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FAO Raoul, and Mocata, GAB, and other Eames Chair aficionados.
Had a meeting with Herman Miller’s local rep this week (manufacturers of IPB’s favourite Chairs). We were looking at task chairs for a client. But of course could resist a peek. They had a 50s era original Eames chair on display. Insured for $45k.
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I've been tipping away for the last couple of days at an article on how America went nuts. It's four years old but it's very good.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...s-mind/534231/
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostGoing to back Dawid Malan to be top England runscorer @6/1 for the Ashes series (starts 8-Dec) and top overall series runscorer @20/1.
Primarily on the grounds that (a) Root can't do it all the time (can he?) and has a fairly average career record in Australia, (b) Stokes hasn't played for months and is a joke 2nd fav given his overall record and (c), Malan is proven under Australian conditions. I don't rate any of the remaining English batsmen.
One Time etc.
If he could just bat and bat and bat all day tomorrow, that would be great."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View PostHow long will BoJo hang on?
Will his legacy be of getting Britain out of Europe / fighting Covid mainly?
What does he do after being PM? I think May is still in the Tory party, but would he stay?﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View PostHow long will BoJo hang on?
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostThis is a really great Michelen star restaurant review
https://everywhereist.com/2021/12/br...staurant-ever/
I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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To my shame I saw a story last week about how disgraceful it is that we are still funding dog racing and that reminded me that dog racing is a fun enough evening out, so we are on a family outing to Shelbourne this evening. I do realise there is no standard way of working out what dog is going to win, or else the bookies wouldn't be rich, but what are the standard approaches - looking at past time? Is the position still considered important? Whats a sign of a shit dog? Essentially hoping for a bluffers guide to not completely pissing the bed in terms of the bets."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostTo my shame I saw a story last week about how disgraceful it is that we are still funding dog racing and that reminded me that dog racing is a fun enough evening out, so we are on a family outing to Shelbourne this evening. I do realise there is no standard way of working out what dog is going to win, or else the bookies wouldn't be rich, but what are the standard approaches - looking at past time? Is the position still considered important? Whats a sign of a shit dog? Essentially hoping for a bluffers guide to not completely pissing the bed in terms of the bets.
I'll take the spare €50 you want to wager on the pubs also
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Originally posted by The Istanbul View Post
Just grab a window seat upstairs for all of you, order food and let the kids pick random numbers from 1 to 6 and place bet at the tote (dont be going out to shit weather trackside). Afterwards up to Slatterys for a quick pint =easygame and enjoy.
I'll take the spare €50 you want to wager on the pubs also
But after doing that once, indoors for the rest seems fine.
Can't help with picking dogs - maybe veer them towards favs if they are on a run of losses just so they get a winner? And if their winner is 1/3 or something on the tote, then you have to pay them 2/1.
Previous times on the same track is probably what I use, but not particularly successfully.
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The dogs is grim imo. Have had fun at it before but the last time I went I swore never to return.
It was communion time and the place was full of three piece suit wearing Conor McGregors and their kids. All the adults pissed and the kids queuing up at a special play money kids tote.
None of it sat right with me.
Then the usual desperate degen oul lads, ugh. Grimness.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostTo my shame I saw a story last week about how disgraceful it is that we are still funding dog racing and that reminded me that dog racing is a fun enough evening out, so we are on a family outing to Shelbourne this evening. I do realise there is no standard way of working out what dog is going to win, or else the bookies wouldn't be rich, but what are the standard approaches - looking at past time? Is the position still considered important? Whats a sign of a shit dog? Essentially hoping for a bluffers guide to not completely pissing the bed in terms of the bets.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Post
Nightingale the no.3 dog and wrap up well. The dogs at the back will be available on the food stand the following week.
Is that an euphemism for drugging it up to the bollix?
Forshame, what do you think this is, horse racing???﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostTo my shame I saw a story last week about how disgraceful it is that we are still funding dog racing and that reminded me that dog racing is a fun enough evening out, so we are on a family outing to Shelbourne this evening. I do realise there is no standard way of working out what dog is going to win, or else the bookies wouldn't be rich, but what are the standard approaches - looking at past time? Is the position still considered important? Whats a sign of a shit dog? Essentially hoping for a bluffers guide to not completely pissing the bed in terms of the bets.
It's been years since I was at the dogs but I absolutely cleaned up through complete and utter luck. It was a mates birthday so there was a gang of us there. Everybody was using the tote for betting except me and him who were heading down to the track to use the bookies. We won the 1st race so increased our stake from a tenner to 50 quid for every subsequent race and just kept hitting. Think there was only one race where we didn't pick the winner. I was single at the time but he was married so between the punting and the boozing, we almost tripped ourselves up several times lying about how much we bet and what we won. Suffice to say, we both went home with a wedge more cash in the wallet than we went out with.
So, yeah, pick random named dogs that somehow speak to your inner soul. Once you win, invest all winnings on the next one, rinse and repeat - You can't go wrong*
*This should not be considered as advice
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Originally posted by Micknail View Post
Nurse the number 3 dog?
Is that an euphemism for drugging it up to the bollix?
Forshame, what do you think this is, horse racing???
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostThe dogs is grim imo. Have had fun at it before but the last time I went I swore never to return.
It was communion time and the place was full of three piece suit wearing Conor McGregors and their kids. All the adults pissed and the kids queuing up at a special play money kids tote.
None of it sat right with me.
Then the usual desperate degen oul lads, ugh. Grimness.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostThe dogs is grim imo. Have had fun at it before but the last time I went I swore never to return.
It was communion time and the place was full of three piece suit wearing Conor McGregors and their kids. All the adults pissed and the kids queuing up at a special play money kids tote.
None of it sat right with me.
Then the usual desperate degen oul lads, ugh. Grimness.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostTo my shame I saw a story last week about how disgraceful it is that we are still funding dog racing and that reminded me that dog racing is a fun enough evening out, so we are on a family outing to Shelbourne this evening. I do realise there is no standard way of working out what dog is going to win, or else the bookies wouldn't be rich, but what are the standard approaches - looking at past time? Is the position still considered important? Whats a sign of a shit dog? Essentially hoping for a bluffers guide to not completely pissing the bed in terms of the bets.
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We may, and I say this lightly, finally see the plumber later today. Please for the luv of all gods engage in no home renovations involving water without having a personal relationship with a plumber. I've had more than one dream where the plumber turns up and I'm delighted and that's the entire dream.
Had the internal doors fitted today and they are swaaaaannnnnky, or maybe they are ordinary and I don't know better. Glass panels for the downstairs, all new architraves and frames so they fit snug as a bug. I can see the house itself starting to feel proud of who it is.
All we need is the plumber."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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We also were told today that we have to pay a chunk of cash we don't have in tax on the wife's corporate share gains. Filing due by Dec 15th - am I right in thinking we have until end of Jan to actually pay that? Not sure how it will be paid, but it is what it is."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWe also were told today that we have to pay a chunk of cash we don't have in tax on the wife's corporate share gains. Filing due by Dec 15th - am I right in thinking we have until end of Jan to actually pay that? Not sure how it will be paid, but it is what it is.
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So I live in a village in North west Kildare. Very few houses are bought and sold so price discovery is a rarity.
3 months ago a large converted/extended 3 bed cottage in the village went up for sale with an asking price of 499k (myhome.ie ad here)
It stayed on the market for max two weeks and then was sale agreed. The guys who lived there have moved on (bought a fixer-upper in Longford as one of them loves a project and are going to live mortgage free) and the new folk have moved in.
Out of snoopish curiosity (and because I intend remortgaging fairly soon) I looked up the property price register. How much did it go for?
Have a guess first and then check out the spoiler...
SPOILER597k!!!!!
Newtown Cottage,Newtown,Enfield,Co Kildare,A83 NC80, 3 Bed, asking price €499,000, brought to market by Sherry FitzGerald Brady O'Flaherty, Residential - 4512102 (rated C1)‘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 hotspur View Post
Sure for the craic, let's give it to these fellas in the Middle East and then let's try these viking lads in the frozen North. Let's see how they do with their gift."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
Your man responded to her and it's fucking gold it's so bonkers.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
Apparently they have a regular menu and and avant-garde experience menu. hard to complain about a weird experience if you order a weird experience. Like going to a high end fashion show and complaining about a lack of jeans.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostTo my shame I saw a story last week about how disgraceful it is that we are still funding dog racing and that reminded me that dog racing is a fun enough evening out, so we are on a family outing to Shelbourne this evening. I do realise there is no standard way of working out what dog is going to win, or else the bookies wouldn't be rich, but what are the standard approaches - looking at past time? Is the position still considered important? Whats a sign of a shit dog? Essentially hoping for a bluffers guide to not completely pissing the bed in terms of the bets.
Or assign each kid a trap number ( you will call the dogs horses) and stick to it.
Last race, back every dog so they have a winner.
Last edited by DeadParrot; 10-12-21, 17:31.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWe may, and I say this lightly, finally see the plumber later today. Please for the luv of all gods engage in no home renovations involving water without having a personal relationship with a plumber. I've had more than one dream where the plumber turns up and I'm delighted and that's the entire dream.
Had the internal doors fitted today and they are swaaaaannnnnky, or maybe they are ordinary and I don't know better. Glass panels for the downstairs, all new architraves and frames so they fit snug as a bug. I can see the house itself starting to feel proud of who it is.
All we need is the plumber.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
Apparently they have a regular menu and and avant-garde experience menu. hard to complain about a weird experience if you order a weird experience. Like going to a high end fashion show and complaining about a lack of jeans.
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View PostIt's gas to think that Lazare, one of the soundest heads on here, is now better known for being a woke wanna be middle-class guitar wankering cunt.His rival it seems, had broken his dreams,By stealing the girl of his fancy.Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil,But everyone knew her as Nancy.
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View PostIt's gas to think that Lazare, one of the soundest heads on here, is now better known for being a woke wanna be middle-class guitar wankering cunt.
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Originally posted by Sickpuppy View Post
You are not far behind him fine wines food that costs more than 11 euro a serving trips that don’t involve Wexford or Lanzarote thin ice.
Don't be tarring me with the Lazare brush. I've been to Lanzarote once, Wexford countless times and I had a bowl of braised beef noodle broth for €9.95 on Sunday. Admittingly, I also got six chicken dumplings for €6.50 so the total bill came to a very middle class €16.45 but it was so much food, I didn't eat dinner later on as I was still full - Had I been on thin ice, I would have fucking shattered it.
So, essentially it was two unbelievably working class €8.22 meals - I rounded down each meal from €8.225 to €8.22 as the wanna be middle class part of me is trying to act all baller and that I couldn't give a fuck about half a cent but the reality is that if there was a half a cent coin, I'd totally save them up in an old jam jar until I had enough to bag them up and lodge them in the bank.
I also drank a Tuesday wine last night which I bought on sale, reduced from €18.95 to €11.65 - OK, so, it's 65cent above the well known and internationally recognised benchmark from when you turn from working class to middle class but the working man has to have some form of a treat towards the end of a hard working week or else he'll revolt.
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Ah Lao Lao, come off it.
You are basically a more travelled Lazare.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Actually, you and SickPuppy have a lot in common on the SE Asia travel front.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostTo my shame I saw a story last week about how disgraceful it is that we are still funding dog racing and that reminded me that dog racing is a fun enough evening out, so we are on a family outing to Shelbourne this evening. I do realise there is no standard way of working out what dog is going to win, or else the bookies wouldn't be rich, but what are the standard approaches - looking at past time? Is the position still considered important? Whats a sign of a shit dog? Essentially hoping for a bluffers guide to not completely pissing the bed in terms of the bets.
T2 9.12 Shelbourne
T3 9.42 Shelbourne
best of luck
it might pay for the plumbers 1st moan about new pipework
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
It all reminds me of https://www.vice.com/en/article/434g...on-tripadvisor
People I am with always say their food is good no matter what, and are rather shocked if I tell the staff it is shite.
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Went to Lanzarote in January one year and although the heat was amazing the best thing about it for me was it not getting dark until 7pm.
Mad seeing the locals wearing hats and scarves at night while we were walking around like it was the middle of June.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Sickpuppy View Post
I did once go to a McDonald’s in Thailand in2001. And a Burger King in nha Trang 8 years ago.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.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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