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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWas in the card shop trying to buy a birthday card. I'd say a good 70% of available cards for wifes say 'to my beautiful wife', 20% 'to my gorgeous wife', and a remnant 10% 'to my amazing wife'. So 90% of available cards are about looks.
Is it not assuming a very shallow relationship that you might be a decade into a relationship and still your main comment is about whether your partner is a ride? It just seems odd, that no other characteristics in your partner are considered as notable (by card manufacturers).
Buy envelopes...recycle the cards, they are all the same anyway...This too shall pass.
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BTW an update on my house search, in case anyone is interested - I previously had said we were having trouble making a decision between a house in Stepaside (5 bed, detached, 200 sq m) and a new build in Sandyford village (4-bed, semi-d, 175 sq m), but were leaning very heavily for the former based on better location in terms of Stepaside village vs Sandyford and that the detached house was actually better value in €/square foot terms.
After more thought and viewing the new build again, we've actually changed our minds back in favour of the smaller house! Internal layout is better, and it's in a better on-street location in terms of where it is in the development (the Stepaside one was at the entrance to a busy enough estate, the Sandyford one would have zero traffic past the front door). Also started to think that buying a bigger house just for the sake of it was not the right decision, and that we actually wouldn't give the full use of the place with only four of us, not for a long time anyhow and who knows where we'll be in ten years?
New build should be finished sometime in January/early February, so will be making a move then. Nice to have one last Xmas in our first family house.Last edited by ionapaul; 02-12-21, 10:48.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostIs this Mimimum Unit Pricing still going ahead in January?
Anyone thinking of stockpiling a few months supply of their favourite €5/€6 bottles, gonna be €8+ from now on.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostIs this Mimimum Unit Pricing still going ahead in January?
Anyone thinking of stockpiling a few months supply of their favourite €5/€6 bottles, gonna be €8+ from now on.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostIs this Mimimum Unit Pricing still going ahead in January?
Anyone thinking of stockpiling a few months supply of their favourite €5/€6 bottles, gonna be €8+ from now on.
And all to ‘help’ ‘problem’ drinkers. Or perhaps that’s a very ignorant view, not sure.
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Originally posted by Degag View Post
It is i believe. Crazy shit really. 24 cans of your drink of choice will be €40+ from January on whereas they are readily available at half the price now.
And all to ‘help’ ‘problem’ drinkers. Or perhaps that’s a very ignorant view, not sure.
Is it true it's not even tax making up the surplus charge, it's literally just more money for the manufacturers/seller?﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostIs this Mimimum Unit Pricing still going ahead in January?
Anyone thinking of stockpiling a few months supply of their favourite €5/€6 bottles, gonna be €8+ from now on.
Say your 4 for a tenner 330ml craft beers or your €15-20 bottle of plonk?
Tbh, I think it's probably a good idea, the direction that the money will go as a consequence of MUP (to retailer/manufacturer etc) isn't really the point of MUP imo.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!
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Originally posted by Micknail View Post
Is it true it's not even tax making up the surplus charge, it's literally just more money for the manufacturers/seller?
MUP is framed such that most of the increase will go to the retailer/manufacturer - though the VAT component will go to government.
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostTbh, I think it's probably a good idea, the direction that the money will go as a consequence of MUP (to retailer/manufacturer etc) isn't really the point of MUP imo.
Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by 6starpool View Post
I'm pretty sure you're making some of this shit up now. If not, PM me the gist of these and if they do exist (any of them) I'll remove them.Will you ever fuck off with that shite... you are easily one of the worst posters on here for this-Pokerhand
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Hopefully MUP will be as massive a success as putting waist high gates into the offie sections in supermarkets- crazy the amount of times I’ve just not bought drink because of how awkward that makes it. Great stuff from the neo puritan skinny fat triathlon patricipating boresWill you ever fuck off with that shite... you are easily one of the worst posters on here for this-Pokerhand
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I walked into an alcohol section with my 3 year old recently, in a Dunnes I think. Not sure I did so before, was half expecting a few 'think of the children!' looks in there but nothing materialised in the end. Still unsure if my slight feeling of unease was OTT or legitimate, exposing a child to the horrors of the Dunnes alcohol area
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Originally posted by ionapaul View PostI walked into an alcohol section with my 3 year old recently, in a Dunnes I think. Not sure I did so before, was half expecting a few 'think of the children!' looks in there but nothing materialised in the end. Still unsure if my slight feeling of unease was OTT or legitimate, exposing a child to the horrors of the Dunnes alcohol areaHappiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by MysteryGuest View Post
Not real, was hoping for some bites from Hitch or HJ
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Originally posted by Micknail View Post
May be mis-remembering but I think someone here was saying it's more likely to push some vulnerable people to drug use instead.
Is it true it's not even tax making up the surplus charge, it's literally just more money for the manufacturers/seller?
The low cost low quality beers will be pushed out of the market, over time. Why would anyone pay the minimum price for a low quality beer, when you can get a decent quality beer for the same price. The alternative idea, that everything will just rise in price makes no sense - why would decent quality beers do themselves out of market share by raising their price by large amounts, given they are already priced at what the market will bear. So, you'll have much more beers competing at the same minimum price range initially and the weaker beers will eventually fade away.
I'm sure theres any serious drug habit you can have where it is cheaper than beer? I think its laughably more expensive to take pills, do heroin, crack. A gram of heroin is about €150 - a standard enough daily intake for an addict. Thats 75 beers a day.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
Yeah, as much as I dislike it the price rises in cigarettes over years eventually had the intended effect with me.
Although the social need to reduce drinking isn't as severe, there's a lot of decent social and personal benefits to drinking, and there's just none to smoking."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Its not going to be any of those things.
The low cost low quality beers will be pushed out of the market, over time. Why would anyone pay the minimum price for a low quality beer, when you can get a decent quality beer for the same price. The alternative idea, that everything will just rise in price makes no sense - why would decent quality beers do themselves out of market share by raising their price by large amounts, given they are already priced at what the market will bear. So, you'll have much more beers competing at the same minimum price range initially and the weaker beers will eventually fade away.
I'm sure theres any serious drug habit you can have where it is cheaper than beer? I think its laughably more expensive to take pills, do heroin, crack. A gram of heroin is about €150 - a standard enough daily intake for an addict. Thats 75 beers a day.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Seems in Scotland it's considered to have been a successful public health measure being most effective at nudging the consumption of most of those targeted by the measures without affecting anyone else to any great extent.
Would probably be worth whopping a bit of extra tax on the alcohol companies for a while until they adjust their margins.
The benefits of implementing a minimum cost for alcohol continue to have an impact, a new study finds.
Objective To assess the immediate impact of the introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland on household alcohol purchases. Design Controlled interrupted time series analysis. Setting Purchase data from Kantar Worldpanel’s household shopping panel for 2015-18. Participants 5325 Scottish households, 54 807 English households as controls, and 10 040 households in northern England to control for potential cross border effects. Interventions Introduction of a minimum price of 50p (€0.55; $0.61) per UK unit (6.25p per gram) for the sale of alcohol in Scotland on 1 May 2018. Main outcome measures Price per gram of alcohol, number of grams of alcohol purchased from off-trade by households, and weekly household expenditure on alcohol. Results The introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland was associated with an increase in purchase price of 0.64p per gram of alcohol (95% confidence interval 0.54 to 0.75), a reduction in weekly purchases of 9.5 g of alcohol per adult per household (5.1 to 13.9), and a non-significant increase in weekly expenditure on alcohol per household of 61p (−5 to 127). The increase in purchase price was higher in lower income households and in households that purchased the largest amount of alcohol. The reduction in purchased grams of alcohol was greater in lower income households and only occurred in the top fifth of households by income that purchased the greatest amount of alcohol, where the reduction was 15 g of alcohol per week (6 to 24). Changes in weekly expenditure were not systematically related to household income but increased with increasing household purchases. Conclusions In terms of immediate impact, the introduction of minimum unit pricing appears to have been successful in reducing the amount of alcohol purchased by households in Scotland. The action was targeted, in that reductions of purchased alcohol only occurred in the households that bought the most alcohol.
Originally posted by BMJResults The introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland was associated with an increase in purchase price of 0.64p per gram of alcohol (95% confidence interval 0.54 to 0.75), a reduction in weekly purchases of 9.5 g of alcohol per adult per household (5.1 to 13.9), and a non-significant increase in weekly expenditure on alcohol per household of 61p (−5 to 127). The increase in purchase price was higher in lower income households and in households that purchased the largest amount of alcohol. The reduction in purchased grams of alcohol was greater in lower income households and only occurred in the top fifth of households by income that purchased the greatest amount of alcohol, where the reduction was 15 g of alcohol per week (6 to 24). Changes in weekly expenditure were not systematically related to household income but increased with increasing household purchases.
Conclusions In terms of immediate impact, the introduction of minimum unit pricing appears to have been successful in reducing the amount of alcohol purchased by households in Scotland. The action was targeted, in that reductions of purchased alcohol only occurred in the households that bought the most alcohol.
Results The introduction of minimum unit pricing in Scotland was associated with an increase in purchase price of 0.64p per gram of alcohol (95% confidence interval 0.54 to 0.75), a reduction in weekly purchases of 9.5 g of alcohol per adult per household (5.1 to 13.9), and a non-significant increase in weekly expenditure on alcohol per household of 61p (−5 to 127). The increase in purchase price was higher in lower income households and in households that purchased the largest amount of alcohol. The reduction in purchased grams of alcohol was greater in lower income households and only occurred in the top fifth of households by income that purchased the greatest amount of alcohol, where the reduction was 15 g of alcohol per week (6 to 24). Changes in weekly expenditure were not systematically related to household income but increased with increasing household purchases.
Conclusions In terms of immediate impact, the introduction of minimum unit pricing appears to have been successful in reducing the amount of alcohol purchased by households in Scotland. The action was targeted, in that reductions of purchased alcohol only occurred in the households that bought the most alcohol.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
It's not like every publican in Dáil Eireann will be hoping the real effect will be to make pub and club drinking attractive again relative to DAH.
There's no planned change to the cost of standard pub beers, is there? Only the cheap home drinks that even the most nefarious publican wouldn't dream of offering. If it was about boosting the pub trade, it would surely affect the home price of beers that are actually drunk in a pub.
Plus this same group of pub promotors have also over the years implemented drastic restrictions on drinking in pubs - waaaaaayyyyy more so than in other countries. That essentially no-one can even have a sniff of a drink in their first two years after getting a licence, tiny drink and drive allowances, no happy hours. For a dail of publicans they seem to hate pubs."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
It's not like every publican in Dáil Eireann will be hoping the real effect will be to make pub and club drinking attractive again relative to DAH.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by 6starpool View PostRegarding MUP, where does the extra money go? Are retailers just getting a bigger margin or does it automatically get funnelled to the taxman?
Edit: Just seen this was asked by Micknail in the last post. I should read things fully, not just first lines!﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I'm sure theres any serious drug habit you can have where it is cheaper than beer? I think its laughably more expensive to take pills, do heroin, crack. A gram of heroin is about €150 - a standard enough daily intake for an addict. Thats 75 beers a day.airport, lol
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
Do you think that the MUP will not result in a reduction of alcohol consumption?
How about stopping all alcohol related sports sponsorship?Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View PostFinally had to decide to give up on this old friend
Anyone who still follows that fatemperor clown is best avoided imo.
i see Eddie Hobbs gas went and done a OHD in Virology since he’s been off our screens- fair playWill you ever fuck off with that shite... you are easily one of the worst posters on here for this-Pokerhand
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View PostRaoul Duke III Another 2 goals tonight for you know who...
That Arsenal goal last night was a wondrous thing in that regard."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Speaking of which, this new development in soccer where the ref waves play on while a player is rolling around cheating and pretending to be injured is much to be welcomed.
That Arsenal goal last night was a wondrous thing in that regard.
Fred also looking to stop play by waving his finger was culpable. The ref was trying to cancel the goal actually.
Karma got Arsenal after that . Although how they didnt get a penalty for Maguire strangle tackle is beyond me .
Teo very average teams I'm afraid .
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Originally posted by MysteryGuest View Post
Hadn’t seen any Cummins stuff slfor a while- went down the rabbit hole there
Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Post
Its was a legit goal however a tad unsporting. I think De Gea was a pussy. Definitely got hurt but should really man up there .
Fred also looking to stop play instead of waving his finger was culpable. The ref was trying to cancel the goal actually.
Karma got Arsenal after that . Although how they didnt get a penalty for Maguire strangle tackle is beyond me .
Teo very average teams I'm afraid .
Managers should be (a) telling their teams not to stop for any injury unless the ref tells them to and (b), to cut out the amateur dramatics themselves as it'll cost them a goal, like last night. Good!"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Laws of the game, play to the whistle. De Gea was up and grand in no time (probably feeling embarrassed that he had faked injury after being lightly brushed by his own player ).
Managers should be (a) telling their teams not to stop for any injury unless the ref tells them to and (b), to cut out the amateur dramatics themselves as it'll cost them a goal, like last night. Good!
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostUgh. Clearly missed the memo that the Ashes is on BT Sport.
Now I know how soccer fans feel.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Originally posted by pokerhand View Post
For a man that claim not to be a soccer fan, you sure watch and comment a lot on soccer
(where did I go wrong?)"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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I remember when I was playing a schools match and I scored a fluke by having the ball smashed into my face from point blank range and into the net. I could hear ringing in my ears and I was checking my nose to see if broken. The manager. Get yer ass down the pitch we are kicking off . My ears were ringing the full game . Big heavy ball. No are ya ok ? Etc Nowadays the mountains rescue would be called to fly in a paramedic.
Incidentally I have a huge % of flukey goals in my collection . Every part of my body has been involved. It was uncanny .
Best one I think was a failed volley loop over the goalies head .
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostI remember when I was playing a schools match and I scored a fluke by having the ball smashed into my face from point blank range and into the net. I could hear ringing in my ears and I was checking my nose to see if broken. The manager. Get yer ass down the pitch we are kicking off . My ears were ringing the full game . Big heavy ball. No are ya ok ? Etc Nowadays the mountains rescue would be called to fly in a paramedic.
Incidentally I have a huge % of flukey goals in my collection . Every part of my body has been involved. It was uncanny .
Best one I think was a failed volley loop over the goalies head .
Different rules in GAA
adult hurling game was playing midfield v Vinnie Murphy (Dublin footballer)
was winning nearly every ball and he was getting really frustrated. Hooked him and he retrieved and tried to puc only for me to hook again, this time I won the sliotar back. He just turns and whacks into my hand full force the dirty bastard, instant send off. Dubs had a big game few weeks later so our club didnt make a complaint and ref didnt report.
Game a few years later against the same shower I was on him again and he didnt touch the sliotar once. Absolutely laced him out of every challenge (not one dirty stroke). Dirtiest shower ever played against. Trying to think of the name. Could be na Fianna.
Great daya to be fair, I enjoyed hurling more than soccer (and I was better at soccer) Just more of a rooted community feel to the hurling I think and nothing more satisfying than a nice catch or an over the shoulder point. Hard to describe really.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostI remember when I was playing a schools match and I scored a fluke by having the ball smashed into my face from point blank range and into the net. I could hear ringing in my ears and I was checking my nose to see if broken. The manager. Get yer ass down the pitch we are kicking off . My ears were ringing the full game . Big heavy ball. No are ya ok ? Etc Nowadays the mountains rescue would be called to fly in a paramedic.
Incidentally I have a huge % of flukey goals in my collection . Every part of my body has been involved. It was uncanny .
Best one I think was a failed volley loop over the goalies head .
Admins/Mods - Name change from Solksjaer to Heskey please.
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Originally posted by Micknail View PostFans of The Babadook might enjoy this one too:
The Night House
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