Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Wordle Gummidge

[Tar.Aldarion]

I've started a fundraiser raffle (58 prizes from 33 companies) for Back Into Daylight Sanctuary in Navan this evening, if anybody wants to enter. can do so through instagram, facebook or paypal. Fiver a ticket and an extra ticket per multiple of 20.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CW8yVP0s6ZH/

https://www.facebook.com/donate/4536...94743778208646

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/backintodaylight1

[Solksjaer!]

14 peaks on Netflix is amazing. That guy is another level

[Raoul Duke III]

Puppy likes to wake at 4.30am on my mornings but 7am for Mrs D3.

Clearly some foul play afoot here. I suspect a feminine conspiracy.

[6starpool]

There was a Solksjaer thread too
pretty tame compared to the Hitch and HJ ones though

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.

[oleras]

Was 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).

Pro tip!

Buy envelopes...recycle the cards, they are all the same anyway...

[ionapaul]

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.

[ComradeCollie]

Panic stations in Lidl when I tried to buy a couple of bottles of wine at 10.27.

[ArmaniJeans]

Is 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.

[6starpool]

Is 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.

Full steam ahead from then, yep. With the amount I drink in the last few years it's not going to impact me anyway.

[ComradeCollie]

Is 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.

I wouldn't be bothered stockpiling, as I know I'd only end up drinking way too much again. I'll be tempted to get into home brewing though.

[Raoul Duke III]

Anyone else getting an inordinate amount of phishing robocalls?

"your Amazon Prime account will be renewed for 79.99", "this is Irish Tax " etc

[Degag]

Is 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.

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.

[Micknail]

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.

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?

[6starpool]

Regarding 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!

[DeadParrot]

Is 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.

The more interesting question is what is going to happen to already more expensive drinks?
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.

[ArmaniJeans]

Is it true it's not even tax making up the surplus charge, it's literally just more money for the manufacturers/seller?

Yes, an increase in tax (excise duty) would have meant that all alcohol would have gone up in price, inc in pubs.
MUP is framed such that most of the increase will go to the retailer/manufacturer - though the VAT component will go to government.

[ComradeCollie]

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.

Yeah, as much as I dislike it the price rises in cigarettes over years eventually had the intended effect with me.

[MysteryGuest]

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.

Not real, was hoping for some bites from Hitch or HJ

[MysteryGuest]

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 bores

[ionapaul]

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

[Wombatman]

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

You should have gone to the busiest till with just beer and nappies in the trolley. When rung up you should have said you only have money for one and put back the nappies.

[6starpool]

Not real, was hoping for some bites from Hitch or HJ

OK, good to clear that up. It's the type of thing that some might think was real when it wasn't. There was one thread that contained some bitching though which i binned so some good came of it.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

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?

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.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

Yeah, as much as I dislike it the price rises in cigarettes over years eventually had the intended effect with me.

It was brutally effective - that cigarette squeeze. I think me and the wife were spending €400 a month on cigs at some point. Mad money.

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.

[hotspur]

You should have gone to the busiest till with just beer and nappies in the trolley. When rung up you should have said you only have money for one and put back the nappies.

Ⓒ Ed Bryne

[Wombatman]

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.

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.

[Strewelpeter]

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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-57293223

https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l5274

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.
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.

[Hitchhiker's Guide To...]

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.

I think thats the standard PR story put around for why nothing should ever change, but it also doesn't make any sense to my mind.

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.

[Strewelpeter]

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.

They can hope all they like, it will have feck all impact on them.

[Micknail]

Regarding 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!

We all know you have me on ignore Tom and just saw my text being quoted by others

[Wombatman]

I guess you can get some turkeys to vote for Christmas.

Let's make the grog more expensive so Paddy will drink more responsibly you say.........

[MysteryGuest]

Strong “keeps jars off his own piss in the fridge” vibes off Jack Dorsey

[hotspur]

I guess you can get some turkeys to vote for Christmas.

Let's make the grog more expensive so Paddy will drink more responsibly you say.........

Do you think that the MUP will not result in a reduction of alcohol consumption?

[elbows]

What bank has the best app. Have to move from Ulster unfortunately.

[Emmet]

What bank has the best app. Have to move from Ulster unfortunately.

N26 - just be prepared to have to threaten to take all your utility companies to the ECJ when they refuse to accept your IBAN.

[eamonhonda]

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.

Yer getting ripped off mate. And everyone on crack these days, cheap as chips

[Wombatman]

Do you think that the MUP will not result in a reduction of alcohol consumption?

I expect it will but the medicine will be worse that the illness for Joe public all things considered. MUP an obtuse measure.

How about stopping all alcohol related sports sponsorship?

[ComradeCollie]

Finally had to decide to give up on this old friend

Anyone who still follows that fatemperor clown is best avoided imo.

[Lao Lao]

Raoul Duke III Another 2 goals tonight for you know who...

[Strewelpeter]

The Conversation is one great movie, nice surprise to stumble across it on a shitty Thursday night that needed a bit of divarsion

[MysteryGuest]

Finally had to decide to give up on this old friend

Anyone who still follows that fatemperor clown is best avoided imo.

Hadn’t seen any Cummins stuff slfor a while- went down the rabbit hole there

i see Eddie Hobbs gas went and done a OHD in Virology since he’s been off our screens- fair play

[Raoul Duke III]

Raoul Duke III Another 2 goals tonight for you know who...

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.

[Solksjaer!]

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.

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 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 .

[Solksjaer!]

Trying to edit ones post on here without getting an error message has proven to be a pain in the left gee flap .

[ComradeCollie]

Hadn’t seen any Cummins stuff slfor a while- went down the rabbit hole there

He raised €150k to make his shite docco, and then tries to charge people €10 to view it. He's so incompetent though he forgot to password protect the download for a few days (he'll probably claim that was his cunning plan all along to get more views).

[Raoul Duke III]

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 .

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!

[Solksjaer!]

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!

Studs in the foot are painful. To the modern wimpy player its akin to a broken leg. Dont think he was faking. They really are that flaky. Imagine Terry Butcher today.

[pokerhand]

Ugh. Clearly missed the memo that the Ashes is on BT Sport.

Now I know how soccer fans feel.

For a man that claim not to be a soccer fan, you sure watch and comment a lot on soccer

[Raoul Duke III]

For a man that claim not to be a soccer fan, you sure watch and comment a lot on soccer

I have a 12 year old son who knows the names of every squad member of every professional club on the planet.

(where did I go wrong?)

[Solksjaer!]

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 .

[Solksjaer!]

I have a 12 year old son who knows the names of every squad member of every professional club on the planet.

(where did I go wrong?)

I think you obsession with dissing Ronaldo ruined your credibility in this matter .

[dinekes]

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 .

U18 CShip hurling got full force whack in side of head with Hurley (no helmet) Bainisteoir sprints on with the obligatory sponge "go on lad it's a c-ship game" "yes mother I reply woozily" Finshed the game. Bragging rights in school Mon entire side of face black and blue.

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.

[Lao Lao]

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 .

Admins/Mods - Name change from Solksjaer to Heskey please.

[Solksjaer!]

Poor ol Heskey .

dinkie name change to DJ Dinkie

[dinekes]

Poor ol Heskey .

dinkie name change to DJ Dinkie

I wonder what sort of card DJ got for the Mrs

"To my darling Au-pair/Wife"

[Micknail]

Fans of The Babadook might enjoy this one too:
The Night House

[shrapnel]

Fans of The Babadook might enjoy this one too:
The Night House

Thanks for that, i'd mentioned it previously also but St Maud is fantastic and in the same genre

[Dice75]

Someone stick up a Fundalk punt there, crappy week and vino open

RDIII I'm looking at you......

[balfejohn]

Pachmena 6.30
e/w

[hotspur]

Watching the FIDE World Chess Championship a bit over the week. I can't think of any other "sport" where the commentators and analysts have to work as hard to make it watchable or interesting. Flicking between the different streams goes from insufferably boring to very interesting.