Bad beat/Moan/Venting Thread - BBV Archive 1

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[Raoul Duke III]

just checked out her profile, she's a mother of two and is the only female manager on the trading floor of a Japanese investment bank, despite having no formal qualifications. Deeply impressive (well, to me anyway).



edit; why the hell would someone with that career path want to work for that irascible business failure?

[Wesley Harms]

Also spotted was a bearded man with a satchel/manpurse which may or may not have been



LuckyLloyd

[The C Kid]

World's Greatest Ever Footballer



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[ionapaul]

Are you guys going to the Golden Spider awards tonight? My mate is heading and was telling me his company have spent €7k on seats

WRT industry awards, I had some experience with them in previous employment (IT and then e-gaming) and in general they are just money-spinners for whatever events company organises them...if a company pays for a full table, they can be fairly sure they will win an award, particularly if an 'industry panel' selects the winners! Basically in most cases (not sure about the Golden Spiders, they claim that the organisers do not interfere with the judging process and I guess we should take them at their word) a company is just buying the award by paying the event organisers €XXXX for a table.

I imagine that any poker / e-gaming awards that are not 100% voted by the public are as worthless as can be, given the seedy nature of the industry to begin with! Pretty much every casino in Vegas boasts of being awarded 'best casino' or 'best slots' by some industry magazine or other...I'm guessing these magazines are published by the individual casinos themselves, probably complete in-house jobs!

[ionapaul]

Got sennhesier hd 201s for £12 delivered off amazon as my first pair of "cans". they're pretty handy, especially as ear muffs! Cable is far far too long though

These look like what I need - might pay a bit extra for the next model up though (the HD 202), why not says I!

[DeadParrot]

LOL at the problems its causing.

Maybe the IMF should encourage us to go into the Drug Tourism industry. I guess we already are in that business except that there is no shortage of alcohol anywhere they are coming from but we'd be good at it

You know, that actually isn't that crazy an idea, obviously a logistical nightmare but it would be a huge moneymaker
However, the Joe Duffy brigade would never allow it.

[DeadParrot]

This



And this

The brother in law is from Amsterdam and he maintains the locals are long since weary of the place being seen as one big, smoke-filled whorehouse (obv a generalisation, but you get me)
It would seem elected officials are taking notice. The liberal or relaxed attitude has been taken advantage of and has not developed along the lines originally intended.
This has been on the horizon for a while as right.

surely must be worth billions in tourism and related businesses (restaurants, hotels, barges, etc etc, not just the hookers)

[ghostface]

Hotter than Liz IMO

GTFO

[Icarus152]

It's one of the safest countries in the world! Just because locals might disagree with the policy doesn't mean its a bad policy.

Purely on my own experiences,Class A drugs are more readily available in Amsterdam then in any other place I've visited.I'm not saying you can't get Heroin or Cocaine in Dublin and Waterford (lol) but I've never been openly offered drugs on the street by a guy cycling past on a bike practically shouting "Charlie! Charlie!" like an ice cream vendor.

My point is that the relaxing of the stance on soft drugs has led to greater ease of access to the hard ones too.Also,it seems to be destination of choice for many Irish crimelords,why? because that's where the big business is being done.

[Icarus152]

Also seen at the game,Kinscem (sorry Kinscem)

[ionapaul]

By the way, thanks to whoever posted recently bringing Girl Talk to the BBV's attention - have been listening to the new album and Feed The Animals over the past few days and am really enjoying them.

[Emmet]

By the way, thanks to whoever posted recently bringing Girl Talk to the BBV's attention - have been listening to the new album and Feed The Animals over the past few days and am really enjoying them.

New album isn't quite as good as Feed the Animals I don't think.

The albums don't compare to live shows though. Have a youtube of him performing if you can. I've seen him 4/5 times now, and each time has been incredible.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdDaoKJqZ4I&feature=related[/ame]

Packed out Andrews Lane theatre ~ 18 months ago, he pulls everyone up on stage and absolutely blasted the music out. Think it was his 11th night in a row of a 20 night tour of Europe. He's a nerd, but he's a genius too!

RE: Headphone cables, and being too long, does anyone have any experience of these type of "fixes"
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/HandStands-03611-Core-Headphone/dp/B001EI3UDG/ref=sr_1_9?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1290079826&sr =1-9[/ame]

Are they any use? Would you recommend one in particular etc?

[Lord Sir Banter]

"what do you look for in a woman HH?"

"symmetry"

It is kind of the corner stone in attractiveness though.

Waterford (lol)

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056092486

[Wesley Harms]

Hollo Ladies in today's 1.40 at Market Rasen.

The more you put down, the more you get back

[Raoul Duke III]

It is kind of the corner stone in attractiveness though.

I think she has an attractive face. Slightly chipmunk cheeks but no-one's perfect.

[Icarus152]

Heh,stop stalking the Waterford forum Lottie.

http://www.boards.ie

[Solskjaer]

By the way, thanks to whoever posted recently bringing Girl Talk to the BBV's attention - have been listening to the new album and Feed The Animals over the past few days and am really enjoying them.

Name inspired by Dave Edmonds?

[Wesley Harms]

Also Floyd Mayweather is a far superior boxer to Manny Pacquaio.

[colquhom]

I don't know how this GOAT argument has gone on so long and nobody has mentioned Pele. I mean its basically an accepted fact that he was.

[Raoul Duke III]

IMF officials arriving in Dublin this morning

note the extreme irony of the beggar in shot

[The C Kid]

Looking forward to this.

Kenny "motherf*cking" Powers.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EQHbF1JTc[/ame]

[DeadParrot]

Balla injury,

Horrible pain across forefoot.
Lad in here has done a sports injury clinic and after getting the usual, impact, gout (I know what that is and this aint it) out of the way he goes:
'Honestly, I dunno, its kinda like you sat with your foot twisted for hours on end and strained it.'

The chairs in Barrys were odd and I was indeed sitting awkwardly in them.

[Raoul Duke III]

Balla injury,

Horrible pain across forefoot.
Lad in here has done a sports injury clinic and after getting the usual, impact, gout (I know what that is and this aint it) out of the way he goes:
'Honestly, I dunno, its kinda like you sat with your foot twisted for hours on end and strained it.'

The chairs in Barrys were odd and I was indeed sitting awkwardly in them.

plantar fascitis imo

google it

[gorrrr72]

you're on the right track there Strewelpeter but you fail to see the Big Picture

we have 500,000 unemployed people in this country and probably another 1.5 million or so who are also a drain on the public purse (pensioners, children, disabled etc). What we need to do is market Ireland as a destination for Psychotourism™; we encourage deranged cokeheads to come in here, get stoned out of their minds and then we hand them weaponry and encourage them to slaughter as many people as they can without fear of legal repercussions. We could charge 100k a pop.

Two birds, one stone. The population would be reduced to economically viable units and we'd make a fortune.

It's visionary thinking like this that will get us out of the hole imo

Hear Hear

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Heil Hitler

[The C Kid]

How do you know when your band has really made it?

When you get your song murdered on Greek X-Factor. Take a bow, Hurts.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dnp6QKhhAM[/ame]

[Solskjaer]

Balla injury,

Horrible pain across forefoot.
Lad in here has done a sports injury clinic and after getting the usual, impact, gout (I know what that is and this aint it) out of the way he goes:
'Honestly, I dunno, its kinda like you sat with your foot twisted for hours on end and strained it.'

The chairs in Barrys were odd and I was indeed sitting awkwardly in them.

Sitting on your foot for hours is a balla injury. All this time I've misunderstood what that term meant.

Mayweather v pacman would be the fight of this generation. Hope it happens. I stayed up all fecking night last Saturday
to watch the fight I enjoyed it to an extent but watching a brave boxer get slowly pulvarised kind of left a bad taste.

[Strewelpeter]

the blonde ones face doesn't quite have sufficient symmetry imo (the two sides of her face don't seem to match, if that makes any sense)

Symmetrical faces is what almost all movie stars and the like both male and female have going for them over the rest of the field.

[Flushdraw]

Roy Keane >>>> Fat Frank >>>>>>> Steven Gerrard

Ai Dia>>>>Istvan Kozma>>>>Thomas Brolin>>>>John Jensen>>>>Andrea Silenzi>>>>Ruel Fox>>>>>Carlton Palmer>>>>Jason Lee>>>>Igor Biscan>>>>>Ian Ormondroyd >>>>Bosko Balaban>>>>Eddie McGoldrick>>>>>Massimo Taibi >>>>Everyone

[Flushdraw]

Having met Big Iain at the weekend i couldn't help but notice if you put a pair of glasses on him you would have this guy

Big Iain always wears glasses!

[Angry-Ball]

Hollo Ladies in today's 1.40 at Market Rasen.

The more you put down, the more you get back

what kind of lumpage would you recommend as a % of my roll
bearing in mind my horsie roll on pp's is 35sobs

[DeadParrot]

plantar fascitis imo

google it

nah it aint the heel, it's across the top forefoot along the line of me big toe, it feels like a tendon or something.
Metatarsalgia from my findings.
Fucking painful though.
Pain reaching up my shins from compensating when walking

[tylerdurden94]

Just a great little trailer

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbFz--GCkOM[/ame]

[Raoul Duke III]

nah it aint the heel, it's across the top forefoot along the line of me big toe, it feels like a tendon or something.
Metatarsalgia from my findings.
Fucking painful though.
Pain reaching up my shins from compensating when walking

plantar fascitis can affect all areas of the foot and will hit your achilles too

I've had it for the last two months

[Raoul Duke III]

back to the auld doom

Although our Taoiseach and cabinet are lying through their fucking teeth as usual, the Central Bank governor at least has the balls to call a spade a spade.

The IMF\EU team are here to design a bailout and it'll be in place within ten days, in the order of an 80 billion facility over 3 years.

which of the lying fucks in cabinet will be wheeled out to formally acknowledge this?

[Reaps]

Hollo Ladies in today's 1.40 at Market Rasen.

The more you put down, the more you get back

As a winner of a grade 1 hurdle last year beating some decent horses he could well outclass this field.

His two wins came staying on heavy over 2m so the 2m6f trip today over gd/sft could be within his reach.

On the negative side unseating his rider only 9 days ago doesn't leave much time to get his confidence/jumping in order although a slower pace over the longer trip today should help.

Did you get word for him HF?

If I knew the connections I'd be asking was the last day just a blip and if he was trying today?

If the answer to those two were yes I'd be happy enough having a decent bet @ 5/2

[ghostface]

Looking forward to this.

Kenny "motherf*cking" Powers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EQHbF1JTc

Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel aswell, this could be epic!

[Wesley Harms]

what kind of lumpage would you recommend as a % of my roll
bearing in mind my horsie roll on pp's is 35sobs

As a winner of a grade 1 hurdle last year beating some decent horses he could well outclass this field.

His two wins came staying on heavy over 2m so the 2m6f trip today over gd/sft could be within his reach.

On the negative side unseating his rider only 9 days ago doesn't leave much time to get his confidence/jumping in order although a slower pace over the longer trip today should help.

Did you get word for him HF?

If I knew the connections I'd be asking was the last day just a blip and if he was trying today?

If the answer to those two were yes I'd be happy enough having a decent bet @ 5/2

I received a message no more than an hour ago which entailed lumping on.

[Angry-Ball]

As a winner of a grade 1 hurdle last year beating some decent horses he could well outclass this field.

His two wins came staying on heavy over 2m so the 2m6f trip today over gd/sft could be within his reach.

On the negative side unseating his rider only 9 days ago doesn't leave much time to get his confidence/jumping in order although a slower pace over the longer trip today should help.

Did you get word for him HF?

If I knew the connections I'd be asking was the last day just a blip and if he was trying today?

If the answer to those two were yes I'd be happy enough having a decent bet @ 5/2

so how much of my roll will i invest?
should i lump the whole wad on?

[Angry-Ball]

I received a message no more than an hour ago which entailed lumping on.

thats enough for me lumpage indeed

i hold you responsible
or else i might have to buy you a pint

[ionapaul]

Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel aswell, this could be epic!

+1

I think I can categorically state that there is no way that movie won't be AWESOME! I love Natalie Portman so much...

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[Denny Crane]

Really need more excuses to wear a tux imo.

[Emmet]

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/11/ireland-brinksmanship-with-the-eu-slow-motion-bank-run-may-be-giving-government-leverage.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29

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Ireland Brinksmanship with the EU: Slow Motion Bank Run May Be Giving Government Leverage

In negotiations, understanding where you have leverage relative to your counterpart is key. Ireland appears to be engaged in a quiet staredown with the EU, evidently with the objective of securing a rescue of its banks rather than its government.

In case you managed to miss it, Ireland is in the midst of a long running budgetary crisis that has reached an acute phase. The implosion of a real estate bubble has left the country with banks up to the gills in bad loans. The government set up a “bad bank” entity, and the commitments per taxpayer, which were over 25,000 euros per taxpayer as of July, just keep rising. Deep budget cuts to meet eurozone fiscal deficit targets have put the economy in freefall, with nominal GDP falling nearly 20% and unemployment at 13%.

The immediate trigger for panic over Ireland was Merkel’s announcement that bondholders would have to take their lumps in any Eurobailouts. That immediately put Irish and other periphery country bonds under pressure. And although Merkel was beaten a bit back into line (all bondholders will supposedly be protected through 2013), the damage was done. As Richard Smith noted two weeks ago:

Since the Irish budget is fully funded for a few more months (ex any revenue surprises, or God forbid, further bank loan writedowns), they can in principle trundle along like this until their date with destiny in Q2 2011, when they have to raise funds again. But somehow it’s hard to believe that that is going to be the way things go. We will see if the budget gets thrown out or not; or the government. It will be close, on either count. Either eventuality brings forward the timetable for the Irish crisis proper, but it’s coming, one way or the other…

The folk close to the action think this yield blowout is long-only investors, getting the hell out. But which ones? Macro Man thinks it is the non-Eurozone holders of the less reliable Euro sovereign debt; plausible, for all the reasons he gives.

In a related wrinkle, the Eurobanks have been lightened up their exposures to Ireland (banks debt in particular) via the ECB.

There was considerable pressure on Ireland to start negotiating a rescue package over the last weekend, which the Irish government pointedly ignored. But an EU rescue would result in further curtailment of national sovereignty, as well as taking on debt that would be well nigh impossible to restructure down the road. Hence the Irish officialdom continued with Plan A, which was to stick with their normal budget timetable. Whether you see the Irish stance as sang froid or cluelessness, it has confounded the Eurozone finance leaders.

The ante in this high-stakes poker game are rising. Irish banks are in the throes of a slow-motion bank run. Per the Financial Times:

Were it not for the European Central Bank’s emergency liquidity programme, many banks would have virtually no funding at all. It was this kind of liquidity evaporation that lay behind the collapse of the biggest failure of them all, Lehman Brothers. Over the past two months, Ireland has overtaken Spain to become the most dependent on ECB funding of the eurozone banking systems….

At the same time there has been an outflow of customer deposits….

“You don’t see people queueing around the block but it seems there’s a silent run on corporate deposits,” says Hank Calenti, credit analyst at Société Générale.

Bank of Ireland admitted last week that it had lost €10bn of corporate deposits – around 12 per cent of its deposit base – in a matter of weeks following September’s credit rating downgrades. On Wednesday, Irish Life & Permanent confirmed the trend, admitting to an 11 per cent fall in its customer deposits in August and September.

Both banks said deposit levels had stabilised since then, despite anecdotal suggestions that customers were continuing to desert the Irish banks.

Nevertheless, Brian Lenihan, the Irish finance minister, maintained that the banks had “no funding difficulties”. And narrowly speaking, that’s accurate. The ECB is providing support.

Now one can argue that the some Irish banks are close to tapping out their facilities. But as the old saying goes, if you owe the bank $1000, it owns you, but if you owe $100 million, you own it. Is the ECB really willing to deny an Irish bank access to credit? The failure of one bank could easily take down all Irish banks, send Irish government bond yields skyward, and spike up yields in other at-risk Eurozone countries. And such heavy-handed action would likely send political shock waves through the Eurozone.

If the Irish government understands the leverage it has, it will refuse to accept a government rescue and will instead press for more formalized support for its dud banks. There are signs that things are moving in that direction. From the Guardian:

“Despite a large range of measures adopted by the government, Ireland is a small country and, if the banking problems in the country are too big for this small country to manage, Europe is making it clear that they will help and help in every possible way to secure the system because we are part of the euro system,” Lenihan told Irish radio.

Ireland has agreed to let an EU-IMF-ECB delegation perform an “urgent assessment”. Bloomberg depicted the effort as working on “possible aid for Ireland’s debt-laden banks.” EU and UK leaders are signaling a great deal of anxiety about wrapping up a deal in the next few days.

But there is also the possibility of an outtrade. The rescue delegation will not doubt want to bailout the banks through the Irish government, while Ireland will want to preserve what remains of its sovereignty. There are lots of opportunities for missed signals in high-stakes, short timetable negotiations and the Irish do not appear to be assuming the usual prostrate position of the about-to-be-rescued. The intent no doubt is to cobble together something announcement-worthy by the end of this weekend, but the two sides may find they are far apart on what the solution should look like.

Raoul, is this your blog by any chance? My lecturers think highly of you if so

[Solskjaer]

+1

I think I can categorically state that there is no way that movie won't be AWESOME! I love Natalie Portman so much...

Please post some pics of her as she is a goddess and I'm too lazy. I'm approving of the females taste in the BBV these days.
Does anyone watch being human? who do you think of the chick in that? I kind of like the series and she is very cute.

[Emmet]

Although our Taoiseach and cabinet are lying through their fucking teeth as usual, the Central Bank governor at least has the balls to call a spade a spade.

He's doing a pretty decent job since he took over imo. Not a nice spot to start in! Took balls to take the job, and showing the same grit by fronting up here too I think.

[Raoul Duke III]

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/...+capitalism%29

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Raoul, is this your blog by any chance? My lecturers think highly of you if so

yes, yes it is

and you owe me 1 beeeelion euros for breach of copyright (well, if a dude can get 10 million for turning up drunk and naked to a female colleague's hotel room door, that seems entirely reasonable)

[Hatedajacks]

New Trailer looks promising
Kenny fuckin powers plus Natalie portman half naked plus shot in ireland
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx_zo5CCURs[/ame]

[Raoul Duke III]

He's doing a pretty decent job since he took over imo.

disagree

look at the stress test fuckup, conducted by him and Elderfield

'AIB need 7.4bn, that'll sort 'em out' - July

'ehhhhh, AIb now need 10.4bn, that'll sort 'em out' - September

'AIB are completely fucked, give us 80bn and we'll be Ok for now, cheers' - November

[Emmet]

Meh, reckon that was a clerical error tbh. Miscounting zeros

AIB need 74000000000
No 740000000000

[tylerdurden94]

Zidane (like Keane) was pure money time when it mattered most. The biggest games against the toughest players was when he played his best stuff.

Messi at the world cup...

I know who gives a team a better chance of winning the big trophies.

Not enough love for the "pure money" line well played Lloyd

Looking forward to this.

Kenny "motherf*cking" Powers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EQHbF1JTc

Yeah seen the trailer for it yesterday, great cast and whatnot but when its set kinda annoys me a bit, will defo still go see it thou.

[NSFW="Natalie Portman litte NSFW scene from the movie"][/NSFW]

[Emmet]

NZ by 22 points this weekend imo

15 - Robert Kearney (UCD/Leinster)
14 - Tommy Bowe (Ospreys)
13 - Brian O'Driscoll (UCD/Leinster) Captain
12 - Gordon D'Arcy (Lansdowne/Leinster)
11 - Luke Fitzgerald (Blackrcok College/Leinster)
10 - Jonathan Sexton (St.Mary's College/Leinster)
9 - Eoin Reddan (Lansdowne/Leinster)
1 - Cian Healy (Clontarf/Leinster)
2 - Rory Best (Banbridge/Ulster)
3 - Tom Court (Malone/Ulster)
4 - Donncha O'Callaghan (Cork Constitution/Munster)
5 - Mick O'Driscoll (Cork Constitution/Munster)
6 - Stephen Ferris (Dungannon/Ulster)
7 - David Wallace (Garryowen/Munster)
8 - Jamie Heaslip (Naas/Leinster)

Replacements:

16 - Sean Cronin (Buccaneers/Connacht)
17 - John Hayes (Bruff/Munster)
18 - Devin Toner (Lansdowne/Leinster)
19 - Denis Leamy (Cork Constitution/Munster)
20 - Peter Stringer (Shannon/Munster)
21 - Ronan O'Gara (Cork Constitution/Munster)
22 - Keith Earls (Thomond/Munster)

[Lord Sir Banter]

hmm, guy in the house who i've never really talked to goes 'great night last night!'. I'd no fckin idea what he was talking about until a few flashbacks started to arrive.

Left work and then had about six pints in under two hours as was drinking with my 18-stone Nigerian work buddy (not the same Nigerian!) who treats pints of Guinness as a minor distraction that can be downed like shots. So that goes up until about half six. Then went to a local pub to wait until the poker tournament started in the uni pub at half eight. So that's a few more beers obv. Busted out of the tournament fairly quickly, then into a sit-n-go. Remember chatting to some girls - vague-ish - and flashback of some of the lads were saying 'you can't say that!' in a disapproving, but yet admiring way at my chatup technique - so obv going for the rogueish charm. Myself and the girls were going to go down to the local crappy nightclub, but i must have gone home to get cash. now here's where it gets strange - i must have been desperate to have a cig, because invited a homeless guy back to the house with the promise of beer, providing he gave me a cigarette. Not sure why he accepted, because he was chugging a litre bottle of whiskey - but he definitely did accept. So, we end up back in the house and one of the lads comes down and quietly asks me why there is an obviously homeless guy in the living room. It's only at this stage that I realise there is a homeless guy in the house. We're both outside smoking and then surreptiously sneaking glances in the door to confirm his presence! Think we made some excuse and chucked him out after an hour or two.

/ fck me, had no idea this had happened until about 30 mins ago. Might have to adopt a more sober policy going forward

The gig is up dude.
Compounded by your no-show/s last weekend, we have reached the consensus that you are Hotspur's alter ego.... or Hotspur is your alter ego, one or the other.

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[Emmet]

Interesting ad on daft.ie

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[eoghan104]

madness!

although my preference would be for the blonde lady. I am a gentleman after all.

The thing with Liz is that, yeh, she is tremendous but she is very much what you would expect of a "hot chick". The Sandish girl has something about her, she looks more obtainable or something!! Her eyes are amazing too.

The blondie one doesnt do it for me, the Indian one that was on the winning team is OK (looks gamey) and the one that is growing on me the most is the other one (dunno her name, was on winning team last night) she is quality in a girl next door kind of way. Plus she is moany and annoying which i kind of like.

Im obviously not gonna pretend I wouldn't be balls deep in every one of them at the drop of the hat either like a certain Howard "scarletts not great" Finkel might be........

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[Lord Sir Banter]

She looks quite different when she opens her mouth.

[Lplated]

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...65.html?via=mr

On the cards for some while (change in governing parties/election promises ). Time to book a long weekend before there's no point going over at all ....