My Iranian research assistant brought back a load of pistachios among a selection of local delicacies, and its fair to say we get the absolute dregs of the pistachio world in our supermarkets. The flavour, oh my god.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
He has responded to sanctions with sanctions. Its not quite happening in isolation!
Obama's old line of Russia being 'a gas station with nukes' may have to be updated. Although 'a failed state with nukes' is scarier..."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
yes, let's just ignore the entire context of why Russia is being sanctioned ffs"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostMy Iranian research assistant brought back a load of pistachios among a selection of local delicacies, and its fair to say we get the absolute dregs of the pistachio world in our supermarkets. The flavour, oh my god."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostNo more pretence out of Mad Vlad anyway. He's openly declared energy war on the EU.
He has a plan that is at least a decade in the making. He poses a viable existential threat to democracy and I don't see how we can resist it without at a minimum regime change in Moscow.
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Sure. But from a Russian perspective, they're hardly likely to sit there and do nothing. Of course, they are reacting in the most painful way possible, in the same way as our sanctions were designed to be as painful as possible (except that we inadvertently used sanctions to triple the price of energy and deliver bumper revenues to Russia, but our intention was good )."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostMy Iranian research assistant brought back a load of pistachios among a selection of local delicacies, and its fair to say we get the absolute dregs of the pistachio world in our supermarkets. The flavour, oh my god.
His Sino-Russ recruitment involved highly skilled Mata Hari style succubi deploying a standard honey trap while posing as students. I expect tails of some X-rated Arabian Nights to follow soon.
I'm still investigating The French Connection and his links to a retired Russian \ Cuban operative codename The Courier.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Fuel inflation. If it’s a hump, let’s look after the vulnerable for this winter. Who of us are really going to freeze to death in your own homes. Sure wrap yourselves up in Amazon packaging .
Throw a Wish coat on the bed , you’ll never wear it anyway . (What possessed you to buy the fecker, did you catch the gay? ) . Cold Showers are very good for you, I’ve started taking them since Brittney went mad on Instagram with her nudey pictures. They are very bracing indeed but they don’t cool the jets , that’s a myth. If anything they get the jets firing. If I ever get to meet her I’ll tell her he nudies helped me recover from the shock of her music.
e can overcome this economic Ice age. People complaining about Inflation have spent a fortune during lockdown. Ask Chairman Lao? The China shipments almost broke the shipping industry. The only real concern is the Russian people of today only have the balls for jumping from one high building to the next until they die on their 39th attempt . No October revolution coming
Putin would have been rasmanov’d back in the day. (hmm Putin /RasPutin , Is it a common name?) . I’ve lost respect for the common mad bastard Russian.
The guy in the driving range told me to get my cash out of the bank and keep it handy for when the wifi goes down during the great blackout. What an idiot. I’ve no money in the bank.
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Doom switch well and truly on today. Only did 20% of a somewhat recovered BR.(was only down 20% from ATH at start of day)
Made a couple of bad calls but the luck was grim.
Got solidly mullered for 4 hours then moved down a level ... what's this first hand top set and second nut flush draw and someone betting into me ..pot...call ..turn brings spade FD possibility.. pot call. river ...SPADE bets into me
Could be a bad fold I dunno anymore.
Saw some of the worst donkiest trash hand playing idiocy ...Irish lad stumbling and bumbling his way through hands getting ridiculously lucky. He dusted off 2 buyins at the start playing trash and then the garbage started to work for him.
Ah well...no need to respond by the way just wanted to write it down.
May be mad putting time into it but the energy market is fucked so need the supplement. Monthly challenge will bring in a few quid as long as I don't bust out first
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
My own view is it's likely to be a bad winter (maybe climate change will come to our aid) in Europe, but this is it - we will be decoupled from Russian gas and oil for ever. We're rich enough to work it out, survive and thrive. And they can continue their descent into being a very large version of North Korea.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 DeadParrot View Post
Even though I by and large agree, I do wonder what will happen if someone, lets say Italy, breaks ranks and goes for Russian oil/gas"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Business energy rates are now astonishingly high.
From Dec 20 rates have increased 6 fold on gas and x 5 on electricity prices.
Going to be a lot of restaurants/fast food places etc just pulling down the shutters
Its actually far cheaper to be out of contract now with one of the bigger companies (a variable rate) in case any of you have a business rate.
Make sure you don't go into auto renew on a renewal letter.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
My own view is it's likely to be a bad winter (maybe climate change will come to our aid) in Europe, but this is it - we will be decoupled from Russian gas and oil for ever. We're rich enough to work it out, survive and thrive. And they can continue their descent into being a very large version of North Korea."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
Fcuk me. Iran added to the list of rogue states Hitch aiding and abetting.
His Sino-Russ recruitment involved highly skilled Mata Hari style succubi deploying a standard honey trap while posing as students. I expect tails of some X-rated Arabian Nights to follow soon.
I'm still investigating The French Connection and his links to a retired Russian \ Cuban operative codename The Courier.
Am, though, in the market for a North Korean if anyone spots them."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Micknail View Post@RDIII I am in a similar situation to yourself re: signing up to a dual fuel bundle last October,
does anyone know can I book in with energía to swap on the contract expiry date now? Or just wait it out and possibly see the rates go up in the meantime
They talk about great discounts but it's a % discount off a standard variable rate so they will all be going up anyway.
Surely your rate has increased during your contract already. Mine has with Energia.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Iranians are the secret sauce of the world's universities. Always ridic bright, ridic able. They tend to be sound also. I'd imagine there is a bonus weighting attached to any Iranian job applicants, because the national reputation is so good in academia.
Am, though, in the market for a North Korean if anyone spots them.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostBut it is going to be an absolutely awful winter for a lot of people if it's not mild. Not quite sure it will be solved by next winter either. Could be three / four years of pain. Albeit getting a small bit better each year.
Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by coillcam View Post
How are Irish perceived in academia by comparison?
English tend to be viewed as either cranks or leaders. Leaders, as that accent goes a long way. But cranks based on institutional experience.
American academics trying to move abroad tend to find it very hard to get work, as everyone assumes they've just watched Eat Pray Love and think working abroad will solve their deep psychoses.
Tunisians, Algerians, Syrians are massively sought after as its known they are so good at computation. I'd say they might control between them over half of all the world's research on supply chain (notoriously mathematically complex).
Chinese find it hard as they almost never integrate and usually eventually want to move home. (with maybe at least one honourable exception )
Wouldn't be surprised in a decade to see Indians being at least 25% of Irish academia. Increasingly top notch and you'd know they have no intention of going home due to India not yet being up to scratch.
Italians tend to be strong. French tend to be odd. Germans: varies by gender. Female German academics tend to be great. In any case you need the German to have worked outside of Germany for a fair bit to rough off the Germanic edges.
Russians: only for the sciences. You expect about 1 in every 4 of them to go certifiably insane over their career. So you always need backup Russians.
South Americans tend to start bright but aim for mental retirement around the age of 40, even if they'll still turn up for a paycheck for the subsequent 25 years. Greeks similar."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
My own view is it's likely to be a bad winter (maybe climate change will come to our aid) in Europe, but this is it - we will be decoupled from Russian gas and oil for ever. We're rich enough to work it out, survive and thrive. And they can continue their descent into being a very large version of North Korea.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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It’s a bit concerning when you see grown adults falling for the Comic book version of Zelensky in corporate media (some of whom were publishing articles about how corrupt his backers were on the rare occasions they paid any attention to Ukraine in the past).
so much bullshit being pushed (putin supposed to be long dead of cancer+Parkinson’s at this stage , don’t know how many times Russia were supposed to be running out of soldiers, missiles , generals and on the verge of collapse but yet still it drags on). European alliances willingness to suffer for the Americans will crack if this winter is bad .
don’t know what’s going on myself but at least I’m not trumpeting obvious propagandaWill 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 MysteryGuest View PostIt’s a bit concerning when you see grown adults falling for the Comic book version of Zelensky in corporate media (some of whom were publishing articles about how corrupt his backers were on the rare occasions they paid any attention to Ukraine in the past).
so much bullshit being pushed (putin supposed to be long dead of cancer+Parkinson’s at this stage , don’t know how many times Russia were supposed to be running out of soldiers, missiles , generals and on the verge of collapse but yet still it drags on). European alliances willingness to suffer for the Americans will crack if this winter is bad .
don’t know what’s going on myself but at least I’m not trumpeting obvious propaganda
Having said that. I slightly believe that the current Ukrainian counteroffensive is going to have some positive results. It seems quite smartly targeted, as essentially it is designed and run by the US, and the weapons seem to be having a decent effect.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Chatting away to the brother in law this morning as I drove him into uni for his first day. He's a very gentle soul as I mentioned previously. He was saying: so are people likely to react to me negatively because I'm Russian?
I said: no-one will ever say anything directly. What they'll do is they'll say something like 'oh you must be suffering awfully in Russia with the sanctions. Is your family okay?'.
'what you need to do in that situation', I said, 'is completely ignore the fake interest in Russian sanction suffering, its an indirect angle to extract your opinion on Ukraine, and instead exclaim: oh but its nothing compared to the suffering of my poor Ukrainian friends'.
He went: 'but that's what I think!!!'. I went: 'you're good man, your good'. Which resulted in a few more minutes of impassioned protests from him, but I think the point was made.
He then asked me, and this is a weird one - is it considered rude to cross your legs in Ireland when you are sitting?
That couldn't possibly be a thing?
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostMy Iranian research assistant brought back a load of pistachios among a selection of local delicacies, and its fair to say we get the absolute dregs of the pistachio world in our supermarkets. The flavour, oh my god.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostChatting away to the brother in law this morning as I drove him into uni for his first day. He's a very gentle soul as I mentioned previously. He was saying: so are people likely to react to me negatively because I'm Russian?
I said: no-one will ever say anything directly. What they'll do is they'll say something like 'oh you must be suffering awfully in Russia with the sanctions. Is your family okay?'.
'what you need to do in that situation', I said, 'is completely ignore the fake interest in Russian sanction suffering, its an indirect angle to extract your opinion on Ukraine, and instead exclaim: oh but its nothing compared to the suffering of my poor Ukrainian friends'.
He went: 'but that's what I think!!!'. I went: 'you're good man, your good'. Which resulted in a few more minutes of impassioned protests from him, but I think the point was made.
He then asked me, and this is a weird one - is it considered rude to cross your legs in Ireland when you are sitting?
That couldn't possibly be a thing?
Crossing you legs is consider rude in East-Asian countries and Japan, especially in formal settings. It's not so much that the gesture is rude in itself. But that its overly casual. Imagine sitting in an interview with your arms crossed and the image that portrays. Which is kinda of ironic, and female sitting cross legged is pretty formal in the West.
It's also rude to show people the soles of your feet in many places. Especially if you point them at them. Which would make the ankle on opposite knee (the typical male cross leg) a bit of a faux pas. I think it comes from places where the ground is filthy, and the feet by extension. These place also put a certain esteem on washing feet.
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Originally posted by Mellor View Post
I'd assume that the nuts we are from some similar middle east source. And a huge difference being the ones you had were relatively freshly roasted vrs something that has gone through years of warehousing and is a bit stale."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Is it that if the Gulf Stream stops, there was a bit of news on it recently, that we essentially become about five degrees cooler at any given point during the year? Was trying to look it up, but can't quite get the science as there's very little that's Irish specific."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIs it that if the Gulf Stream stops, there was a bit of news on it recently, that we essentially become about five degrees cooler at any given point during the year? Was trying to look it up, but can't quite get the science as there's very little that's Irish specific.
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The countdown is now on to the launch of the new Facebook VR premium headset. If this is done right it could really signal the potential of VR."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
sure we've had some awful attempts at propaganda from deviants like Wallace / Daly / Hitch, but those have merely entered the public consciousness due to how ineffective they are, and to be mocked. There's no serious effective propaganda in the English language, although probably there is in some other languages."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
People are more aware of it now, that's all.
9563100913.jpg"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe countdown is now on to the launch of the new Facebook VR premium headset. If this is done right it could really signal the potential of VR.
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Originally posted by zuutroy View Post
They're spending $10 billion a year on hardware at the moment. A software company, spending 1/8 of the Intel's TOTAL REVENUE on hardware research. Amazing stuff. Best of all is they're giving some of it to me"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Erling Haaland to have 1 or more shots on target (v Sevilla) @ evs on PP seems to be buying moneyPeople 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 PostThe countdown is now on to the launch of the new Facebook VR premium headset. If this is done right it could really signal the potential of VR.
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 PostIs it that if the Gulf Stream stops, there was a bit of news on it recently, that we essentially become about five degrees cooler at any given point during the year? Was trying to look it up, but can't quite get the science as there's very little that's Irish specific.
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Germany are on their 3rd round now with the latest equating to just shy of 2% of GDP l
France’s latest is close 50 billion while half their nuclear reactors on the blink. Italy also north of 50 billion which Draghi barely passed with an impending election and some Northern League calling for relaxing of sanctions.
Czech’s also around 3% of GDP in subsidies too.
Bulgaria has already pulled the plug on US LNG hoping to source theirs from Azerbaijani/Turkish sources with their new energy minister a former employee of a Russian linked energy company.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Not like it's ever getting paid so whateverPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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What a start
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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The missus won tickets to garth Brooks for Friday.. She's planning to bring our 6 year old as im mental busy with work.
Anyone know if the Davin stand is covered?
Also, mental to go there with a kid? I figured garth brooks would be sedate enough
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostThe missus won tickets to garth Brooks for Friday.. She's planning to bring our 6 year old as im mental busy with work.
Anyone know if the Davin stand is covered?
Also, mental to go there with a kid? I figured garth brooks would be sedate enough
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