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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostHousemates work quiz over conference call:
Q: Where is the gluteus maximus located?
A: Several people say RomeTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostRecruitment freeze in Trinners. Can imagine that easily being extended to the other unis pretty rapidly. Hmm. What to do.
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For those of you into whiskey my missus' distillery are having an auction on their batch one boxset on https://irishwhiskeyauctions.ie/ in just under an hour."you raise, i kill you" El Tren :{)
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostNo, your (our) place, its the only place with a full prof on offer. Job was advertised, they are shortlisting for interview now. Maybe it might be considered too far along in the process to be stopped at this stage even though legally its not until a job offer is made.
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Originally posted by tylerdurden94 View PostFor those of you into whiskey my missus' distillery are having an auction on their batch one boxset on https://irishwhiskeyauctions.ie/ in just under an hour.
is it pearse lyons or teelings?People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
https://revolut.com/referral/jamesb8!G10D21
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post9 days?
is it pearse lyons or teelings?
Bid on a few things including the pearse lyons (I imagine there is a sizable bid sitting there already)People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
https://revolut.com/referral/jamesb8!G10D21
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Originally posted by aidankk View PostMy limited insider knowledge here, tells me there would be no insurance companies left if they paid business interruption to the whole country. The payout would be more than net worth
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So Chinese deaths in Wuhan is 50% higher than initially reported: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/w...eath-toll.html
I wonder if that's the full extent of it or if it's even worse. Hard to believe much of anything now.
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Originally posted by Murdrum View PostSo Chinese deaths in Wuhan is 50% higher than initially reported: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/w...eath-toll.html
I wonder if that's the full extent of it or if it's even worse. Hard to believe much of anything now.
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Originally posted by Silver-Tiger View PostIf you are stuck doing Family quizzes on Zoom at the weekend. Just create an account on Kahoot and play away. By far the only way to do it. Bit of fun and the host can play.
who's in?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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The mothers nursing home had advised us about a week ago that they had 1 confirmed case and were awaiting results on a number of other cases.
In fairness they have communicated really well. We have had face time calls and can send video messages in etc . They have also put detailed updates on their website.
A few days ago they advised us that Mam was running a slight temp that they suspected iwas being caused by a kidney infection but they would test for Covid 19 as a precaution.
Received the news that she had tested positive last night . Got a picture of her later sitting up and smiling .
Since they confirmed the first case I have been half expecting the call to come and we have discussed it here. She is a tough cookie but unfortunately I dont think that is necessarily an advantage at this time.
In a way we have already been through a grieving process for the Mother that just isn't there anymore. On the other hand we have many hilarious and loving moments with the person that she is now. We hope for the best outcome without having yet been able to decide what that is.
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Peel Ports are pretty big in the UK and also own MTL in Dublin along with BG Freight.
Up until the start of this year, BG Freight would have been in competition with P&O for some niche containers services on the Trans-Atlantic route that used Liverpool as a hub for Ireland but P&O pulled out of that market citing issues over Brexit (BG Freight call the same terminal as the deep sea lines in Liverpool port so transhipping is easily done where P&O come out of Gladstone so they had to leave the port to T/S which needed additional customs paperwork)
There would still be some element of competition there as BG Freight offer a domestic service to/from UK/Ireland via container v's P&O's RoRo option but I can't see it as much competition. BG freight are down to one or two sailings per week v's P&O's two or three sailings per day.
Maybe it's a simple case of Peel afraid they won't get paid and being cautious to make sure that amount of money isn't left out there for any length of time or maybe it's a chance to put the boot into a competitor?
I have very mixed feelings on P&O. We used to use them on the Dublin - Liverpool leg a lot in a previous role, I'm going back over 20 years now (showing me age ). The lads in Dublin were mainly beyond useless but one of the lads in particular in Liverpool was an absolute legend, still keep in touch with every so often. Before we started using them, they only did UK/Ireland traffic which generally had no customs requirements and the Dublin lads wanted nothing to do with it whereas the lads in Liverpool say this as a new business opportunity and were pushing it.
They only had customs on site for two hours twice a day, 8am - 10am and 8pm - 10pm. Our vessel left Liverpool every Saturday evening to Canada/USA so most of our freight went out on the 10pm sailing Friday night out of Dublin which meant I spent every Friday night in customs down there getting paperwork stamped. This was back when I would hand type export customs paperwork on a typewriter on essentially carbon paper so you have 5 copies of every document. Then customs would physically stamp the paperwork, they'd go in the ships bag to Liverpool where UK customs would counter stamp them to prove they left the EU. You'd keep page 1 and then get page 4 back a few months later as it trickled through the system.
They had two customs officers working the P&O terminal. One lad was absolutely sound, just a genuinely nice fella but the other lad was a cunt of the highest order. With just two of them, it meant you had to deal with the cunt every second week. I saw him rip up peoples paperwork and throw it back at them because it was wrong (without telling them what was wrong) and refusing to let their cargo go plus he'd berate you if there was the slightest mistake. Often, it was drivers handing in the paperwork who hadn't completed it so they got the brunt of it for others peoples mistakes.
I made one very small mistake (left out a two digit code in one box) once but never again and he got used to me and generally I didn't have any issues with him until one night some poor Italian driver presented his paperwork ahead of me and it was all over the shop. The customs officer was in the height of it and literally flung the paperwork back in his face and told him to sort it or he'd shred it. The Italian lad was none too happy and was starting to kick off a bit so as I was next up and being the cunt he was, told me I had to sort the Italians lads paperwork or neither of our freight was going anywhere despite my paperwork being perfect.
So there I am, not a fucking word of Italian, the driver not a word of English, trying to sort his shit out. I reverted to the ancient Irish language trick of shouting really loud as if somebody doesn't understand you when you're talking in a normal voice, they'll understand you when you shout When that didn't work , I went with adding an A or an O onto every word
'Thisa boxo herea isa missinga numbero - Do youa knowa the numberoa?
It was fucking torture but eventually got it sorted and when we got back to the customs officer, he was grinning ear to ear, thought the whole things was fucking hilarious, cunt!
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Originally posted by bohsman View PostNow I'm tilted by the delay in a Ryanair refund, requested end of last month, now they just sent me an email giving me a voucher and telling me I can request a refund if I want but there will be a queue
Cathay pacific still haven't agreed to refund without cancellation fees for August
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostNo, your (our) place, its the only place with a full prof on offer. Job was advertised, they are shortlisting for interview now. Maybe it might be considered too far along in the process to be stopped at this stage even though legally its not until a job offer is made.
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If you are being chased by a pack of taxidermists...
Dont play dead.
Landlord wants to meet me about the huge heating bill..
I said "my door is always open.
Was watching the Dublin marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another as an egg and I thought..this could be interesting
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Originally posted by Keane View Post
I’ve been making the point for the past year that people are massively under insuring their homes as building costs have gone up ~25% over the past 3 years and most people are just indexing an out of date rebuild cost with general inflation. Then when they have a fire it’s the insurance companies fault for only making a partial payment never themselves for not reading or making a very basic effort to understand what the fuck they are buying. And certainly never their fault for not paying a higher premium.
As for reinsurance taken out by local insurance companies that’s a total red herring. The reinsurer has similar restrictions you can be sure and the local insurers certainly know it. If they did have it they’d just pay out to the claimants as it wouldn’t cost them anything.
It’s this kind of childish view has insurers getting the fuck out of this market and we’re left with very little choice and competition as a result. Which is the genuine issue to complain about. Shit regulation and fuck all competition in certain sectors. But not paying out on specified restrictions is just not reading your T&Cs in a legal contractual world which is just inexcusable imo.
Originally posted by pgodkin View PostI seriously dont see the outrage here, Every year these people come into the country and do this job... What I am told is that there conditions are shite enough... barely legal which means no Irish person would ever do the job, but compared to where these people are coming from it's a good job
As a Yellow belly I wouldn't let 95% of the dole Que walk by a strawberry field let alone pick the fruit, it is a really seriously demanding job, I couldn't do it today even if I wanted to!
Tesco's / DHL / Primeline cant get people to drive forklifts for 11euro an hour, you think Irish people are going to break there backs for 10.50 an hour?
Seen on Twitter that the UK government were being pressured into chartering flights to get these workers in as well, Yes all of them pose a risk but is this risk managable I say it would be, the amount of money tied up in a harvest if Keelings or any of these other producers ended up with Covid break out at their facilities, shut down and losing a crop could cost them a fortune! Don't forget these guys are all under serious contracts with Tesco's / Dunnes / etc and if Karen from Facebook gives out that there is no Strawberry's there will be hell to pay
We did this to our selves cause we are all cu*ts, Just not as big of cu*ts as the Insurance sector.... Did anyone get notice about their life policy? heard a few people got notice if they die from covid19, it falls under the act of god clause and they wont pay out... seriously dont know if that is true but heard it can't find anything to confirm it?‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
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Originally posted by V for Vendetta View PostIf you pay a lower premium based on a restricted range of risks and take your chances than WTF do you expect? Insurance companies are an easy target but taking short cuts and whinging when you bought a product with a clear restriction about when the product doesn’t pay out is fairly childish in my view.
I’ve been making the point for the past year that people are massively under insuring their homes as building costs have gone up ~25% over the past 3 years and most people are just indexing an out of date rebuild cost with general inflation. Then when they have a fire it’s the insurance companies fault for only making a partial payment never themselves for not reading or making a very basic effort to understand what the fuck they are buying. And certainly never their fault for not paying a higher premium.
As for reinsurance taken out by local insurance companies that’s a total red herring. The reinsurer has similar restrictions you can be sure and the local insurers certainly know it. If they did have it they’d just pay out to the claimants as it wouldn’t cost them anything.
It’s this kind of childish view has insurers getting the fuck out of this market and we’re left with very little choice and competition as a result. Which is the genuine issue to complain about. Shit regulation and fuck all competition in certain sectors. But not paying out on specified restrictions is just not reading your T&Cs in a legal contractual world which is just inexcusable imo.
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Originally posted by V for Vendetta View PostIf you pay a lower premium based on a restricted range of risks and take your chances than WTF do you expect? Insurance companies are an easy target but taking short cuts and whinging when you bought a product with a clear restriction about when the product doesn’t pay out is fairly childish in my view.
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View PostI can't help but feel that there is more to this story that is being released.
Peel Ports are pretty big in the UK and also own MTL in Dublin along with BG Freight.
Up until the start of this year, BG Freight would have been in competition with P&O for some niche containers services on the Trans-Atlantic route that used Liverpool as a hub for Ireland but P&O pulled out of that market citing issues over Brexit (BG Freight call the same terminal as the deep sea lines in Liverpool port so transhipping is easily done where P&O come out of Gladstone so they had to leave the port to T/S which needed additional customs paperwork)
There would still be some element of competition there as BG Freight offer a domestic service to/from UK/Ireland via container v's P&O's RoRo option but I can't see it as much competition. BG freight are down to one or two sailings per week v's P&O's two or three sailings per day.
Maybe it's a simple case of Peel afraid they won't get paid and being cautious to make sure that amount of money isn't left out there for any length of time or maybe it's a chance to put the boot into a competitor?
I have very mixed feelings on P&O. We used to use them on the Dublin - Liverpool leg a lot in a previous role, I'm going back over 20 years now (showing me age ). The lads in Dublin were mainly beyond useless but one of the lads in particular in Liverpool was an absolute legend, still keep in touch with every so often. Before we started using them, they only did UK/Ireland traffic which generally had no customs requirements and the Dublin lads wanted nothing to do with it whereas the lads in Liverpool say this as a new business opportunity and were pushing it.
They only had customs on site for two hours twice a day, 8am - 10am and 8pm - 10pm. Our vessel left Liverpool every Saturday evening to Canada/USA so most of our freight went out on the 10pm sailing Friday night out of Dublin which meant I spent every Friday night in customs down there getting paperwork stamped. This was back when I would hand type export customs paperwork on a typewriter on essentially carbon paper so you have 5 copies of every document. Then customs would physically stamp the paperwork, they'd go in the ships bag to Liverpool where UK customs would counter stamp them to prove they left the EU. You'd keep page 1 and then get page 4 back a few months later as it trickled through the system.
They had two customs officers working the P&O terminal. One lad was absolutely sound, just a genuinely nice fella but the other lad was a cunt of the highest order. With just two of them, it meant you had to deal with the cunt every second week. I saw him rip up peoples paperwork and throw it back at them because it was wrong (without telling them what was wrong) and refusing to let their cargo go plus he'd berate you if there was the slightest mistake. Often, it was drivers handing in the paperwork who hadn't completed it so they got the brunt of it for others peoples mistakes.
I made one very small mistake (left out a two digit code in one box) once but never again and he got used to me and generally I didn't have any issues with him until one night some poor Italian driver presented his paperwork ahead of me and it was all over the shop. The customs officer was in the height of it and literally flung the paperwork back in his face and told him to sort it or he'd shred it. The Italian lad was none too happy and was starting to kick off a bit so as I was next up and being the cunt he was, told me I had to sort the Italians lads paperwork or neither of our freight was going anywhere despite my paperwork being perfect.
So there I am, not a fucking word of Italian, the driver not a word of English, trying to sort his shit out. I reverted to the ancient Irish language trick of shouting really loud as if somebody doesn't understand you when you're talking in a normal voice, they'll understand you when you shout When that didn't work , I went with adding an A or an O onto every word
'Thisa boxo herea isa missinga numbero - Do youa knowa the numberoa?
It was fucking torture but eventually got it sorted and when we got back to the customs officer, he was grinning ear to ear, thought the whole things was fucking hilarious, cunt!
Originally posted by V for Vendetta View PostEvery insurance company we deal with has confirmed no issue with life policies so I’d love to see some evidence of this social media bullshit. There are cases of new cover being refused to folk with Covid 19 or suspected of same for a period of a month or two following getting an all clear. No one is being denied a life assurance payment where they die from Covid 19 on an existing life policy.
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Originally posted by Wesley Harms View PostAnyone know who actually makes the money from this Pokio app? Are the different groups on a cut of the fees/rake?
Best part is I only had the third nuts and held 10 4 in a 3 bet potPm for rakeback deals
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Originally posted by tipp86 View PostI seem like a salesman for Pokio of late. I literally won a 2000+ big blind pot just now. Only 0.10-20 cent but I have probably well over a million hands played at small stakes and never came close to a pot that size.
Best part is I only had the third nuts and held 10 4 in a 3 bet pot
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Originally posted by tipp86 View PostI seem like a salesman for Pokio of late. I literally won a 2000+ big blind pot just now. Only 0.10-20 cent but I have probably well over a million hands played at small stakes and never came close to a pot that size.
Best part is I only had the third nuts and held 10 4 in a 3 bet pot
2000 BB pot Jesus nice one everyone must have caught a piece
of the flop
My inner Dougal screwed up another ticket for me today
Ted : So I'll just call this one Dougal were out of position and no need to bloat the old pot v the chip leader
Dougal: Ah go on Ted let me have a go you havent let me play since the other night
Ted: You cost us the bloody ticket Dougal
Dougal: What tickets that Ted?
Ted: (angry) The ticket Dougal the €1000 ticket that we played 6 hours for and were 5 mins away from; that bloody ticket
Dougal: I thought we were just having a laugh. Go on Ted give us a go I promise I'll just call.
Ted: Well ok but just call mind.
30 seconds later
Ted: (head in hands) For Gods sake Dougal why?why?
Dougal: I couldn't help myself Ted you know me and buttons .
Ted: sobbing
Dougal: I know what'll cheer you up Ted a nice game of buckaroo!
Ted: go on so
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Originally posted by KK82 View PostNot Found
The requested URL was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View PostI'm now getting this on chrome, even after deleting cache. Still working on firefox on the same laptop.
If people bookmark or use http://www.irishpokerboards.com/forum/index.php it should get you the front page without errors.
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On Chrome , at least, it seems http://www.irishpokerboards.com is being redirected to https://www.irishpokerboards.com/500.shtml
I don't know if the https is implicated in this. I don't recall the site using https before so perhaps Chrome is forcing a secure connection and it's causing issues.Last edited by Apache; 17-04-20, 22:18.
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Originally posted by Apache View PostFor the admin it seems that sometimes the url http://www.irishpokerboards.com is being redirected to irishpokerboards.com/500.shtml which then returns a 404 error.
If people bookmark or use http://www.irishpokerboards.com/forum/index.php it should get you the front page without errors.
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Dobby inflicted this question on me earlier. The prick. So now anyone here can have it.
Name the best 11 you can put forward who have played in your lifetime. Cant have played for the same club or international team. Football obv and not that Gaelic stuff.Last edited by Dice75; 18-04-20, 00:05.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostDobby inflicted this question on me earlier. The prick. So now anyone here can have it.
Name the best 11 you can put forward who have played in your lifetime. Cant have played together at club or international level. Football obv and not that Gaelic stuff.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostDobby inflicted this question on me earlier. The prick. So now anyone here can have it.
Name the best 11 you can put forward who have played in your lifetime. Cant have played together at club or international level. Football obv and not that Gaelic stuff.
Peter Scheimchel
Cafu (Right Back)
Franz Beckenbaur
Bobby Moore
Paulo Maldini (left back)
Christiano Ronaldo
Diego Marradonna
Johan Cruyff
Michelle Platini
Messi
George Best
I keep making changes so Im just going to post this one up.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostDobby inflicted this question on me earlier. The prick. So now anyone here can have it.
Name the best 11 you can put forward who have played in your lifetime. Cant have played together at club or international level. Football obv and not that Gaelic stuff.
Cafu Vidic Cannavaro Petrescu
Solano Keane Kroos Sanchez
Messi Henry
I think thats a solid team?
Honourable mentions to:
Luc Nilis, Georgie Hagi.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
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Originally posted by connie147 View PostCould name multiple teams, but here go's (4=4=2)
Peter Scheimchel
Cafu (Right Back)
Franz Beckenbaur
Bobby Moore
Paulo Maldini (left back)
Christiano Ronaldo
Diego Marradonna
Johan Cruyff
Michelle Platini
Messi
George Best
I keep making changes so Im just going to post this one up.
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Originally posted by connie147 View PostCould name multiple teams, but here go's (4=4=2)
Peter Scheimchel
Cafu (Right Back)
Franz Beckenbaur
Bobby Moore
Paulo Maldini (left back)
Christiano Ronaldo
Diego Marradonna
Johan Cruyff
Michelle Platini
Messi
George Best
I keep making changes so Im just going to post this one up.
Maradona and Messi both Argies
Messi and Cruyff both Barca
Cafu and Maldini both Milan
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I thought it was cant have played together?
but can have been at the same club different times?This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by Emmet View Posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vxfT0vdxXQ
Don't rate him massively but this is lovely from a good Irish singer.
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Attempt 2
Chilavert
Cafu Mattheus Cannavaro Petrescu
Solano Keane Zidane Sanchez
Messi NilisThis may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by dobby View PostSanchez and Messi, Barca, Cannavaro and Zidane, Real. Lol, it's a pain in the bollox this thing.
K I thought I'd gotten away with it with the full backs.
Ill giver one more.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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