Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[ArmaniJeans]

Travelling to Spain today, and it seems there is some 'Advanced Passenger Information' needed. Tried filling it in, and it says 'can't use passport card'. That can't be right, can it?

Has the system changed in the last few weeks?
Was in Benidorm at the start of the month and there was nothing to be filled in for Covid or anything else.
(was mildly amusing seeing the UK passengers have to go to a separate queue in Alicante airport to show their certs and get random swab tests)

edit: Googling suggests API is just the passport info you give at check-in. I always use my main passport here so don't know if cards are an issue.
In general I'd suggest to use paper passport in Spain anyway, the airports are a pain otherwise as you can't use the electronic gates with the card and have to queue with the Brits which can be a pain if you're flight is unlucky enough to co-incide with 3 or 4 easyjets.

[ArmaniJeans]

edit doesn't seem to work (would have been a handy feature in werewolf days)

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edit: Googling suggests API is just the passport info you give at check-in. I always use my main passport here so don't know if cards are an issue.
In general I'd suggest to use paper passport in Spain anyway, the airports are a pain otherwise as you can't use the electronic gates with the card and have to queue with the Brits which can be a pain if your flight is unlucky enough to co-incide with 3 or 4 easyjets.

[Raoul Duke III]

Any drink?

(i just remember the dilemma someone here has with his daughter of a similar age going to a party. Think she wanted a bottle of bacardi or something?)

No, sushi and soft drinks was the order of the day. The couple of lads who showed were intimidated away by the girls.

I just stayed out of the way and paid for stuff, which seems to be the accepted order of fatherhood at such events.

[luckforsome]

... If by some random chance anyone would have 3 spare tickets to the Samhain walk in Marley park today or tomorrow that would be Amazing... They are free tickets but limited, and each ticket is for 6 people, so if you have one and only 3 going, it would be great...

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

edit doesn't seem to work (would have been a handy feature in werewolf days)

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edit: Googling suggests API is just the passport info you give at check-in. I always use my main passport here so don't know if cards are an issue.
In general I'd suggest to use paper passport in Spain anyway, the airports are a pain otherwise as you can't use the electronic gates with the card and have to queue with the Brits which can be a pain if your flight is unlucky enough to co-incide with 3 or 4 easyjets.

Ah feck. Didn't realise that and ended up listing passport cards for the flight out and full passports for the way back. Let's see how that works Although electronic gates don't work for under 18s anyway afair.

[Strewelpeter]

Those crazy Swuitzerlanders

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[Solksjaer!]

EPIC Rainbow . Fenians Rainbow

[Solksjaer!]

Some odds on a Leeds and Forest double .

[ComradeCollie]

Bill Burr on Tim Dillons pod this morning. Only listened to the audio, but Burr seemed so uncomfortable with the obvious fan boy stuff Tim was at at times

[Wombatman]

Did the Klopps go back last night?

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Food is unreal here in Madrid. Everything a hit. Lunch was a few tapas, including deer with truffle on relish, and seared tuna with pistachio and chilli sauce. Each a few euro. They can't seem to take a step wrong.

[Ed]

Up in sandyford doing some deeply boring furniture shopping. Reward was a trip to China Sichuan for lunch. Had been before but holy smokes!

[coillcam]

Crazy shit happening in Brazil today. Polls close at 8pm.

The federal police had established roadblocks across Brazil in Lula/PT strongholds, particularly the northeast, with over 500 operations confirmed by Globo News. Performing searches on cars and slowing traffic down throughout the region. The electoral court had decreed previously that the federal police were not to perform any kind of measures to interrupt traffic. As well as to ensure a maximum no of buses and free public transport so the electorate could freely vote. Anything to help relieve the big queues to vote in round 1.

People called for the director of federal police to be put in front of the electoral court (essentially the supreme court during the election period) to explain what is happening. The Head Supreme/Electoral Court Judge came on TV now to give his update on how the election has been proceeding home and abroad. He said he had received assurances that any traffic measures would be "normal" - eg remove unroadworthy vehicles or speeding fines. He didn't say much else of substance.

If the polls were accurate it's gone from a small margin of victory for Lula to now a coinflip at best . It's not quite a full-on coup but more than enough manipulation and interference to tip the balance. Results will come through around 1am but I'm not not optimistic for a Lula win at all.

[hotspur]

How come none of you have mentioned Dr Sleep . Loved it .How did i miss it when it came out 1st

Danny Torrance story continues 40 years later.

Just watched it there. A remarkable horror film.

[coillcam]

[Murdrum]

UTG raises, UTG+1 ships for 25bbs, Murdrum ships for 20bbs and UTG calls.

UTG wins the 3-way all in and UTG+1 gets the cash as they had me outchipped.

Murdrum bubbles.

TBH, I had totally forgotten about that rule which was the worst part.

I did get a phone call on my sad walk to the car to say they’d put me in next year so not all bad.

[Dice75]

What did you have?

[Murdrum]

What did you have?

AKo

It was a bad call tbh. Something like AKs & JJ some of the time and QQ+ is probably it so can’t call it a bad beat.

[Pat Mustard]

Strewelpeter GL today

[Raoul Duke III]

Crazy shit happening in Brazil today. Polls close at 8pm.

The federal police had established roadblocks across Brazil in Lula/PT strongholds, particularly the northeast, with over 500 operations confirmed by Globo News. Performing searches on cars and slowing traffic down throughout the region. The electoral court had decreed previously that the federal police were not to perform any kind of measures to interrupt traffic. As well as to ensure a maximum no of buses and free public transport so the electorate could freely vote. Anything to help relieve the big queues to vote in round 1.

People called for the director of federal police to be put in front of the electoral court (essentially the supreme court during the election period) to explain what is happening. The Head Supreme/Electoral Court Judge came on TV now to give his update on how the election has been proceeding home and abroad. He said he had received assurances that any traffic measures would be "normal" - eg remove unroadworthy vehicles or speeding fines. He didn't say much else of substance.

If the polls were accurate it's gone from a small margin of victory for Lula to now a coinflip at best . It's not quite a full-on coup but more than enough manipulation and interference to tip the balance. Results will come through around 1am but I'm not not optimistic for a Lula win at all.

Seems like the loola got there in the end.

He seems a less shit option than Tropical Trump.

[Raoul Duke III]

The cricket WC dream is over but at least we can take solace from having knocked out two of the global giants.

[limpwhacker]

The cricket WC dream is over but at least we can take solace from having knocked out two of the global giants.

Bowled ok for 16/17 overs . Adair had an absolute nightmare and giving him the last over was crazy. Starc unplayable. Was fun while it lasted

[limpwhacker]

Bowled ok for 16/17 overs . Adair had an absolute nightmare and giving him the last over was crazy. Starc unplayable. Was fun while it lasted

Reverse psychology. Bbv'd Starc. For unplayable read 14 off his last over

[Strewelpeter]

Strewelpeter GL today

We'll need it. Up another bit in trip should be ok but the tight track and the heavy ground cut up late in the day are going to be challenging.
Would be great to get a win out of her but any punting would be highly speculative, will do a small ew double with Jarlath's horse in the other division where we are up against

I get to tick off a trip to Ballybrit as other than Laytown it's the only racecourse I've not been to even though we had Jennies win there I was away that day.

[Raoul Duke III]

Reverse psychology. Bbv'd Starc. For unplayable read 14 off his last over

Nice effort by Lorcan Tucker in defeat there, making a bad situation into a respectable one. Hopefully puts himself in the shop window for future pro contracts.

[limpwhacker]

Nice effort by Lorcan Tucker in defeat there, making a bad situation into a respectable one. Hopefully puts himself in the shop window for future pro contracts.

Yep , if Stirling and himself had built a partnership it could have gotten interesting. I did my bit by bbv ing the life out of Starc. Lad never bowled a ball after.

[Gimmeabreak]

Lazy morning listening to some Prince on you tube. I thought the first comment was a pretty cool summation of him. But the 2nd one gave me a right chuckle.

Dresses like Mozart
Dances like James Brown
Plays guitar like Hendrix
Has a range like Mercury
What the hell couldn’t this man do?

Staying alive

He was also responsible for giving us this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk

[Opr]

Lazy morning listening to some Prince on you tube. I thought the first comment was a pretty cool summation of him. But the 2nd one gave me a right chuckle.

He was also responsible for giving us this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk

There is actually a good Sinead O Connor documentary just released called Nothing Compares. The Prince Estate wouldn't release the song for the documentary.

[Solksjaer!]

Love prince but THAT song is probably the most overrated song ive ever heard .

[Gimmeabreak]

Love prince but THAT song is probably the most overrated song ive ever heard .

jaysus thats strong words, of it's time it was a classic.

[coillcam]

Seems like the loola got there in the end.

He seems a less shit option than Tropical Trump.

He has not publicly spoken or conceded....

However some key figures on his side of the political spectrum have congratulated Lula and essentially said democracy has spoken.

[Murdrum]

I was never really into his stuff but that Super Bowl performance of Purple Rain was unbelievable

[Solksjaer!]

jaysus thats strong words, of it's time it was a classic.

Why ? Look at the lyrics . A child could have written it. Sineads performance made it the hit. However as a song its moderate . Just my view but i can name 100 better of the time . Including Sineads own stuff .

Prince a genius though, just that tume. Probably why he gave it to her.

[Gimmeabreak]

So we've gone from worst to now 100 better. I presume in your next post it'll be in your top 25 of the 90s.

[Solksjaer!]

So we've gone from worst to now 100 better. I presume in your next post it'll be in your top 25 of the 90s.

Taking liberties yourself . I said overrated not worst . I presuume in your next post.....

[hotspur]

She had Gab at "I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant."

[shrapnel]

it was without a doubt made great by sinead and that video. if you listen to prince sing it, it's a pretty cheesy song, and he was definitely right to hand it over

[MysteryGuest]

it was without a doubt made great by sinead and that video. if you listen to prince sing it, it's a pretty cheesy song, and he was definitely right to hand it over

So Prince ultimately responsible for this atrocity
https://youtu.be/xE4XEP-j3cg

[Raoul Duke III]

Wouldn't want to be sitting in the Twitter offices and awaiting Musk's first steps as overlord

[Goodluck2me]

In the market myself . Plane mad fecker kid cant move without trampling on a Finnair . The ultimate ignominy has been parking beside the plane spotter anoraks at Dublin Airport.

Would he like a larger one? We’ve loads of 1:400 size ones lying around. PM me if interested

[Solksjaer!]

Would he like a larger one? We’ve loads of 1:400 size ones lying around. PM me if interested

Thanks for the kind offer but i'd have to move out if he got any more planes overrun.


Dinkies - yer a hike man. What are your top hikes around the 50s k radius. Was comparing notes over the weekend and between us we covered pretty much everywhere but i'm sure we've missed out on one or two gems. Any low key ones youve come accross .

[Lao Lao]

Anybody else having problems getting onto IPB via Tapatalk?

I keep getting an error message saying ' Sorry - You must enable Tapatalk first'

[dinekes]

Thanks for the kind offer but i'd have to move out if he got any more planes overrun.


Dinkies - yer a hike man. What are your top hikes around the 50s k radius. Was comparing notes over the weekend and between us we covered pretty much everywhere but i'm sure we've missed out on one or two gems. Any low key ones youve come accross .

Haven't done a whole lot since the end of the summer!


My favourite is from the car park in Tibradden (where the Zipit lines are) through to the Faerie Castle then downhill to The Gap and walk back along the road to the car park (about 10 miles) or variations of that.

Another I like you can access from the Military Road near Noel Lemass monument. (Or from Cruagh) There's a trail about 50 metres before the monument heading East. You can access Cruagh from there or hook South after a bit on a narrow trail.
The section from the Military Road to the fence isn't that long but it's my favourite part of it and never met anyone else on that section. Has a nice wilderness feel to it.

There's another one I like starting near Featherbed forest.
Will take a look at a map and describe it later.
later.
First right after Kilakee viewpoint is a narrow road leading down into the valley Featherbed forest on your right. ..straight down over the bridge then first left for about 1/2 mile or so, another left heading up (Glenmasole area) and keep going straight and you're eventually back to Military road. A few cars now and then but usually quiet enough.
It's not particularly dramatic or anything. Nice views of the valley and you're smack bang in the middle of it.
Got a nice blackberry stash a few months ago as loads of bushes on the side of the road near Featherbed.


Only downside is bit of litter on the first section.

[Micknail]

I've been hit with a mighty 1c income tax to backpay for 2021, as the company I was with (and left) were using the temp wage subsidies scheme for covid.

[Solksjaer!]

Haven't done a whole lot since the end of the summer!


My favourite is from the car park in Tibradden (where the Zipit lines are) through to the Faerie Castle then downhill to The Gap and walk back along the road to the car park (about 10 miles) or variations of that.

Another I like you can access from the Military Road near Noel Lemass monument. (Or from Cruagh) There's a trail about 50 metres before the monument heading East. You can access Cruagh from there or hook South after a bit on a narrow trail.
The section from the Military Road to the fence isn't that long but it's my favourite part of it and never met anyone else on that section. Has a nice wilderness feel to it.

There's another one I like starting near Featherbed forest.
Will take a look at a map and describe it later.

Merci dinki ,

Copied and pasted into me notepad . St Kevins way beyond hollywood is a hike less travelled . Well that side of it.

[DeadParrot]

Anybody else having problems getting onto IPB via Tapatalk?

I keep getting an error message saying ' Sorry - You must enable Tapatalk first'

Tapatalk got flagged by google as malware.
It's also causing us to be flagged due to the popup.

[Raoul Duke III]

Seems like Bolsonaro is going out with a whimper (most un-Tropical Trumplike).

[coillcam]

Seems like Bolsonaro is going out with a whimper (most un-Tropical Trumplike).

Thank fuck but he still won't concede. His chief of staff followed up on the press conference saying that they'd cooperate on the transition when the time comes. He also misspoke and said president Lula.

Part of me thinks that he's got something held in reserve that he's waiting to play. However I think it's now unlikely and he couldn't get enough allies to try some sort of power grab or stop the steal shenanigans.

We dropped herself's brother in law to the airport on Sunday at 7.30am. He missed the roadblocks in São Paulo by a few hours.

[Strewelpeter]

Hmmm, a reason may be found to go into town this week

[Micknail]

Has anyone here bought a gas fireplace stove?
Or are they soon going to be a relic/outdated feature?


Something like this:
https://www.thegascompany.ie/balance...gas-stove.html

[Raoul Duke III]

Thank fuck but he still won't concede. His chief of staff followed up on the press conference saying that they'd cooperate on the transition when the time comes. He also misspoke and said president Lula.

Part of me thinks that he's got something held in reserve that he's waiting to play. However I think it's now unlikely and he couldn't get enough allies to try some sort of power grab or stop the steal shenanigans.

We dropped herself's brother in law to the airport on Sunday at 7.30am. He missed the roadblocks in São Paulo by a few hours.

Sounds like his focus is on getting a mansion and legal immunity?

[ComradeCollie]

Bleugh. Would have so preferred the Olympia.

[coillcam]

Sounds like his focus is on getting a mansion and legal immunity?

The funny thing is that it's the first time in his political career that he won't have an elected post or actual after he steps down. With that comes a dgree of vulnerability as he can't hide behind immunity or direct police/courts/federal police etc away from investigations. He's avoided any investigation into corruption, militia involvement, impeachment and the rest with relative ease. Partly from immunity, partly from consolidated power across the houses and local federal goverment in Rio, but also though appointing cronies in key positions (federal police in particular).

There's 100% been a large amount of sulking in his bedroom for two days. However his biggest focus was #1 Can I get enough support to cling to power in some way ? and #2 WTF is my exit strategy here so I don't get put behind bars in 2023? #1 was almost done as soon as some prominent allies on the right stated they accepted the result and respect democracy. The military also don't want to go down this route having only escaped the dictatorship in 1984. #2 well this remains to be seen and I don't think Lula's administration will be baying for blood on 1st January.

Ultimately Lula is and his team are aware that from a political POV it will be impossible to make any change in the country if they immediately try to target Bolsonaro with both barrels. While they are not afraid to open Pandora's box by unsealing documents/records that Bolsonaro put away for 100 years or target him with a variety of investigations. There's an incredibly divided country and majority right congress that he now has to work with, along with various state governers. Human instinct would be to go after Bolsonaro and his cronies gung-ho for the way that they targetted and put Lula in jail for spurious charges. The differnence is that Lula is too smart and too focused on improving Brazil to blindly pursue this route.

Whatever way Lula's administration decide to approach this will have to be delicate and considered to avoid further division. There's a very poor and hungry population that needs to be addressed above all other matters as well as repairing international relations that have soured. Watch how he deals with BRICS countries, US and EU in particular.

I think there's a strong chance Bolsonaro will step aside and start pumping his efforts into promoting his sons for a presedential tilt. Though they will likely need to have assumed a big political role in the mean time (Mayor, Governor, Congress etc) and be a more visible voice for the right/opposition.

Herself is flying to Brazil for 3 weeks on Friday morning, kindly paid for by work (suitable dates and a conference overlapped). The last couple of weeks have been terror, anxiety, hope and more recently joy.

[tylerdurden94]

Morning folks

Hope everybody has been good and keeping well?

Looking to get some information from the financial wizards and home renovation enthusiast. We had an occupational therapist out the week to check in on my Dad and we were discussing about finally trying to make the move for a bedroom/bathroom downstairs for him. In doing all this work we were also thinking about getting a new kitchen done also, two birds one stone. I'd been in contact with an architect previously about some work and he popped out to the house for a meeting. He reckons what we want to do in the house will probably cost around €100,000 plus VAT.

A lot of places banks/credit unions will only let you go as high as 100K and 10 years online from their loan calculators. Any help in pointing me in the right direction for what I should/could be looking at? Also what would be a reasonable price to pay for an architect from job start to finish?

[ionapaul]

Has anyone here bought a gas fireplace stove?
Or are they soon going to be a relic/outdated feature?


Something like this:
https://www.thegascompany.ie/balance...gas-stove.html

Almost bought one for our old house a few years ago, but then decided to move and left that decision to the new owner. Currently live in a house 100% powered by electricity (air-to-water pump, which is great but needs electricity to run), would love to have some kind of stove somewhere simply for redundancy if the electricity goes down! We went to a few gas stove showrooms, the modern ones you would be getting are pretty nice and very efficient compared to the madness of an open fire.

[tylerdurden94]

The funny thing is that it's the first time in his political career that he won't have an elected post or actual after he steps down. With that comes a dgree of vulnerability as he can't hide behind immunity or direct police/courts/federal police etc away from investigations. He's avoided any investigation into corruption, militia involvement, impeachment and the rest with relative ease. Partly from immunity, partly from consolidated power across the houses and local federal goverment in Rio, but also though appointing cronies in key positions (federal police in particular).

There's 100% been a large amount of sulking in his bedroom for two days. However his biggest focus was #1 Can I get enough support to cling to power in some way ? and #2 WTF is my exit strategy here so I don't get put behind bars in 2023? #1 was almost done as soon as some prominent allies on the right stated they accepted the result and respect democracy. The military also don't want to go down this route having only escaped the dictatorship in 1984. #2 well this remains to be seen and I don't think Lula's administration will be baying for blood on 1st January.

Ultimately Lula is and his team are aware that from a political POV it will be impossible to make any change in the country if they immediately try to target Bolsonaro with both barrels. While they are not afraid to open Pandora's box by unsealing documents/records that Bolsonaro put away for 100 years or target him with a variety of investigations. There's an incredibly divided country and majority right congress that he now has to work with, along with various state governers. Human instinct would be to go after Bolsonaro and his cronies gung-ho for the way that they targetted and put Lula in jail for spurious charges. The differnence is that Lula is too smart and too focused on improving Brazil to blindly pursue this route.

Whatever way Lula's administration decide to approach this will have to be delicate and considered to avoid further division. There's a very poor and hungry population that needs to be addressed above all other matters as well as repairing international relations that have soured. Watch how he deals with BRICS countries, US and EU in particular.

I think there's a strong chance Bolsonaro will step aside and start pumping his efforts into promoting his sons for a presedential tilt. Though they will likely need to have assumed a big political role in the mean time (Mayor, Governor, Congress etc) and be a more visible voice for the right/opposition.

Herself is flying to Brazil for 3 weeks on Friday morning, kindly paid for by work (suitable dates and a conference overlapped). The last couple of weeks have been terror, anxiety, hope and more recently joy.

As you know I'm also flying to São Paulo next week. Was watching the results also, you think everything will be fine? In your previous post you said your brother in law just missed the roadblocks.

Also requirements for entering Brazil?

[Pat Mustard]

Morning folks

Hope everybody has been good and keeping well?

Looking to get some information from the financial wizards and home renovation enthusiast. We had an occupational therapist out the week to check in on my Dad and we were discussing about finally trying to make the move for a bedroom/bathroom downstairs for him. In doing all this work we were also thinking about getting a new kitchen done also, two birds one stone. I'd been in contact with an architect previously about some work and he popped out to the house for a meeting. He reckons what we want to do in the house will probably cost around €100,000 plus VAT.

A lot of places banks/credit unions will only let you go as high as 100K and 10 years online from their loan calculators. Any help in pointing me in the right direction for what I should/could be looking at? Also what would be a reasonable price to pay for an architect from job start to finish?

I'm no bob the builder, but that seems like an insane amount of money for a bedroom with ensuite and a new kitchen.

[pokerhand]

As you know I'm also flying to São Paulo next week. Was watching the results also, you think everything will be fine? In your previous post you said your brother in law just missed the roadblocks.

Also requirements for entering Brazil?

According to the DFA website. Need proof of COVID vaccination or negative COVID test. That seem to be the only restriction.

[coillcam]

As you know I'm also flying to São Paulo next week. Was watching the results also, you think everything will be fine? In your previous post you said your brother in law just missed the roadblocks.

Also requirements for entering Brazil?

You'll be 100% fine by then dude, nobody wants the country or F1 to be paralysed by roadblocks. It's mostly disgruntled truckers worried about diesel prices. What pokerhand said above is spot on re covid certs. Just make sure you have your itinerary etc ready and you're there as a guest for the F1 plus holiday. Nothing to worry about tbf. You'll get a new passport stamp and be on your way in no time.

Bolsonaro spoke yesterday and said that the roadblock protests were not to continue.... everyone should have freedom of movement and business is suffering.... we can protest peacefully in a different way. Paraphrasing but that's the gist of it. Some hospitals were starting to report low oxygen stores due to supply chain disruption .

I assume you're landing at Guarulhos airport. Did you get a transfer sorted or does it need to be organised?

If not the options would be to take an uber and expense it. Or get the bus transfer that brings you to the other airport (Congonhas) near your hotel/interlagos. Make sure you have both debit and credit cards on hand btw. Ideally have a visa and mastercard too. They have separate machines for each, lol Brazilian bureaucracy and the odd time play silly buggers. Though revolut will be your best friend (last time I was there it only worked on credit card machine bizarrely). Do keep a few notes of Reals on you just in case. Max €50.

I have some notes to email you from the last time we spoke. I'll ping them over later.

[Strewelpeter]

There is lad my nephew knows specialises in doing conversions to OT specs. I'll get his number tonight and send it on to you.
there used to be decent grants for doing those jobs, afaicr all you need is the recommendation from the OT to qualify.