The worst thing about that Home Alone trailer is Aisling Beas brutal attempt at a British accent. And that's saying something cos the trailer is a fucking car crash.

[Strewelpeter]

I watched Rosemarys baby last night, absolutely fantastic.]

Are you not a bit too woke to be enjoying Polanski

Genuinely confused if we are allowed enjoy his work anymore? It's a great movie and he was really churning out classics in those days Chinatown being the greatest of them all.

[Raoul Duke III]

What is everyone doing about the 2022 LPT valuations? Just noticed that I need to submit a valuation by Nov and my current assessed value is ~40% of the actual market value.

[Strewelpeter]

Aisling could do very well out of the Home Alone remake no matter how ill conceived or bad it turns out to be. Good luck to her she works very hard and as has been said she's a much better actress than comedian so it would be great to see her do well.

[Strewelpeter]

What is everyone doing about the 2022 LPT valuations? Just noticed that I need to submit a valuation by Nov and my current assessed value is ~40% of the actual market value.

Pray you don't have mica.

Will be interesting to see how the homes of Donegal are revalued this time around

[Dice75]

What is everyone doing about the 2022 LPT valuations? Just noticed that I need to submit a valuation by Nov and my current assessed value is ~40% of the actual market value.

Wife doing my head in as extension probably sticks us up another bracket but wont be finished before has to be submitted

[ComradeCollie]

Got stung by a wasp (or bee) in the back of my head while on my morning walk. Still quite painful 30 minutes later.

[Raoul Duke III]

Wife doing my head in as extension probably sticks us up another bracket but wont be finished before has to be submitted

Actually I just looked on the Revenue website. They seem to have already revalued it (to the correct bracket) by several hundred k upwards but the actual LPT only goes up by less than a hundred quid.

So not really worth considering I guess. And SF are going to abolish it anyway.

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Aisling could do very well out of the Home Alone remake no matter how ill conceived or bad it turns out to be. Good luck to her she works very hard and as has been said she's a much better actress than comedian so it would be great to see her do well.

I believe everyone is now called an actor - not actor for men and actress for female. Yeah, shes a strong actor.

[DeadParrot]

What is everyone doing about the 2022 LPT valuations? Just noticed that I need to submit a valuation by Nov and my current assessed value is ~40% of the actual market value.

€16 or so p/m direct debit

[Solksjaer!]

Got stung by a wasp (or bee) in the back of my head while on my morning walk. Still quite painful 30 minutes later.

Pray for Lao Lao

[Solksjaer!]

Pray you don't have mica.

Will be interesting to see how the homes of Donegal are revalued this time around

Firing it up on Spotify now . I cant read those words without the ear worm .

[Solksjaer!]

The worst thing about that Home Alone trailer is Aisling Beas brutal attempt at a British accent. And that's saying something cos the trailer is a fucking car crash.

I prefer that fat kid to Culckin though. Anyway isnt Home Alone meant to be a car crash.

[Strewelpeter]

Firing it up on Spotify now . I cant read those words without the ear worm .

Gotta go for this amazing version

[Hectorjelly]

Are you not a bit too woke to be enjoying Polanski

Genuinely confused if we are allowed enjoy his work anymore? It's a great movie and he was really churning out classics in those days Chinatown being the greatest of them all.

I found it pretty funny that the head devil worshiper was called Roman!

I wouldn't avoid a film because one person involved in it (admittedly heavily involved!) turned out to be a bad dude. If someone else chose not to film for that reason I'd have no issue with that either.

[dobby]

Aisling could do very well out of the Home Alone remake no matter how ill conceived or bad it turns out to be. Good luck to her she works very hard and as has been said she's a much better actress than comedian so it would be great to see her do well.

I thought she was doing quite well before this tbh. That Nerflix thing she was in with Paul Rudd was a decent watch and in comparison this Home alone thing seems like a step backwards.

I didn't know she was supposed to be a comedian, just assumed she was an actress but always nice to see Irish people going well.

[dobby]

I prefer that fat kid to Culckin though. Anyway isnt Home Alone meant to be a car crash.

Nah, car crash is a term for a really awful film or TV show. The original is a classic that people still watch every Christmas. This has been tried before with a different kid actor in home alone 3 and 4 and didnt work.

[Goodluck2me]

Pray you don't have mica.

Will be interesting to see how the homes of Donegal are revalued this time around

Moot as Mica homes are exempt. I know a few people directly involved in thus and it’s an absolute travesty for them. 90% mortgage doesn’t go away, you have to keep paying mortgage and new rents while it’s knocked, cost of testing and rebuild. It’s a disgrace.

[Goodluck2me]

Gotta go for this amazing version

That must be Leinster Irish as I don’t understand a word of it

[DeeBrown]

Have to cancel Mr Fox tonight as babysitter has to go for a covid test. Cancellation fee of €61 per person. Well done to all the fuckwads who made it socially acceptable for restaurants to do that.

DM sent

[Goodluck2me]

This is my kind of donegal music, could listen to her all day

[rounders123]

Are ye following The White Lotus btw? Such a weirdass slightly captivating show. (not a recommendation).

Best show I've seen all year. Such brilliant writing and acting.
I approve.

[Raoul Duke III]

Best show I've seen all year. Such brilliant writing and acting.
I approve.

Monk updates plz

[dobby]

Watching the snooker in Belfast, Trump v Allen and a decent match fwiw, and the wearing of masks is optional. Yet you still have some numptys wearing them below the nose or hanging around their chins. Like why bother wearing it incorrectly when you have the choice to wear it and can just leave it off.

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For the restaurant reservation: Found something to do to care for the eldest kid leaving only one problem child, and so I rang them and said - could I turn up with one extra small kid who you would barely even know he's there. He's almost charming, I pleaded. Lying through my teeth.

They said they couldn't as they are so busy they wouldn't even be sure of having an unused chair in the place. But also that they understood the problem of the babysitter cancelling and said 'its grand to cancel, we won't charge you or anything like that'.

I said 'no deal: you've been shut for 18 months, while I've been earning at home for all that time, so let me at least pay for one person's cover'.

We had some strenuous back and forth over this offer, which only ended when the lady insisted that not only would I not be paying, but also that she would insist on comping a bottle of wine when we eventually turned up at some point in the future. At this point, I decided to retreat with humble thank yous, for fear of bankrupting them in case she upped the stakes any further.

[eamonhonda]

Watching the snooker in Belfast, Trump v Allen and a decent match fwiw, and the wearing of masks is optional. Yet you still have some numptys wearing them below the nose or hanging around their chins. Like why bother wearing it incorrectly when you have the choice to wear it and can just leave it off.

Haha it's infuriating. I dont even care if someone is wearing a mask or not these days but when they can wear it right it still winds me up. Simplest of tasks

[dobby]

Mad how accommodating businesses are when you contact them and tell them your issue instead of whinging about a cancellation fee you're not being charged.

The cancellation fee is aimed at silly cunts booking multiple places and deciding last minute which one to use. Yes this was more common than you think.

Genuine cases, like yours in this instance, will be looked after, as the restaurant has shown.

[dobby]

Haha it's infuriating. I dont even care if someone is wearing a mask or not these days but when they can wear it right it still winds me up. Simplest of tasks

Exactly, I've started going into less and less places with a mask on but if I wear it, I wear it properly. Always makes me laugh at the stupidity of having it hanging off your face. Even more so now that they've actually got the choice of whether to wear it or not.

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They seem to be glossing over the career for the stabbed UK MP in their glowing coverage of him. His career, as per wiki, seems to actually have been a caricature of an awful person. Not that that means he should therefore be stabbed, of course.

Update: not just stabbed, but stabbed and killed.

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Mad how accommodating businesses are when you contact them and tell them your issue instead of whinging about a cancellation fee you're not being charged.

The cancellation fee is aimed at silly cunts booking multiple places and deciding last minute which one to use. Yes this was more common than you think.

Genuine cases, like yours in this instance, will be looked after, as the restaurant has shown.

My point is still correct. We shouldn't hand over the power for this to restaurants. Never give any business more power over us. Its a simple effective rule for living life. We started paying deposits to rent houses only in the last three decades and now they are regularly and consistently abused. Its always like this - never give businesses power that you have in the relationship. Its a commercial contract.

[Strewelpeter]

Moot as Mica homes are exempt. I know a few people directly involved in thus and it’s an absolute travesty for them. 90% mortgage doesn’t go away, you have to keep paying mortgage and new rents while it’s knocked, cost of testing and rebuild. It’s a disgrace.

So, RDIII's idea of capping redress at the value declared for LPT isn't going to work.

My son who works in building technology had an interesting take on how to solve the problem at the least cost.
Set up a state backed not for profit company to build and operate a factory in the Northwest to churn out prefabricated buildings to a minimal number of patterns 2, 3 and 4 beds and you could drive down costs on well designed high spec A rated buildings to less than half the commercial self builds would be. With Modern tech there would be lots of configuration options so its not anything like 'you can have any colour you like as long as it's black'. Site costs will vary obviously but it sounds like an interesting way of keeping the bill for the taxpayer down.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

And also the point isn't quite right about deposits. I could ring up and be semi-charming about the thing and offer to pay for my kid to eat etc, because of being comfortable enough in that situation. But that's partially a social class thing. I don't mean that being semi-charming is a class thing - but more about being comfortable in that type of situation where there's a slight power relationship. Deposits are advocated by people who won't be inconvenienced by them, not the people who will be affected by them. Thats the used-to-be-called-working-class (don't know if its still called that?) who only go out for a meal rarely and don't have a thought on what the policy should be until it comes to bite them in the ass. And those people tend to be busier, to have more kids, more people they are caring for in a broader sense. So they've loads of extra reasons why they might need to cancel.

That was my original argument on deposits, and I think its quite a valid one.

Even if I've probably mangled the explanation here because of touching on the dodgy areas of social class. But we should be careful about advocating for policies that mainly affect other social classes.

[Solksjaer!]

For the restaurant reservation: Found something to do to care for the eldest kid leaving only one problem child, and so I rang them and said - could I turn up with one extra small kid who you would barely even know he's there. He's almost charming, I pleaded. Lying through my teeth.

They said they couldn't as they are so busy they wouldn't even be sure of having an unused chair in the place. But also that they understood the problem of the babysitter cancelling and said 'its grand to cancel, we won't charge you or anything like that'.

I said 'no deal: you've been shut for 18 months, while I've been earning at home for all that time, so let me at least pay for one person's cover'.

We had some strenuous back and forth over this offer, which only ended when the lady insisted that not only would I not be paying, but also that she would insist on comping a bottle of wine when we eventually turned up at some point in the future. At this point, I decided to retreat with humble thank yous, for fear of bankrupting them in case she upped the stakes any further.

Told you , by bringing kids into the equation youve turned the tables . That will be 20 pounds sir .

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Told you , by bringing kids into the equation youve turned the tables . That will be 20 pounds sir .

Yes!

In classic academic fashion I'm now building from this experience towards a class-war explanation of restaurant deposit advocacy.

[Solksjaer!]

Yes!

In classic academic fashion I'm now building from this experience towards a class-war explanation of restaurant deposit advocacy.

TWENTY POUNDS

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TWENTY POUNDS

I CANT HEAR YOU I'M READING KARL MARX

[Solksjaer!]

Got stung by a wasp (or bee) in the back of my head while on my morning walk. Still quite painful 30 minutes later.

Got stung myself just there . Wont be offering HH any more advice.

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Workplace return in doubt as Dr Ronan Glynn calls for people to keep working from home this autumn and winter if possible


I think we all copped to this way back in September anway. Well, anyone who has a choice in the matter. Looking around my workplace and I'd say most people are coming in one day a week. And even on that day, they are often in zoom meetings, as most meetings are now held in that format.

[Wombatman]

I got stung by a bee yesterday..........€20 for a jar of honey.

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[Wombatman]

I've just finished watching all 7 seasons of Mad Men again. My suspicions have confirmed that it is without any shadow of a doubt the best TV show ever made by a good way. A little upset that I'm done.

Don Draper Is Rosemary From Rosemary’s Baby
https://www.vulture.com/2013/06/don-...arys-baby.html

[Goodluck2me]

So, RDIII's idea of capping redress at the value declared for LPT isn't going to work.

My son who works in building technology had an interesting take on how to solve the problem at the least cost.
Set up a state backed not for profit company to build and operate a factory in the Northwest to churn out prefabricated buildings to a minimal number of patterns 2, 3 and 4 beds and you could drive down costs on well designed high spec A rated buildings to less than half the commercial self builds would be. With Modern tech there would be lots of configuration options so its not anything like 'you can have any colour you like as long as it's black'. Site costs will vary obviously but it sounds like an interesting way of keeping the bill for the taxpayer down.

It could probably work for prior years though to be fair.

I have sympathy for people who built larger houses and have larger mortgages as a result, but given the generally poor standard of house build I think the modular idea would well be a runner as long as they’re not obvious eyesores, state should try to minimise cost whilst protecting the people as best they can and keeping some sort of equity. It would also, most helpfully, speed things up as trying to get individual builders to individual sites for 10,000 houses will take a decade

[Wombatman]

I guess the banks are the biggest stakeholders in mica affected homes. They don't want to end up holding papers against worthless heaps of rubble.

[Raoul Duke III]

I CANT HEAR YOU I'M READING KARL MARX

I preferred Groucho

[dobby]

Workplace return in doubt as Dr Ronan Glynn calls for people to keep working from home this autumn and winter if possible


I think we all copped to this way back in September anway. Well, anyone who has a choice in the matter. Looking around my workplace and I'd say most people are coming in one day a week. And even on that day, they are often in zoom meetings, as most meetings are now held in that format.

Would like to see offices and colleges closed again tbh. It's been a complete pain going onto campus after a year of hassle free online learning. It's actually costing me study time to go into campus and doesnt make any sense. Would prefer to be fully online.

Missus is being told by her manager to use the office "as a matter of urgency" for some strange reason. Even though they've shown productivity to be up while working from home. He's a gobshite anyway so that probably has something to do with it.

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Would like to see offices and colleges closed again tbh. It's been a complete pain going onto campus after a year of hassle free online learning. It's actually costing me study time to go into campus and doesnt make any sense. Would prefer to be fully online.

I've been getting that impression from students also. That they would nearly prefer to be online. Travel is such a pain in the hole in Dublin.

[Raoul Duke III]

Finally getting to take Denny Crane to Shanahans to pay off my Trump debt this weekend. Getting some inspiration from previous visitors, GAB and poor old iSnow.

All I can remember from my previous visit (besides the massive shhhhteaks) is the spinach.

[Raoul Duke III]

I guess the banks are the biggest stakeholders in mica affected homes. They don't want to end up holding papers against worthless heaps of rubble.

You reckon? It would be interesting to see what % of the total are still mortgaged but I'm guessing not much given the houses were largely constructed in the nineties\noughties.

[rounders123]

Monk updates plz

The Monk looks goosed along with the water boarder as they were driving north of the border with the whole chat recorded by a Garda bug and i believe they have enough goods on them. But enough goods is often not enough for the Irish justice system somehow. But if that whatever they got doesnt stick he still has a chance of getting out of it on the same premise of Patrick Hutch. The big unsaid is this Ballymun Garda chief who blew his brains out. Basically how Patrick got off. So if its a shitty weak State case against the Monk we know the system is burying the case to protect themselves.

This case is going to be like a GAA back door rig a ma jig applied science thing. A tumble dryer of new precedent. Gerry is a survivor, I wouldnt back against him.

[Solksjaer!]

The Monk looks goosed along with the water boarder as they were driving north of the border with the whole chat recorded by a Garda bug and i believe they have enough goods on them. But enough goods is often not enough for the Irish justice system somehow. But if that whatever they got doesnt stick he still has a chance of getting out of it on the same premise of Patrick Hutch. The big unsaid is this Ballymun Garda chief who blew his brains out. Basically how Patrick got off. So if its a shitty weak State case against the Monk we know the system is burying the case to protect themselves.

This case is going to be like a GAA back door rig a ma jig applied science thing. A tumble dryer of new precedent. Gerry is a survivor, I wouldnt back against him.

I did scumbag Jury Service a couple of years ago. Lo and behold another Jury summons this morning. Wtf. Thought I was exempt .

Be a good case to get though. Da Monk .

[Hectorjelly]

They seem to be glossing over the career for the stabbed UK MP in their glowing coverage of him. His career, as per wiki, seems to actually have been a caricature of an awful person. Not that that means he should therefore be stabbed, of course.

Update: not just stabbed, but stabbed and killed.

if you scroll down more than 2 paragraphs on his wiki you can see he was involved in some good causes:

Amess sponsored many parliamentary bills.^[11] Two of his most significant achievements are the Protection Against Cruel Tethering Act (1988),^[12] and the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act (2000),^[13] both of which are on the statute book in his name. In 2014, he successfully piloted the Security Printing (Specialist) Materials Bill onto the Statute Book. This Bill ended a loophole which allowed companies who supplied specialist printing equipment to counterfeiters to evade prosecution.

In 2016, he successfully steered onto the statute book the Driving Instructors (Registration) Bill. This Bill streamlines the process whereby instructors whose registration has lapsed can apply to return to the register. It also allows instructors who wish to leave the register for personal reasons to do so without being penalised. The Bill was supported by driving school owners and motoring organisations.

[Hectorjelly]

The Monk looks goosed along with the water boarder as they were driving north of the border with the whole chat recorded by a Garda bug and i believe they have enough goods on them. But enough goods is often not enough for the Irish justice system somehow. But if that whatever they got doesnt stick he still has a chance of getting out of it on the same premise of Patrick Hutch. The big unsaid is this Ballymun Garda chief who blew his brains out. Basically how Patrick got off. So if its a shitty weak State case against the Monk we know the system is burying the case to protect themselves.

This case is going to be like a GAA back door rig a ma jig applied science thing. A tumble dryer of new precedent. Gerry is a survivor, I wouldnt back against him.

Can you elucidate more on the Ballymun Garda chief?

[Raoul Duke III]

if you scroll down more than 2 paragraphs on his wiki you can see he was involved in some good causes:

Amess sponsored many parliamentary bills.^[11] Two of his most significant achievements are the Protection Against Cruel Tethering Act (1988),^[12] and the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act (2000),^[13] both of which are on the statute book in his name. In 2014, he successfully piloted the Security Printing (Specialist) Materials Bill onto the Statute Book. This Bill ended a loophole which allowed companies who supplied specialist printing equipment to counterfeiters to evade prosecution.

In 2016, he successfully steered onto the statute book the Driving Instructors (Registration) Bill. This Bill streamlines the process whereby instructors whose registration has lapsed can apply to return to the register. It also allows instructors who wish to leave the register for personal reasons to do so without being penalised. The Bill was supported by driving school owners and motoring organisations.

I actually thought this might be the most noteworthy thing in his wiki:

Amess campaigned for many years to have a statue erected in honour of Raoul Wallenberg,

[dobby]

I've been getting that impression from students also. That they would nearly prefer to be online. Travel is such a pain in the hole in Dublin.

Yeah, and on a very selfish note, our schedule is fucked. 9am and 4pm on a Monday but I use that long break to get a lot of work done so I'm on top of the week. Tuesday 11am and 3pm, Wednesday just 4pm ad it's a pass/fail module so I just need to attend to pass, Thursday is 9am and Friday is 9am and 2-4pm.

We could have got luckier with that. Especially for the single lectures, if traffic is bad it can take me an hour to get in/out. Some lads travelling from Dundalk so I'm not as bad as others tbf.

[rounders123]

Can you elucidate more on the Ballymun Garda chief?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crim...tion-1.3388318

He was in charge of this case.

[Lazare]

For the restaurant reservation: Found something to do to care for the eldest kid leaving only one problem child, and so I rang them and said - could I turn up with one extra small kid who you would barely even know he's there. He's almost charming, I pleaded. Lying through my teeth.

They said they couldn't as they are so busy they wouldn't even be sure of having an unused chair in the place. But also that they understood the problem of the babysitter cancelling and said 'its grand to cancel, we won't charge you or anything like that'.

I said 'no deal: you've been shut for 18 months, while I've been earning at home for all that time, so let me at least pay for one person's cover'.

We had some strenuous back and forth over this offer, which only ended when the lady insisted that not only would I not be paying, but also that she would insist on comping a bottle of wine when we eventually turned up at some point in the future. At this point, I decided to retreat with humble thank yous, for fear of bankrupting them in case she upped the stakes any further.

Hopefully there's a big kerfuffle made about it on twitter by the restaurant, with everyone back slapping the enormous generosity of this kind stranger. Your enemies all blowing smoke up your hole and then you reveal yourself.

[Lazare]

Fair fucks to you btw, a really sound thing to do.

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if you scroll down more than 2 paragraphs on his wiki you can see he was involved in some good causes:

Amess sponsored many parliamentary bills.^[11] Two of his most significant achievements are the Protection Against Cruel Tethering Act (1988),^[12] and the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act (2000),^[13] both of which are on the statute book in his name. In 2014, he successfully piloted the Security Printing (Specialist) Materials Bill onto the Statute Book. This Bill ended a loophole which allowed companies who supplied specialist printing equipment to counterfeiters to evade prosecution.

In 2016, he successfully steered onto the statute book the Driving Instructors (Registration) Bill. This Bill streamlines the process whereby instructors whose registration has lapsed can apply to return to the register. It also allows instructors who wish to leave the register for personal reasons to do so without being penalised. The Bill was supported by driving school owners and motoring organisations.

wha? In an entire career those are very minor, especially when set against:

- Amess supported the reintroduction of capital punishment
- Amess was strongly anti-abortion
- After entering the House of Commons, Amess generally opposed bills furthering LGBT rights, including equal age of consent and same-sex marriage

Its the classic judge-others profile. And then, to balance it out you suggest his contributions to stopping printers getting into the hands of counterfeiters and a streamlined admin system for driving instructors. Actually, just writing that sentence, makes me think you might be taking the piss - do you just throw out a worm and then wind me in like a well done kipper, you fecker?