Bad beat/Moan/Venting Thread - BBV Archive 1

[CHDad]

Had to stop reading MCWilliams when he said
'as safe as Carthage houses' when he obviously meant Carthaginian phawww.

Mary Robinson and its not even close ... well maybe John Hume is close but he's dead in the water by virtue of the association with the dire baby doll Miriam.
LOL @ all the kids who don't realise that living in Ireland before 1988 was the same as living in Iran.

lol at exaggerations

[Wesley Harms]

Little Johnny walks into his parents bedroom to find his Dad giving his Mum one. His Dad smirks and throws a pillow at the door saying, "Get outta here, you little shit!"

A couple of hours later Dad hears a whole lot of commotion coming from little Johnny's bedroom. He goes up to find little Johnny giving his Grandma a right royal seeing to.

Little Johnny smiles, "It's not so fucking funny when it's YOUR mum, is it?"

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[Solskjaer]

I can't access PPP, can someone tell me what Dustin Johnson is for the Tour Chanpionship

*I know the machine is the place to bet but I'm looking for a guide from wacker powers.

[CHDad]

I can't access PPP, can someone tell me what Dustin Johnson is for the Tour Chanpionship

*I know the machine is the place to bet but I'm looking for a guide from wacker powers.

9's

[Emmet]

[Raoul Duke III]

Think i'd be taking a bit of a risk there, as think the market is being ridiculous but no guarantee that it will stop being ridiculous. Think the ease up of ridiculousness is more likely in the 4yr. But I'd risk €50 (don't want to blow all my unemployment gains!) on the 10year bond being lower than 6.29 as long as we can say that the end date is December 10th instead of the end of the year to avoid the light trading in the Christmas / New Year period. Would you be interested?

Ha, no way Jose!

surely you must view 6.29 as an irrational spike?

[ArmaniJeans]

Can you access Odds checker?

http://www.oddschecker.com/golf/tour-championship/the-tour-championship/winner

If not he's 10/1 best price with VC and Ladbrokes. (same price as Betfair).

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[Raoul Duke III]

What part do you disagree with? Surely you must view 6.29 as an irrational low point given the coming economic doom and bust?

I'm not taking the bet as it stands, I'd be taking the worst of it

you'd have to adjust downwards to pre-spike

[Bless You]

The same list as Ronnie Drew, oh to have lived to see this day. Ya left out Spiral btw

And Bang Bang. Not enough genuine nutcases on the go at these days.
This fella used to have my Da's heart scalded on the busses.

[Flushdraw]

9's

10's in Laddies

Edit : as pointed out by AJ

[Strewelpeter]

I'm kind of serious about the comparison between Ireland Pre Garret Fitzgerald and Mary Robinson as being very similar to the way life has been in Iran under the Theocracy.
The role of the church in public life is a lot more explicit there obviously but having experienced both I do think they are very similar.

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[Wreck]

[DeadParrot]

that is brilliant

[Strewelpeter]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6o7G4gPB8M[/ame]

[TomD]

I'm kind of serious about the comparison between Ireland Pre Garret Fitzgerald and Mary Robinson as being very similar to the way life has been in Iran under the Theocracy.
The role of the church in public life is a lot more explicit there obviously but having experienced both I do think they are very similar.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056039746

Rewriting history ftw

[Gholimoli]

Had to stop reading MCWilliams when he said
'as safe as Carthage houses' when he obviously meant Carthaginian phawww.

Mary Robinson and its not even close ... well maybe John Hume is close but he's dead in the water by virtue of the association with the dire baby doll Miriam.
LOL @ all the kids who don't realise that living in Ireland before 1988 was the same as living in Iran.

it could not have been that bad man.i mean pre 1988 Iran was really a bad place to live in,we didn't even have bananas there ...can you imagine?

[Raoul Duke III]

lol, your posts yesterday were all about how the 6.29 rate or thereabouts was a sign of economic collapse and IMF intervention, and now today when there is a bit of cash involved you are calling that rate a spike that will be reversed. If you think the current rate is irrationally high and not a fair reflection on the state of the economy, what was all that posting about yesterday?!!!

I'll leave my offer as it stands at the rate on Dec 10th being lower than the current rate of 6.29.

sorry, no bet (with me anyway, you might find someone else to take it though)

you might want to re-read yesterday's posts by the way; they were an explanation of what was happening on the bond market in relation to yesterday's issue. And yes, if you look at the graph, the current rate is a spike. I've gotten an edge on prop bets often enough myself not to want give one up!

[Guest]

it could not have been that bad man.i mean pre 1988 Iran was really a bad place to live in,we didn't even have bananas there ...can you imagine?

Sur all we had was penny apples

[Raoul Duke III]

I'm kind of serious about the comparison between Ireland Pre Garret Fitzgerald and Mary Robinson as being very similar to the way life has been in Iran under the Theocracy.
The role of the church in public life is a lot more explicit there obviously but having experienced both I do think they are very similar.

can you expand on that?

[Guest]

Shibuya crossing is absolute madness...thousands crossing the junction at a time! I also got the subway at rush hour. Its ridic. They all queue up at designated locations where the doors of the train will be, then sardine it up inside the train. I pity the fools around me, who were all at armpit level after I'd been walking around all avo in 35C heat!



Nice Japanese dinner afterwards, washed down with a bucket of Sake!

[DeadParrot]

I love C&H so much
Here is one just right for this forum

[Emmet]

Found a great site for film recommendations.

https://www.jinni.com

Login, rate some films / tv programmes, and it will recommend other films in that genre. I was looking for something like this for ages, a last.fm/Pandora for films.

The Audience filter "Boys' Night" has so many superb films to watch. I think I've covered the first 3 pages in their entirety already.

[Solskjaer]

I'm kind of serious about the comparison between Ireland Pre Garret Fitzgerald and Mary Robinson as being very similar to the way life has been in Iran under the Theocracy.
The role of the church in public life is a lot more explicit there obviously but having experienced both I do think they are very similar.

You we probably accused of being a mullah in Iran so thought feck it I might as well be working in Dublin.
Not the same thing Tony.

[Strewelpeter]

can you expand on that?

Well, I'm thinking in social rather than political terms.
The hand of the church was in every crevice of mainstream life and peoples decisions were limited to what fell within their norms. Undoubtedly there was a continuum of change from Lemass on that saw some liberalisation, I'm not saying a switch was flicked when Mary Robinson got the Aras but her being such a figurehead of the social agenda having her validated and recognised was was a huge moment. In the mid to late Eighties we were still very much in thrall to the pervy fuckers in frocks, the Anne Lovett, Joanne Hayes and Eileen Flynn cases are all testament to how deep the malign influence of our moral guardians was. But it ran through everyones lives, we all knew the people who 'had' to get married, the girls who never wanted to but 'had' to give their babies up for adoption. I remember a teacher friend being de facto fired because she was 'living in sin'. My experience of Iran is that it is a country that is still living out that same kind of moral oppression in public.

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[Strewelpeter]

Found a great site for film recommendations.

https://www.jinnie.com

Login, rate some films / tv programmes, and it will recommend other films in that genre. I was looking for something like this for ages, a last.fm/Pandora for films.

The Audience filter "Boys' Night" has so many superb films to watch. I think I've covered the first 3 pages in their entirety already.

Wrong link surely

[Raoul Duke III]

Well, I'm thinking in social rather than political terms.
The hand of the church was in every crevice of mainstream life and peoples decisions were limited to what fell within their norms. Undoubtedly there was a continuum of change from Lemass on that saw some liberalisation, I'm not saying a switch was flicked when Mary Robinson got the Aras but her being such a figurehead of the social agenda having her validated and recognised was was a huge moment. In the mid to late Eighties we were still very much in thrall to the pervy fuckers in frocks, the Anne Lovett, Joanne Hayes and Eileen Flynn cases are all testament to how deep the malign influence of our moral guardians was. But it ran through everyones lives, we all knew the people who 'had' to get married, the girls who never wanted to but 'had' to give their babies up for adoption. I remember a teacher friend being de facto fired because she was 'living in sin'. My experience of Iran is that it is a country that is still living out that same kind of moral oppression in public.

There was still a million times more freedom than there was\is in Iran. I understand your point but feel the comparison is overblown.

Now try to think of a democracy with populist, clientelist politics, highly conservative social mores and a largely peasant population and you'll have a better analogy. Maybe Southern Italy?

[Raoul Duke III]

ah yeah, was just trying to goad* you into taking the bet

my reads are good

[Emmet]

Wrong link surely

no e.. My bad!

Fixed now

[Bubbleking]

fucking vending machine

[Strewelpeter]

There was still a million times more freedom than there was\is in Iran. I understand your point but feel the comparison is overblown.

Now try to think of a democracy with populist, clientelist politics, highly conservative social mores and a largely peasant population and you'll have a better analogy. Maybe Southern Italy?

Yea I'm not trying to compare the political situations at all. Really it is just a feeling that socially everyone is on the same page and are living out their public roles to a formula that allows them to keep out of trouble.
You would be surprised at the amount of freedom people have in their private lives there, it is all very much about public appearances.
I was in Iran during Ramadan once and having come from Egypt where they are all holier than thou and go about hugely ostentatious displays of piety all the time I was surprised to see a good half of the people in the place I was working sneaking out to eat food they brought in with them every time the manager disappeared to pray.

[coillcam]

What's the current price for a trip to casualty to get an x-ray?

Possible broken big toe after football last night.

[Bubbleking]

What's the current price for a trip to casualty to get an x-ray?

Possible broken big toe after football last night.

[Solskjaer]

fucking vending machine

condoms or chocys?

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[Wreck]

Possibly getting a bit old at this stage but I still loled.

[Raoul Duke III]

condoms or chocys?

choccy condoms imo

[Raoul Duke III]

What's the current price for a trip to casualty to get an x-ray?

Possible broken big toe after football last night.

I paid 85 euro in the Charlemont Clinic for an X Ray last week, in and out in 10 minutes

[Guest]

What's the current price for a trip to casualty to get an x-ray?

Possible broken big toe after football last night.

Too much!
I wouldn't bother if I was you

Sur by the time the Arthritis kicks in the anti-inflammatories and the likes will be dirt cheap

[Bubbleking]

chocys. that will put me in bad form for the day. I didnt even get a sweat by the machine turning it just swallowd my money.

of course refund button doesnt work

[Raoul Duke III]

Yea I'm not trying to compare the political situations at all. Really it is just a feeling that socially everyone is on the same page and are living out their public roles to a formula that allows them to keep out of trouble.

I don't know about this, there's never been absolute conformity or anything like it in Ireland since the foundation of the state (imo). Urban\rural divide, middle class vs working class, the remaining Prods, Blueshirted fascists, Opus Dei, socialist lefties...there's always been room for a fairly wide society.

You would be surprised at the amount of freedom people have in their private lives there, it is all very much about public appearances.
I was in Iran during Ramadan once and having come from Egypt where they are all holier than thou and go about hugely ostentatious displays of piety all the time I was surprised to see a good half of the people in the place I was working sneaking out to eat food they brought in with them every time the manager disappeared to pray.

having met Gholimoli, I wouldn't be surprised at all

[Raoul Duke III]

Sur by the time the Arthritis kicks in the anti-inflammatories and the likes will be dirt cheap

20 euro for a week's worth and after all that, the doctor tells me I don't have a broken finger, I don't have arthritis and he hasn't a clue why my left index finger doesn't work

thanks Doc, I presume you'll waive your fee now?

[The Situation]

I love watching vending machine tilt, it turns some people into animals for a few minutes in a attempt to get their 80c bar that the machine didn't give out for some reason!

[Solskjaer]

Vending machines are here to test us my son. Let's all kneel like they did in pre 1988 Ireland and say a rosary for bubbleking.
Remember don't get yer condoms from a vending machine that also sells sweeties. You could end up with a Jelly baby.

[Strewelpeter]

I don't know about this, there's never been absolute conformity or anything like it in Ireland since the foundation of the state (imo). Urban\rural divide, middle class vs working class, the remaining Prods, Blueshirted fascists, Opus Dei, socialist lefties...there's always been room for a fairly wide society.

I suppose its true that growing up in a midlands town in the 60's and 70's was a lot different from Swinging Proddy Dublin in the '80's

[Solskjaer]

I suppose its true that growing up in a midlands town in the 60's and 70's was a lot different from Swinging Proddy Dublin in the '80's

I get ya now. Midlands Ireland in the 60s. Not unlike outer Mongolia I would guess.

There was me thinking by pre1988 you meant 1987 or something. (The Iran years)

[Raoul Duke III]

I suppose its true that growing up in a midlands town in the 60's and 70's was a lot different from Swinging Proddy Dublin in the '80's

lol, probably not much! The claustrophobic nature of small town life probably magnifies the perception of sterility and conformity though.

so basically what you're saying is you were the only hippie in the midlands?

[tipp86]

And so the roll continues I have $175 due in rakeback aswell. The eventual downfall will be sore.

[Bubbleking]

EV line please Enda

[CHDad]

WW13 kicking off soon, sign up http://www.irishpokerboards.com/foru...d=1#post156179

[6starpool]

I was at a wedding in Spain at the weekend. The ceremony took place in a small convent church, and there was an archway high behind the altar. You could see through the arch, but there were solid walls either side and a much higher floor level than the church. A couple of times, the photographer crept into the archway to take photographers and it reminded me striaght away of pedobear. Obviously I should have kept that to myself, but I did say it to a couple of people I thought might get it, but all I got was weird looks. Protestations of "it's funnier than it sounds" didn't help my case much.

[Megatron]

50 billionth hand will be dealt on Stars in the next 10 minutes

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[Bubbleking]

what would be the best day 1 to play at the IPO? Day 1 or 2?

[ghostface]

what would be the best day 1 to play at the IPO? Day 1 or 2?

Bah had post done and deleted it - playing Sat anyway so dont have to take leave from work. I imagine foreign fish playing Fri and local fish playing Sat but could be way off there.....

[Angry-Ball]

50 billionth hand will be dealt on Stars in the next 10 minutes

intresting to see if this will turn out anything like the ipoker fiasco

[Angry-Ball]

what would be the best day 1 to play at the IPO? Day 1 or 2?

in your case......when your there on your own, its your best chance of progressing

[Bubbleking]

in your case......when your there on your own, its your best chance of progressing

id still spew chips to one of the dead stacks and then berrate them relentlessly

Ciaran you that has an idea which day has the worst players reg'd so far?